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Nearly thirty pages yesterday. Today not even close to that. I know why in part. It was another day where there were a thousand interruptions. The new water garden has a leak. The guys are still trying to find out where all that water is going. Jon’s sprained his ankle so I had to take one of the other building meetings today. Our contractor used small words. I swear when it comes to tech and construction I sometimes feel like Charlie Brown and everyone is doing that wa-wa-wa talk that the grown-ups do in the cartoon. Jon and I are about to flee for a few days. I’d hoped to finish the book before we left, or expected to be further out from the end. It’s a frustrating place to leave it, but if we don’t get out of all this for a few days I can’t promise what will happen to my mood. I’ve been cranky for days. We’re building what amounts to a second house and I need the thing finished. I need the book finished. I need for people to stop saying it will be lovely when it’s finished. It will be, but . . . but more than anything else Jon and I need to get away and not have a dozen decisions a day to make.
Saw the cover for MICAH. It’s beautiful, and there’s a man on the cover, not a woman. Cool. I haven’t been this unreservedly happy with a cover sense NARCISSUS IN CHAINS. There’s lots of good news, honest, but I’m just having trouble seeing it. Need a little distance for a day, or two.