Sorry to blog and run. The last few days have obviously been difficult and my brain really hasn’t been working anywhere near up to snuff. Dre is still in the hospital and will be until Monday. The cause is a Lupus flare. The details of the cause are really not worth getting into. The important thing is that while this is serious, it isn’t life threatening and it could have been a lot worse. That said, its been difficult for both of us. I’m trying to pull the thesis together still. But things are not looking to hot for chances of a summer graduation.

This are not going too great. Writing has been put on hold as Dre is in the hospital. There really aren’t a lot of details. It isn’t life threatening, but its serious. I’m working on getting extensions. Things are pretty crappy all around as some unfortunate things have happened to MAPSS friends still in Chicago. Elliot may have gotten it wrong but three months.

Still I’m putting one foot in front of the other and taking small steps.

That’s what I am. I haven’t been able to write. Five days of mental constipation and hardly anything to show for it. I have gotten an extension until Wednesday at midnight. I honestly don’t know if I can pull this off.

No commiseration needed. Or really looked for. This really isn’t a moment for “you can do it”’s. The problem is I know I can… but I still can’t seem to.

At one point I was considering that maybe some form of writing was what I should be persuing. Now that doesn’t seem like a great idea. Currently I’m failing in the most basic aspect of writing: laying words on a page.

I still have miles to go before I sleep. And I just wrapped my second fact finding interview/meeting. This one was with Auragen Communications a local internet firm that I have a great deal of respect for. It went… unexpectedly. There are some possibilities there, but the person I met with encouraged me to go in a very different direction than I was originally thinking. And I need to wrap my head around that option more. Unfortunately, me head isn’t particularly together right now and anything thats unexpected tends to throw me into a bit of a tizzy. So I need to get beyond that and write. But I have not been able to do that yet.

I’ve been thinking about going and working out for a bit, but I managed to have my left elbow slightly hyperextended last night and I want to lay off of anything heavy with it.

I have less than a week to get the first final draft of my thesis in. And the writing isn’t going well. Or just going. But I’m plugging away as best I can. Today I’m writing at the coffee shop around the corner from my old apartment: Starry Nites.

I’m trying some of these Hacking Writers Block Tips… expect lots of updates.