Woke up this morning with my head swimming, and while I’m not unused to occasional dizziness first thing in the morning, holy shit— this, with no other symptoms, knocked me flat on my ass for almost the entire day, and I took a four hour nap this afternoon. That didn’t really leave a lot of time for much else; I’ve been reading a book that I’m not enjoying very much, and I’m trying to decide whether I dislike it enough to review it after I finish it or if I should just put it down and not worry about it. Advice, to future writers: you are not allowed to introduce time travel as a plot element with only a hundred pages left in your book. Don’t do that. Please.
Tomorrow I go back to studying in the mornings, after taking a couple of weeks off– my test is July 1st, and I am bound and determined to pass this damned thing on the first try. I have one more practice test handy, so I’ll start going through my last remaining study guide tomorrow, and take that test Wednesday, maybe, and then use the last couple of days to make sure of things like “I know how to use the calculator” and “my computer will run the software without a hitch.” I have no reason to leave the house next week other than a handful of tasks to take care of on Wednesday, so I have plenty of time to get myself ready. I popped into my classroom for a few minutes last week, and told my boss that I was about to take the test, and she didn’t say “Oh, that class isn’t happening,” which I’m hoping means that there’s still at least a good chance.
I dunno, that’s what I’ve got. How was your Sunday?
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I don’t think anything gets me to put a book down faster than time travel. There are plenty of things for which I will suspend disbelief, but time travel is a hard no for me. I am not even 100% sure why other than it simply doesn’t work for me. I noped out of the Discovery of Witches series as soon as the time travel element was introduced.
Meanwhile, I very much enjoy stories that connect across time — someone in the present discovers an artifact of the past, does research to reconstruct the story of that artifact, and discovers a connection to her own life, solves an old mystery, rights or at least brings closure to an old wrong.
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I think time travel can work in a book, but it has to be the premise. You can’t throw that shit in at the end and expect it to work. And this particular book wasn’t working on a whole lot of levels before they introduced the whole time travel thing.
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Motivation can be problematic at times. I don’t doubt that you’re feeling a bit of the burn-out that comes from keeping everything going in the classroom over the past year. One year ago I retired after 28-years teaching and I’ve spent the past year dealing with burnout. There’s so much that I want to do, but the energy too often just isn’t there. Give yourself the time that you need…
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I’ve got some of it back, at least, which is better than nothing. Part of it is I’ve simply been sitting for too long. I’m not burning any calories while I’m awake, which means I’m not sleeping well, which doesn’t lead to active days, which blah blah blah blah. If I start acting more like a person, things will improve. 🙂
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