Even though I took most of today off and I had my little pumpkin adventure yesterday, I still managed to finish up three chapters and send them in. I have 5 chapters left to do in two weeks. Totally doable. Three of them are a fair bit along already. Looks like this deadline will be a little more sane than the last one. I’m not free from occassional meltdowns and my soul energy meter is very low but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I got the election booklet in the mail yesterday. It read November 8th in big bold letters. I felt a rush of elation when I picked it up. That’s just 10 days before my finall due date. I felt like I was holding my freedom in my hands. That means I’m getting close, that there is an end, that life will return back to some sort of normal pace.<\/p>\n
Tom doesn’t believe that I will take it easy when I’m done with this book. He thinks I’ll just fill my time up with other stuff. I can understand why he thinks this but I don’t know. I’m really having a hard time with having very little free time. I’m scared about money and I don’t know what the future holds. I feel like I’m on a big, windy cliff and the ground around me is disintegrating. I feel more and more exposed every day. I don’t know if the cliff is going to hold. I want to go back into my cave where it is quite and warm. Boy, any psychiatrists out there want to take a crack at this? Geez.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I went to some open studios today. I met Anna Conti for the first time after many email exchanges. We stopped by David and Susan Grote and wandered around Fort Mason for a while. The weather was spectacular. At 6 o’clock we were sitting my the water in short sleeve shirts. Ahhhhh. Tomorrow is the last of my midterms. It’s a big relief but it also means that a paper will be due soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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