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• 07:59 is on page 235 of 320 of The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford. Loved how "The Bedroom Light" started but ending left me asking, "WTF?" 3* #
• 08:08 RT @gtdguy 90% of life is cleanup. Grow up. Deal with it. Get used to it. #
• 08:09 RT @gtdguy Cleanup = get closure on what u create/produce/allow…. #
• 08:26 Having a hard time getting back on the horse because of my weekend of slack. It was still worth it, tho :). #
• 09:13 Just watched someone walk past the cafe window in a black cloak. I wanna wear my black cloak, now. #
• 11:37 Fingers crossed that work doesn’t get any more hectic while we’re down 1/2 my coworkers :(. #
• 12:18 Cold, wet walk to skool today. I was in a t-shirt two days ago!! #
• 13:27 @strikethru I would never go to any bar that would turn its nose up at "Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’." #
• 17:07 Not a pleasant work day, but it could’ve been *so* much worse on so many levels. #
• 18:03 "Pull my chin, stroke my hair, scratch my nose, hug my knees / Try drink, food, cigarette, tension will not ease…" #lyrics #
• 18:05 Want to read: Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby – goodreads.com/review/show/53387074 #

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• 09:01 Can’t believe that, for a microsecond, I considered skipping crit group to watch game 4 in the Tribe/Yankees series. #
• 09:03 To be fair, Indians love/Yankees hate is a powerful combination. #
• 09:55 is on page 219 of 320 of The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford. Buildup of "The Scribble Mind" was so good I was almost disappointed when the … #
• 17:38 Found out Cleveland lost to the Yankees, but that’s not even the worst news. JG Ballard dying–*that* was the worst news :(. #
• 17:54 Now that I’m back from crit group, I can slack again for the rest of the day. #
• 18:00 zomg! Almost forgot that tonight’s the L&O:CRIMINAL INTENT Season 8 premiere. #
• 18:12 For kicks and giggles, got my hands on the first episode of L&O:UK, starring Jamie Bamber (BSG) and Freema Agyeman (DOCTOR WHO). #
• 21:06 Season 8 L&O:CI FTW! Sticking with the old, bombastic 80s throwback L&O:TRIAL BY JURY theme–Fail. #
• 22:09 Damn. Kept the TV on a second too long. Now I’m into season 2 of IN PLAIN SIGHT. #

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• 08:17 is on page 173 of 320 of The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford. Forgot that I’ve read "What’s Sure to Come" before until 1/2-way thru. Still … #
• 09:42 Something just not right about tweeting from the Farmer’s Market which is why I’m doing it >:). I’m enjoying the contemptuous stares, too. #
• 09:46 Wish I’d brought the Flip or at least my real camera. Pics from my cell just won’t look as good. #
• 10:00 Listening to pompous ass swearing to his pompous friends about how the only TV he watches is PBS and 30 ROCK. #
• 10:03 Furiously typing some of the other things this guy’s spewing. Just can’t make up dialogue like this!! #
• 10:20 Pompous ass shows just how pompous he is by grossly mispronouncing the word "Appalachian." #
• 10:48 At the library to charge up the netbook and dump the pictures I’ve taken. Gonna wander thru downtown in the sun and snap some more. #
• 11:07 twitpic.com/3ivrz – Oh yes, the breakfast burrito place is back at the Farmer’s Market!! #
• 11:08 twitpic.com/3ivu1 – Parading my spoils up and down the market! #
• 11:09 twitpic.com/3ivx5 – No! Can’t have any! Go’way!! #
• 11:15 is on page 183 of 320 of The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford. Flabbergasted by "The Way He Does It." 5* #
• 11:44 twitpic.com/3iyjr – Screw it–think I’m just gonna slack for the rest of the weekend & take pics like this. #
• 12:20 RT @gregvaneekhout Seem to be kicking back and listening to old Elton John more than writing…. [With me, it’s 80s Chicago.] #
• 12:36 Wondering if I want to be inside in a movie theater on a day like this to see SUNSHINE CLEANING. Have 2 hours to decide. #
• 13:27 Got a haircut, a cold drink, & am sitting outside listening to record store blasing Soul/R&B music. Just what I needed today! #
• 16:42 Saw SUNSHINE CLEANING. Was pretty good but the ending killed it. It jumped the narrative track to wrap it up. #
• 16:58 Watching Cleveland stomp on the Yankees like a red-headed stepchild. ‘course, it’s only the top of the 3rd. #indians #
• 18:18 All right, at 20-2 at the top of the 6th, I think I’m ready to flip the channel, now :D. #indians #

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• 07:59 Stuff to do this AM before work. No rest for the wicked :(. #
• 08:00 Fondly remembering last weekend of slack. Am >this close< to clearing my weekend calendar and playing hermit this weekend. #
• 08:03 RT @ColleenLindsay Today is #Queryday! Click here for rules about how to participate & ask questions: bit.ly/pp4Ox #
• 11:11 You know, I think I am going to take the whole weekend off. #
• 12:17 Day just keeps getting better and better. #
• 13:39 RT @drmabuse New Podcast! The Bat Segundo Show #280: Laura Lippman… tinyurl.com/cukcv4 #
• 14:19 Walking back to work in the sun improved my mood. A bit. #
• 15:50 Knocking on every piece of wood I can find so that ingsthae at orkwae stay ietquae. #
• 16:27 Listening to Steely Dan on the work CD player. Makes the PM a lil’ smoother. #
• 17:05 Avant garde jazz piano on the CD player, now–nice and dissonant, like my current headspace. #
• 17:42 Of course, of *course* the work emergency has to come after business hours. Of. Course. #
• 18:55 Work emergency dealt with. At PM writing spot (on purpose) to reclaim lost sunglasses. #

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• 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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