Excuse my language, but I’d like to give this state a big Fuck You! I just found out today that I’ll be laid off from my job and that my last day of work will be December 28th. The reason being that the state is cutting funding for the program in half, actually a little [...]
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If you ever need a self-esteem booster, just announce to everyone that you’ve finished writing a novel! Thanks everyone for your kind words. I hope that next year more people join NaNoWriMo. It really was a great experience. Grueling but great…
So, now that I’ve accomplished one task, I’m setting myself up for failure! How might [...]
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I wrote a frickin’ book! I officially finished NaNoWriMo today and if you go to my profile, my word count will proudly display that I am a “winner” and that my final word count is 51,315 words. And that’s where it’s staying. I’m done! I thought that I might finish today but the bigger chance [...]
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It seems that the new book gods stopped by my house today while I was at work not really working, but rather, writing my NaNo book which I’m less than 7,000 words from finishing! Ahem…work will resume tomorrow *cough*inbetweenwriting*cough* Now I promised that I’d try hard not to buy anymore books for myself this year [...]
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At least in my neck of the woods it seems to be. Did anyone else start their Christmas shopping yet? I just happened to get my paycheck on the day after Thanksgiving and have now spent half of that paycheck already on gifts! But I’m almost done my shopping now! How cool is that…The only [...]
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I picked up Varjak Paw mainly because it’s fully illustrated by Dave McKean. The illustrations are wonderful and there are PLENTY of them throughout the book. But I ended up not only enjoying the illustrations but enjoying the story as well.
Varjak Paw is a house cat, a Mesopotamian Blue. He lives with his mother and [...]
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Occasionally I have my moments of clarity. They don’t come often, but when they do, I enjoy them. The world can be such and overwhelming and hectic place sometimes. There are deadlines to meet, places to be, people to please, schedules to make. I was at work today having one of those days. I had [...]
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I’ve officially completed the Classics Challenge hosted by Crazy Cozy Murders. Finished it up last night with C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters which I owe a review on. I liked it well enough though to be honest it was one of those books that I read sometimes and then thought “wait a minute what did [...]
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First let me introduce you to my new favorite shirt:Now that you’ve made his acquaintance…I decided that after a loooong day at work I’d go get some coffee and then come home and work on my NaNo book. I stepped outside and was greeted by this cold, crisp night air and it suddenly felt like [...]
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Lots of stuff in this post today! To start off with, CJ had a wonderful idea. As many of you know, our beloved blogger, Bookfool is going through some rough times right now and had to step away from blogland for a little while. She’s in my thoughts and I know she’s in the thoughts [...]
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