(Aside: Yes, I managed exactly 1667 words on my first day and ended with a paragraph.  I took that as a sign and stopped writing.)

It was 7:05 PM on a Friday evening and Katryn had 55 minutes left of her shift.  It was a long shift.  A very long and painful shift and her current customer wasn’t making the time go any shorter.  The items had to be bagged just so, the weight had to be distributed absolutely perfectly and the milk?  Triple bagged.

When Katryn bagged the last item and finally hit the total button she took it as a sign.  A sign, quite possibly, from God.  Unless, of course, it was the Devil who gave those kinds of signs.

The total?

Six hundred and sixty six dollars even.

“Six six six!” Katryn smiled her first real smile in hours to the customer.

“Uh,” the woman said, “Could I have a package of gum?”

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I am the most indecisive person ever when it comes to writing.

Seriously.

I mean, look at how many comics I want to do RIGHT NOW (and, conversely, look at how many I am doing) and the picture is pretty clear that I have more ideas and stories to tell than I have time.  Ironically, I could probably tell them all without difficulties if I could just focus on one idea at a time.

Maybe I should start making  a list and then prioritise the stories I want to tell.  Clearly my current system of working on whatever I want whenever I want isn’t working for me.  Actually, yeah, I think I am going to do that.

Number one priority?  NaNo ‘09.  Why?  Well, I have a month to write up an outline and the crunch is beginning to get to me – especially since I decided to change my mind on what I wanted to write about.

Yeah.

I told you I did that a lot.

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