Barack Obama is continuing and enlarging American military involvement in Afghnistan, and has now encompassed Pakistan as part of the problem that he's tackling. He says that there can not be a more just war.It's still sort of exciting to live on my own. Although I am still on a restictive budget and few friends, so I haven't really been partying ( Read more... )

I am about 4000 words behind in my nanowrimo. I think I've regained control of the story though. I just read it through and it's not as shockingly bad as I feared. The story is sort of about London and how three different people relate to it and each other. 7000 words in and the first character has only just made it to London and met the second ( Read more... )

Oooh so Nanowrimo yeh? I was doing pretty well. 'Til I tried dialogue and errr got a bit carried away and now it's going all livejounally and erm I'm pretty sure that none of the characters were supposed to be ME or EMO so hmmm there is going to be a hella lot of editing going on! Also I'm taking today off of it after deleting the last 500 or so ( Read more... )

My lucky bamboo plant is now deceased. My money plant that I have had for maybe two and a half years is dying. I don't want to draw over-thought parallels, but dude, I cannot pay any bills this month and money that my Mother tried to send me electronically did not arrive (it was re-sent however, and has now been absorbed by my increasing debt ( Read more... )

Oooh just a small post. I want to write about how on Friday I felt destroyed and was looking forward to a weekend making a cave out of my bed and hibernating in a grouchy ball within it. Then the Aus made a surprise decision to visit me, and so he did for 24 hours. I want to write about how the 24 hours were Win, and how we ran into Old Boyfriend ( Read more... )

I decided to win Nanowrimo this year, after having felt both intimidated and fascinated by it for the last few years. This weekend I am writing as much as possible as a warm-up for it. So I wrote some bits in the Leeds Roller Dolls blog yesterday and also a 1500 word essay about roller derby. Today hmm I ought to write an essay for school about ( Read more... )