Waiting… for the workshop
I hate waiting! :) The writing workshop starts a week from today, I've been enrolled for three days, and already I'm darned impatient.
Fortunately, even though the "Lecture Hall" isn't open yet, all six "lectures", reading and writing assignments, and optional creative exercises are available. So I can start working ahead... I just can't interact with anybody in the workshop yet.
Got the text book from Amazon on Tuesday, but haven't had a lot of time to read it... mostly the introduction. A 4-week-old orphaned kitten, attacked by my stupid "but it's all that I know!" dachshund, has hampered my sleep. As has my mother-in-law being in the hospital with pneumonia and my wife spending a lot of her time up there. Tuesday, when MIL went into the hospital, Karen didn't come home until 12:30 AM. I was still up, my 8-year-old son got up, and my kitten was up. I think I managed to get to bed at one, but Karen was having sinus trouble (and ended up sleeping in the recliner). I don't think I got to sleep until two, and I got up at four to feed the kitten (who didn't want to eat, adding to my stress.) I think I might have gotten four hours of sleep on Tuesday night. So yesterday, even though I took the day off to run Nathan to the dentist, then out to my mom's, then the kitten to the vet... then some laundry and all, when I laid down to read the book, I fell asleep. And woke up minutes later to my wife coming in the door and the Leak Frog in the basement screaming that there was water on the laundry room floor. (Somehow I'd dropped a couple paper towels into the utility sink the washer drains into and it had overflowed. Not a huge deal, since the floor is kept clear after the last time we had overflow troubles. Just had to mop up a half-gallon of water.)
I crashed at 10:30, got up again at two to take care of the kitten, and then up for good at 6:30 to take care of kitten, ducks, and get started with work by 7:30. (Yay, working from home, but I like to start at 7:30 so I can be done by 4:30 and still have an hour lunch.) While I slept well last night, aside from the 2 AM kitten feeding, now that I've made it to the end of work, I'm definitely dragging from lack of sleep on Tuesday night. I'd like to go read, but I think I'm going to take a nap.
So, while this post was supposed to be about the workshop, it's managed to focus on the workshop about as much as I have, and for much the same reasons. :)