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i don't have anything particular to say here today, but i guess i felt like writing a little something anyway, just to check in. outside it's warm and rainy.

it was a bit of a drag of a week but i'm on a three-day weekend now and things are looking up. i suppose everyone feels like looking for a new job every now and again. it might be just a phase that will pass soon. i'm not sure what else i would do for a living. regardless, the second half of the workweek was better than the first.

i'm reading mailman's novel and i'm liking it. it's good. i like picturing her writing it, sitting at a keyboard or a typewriter or with a pad and pencil or however she does it. she has another novel coming out in a few months and i'm looking forward to that. i'm happy that things are going so well for her.

i have thoughts of a new story of my own, and i think i'll start writing tomorrow. i allowed the march story to die, and that was perhaps sad, but there it is. maybe i'll revise my goal and shoot for a story every other month. maybe i need fallow time or something. i'm not being so hard on myself, but i will start something new tomorrow.

yellow and i have the sniffles these days. he's got an upper respiratory infection (i took him to the vet yesterday and have antibiotics in a dropper for him) and my allergies are acting up. i have a referral from my soon-to-be-ex primary care physician for a skin test with an allergist, and i should follow up on that. the allegra i'm on seems to be insufficient.

i'll be taking a drawing class at a community college starting the week after next, to get me out of the house and because sometimes i like drawing. and kara's been spending a lot of time at her studies, and i think she's enjoying it. it's slowing down our voyage through season five of "24" but that's all right. (though i do rather like chloe and wouldn't mind unbuttoning that button.)

max seems to be moaning a bit more than he used to. he's got some tremors in his legs. kara is going to talk to the vet today about getting him some more potent meds.

for the past week and a half i've been working out regularly afternoons, on the treadmill and with the weight machine. i don't see fantastic changes yet but i'm glad i'm doing it. the changes are coming.