Bad Blood at Madden High

Thursday is my big night for school, and we ran long this evening, so I didn’t get to the Starbucks until less than an hour from closing time. I thought I’d try to bang out as many words as I could in the given time, but I’m about to run out of juice in my laptop, and all the electrical outlets in here are being hogged. When they’re being used by other computer users, that’s not hogging. When they’re being blocked by groups of people studying together, they are. I know it’s nobody’s fault, but I can’t help feeling mildly resentful. Don’t these people know I have a novel to write?

To answer Donna’s question, last night’s entry took me about three hours to write, but that was with frequent breaks. I can usually do a good 1667 words in two hours if I really work at it. Skipping tonight means putting in some extra time over the next few nights just to get caught up. Good thing there’s a weekend coming up. Election day will probably be a non-writing day, since I’m working at the polls again, and somewhere along the way I’ve got to get my work-work done, and I’ve got to get work done on school-work. It’s going to be a crazy week. At least the sudoku puzzles are taken care of until the end of the month, when I’ll have to come up with some for December.

I think I’ll go home and get to bed early, hoping to wake up early enough to get to Starbucks near my school when it opens, then get some words done before work. We’ll see.

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