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• 08:08 Reading Break It Down: Stories by Lydia Davis – tinyurl.com/ck2b4d #
• 08:09 is on page 59 of 256 of Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser. 2/3 done w/novellette "The Room in the Attic." Creepy … #
• 08:10 Last night was a *bad* slacking night. Have to try to make up for it today. #
• 08:12 Study playlist: ABOUT TIME by Steve Winwood. (Closest thing I’ve got to having any Traffic.) #
• 10:43 RT @warrenellis Just heard from DC that John Cassaday has finished PLANETARY #27. Ravens have left Tower Of London. #
• 11:40 Wondering why, in this town, do folks ask me point blank who I voted for, yet balk at asking me how much my netbook cost?? #
• 12:33 I think I’m hitting a mental roadblock in my studying :(. Amazed how fast confidence can turn to jelly! #
• 12:35 Want to write at lunch, but I know it’d only be to procrastinate. #
• 14:54 Just have to accept that I just can’t grok how to figure out min possible customer surplus due to price ceilings for now, and move on. 🙁 #
• 18:01 Someone, please–snap me out of the 1,000-yard stare! #
• 19:23 Sooo tempted to just bag today, hoping I’ll just pull it together on midterm day (when I’m off from work). Gonna have dinner b4 deciding. #
• 22:02 Damn you, EASTENDERS! I was gonna go to bed early. #

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• 08:17 Finally back on the normal AM schedule! Tired as hell, but that’s normal, too :). #
• 08:18 Unfortunately, skoolwork has to trump processing yesterday’s crit group evisceration. At least until lunch ;). #
• 08:20 Study playlist: Zero 7, Air, dZihan & Kamien #
• 08:53 *facepalm* When a problem that should take 3 min. to solve is going on 40, check your math. You just *might* have screwed it up. #
• 09:38 Graphing the net economic benefit of gov’t subsidies on a market really, really sucks. #
• 10:15 Taking the boss up on generous offer to let me play hookey on midterm day! #
• 11:38 Trying to work from my backup portableapps USB drive is a bitch when it’s a bit outdated 🙁 #
• 13:30 T-minus 3 days to midterm and 2 chapters left to review. Feeling much better prepared this time around. That, or I’m in total denial. 😀 #
• 13:45 Looked over the crit group evisceration of 2 rewritten scenes–actually, it was more of a couple of minor "tsk, tsks." Will post later. #wip #
• 15:14 WTF is my intertubes connection so slow? Conflicker worm started a couple days early? #
• 16:24 Absolutely no clue how I’m going to find the energy for anything after work today. Gotta pull it outta somewhere, tho. #
• 17:09 RT @charlesatan I interview Strange Horizons editor-in-chief Susan Marie Groppi tinyurl.com/cqsqx2 #

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• 07:44 Up early to see if I can get something–anything–together for crit group today. No promises, tho :(. #
• 08:44 First AM I’ve walked anywhere without my skoolbook in a week. Talk about liberating! #
• 08:46 Caffeine supply, check. Writing stuff, check. Writing playlist (Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings), check. Let’s roll. #
• 09:57 Progress…so…slow! #
• 21:19 No time this evening to process crits from group. Tomorrow, maybe! For now, I think I’m just gonna hit the hay. #

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• 08:20 Stayed home from the jazz show & still managed to stay up too late. Sans studying. Off to a late start this morning–doesn’t bode well. #
• 08:33 WTF?? Since when did my tweets stop posting w/titles on the website? Oh, since 3/18. #
• 10:16 Interview with Haruki Murakami tinyurl.com/d23yk7 (If my reading backlog wasn’t so long…) #
• 12:36 Okay, I’ve wasted enough time today. I can hear my inner drill sergeant screaming, "Let me see your war face!!" #
• 13:57 Was in a cafe, listening to a trivia ? on the radio re: liner notes. Overheard someone ask, "What are liner notes?" #
• 20:13 Wings and beer–a decent way to end a day of brain-frying microecon. #

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• 07:57 Warmth + sun = hopefully less emo today, ‘cos I got stuff to do 🙂 #
• 07:58 1st pre-work AM all week not spent catching up on missed sleep or in a meeting. And I gotta spend it on skoolwork. Hurts, it really does. 🙁 #
• 08:05 Study playlist: All TOTO, all morning. ♫ blip.fm/~3h36v #
• 09:02 *sigh* I really, really don’t want to do the "smart thing" and blow off tonite’s jazz show. Maybe I just need to be stupid once in awhile 🙂 #
• 09:03 I know, you’re all saying, "*Once* in awhile??" Eh, screw you 😛 #
• 11:11 Notified about new chapter notes, a problem set for before the midterm, and one due right after?? That is SO not cool!! #
• 13:35 Gonna enjoy the walk back to work in the sun. I’ll have to fight to stop myself from walking *past* work :). #
• 14:21 RT @ColleenLindsay RT @newscientist "Pondering the population dynamics of vampires sn.im/eojvc " #
• 14:56 I need a nap. #
• 16:59 Yikes, what a *day*. I may miss tonite’s jazz show from sheer exhaustion :(. #
• 19:34 IMO, one of the most annoying things in life is being hungry while having no idea what you’re hungry for, even as the blood sugar plummets. #

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• 07:28 Long day No. 2. Whether I get much writing done this weekend depends on how today goes. Or it should, if I had any common sense :). #
• 08:34 Miscalculated the time and arrived a lil’ too early for class discussion section. Reviewing last problem set–wondering if it was too easy? #
• 08:34 Clearly, I *still* haven’t recovered from my late Sunday nite being camera meat :(. #
• 10:32 Minor errors on the problem set. Forgot about TR(Q) for the monopolist. Yeah, not 100% sure what that means, either. 😛 #
• 10:33 Tomoyasu Hotei w/@chicagotheband, "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" tinyurl.com/ckusaz My theme of the week. #
• 11:42 Determined not to miss @FLEFF like I did last year. Poring over schedules, now. #
• 12:49 All this gray’s making me feel emo. Simple solution: Boston’s "More Than a Feeling" on the mp3 player. ♫ blip.fm/~3fsci #
• 13:01 According to a couple of coworkers, I’m not the only one who felt manic in the sun yesterday, and emo in the gray today :(. #
• 14:40 Feelin’ good re: the studying plan. So far, as Palpatine said, "Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen it." #
• 16:17 Keep waffling back and forth about going to a public reading tonite. I wouldn’t, if I was smart…which is a pretty big "if," I know 😛 #
• 17:23 Looking at my skoolbooks & decided to do the almost-smart thing. If I’m gonna procrastinate, I’ll do it at home hehe. #
• 17:57 Reviewing problem sets on the downlow at work…shhhh! #
• 19:14 Carrot/stick time. If 2 chapters get done tonite/tomorrow, then I’m going to a jazz show tomorrow nite. If not, then the usual 100 lashes. #
• 20:25 Okay, 2 chapters tonite/tomorrow was just a weeeee bit unrealistic. Almost done with 1 chapter, tho :). #
• 20:29 RT @MaryRobinette RT @nalohopkinson Clarion South needs help: www.clarionsouth.org/donate.htm #

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• 07:23 As if I don’t have a hard enough time avoiding *new* TV–Carl Sagan’s COSMOS on Hulu www.hulu.com/cosmos #
• 07:24 Next two days are gonna be long and painful. All work & no write make Don a dull boy :(. #
• 09:44 AM mtg. wasn’t too heinous. At least, not for me. Now, only 8.75 hours to go. #
• 09:50 Cat Rambo, Jim C Hines, Merrie Haskell & Tobias Buckell on World Building for Short Stories tinyurl.com/cg2grh #
• 09:51 Just what I need–writing advice when I know there’s no time for me to write. The universe is a cruel place :(. #
• 11:46 Still not physically 100% for the uphill climb to skool. Gonna have to suck it up, tho ;). #
• 11:54 But at least I’ll have my noise cxl’ing headphones again. Guess I’ll have to relearn not getting so absorbed that I walk into traffic heh. #
• 13:35 Writing bug, leave me alone! Don’t want to notice the fascinating undergrad dialogue around me! Refuse to write it down. Midterm, remember?? #
• 13:37 Ah…screw it. 😀 #
• 15:06 Just now realized that not only can I breathe thru both nostrils, I’m *not* coughing up any more lung tissue! Huzzah!! #
• 15:09 Because I wanted a kick-ass happy song! ♫ blip.fm/~3ehf3 #
• 16:08 Wondering how heavily I’d have to hit the skoolbooks tonite to merit some writing time before Friday…? #
• 16:16 Following too many Twitters but don’t want to cut. Have TweetDeck on the netbook but I’m not always on the netbook. What to do…? #
• 17:06 Praying for 90 min of peace. Obviously, I’ve just jinxed myself. #
• 17:46 Sun and warmth seem to be doing something strange to my mood. Far, far fewer violent impulses today :D. #
• 17:58 RT @charlesatan Basic Online Publicity by Cat Rambocatrambo.livejournal.com/229929.html #
• 18:55 Escaped from my 10 hr. day a few minutes early to get a jump on studying. Out of the frying pan, etc. #
• 18:57 Study playlist: Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band #
• 20:44 I’ve got 8 days to the midterm and a plan of attack. Bring it!! #
• 21:10 Tonite’s GHOST HUNTERS at Edith Wharton’s retreat, The Mount! Makes me want to read some Wharton. #
• 21:39 Just added myself to the wefollow.com twitter directory under: #writer #fantasy #shortstories #

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• 08:22 Purposely getting off to a late start today to get more sleep. I can burn myself out this weekend. #
• 08:24 Coming 4/7/09: Cassandra Wilson’s CLOSER TO YOU: THE POP SIDE. Greatest hits but I’ll get it for the cover *SWOON* tinyurl.com/cokctl #
• 10:23 RT @ColleenLindsay Announcing Queryfail 2: Queries Never Die on Friday, April 17th… #queryfail #
• 11:40 Head still stuffy. Voice unrecognizable, according to coworkers. Good time to make some prank calls? 🙂 #
• 12:27 On "Writing When You Don’t Wanna" tinyurl.com/de83xg #
• 14:25 Most cryptic fortune cookie fortune I’ve ever rec’d: "How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?" WTF…? #
• 14:31 No writing at lunch. Had to stare and new problem set instead. Having my skoolbooks w/me might’ve helped. *headdesk* #
• 14:32 Meant, "Had to stare *at*…" Looks like I can’t even write now, either 🙁 #
• 16:42 Bit my tongue so as not to give a coworker Pacino’s speech from GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. "You’re job is to *help* us. Not to f**k us up!!" heh #
• 16:50 Gonna sneak some writing in tonite to use some of the brainstorming I snuck in on the dayjob’s dime >:D. #
• 17:33 Can’t get enough of this Steven Millhauser quote. Kinda like a mirror. www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/148862 #
• 17:39 My kingdom for a bionic right plantar fascia :*( #
• 18:17 Not looking forward to tomorrow AM’s team meeting. Anticipating my academic plan might have to be retooled. #
• 20:07 Couldn’t go another minute w/out noise-cxl’ing headphones. Outside world can now suck–uh, I mean, can be less distracting :). #
• 20:08 1 pg of rewrites–well worth the price of the headphones!! 🙂 #
• 20:42 Okay, gonna try today’s skool problem set again, this time w/book in hand! T-minus 8 days to midterm! #
• 22:40 I must be tired if I’m letting EASTENDERS distract me this much ;). #

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• 02:58 Finally home from student film shoot. Aside from the hour, it was definitely *not* an unpleasant experience ;). #
• 02:59 Tomorrow–er, later this morning–is gonna be a *bitch*! #
• 10:25 twitpic.com/2dk9u – My reward for last nite’s shoot: 4 hr old steak & eggs. Oh, I ate it, too. #
• 10:26 twitpic.com/2dkab – Setup for my (too) close-up! #
• 10:31 Today’s AM writing time: nixed. Wednesday’s: nixed. Plus, 2nd midterm next week. Happy, happy, joy, joy. #
• 11:04 The sad part is, despite the exhaustion and brain death, this is still the best I’ve felt in a week. #
• 11:49 Almost time to get my zombie-fied behind to skool. Ugh. #
• 13:39 Good news: perfect score on last skool problem set. Bad news: Can’t remember HTF I did half of them :(. Midterm next week. What, me worry? #
• 15:00 is on page 45 of 256 of Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser. On the first 1/3 of the story "The Room in the Attic." #
• 17:09 RT @charlesatan Interview: Gary Turner, publisher of Golden Gryphon Press tinyurl.com/cszktr [Pub. of some of my absolute fav anthos] #
• 17:41 Because I’m in the mood for a 90s R&B jam (w/sax by Branford Marsalis) ♫ blip.fm/~3bq46 #
• 19:55 Thoughts on M. John Harrison’s thoughts on Urban Fantasy tinyurl.com/czr9t7 #
• 22:34 Feel better after a nap, except for being seriously scared by tonite’s PARANORMAL STATE. #

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• 09:04 Holy Anxiety, Batman! Woke up thinking it was Monday :(. #
• 09:08 Think I’ve beaten all but the last vestiges of whatever contagion tried to kill me :D. #
• 09:36 RT @mightymur Inbox 0 feels strange. But I’m not at to-do list 0 so I need to get moving. [I’m in the EXACT same spot.] #
• 14:08 Fraking EUREKA! Figured out how to solve every single story problem with the current WIP!!! #
• 14:09 Problem is, I’d have to rewrite. A lot. Before next weekend. Bleh. 🙁 #
• 14:15 But all I had to do was go back and build on my *original freaking story premise*!! Gee, go figure! #
• 14:50 Trouble with my writing progress is that it’s kicked the lines I’ve memorized for tonite out of my head! Frak! 🙁 #
• 14:52 T-minus 7 hours ’til I get to be camera meat! I’m told I can do this! Even if it’s true, I’m afraid I’ll be like Gina Bellman in LEVERAGE. #
• 15:45 Most of the WIP is restructured at least. I’m so excited!! Now I gotta finish memorizing these lines :(. #
• 17:51 "I’ve never been known for sticking around to hear the music / When all of the notes are nothing but flat." tinyurl.com/d79ddf #
• 21:06 It’s gonna be a long night. WTH was I thinking, volunteering to do this? The sacrifices one makes for student film! 🙂 #

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