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     It's been nearly five full days since I last sat down to enter something into this journal. Almost seven thousand two hundred minutes.

     One hundred and twenty hours.

     Five days.

     I haven't been away this long since late last August when I was tromping around at San Antonio's WorldCon. Quite incredible, actually.

     Oh, there are reasons, of course. The real world has reared its ugly head: many hours at work, the DHTML course, family matters. Things happen, you know. A person can only do so much in a limited time period, and one of my biggest internal obstacles is trying to avoid getting upset at myself for not achieving enough in closed-off segments of my life.

     I don't like not doing something I'm emotionally tied to. And I've got to say, I really enjoy keeping this place up.

     Oh, God. I'm doing it. A recursive journal entry about journal entries.

     Bear with me while I finish laughing at myself.

     

. . .

     Okay. I'm better now.

     In the nooks and crannies of the past five days, I've also managed to complete a draft of a story and finish a critique and a half for other folks. I also received a rejection from SF and Beyond. This one was out 406 days by my count. Talk about your time loops.

     The draft I completed is a brief 1,000 worder that I really like. I call it "The Pluto Story" because it's set on that planet. But, obviously it needs a real name. It's roots stem from the PlotFest day that Lisa Silverthorne and I recently ran together. This is propbably the best story that I came out of that session with. Short. Scientific. (And hopefully) With a punch. I'm giving it a day or three to stew before I brush it up for someone else to read.

     Well, I'm gonna run. I've got a lot to do this morning, you know ...

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