picked a handful of violets in my name

So I was all proud of having packed my lunch yesterday, and then I forgot it on the kitchen counter.

Watched a documentary on Kinsey in my sociology class. Partway through the poetry workshop, my cell phone went off (random wrong number from New Orleans, like usual) - and that still wasn't the most disruptive thing that happened. Our resident Beat dashed in quite late, sat down, popped up again to zip his fly, and then class proceeded.

I made a new friend at Dress for Success. She's probably about my mom's age. Usually I get off the train at Copley and walk to Back Bay to go home, but I stayed on all the way to Park Street to keep talking to her. And one of the other volunteers had brought in her puppy. The first time I spotted it, I thought it was a stuffed animal, and then I noticed the toenails and realized it was a real dog. Tiny, exceedingly well-behaved, quite cute.

I did manage to remember my lunch today, and I need to eat it in the near future.


I also wrote 1300 words today. So far.

One of my brother's friends gave him a wifi detecting t-shirt. It lights up. I'm not even kidding.


My mom dropped her phone in the sink, but Dad took it apart right away and dried it out and it's working again.


FedEx says our package from home was delivered to the back door today. Uh, no it wasn't. It's either at someone else's house (fail, delivery guy) or someone stole it. And will probably be disappointed unless they actually wanted a shitload of peanut butter crackers that have probably been recalled, and other similarly inexpensive stuff.


Today I have written 1100+ words in a document called idfic. Urgh. Why can't I be inspired to work on something that doesn't make me cringe in embarrassment??

I have a small patch of dead pixels in the lower lefthand corner of my screen. :( Fortunately, it's in the middle of the Dock, near the Safari icon, so it's not like it really affects my computer usage.

But still. :(


Went shopping yesterday, because it was in the 40s and I was tired of being inside. I now own purple jeans, you guys. IDEK. Also, hot pink and black striped tights which claim to contain cashmere. Also also I almost bought these shoes in black, but I couldn't make up my mind, and I have another pair coming in the mail anyway. Maybe I will go back and get those shoes if the ones I ordered don't fit.

I also bought a pink umbrella with white polka dots (H&M always has cute ones, and they get squished to death in my bag on a fairly regular basis). And Georgina Westbrook has moved on from demanding that I buy her jewelry. Now I also have to buy her nice underwear. She was annoyed that there wasn't a matching bra. Fictional characters. /o\


Accidentally stayed on the train when they expressed it from Jackson Square to Forest Hills. Oops. I do that occasionally. Followed a girl out the Washington St. exit and walked home from there - it's not that far.

Stopped by the bakery. I asked for 6 French rolls. They had 5. At 9:30.

Bakery. >:[


Wonderful lecture today on ancient Egyptian religion - so of course I had a worldbuilding brainwave. This is going to be fun, for several disparate values of "fun."


Hm. Think I might take a nap.

Guys. I am sick. DNW.

I suppose I should be grateful it's just a very sporadic cough and some sinus pressure and not what I had last January... on the other hand, there is probably still time for it to turn into a snotfest of epic proportions.


When I got home yesterday, I was planning to check my email and then take a nap. But instead, I sat down to reorganize all my beads and crap, and from there, I wound up making three pendants. And then ~2 hours had passed.

Then I made another one later in the evening. It doesn't match the other three at all, though. And it's also not finished.


It is probably a shitty idea to take Nyquil before class, but I am only going to take one gelcap and they come two to a blister pack. I took the other one before bed and didn't sleep any more heavily than usual. Woke up about an hour early, in fact. And the alternative is "possible coughing fit which interrupts someone else talking, me trying to sound intelligent about sociology, or Quiet Writing Time."

Wrote 191681 words in 2008.* Not bad, although my goal was 300k.

Successfully completed NaNoWriMo. Managed an A in my writing class.

* Well, it was probably more than that, but I have no data for January, August, September, or October. Spreadsheet-keeping fail.

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Official commitment for 2009 is 350k, over at getyourwordsout.

Actual personal commitment is more like 385-410k, depending on how hard I push myself during NaNo.

I have another spreadsheet. It has daily goals (1000 words, 2500 during November), and numbers show up in red when I'm running behind. I find it to be a very effective motivator.

If you have tried to send something to sofiaviolet@sofiaviolet.com recently and it bounced, sorry. I'm a fucking moron and I accidentally deleted my MX records. /o\

Fixed now, though.

The power just went out, so I went up to check things out with the owners (last time, one of them had seen a transformer go boom), and then I came back and hunted up the lighter, and just as I got four seven-day candles lit...

... the power came back on. \o/

60683 / 50000 words. 121% done!

I took a little time to gloat to my mom.

I'm already thinking about next year. Not just next November, but all of 2009. I have some pretty ambitious goals (75k in November! 1000 words per day, every day!), but I think I can achieve them. Especially if I count everything that is creative writing. I need to give myself credit for the stuff I write that isn't going to make my parents or my professors proud of me. I'm going to count poems toward my 1000-word daily goals. I'm going to count Lightning War. If I poke it into my computer and it isn't a research paper or blog entry, then it goes into my little spreadsheet.

( to do, lol college student edition )

51323 / 50000 words. 103% done!

:D I set another personal best today, too. 4126 words.

The power went out for a while. Apparently a transformer exploded. All fixed now, though. Also it is almost Thanksgiving and this is awesome even if my parents are not coming to visit.

44346 / 50000 words. 89% done!

I will be making every effort to finish over the weekend.