I’m honestly not sure what did rob me of my sleep. Okay, some of it was IT emergencies forcing TYG to get out of bed (I’m a light sleeper) and once it was Plushie deciding to lie next to my legs and fidget. But even eliminating those factors I still had nights of bad sleep. It may be partly that my evenings had little chance to relax. The past year or so Plushie’s been pretty quiet at the end of the day but the new meds he’s on seem to have rejuvenated him by several years. Which is great, but he’s back to demanding Play, Play, Play in the evenings and with TYG working late that was on me.
Snowdrop has been coming in for longer stretches in the evening. It turns out he’s quite happy to snuggle on the couch as long as the door is open, sometimes as much as 30 or 45 minutes. To ensure he’s not troubled, that means putting Wisp upstairs (she’s gotten out twice through that door) and me taking the dogs into the kitchen while TYG pets him (she loves that cat). That cuts into my relaxing time too. I can’t say I object — I pet him plenty too —
— but I think it leaves me more stressed than I had slightly more time to myself.
Despite that, I did get a fair amount done. I sat down with Oh the Places You’ll Go and once again tinkered and adjusted, shifting the sequence of events at the end. Every time I’ve done that I say “At last! Now it’s where it needs to be!” so I’m not going to predict that this time. It’s definitely better than it was, but it’s still frustrating to be working on a story I was sure I’d finished with six months back.
I also tackled the last two chapters of Savage Adventures, dealing with Doc Savage from 1945 through 1949, including the lost adventure In Hell, Madonna, which came out in 1978 as The Red Spider.
I reread Will Murray’s Writings in Bronze and added more information to some of my own entries. I’m on schedule for publication sometime next summer so yay me!
I completed an article for The Local Reporter to run next week and had one published this week on Chapel Hill’s efforts to become more ADA-accessible.
And now Christmas weekend is here. Whether you celebrate it or not, it’s a holiday so I hope you enjoy yourself the next three days.
#SFWApro. Cover by Bob Larkin, all rights to image remain with current holder.
