All that and the kitchen sink

Today didn’t go exactly like I’d planned.

I tried to do some writing, although I didn’t get very far at all. I’m struggling with this short story, not least of all because it’s got a deadline attached to it. It’s not an unmissable deadline — it wouldn’t take a whole lot to rework the…oh, five and a half pages I’ve got so far — but I’d prefer not to miss it. I’d also like to have a whole story under my belt, something unpublished but of significant length that I can submit to the Online Writing Workshop. My brain just didn’t want to cooperate today.

Admittedly, it didn’t help that I downloaded Portal again and started playing it a little bit.

Or that this evening, the pipe to the dishwasher broke and we had to do a little impromptu plumbing. It’s not yet replaced completely — it was getting too late for that — but there’s always tomorrow. Oddly enough, we’d planned on doing some plumbing in the basement this morning, replacing the hoses to the washing machine. But we’d had no luck. (Seriously, it would not budge.) So I guess the universe decided, hey, let’s give them the handyman project they wanted and then some.

Now if the universe could just tell me how to finish this short story…