What are my writing goals for the next 3 months? I'm trying to do a check-in with this quarterly--the reminder to do this popped up in my calendar a month ago and I'm only just now getting to it, which is, I suppose, as much a sign of procrastination from something else I was supposed to be doing as anything else ( Read more... )

Day 11.

My parents came and went last week, Phil's parents arrived last night and will depart tomorrow.

Goals accomplished:
* paid bills
* shopped for nursing bras (Target's sizes are a bit on the small side--a 40D barely covered things)
* washed the baby for the first time

(the tended-to-baby, tended-to-self goals always come first, of course)

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It's been a good week for my stories. (This is funny, because I've been too sick and at-work to do anything with them.)

1. Baen's Universe, a pro-level publication, has pulled "Salvaging Scottwell" out of the slush pile and will be bumping it up for the Editor-in-Chief to look at. Now commences the biting of nails and crossing of fingers.

2. The ( Read more... )

• 01:06 Ugh. Okay, do not subject yourself to the CC's version of a lemon drop. Save yourself!
• 02:11 The first 50 hits when I google my name? All me. Benefits of an unusual name!
• 09:25 On days with no work, it's agonizingly difficult to wake up at an early hour to get things done.
• 13:15 + Fat winter squirrels frolicking in the snow & chasing each ( Read more... )

I know that New Year's Resolutions are supposed to be a one-year process or things that can be accomplished in one year, but some of mine seem to be more...ongoing. I've copied over all my resolutions from 2007 (2008, I didn't make resolutions. I had knee surgery coming up and didn't know what I'd be able to do--answer: not much.) and added some ( Read more... )

• 09:57 Called to complain about bus I thought had gone by 5 min. early. "Um, actually that bus never went by that stop...."
• 14:22 Let us offer our New Years Resolutions to Janus, as is tradition.
• 14:26 Making a New Years Resolution increases your chances of goal success from 4% to 40ish%. (MPR)

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Turns out that, despite appearances, our car wasn't totaled as we'd feared. Costs to get it running were less than $1,000, and the person we had an accident with decided to file a claim instead of maybe having us cover it out-of-pocket to keep everybody's insurance premiums from going up. It still made about half of my "invest in a good DSLR" fund ( Read more... )

Ah, I finally get around to writing up the Bush Artist retreat highlights, from the perspective of the fly on the wall. The 2008 Bush Artist Fellows are an impressive (and photogenic) bunch. Follow that link to learn more about them and their award-winning art. As I said in my earlier post, everybody was witty and charming and talented, the ( Read more... )

Downtime at work lets me write long, rambling posts about the imbalanced balancing act that is my life.

( Hashing over scheduling and writing and photography oh my )