I want a new drug

Another round of layoffs at work today. Somehow, despite the fact that my job is obviously utterly unnecessary, my team managed to remain unaffected. I'm not holding my breath, though. If history is any lesson, this will not be the only round of layoffs this month. My company seems to have March Madness (aka End of Fiscal Year, time to make that bottom line by reducing staff).

In less depressing news, I've decided that I'm going to use this month to put some serious effort into writing the sci fi story I've been developing over the last few weeks. I got about 1,200 words written tonight and the story is coming along nicely. I still feel that my delivery is a little too abrupt for my taste, but we'll see if it softens as I progress. If not, I'll be doing some re-writing once I get the actual story hashed out. I don't know that I'll meet the industry standard of 50,000 words for a novel, but it'll definitely make novella standards.