Well, I’m still in upstate New York after arriving Thursday afternoon.  I’ve only edited one chapter of Darwin & the Beast Collector, but I plan on getting another done today.  I wanted to start editing on Thursday, but the trip up had a lot of construction and it was simply grueling.  Instead, I stretched my legs with a walk through a park, stopped by the exotic snack place, and grabbed dinner.  The rest was kind of a blur of exhaustion and sorting through some mental stuff.

I don’t know if I’m going to get together with friends because the few I talk to had work, kids, and Easter to handle.  Figured it was a chance to get some time alone to think, edit, and catch Pokemon when the weather held.  Editing and catching were slow going, but my brain is definitely bouncing around like a deranged maniac.  I think coming up here causes my mental walls to weaken, so old memories and emotions leak out.  Without work or my son to keep my occupied, I start examining my life and where I am now, which doesn’t go smoothly.  So much has happened to me and I’ve done so much since I left Oswego, which might be the last place I was living for myself.

Uh, backtracking a bit, I should say that I started the break with my son and celebrating Passover.  He wasn’t happy about only having matzah to eat, but we eventually cheated by going to Burger King with my friend.  The story behind that is that this is the same friend in high school who convinced me to go to BK to cheat and that nobody would know.  We came walking out with our burgers only to find my dad walking out of the bank right across the mall walkway.  So, a BK cheat has become a funny tradition if I decide I can’t take matzah any more.

Really isn’t anything majorly exciting that happened since the plan for spring break was solely to relax.  Monday is back to work and the final stretch for the end of the school year, which means a lot of work.  I’m going to try really hard to fit more editing time into my weekends and maybe a few evenings.  I’ll have 6 more chapters to go once I get home from Oswego.  Might shoot for more since I don’t have much else to do today and not finding the Pokemon group means I can’t do the event.  Can’t tell if I’m wasting my time here or if I’m being productive.

There was an interesting point during the drive where I started noticing a plot issue with the character of Rayne.  Nothing that involves the adventure she has with Darwin, but something with her future adventures.  I should probably start setting things up in this book even though the truth would be revealed in another series.  I don’t really know if that makes sense or how I’m going to make it work.  Don’t know if I’ll ever get to writing at the rate I used to either, so this could all be moot.  Still, I guess I should have notes down in case somebody can do something with it.  It’s fun coming up with this stuff, but it always draws me back to the ‘stalled author’ mentality that lingers in my mind.

Goals of the week:

1. Enjoy last day in Oswego.
2. Drive home safely tomorrow.
3. Edit more Darwin & the Beast Collector.
4. Laundry
5. Food shopping.
6. Back into the swing of work.
7. Help son with school.
8. Catch Pokemon for exercise.
9. Sleep.
10. Work on some June posts.