Lately I've been gearing up and planning to do NaNoWriMo again this year. I've attempted it the last two years in a row but failed pretty miserably (ie, less than 5k words both times). I just completely fizzled out after I realized that I (a) had absolutely no ideas about where I wanted the story to go, (b) hated all my characters, and (c) was ( Read more... )

 Six months have passed since I last regaled this humble corner of the internet with news of my heroic doings; autumn and winter are over, and I'm now sitting outside with some microwaved Pad Thai and a pack of cigarettes in lovely California sunshine. So hearken unto me, and I will share with you what has been up ( Read more... )

 So ehm yeah, once again, haven't updated this in forever. First, the good news: I'm coming back to NC in March for my 21st birthday! So hell yeah for that. Neutral news: School started, taking English and Pol/Soc History of the US, and Nathan and I are now perma-broke-up. It's not really that bad, it was coming for awhile and we both knew it so it ( Read more... )

 Cookies, bitch. I made them.


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Only five more hours of being in California, two until we have to leave for the airport. I really, really, really do not want to go to Cleveland.

Last night Nathan and I went over to Andy's house for one last night of good times before I have to head on out to Cleveland for a week. Here are some highlights of the evening:

1. Going to Costco to buy whiskey, and hearing Andy refer to the walkers they have positioned around the store as "hop-along-tubbies".

2. Playing with Ehren and Chantel's ( Read more... )

 So yeah. I'm what you could call "fairly intoxicated" right now, which in Nicolenese means "yay ( Read more... )

Today I went to Borders to buy World War Z as a present for my Arbitrary Day giftee, and ended up spending like 2 hours reading this book called The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It takes place in medieval England and is about a mason who's obsessed with the idea of building a cathedral so he walks around with his family looking for one to ( Read more... )

 I woke up this morning with a bottle of beer and a pack of Parliaments next to me, my pants in the hallway, sopping wet, 20 minutes before I need to be at work.

What.

I'll be having a word with Mr Jack Daniels about this later. 

 Well it's been forever since I've updated this here plot of the intertubes where my lj makes its humble home, from a combination of laziness, drunkenness, forgetfulness, and being in a North Korean gulag where wi-fi access is spotty at best. I'll try to update more often from now on, and of course be full of reverence for Dear Leader ( Read more... )