Writing and Druid and Sleep, Oh My!

I seem to have returned to a sleep habit I thought I had rid myself: waking up every hour or two. I got rotten sleep Tuesday night, and was bone-deep-exhausted all day yesterday, and what kind of sleep do I get? Interrupted. Ergh.

At least what I did get was more or less refreshing. Oh well.

I've hit a wall in the story planning. I don't have writer's block, since I can't start actually writing until November first (and I am dying to). I just ran out of planning to do until then. Ryan's suggested letting it all sit for a week before going back to it, and maybe that'll help. Here's hoping.

Meanwhile, I do have the eighth book in the Sword of Truth series to finish, plus I've started reading another book: Drawing Down the Moon. I've been doing a lot of thinking, lately, about Pagan stuff, specifically Druidism. Starting to do some research to see how to better incorporate it into my life. Stumbling onto The Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids certainly helped me a lot...I'm basically already following the beliefs and principles, without any organization or ritual or anything like that. I'd like to have more of it in my life, hence reading the only book on Paganism I brought with my from Connecticut*.

That whole paragraph was basically to say that I can spend my non-story-planning week researching Paganism and Druidism and planning for Samhain. Whee!

I am really excited to move back toward that area of interest...looking back on my attempts to learn about it as a teenager, I was going through too much other stuff to really let it fully absorb. When I started reading DDtM yesterday, I recognized that I had read it before, but it still felt new. Hard to describe.

Although, I'll admit, I'm not looking forward to JC questioning my reading material. Did I mention he's one of seven children in a heavily Republican and Christan household? Did I mention that he was home-schooled in this same household? Yeah. That's fun to work with. All he has in his head for the word "hippie" is "pot addict," so, now that I've called myself a hippie in front of him, he thinks I'm a pothead...the end. Throwing Pagan and/or Druid in there will be FUNTIMES.

Time to get ready for the day. One more eight-hour shift, then a day off! WHEE!

*I do have A Book of Pagan Prayer here in Indiana, but it's fairly single-minded, you know?