Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 104

I absolutely did not intend to ghost you guys for almost two weeks, wow. I am going to stop pretending I ever have anything completely ready for anything because every time I think we’re in a position to start daily updates, my job and brain are like LIAR.

I just got super overwhelmed with how much I have to do, what I’m not getting done, and I was starting to feel like all I do is work and nothing ever gets done. I literally have to work nearly every waking hour, and it’s still not enough. For example, I am writing this to you from my home office in the middle of a Tuesday. I had a personal day scheduled for a dentist appointment, but I had to reschedule because I didn’t have the $200 I needed for the dental work (dental insurance is such a scam because WHAT are you even covering at this point).

But instead of being able to enjoy my day off or cancelling and going to work, I kept the day off so I could…work. As I told my students, I took off a  day from work because I have so much work that isn’t getting done at work because I’m too busy…working. Diabolical. But I worked for about 90 minutes, and I’m taking a break.

All my content has to be basically finished by May 29. My grading has be done by June 5 for the most part, so we are in the home stretch. But we’re also in the part of the schedule where the students can smell summer and are more feral than ever, and my brain is just like LEAVE ME ALONE on a daily basis.  I legitimately crashed out on my eighth period students who never take any notes or do any of the work, but saunter over to my desk on quiz day so I can reteach them the entire chapter. I just kept asking for their notes over and over and over until they went away and they had the AUDACITY to be irritated with me. Listen, buddy, you want me to teach you twice? Welcome to summer school where I’ll get paid for it.

I will update what I can when I can.

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Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 103

ugh this week

I’m still sort of backed up in grading and content creation, but I get a slight break next week since state testing is next week, and I don’t see my freshman until next Thursday so it’s one less class to fully prep for the week. That’s pretty much the only plus. But I think I’ve reached the point where I just don’t care, lol. My  grading back log is like a month, and I’ve given up trying to get caught up.

Then my instructional supervisor (don’t get me started) comes in and says that our state auditor tagged us in French standards, telling me that French II needs to start at Intermediate Low and there’s no way to argue with it, so I have to rewrite the entire curriculum for all three years to align with a set of standards that are developmentally inappropriate with zero chance to appeal.  I’m gonna end up on the news at this rate.

Also the Phillies haven’t won a game in since Monday, April 13.

See you tomorow.

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Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 102

It’s April 19, the two-year anniversary of that time that I stayed up until midnight, listened to the entire Tortured Poets album, only to realize the lyrics she’d been using for promotion were no where to be found. We thought it meant another drop at 2 AM of a few songs like Midnights, but surely nothing as good as those first 15 songs. Early favorites were “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” and “But Daddy I Love Him” and I obsessed with “So Long, London.”

Then my queen dropped SIXTEEN MORE SONGS.

IMAGINE an album so perfect you could afford to leave “The Prophecy” and “The Black Dog” for the bonus album. AND CASSANDRA?????Iconic.

Anyway, it’s TTPD day in this house forever and for always.

Once again, during the week, it’s my goal and intention to be daily, but I will see you when I see you.

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Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 101

I wasn’t happy with yesterday’s update. I got about two lines into the writing and I was like — this was the dumbest plot choice ever. I actually kind of felt that way about five seconds into writing the Sam/Kristina crash but it was kind of too late, I’d already put the pieces in motion. If you’re interested in me explaining why I chose this, and why I hate it, I’m gonna write more below — if not, just know that I’m aware that post crash, the story is a bit weak, and I’m planning to adjust it in edits.

Anyway — we’re moving on and I’m relieved to be moving away from this part of the story.

everything below here might include spoilers, please stop here. thank you.

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From the day I began planning this story in June 2025, I knew two things: Kristina was going to frame Elizabeth and Sam had to die. A Sam-free GH is the best GH, so she’s deader than a doornail. I just didn’t really know exactly how. I outlined the first 2o or some updates, and initially — Sam was going to more of a background character, popping up to help Spinelli investigate. She’d find evidence that Kristina planted the gun, and during the confrontation, she’d die. Kristina would be responsible for killing her sister — which I thought would be a great punishment. Why did I go with flooding? I should have just gone with a regular car accident, but I honestly couldn’t think of a way to do it in a single car accident, and I didn’t want a passerby that might help, lol. I wanted to sort of leave them both for dead.

But then I started writing, and the Danny storyline ended up really helping me figure out Kristina’s role and suddenly, I had a better reason for Sam to confront Kristina, one where she’s even more upset. But I still had the flood outlined, and I’d done a lot of research — but then I came up with the idea of Sam to get trapped and know she’d die so Danny would have a little bit of closure, and then she was on the phone with Spinelli which meant Jason was there, and I sort of accidentally wrote Dante and Chase closing in — all these story elements I never envisioned converged — and now I was exactly in the position I had been earlier. All these people who knew Kristina was probably the killer coming across the accident right away. So then I had to send the car off the hill, —

Honestly, if I’d been doing anything but timed sessions, I would have stopped, cut pretty much everything before the crash, and just had Sam and Kristina go off the road, hit a tree, and kill Sam instantly or something. But doing the timed stuff puts you under a different kind of pressure, and you make story choices you sort of have to live with until the edits.

So if you read yesterday’s update and thought, this kind of sucks, you should know I agree and it’s why I stopped writing at 53 minutes because I was unhappy, and I wanted to be done, and I think it was showing in the prose. I felt like maybe it would be a stronger choice to stop for the day, come back today with the knowledge I’ll be adjusting things in edits so I can write an aftermath.

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Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 100

This has been a very annoying week because I feel like I did nothing but work during spring break and that I was prepped for this week and yet somehow I had mountains of work every day after work to bring home. Boo to the world.

Also we got a heat wave with temps going up in the 80s and touching 90, but I didn’t put the AC in the bedroom on because once it’s in the window, it doesn’t come out, and it’s not really time for that yet. So sleeping was annoying. But the temps dropped and we’re good for a while.

I still need to grade tests from before spring break and then grade benchmarks, and by the time that’s done, it’ll be quiz time — i hate everything.

But it’s Friday and I don’t need to set the alarm for two days, and I’m in charge of my own bathroom breaks!

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This is just a quick check in –

I had zero intention of missing three days of updates, I promise you.

I think I have time blindness — like I just severely underestimate how long something is going to take to do and instead of adjusting, I just assume I’m the problem and I’ll do it better next time.

Anway. Sunday I was trying to prep everything — Monday, I was trying to do everything I didn’t get done at work but my brain was just not on it, and today? Today I decided to clean the house because I avoided it all last week (and my vacuum broke so I used it as an excuse to not clean anything because I am an ADULT). But the new one arrived, and I thought — if the downstairs looks nice, maybe I won’t want to set myself on fire as soon I get in the house.

Then of course as I was finishing up using the spot cleaner on the carpet, I spilled the canister on myself trying to empty it so I had to wash my shoes and get a shower. I am a very graceful adult.

It’s after 5, I still have to make dinner and do some prep work for tomorrow, but we are finally sort of back on track in real life, and now that my house doesn’t look like a disaster zone, I can (maybe) start concentrating on other things.

Unless my brain comes up with a new excuse.

Let’s just say — my intentions are to update daily, but I am absolutely going to miss days, and I’m going to try not to apologize for it every time.

I will see you tomorrow.

Probably.

Almost definitely.

Maybe.

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Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 99

Apologies for missing yesterday. I wasn’t feeling well when I woke up and decided to push it later — and then I was feeling even worse. I think it was just something I ate mixed with my back pain flaring up because I’ve been ignoring back support all week. I really need to get a standing desk at some point in my life.

ANYWAY.

Here’s today’s update. Tomorrow is the last day of break, which is just rude. I’m planning to update around noon, but honestly — I’m not sure. Part of me wants to get up early and get a lot of things done and prepped for the week and the other part of me is like but you should sleep until nine because it’s the last chance.

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Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 98

Forgot to write this in advance. See you tomorrow!

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Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 97

I am so sorry for missing both updates yesterday!

I had to go into Philly for my appointment with my TMJ doctor (for the pain in my jaw and headaches) which means taking the PATCO train into Center City. Normally, this is pretty straightforward — it’s about a 20 minute trip, and I used to do this every couple of days in college when we hung out on South Street like every weekend and did trivia on Wednesdays. But of course, there were delays and I ended up being on the train for almost an hour.

I get to the appointment — and they moved buildings without updating the address anywhere — it was just next door, but still, lol. I hadn’t seen the doctor for this since fall of 2023 mostly because I got busy, and was controlling the pain with meds. I was going in to get a new prescription to change the meds, and to get Botox injections which help freeze the muscles that tense in my face. He suggested changing the locations — so now I’m sitting in the chair getting needles in my forehead, back of my head, temples — boooo.

I got home, and started to feel a little tired, so I thought, let me just take a nap since I was up late watching the Phillies. I’ll sleep at 2, wake up at 4, then do an update.

Uh, I woke up at like 7. Not really sure what happened there.

So, sorry about that. We’re on our regularly scheduled noon schedule until next Sunday 🙂

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Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 96

You know, the Phillies haven’t won a series in San Francisco since 2013, my senior year in college. We as Phillies fans get reminded of this year when we go to play there, right before some cursed start time like 9:45. Only Los Angeles is worse with their 10:10 starts (incredibly offensive).

Anyway, I’m armed with my coffee and determined to make it to at least midnight or until the Phillies embarrass me enough to roll over and go to sleep.

Enjoy your double update 🙂

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