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~ Dude! *flails like mad* One of the librarians (like, the real librarians, with degrees and shit and not us lowly $8/hr circulation people) is, like, friends with Troy Duffy, and is going to go and visit him while the BDS sequel is filming. I just. I can't even. I was all like... *fangirl!flails and dies*

~ Deep breath, moving on...

~ I had this weird dream where I was trying to dyecolor my hair blue (well, streak my hair blue), but I totally fucked it up and I think I even fell asleep while I was doing it so the dye that I'd already put in made my hair turn freaky-white-blonde but the rest was a mottled brown-blue and it was disturbing because no one noticed! Weird-ass dreams are weird...

~ Okay, I just started reading Hot Target by Suzanne Brockmann. And I am loving it. Why didn't anyone tell me how awesome she is? Oh, wait, silentrequiem did, like, years ago. My bad.

Gaer? You were totally right. Loving this, and I have a hold on the first of I guess it's the "Troubleshooters" series and am just waiting for it to come in. Thanks!

~ I'm slowly working out plot stuff to make my NaNo not suck so bad...

P.S. Wow, I'm totally Valley Girl Writer today, aren't I?

So. I'm tired now, and it's not quite 8 o'clock at night. This is sad...

I did stuff today, though!

Yesterday was mom's birthday, and one of the things she wanted was "an army of people to help me clean out my house."

Well, I couldn't get an army, but I did rope Erin and Christina (and she roped her husband) into helping. Erin's day was today, and she helped me haul two cars full of stuff to giveaway and recycling. Whoo! Mom was so very happy. We got rid of a lot of stuff we totally didn't need, weren't using, and was just taking up space. It felt very good.

Except now I'm all tired and shit.

So, I am seriously behind on NaNo. So I figure if I can do 3k words a day until the 30th, I'll make it. Or close to or over 3k. I would be fine with either of those options.

And actually, I'd be thrilled if I could just break 30k words. I hit 25k last year, so I'd like to at least beat last year's word count. That would be nice.

Okay, I'm going to try to use Write or Die to get some words written today, though at least I have a damn good reason for not writing up to now.

Hopefully I'll be able to post an edit with a good word count!

Edit @ 9:44 pm: Ha!

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Ryan is right. There's no excuse for not posting.

So, I resolve to post, well, something every day. In my copious free time. Because I do have a lot of that, what with my job only having four-hour shifts, and no second job in sight yet.

Nefret update: she's got an Upper Respiratory Infection, so, basically, she has a Shelter Cold. So, I have to dose her with medicine twice a day, and keep her isolated from the other cats. Which is okay, except now she's been out of the room before, she's bound and determined to do so again.

I guess I lied about the book recs. I'll do those tomorrow.

So, I've decided to try NaNo again this year. I have a concept for a story right now, but no plot. I'm going to go over some of my old stories, see if I can't cobble together a plot from some of those. I just remembered this idea from, I think, junior-high, but I'm going to update it, and grow it up a bit. Most of my ideas from back then had potential, but I was a little too juvenile to do them justice.

Oh, and I got an invitation to go to a Halloween dinner party thing. I'm going to be bringing the dessert, and I'm not sure what to make. Since my work friends seem to be big on themes, it is, of course, Halloween themed. So, I've got a few choices:

1. Apple Brownies (apples are a traditional harvest/fall/divination-at-All-Saint's-Day thing)
2. Caramel Apple Bars (ditto)
3. Fudge with marshmallo topping and call it "Ectoplasmic Fudge" ... probably just 'cause I like saying "Ectoplasmic"...

Okay. I'm off to make more banana bread that mom can actually eat this time!

Really this time, book recs coming up tomorrow!

So I was all set to do a Google Image meme, and then my enthusiasm went away.

Um, so yeah. Stuff. Stuff is kinda happening-ish in my life.

I am doing NaNo, and I'm doing okay-ish. I did copious notes last night at work, so that's okay, even if I haven't written them up yet. I will! Technically I should have about 14K by the end of today. This is highly doubtful, but I do have a little over 6K.

And, of course, much procrastination is to be had. One NaNo tip was to turn off the internet while trying to write, but since I have downloads going, I'm not going to do that. These downloads are going slow enough without actively ruining them.

So, now that you all know I'm alive and everything, I'm gonna go write some more. Hopefully get to roughly where I'm supposed to be... Or ahead. Ahead would be nice...