- Christmasified the house last night, finally. My tree is purdy.
- Did all of my Christmas shopping today. V. excited to give Dr Chad his gifts.
- Volunteered to send a story for week one crits at Clarion, and have to send the story by next week. I’ve decided that there are a few options for this:
- Write a new piece and send it by next week. This is plan (A) and I’m running with it — wrote 800 words this afternoon, will make them reproduce tomorrow afternoon. I’m liking this one. It’s giving me butterflies, so I want to spew them out in word form. Soon. Still, Monday and Tuesday will see me editing, tweaking, possibly pulling my hair out. In the event of hair-pullage, I will:
- resort to plan (B), which is finish the edits I’m doing on a different story at the moment and submit that one instead. If I’m not happy with these edits,I’ll:
- flip to plan (C), which is finish ‘No Ordinary Coward’ and send it off. If that is still unsatisfactory, I’ll:
- go to plan (D) — the last resort plan which involves sending off the story Ann VDM rejected the other day, to see if there’s anything I can do to improve it. This is the LAST resort, because Sean Williams has already read this story, so I don’t particularly want to bore him straight off the bat. Let the boredom come from some other quarter, not mine. Besides, I’m happy with plan (A).
- Going to wrap pressies tonight because I like looking at them under the tree. I’m a pathetic Christmas tragic, I know.
- My supervisor was pleased with my thesis efforts, so now I can totally neglect my chapter until Feb. Score.
- Have decided that my New Year’s resolution is going to be an easy one: keep a list of all of the books I’ve read for fun throughout the year, then compare the ‘fun’ list with the ‘thesis’ list to see how much of a slacker I am. Then I will reward myself for being a slacker if my ‘fun’ list wins. Win-win is what 2009 is all about, folks.
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Lisa L. Hannett 