Living the Fictional Dream

Thanks for all the votes on “Fortune Cookies,” guys. For a brief and shining moment, it’s cracked both top stories lists at EDF — top 10 in the past 30 days and top 10 of all time. I’m sure that latter won’t last long — my stories appear there for a while and then drop off — but it’s always nice while it lasts.

Part of me really wants to write today. I’m feeling that creative urge. Sadly, I left my latest work-in-progress at the office, so I would either have to start over on it or wait on it until after my vacation. Bummer! And I don’t have the brain power to start something new this morning (yes, it’s still technically morning for 13 minutes in my time zone!). I was awakened at midnight last night and couldn’t get back to sleep until 4 a.m., so this morning, I’m a zombie, good for little other than surfing the net or playing Settlers of Catan on the X-Box.

This keeps happening this holiday season — me being woken in the middle of the night (either by people being loud or playing the piano at ungodly hours or by something I’m stressing about) and then being unable to get back to sleep for hours and hours. **sighs**

On the plus side, still over a week of vacation left. That is a good thing!