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Sleep and I are still fighting. For quite a while, I followed a pattern of staying up until about 7:00 AM, joining my mom for her morning walk, and then going to sleep until about 2:00 PM. Then I had a few days that the lack of sleep caught up with me, and I sort of napped for a few hours during the time that most people sleep for real. In the last few days, though, I've been tired all the time, and been sleeping for a few hours at a time whenever I'm not doing something else. This has greatly interfered with me working on art, or in fact accomplishing much of anything.

I gave up on NaNoWriMo a few weeks ago. I just wasn't in the mood. I planned to write the other side of my novel I started last year, but found myself wanting to revise bits that I already had. It just wasn't a good idea. At this point, I'm inclined to ignore the whole mess until December, when I can work on it without the looming shadow of NaNoWriMo making me want to squeeze out a bunch of words just to up my total before November ends. I would like to work it some more, though.

Instead of writing, I've been reading a lot - mostly re-reading Terry Pratchett books. So far this month I've read The Truth, The Fifth Elephant, Carpe Jugulum, Jingo, Small Gods, Feet of Clay, and Guards!, Guards!...in that order. I don't know what prompted me to read the books with the Night Watch in reverse order, but I finally decided it was silly and just skipped back to Guards!, Guards!. After a pause to read a book that was lent to me, I plan to reread Men at Arms.

Hopefully my sleep schedule will soon go back to something that will allow more time for art, and I'll cut back on the reading a little bit. A few minutes here and there is fine, but I shouldn't let it consume quite so much of my day.

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I *highly* recommend reading (in order) Night Watch, Monstorous Regiment, Going Postal, and Thud. NW and Thud are both directly Sam Vimes + City Watch books. Monistrous Regiment is a side book, but has some of the City Watch players, while Going Postal is another side book with some characters from The Truth and of course the Patrician...

I absolutely LOVE this quartet of books (well ok, in audio form)!

I plan to check Thud out of the library someday soon. I've already read the others. I enjoyed Going Postal, had mixed feelings about Night Watch, and hated Monstrous Regiment. Night Watch was the book that suddenly made me cautious about blindly buying Pratchett's books - when I got to the end, I wished I'd just checked it out of the library. By the time I finished Monstrous Regiment, I was seriously worried that my days of enjoying his books were over. Going Postal was a great relief.