Thursday Thirteen

(Remember back when people used to do that? Maybe they still do.  I don't read blogs a lot anymore.  Does anyone?)

(This post contains two neologisms.  If you identify them, I will mail you a lime green dish cloth that I knit myself.)

1. My dog is currently on bedrest.  Dogs do not understand or appreciate bedrest.

2.  I am currently the only person in my household in school, as everyone else has either a) been ensconced in a career for several decades and/or b) graduated from high school.

3. Last night I made up a word in my sleep, and for the rest of the night, my dreaming seems to have consisted of rehearsing the new word so I didn't forget it when I woke up.

4.  The word is MYSTRIM. It may or may not be a pre-existing word.  Dream Susan did not have a dictionary handy.

5.  It means ...well that's tricky.  It's a writing word.  If you have published 5 novels, and your fifth novel was (or will be - Dream Susan has no desire to be exclusionary) published in the same month (but not the same year - Dream Susan isn't looking for the impossible) as your first novel, you have written a MYSTRIM.

6.  Now go use that in a sentence.  (You can leave the sentence in the comments.  You would totally make my day.)

7.  I think that today's weather is nasty because it is bright and sunny and full of swirling fall and I have so much homework to do that I'm writing a nonsensical blog post in order to gird my (virtual mental) loins to tackle it.

8. One of my children has taken over the cooking in this house, at least the supper cooking, at least five days a week.

9.  I'm not telling you which child until I know whether or not I have permission to do so.

10.  Isn't it cute how I call people who are taller than I am and can legally vote "children"?

11.  The aforementioned self-appointed cook is a good cook.

12. I am going to write a whole different blog post about the most interesting course of my semester, because a) I love it and 2) I almost didn't take it.

13. Some of you may think that "a lot of homework" = "no fun", but HA.  I get to go read an article entitled "Demodystopias:  Prospects of Demographic Hell" by Andreu Domingo right this second.  And now you're all envious.