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Saturday November 18th - The Blinding Light at the End of the Tunnel
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It motivates me, but not quite in the way you'd think. "Inspiring" is far from the right word. I'm too tired to be inspired by anything these days.

My to-do list for this weekend is so long and I've only got two days to do it in! Argh! Add to my chores the fact that the weekends are the only time I have enough energy to socializing, and you have days off that are just as hectic as my workdays. Laundry, bills, cleaning, organizing, shopping, tasks, chores, arrangements to make, people to see and say goodbye to, articles to write, a computer to get fixed, a bookstore to update, traffic tickets to get paid in time, not to mention my fiction writing, which needs a good chunk of uninterupted time and some inspiration. And I have to see people on the weekends; I'm so fucking lonely during the week, working in an airless office where no one really cares about me and most of the engineers haven't bothered to learn my name (even though I've learned all 14 of theirs) and they call me "Ma'am"! ARGH!

Ok, deep breath. It's still Saturday morning. I still have time to get some of what I need to get done done. This, this is my concept of "weekend"; days off when you get to work like a dog for yourself instead. This is the kind of busy that drains you. This is the kind of busy most of America lives with for most of their adult lives.

There's nothing I can do to change my immediate situation. Grad school is almost a year away (assuming I make it in); for now I should probably remain as numb to my misery as possible.

Exercise log:


Writing log:

The Many Masks of Halloween in Strange Horizons.


I'm currently reading:

Asimov's Feb. 2000

Born with the Dead by Robert Silverberg

Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier

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