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As expected, merely mentioning backlogs didn’t exactly get me far when it comes to the more difficult things, so let’s see if setting some clear goals for this month, as laughable as they’ll be, will help in any way.

I did finish reading Heiress of Healing on Sunday, but I’m yet to write a review, so that would perhaps be the most urgent matter at the moment. I have the first and the last paragraph, parts of another and a list of the other ideas I want to include, but that was all I could find words for so far, so I’ll need to try again this evening. If it still won’t work, I guess I’ll be delaying it until next week, because I seriously doubt I’ll manage much of anything tomorrow, after returning from the protest.
I’ll definitely also need to find some way to go over all the sections I finished writing in my story since I last checked any, starting with that last one from what I consider to be part three, which I keep avoiding because I estimate it’ll take me some six hours and the mental effort I put into editing means I can’t remain focused for more than two hours or so at a time. If I don’t do that, I’ll just keep falling behind even more and the prospect of catching up will be more and more daunting, so I must work it out somehow… And I also must figure out some way to write more as well, or at the very least enough to keep the average above 250 words per day all the way to the end of this month as well. It peaked at almost 263, halfway through September, but now I consider managing to add about 150 at a time to be pretty good, so that average keeps going down.

To move past writing, I should also finish Age of Wonders II by the end of the month, though I’m still stuck at that second “death” scenario. No longer in any immediate danger of losing, but it sure was ugly, and still is, so I think I only played some 35 or so more turns over this past week and, even after I’ll win this, I’m not looking forward to the remaining scenarios… Nor am I looking forward to reviewing it, but I’ll definitely want to do that too, though not necessarily this month.

Last but definitely not least, with the elections for the European Parliament taking place next month, I guess I’ll need to figure out who I’m going to vote for, and that may well involve asking the two, or possibly three, independent candidates I didn’t immediately rule out about their stance regarding the issues that matter to me, seeing as I can’t find any list of goals or views from them otherwise.
With Erwin Albu obtaining less than half of the required number of signatures, Remus Cernea not even being allowed to apply, apparently because he hadn’t numbered the lists of signatures and arrived 12 minutes before the deadline, so at that point the issue obviously couldn’t be fixed anymore, and the Green Party (PV) and even the Ecologist Party (PER) having their lists rejected, I went from having three more or less acceptable options and one backup in theory, to none whatsoever in practice. So at this point I’m looking at eight parties and three independent candidates that definitely aren’t tolerable options and two, or perhaps three, depending on a court ruling, other independents that I didn’t rule out simply because I don’t know what they plan and stand for, so my only hope is that one of these will prove to be at least somewhat tolerable…