Wild ( Read more... )

I seem to be working my way through several stories at once at the moment. Each of them is in a separate stage of development. One of them is just vague stirrings of a character who may or may not develop his own voice, one of them is a whole plot with only a few initial pages of story so far, one of them is most of a plot with a series of ( Read more... )

One of my cousins used to talk about this guy she used to work with that she swore up and down was basically a male version of me, except he was a bit older than I am (she never indicated how much older ( Read more... )

There's some construction going on at my work while the rennovate the room next door to my office. All the noise made me really, really wish that I had the money to become an eccentric. I would really love, at this point, to be the odd writer lady who lives out in the middle of nowhere (and yes, I have locations scouted already, for when I have ( Read more... )

Today was just...busy. Very very busy.  I put in a little bit of extra time tonight just so I can get away a little earlier tomorrow.  I am seriously thinking that I might use that extra time to get some Long John Silver's.  I know, I know, I should HATE that place....as much as I love good food, and especially as much as I love seafood...but, well ( Read more... )

Sometimes, the universe really does have a way of coming back on jerks.  There's a guy that called in to my work place last week and chewed me out over some of his paperwork that was missing. Basically, he informed me that I was incompetent and accused me of losing "all" of his paperwork "all the time".  (In five years, I have misplaced only 1 page ( Read more... )

I was unburying myself from the filing that's been piled up at work for most of the day. Because of all of the other things that had to get done (all of which were higher priority), I'd gotten a stack of about three weeks' worth of filing teetering precariously on part of my desk ( Read more... )