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Saturday, July 23, 2005

How to Look Busy Without Actually Being Busy

Today I did stuff. A whole bunch of stuff. My two neices had a combined birthday party in Napa CA today. There was a pool and the kids and many adults were having a blast. It was 105 degrees Farhenheit. 105!! People, I live in Coastal California plus I think 80 is too hot. I live for fog. Also, I do not own a pair of shorts or a bathing suit. Why should I? I have no life. I never go anywhere or do anything, and I will only hint at the troubles I have getting away for an evening. Start with babysitting and end with family members who say things like, "You mean that's tonight?" or "You know I haven't been feeling well today" or "No." Let's just say I got tired of cancelling because it turned out I had no babysitting. Plus, school keeps me busy. And when there's no school, there's writing and if there's neither (when does that happen?) I'm tired.

Anyway, I was going to talk about how to look busy without actually being busy. Oh, wait, is that my email chime? Uh-huh. Better check. Right. So about being busy. Maybe I'll check my word processor settings to see if there's anything cool I can do. Nope. Not really. Oh, hey, that's my phone paging me. Someone sent me an important email. Note to self - check email phone paging settings. I wonder if anything interesting is trapped in my spam filters. Uh, no. I don't even have one of those. Hmm. I bet other writers have written something interesting in their blogs. Why, yes, they have. Open chapter 1 of WIP. Right. I didn't finish getting rid of the sentence fragments. Better get right on that, but wait, I should update all my anti-virus and spyware programs.

Net effect: busy on computer all evening. Amount of work done - oh, hey, I better go see how many words I did today.

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