I've done virtually no writing in the month of April, mostly due to Holy Week, the apartment move and my Spanish pursuits. (I never go to bed without doing a few pages out of the textbook my mom lent me. The oral exercises are really great -- though I can't imagine what my neighbor must think, if he can hear me through the walls.) Still, I think I'll have this one finished by the summer.
I met my next-door neighbor, incidentally: A nice, middle-aged engineer named Suresh. We met in the hall coming home from work, and had a nice chat about the benefits of government work and the decline of the domestic steel industry. He seems very normal. I, conversely, was wearing my trashy Care Bears baby tee and carrying cleaning supplies. The standard "YOU'RE an engineer?" may have been a bit more incredulous than I usually get.
The number of things I want to do right now is just astounding. There are three different books I'd like to develop (two of them might be good). My bedroom needs redecorating, and there are still five boxes of papers I have to sort. I've got five whole novels in desperate need of rennovation. There's a new young adult group forming at church I plan to join, and I've been considering either taking a knitting class or volunteering to teach English as a second language. My cross-stitch languishes half-made. I was really wanting to apply for
ROC Survivor, expecially if
subsidaryforge is going to try out too, but my plate is too packed with projects as it is.
And, you know, there's nine hours of productive labor per day, on top of that. :p