everything is medium gnarly

( Questions of Days )

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Contractors made it back into the city last week, and the joists are now up. Progress.

It occurred to me recently that the contractor originally quoted four months. He started the work in December. Yeah, methinks that deadline is going to sail by with a very loud whooshing sound.

I have some vacation days that I carried over from last year, I'm really hoping I can use them to do stuff like paint and get our crap out of storage. They have to be used before the end of May, so fingers crossed.

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I really want to be doing Write Every Day. I am not. I am trying to, but there is a dry river bed where my creative flow usually resides.

I have decided I am going to assume this is temporary, and is a result of being stressed and juggling a lot of responsibilities, and that the correct response is to be kind to myself about it. So I'm going to stop trying to force it. Instead I will dig out all my old notebooks and sketch pads and just go through them and sort them out so that they are at my fingertips when the taps turn back on.