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LJ! *huggles*

Because of work and the Word War, I've been avoiding it for the last 24 hours so this is the first chance I've had to visit my flist. It's times like this when I realize I'm quite addicted...

And I discovered a new song today! While writing my fic old school style with a notebook and pen (didn't want the internet distracting me...), I turned on the CGN channel (Columbia Gorge Network) and this song happened to be playing... Immediately, I took notice because of the electronic elements to it -- I have a thing for that sort of thing (Eurodance and Eurobeat are all up my alley!) so I went and downloaded it as soon as the Word War was over.

Anyway, it's Thank the Watchmaker by And Then There Were None and I was surprised to find out it was a Christian band! Not for the first time, I really feel like Christian pop/rock music suits me. It's really too bad I'm generally so Christian opposed... :\

But whatever. A good song is a good song. Besides, this song sounds way more like it's talking about a girl rather than God than some of my other Christian music. Some of it, I really have to stretch it...

Gah, my fic high is running out and I'm starting to move towards passing out... I guess that means no more writing tonight? Or shall I try and continue on the high?

But truthfully, today seemed like hell. I was exhausted last night since the Word War didn't start until 3 AM and for some reason, I decided to wake up early yesterday so I was already working on a deficit... And then I went to sleep for only four hours, and after that, work for an impossibly long time. I didn't get enough sleep so I mainlined coffee (three cups!) and ended up getting jittery and twitchy, and kinda sick...which made me lose my appetite so until 11 PM... At that point, I was starving because all I had was a cup of rice and some soup (plus three sticks of gum!) outside of the coffee and it wasn't nearly enough to sustain a person...

And I was cranky with the lack of sleep, the too much caffeine and pissed off that what I wrote in between working and wanting to bash my head in was crap...It was a bad day. And I was writing it by hand, which always makes me feel like whatever I write is inferior to what I would have typed...

But somehow that changed as I was typing it up. Rewriting and editing really does calm me down. And I realized what I wrote wasn't horrible and I felt more into it than I did the entire day as I was writing it! And I ended up adding another couple hundred more words! Score! ^^

My head might ache and I might be exhausted and hungry now but at least day isn't a loss.

And Kitzhaber WON!!! So did Harry Reid!!! Yay, people aren't completely insane in this country! Or this state! Sometimes I forget because of the stuff Republicans say but yay Democrats!

Now I feel like I should do something mindless and fun before I turn in... A Law & Order episode maybe...?

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Another spy show bites the dust... Poor Undercovers. But I can't say I didn't see it coming. I had hoped JJ Abrams' name alone could have made them last a bit longer but apparently it isn't to be. :(

But even though I was trying really, really hard to like Undercovers (hey, I watched each episode the week it aired which is pretty good considering), I couldn't help but find it a bit boring. My favorite character was their handler from the CIA for god's sake! His deadpanning is absolutely superb. And I have a ridiculous crush on Boris Kodjoe but the chemistry between him and his wife was a little lacking. And their cases are forgettable. So yeah, that's it. I have one more episode of it downloaded (last night's) but like with Caprica, is there a point?

...Maybe just to ogle Boris Kodjoe...

Don't wanna write today... It's only the fourth day but I feel burnt out. But I seem to have won the Word War! Let me tell you, it was completely unexpected -- especially since if you were just taking my progress for Nanowrimo, I had written less yesterday than I had on each of the two previous days. I guess, I was just feeling crappy about my writing yesterday that I didn't think it would amount to much. I actually really didn't want to win it because of that reason... *sigh*

Of course, I feel differently now since I think I've written the best dialogue I've written in a long while yesterday but at the time it was crap. You're not supposed to go back and edit for Nanowrimo but seeing as I was typing it from the handwritten form, it was hard not to change it for the better. And damn, I didn't realize my writing could read that well with a little polish. And it was like the fates aligned for both Nanowrimo and the Word War...

Even though I wrote by hand yesterday, I didn't get home until 12:30 AM and didn't have access to the internet until then. But the Nanowrimo website is an hour off for me because of Daylight Savings so I quickly counted up my word count and typed in my estimated words written for the day for it to count on the day. And I had two and half hours after that to go type it up, change things for it to count for the Word War. I felt bad for not really paying attention to the chat since I was typing like crazy trying to finish. And in the end, I had 3 minutes to spare... o.O It was so serendipitous! Lucky, right?