I am in the last weekend of my Spring Break, although the weather reports for Monday make the possibility of significant snow possible, perhaps even likely. While I would not mind an extended vacation since we have 4 unused snow days at school, there are only 8 weeks until the AP Statistics test, and my class is nowhere near prepared for it yet. So more days off are a double-edged sword at this point.

I only have a few more hours of schoolwork left to do, so these last two mornings of vacation I plan to do some fiction writing, probably start drafting a story in my “future mall” series. I do not want to revise the novelette I drafted last summer, since that will take a concentrated period of time to do right, which can only be during a long vacation, such as the summer. But first-drafting a story can be done in smaller doses, so I am going to try working on that. I’m a bit excited about this, since writing fiction is something I rarely, if ever, do during the school year.

I am also reading a wonderful book this past few days, called The Etched City, by K.J. Bishop. It is the type of wondrous, absorbing book that I only find every few years (the last one was China Mieville’s great Perdito Street Station). As soon as I finish reading it this weekend, I plan to post a review of it on my other blog.