So montrealais is off in Europe for a couple of months. Even though I said goodbye to him yesterday -- and even though his mother called this morning -- I still kept turning down the sound on the computer's speaker, as if I was worried I'd wake him up ( Read more... )

I've been offline much of the week. Mostly this has been because of writing. I edited 45 pages on Wednesday, which I *think* is my one-day record. I have to have it printed tomorrow in the early afternoon. I've only done 15 of the 51 pages I had left as of this morning, but my get-up-and-go has got up and left ( Read more... )

I've been editing like mad the last few weeks. I've got about twelve pages left and I've been at this first edit for ten days. The second will have to be faster. I'll likely have to boost my quota from 15 to 30 pages a day to meet my deadline of the end of the month ( Read more... )