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November 14, 2007

Writing Prompts

I'm hoping that by tappity-tapping away here this morning I'll grease the wheels for my NaNoNovel for later.

Because I wrote 23 words yesterday. Which really, ultimately, was a triumph. You see, yesterday I had the following schedule (and remember, please that because I'm on a college campus, everything I do is at least a 10 minute walk from everything else I do, including walking to my office from my parked car):

8:30 Leave for school so as to get a decent parking space and arrive on time for class.
9:30-10:45 Teach
11:00-12:15 Teach
12:30-2:00 Grade projects turned in during the previous two classes that must be turned back on Thursday
2:00-4:00 Training meeting
4:00-5:00 Continue grading
5:00-6:00 Answer email while eating dinner at local diner with free wireless. Get lost in the wrong building on the way to next event.
6-8:30 Watch film with students from one core class so we can talk about it tomorrow and also so I can be sure they don't sneak out. Seriously. People come, sign the attendance sheets and leave. I mean, really. IT'S A FUCKING MOVIE. IT'S ENTERTAINMENT. WATCH THE WHOLE FUCKING THING.
8:30-9:45 Attend last half of Midsummer rehearsal, both to hear the voices and to be sure the students (from a different core class) who were required to attend actually showed up.
10:00 Arrive home. Check email, put out fires, type 23 words of novel, stare at walls.
11:30 Give up and go to bed.

And today?

9:30am Leave for school (I wanted to sleep in a bit). Walk from further parking place because these are the tradeoffs, sleep vs. parking.
10:00-11:00 Office hours.
11:30-12:20 Teach
12:30-1:20 Teach (In a different building)
1:30-2:30 Grade some more of those projects I have to hand back tomorrow morning at 9:30.
2:30-4:00 Coach monologues in a beginning acting class.
4:00-?:?? Finish grading those projects.

I would have also had rehearsal from 6:30-10:30, but it was cancelled because several of the cast members are also in an opera that is running tonight. So once I'm done with the grading, I can come home and clean up the disasters in the kitchen, the living room, the bedroom and my office. That way, the lovely woman who comes to clean once a week will actually be able to, you know, clean. And Dave and I will be able to actually walk through rooms instead of picking our way carefully between the various piles of stuff.

And then, once I'm done picking things up, I can write.

So enough about how haaaarrrrrd my life is. Let me share an easy bit with you. You know how Beowulf is opening all over the place on Friday? (Which happens to be one of our two 10th wedding anniversaries.) Well, everyone says that the way to see it is in the 3-D IMAX theatres. There are, of course, several of those within driving distance of BF, Idaho, where I live. Not.

And you know how David is taking me to LONDON over the winter break to celebrate our 40th birthdays and 10th anniversaries? (You didn't? He is.) So I checked to see whether, you know, that version might be playing there while we're there. And it is. And I asked him if we could see it while we were there, sending a link to the theatre so he would know what I was talking about. And the next thing I knew, he was sending me the time and date of the show for which he had purchased tickets.

I'm completely geeked out right now. What a great husband I have.

Posted by sally at November 14, 2007 09:01 AM

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