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Day 4,120: Hot Honey

A zero day on writing…but I found something instead. I’ll be up on time tomorrow, and I can feel the action plan ready to execute on getting this outline done. I don’t know why I feel the shift, but I do. Which is a relief. Don’t get me wrong—lots of work ahead. But I can get this outline done by the end of this month, and get to writing it starting March 1st, which, man. That will be dope. That will be everything.

Work was slow again today. I think that’s helped a bit. I’m a little over half...

Day 4,119: Spence

Went to a friend’s birthday get-together tonight. It was so nice. Good friends. Several fun conversations, which is a rarity at the stand-around-and-talk party variety, you know? But these were good people. A testament to our friends. Good people attract good people.

Tired today. More so than normal. But I chalk it up to still recovering from being sick. It rained most of the day, this super fine drizzle. Loved it. Snacks came into my office and hung out with me for most of the day, which is ...

Day 4,118: Enclave Conclave

The rain is coming. It’s not quite here yet, but it’s close. The clouds are thick and the air is cool.

It was another recovery day today in the sense that I didn’t push anything. But I’m back at it tomorrow. Looking forward to it. It’ll be hard getting up in the morning I’m sure, but I can handle it.

Night night.

Day 4,117: Druid Peak

On the mend! For real this time. Actually feeling better.

I have two obsessions at the moment:

The first is the song God Yu Tekem Laef Blong Mi, the Hans Zimmer version from The Thin Red Line. It’s a pidgin english gospel hymn from the Melanesian Solomon islands, and man. Really got me today. I’ve probably listened to the song a hundred times. It’s that perfect mix for me of beautiful and sad, the type of song we sing when our hearts are breaking. We don’t sing sad songs in times like that...

Day 4,116: Gram

Feeling a little better! I felt worse for most of the day, so that’s a pleasant surprise. I felt legit sick today. Blech. Slept most of the day after watching some TV. I haven’t been in the mood to watch hardly anything these days, which is odd. The only thing, really, that’s floated my boat have been documentaries. Watched one today on the Shackleton antarctic expedition. Quite the harrowing story. And then because that got me in the mood, I watched one of the Nova episodes on the Franklin expe...

Day 4,115: Weather

Under the weather today. Feeling better tonight, so hopefully I’m through it all. VERY mild, I have to say, but still enough to wipe me out. Slept most of the day. Did get up and watch Wrexham. They won! On a (literally) last-minute goal. After giving up a 90th minute equalizer that would have meant losing ground on both of the teams above us. Wild wild wild finish.

Read.

Slept.

Ate some food.

Walked the pups morning and evening.

Watched Billy Madison with Liz because we have a fr...

Day 4,114: Magical Thinking

Under the weather today. Blech. Not too bad, but enough to call off film schoolin’. A bummer since we haven’t seen each other for a couple weeks already. Went on my trip, then Josh was busy, now I’m sick. Hopefully it doesn’t last too long.

Still worked today. Didn’t write so I could take it easy, but I did have Netflix stuff to do, and I did it.

Sigh.

Tired. Hopefully this weekend helps. Not planning on doing anything except watching some sports and reading. And sleeping.

Speaking o...

Day 4,113: Press

I forgot my iPad in my office, blerg, so we’re typing with our thumbs kiddos! Gonna make it a short one because of it.

I didn’t really “have it” today…but I pushed forward anyway. Proud of myself for that. I got done what I needed to. Work-wise. Writing-wise I put in my time. The work there is good, just…slow. Dishearteningly slow. But I know that’s resistance. And the only way to beat it is to keep going, find the momentum I’m missing, and blow it away. Took a much-needed nap. Kept up on my ...

Day 4,112: Back Scritches

What do I complain about the most?

Being tired, I think? Or maybe writing being hard. Probably the first one, though.

I don’t like being tired. One of many reasons why not having kids is a goooood choice, lol. I do love my rest. I take a nap most days. If I wake up and I’m tired, I’ll probably not get up. Back to sleep with me! And I feel like I do a fair amount on these daily entries talking about being tired.

I dunno. That’s probably a question best answered by you. What do I complain...

Day 4,111: My Bud

A zero writing day. Sigh. Not a perfect week, but that’s okay. I’ve set myself up for a great day tomorrow! Which means getting my ass to sleep on time, so this will be brief.

Work was busy. Kinda unexpectedly so. But I handled it.

I caught up on the Shakespeare reading! I have no idea how, lol, but I did. Henry VI Part 3 is…dare I say…better than part 2? It’s…kinda good??? We’ll see. But there were some FIRE scenes today in act 2.

Wrexham lost. Probably our worst loss of the season in ...