The End of February

So this is now the last week of February 2015, the perfect month (it's the way the days line up on a calendar) and after this week I'll have had my first test in each of my classes.

I've been dragging a notebook around with me and strongly encouraging myself to write in it while waiting around for class and such, and now I'm about a third of the way through that short story I've been working on. I have the beginning and the end finished, and hopefully the middle bits won't take too terribly long.

Trying to split my time between homework, studying, teaching myself a programming language, writing, and relaxing has been going alright so far, but there's no guarantee any of these things get equal amounts of attention.

So that's my little update for the week.

Tschüs.

First Test Done

First test of the semester was this past Thursday, which means that the semester has actually begun. I have two tests this next week, one the week after... and so the cycle begins.

I've been feeling really stressed lately, which might have partly come from getting sick the week of the first test and the peak of my sickness landing right on the day of said test, but I'm trying to pull myself away from anxious thoughts and worries. We'll see how that goes.

I've started writing the last of three short stories about kids with something unusual about them, and once I finish this one, I can write the story that ties them together. I expect the tie-in might come out as novelette-size, but definitely nowhere near novel-size. The short stories and their wrap-up novelette should all end up in the poetry/story anthology I plan to put out in early summer (at the latest).

The good thing about the short story I'm working on is that I have the ending and beginning written, so all that's left are the middle building-up parts which, if I simply make myself write a little bit every single day, should get done relatively quickly.

I hope everyone's been having a good February. Happy late Valentine's Day.

Tschüs.