Staying On Schedule

Apart from some work-related issues that I won’t get into, the weekend was largely uneventful.
Yesterday I finally finished off replacing my softcover “Sandman” collections with hardcover versions by ordering copies of “The Doll’s House” and “The Wake.”
Today I managed to follow the schedule I laid out for myself using my newly-acquired time management skills and my equally newly- acquired and handy-dandy Franklin-Covey planner.
Of course, it was a pretty straightforward schedule, but the fact that I stuck to it at all is what’s significant.
Mostly my schedule consisted of devoting time to doing some writing/editing on a completed story and doing some reading.
The story I edited is one I wrote a few years ago. Based on some definitions, the story’s word count would mark it as a novella.
Apart from the novel I wrote for National Novel Writing Month (which is likely to be a target for editing sometime soon…and it seriously needs it), it’s one of the longest complete stories I’ve ever written.
Overall it’s pretty good, but it definitely needs some work.
Apart from the writing/editing, I made time in my schedule for some reading.
Today I was reading “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” the book on which the movie “Blade Runner” was (very loosely) based.
I’ve been meaning to read it for probably twenty years. Scott and I had a conversation about the movie and the book a while back, so on Friday he brought the book in for me to borrow.
It was a very quick read, so I breezed through it today.
After that it was time for the birthday dinner.
Apart from the T-shirt from Kathleen, which is in line with my standing, stated policy of never missing an opportunity to say “That’s what she said,” I got a gift card for Borders, and a very, very cool gift: Batman -The Animated Series Volume One DVD.
That one was from everybody at work.
Obviously I was extremely pleased to get it.
The food at the restaurant was very good, and I ate altogether too much, so it’s a good thing I’ve been building in time to walk in my schedule…
Other than that not much else is new or exciting.
I’ll schedule some time for a lengthier entry tomorrow.