word count: 10,005 (woo hoo ( Read more... )

November 1st! I started working on my NaNo project at 7:45pm PST. It is now 9:29pm PST.

Word count: 0
Ideas for where to start: 0
Mini 3-musketeer bars eaten: 25, no, make that 26
Procrastination techniques employed: 54
*headdesks*: 2

don't worry--i'm still optimistic! :-D *waves NaNo flag*

am in Seattle with cool college friend who gets up early to buy me cupcakes and coffee. *loves* i'm looking forward to going to the UW to explore. the social work school is pretty prestigious, and i'm thinking of giving up on academia to become a bleeding-heart social activist. i think it's a fair trade ( Read more... )

i'm just posting to say that i love you all dearly. i've been running around like crazy this past few weeks trying to move and change jobs and get everything done, and i have missed my LJ crew SO MUCH. (ask M...i've been really cranky without my daily LJ fix ( Read more... )

what the hell am i doing up at 6:30 in the morning anyway? oh, right. packing. *sigh* but the peppermint tea is pepping me up ( Read more... )

just finished HBP. *dies*

am off! for the wilds of washington, d.c. and all its traffic horrors. *shudders* *packs can of mace for road-rage protection ( Read more... )

good news! it appears our credit is finally on an up-swing. it helps that we no longer have credit cards and never buy anything on credit and are slowly-but-surely paying off car-loans, but, hey--we're finally seeing a sliver of the light of day from underneath the mountain-sized rock the establishment rolls on you when you're a stupid teenager ( Read more... )

does anyone out there have any suggestions for music that i could sing at an episcopalian wedding? i was going to sing an Ave Maria, but the rector just emailed me and said it wasn't appropriate since nowhere in the service were they going to be praying to Mary. guh. details ( Read more... )

so there's a bowl of stale hershey's kisses on my desk here at work, and it's taunting me. *glares at misleading shiny wrappers* i've had two now, and both were a complete disappointment. but nevertheless, they beckon. the question is, do i give in to temptation on the off chance that one might not have gone over? that one delicious kiss might ( Read more... )