And at the end of day one ...

Cigarettes And Shambles:

2572 / 50000 (5.14%)

I was hoping to have more, but five percent of the goal is marvelous as far as I'm concerned.

I haven't really been writing in a linear fashion, for the record. I did write the first five hundred words or so, but then I just started skipping around and writing whatever came to mind, which worked as well as it always does for me.

Still have only a vague idea of what the actual plot is, but whatever. I've got a hopelessly optimistic former child genius with a shaven head and two-inch-wide gauges in her ears bouncing around a bar like a goofball to a Scissor Sisters song, so clearly I'm doing something right.

I voted!

The great thing about voting in a small town is that there is literally no line, and you're basically in and out in under a minute, and at this time of the morning everybody in the place is either a little old lady you know or a little old lady who knows your family.

Either way, I have voted, and I feel better. :)

So I just did something that I've been thinking about doing for a while ...

... and filled out an application with the National Marrow Donor Program to get tested to see if I would be a likely donor.

Granted, it's entirely possible they'll test me and find out I'm not good for it health-wise (which wouldn't be surprising, even though the website's guidelines give me the impression that I should be able to), or that it won't come to anything, but I think about doing it every once in a while and never actually go through the first step of actually asking for the donor testing kit. But now it's scheduled to be mailed to me in about a week, so that's that.

I mean, hell, I've donated plasma and blood and I'm an organ donor. Might as well sign up for this, too, while I'm at it. :)

And in "WTF is wrong with you?!" Theater ...

... apparently putting up a Paypal button to save your fanfic site is much, MUCH more difficult than, say, fighting worthy charities for grant money to pay for your servers.

I don't know which I find more appalling right now: that, or Rand Paul winning in Kentucky. (... oh, FFS.)

As for NaNo, I am behind where I was hoping to be at this point. But then again I didn't plot a damn thing and I'm basically just throwing plot points at the wall to see if they stick, and they all seem to be sticking no matter how freaking ludicrous. For added fun I've been skipping around writing bits and pieces and between all of them scattered across the length of the entire book, I've still only written two named male characters out of a current list of about twenty or so characters. And one of them is a transvestite. Do with that info what you will.

That said, as of right now ...

Cigarettes And Shambles:

4270 / 50000 (8.54%)

I'll be happy if I can go to work on Thursday morning with 15k. Even if it's a scattered mess, 15k is still a good chunk of the way to my goal right there. :)

I put this question to you.

So I was thinking the other day that what I really want to do -- you know, after I'm done with NaNo -- is to start a story based on whatever I can come up with based on a soundtrack I want to throw together of slowed-down covers of pop songs. (To give you some idea of what I'm looking for, I've already got Greg Laswell's cover of "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", Imogen Heap's cover of "Thriller," and the cover of "Creep" from the Social Network trailer. Not that that one's slowed down all THAT much, but still.)

So, yeah. Anybody got any suggestions on that count?

Here, have some more morbid amusement.

Bush ABC Interview: Being Called A Racist By Kanye West The Worst Moment Of My Presidency

... so many sarcastic responses, so little time.

FUCK IT.

Can't take my hair anymore, going to go get it cut bright and early tomorrow morning.

(Seriously, though, I've been off two days and had it clipped out of my face the vast majority of the time, and doing so's driving me twice as bonkers as letting it hang loose.)