Who needs personal space anyway?
It’s only 10pm, but damn am I tired.
I say *only* 10pm because of my new – temporary – lifestyle. I call it “run like the wind or until there is no more wind and you choke for a little while in a dramatic fashion before dropping dead” and it involves doing everything one would normally cram into a full day…plus editing (a.k.a. largely re-writing) two chapters – or 25+ pages – a day.
You may fancy yourself a superman and declare that quite doable, but trust me…it’s cruel and unusual.
However, despite the mental agony, I’m hanging in there and getting it done. This is week two of three, and it’s almost halfway through week two…so help me God.
It's hard to determine if he's doing this because he loves me or because he thinks he owns me. Or something nefarious in between.
And all this despite the fact that there’s a gigantic, furry 100-pound animal smashing himself up against my right (dominant) side and lying on my arm and his ear is twitching against my finger and basically he’s cramping my style literally and figuratively and physically and factually and objectively and in a way that is sweet but annoying.
What I’m trying to say here is that he’s cutting off circulation to the right side of my body, but I love him so I’m letting him do it.
Because that’s what love is.
Sucking it up even when your beloved is really, really, really irritating you.
Right?
That’s what love is?
Right???
But enough whining about the semi-domesticated mammal encroaching on my personal space. It’s time. It’s always time. And so once again it’s time to go back to editing…
See you on the New York Times Bestseller list! Next fall work for you?
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You’re blog is awesome. I’ve on the fence about quitting my engineering job and going to Europe for a while, so it’s cool to see someone who’s actually done it.
Gonna do some writing too…
“A man of genius makes no mistakes”
-Stephen Dedalus
Love is whatever my wife tells me it is!
It changes from year to year?!?
I’ll be frank and admit I was completely mortified when I quit and fearing that I’d made a terrible, irreversible mistake…but that wore off. Now I can’t imagine going back to that kind of work. In truth, so long as you’re happy with yourself, nothing is a mistake.
Good luck!
Let me know if I can be of any help.
You’re a wise man.
That’s probably why you’re still married!