Caliness

Sometime in the last two weeks, I was a complete arse and told maritzamcnay that there should be July bonuses for everyone who hadn't been off with the flu this winter. She of course told me to bugger off, being that she had been ill.

AND THEN THE UNIVERSE WENT WHAMMO

Yesterday I woke up and my mucus glands were in mutiny. The were all "This is a hostile take over, we are commandeering your lungs!"

And I cried and asked why.
And the universe replied: Screw you, that's why.


Also, hi, how's everyone doing? I haven't been around much in the race to get big bangs done. Two out of three aint bad, eh?

And in more also, I joined Goodreads because I am scary good at reading this year. And I have a lot of audiobooks, which I totally count as books read. If you're also a member, friend me so I don't feel quite so alone and socially inept? http://www.goodreads.com/morcalivan

So hey, long time no update. I'd like to say I've been busy, and for parts of it I have, but mostly I have just been lame and useless. And playing Sims Medieval, which is without doubt one of the stupidest games ever developed and yet I have an shameful, unhealthy love for it. It might have something to do with putting leeches on little pixel people.

I haven't done writing updates in forever, but I have still been chipping away at it. Very slow chipping. Some of it is starting to show results, and others are just causing cracks in my soul.

And just to make a pointless post more pointless, I will leave you with this bit of nifty insight:
Unsalted butter is fucking gross. It tastes funny. It smells funny. It is unnatural and never again will I bake anything with it. The smell still haunts my nightmares. Pls to be passing the margarine.

Unrelated, I want to learn to sculpt. Like with clay and shit. I watched the Gnomon masterclass with David Meng (he worked on the District 9 prawny dudes) the other day and it was all sorts of awesome. Of course, no one I know want to join me in this endeavor and hobbying by yourself is kind of sad. Also, I am too lazy to learn how. Oh man, there is so much I could have accomplished if I wasn't so fucking lazy.

How did I get suckered into playing LJ games? and why do I keep playing? They're so lame!

I can't help feeling this is a gateway drug. Next up: backslide back into Facebook games. And then I might as well throw in the towel getting anything done the rest of the year.

Damn weak willed fool.

So when I said I needed to do a double round, I did not mean I should take 2 weeks to post again. *facepalm* So, the results for weeks 7 & 8.

spn_j2_bigbang - 11 213/20 000 (seems to have come to a grinding halt. Not good)
paperlegends - 6 928/30 000
au_bigbang - 742/15 000
spn_cinema - 9 965/10 000 (so effin close. Just 1 more scene to do)
2010 Nano Original YA - 24 013/90 000
2009 Nano Weregoat fic - 11 227/30 000

Total: 64 088 / 195 000
Words these 2 weeks: 18 603

I am way surprised, it did not feel like I was getting that much done.

So I have been up since 4am and seeing as how I had so much time on my hands, I figured I could get a little creative with breakfast. Which would normally mean actually making bacon, or perhaps crumpets. Not today. Today my eyes fell on the juicer. The one I've had for 3 years and used twice.

Brilliant, I say. Nothing like fresh juice, right? So I run to the fridge looking for stuff to stick in it. Turns out the fridge is a little on the empty side. No problem, I say, I'll just juice one of everything left.

So it comes out a little sludgy, but I am not to be deterred. Add some Sprite, I tell myself, at least it'll be sparkly sludge.

Yeah, not so much. Now it's burny sludge with that too much baking soda* explode in your mouth quality. After the first 3 mouthfuls, it's not so bad. Kind of spicy cucumber taste with the overwhelming smell of green pepper. I really should have learned my lesson with green stuff. It never works out well.



My ideas are awfulsome!


* Does not contain actual baking soda.

spn_j2_bigbang - 10 372/20 000 (half way!)
paperlegends - 4 080/30 000
au_bigbang - 742/15 000
spn_cinema - 2 010/10 000
2010 Nano Original YA - 18 388/90 000
2009 Nano Weregoat fic - 9 893/30 000

Total: 45 485 / 195 000
Words this week: 7 871

Still making the weekly goal, but I seem to be losing momentum. Might be due to the inclusion of the AU big bang, I had to reshuffle my method and have not yet settled in nice and comfy yet. That just means I gotta do a double round to for week 7. Egads.

Note to self: next year, only write stories 5k or less.

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Project Shame, Week 4!

spn_j2_bigbang - 8 568/20 000
paperlegends - 1 174/30 000 (new idea successfully found)
au_bigbang - 0/15 000 (sign ups pending)
spn_cinema - 0/10 000 (*facepalm*)
2010 Nano Original YA - 10 920/90 000 (in editing)
2009 Nano Weregoat fic - 8 244/30 000 (in editing)

Total: 28 906 / 195 000
Words this week: 12 095

Conclusion: ¡Ay, caramba!

I just ate spinach. I think I'm going to throw up. Green is the colour things go when you've left them in the freezer too long. It is not meant to be eaten.

So, random crap that no one cares about happened this week. My boss wasn't at work, yay, but the dipshit new Consultant they appointed was, boo. I broke my Sims and lost my legacy family, boo, but I made a new one and playing it has been super fun, yay. I had so much Sushi and Pina Colada, I wanted to puke.

Nothing else of interest happened, which brings us to:

Project Shame, Week 3
spn_j2_bigbang - 7 537/20 000
paperlegends - 0/30 000 (FAIL! I have to scrap what I have because apparently the idea is not going to stretch a full 30k *cries. flails. panics* Must. Find. New. Idea.)
au_bigbang - 0/ 15 000 (sign ups pending)
2010 Nano Original YA - 5 024/90 000 (in editing)
2009 Nano Weregoat fic - 4 250/30 000 (in editing - went really well this week!)

Total: 16 811 / 185 000
Words this week: 5 004

Conclusion: 2k below goal. But still more than last week, so progress? *headdesk*