National Write a Novel Month

so apparently November is the national write a novel month and also Native American Awareness Month (we get november cause of stupid Thanksgiving... blah... stupid christ and stupid easter bunny taking all the cool months)...

The goals of this month seem to entail writing a novel and the goals shoots to around 500,000 words, which averages (according to some random estimate) 6 to 7 pages a day... i guess thats about write because that would shoot for around 200 some pages write (tripp tries to do double digit math in brain ... brain fails ...

So do i consider the challenge ... oh I'll consider it... but considering im already a day behind and my day's off are almost always filled with non-writing stuff then im looking at several days (nearly 8 or 9) lost in which i wouldn't be writing... and considering it's nearly 1 p.m. now, most of today is already gone to... i usually work from 4 p.m. to midnight or 1 a.m., but today is an exception... do to the elections we get to come in later tonight (which means we stay later tonight, and with the f'ng time change the whole thing is going to throw my internal clock off ... but i do get tomorrow and thursday night off ... poker on thursday's, hells yeah... wednesday will probably be spent at LLC critiquing their recent newspaper, as they mosey down to Nashville for a national newspaper/yearbook conference... i have several friends going down there for the DE as well, and also the yearbook from SIU, so i won't be seeing them this week)

damn, nearly lost myself in that giant-assed paranthetical, and still no punctuation at the end. So, here i am, wasting valuable time blogging away at random stuff rather than begin writing a novel and at the time i've used up blogging i could have easily played catchup with my first lost day... but do i bother... sure, i have a few ideas... i have a western floating around in my head that i planned to using as a reference for a later book, and i could always use it, but i'd rather put a twist on the whole western motif kinda like what Jorge Luis Borges did with his "The Man on the Pink Corner" short story, which i do recommend his short stories for anyone interested in traditional genres with a bit more of an edge to them. Borges' "Collected Fictions" is worth the price and should belong in several personal libraries. Thus far i've purchased three copies, one was a gift to a girlfriend and one was lent to a friend who liked it so much that i just gave it to him... i just recently picked up a newer copy for myself.

jeez... almost forgot... Today is November 2, which means Election Day (so election day isn't always the second; i think the official rules state that Election Day falls on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November ... by some fluke it just happens to fall on the 2nd of the month.) But I'm not voting today... i didn't get an absentee from home and i don't feel like driving all the way down there just to vote...

I did a democratic thing today and paid bills and i did an undemocratic thing by placing my flag stamps upside down (which in stamp symbolism expresses love, at least general stamps of the non-love variety) I'd like to think that by placing the flag stamps upside down that i'm making a personal comment on our democracy... or maybe not... im not sure

well... jeez... i think that's all im gonna write for now... probably go watch a movie until i have to get ready for work at 3 p.m. which is in two hours... or i could play hold 'em on my computer in anticipation for thursday... but my stupid computer has limit hold'em and not no limit... RAR!