Tom is Away

paying more attention to fantasy football than I am to stuff I have to read.

Today, the New York Giants are wearing patches on their jerseys that say "WTM." I, Walter T. McAllister, am honored that they would go out of their way to pay tribute to me even though I’m an Eagles fan. Classy organization.

never drafting roy williams again.

"I just wished Katrina had only hit the United Nations building, nothing else, just had flooded them out, and I wouldn’t have rescued them." —Bill O’Reilly

I wish I knew how to sleep in when I was drunk.
Anyway, I"m reluctantly awake.

asleep. god bless you, extra hour.

i wish i could understand directions.

No Tv and no beer make homer… something something.

out to see a movie, then at a party at some poet’s house. Yeah, you know it’s gonna get crazy once the poets are involved.

turning my clock back now, because i have a feeling that when i come in tonight, it’s going to seem like a much more complicated task.

unseasonably warm in the IC today.

very very quick dinner, because i’m running late

6 chapters thoroughly revised over the last 24 hours.
2 left. over 50 pages cut from the novel so far.

Feeling good about myself, and taking the rest of the night off.

man, I really wish I hadn’t just gotten caught up in the Poltergeist True Hollywood Story for the last hour and a half.

What can I say… I’m a sucker for Craig T. Nelson.

hell no, I’m not dressing up tonight.

"Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills." -Tom DeLay, on causes of the Columbine High School massacre, 1999

damnit, i’m tired.

i consumed so much caffeine to stay up and work on this novel… now it’s 5 AM, and I’m too jittery to sleep.

got my 4 chapters done tonight.
4 more left, then I’ll be at a relatively polished, not awful draft of this novel.

goal for the night. revise at least through chapter 12 before going to bed. Beginning chapter 10 now.