Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Hodge Podge

My brain is fried and I don't know if I can muster the mental energy to formulate an entire post today, so instead I'm just going to talk about a few random things that I'm thinking.

♦I finished NaNoWriMo! Sadly, I did not reach my personal goal of 60K words in November, but I did cross the 50K finish line at 11:05pm last night. My grand total is 50,097. Ten thousand of which were written in approximately four hours yesterday. My fingers felt like they were going to fall off by the end of it and my right hand is still a little numb this morning. But I finished. I have another spectacularly awful novel to add to my collection.

♥The votes are in and it looks like Egypt is the big winner! I'm really excited because that was actually my first choice too. Well, it was until my bloggy buddy Cairo Typ0 and her hubby up and decided to move to Norway. No worries, though. I'm super jazzed about going to Egypt. I'm applying today, and if I'm not picked for that team, second place is Nepal, which was, quite amazingly, my second choice! Do y'all know me or what??

♣Tomorrow my brother is getting sworn in as a lawyer! I never had any doubt he would pass the California BAR exam, but it's still weird to think that tomorrow my little brother is going to be a fully licensed and totally legit attorney-at-law. I remember the days when I wanted to go to law school. Seeing all the work he's put into it, I know I never would have survived. I am too much of a procrastinator and general slacker. But I'm seriously so proud of him.

♠Can someone please explain to me how the heck it's December already??

That's about all for now. I'm going to go stick my fingers in an ice bucket now and try to restore some use to them! Have a great day!

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17 comments:

  1. Congrats on surviving NaNoWriMo! I don't even know where I'd start with a novel so I'm super impressed.

    And I really hope you're accepted into the Egypt team. I always wanted to participate in Habitat for Humanity, but never have because of timing or money. So good luck :)

    P.S. Can't help you on the December thing. I'm just as baffled as you are.
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  4. Congrats on finishing!
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  5. Congratulations on finishing NaNoWriMo!! I tried it for the second time this year, but like last year, I lost it around Thanksgiving. I just had too much to do for that week, and couldn't get in the writing time. So I'm really impressed!
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  6. Congratulations on finishing NaNoWriMo! That's a huge accomplishment, and I'm sure it's not awful. Are we going to get a glimpse at the novel?

    And congratulations to your brother too!

    I hope you make the Egypt team, even though I voted for Botswana. :-)
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  8. Huge congrats on NaNo. I started but I quite with a measly 7k or so. Huge accomplishment!
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  9. Great post - even if your brain was fried! I can't believe it is December either - time has sped up I swear!!
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  10. Yeah for Egypt!!! I really do hope you'll be able to go this time!!

    I can't believe it's December already either. The last few months have gone by so quickly!
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  11. CONGRATS on NANO!!!!

    Yeah I wrote the last 10,000 words or so in the last 2 days of the month. My fingers are sore. I am just glad I have a computer and not a pen and a paper..Word counting would SUCK like that...

    how did december get here so quickly? Geez. Another christmas...another year older..soon..my birthday is in march....
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  12. Egypt and Nepal both sound fun and adventurous!

    Congrats on doing so well writing! That's impressive, congrats to your brother too - exciting!

    I have no idea how it's December either.
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  13. Congrats on finishing. Egypt sounds great!
    Have a lovely time.
    Best
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  14. Yeah for finishing! I had complete faith in you. You even wrote 37 more words than I did. :)

    Woo hoo for Egypt and little brudder being a real lawyer!
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  15. Way to go! Congratulations on NaNoWriMo! I finished too just like you, a lot of words the last day. LOL! But we did it!
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  16. Congratulations on the NaNo completion and hurray for Egypt!
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  17. I'm still trying to figure out how it is December, so I really can't explain it to you. Congrats to your brother! And I can't wait to hear about if Egypt is going to work out.
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