The month is closing - and I managed to make my initial goal. (And another last minute ambition-push one, too ( Read more... )

Soooo - I won't make the Nano word count goal, and I had a hunch that would be the case a few weeks in. Rather than dwell in self-sabotage and pressure, I created a new personal goal for the month, using the Nano site as a way to keep myself accountable ( Read more... )

Oh boy - so, everything I heard about this test is true. It's week 2 and I'm all "what was I thinking?". I started on the newer idea, and have been adding bits when they pop into my head. I also realized if I tried to draft it now, it would be a disaster. I need a healthy sense of humor (since I want the tone to remain comedic) to write it remotely ( Read more... )

After weeks of leaving an idea simmering in some dark recess in my mind, I'm seeing results. There was an idea for the Nanowrimo; I had really wanted to keep it a new project, separate from the other kinds of work going on. But sadly, the main premise was nice, but there was no plot...no cast even ( Read more... )

Well, I have been pretty house-bound for the past week. After getting thrown out of the office for a nasty case of pink eye, I spent the next few days nettled by anxiety and a sense of growing sickness. After feeling I was out for far too long already, I went to a different doctor and got a completely different diagnosis. I had ear infections, ( Read more... )

I'm back in PA from a slightly spontaneous trip to the West coast; I certainly want to go back. I've got some things on my mind, but perhaps it's better to think about them another time. And probably not at night.

Honest Tea - I first fell in love freshman year of college. My mother, with her very strong 'maternal' nature (read: Italian on her mother's side), had decided she couldn't leave without knowing I wouldn't starve. And so, we walked the aisles of the Clemens (now something else). And there, on the left-hand side, were a set of bottles with ( Read more... )

     So I have the place to myself---sort of.  My plague is on the way out---I think.  Silly Winter had to give me one last reminder ( Read more... )

  Well - that was exciting ( Read more... )

This post is a health update - if you don't want to read, scroll by.  I'm too lazy to cut ( Read more... )