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i made it to the halfway point this morning. crossed that line. sheesh. i'm still not off track. i'm enjoying writing this section much, much, much more than i enjoyed the entire second week of writing. perhaps future readers will let me know if one section is preferred to the other. if you want to see a snippet of the thing, the work in progress, such as it is, look no further than ... here. it's from what i wrote yesterday, from part 2.

i totally forgot to write about jury duty last week! well there actually isn't anything to say. it was a bust. my group didn't even get called to the courthouse the entire week. i had to work my regular job the whole time. i'm a little down about that, but it's not such a big deal. i don't know what i missed. and i got my check today from pierce county, compensation for my efforts: $30 for 3 days of showing up. i'll cash it this weekend.

friday kara is off because she works the weekend. i have a doctor's appointment in the morning and a door salesman is visiting our home in the afternoon. with all of this rain this past week our front door is swollen again. it's extremely annoying to have to tug the door open and shove it closed with such force. oh i want a new door! i think we'll go aluminum even though kara's skin is already crawling at the thought. (she loves wood.)

because kara is working the weekend i'll have all day saturday to write. the hope is to have another little explosion of words over those two days, friday (the doctor's appointment isn't until 10:45) and saturday, to give me some leverage for the rest of the week.

and good god, thanksgiving is a week from tomorrow! that's crazy talk. though the three-day weekend will be good for my writing!