1) WIP Progress: Also known as "How Nico got her groove back!" Yesssss. I have a WIP, and I am psyched about it. After almost two months of little to no progress on the college boy WIP (they just weren't speaking to me), I started a new WIP maybe two weeks ago. I was making little to no progress on that one, too, until this weekend, when I brilliantly set myself an arbitrary deadline. Because those work so well, you know. But it did this time! I'm aiming to finish a first draft by the end of this month. Yes, that means by Saturday. Realistically, I think this could translate to finishing the relationship-building up to the actual sexytimes, but still...this is progress! This is grooving! This is groooooovy! Yes, I'm excited, and it's worthy of exclamation points.
The true culprit in my non-progress up til now? The internet. The above cartoon depicts this perfectly.
The experiment: I turned off my wireless, and apparently I write around 150-200 words for every 10 minutes without wireless. That's kind of amaze-balls for this notoriously glacially slow writer. So I've decided I must go live in a cave that miraculously has power outlets. Yes, yes I must.
So, yes, I've written around 4000 words in the last two days. Let me repeat: this is amaze-balls for me.
I am psyched and cannot wait to get Tomas and Derek's tale on the page. They are awesomesauce and a whole bag of chips.
2) Nico the Feline. I'm totally sad-panda-ing over bringing Nico back home for the holidays. First there's the stress of air travel with a kitty who loves being in his homebase so much that he hardly even brings himself to walk down the hallway outside my apartment. Most of all, though, it's the super sadness I'm feeling over leaving him in San Francisco for six months with my parents while I (1) study for the California bar exam, (2) travel around, and (3) figure out logistics for moving back in June. I know it's better for him than having to continue finding sitters or boarding him, and I definitely know it's better than having to stress him out by having him be smack in the middle of a cross-country move. Nonetheless, I'm experiencing separation anxiety already...and he's not even gone yet!
3) California Bar Exam. Ugh. Yep, I signed up to take it. Not thrilled about this prospect, but I determined in the end that I should do it "just in case." It's a rather expensive endeavor, but law school and six years of lawyering were a rather significant portion of my life thus far. It would make sense at least to be able to practice in California by having the California bar exam under my belt. So, yes, I ordered some study materials, and I'll be doing this thing. Wish me luck!
3.5) An extra random thought: Drag Queen Bingo! I went to bingo night hosted by drag queens earlier this week. It was unabashedly ridiculous and also ridiculously awesome. :)
My feelings...they are a-jumble, but yay for WIP progress and (fictional) boys who are talking to me!
Thrilled to be typing away about her swimmer and the object of his affection,
NJ
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