A quick report while I get my act in gear...

Okay, to start this momentous post, I'm going to do a word association. Maybe next time I'll do a setting exercise.

Exercise. Fat. Gut. Hanging over. Drunk. Migraine. Bad. Pain.

Uh.. that's not the word I planned on starting with.

With. Together with us. Japan. Engrish. Teach. Lame. Poor. Happy. Love. Sigh...

I wasn't planning on using that one either. Please, if you are a psychoanalyst, a therapist, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud or Ernesto Wosklowskiskin, don't read anything into those previous misfires.

Okay. Now the REAL word association.

Association. Group. Meeting. Long. Sleep... arg..

Now for the real one. This is like a Pinter play so far, eh?

America. United States. Free. Land of the free. Home of the brave. Brave. Courage. Undaunted. Hope. Fear. Firm. Fight. Battle. Free. Truth. God. Love. Humility. Free. The United States of America. Republic. Barack Obama. George W. Bush. Backlash. Both. Four and out. Stimulus. Socialism. Socialist. Lenin. Lennon. Beatles. Blech. Pepper. Lonely. Free. Old. Real. Happy.

Okay.. stopping now. I warrant, on pain of a lashing with a wet noodle or a spell in the comfy chair (the comfy chair? the comfy chair! the comfy chair? the comfy chair...), that the previous word association is authentic and untouched by design or plan or guidance.

It also makes very little sense.

So if you follow my Twitter updates, you know I've changed my morning schedule. Due to that and the adjustments needed to make it work, as well as due to my having a new writing project that ACTUALLY PAYS, the novel will go on hold for a bit while I get things ironed out and regular.

That is my report. Oh, and I was just accepted into BYU's MA program for IP&T. If you want to know what that is, you'll just have to comment on this post and ask.

HA!

carpe somnium

Just stopping in quickly on this Tuesday evening...

to record my day. And yesterday.

For writing, I have basically been fighting on Helium to finally win a category. I have written my very best to this category, and so far it is okay. I truly feel like my stuff is the best in its titles. I would really like to place first, overall first, in one of these contests for once. So this is the week I am going for it.

Anyway, today we took Annemarie to the airport so she could fly to California (LA) to see a friend of hers. This is actually the first time Annemarie's been away from the the kids and me for any more than most of a day. So it should be very fun for her, and may involved tears from kids, but it will certainly cause no harm in anyone. I miss her, for sure, but I have been kept busy with the kids and other work.

I sent some writing samples to Nature's Sunshine yesterday, as I had applied to a part time job there. I could use the extra work, particularly if they allow telecommuting. I also got an e-mail from Lena at Mountain Reservations, (where I interviewed last Wednesday) telling me that they would not be doing second interviews and that they would send word by 5PM tomorrow. So I am actually kind of anxious now. I know that I would love that job. I know that I would not love the commute. But the work looks awesome, as do the people, and the money is vital. So if they offer me the job, at a good salary, I will take it. For sure.

I also, finally, got my first advance payment today from Cengage Learning, the ones publishing the graded reader series. Wahoo! It was a spectacular feeling. Seriously, I got kind of weepy. What a wonderful thing to get paid pretty well for doing what you have dreamed of doing all of your life! I am still so excited that I might even make a typo!

But it's late and I have much to do around the house. I love my job; I love my family; I love my life. Ain't it sickening?

carpe somnium

(I'm going to be a bestselling author.)