This weekend my dad came to visit.  He drove me back on Friday and stayed until today.  He came to help with some home repair tasks.  I'm most pleased that we are now 3/3.

1+ The parking area in the back needed to be leveled out and we had new gravel delivered.  It was a terribly rainy day on Saturday but my dad and I hauled gravel around and re- ( Read more... )

Dare I say it?  I've finished my chapter?  Sorta ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm getting tired of writing.  Can I have a vacation?  No?  Dammit. 
Not much accomplished in the last few days but I have sketched out the next section of the paper so that should flow faster now.

Why does November suck?  It's really not a good month for Narewrimo because it's also a grading intensive month.

Word count:  5231

Also, The ( Read more... )

I've been pretty sucky at this writing thing over the last few days.  This weekend, the partner and I pledged to do needed house-tasks.  So, we spent Saturday painting our front entryway and hall upstairs (more of a job than it sounds given the high ceilings and awkward stair angles) then Sunday we decided to clear out the gardens a bit.  Today was ( Read more... )

I've accomplished nothing in the past two days.  Yesterday was my York day and I spent the whole day with teaching prep/grading.  I opted to take the bus from downtown Toronto at 12:30am which got me home by 3:30am.  I was zonked.  As a result, today I've been useless too.  So tired.  Emotionally exhausted too for other reasons ( Read more... )

Maybe these every 2 day postings are the way to go?

These last couple of days of actual writing have been like pulling teeth.  I'm not the kind of writer that can jump into a section and write willy-nilly.  I need structure.  I need to begin with an introduction, lay out the chapter and move through it.  But, it can be very hard to write an ( Read more... )

So I decided to take part in
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