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Category: Ok here’s what were gonna do
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Dormancy
The blog will continue to be largely dormant for another week or three. You see, we are having an Adventure. Which, to be honest, are usually best observed while happening to someone else, far away. However, there comes a time in life when you simply must pull yourself up by the rootball and make…
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Coping Skills
I started reading a book the other day, on the recommendation of a dear friend. It’s not an easy read, for me. I have to stop sometimes and read something else, while I deal with the brain dumping chemicals… But I suppose I just started in the middle and ought to come back around…
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Chasing the Red Dot
I have a tendency to over-focus. I become hyperaware of this one thing, this singular project in front of me, and I get tunnel vision. Nothing outside my narrow field exists. Time shrinks to a bright point of light, like the kitten chasing the red dot. Needless to say, this is terribly useful. Sometimes. …
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Writer Stats
Being the geek and scientist that I am, I started tracking my stats at the beginning of the year. The first couple of months, it was just… tracking. I wanted to see if I could incorporate the data collection itself into my daily routine. I am using a very simple google sheet for this.…
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Safe Following Distance
In other words, the least understood and more poorly applied rule of the road. I’ve got a longer commute now, and more importantly, this one takes me up on the interstate highway for a good portion of my trip. I’ve begun to realize I find myself muttering the mantra, safe following distance. SFD! Do…
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Time Management for the Creative
One of the hardest things I have to do, in terms of self-discipline, is to tell myself no. No, you cannot take on that project. No, a graduate degree is just not practical within the current framework of your life. No. No, no, no… My husband and dear First Reader would tell you that I…
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Keep the Home Fires Burning
Although the scythe isn’t pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants’ revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome. –Terry Pratchett I was catching up on reading Lawdog’s blog just a day or so ago, and the linked post resonated with me.…
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Don’t Blink
I think that was a weekend, but I’m not sure. It was kinda fast and blurry. I blinked at the wrong time, and suddenly it’s Monday. When coming to work is a moment to relax and look forward to, you know you’re doing something wrong. We’re trying to slow it down, but it’s a bit…
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Houses
I went and looked at a house yesterday, and it’s got me thinking about the whole four walls and a roof thing. The basic needs in a home might be simple, but we all have the things that we just have to have, or the things we can’t live with. I loved the way the…
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Pockets and Purses
I was chatting with a coworker about this the other day. I don’t have a formal ‘desk’ at work, and I wasn’t sure if I could have my purse with me at my ‘desk’ because it’s sort of in the lab. I was assured that it was fine to have it, and then the conversation veered…
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Inertia
I spent two hours this morning navigating snot-slick roads with rain, no, that’s snow, no, that’s rain, no… that’s sleet now… falling on us. Given that we were in a car with two-wheel drive, four wheels on far too little surface are on the road for my comfort under those conditions, and even though I…
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Mandatory Fun
I don’t know about you, but I’m somewhat perverse in nature. If someone tells me to do something, often even if it’s something I’d want to do left to my own devices, I bristle a little. “what? Have fun? Who’s gonna make me?” Who, indeed? Well, this morning as the First Reader and I did…