I have been participating in this writing a thousand words a day for two weeks since last year. It’s always difficult for me to put time aside to write normally and this year has been especially rough, this week more so.

I have been watching the world burn, literally and figuratively. For some this would be fuel for their creative endeavors, for me, I am just trying to get to the end of the day, every day. I have to push down all the horrible things happening in America just to deal with my own life here in Japan and my own fears and troubles of working in a school of 700 students and staff and being the perennial bright thing I am expected to be as the school’s token foreigner, pretending that my country isn’t disintegrating.

Given all of this, I have not been able to reach my daily goal the last few days. I am trying not to punish myself for not accomplishing such a goal. All I can do is write what I can, garbage or not, and keep doing what I have to do to keep on going.

I’m taking these 200 words or so and calling it a day.