What a day! What a day!

The absolute busiest day of the year, so of course we were saddled with several mandatory meetings, like being gone ALL DAY yesterday because of a mandatory retreat at Bradford Woods, our VERY swank differently-abled teaching facility in - you guessed it! - Bradford Woods. I got there early, so I found a parking space easily and had a leisurely ten minute walk to the dining hall, which has very high ceilings and nicely placed fans and so never got unbearably hot even with two hundred people inside, and we worked pretty intensly for about three hours then went home. When I got home I pretty much passed out from the heat because I'm not used to going all day without AC, and heat index was 107 degrees.

My furniture was supposed to come in, I've had a million things to do and more than constant interruptions, but I'm holding up pretty darned well I think. Next week will be good, too. ;-)

No, I didn't get any writing done yesterday. Couldn't even watch a movie all the way through without falling asleep in the heat. BUT, while at the retreat I did some really nice work on the outline. Both Parker and Kelsey are coming into very good focus, and I'm getting a really good feel for how it's going to end (since I've decided the original ending I had is lame-o). It's basically going to end sooner, and not in the same physical place as before.

Kelsey is going to fight a dead CHP officer for his handgun. Can't wait to get to that. *eg* Parker (in the re-write/edit) will spell out his motivations much more clearly.

Really, I came to some really surprising conclusions yesterday and managed to write them down. I would have typed on the outline today, but it took literally all day to type this entry, and I've managed to send about six e-mails today. There's a peach on my desk I've been trying to eat for over an hour now.

School's in.