I rewrote chapter 5 of DX with possession but no biting. Very interesting experience. It was fun. It will need some polishing but I think now the chapter isn't boring anymore. I guess I'll find out for sure tomorrow. I am now 273 words over word count and way over minimum, and that's with the massive deletions of boring parts. I'll have to cut some stuff to keep it at 20K as it's polished.

I've printed it out and will be reading it tomorrow and getting it to readers ASAP after that. My prof volunteered to read it, so that's good, and really nice of her. Having taught just one course, I know that reading 71 pages of stuff is a really big deal, esp at the end of the semester. So, after this I'll be able to take a look at the Rake and get off the revised chapters. And ask my agent about my darn proposals.

So now I'm up way too late, considering the alarm goes off at 5am. This is why I'm worried about my current caffeine-free state. None since Thursday, May 4th at 5:45am. There's soccer stuff tomorrow that overlaps aikido. Damn! That means I'll be rushing around all hyped on tension. (who needs caffeine!)

Good night.