Monday, Monday.

Lesson of the day: not all Mondays are the same. Yes, some of them are painful while others are a breeze to get through. Today was neither. Today was not painful and it was not a breeze to get through. It felt as if time stood still while I was moving through it. I went to class like normal, nothing agonizing about either. I went home for lunch in between classes and it was mediocre. There is nothing positively special about today or negatively memorable about today.

It was one of those days where I go through the motions. Now that it is 3:26 pm and I have realized the amount of things I am supposed to have done this week, I plan on changing that. I have some writing projects to finish, some reading to do and a few online responses to do. None of it is hard, just time consuming. I need to change my attitude today. I don't feel like doing anything but I REALLY should.

NPR is having a writing contest and I plan on entering it. I'll get credit for my Writing Fiction class and I'll have an opportunity to have my work read by more than a teacher, classmates and friends. Real people who won't have too much of an issue hurting my feelings with their critiques. I can't wait - I just have to finish writing the story. The story has to begin with "Some people swore that the house was haunted." and end with "Nothing was ever the same again after that." I have a few ideas as to what direction my story will go but I feel like reading some other short stories online for inspiration before I continue writing mine.

So far I have perfect attendance this semester. It's a streak that I hope to keep up all semester with the exclusion of my Writing Fiction class on October 5th since I am going to the MUSE/Passion Pit concert. I am so excited. I love them.

p.s. I just realized that I haven't been working on my words of the week. At all. I'm not terribly sorry since I have been writing more often and am reading books with words that I've never heard of before now.