I just wrapped up a life coaching session, and I've come to a conclusion that might be obvious to everyone else, but is kinda news to me: the reason that I didn't really put too much in my journal last year is that I'm too wordy ( Read more... )

In the middle of the afternoon, I hit a point where my body was like, I don't care whether you take a nap or not now, but we're turning your brain off. So I put the iBook to sleep and the bite guard in my mouth and closed my eyes, and was treated to a couple of hours of really bizarre dreams. The one I remember, because it was the one that woke me ( Read more... )

There's been something kind of eating at me for the last few weeks, and this week's session with my life coach, who has slowly become a very cheap yet effective therapist more than anything, kind of forced me to look at it.


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Yay for the bullet points:

• Just finished another session with my life coach. Sometimes I feel like he is more an inexpensive and unlicensed (but very effective) therapist than a life coach. I know that we're "supposed" to talk about my career (whatever that means) but we often end up talking about other stuff. Someday, I hope to be in a position to ( Read more... )

I've been really bad about updating.

• I finally got in touch with this guy named Mack. I've been playing email and phone tag with him for months. I met him thru a website back in June, when I started posting pics there. I like that one because it's not just a hookup site; sure, any time you have guys posting nekkid pics there's going to be hooking ( Read more... )

I've been playing with the kind of new tags (even more about them here if this is totally news to you), going back and tagging my old entries. I've made my way thru the first five months of the journal. Just another, oh, thirty seven or so months to go ( Read more... )

You know, when technology works, it can be such a nifty thing.

( writing stuff )

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I am almost there. I've written almost 12k words in the last three days, and I am still feeling like writing more. I am so close to finishing this novel that I can taste it. I know I'll be done with it by tomorrow, if not tonight.

( babbling about process )

I'm creeping up on 40k words with the novel. I actually wrote a bit over 4500 today. At this rate I will be over the finish line by Tuesday. I don't know if I will have the story quite wrapped up, but I'll get the little certificate thingie ( Read more... )