This will be brief. Day 25 of NaNoWriMo is 2 hours old, and I am 5,685 words behind. That's about 3.5 days of writing. I am going to try my damnedest to get to that coveted 50,000-word target. I've made it every year since 2010, and I plan to make it this year, too! Last year, Hurricane Sandy knocked out power for a whole week and severely ( Read more... )

Well, I did in fact call the Village at Bordentown earlier this week. It turns out that there are no vacancies. In a way I was kind of relieved. I have no idea why I would feel relieved to not have a place to live, but for some reason, that place, despite its relatively low rent, seemed off. Don't ask me to explain that. I just had bad feelings ( Read more... )

Hello, again, Space. It’s been quite awhile, hasn’t it? November ended several weeks ago so I can’t even use the excuse that I was catching up on sleep as a direct result of this past year’s NaNoWriMo event. Real Names has reached its 50,000 word quota and is still largely unfinished. I’ll admit that I blitzed through the ending because I was just ( Read more... )

No, I'm not dead. It's only that NaNoWriMo has taken over my life for the second year in a row. I actually like trying to keep a rigid regimen of daily writing like this. Even though I'm currently wasting time by writing in my online journal and listening to my starred songs on Spotify, I've actually got 36,147 words. I'm supposed to have 38,341 by ( Read more... )

There's quite a lot to cover, so let's get right to it.

First off, I'll say that this month's Salvador Dalí painting is entitled "The Ecumenical Council." It's very majestic, powerful, mystical, and quite obviously religious with the overabundant white, common use of crosses, and the implication of clouds and the sky or Heaven in general. As a work ( Read more... )

I actually had to look up that word in the dictionary to make sure I spelled it correctly. That's a down side to not being in school anymore. My certitude with spelling certain words has taken a massive hit. As I was looking up its spelling, though, I encountered a tremendously interesting article (to me, at least) detailing the origination of the ( Read more... )

 There is no excuse for the extended absence of entries lately. It's been a month since last time. But, living in the past is for squares, daddy-o. This is the future, and I've got a few things on my mind.

First and foremost, I woke up about a half  hour ago after having a dream that I must recount as completely as I can before I forget it. It's ( Read more... )

There is a lot to write about. I'll get the easy thing out of the way first. Since this is the month of July's first entry, I'll give a link for this month's Salvador Dalí painting entitled "Old Age, Adolescence, Infancy." (Click the painting you see on that page for a larger view.) I like this piece a lot. It sparks the mind and challenges it to ( Read more... )

 I really ought to be writing in my pen and paper journal right now. However, it's been an even LONGER time since I scribbled anything down in here, so I figured I'd keep this thing somewhat up to date. It won't be terribly long, but I'll make this a sufficiently suitable update for things...

First things first, I owe you this month's Salvador Dalí ( Read more... )

Don't worry, this entry has nothing to do with primal urges regarding sexuality. I just needed a word beginning with the letter L to serve as the title for this entry. And what better word to grab people's attention than a word directly related to the id? I guess I could have just as easily used the word 'Lovemaking,' but that's far too specific ( Read more... )