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Torsten and NaNoWriMo!
Check out the front page of the National Novel Writing Month site – Torsten and I are featured in the Daily NaNo Q&A in the lower left corner! The bio is still a bit incomplete because they wanted to confirm … Continue reading
What is this “real life” of which you speak?
One of the things about having a baby is that all of this literature for new parents begins to arrive at your house, and you have no idea which of it you solicited and which of it you didn’t. Furthermore, … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, being a grownup, education, education junkie, good things, language, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, parenthood, research, sleep-impaired drivel, teaching, Torsten, travel
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Short updates
NaNoWriMo – Ridiculously, I won. I told Karen – who deserves big congrats for finishing her novel days ahead of time, btw – that I had a great story for why I wasn’t going to finish, and then somehow, magically … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, breastfeeding, family, friends, good things, hospital, labor and delivery, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, sleep-impaired drivel, stress, Torsten, writing
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Week 39: Bump, kick, nudge, ouch, baby, don’t you want to come out yet?
38 weeks, even. Ok, so it’s 4:30 am on Sunday, but I’m still up and just about to go to bed on an enforced-bedtime-so-that-I-don’t-sleep-too-late-Monday deadline. Yeah, yeah, 4:30 am is too late by anyone’s measure, but it was 6:30 or … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, baby preparations, labor and delivery, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, pregnancy, slacking, Thanksgiving, writing
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Lift-off… liveblogging my wordcount
Ok, so I said I’d start writing at around 4 this afternoon. It’s now almost 6:30, and between backache, hormones, emptying the dishwasher, hormones, ravenous hunger, hormones, answering a few emails, hormones hormones hormones, the distraction of the Internets, and … Continue reading
Back on track…
So I woke up late today – superlate, actually – after a good Thanksgiving. No turkey, but some quality time with Christian and a nice warm dinner (with tasty dessert), plus a nice slow walk together out in the cool … Continue reading
More progress…
But not with Small Monster (sorry nethm – things seem to have calmed down, so I think the 24-hour bet is off ) Two German essays down, one to go (which is mostly thought out and ready to go, but … Continue reading
Week 38: All kinds of progress
I didn’t start out intending this to be an official pregnancy post – it’s really more about other stuff – but since part of the progress I refer to has to do with Small Monster’s progress, I’ll put it in … Continue reading
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Tagged German, health, language, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, pregnancy, writing
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Hot NaNo Catchup (Ketchup?) Action!
I am so getting caught up with this novel 4606 words tomorrow and I’ll be right on target! And in good news, my characters are starting to do awful things to make their lives appropriately miserable – that may sound … Continue reading
