Sleep deprivation blues

[aadler]

10:05 PM Central Afghan Time

Difficult day. We had a rocket attack in the wee morning hours — impact about 100 meters from my hootch — and I had a bit of trouble getting to sleep after that. Woke up around lunchtime, spent the rest of the afternoon trying to catch up. Then during the evening shift, when I was supposed to be consolidating sitreps from our teams in-country, we had some net connectivity issues and the sitreps weren’t arriving, so I was running behind on that as well. Bottom line, I was kept so occupied with one thing or another that I didn’t get any writing done at all.

(Also, I had a sort-of-you-could-look-at-it-as-a-date on schedule for this evening, but I wasn’t able to get to that, either. Shame. I’m a little scared of her, but I do enjoy her company.)

On the plus side, I got another story idea. Not that I have any shortage of those, but this one has the feel of something that’ll come together pretty well once I start to work on it; not just promising, but probably not hard to do.

All I have to do is finish the story I’m currently on, and then finish the one I have planned for after that  (been postponed for a couple of years now, and that’s long enough). Maybe I can squeeze the new idea in after those two, and before the other one I’ve been dying to get to as soon as I had the proper groundwork set out. Or maybe it will have to wait until later. I need to write faster, the ideas are coming to me more quickly than I can process them.

Better than not having enough ideas. But a story isn’t a story until it’s written.

Comments

[jgracio.livejournal.com]

So huh, there's a rocket attack 100 meters from you, and that's too bad cos' it impacted your sleep, but it's your sorta-kinda date if you squint at it that kinda scares you? Dude, you better be on best behaviour. :)

Good luck on everything.

[aadler]

Well, she’s a formidable lady. I’m larger and probably stronger, but I wouldn’t even try to compete with her on toughness. Good company, though.