What I’m Up To

I have 17 blog post drafts, but I don’t feel comfortable posting any of them just now. I’ve been… rather busy. Doing what, you say? Let’s list.

1. Doing my day job
2. Teaching ENGL 101 – intro to composition – to prison inmates through Ashland University.
3. Teaching a 4-week course on writing short stories at the public library
4. Preparing to teach a course on writing political science fiction tonight!
5. I was recently a test subject for aerospace science, which was cool but time-consuming. I spent 3 3-hour sessions breathing random mixes of oxygen and doing cognitive tests while they monitored my mind. I then spent another 3 hours getting gel out of my hair.
6. Revising Galactic Hellcats for its re-release / checking over now-released book for missed typos
7. Planning events and publicity for said re-release (Related: you can now buy my book.)
8. Playing Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. I finished with 100% of sidequests. I do that.
9. Starting a new research project on the demographics of characters in science fiction with two cool ladies in Germany.
10. Oh, yeah, getting my MFA, which means reading stuff and critiquing and writing. I have a 10-page paper due! ACK.
11. Writing a Dating Simulator that was supposed to be a silly quick project and is turning into a PROJECT.
12. Voluntarily reading submissions for the literary review for my MFA program because, like, I had SO MUCH FREE TIME.
13. Suffering depression, hot flashes, and somehow biting one of my rear molars in half?

I feel simultaneously like I am doing nothing and doing too much. Good news, the test subject thing and the literary review are DONE. The four week course ends next Monday. And, as mentioned, I finished Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. Seems like I should have more spare time soon? I have a doctor’s appointment Monday that will hopefully address the debilitating, sleep-depriving hot flashes, too. I did get an increase on my depression meds, and that IS working. I am genuinely shocked how depressed I got. It feels much more comfortable inside my brain now.

But I did not get a blog post ready for this week. Sorry. Will try to fix up one of those many rough draft posts by next week.