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I'm sitting at the heater with my Psion Revo and writing my backdated entries. Surprisingly I'm feeling quite happy. Even if the day didn't start out so well.
I had slept badly. Laying long awake, then dreaming badly - no wonder, I felt grumpy in the morning. But work went well and I finished everything I had on my desk.Writing a letter to my landlady is also on the list of accomplished tasks. She won't be pleased but the heating must be fixed. The thing does heat, yes, but the pressure goes over into the red when it fires up and drops under the minimum when not. And it is just running at the lowest intensity. I expect her phone call Friday evening, or Saturday at the latest. But sorry, we had already frost this month and it will become colder.
Usually the Thursday evening is reserved for fitness training. But I didn't go because I reasoned that I will have my training on Saturday when we will go hiking again. And frankly, I'm still a bit stiff from Monday. So instead I went home, made me a cucumber salad and tea, and then sat down to write my journal entries.
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NaNoWriMo thoughts
Last year I followed other people's progress during NaNoWriMo more than a bit intrigued. I just had made the more or less conscious decision to start developing my writing skills and even the idea of writing 50K words in a month was really frightening to me. Maybe next year, I thought. If I save my free days I could use the whole November for vacation and write.
You know what they say about the best-laid plans...
Taking now a longer vacation is out of question. Far too much work waits. Writing after work may be possible, but if the last weeks are an indication I have to hope for a wonder.
It is an ambigous feeling. The rational part of me says: Are you nuts? Don't you have enough stress at your hands? The other replies: I'm itching to write. Wouldn't it be great to write? Just to see that you can do more than a snippet here and there?
I really don't know. Maybe, if I get myself sorted out I could do NaNoWriMo unofficially, just to boost my word count and to get me over this current phase of non-writing. Writing will stay only my hobby for long years to come (if I don't give up on it) and working my day job will take most of my time so it might be a good thing if I can figure out to do both.