update....for lack of a better title

[coffeesnob318]

Hello, all. Not much going on. I lost an lj friend, but I don't think it was personal. I get the feeling that most of her flist are actually people she knows well, and I'm not. She just posted something about her lj being friends only, but comment if you wanted to be added, except that she only allows friends to comment. ??? Oh well.

I do have to comment on an experience that I had last night:

Dear Dallas Highway Department,

Finish the damn roadwork already. Or at least pretend like you're working instead of sitting around playing with your big toys and shiny lights. That would make me handle the five-lane highway being cut down to one lane (oh, and would it hurt you to put up a sign or two telling us in advance where to go instead of just suddenly closing a lane?) in a much less stressful way.

Thanks so much.

love,
coffeesnob

Adrin and I are getting along famously. The house is staying cleaner, because she's still in guest mode in my mind. Ah, the wonders of southern hospitality upbringing.

The most exciting thing that's happening is that I've been sucked into NaNoWriMo this year (http://www.nanowrimo.org/ for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about). Yes, my friends - I am going to attempt the 50,000-word novel in a month. Kim got me started. She was so excited that I decided to be her writing buddy. I think Angela is doing it, too. Good times.

Now, to go home and watch Gilmore Girls (a fresh group of Luke-isms, coming your way tomorrow - you can't fool me - I know you're excited) and "that tree show," as one of my students calls it.

Comments

[suitcasegnome.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm doing NaNo too! :D

[wingsonwind.livejournal.com]

I have been dropped from three LJ friends' lists in the last couple weeks. They probably got sick of all the B talk.

Another person on my list is trying NaNoWriMo. You might want to check her out: viewoftheworld. She is also taking an online course in writing and talks about that on occasion.

[gradeafan.livejournal.com]

heh...looking forward to the Lukisms.... and you know that'tree show'

g

[chicklet73.livejournal.com]

Good luck on the NaNoWriMo thing. Sometimes I wish I had a story inside me to tell, too.

I hear you on the roadwork. It's always so endearing to drive by a crew of workers where one guy is working and the other six are on smoke break. And this is usually after you have sat in traffic for 45 minutes because the highway is down to one lane and has been for the last eleventy-thousand miles or so. (gotta give people adequate stopping distance)

Ah, sweet hyperbole.

[coffeesnob.livejournal.com]

Cool! Do you have a plot idea yet? It's so hard for me not to start writing, but I really want to see if I can just do it in a month.

[coffeesnob.livejournal.com]

How could people get tired of hearing you talk about your life? Isn't that what a journal (live or otherwise) is all about? *is baffled*

I will check her out! I'm so excited about this!

[coffeesnob.livejournal.com]

I'm a little disappointed. Not many Lukisms last night. I gleaned a couple, but they are not nearly as exciting to the common observer (one was very, very exciting to me, but I'm obsessed like that) as last week's were.

[coffeesnob.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I have a story inside of me. I'm preparing to be a nervous wreck next month. I'm already having moments of "argh!!! I have nothing to say!!!" panic. This could be bad. Very, very bad.

I think I'm going to take a new route tonight. That roadwork business is for the birds. There's got to be a thousand quicker ways out of downtown Dallas.

[wingsonwind.livejournal.com]

I don't get it either, but hey to each... I think one was a comment whore and I wasn't fueling her needs enough. As for the other two, your guess is as good as mine.

Good luck with that! I wish I had enough time to try something like that... it sounds like a lot of fun.

[suitcasegnome.livejournal.com]

Yup! It's sketchy still, and it's very similar to last year's attempt, but this time it's better and likelier of getting finished.

I want to start writing now myself!

And how's *your* plot doing? ;)

[coffeesnob.livejournal.com]

My plot is taking over my brain. I don't think I'll be able to type fast enough.

November 3 or so may find me drawing other conclusions.

[suitcasegnome.livejournal.com]

Sounds familiar. I was the same way last year, but when it came time to actually write, I froze up. I squeezed out maybe a paragraph, then I just neglected my story all month...Of course, I have no self-discipline, so I doubt you'll be the same. :D

[bubbles79.livejournal.com]

Good luck on the writing and the driving and other things I don't do! Sorry I don't have any advice...

[coffeesnob.livejournal.com]

Just knowing you're reading and commiserating is enough... :)