Still high on my success of last November, I decided to do the summer version of NaNoWriMo, and I conquered it! Got the first 50k done in 24 days, and now seeing how much closer I can get to finishing the story by the end of the month ( Read more... )

Hallefreakinlujah: I'm unemployed! Today was my last day--almost exactly three months since I started--and I've decided I'm never, ever going back there again. The people are nice, but the actual work itself has been miserable for me. I need out. And thankfully, I AM ( Read more... )

Avoiding going in to work, even though I have to. Have already put in a request to terminate the contract. Will see how that pans out ( Read more... )

So, since I haven't updated about this since my last bellyaching ( Read more... )

In the past four days ( Read more... )

Haven't done one of these in a while!

Digest version, for those in tl;dr mode: I wrote another book, our adoption process marches on, I have yet to get an offer for a W2-earning job and I'm dying for a proper vacation.

The long version:

( I wrote a book! Now, bring on the revision/publishing angst. )

OK, so I don't really fancy myself at that level. Hardly. But I think I've nailed down why I'm dreading tomorrow's preview show, and why I'm glad this chorus term is almost over: I am seriously musically/creatively frustrated, and it's driving me up the damned wall ( Read more... )

This past weekend's retreat thingy proved a few things to me ( Read more... )

Agonizing a bit about difficult life choices. For those who've not followed this saga elsewhere: I'm trying to decide whether to go back to work, and if so, which job and when. There are some big concerns with mental health, bandwidth and money involved:

( Job A and B )

So, the job I've sort of been waiting for just came up ( Read more... )