“I wasn’t able to write tonight as my secretary (read: mun) has managed to catch an illness that has been permeating her day job’s office over the past couple of weeks, and hit pretty hard earlier today. She assures me that there will be plenty of writing time tomorrow, however, so I should be able to catch up without issue…”

“I’d prefer to have kept pace in accordance to the proposed method of completing NaNoWriMo, but suppose that it can’t be helped. It seems that she’s also managed to become hypothyroid again; I really need to stay on top of reminding her to make her doctor’s appointments…”

“Ah, well. In the meantime, I am torturing her with depressing back stories for the characters in my novel. It seems that she’s become a fan of my favored OTP… heh. If only she knew that this novel were simply an allegory for my own life…"