Friday Five

By: Meradeth Houston on 4:31 AM

This week has gone too quickly! I need a longer vacation, if only so that I can actually get caught up on stuff...

1. Summer school starts on Monday. This both delights and scares the crap out of me. I have a million lectures to work on, which have been totally gathering dust on my hard-drive. Somewhere I got it into my head that I can use my lectures from last year and not worry so much about it. I know this is wrong on an intrinsic level, but it hasn't motivated me to get to work. Yeah, it's going to be a long weekend...
2. My nose is peeling. Thank you Angel Island and the awesome (not) time we had there last Monday. I now look like I have some kind of leprosy.
3. I cut off all my HAIR. I still am not used to it. But I donated my (much longer than I thought) hair to locks of love. Kinda cool to think about, and yet it also kinda grosses me out. I don't know why.
4. I'm nearly to the point in my revisions where I honestly just want to send it off to agent-extraordinaire and be like "look, I like what I've done here, but I kinda don't want to put any more effort into it until I have some idea that you like it." Too bad that sounds whiny as all get-out. But, yeah, there's a point in every manuscript I write that I start to analyze the cost-benefit ratios, like either I'm going to dump more time into this, but there's a point where it's just not going to do any good. Have I hit this point? I have no idea....
5. Is it just me, or do you wish for something like a half-check-mark. Like, my to-do list is two pages long, and I've worked on just about everything on it (go me!) but about half the things are stuck in the limbo of not being completed due to having to deal with other people. This bothers me. Because I feel like I've put in all the effort I can, but there's nothing else I can do, so therefore I should be able to check the dang thing off. But I can't, because it's not done yet. So, a half-check-mark would be a good thing.

And, I'm rambling. Off to go scrub the hell out of CLM some more...