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February Masochist's Dare --
2,000 words a day

Today's Words:

0
Total Words:
14,332

Tuesday,
February 13, 2001


Taking a Week Off

This is to officially notify my fellow WebRat darers that I'm taking this week off from the dare. There's simply no way I can hork out 2K a day AND get this humongous buttload of household goods unpacked.

Yes, I know -- if I were a real writer, I would ignore everything until my wordage was done for the day. However, 1) I cannot work knowing that all this stuff is waiting for me, and 2) I also have a house guest coming in ten days, and it might be nice to offer her a place to sleep other than a racked row of boxes.

Besides, I want to find my Wedgwood and introduce it to its new siblings. Of course, then I have to buy a curio cabinet. Whee.

To be perfectly honest, I know from experience that working all day, then spending my evenings unpacking and lugging boxes from one room to another, means I'm going to be too damn tired to do much of anything other than fall into bed at the end of the day. In my mind, I'm still a sprightly sixteen-year-old with energy to spare and a body that can weather any sort of abuse, but the physical reality of a 34-year-old body with a bad back and bad knees keeps trying to swamp that, dammit.

So something has to give. And in this case, much as I hate to do it, it's going to be the writing. If nothing else, I should be able to see the living room floor again by the 23rd.

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