The past five weeks have been a busy time at work, and in various other ways as well. The public holidays, unfortunately, don’t seem to have helped.

In the past two full fortnights (i.e. the remainder of April), I have:

• Got to sleep at 1:30 on average, for 7 hours, 10 minutes’ worth of sleep. I’m struggling furiously, but it’s not very effective …
  Maybe I shouldn’t have brought a Magic card to a game of Pokemon.
  
• Made only twelve things (6 per fortnight):
  • Five scenes of writing, on my main WIP and various smaller distractions.
  • Three evenings of budget work. The data entry is done; now comes the hard part.
  • Two evenings of D&D prep.
  • One chunk of an epic poem,
  • And one idea for a Magic card, shown above.
• And I finished two books:
  • Wharfies: The History of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, by Margo Beasley. This was interesting reading, both for details of how the industry worked early on, and for being a broader overview of Australian history than I’d previously had. It’s also the second thing I’ve read recently that mentioned Billy Hughes, whom I probably need to read up on further.
  • The Priory of the Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon. This was fantastic — I’d forgotten how much I enjoy high fantasy — but I really wish I could have spent longer in the world. I will probably need to track down the sequel.

D&D continues, but slowly; we’ve only played one session in the past month. That was a daring raid on the villain’s lair, and ended on a cliffhanger. A monster, woken furious from sleep, now challenges the party…