It's Sunday night here as I write this, and I got absolutely nothing done this weekend, either packing or writing ... I just slept ... a lot. Very unproductive. I'm going to try to convince myself to go to Sogo (an upscale Japanese department store) on Monday afternoon to buy some new summer clothes, and also get something nice to wear for my exam on Friday. Maybe I should be nervous about my exam ... I tend to worry excessively about things like that ... but it's been the furthest thing from my mind. I'm wondering if that's a good or bad thing ... :wacko:

I've been kind of moody, too, with the pressure of getting a job as quickly as possible when I get back to the States starting to mount. Finding a job in and of itself shouldn't be a problem, since I have a skill that is highly in-demand, but finding one that I can tolerate will not be easy. I don't really want to be a translator/interpreter. It's extremely boring and tedious work, and I don't have the patience for it. But if that's what it takes to get me out of my parents' house more quickly, I may have to do it.

Chapter 15 was posted yesterday. It's basically the beginning of the second half of the story. Kitty's working on Chapter 16 now, but I can foresee that one needing some re-working. I've barely gotten started on Chapter 18, and some ideas have come to me that may extend the story as a whole by another chapter or so, although I haven't decided for sure yet. It would just be expanding on one minor plot line, though, not changing the direction or outcome of the story. I'll have to see if I get any inspiration over the next couple of days. I'd like to have it finished by the end of the week, though.

I haven't done much reading lately. I'm still anxiously awaiting the next chapter of "With Trust," and of course the next chapters of "Service" and "Cameron," which also reminds me that I need to send a big cyber-hug and VLista, who's one of the people I'm very thankful for having met through GA. He's such a sweetheart, even when I have little temper tantrums, like I did this morning.