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Woke up this morning with only a nasty taste in my mouth and the barest hint of a cough. It's good to be better again.

Unfortunately I couldn't actually fall asleep last night till five in the fucking morning. Dammit! So I woke up at noon and as a result if I call the temp agency I bet I'll just get an answering machine. Fine. I'll wait till 1:30 or so and then call. You see? I have thwarted their sneaky plan. Bastards.

Weird thing, though. And for all of you who have cats, you'll know how weird this is. I think. I grab my cat and take her upstairs with me when I go to bed (for the second time, after coming downstairs and drinking some water and contemplating mindless tv). She curls up on the bed as usual, except she's right on top of the blankets I need to cover my freezing body. So I pick her up, tuck her in one arm so she doesn't try it again till I've got the blankets over me. That done, I loosen my arm so she can squirm out and walk to the end of the bed as she always does.

But she doesn't.

Instead she tucks her feet under the blankets too and sticks her head on my hand and starts purring. I press my head to her back to check... yep, she's purring. So I ended up being spooned with the cat for a good half hour until I'm almost asleep and then, finally, she gets up and walks away. To the end of the bed. Where she curls up on my feet and goes to sleep as usual. That's better.

Ugh. I should get ready for the day. Have breakfast, brush teeth, shower, that kind of thing. Don't want to. Where's my morning word puzzles.

"Money. It's a gas."

Posting my goals on FM. So far I've signed up for the Worldbuilding Dare, the Novel Dare, the Short Stories Dare, and the Word Count dare. All at Master level. Because you know what? I've been practicing writing in mass quantity for years. I think I'm going to add some stuff to that list, but I'm not sure what yet. Definitely some editing dare or rewriting dare, now that I'm getting back into working on Martine again. And Storms needs finished. Didn't I mean to do that this month? I thought I did. Hmm. Have to check on that.

Got my W2, downloading the tax forms, all my ducks are neatly in their government-dictated rows. Mailing them out on Monday with that week's submissions. I am a good little girl. Pfui. My tax return this year isn't going to be nearly so hefty. But at least it'll be some money. Some money I don't have to beg other people for. Go me.

I really need to call those temp agencies again.

EDIT: So, by Monday, I've set myself the goal of writing at least 8k words per day, plus 1 short story every two days or so, plus prepping two novels for submission. I think I've gone off my nut. *eyes cross* Help meeeeee!

GIP

Because dammit, KMFDM rocks.