the line is drawn

I refuse to put my students thru MORE expense to get every add on these publishers think they need. It's getting ridiculous. I was thrilled to try these new online labs...but they're not part of an online system that is already 110$ (which is bundled into the book BUT if they get an old book that is their purchase price...which is still probably cheaper than buying it new). It's getting ridiculous.

Conversation tonight:

Mom: I feel sorry for you.

Me: Why?

Mom: You write erotica and barely get paid and 50 Shades of Gray gets a movie deal

Me: Tell me about it.

Mom: How can they make a movie of that that isn't a porno?

Me: I've been asking that for a while now.


Going to my writers group this week which is great since lately I've been feeling like I have no one to talk to.

I need to stop mainlining 80's music. I've been using the top 100 billboards and youtubing song after song. If I keep this up my 80's vampire story WILL be my nano and I don't want it to be (because it will be erotica and that is my deal with myself, every other year on the erotica vs non-erotica. Also it's making me feel old.

I also need to stop looking at houses because it makes me cry. I just found my house. I love everything about this house So why aren't I buying it? 52 miles from work and over budget. In a place whre 140K is usually STILL a goddamn doublewide, this will go for this price. If I thought I could lowball this, I would suck that drive up. I love the inner lines of this place.

It's both too in town for me but this is a nice house. Pomeroy must really suck as a place to live if beautiful homes keep going for pittances.


probably also too in town (and Athens taxes rot) but this is rather nice.

declutter day 121 item tossed -A cardboard box why kept-Filled with old fan magazines why tossed -Mice nested in them