Vicki went to bed early tonight, she’s got a cold. I wandered into my desk with no more intentions than to play a few games and go to bed. Mondays are rough for me – as I’ve said.
This is not what happened though. I started out answering emails. A couple of my writer friends from a group responded to my request for them to answer interview questions. These responses led me to working on the report for my book editing class. From there I went to checking my school / work email, which led to my mail box nearly being full so I had to delete a bunch of stuff – like thousands of emails. From there I checked my D2L account. This is the school account where I have a link for each class and then I can turn in assignments, get information for the class and a variety of other things.
That led to playing on Facebook. I actually played the couple of games I was intending. By the time I was done with that it was 10:00. You would think I would just go to bed right? Nope.
While playing those games I was thinking about the story I turned in to my fiction writing class which I have to edit. I switched over to editing it. I have the first chapter done. Oh it started out as a short story but I’m pretty sure it will be a novel or novella by the time I’m done.
When I closed that for the night, I fell into my old habit of playing the Hoyle games I have on my computer. I’m obsessed with Rummy 500, Spite & Malice, and Backgammon. I have to play at least one game of each before I can go to bed. I think I do this because it helps to shut down my brain. After editing, I need the creative flow to slow enough so I can get to sleep and not have to pop up several times over the next hour to jot down just one more idea.
This lovely domino effect has led me to 11:45 pm and not in bed before midnight – yet again. It is completely my own fault. However, I’m glad I got all this stuff done. It means I’ll have one or two fewer things to do over the weekend – I hope.