Two chapters left and about thirty pages. You can really see the issue in that sentence. The last two chapters should probably be a little more than thirty pages, but this is the final massive edit for X and the last issue with the manuscript (that I know of). I don’t think I will finish it before the week ends, but I’m still pretty chuffed at how close I got to finishing it. I had been running stagnant on the X fourth edit for a while now. I think it’s been a bit over half a year.

After this week (which I’m really including the week before as well), I need a stretch. Not a nap, just a big stretch. I feel so much better than I did a week ago, but my body feels so stiff and sore and as if my neck and spine are just going to snap at any moment. I think I need a new desk chair to help with that. The one I’m in is for tall people, I think. Although, it does encourage me to raise my desk and stand at it. Or lean back in it. I need a new pillow …

I still have a lot of different projects going on—I don’t know if I’ll ever get them sorted out—and so need to narrow them down to “now” and “later”. There’s so much I want to do—too much really—and so I need to get that sorted so I can dedicate enough time to the things that I’m already doing or really need to do now. NOT ENOUGH TIME TO MAKE TIME.

I might be a bit more reasonable once this neck pain stops throbbing up into my skull.

It was a hard week, but I think it was a good week.