Something in the Water

A general announcement: I won’t be online much at all next week, and probably not much the following week. I am going to return to my 2005 status of all Kirkwood, all the time until registration is over. We’ve had a key staffer kind of go down. She’s taken a long vacation, followed by some health problems, which may get more serious. We may get lucky. She might just be having an allergic reaction to the anesthesia the docs used during her gall bladder surgery, and that might be why she’s lost 20 pounds in the last week and can’t keep down any food. Or she may have more serious problems, like bile leakage and a lazy bowel.

Anyway, if you’re a prayer or a candle lighter, her name is Lorna, and she could use your vibes.

Meanwhile, the rest of the English team will be covering for Lorna, and it sounds like my teaching staff is already gearing up to help support registration if need be in the ways they can. But most of it falls to me, so just thought I’d let you know what was up.

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There are some other issues here at Kirkwood that we’re working around. There’s one I am not allowed by personnel to tell you about, but it is aggravating when I have a pretty good idea of what’s going on, but no basis (student complaint) to go forward with. We’re also having issues of domestic violence surfacing at the end of the semester among one of our student populations, and so we’re trying to help counsel the teachers wisely about using appropriate avenues within the college structure to help students.

You can imagine this will lead to a post. There’s probably also a post about the Steampunk thing in me, so there will be reasons to come back in a couple of weeks.

So, not a pleasant vacation coming up from Writer Tamago. I’m going to spend this afternoon sending out queries, and getting geared up for the end of the semester work-a-thon. Any spare time I have best be spent writing.

Take care of yourselves, do a lot of art while I’m gone, and send Lorna good vibes.

Catherine

Author: Catherine Schaff-Stump

Catherine Schaff-Stump writes fiction for children and young adults. Her most recent book, The Vessel of Ra, is the first book in the Klaereon Scroll series. She is currently working on its sequel, as well as penning the middle grade adventures of Abigail Rath, monster hunter. View all posts by Catherine Schaff-Stump