SHAOLIN TRIPS by DM

[The Queen]

Ha! I finished Section 1, Chapter 4. Except for the quiz, extra credit activities, and instructor's guide tips -- I'll work on those tomorrow. Hoping to be done with Chapter 5 by the end of the week.

[Drunk Monk]

...this is my albatross thread. make your own albatross thread, queen...

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I thought your albatross was dead and looking for new life?

[Drunk Monk]

...it keeps hanging on, around my neck, like a bloody seabird.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Like an Albatross!!!! I get it.

[Drunk Monk]

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[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Step away from the computer.

[Drunk Monk]

I was fantasizing about catching up to TQ with the albatross plucking, but our contractors - the ones building the fort - blew a fuse knocking out power to our bathrooms, our garage door and our computer room with the wireless. No home 'puter for dm.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

That's why you pay them the big bucks!!

[Drunk Monk]

...contractors are pretty hungry now, so they come cheap.

then again, as i click my bathroom light switch on and off, i'm figuring you get what you pay for...

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

I don't think my plumber got that note . . .

[Drunk Monk]

What's that funky smell? Oh, it's a decomposing albatross.

I knew summer would derail me. Now I'm looking at this albatross and debating how much it sucks. Such is a writer's prerogative. But I'm going to finish this bloody seabird and publish it, just to get the stench out.

Bloody seabird flavor....

[Drunk Monk]

...I thought this was in such better shape went I left it for summer 2009. It's in horrid shape.

Nevertheless, I plan to finish it. It's essentially a vanity pub, and better to have a crappy vanity pub out there than nothing at all. It's totally backed up my life - my desk has been unusually sloppy because I've been putting off cleaning to tackle the albatross. I just need to be rid of it, to move on.

[Drunk Monk]

Well, I had this weird delusional idea that I'd get some albatross plucking done this week. Mrs Dm was at Esalen, my boss is in AK and I have no immediate deadlines. I didn't even look at it. I was too distracted with...um...Greg's bite! Yea, Greg's bite totally derailed me. I was so worried that the muse wouldn't come. So I frittered away my time on facebook. Stupid facebook time sucking evil web distraction. :oops:

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

You struggle. Greg's bite indeed.