I am on the Home Stretch of my novel, which means I am hardly even eating and sleeping. Instead, I mostly just type, and every now and then I get up and let the dog out and then I shuffle around and mumble incoherent things and eat crackers.

But what passes as good news came through today: a letter informing me that I’ve won $950,215.

Oh, I don’t believe it for a minute, don’t worry. I’m busy but not crazy. But it cheered me up just the same. How can you not be cheered by a letter that goes like this:

“Dear Winner,

We Apologies, for the delay of your payment and all the Inconveniences and Inflict that we might have indulge you through.

However, we were having some minor problems with our payment system, which is Inexplicable, and have held us stranded and Indolent, not having the Aspiration to devote our 100% Assiduity in accrediting foreign payments.

I wish to inform you now that the square peg is now in square whole and can be voguish for that your payment is being processed and will be released to you as soon as you respond to this letter.”

Like most good correspondence, this one has helped me identify my own emotions. I realize now what that I have been feeling stranded and Indolent myself, and that for a while now I, too, haven’t had the Aspiration to devote my 100% Assiduity.

But…the novel is going to be done in mere HOURS, and that must explain how the square peg is now in the square whole. What a relief that this can be voguish for me.

And speaking of voguish, I’ve been having a wonderful voguish time visiting on other people’s blogs. Please go check out my blog post at Alison Kent’s Blah Blog and my post at Kathy Holmes’s Fiction with Attitude blog.

Hope all your square pegs are behaving themselves!