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Messy Desk Report for November 2012

November was rough on the tidiness of my desk, and lo, of my whole office. I’ve lost track of how many little scraps of paper are here. Besides that I have a few pens, and a DVD about linguistics of sign language.…

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Messy Desk Report for October 2012

Putting the ‘no’ into NaNoWriMo.

Lots of things going on right now, including work-related chaos that make arbitrary commitments against arbitrary timeframes less useful at the moment.

Don’t get me wrong. NaNoWriMo has helped me greatly. It’s made me better at writing-fast and recalibrated my sense of how much I can get done.…

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Messy desk report for Sep 2012

September, where did you go?

Oh, yeah, one week of crushing “crunch time” at work, followed immediately by a week of crushing travel, one day each in three cities across eight time zones, followed immediately by two weeks of (relatively) computer-free vacation time.…

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Messy Desk Report for July 2012

Crazy, busy month, with work kicking my butt. Still, I have an acceptance, my first to an audio market. Details soon.

Desktop deteriorating. Send help. Visible: spent iTunes card, floss, sticky notes, 2 kinds of xylitol, and a chunk of beeswax–and that’s just what’s left of my left elbow.…

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Messy Desk Report for June 2012

Hey, some months, if it weren’t for Messy Desk Reports, I wouldn’t be blogging at all.

I’m generally OK with that. Like anything blogging takes time, and sometimes you need to spend your limited time on what’s at the top of the list.…

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Micah Joel

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