7.254. Manic Monday

Some people believe a week starts on Sunday. Others day Monday. I don’t have any real preference on the official start of the week for others, but for me Sunday is largely about football (fall/winter), writing, and getting a plan together for the week. That is to say that Monday is when I get the grinding going in full. I’ve developed a schedule where I don’t have to teach on Monday, which allows me to post all the online work needed and get deep into the grading as well as writing. I write this now as I am developing my personal schedule for the year. As yesterday indicated, writing is going to be a large chunk of my daily work existence. I am working to develop a ‘normal’ time for writing up to six days a week. Tuesday is a particularly busy school day, so I won’t be doing too much on the words there–consider it a reset. However, the rest of the week I am working to have a specific time and place to put my butt in a chair so I can be prolific.

Meanwhile, I am home without internet. I’m tethering to my phone at present, because the service I use informed my it would be shutting down today in order to upgrade services. Scheduled outage is no way to start your working week.

Some Thoughts:

  1. Speaking of scheduling, both of my fantasy drafts are now scheduled. With only two teams this year I have less to think about in regards to the strangeness of ‘stat gambling’. I will post some Wednesday stuff about that leading up to the draft.
  2. Reading modiphus’ Five Parsecs from Home game. Interesting. Solo gaming is new to me, and this system is very rules heavy. I want rules lite!
  3. Still researching various story forms. Finding a lot out there that I never considered before. Perhaps I am old enough to not be stuck in my ways…