Blarg!

What a crappy unproductive day.

This morning, I had all sorts of technical difficulties with my podcatcher and mp3 player.  Spent so much time fixing those that I got no writing time in whatsoever.

Work actually got out on time today, which was nice, but I had so many chores to do before institute that I was literally eating dinner while I fixed the treats.  Even then, I was still twenty minutes late (but the lesson was awesome, and so were the treats).

Went to the Quark movie forum to relax a little, watched a couple episodes of Full Metal Alchemist. It was good to relax and socialize, but I didn’t get back until 10:00 pm, and had to update my mp3 player for the next day of work.  That took some time, because the podcasts were taking forever to download on the slow apartment connection…and to make a long story short, I only had about half an hour to write.

So I took an hour, which means I’ll probably be freaking exhausted when I wake up tomorrow.  Blarg!

I’ve found that I need to get a solid two or three hour block of writing in each day, otherwise it’s a wash.  Tomorrow, I hope to have that in the morning and after Leading Edge, but if things are going slow I might have to pull out of Leading Edge and just focus on the writing.  World Fantasy is coming up, and I absolutely MUST finish this project and make it shine.

In other news, I heard back from the wilderness job today.  They don’t have a spot open for the November training, since they need to focus on hiring women in order to have enough counselors to take care of their female students.  However, they want to wait list me for the January training, which is a good sign.  I’ll just have to find another short-term job to carry me through November and December (and get ready for camping on the snow–it’s going to be crazy!)

Anyhow, what am I doing writing this when I should be sleeping??  Ach!  Goodnight!

By Joe Vasicek

Joe Vasicek is the author of more than twenty science fiction books, including the Star Wanderers and Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus. He claims Utah as his home.

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