Today, Nanowrimo Is the Least Crazy Thing about My Life

12,948 / 50,000 (25.9%)

Today's words: 2328

Remaining deficit: 2055 Definitely closing the gap!

Working conditions: Longhand writing shift at Starbucks, late night computer shift at dining table. 3rd week with no pain meds but tylenol; ready to strangle my doctor. Easy to keep butt in chair when can barely walk w/o cane. Dissociating into world made of language even more appealing than usual.

Notable incidents: The seventh year of Stisele's life was awash in exposition this afternoon, so this evening I skipped ahead nine years to write her on the battlefield. Some of the carrion birds are shapeshifter spies, but which ones?

Anyhow, progress is good, and New Jersey's election results are very, very good. Most amusing lead headline in the Jersey papers: the Newark Star-Ledger, covering the Governor-elect's victory party, informs us that "CORZINE ROMPS." And well he might. Plenty to be happy about. (I bet he was allowed to take ibuprofen the next morning. Envy!)