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This week is the last week of The Artist's Way.  Believe it or not, F. and I started our journey twelve weeks ago, stuck with it, made meetings work (even through the holidays) and are coming out on the other side with a little more awareness and inspiration.  I'm diving into our last chapter today and interested to see how the book ends.  Because even though I've done The Artist's Way in the past...I never completed the entire thing before.  It really made a difference having a partner to check in with and be accountable to.

Also will be working on getting together scene work and notes for our production meeting tonight.  A close group of friends has started a production company with the goal of producing our own work - work that we write, produce and star in.  I found a scene that I wrote out in a coffee shop, on some anonymous day in NY.  It was tucked away in a forgotten notebook and when I was cleaning out a closet a few weeks ago, I found it.  It's not a bad scene and I can't, for the life of me, remember what inspired it or why I wrote it. But - clearly - I need to go spend some more time in coffee shops.

Speaking of coffee...this is day 4 without it.  I finally ran out of coffee to make at home and I've been drinking green tea instead.

I have been exhausted all week.

I don't think I realized how dependent I am on stimulants to keep me going throughout the day.  I know that I enjoy a cup of coffee in the morning.  And that I usually have a Diet Coke at lunch.  And I have iced tea at dinner.  But I switched to caffeine-free Sierra Mist as my lunch soda and, ok, I still have iced tea for dinner.  But I can definitely tell a difference in how I feel.  I planned on treating myself to coffee now and then, when I go to meet friends for coffee or out to breakfast.  But now I'm curious to see if my body will regulate itself and stop feeling so darn sleepy if I go an extended amount of time without caffeine.  But how long will that take??  And is it time for a nap yet?