I don't think the NaNoWriMo project is going to work. It's November 22 and I just broke 26K words. Of course, if I keep making progress like I've made and hope to continue to make today -- this morning I woke up at 3:30 AM and thus far have done over 3K words (as I write this, it's nearly 10 AM) -- I could pull it off, but do I really want to do that? I dunno. I'll probably go strong through Thanksgiving and then, depending upon where I am on the novel, make a decision. But if I were you, I wouldn't hold my breath. On the plus side, if I drop it, you can count on getting an actual Scary-Crayon article before November's close. Rah. (more...)

Thanks for the words of wisdom, Splinter-san.

Send me an e-mail or something. Seriously.

Yeah.

We got some pretty wet and nasty weather this afternoon, so I sat inside the bus/train station for twenty minutes or so while waiting for the bus to take me back to Laurel so I could close at the bookstore. It just so happened that the 178 to Boston arrived while I was there, and when the "all aboard" announcement sounded on the loudspeaker I half-stood and reached for my bag -- the 178 was always the train I took to New Haven when returning to Yale, you see. (more...)