Current mood:	tired
Current music:	I Just Wanna Live - Good Charlotte

Slacking sated somewhat successfully
Wow. So last week I was hideously bad and unproductive, writing-wise. I blame burial of essays to grade at work. Seriously, I felt that I just was grading non-stop all last week when I wasn't tweaking lesson plans, teaching, having meetings with parents, etc. Also, due to the state budget woes -- California is way in the red -- there's been added stress because my job next year is in danger...again.

Next Thursday is the last day with students, and next Friday is our last day. So the end is in sight! After that, my output should, I hope, shoot up tremendously!

I did get a page written finally today, though. I started on the weekend a sort of "false start" for Chapter 19. Then I decided, feh, let's time jump an hour or so and summarize instead of walking through everything. (I do wonder how much cutting will be done on PIT5 eventually...the draft is probably 75% of the way done and I'm 75,000 words in. I believe all the prior PIT books fell in the 80,000 - 90,000 range.) That helped my little patch of writer's block because I was...I am...so sick of the current event in the story and ready to move on to the next! Finally, finally, I am creeping towards that!

Beyond that, no real updates or news to share. And I'm still title-less. I suspect PIT5 will not be bestowed an original non-numeric moniker until after the first Beta read. Funny only because I've got a great title set up for PIT6.

-K