From a gondola

From a gondola
Originally uploaded by Gauis Caecilius.

This picture makes me happy. It's not the best most perfect picture of Venice ever (although others from this photo stream may be!) but it gives a real sense of place and movement. It doesn't look like some Disney version of Venice, like so many do.

Pissy, Disagreeable People

I hate them, but only when they are disagreeing with me. Otherwise, especially if I agree strongly, I am secretly gleeful about their pissy, disagreeable ways. Bah!

In PDP news my own self, I think the m key on my laptop is going (sucks!) and I thought I was done with nano, but it turns out that I double input one entry, so I am actually 2K in the hole.. Best go see to that I guess. Bah!!!

Nano madness

I am three thousand words from my fifty thousand word goal, and I find myself in yet another brain fugue. There are aspects of this story I love, there are aspects of this story I want to run over repeatedly with my car. Guess which section I am stuck on again? Go ahead. Hint: it's not the section I love. It's my own fault. Why stop to research now, when I have pulled all the rest of it out of my ass? Because research is an effective procrastination tool when you've read everything on the internet twice already? maybe.

I want to finish tomorrow so I can be done with it and get on with the other things that are lurking out there. In all honesty, I thought I would have a job by now and have to be struggling with nano AND a new job. So what do I have to be bitching about? except for the no job/no money corollary? So maybe that's why I am making it extra hard on myself. Who can say?

One further note before I shut off the computer and fall into bed: I no longer think the neighbor is some sort of mad-scientist constructing an aquatic device along the lines of one of Dr. Evil's plans gone wrong. This makes me sad.

Right!?!

So, I decided to set up a blog where I can mark what I am reading/watching/writing/job search whatever. Slightly more coherent than my own journal, blah blah blah. yeah, I write that in my own journal too. I have many nano words to write this night of the 28th, but I plan on having more in this spot soon. I know the world is just waiting for another self-indulgent blab-fest, so phew! we can all rest easy now.