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Sorry 'bout that.

Been very busy lately. Which has taken a toll on my writing, unfortunately. I'm due to test for a promotion at my job so a lot of my time has been spent studying. Combine that with almost a week and a half of 12-hour shifts and the only thing I can manage when I get home is sleep.
It's still on my mind though. I've left my Main Character in an abandoned McDonald's.
I will say though that part of me feels like Gwen Stefani in her "What You Waiting For" video. In it, she explains to her producer that the reason she isn't in the studio working on her new album is because she isn't inspired.
And I haven't felt too inspired lately. I think a lot of it has to do with my recent viewing of that television series The Walking Dead.
It was really difficult to watch knowing that, in my mind, I was trying to think of scenarios and characters and whatnot that was kind of based on the same setting. It had a kind of draining effect. Now I just feel like my story will be subconsciously influenced by the t.v. show (which was really good, by the way).

Lastly, as the year draws to a close and the holidays start barraging us all with the familiar color scheme of reds and greens, I can't help but feel slightly agitated and grumpy. Call me Scrooge or a Grinch if you will, but I'm seriously despising this... holiday season (I honestly, didn't even feel like typing out 'holiday season'. Ew, I did it again).
It's something about all the fuss and hustle and bustle that turns me off hardcore. A cynicism just goes into overdrive. Plus, I think there's something about it all that makes me sad. I can't pinpoint it though. However, it manifests itself when I don't ask for gifts. If others purchase presents for me, that's one thing; I'm grateful. But I don't buy things for others and I don't ask for anything. I'd rather give friends/family a present when they least expect it.

Maybe that's where it comes from. Forget this one time a year crap--
Why can't we exhibit that...(ugh) Christmas Spirit... all year? Why just at the end?