50,000 Words

New Prez, big projects and back to work.  I’m hoping everyone is having some success with their WIPs, whatever those may be.  I usually consider myself somewhere between a realist and a dedicated cynic, but I was actually inspired by the events and the words spoken on Election Day.  It seems strange to say something like “we witnessed history” which sounds kind of dramatic, but really that is exactly what happened this week.  Ian made one quip that was funny and horrifying:  Sara Palin ticket 2012, end of the Mayan calendar 2012, coincidence?  Start stockpiling your granola bars and twinkies now, is all I’m saying.

On the horizon is a much anticipated trip to New Haven to take in some New England sights with the infinitely-more-academically-ambitious-than-me Lena.  I’m looking forward to it very much.  The flight time, which usually makes me a raving bitch in short order, will be consumed by NaNo and probably that trashy teenage vampire pulp by Stephanie Meyers.  I like teenage vampires in love as much as the next gal, but it irks me that the author lives in AZ and spends most of the first book pissing on the great green Pacific Northwest.  Yes, it rains.  That’s part of what makes it great.  She makes it sound like the soggy seventh circle of hell.  No accounting for taste, I suppose.  Travelogue to commence anon.

~ by Hillory on November 6, 2008.