Raise yo hanz if you’re claiming your free Starbucks tomorrow.  Hells yes!  Well, maybe.  One of the disadvantages of living in rural hell is the lack of a Starbucks, so claiming my deal would require a trip to Paris at the very least.  And I might just do it.  Free caffeine, I mean.  But let’s not forget WHY there’s free coffee in the first place.  Looks like a done deal, but upsets have happened before… I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

Between voting and probable coffee-slurping, I have two main obj… no, three.  Three main objectives.  First, read my ecology books for the exam Thursday.  Second, keep up the good progress on NaNoWriMo (oh yes, there is progress.  I’m impressed with myself!)  Third, get back to Twilight.  I finished the first book yesterday evening, and stayed up late chewing through the first bit of New Moon.  Why I waited so long to start on this, I don’t know.  I have a habit of ignoring hype until it’s gotten to be “old news”.

On NaNo, progress has been better than I expected so far.  I dragged up my old notes, some old “quotes” I’d think every now and again, working them in to scenes… I found and old letter I wrote long ago and realized it definitely had a place (accidental artistry!), so I broke it up, filed it down, polished it up, and it’s on the sidelines, waiting for its chance to be introduced.  Actually… that’s how I’m writing the whole thing.  Writing quips, scenes, full ideas in pieces and parts, which will be arranged and fused later.  Why I never thought of this approach before, I dunno… it only made sense in my mind now, though.  One of my main struggles before was the linear fashion in which I wanted to write… beginning to end, with maybe some second-thought embellishments later.  But this way I stumbled on all frantically seems to work so far.

I’m toying with the idea of having cameos from my more ‘celestial’ of friends.  We’ll see.  I don’t think this story is going to be what I originally planned, but it’ll be what it’ll be.

First off, HABBY HABBOWEEB!  Hope you find yours enjoyable.  I’ll be enjoying mine by doing absolute jack.  You can have your parties and candy. I’ll be too busy sleeping and worrying about…

NaNoWriMo.  Oh, yes.  Tomorrow is the day.  And while I was excited about it before, I’m not so sure now.  I barely have time to sleep, much less pull a novel out of my ass in four tiny weeks.  And although Kev has said he will give me the time to bang out some pages, I don’t see myself as willing at the time, nor do I see it as being too much of a help against all I will have most assuredly NOT written in weeks prior.  In other words, I think this is going to be fail before it even starts.

Then again, any progress is progress I can work with.  If I fail to finish, who cares?  I never really expected to finish.  If I only get twenty five pages out of the deal?  Great!  It’s twenty five I didn’t have before.  So it won’t be that bad.

No problem.  No matter what, no problem.