A difficult writing day yesterday, but still hit 5 digits: 10,102

Well, yesterday was rather hard to write because I had to go to jury duty. Much better today! Ahh, the joys of a lack of employment.

Word count: 8,648

6590

Since I have decided to join Vengeant in writing a 50,000 word novel in a month, I will be posting word counts here to keep me honest. I'm starting a little dishonestly, since I had a 3,111 word start on something I wanted to write, so my goal is 53,111 by August 22.

I wrote 1,793 today, for a running word count of 4,904.

Out of surgery. Still alive. Bad three days after operation, but better now. Gallbladder gone, good. New pains and aches just as bad as old ones, but should subside.

Pennsylvania School Board Votes to Include Intelligent Design ( Read more... )

Perversely, I want it to continue raining. In lieu of rain, can I get a natural disaster to hit my office? Please? Lightning, earthquake, tornado, I'm not picky. Am I just a slothful slacker who doesn't want to work? Am I incredibly ungrateful and vain to feel that I am entirely wasted here? I've always been in favor of the government paying me to ( Read more... )

A: Only if you're a liberal. (er, and educated therefore making more money, i.e., same thing.)

Well, it looks like I'll be going under the knife. The specialist I went to see for my gallstones had the form filled out before I got there passing me off to a surgeon. Took me two months to get an appointment and :20 minutes later I'm out the door; basically he looked at my test results and confirmed for me what I'd already determined by ( Read more... )

Someone wrote on the board at my office:
None of us is as smart as all of us.

I beg to differ. I find my intelligence constantly countered by stupidity.