Gak! No, that's not right -- I'm looking for more of a hacking noise: Ghak! maybe. Or Gakh! Yeah, that's it: Gakh!! Where did the time go?!! It's not like I've been wasting it (well, okay, The Brothers Grimm wasn't the best way to spend two hours, but I'm sure my faith in Terry Gilliam will be restored with a director's cut that, um, well, makes it not a near-complete freakin' mess).

I have been chipping away at the to-do list. The resume's done and ready for firing off; I have two stories in the mail; I've done several long-hand critiques and I'll be typing those up later today, and I received a couple of critiques that gave me Bright Ideas. None of this makes the fact that it's already the middle of September in any way acceptable to me.

Oh, and J's birthday party theme this year is Cocktail Caravan: Journey to an Oasis, which means I'll be spending every free moment until October 1st doing abdominal crunches.