thinking, thinking.

Here's my count for now:
Chapter 1 2150
Chapter 2 3070
CHapter 3 2588
Chapter 4 2707
Chapter 5 2412
Chapter 6 3213
Chapter 7 3008
Chapter 8 2572
Chapter 9 3361
Chapter 10 2778 The Boss killed, and our guy captured, by Iuan's group
Chapter 11 2979 suffering at the hands of Ian
Chapter 12: trying to manipulate Ian's group 2305
Chapter 13: the watchers arrive: and the forager girl 3138
Chapter 14: the forager girl at home and in bed: Winston 3109
Chapter 15: Winston: not-Labor Ready: getting tossed out 2926
total 36426/ 97 pages.
here's the next few chapters:

Chapter 16: back to not-Labor Ready, passing meeting with Winston, Winston wishes for an apartment of his own, our guy flees to San Francisco
Chapter 17: meeting superstitious crazy guy.
Chapter 18: imprisonment by superstitious crazy guy, up to the more bloodshed and fleeing again
Chapter 19: looking for work the old way, learns about the parking lots. First job.
Chapter 20: meets Candelario.
Chapter 21: Candelario's truck
Chapter 22: Candelario meets Araceli
Chapter 23: Candelario's wish for Araceli
Chapter 24: A wedding
Chapter 25: pregnancy and another wish
Chapter 26: A confrontation: Aracali figures our guy out
Chapter 27: a filler chapter, in which our guy leads something like a life
Chapter 28: the watchers appear in our guy's consciousness
Chapter 29: the watchers arrive. tension and filler
Chapter 30: a battle-ish thing. Araceli's wish.
Chapter 31: epilog: the child, and a wish.

I am so not ready for all this. The farther I go in to the story, the vaguer the details are. And I was sure I had more like 120 pages.

I called Palace Arts Friday asking whatever happened to my lateral files. Today they called and said they finally arrived. So today, aside from bingo fundraiser for the band, I have to empty out this room I am sitting in so that the files can be brought in here. But I'm also going to strip a little more paint and I'm going to write a little too. I have already stripped paint and put away some laundry. And goofed off.