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Welcome 2013…
I have done something today that’s been a bit of a goal for a while now. I have organized my clost. Now, it’s not perfect yet, but it’s almost there. I’ve bought extra drawers so I have essentially an adult dresser’s worth of space now between the dresser I had as a kid and the sets of drawers in my closet. Moving my sister’s stuff to her room freed up a third of my closet and allowed me a little more bookshelf space up top. I still need something extra for storage on my bedside, but I’m not sure what that’s going to look like because I haven’t found anything…
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Life and absenteeism
Sorry I’ve been an absentee blogger of late and please forgive the lengthiness of this post. I’ve been buried under so much work it’s insane. A teacher at the school I work at was arrested for innappropriate communication with a minor and I took on three of his classes. I have been working day in and day out in order to be on top of things and I still feel like I’m not. I’ve been working so much that I’ve spent and grand total of two days off in two months. I’m constantly exhausted, stressed out, and have been sick for round about seven weeks at this point. This week…
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King *****
Now, I am not always such a fan of books that tell you what to do or not to do when it comes to your own writing. My reasoning for this is that I feel writing is a very personal journey and I think a lot of the how-to-write books are condescending. This one, however, is not. I don’t say that because Stephen King swears like the millworker he is. I don’t say that because Stephen King talks about being a raging alcoholic who doesn’t remember writing certain books. I don’t even say that because Stephen King talks about how he got sober and what happened in 1999…
