127. When it all comes at you at once ...

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

I'm sitting here at the computer bundled up. Sweats, socks, and you're all probably wondering why? I live in Arizona. It is currently in the 90's, but somehow the air kicked in so well today that it feels like it 70 in our apartment. No, 70 isn't cold by most standards, but when you're used to it being over 110 outside, a forty degree drop in temperature gets noticed. It's been cloudy a lot the last few days. Cloudy and humid. It rained for a good while yesterday too. We need rain here, so it is all good in my book.

Last night things got crazy, and they are still crazy. I had actually started to think that this month wouldn't be as bad as I thought it would be, and I could loosen up the reigns a bit. Well, no sooner had I thought that things suddenly got really busy again. I've been emailing people, writing, reading for two book review assignments, working on a couple of different stories, and playing with ideas for others I want to write. A lot of things just happened all at once.

I had noticed the other day when my Queer as Folk recap went up, a few small errors had been made. A typo here, a missed word there, and others that saw the review were letting me know of the errors made. As soon as I saw them, I did try to email the main site email that publishes the article, and I heard nothing back. So I decided to go through my files and locate the direct email to the editor that I had assigned me the column. Emailed that person late last night, and within thirty minutes had heard back with the corrections having already been made. Now that was fast, and it definitely was a relief to see the situation handled so quickly.

I look at the deadlines coming up for contests this month, and Phaze's Shiver contest really interests me. I have a couple of ideas I could play with, but nothing started. 5,000 words this month for that story might be asking too much of myself especially with my two other current WIP's demanding attention as well. I wish there was time to do it all. I wish there wasn't this little thing called sleep that all our bodies need because when it starts hitting near 3am, my mind usually starts to shutdown, and the only thing I'm good for at that point is reading. That's when I get a lot of my reading done. Between 3 and 5am because no matter how much I try I can't seem to get to sleep before 5am.

Have a great night everyone.