Oh, honey.

Spotted on Not Always Right:

(We often get fashion design students in our store to get samples of fabric for school projects.)

Student: “Can I get some swatches? I go to the *** fashion school and need them for a class project.”

Me: “No problem. That’s the school I went to.”

Student: “Oh, cool! What do you do now?”

Me: “… I work here.”

Student: *their dreams crush before my eyes*

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In other news I find it hilarious that every time another wanky Twilight link gets added to the most recent FW post I get more Hollow Girl inspiration.

I just want to put this here even though I'm still working on it tonight because yay, 5k! \o/

5,040 / 100,000 (5.0%)

Writing status!

The Hollow Girl:

5,502 / 100,000 (5.5%)

So chapter two is finished. I'm going to wait until I finish chapter three before I go over the first few chapters and tweak them, and let somebody else read them to tell me if I'm getting the relationship just right, and then tweak again, and then a couple more chapters and she's off to college.

I seriously have not planned anything out. I know the handful of events I still want her to deal with before she goes to college, which for the record I finally decided to just make up and base on Keystone, so I can at least go there and walk the campus. I have a basic overview in my head of stuff I want to happen when she does get there -- the crazy roommate you hate, the freshman fifteen, the fifteen-minute rule, finally giving up at some point and just wearing PJs to your 8 a.m. class -- but that's about it.

Oh, and if anybody wants to toss in any suggestions for other college things that I can hit on, now's the time. I made a list but since she hasn't left town yet, I haven't dug it up. :)

The Grand Prize Winner:

50,679 / 100,000 (50.7%)

Which, okay, I pretty much put aside until I could get a good start on The Hollow Girl. Once I get a good start on that, I really want to come back and finish as many of the nearly-finished chapters as I can. I still have that outline up on my wall that I stop and stare at occasionally like some sort of freak, but whatever.

The Zeppo story:

Uh, yeah. Nothing yet.

I think this is going to be my NaNo project. It gives me time to plan out everything beforehand since I'm going to be walking a tightrope trying not to make the roommate's situation more interesting than hers. And it also gives me time to finish or nearly finish the other two novels and get them out of the way.

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Ugh. Okay, now I need to go take a shower and have something other than Pepsi. And I have five hours until I have to go to work, so let's see what kind of a dent I can put in chapter three of The Hollow Girl. *rubs hands together in anticipation*

WHAT WHAT WHAT.

So I was checking Wikipedia because I'm watching the Criminal Intent marathon on USA and I wanted to check something. And I spoiled myself for the season finale they're running tonight at nine. (Not that I care about being spoiled.)

( Cut for spoilery reaction. )

An interview with Matthew Mitcham, the gay Australian diver who won Olympic gold

Awww. That's awesome. :)