Are you going to do novel-in-a-month this year, Susan? I haven’t decided fully if I will or not, despite having come up with a good idea that would probably get me through. (What’s better than a spin-off of my spin-off, which will actually spin-back to the original story? Nothing, I say.)

I spent ALL DAY working on getting my zine to print pretty. I wasn’t writing it, which I’ve done already and took about 2 hours. I wasn’t laying it out, which I completed easily on Saturday. I was trying to make my printer make it print out good. This wasn’t laying it out on some fancy computer program, it was using the photo-copy option on my scanner to send information to my printer. It ended up working good only if I used a program on my compter to make it look like I had used a photocopier. Why didn’t I just use a photo-copier? This is a fine question to ask and I will give a polite answer after I bang my head against my desk for a while…

My method is cheaper. Not in time, obviously, but in cash. This works out well, since i have lots of time, being unemployed, but being unemployed I have lots of time. Ah, glee.