Write a Novel

I've been pretty sick lately, not sure if I had swine or what, but I've got a pretty awful hacking cough and residual sleepiness from sleeping too much.

I rested up so that I could at least dress up for Halloween, though. Look how cheap I was! (Is it weird that I'm always excited for my thriftiness) Found an umbrella lying around outside and turned it into a bat costume. Here is me hanging with Heather (dressed as an apocalypse goddess - can't remember the name), street fighter: Chun Lee, and swine flu.

My hard drive keeps warning me it's going to crash. It's pretty weird turning on my computer and getting a message of its impending death. At least it's warning me. The people at tech support said there is nothing I can do, that my lap top is just nearing the end of its life. No sympathy from the man behind the counter, no words of comfort, just a cool glance and the assurance that I better not get too attached. I should take what I can from it and save all the memories it has elsewhere.

Unlike a beloved pet though, I'd really like a new computer. It's just not really something I want to spend the time and money on. Especially because I just lost my phone as well.

This month is NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month! http://www.nanowrimo.org/ is a month designated to writing a novel of at least 50,000 words. It's about quantity not quality, which is kind of assuring. Write like mad and then go back after to refine, if you like. So I'm gonna do it. I don't know why it isn't called international writing month. I think it originates in the states but it's open to anyone.

Waaachaaa! Unfortunately, in the mix of it I'll probably have a dead computer on my hands. Here is something I miss about Sonoma: readily available computers. Not so much at Concordia. Too many students everywhere to provide for that. Plus, campus is pretty far from where I am so I'm never that interested in heading over if it isn't school related.