Sarah’s Status Report — or — Sarah and the Forces of Evil

Every writer — heck, every reader — knows the forces of evil.  Those are those unaccountable, idiotic everyday events that cause you to get to the end of the day going “wha…?  What on Earth did I do today.”

Those forces of evil have been unusually active in my life recently, so I decided to start posting status reports and reports from the front of Sarah’s battle against the forces of evil.

So… we begin.

The week begun on Monday the 9th — something incidentally that someone should do something about, I mean, this starting on Monday, thing — with me still under the weather.  Under the weather is a polite way of putting it.  Whatever Slammed down on me on the second was more like 18 inches of snow and hurricane-force winds.  So on Monday the nineth I lay low.  Or mostly lay down and wished very hard to be able to breathe, while detecting seemingly undetectable improvements in my condition.

Tuesday 10 — the forces of evil continued to be unduly strong.  So, mostly I slept.  Oh, and felt guilty over not posting the next episode of the serial novel in the diner.

Wednesday 11 — I woke up feeling much better.  This improvement lasted, exactly, until my younger child made me aware of his extreme lack of clean pants.  I did fifteen loads of laundry — surely forces of evil — and in the process found out my freezer wasn’t working.  Since our freezer is loaded with enough meat to allow an eskimo village to survive winter, this was an emergency.  I ran to the garage to get the coolers to salvage the salvageable.  And then I tested the plug and the extension and… well… the dang thing is working again.  Hopefully it will refrain from breaking down anytime soon.  Total written — one page on outline.

Thursday 12 — apparently fixing freezers is a bad idea when one is just recovering from respiratory thing from beyond.  At least I assume so, because I promptly crashed most of the day.  No work done.

Friday 13 — Did you know it’s possible to sleep too much?  Truth that.  I woke up feeling cranky and hungover.  Slept too much.  It’s taken till now to feel human, and most of the day is gone.  I intend to finish outline while kids watch a movie tonight.  Oh, yeah, today was a snow day and kids home from school.  Another clear instance of the forces of evil.

So the summary for the week is the forces of evil win.  They have Sarah pinned down.  And yet, she’s not defeated.  Outlines shall be outlined.  Novels shall be finished.

Tune in next week for another installment of Sarah and the Forces of Evil.