DONFOOLERY

• 07:47 Forgot to finish a skool problem set for today. Just whipped thru it. Feels like I almost understand this stuff :). #
• 07:49 is on page 155 of 320 of The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford. I’ll never be able to write a story like "The Dismantled Invention of Fate"-E … #
• 11:30 Watching my pre-planned writing time between now and Saturday slowly drying up :(. #
• 11:47 Unanswered #amazonfail question No. 5: Since sales are restricted to over-18s anyway, who are you protecting? tinyurl.com/dbgrku #
• 12:00 Only takes one person to ruin for the rest of us! community.livejournal.com/newyorkers/4975358.html #
• 12:53 I should be out in the warm sun for lunch, but hiding out seems very, very appealing. #
• 13:34 I’ve compromised with myself. I’m hiding out, but sitting near a window. Isolation (in a crowd) with sun–best of both worlds ;). #
• 15:04 Lost track of how many paper cuts I’ve gotten today. People might start thinking I’ve gone all emo or something. #
• 16:00 By the Power of Greyskull!!! Nope, still feel exhausted. #
• 17:33 AIR on the work CD player. Makes me smile. 🙂 #
• 17:58 Bwahhh-hahaha! Cleveland beat the Yankees in their new house!! tinyurl.com/c35omj #indians #
• 18:57 If I hadn’t fallen asleep on the bus home, I wouldn’t be in my PM writing spot right now. Of course, doesn’t mean I’m writing necessarily. #
• 19:11 RT @ColleenLindsay #Queryfail is now #Queryday: click for details and rules: bit.ly/pp4Ox (understand the name change, but still…) #
• 20:29 Grr! Forgot my sunglasses at the writing spot, dammit! #

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• 07:55 Taxes are officially a taboo topic. Srsly, I’d rather discuss your politics or sexual kinks instead. Anything but taxes. #
• 07:57 I’m actually going to start the morning getting skool problem sets out of the way. #
• 08:41 Getting What You Want the #LEVERAGE Way by Aldis Hodge tinyurl.com/cw9xn9 #
• 11:03 "The years start coming and they don’t stop coming/Fed to the rules & I hit the ground running." ("years"="decompensating students") #lyrics #
• 13:36 My first whiff of spring in the walk between work and skool: mulch. Bleh. #
• 16:00 Having that conflicted "eye of the hurricane" feeling when you’re enjoying the momentary peace while being hypersensitive to stress. #
• 19:16 SHAZAM!! Nope, didn’t work. Still feel exhausted. #

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• 08:09 is on page 125 of 320 of The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford. If the last story had the least genre elements so far, "The Manticore Spell" … #
• 08:13 All right, time to get the game face on! Stuff to revise, work day to slog thru, taxes to finish up! RAWR! #
• 08:23 Rewriting playlist: Nerina Pallot, Cassandra Wilson (y’know, to get Yvonne Elliman off my mind). 🙂 #
• 09:18 I’m not bothered with having retweaked my story ending 4 times. I’m bothered that it’s taken me 4 times to get it (almost) right! #wip #
• 09:25 is on page 131 of 320 of The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford. "The Fat One" is the FUNNIEST story I’ve read in ages! 5* #
• 09:40 RT @ColleenLindsay Amazon is still not addressing the policy letters that some authors received…. #amazonfail #
• 10:45 RT @victoriastrauss Got wireless? Technology is making certain classic narrative plot devices obsolete: tinyurl.com/c8ul4q #
• 12:07 Avoiding taxes by writing + avoiding writing by skool problem sets = one f’ed-up line of thinking. #
• 13:38 Amazed at how, when you give yourself permission NOT to do something out of low motivation, you slowly start to get motivated (??). #
• 16:55 To think my day started off so quietly…. #
• 17:37 Cassandra Wilson on the work CD player makes me happy :). #
• 17:57 "Now that I’ve found peace at last/Tell me Jesus/Will it last?" #lyrics #
• 18:06 Batting cleanup at work while catching up on @totn podcasts. #
• 19:39 "BLAKE’S 7: Terrorists fight government, die." (Uncomfortable Plot Summaries tinyurl.com/djagte) #
• 19:40 "DOCTOR WHO: Elderly man serially abducts young women." (Another Uncomfortable Plot Summary tinyurl.com/djagte) #

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• 08:13 Not STARLOG!! tinyurl.com/clfgzj #
• 08:15 is on page 113 of 320 of The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford. "Present From the Past" works so with the barest minimum of genre elements. 4* #
• 08:23 Writing playlist: Chet Baker, CHET IN PARIS VOL 2: EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME. (Story o’ my life :)) #
• 09:21 Revising progress is slow; still recovering from my lazy weekend 🙂 #wip #
• 10:41 Still drawn to #amazonfail. Anything to get Yvonne Elliman’s singing out of my head if any work at all is to be done today. #
• 11:53 Bad news from old stomping grounds: Dayton Arts Community Faces Struggle to Stay Afloat twurl.nl/jvaf8i (via @NewsHour) #
• 11:56 Going to saunter to skool with this voice in my head. I really need counseling…this isn’t healthy anymore 😉 ♫ blip.fm/~493t1 #
• 13:38 Why do I do this to myself? It goes back to childhood. 🙂 tinyurl.com/cmy8vr #
• 14:30 Sleeves rolled up at work, as the fit is hitting the shan! #
• 17:37 Hoping some Neko Case will stop the brain hemorrhage from the immense hategasm I feel for my day. I think it’s actually working a bit! 🙂 #
• 17:47 RT @drmabuse Returned sales ranks for LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER, BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA, FANNY HILL, and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN #amazonfail #
• 18:23 Want to read: The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family St… by Joan Aiken – tinyurl.com/cbg8bb #
• 20:38 Took a slight detour after work for dinner and drinks. Now, let’s see if I can clean up another pg or three. #

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• 07:53 Gonna see if I can do something constructive with yesterday’s work. #wip is so close to being done, I can taste it! #
• 07:56 Almost forgot my yearly dedication of "Good Friday" by The Black Crowes to someone NOT very special anymore. ♫ blip.fm/~433sz #
• 09:37 Despite spilling coffee all over the MS, I got draft 1.99 of the #wip done!! Just 2 or 3 more passes needed to fill in some blanks. #
• 10:50 Short stories coming back into vogue? God, I hope so tinyurl.com/dbaohe #
• 12:16 Bright, sunny day is making me feel pretty apathetic to skool. Glad the netbook’s all charged up ;). #
• 12:19 The only notes I’m taking right now are of the conversation that’s going on behind me. Just *can’t* make up dialogue like this. #
• 13:29 @verybigjen If they haven’t banned it yet, there’s always the BeTwittered gadget for iGoogle. #
• 13:40 Gonna take a VERY slow walk back to work. Already know I’m screwed for the last hour of the day as it is. #
• 16:22 Is it still considered self-fulfilling prophecy if things turn out even *worse* than expected? 🙂 Feh. #
• 17:27 Still an hour to go but the work crises have more or less passed thanks in no small part to yours truly, working all by his lonesome! Booya! #
• 17:49 I’m going on a WITHNAIL & I-style bender tonight. Means I’ll miss out on Saturday, but come up smiling on Sunday morning. #
• 19:04 Will go on the bender *after* I polish up the #wip a bit. I’m just not Hemingway enough ;). #
• 20:17 Want to read: Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente – tinyurl.com/cesozp #

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• 08:02 Had fun and learned a lot being camera meat last night. Probably won’t do it again for awhile, tho–I’m too old to stay up late 🙁 #
• 08:20 Trying to find a writing playlist (read: procrastinating like hell). #
• 08:21 Ah, of course–80s soundtracks! Writing playlist: FLASHDANCE and FOOTLOOSE sdtks. #
• 08:54 I just cannot concentrate. Even after shutting down the 80s soundtracks :(. #
• 09:06 Only thing I have to show for an hour’s work: rearranged the beats of one fraking scene. Someone just shoot me, please. #wip #
• 10:36 Via a bajillion writer blogs: The Cult of Done Manifesto www.flickr.com/photos/joshuarothhaas/3327763912/ #
• 10:44 Jim Van Pelt on how to end a story. jimvanpelt.livejournal.com/123189.html #
• 10:47 Sorry if I’ve put this up before: Odyssey Workshop grads on how to *begin* a story odysseyworkshop.livejournal.com/6949.html #
• 11:32 Mark Waid on false suspense tinyurl.com/dald4s #
• 11:33 Yes, it’s just a touch slow at the day job (*knock on wood*), why do you ask? 🙂 #
• 12:27 RT @ColleenLindsay HILARIOUS take on #queryfail vs. #agentfail… bit.ly/BPSBl #
• 13:44 MS of the #wip completely marked-up. I can have this thing finished before the weekend’s out!! 😀 #
• 14:26 Still amazed at the difference between 30 focused min. of writing at lunch vs. 90 scattered, lazy min. this AM. I feel like a writer again. #
• 16:17 Feeling the 1,000-yard stare w/2+ hours to go at work. But dammit, I will get pages revised tonight! RAR!!! #
• 17:57 Talked a good game last tweet. Now I’m just feeling like going home and going straight to bed. *whew* #
• 19:00 By the Power of Greyskull!!! Nope, didn’t work–still exhausted. 🙁 #

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• 07:56 Looking forward to a 14-hour day today: writing, work, skool, & being camera meat. #
• 07:57 First thing’s first (after the cafe opens so I can get my coffee): assessing the damage with a hard copy of the #wip. #
• 08:06 Writing playlist: Soundtrack to THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Air. #
• 08:39 RT @matociquala Oh, screw it. I don’t care anymore. This book can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch… [Sums up how I feel about my #wip.] #
• 09:13 RT @mightymur New blog post: ISBW #114 – Feedback tinyurl.com/c6fuph #
• 09:15 Believe it or not, through all the RTing, editing progress is being made. Especially since I swapped Air for Bill Champlin on the headphones #
• 09:28 God *damn*, this story needs work! LOTS of work. Of course, motivation comes whenever I have very little time to follow thru. 🙂 #wip #
• 11:37 *85% ON THE MIDTERM!!* Need an 83% on the final to keep a B, so I can’t slack too, too much. But it means I can write more!!! #
• 11:44 Actually, factor in problem sets and attendance, and I probably only need 80-81% :). #
• 14:18 Could’ve spent part of my lunch writing. Spent it looking over my successful midterm, instead :D. #
• 15:57 Is this the proverbial dawn after the proverbial darkness? Skool discussion section cxl’ed tomorrow AM. More time to write!!! #
• 17:38 Looks like I’ll get a bit of a break before tonite’s stint as camera meat. Time to review another couple of pages of the #wip. #
• 19:41 Just no energy for MS review before I get to be camera meat. #

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• 07:53 At the backup writing site (read: the site close to home cos I got up late) with a red-eye, Night Ranger on the headphones, & my latest #wip #
• 08:00 "And it’s hard livin’ life on this mem’ry-go-round" (I luv 80s lyrics!) ♫ blip.fm/~3xdvb #
• 08:05 "I remember when you learned about love in the back of a Chevrolet / No good for an old memory to mean so much … ♫ blip.fm/~3xdzw #
• 08:53 Giving myself a headache trying to focus on revision. I’m >this close< to just trashing this story. #wip #
• 11:22 Glad I got a minuscule amount of writing done. Lunch will be cut short because I’m a needle slu…I mean, to get some blood drawn 🙂 #
• 12:04 What one novelist’s revision plan looks like www.caitlinkittredge.com/?p=926 #
• 12:39 Lunch (even w/the accompanying needle) just cannot come fast enough. #
• 15:43 Really enjoying the Amateur Hour show here at the day job (not). #
• 17:50 And on top of it all, I’m probably going to be hanging out late at work. I’m stopping for a drink on the way home, & I don’t mean coffee. #
• 19:01 Got out on time after all, but just barely. And now I’m sitting w/a pint of ale. Day doesn’t seem so bad, now :D. #
• 19:03 Reading The Lone Star Stories Reader by Eric T. Marin – tinyurl.com/cvv9rr #
• 20:13 is starting The Lone Star Stories Reader by Eric T. Marin. Skimmed the introduction of the free pdf download. #
• 22:06 Relaxing to a couple of beers and EASTENDERS. #

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• 07:53 Note to self: When setting the alarm, make sure you can *hear* said alarm the next morning. #
• 07:54 Losing a little writing time this AM, but that’s okay–I don’t care that it’s a skool day today :). #
• 08:33 Gonna try something radical this morning: Work from home at my newly cleaned desk. Gotta resist desire to take pics. #
• 09:09 Oh, Inbox Zero–you’re *such* a sight for sore eyes. I’ve missed you! We need to see each other more often. 🙂 #gtd #
• 11:50 First time the sun’s been out all day. Hope it stays out on the hike to skool! #
• 13:28 Sun did not stay out, but at least it’s relatively dry. For now. 🙁 #
• 14:26 Today at skool: more cold-war era music videos to illustrate gametheory. Still dunno how I feel about that, being the oldest guy in class. #
• 17:57 Do I stress about where my profile picture went, or just assume there are status issues and ride it out? #
• 19:10 @RachelleGardner Thank *you* for the info! #
• 19:32 Just trying to get some caffeine in me if I’m going to do any writing at all tonite. #
• 19:52 zomg!! THE LONE STAR STORIES READER available as a free .pdf ericmarin.livejournal.com/168642.html #

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• 07:59 is on page 95 of 256 of Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser. "Dangerous Laughter" had an great hook but the themes … #
• 08:05 Took in some very powerful documentaries at FLEFF last night. Will have to blog (not just tweet) about them. Later, tho. I’m wiped out. #
• 08:14 Need to create some writing space today. I think I’m depressed because I’m not sure how to do it after so long. #
• 08:30 "When there’s no one left to leave you, even you don’t quite believe you, that’s when nothing can deceive you." ♫ blip.fm/~3uhti #
• 09:23 Figured out today’s writing plan. I bet it’ll take 1 or 2 or 10 false starts. ‘Cos writing is NOT like riding a bike, at least not for me. #
• 10:13 Early bird caught the worm! Table w/an outlet at the coffee place. Now I can procrastinate all I want. #
• 10:19 Website for OUR DISAPPEARED/NUESTROS DESAPARECIDOS from last nite’s FLEFF, soon to be on @IndependentLens tinyurl.com/d9brba #
• 10:29 Procrastination playlist: The Bad Plus, FOR ALL I CARE. Apropos CD, given the mood I’m trying to fight ;). #
• 12:41 Writing playlist: Bill Champlin, Robert Lamm, Beckley-Lamm-Wilson #
• 12:55 RT @jay_lake RT @ColleenLindsay @RachelleGardner on the 10 Things You Should Expect From Your Agent… tinyurl.com/dgdgu9 #
• 13:59 Ah, the crash of being so wrapped up w/writing that I forgot to eat. Must mean I’m finally back to my normal routines :). #
• 15:11 RT @Cbarzak @gregvaneekhout because flashbacks are like quicksand, dude. Write a flashforward. That might do the trick! 🙂 #
• 15:12 You know I’ve been out of the game too long when I stop writing to do grocery shopping. Now, I’m looking at my messy office… *sigh* #
• 17:38 Count Basie Orchestra vid from ’94. I saw them that year (not at this show, tho). Memories! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHtNjmTpVAE #
• 17:39 Office is even messier than before. Don’t ask about the writing :(. #
• 21:58 Early evening coffee and a cleaner office make for a slightly better mood :). #
• 22:26 @jeffreyeford Thanks for the add. I’m in the midst of THE DROWNED LIFE and am blown away so far! #

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