Tweets for Today

• 18:53 I would like for #nanowrimo to begin before I forget my (terrible) idea for my first chapter. #

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Happy Cheerful Thoughts

I got my driver's license in the mail today, for the state in which I reside and vote and all that. It will expire on my thirtieth birthday, which has made this far-off day that much more finite and real-- I need to be at the DMV that day, renewing my license. Hurray.

The license clearly has me marked as an organ donor, which pleases me. I'm setting aside certain important organs (liver, lungs, kidneys, etc.) for family members should they need them, but I'd like to consider myself an equal opportunity donor. My blood type is O positive; I'm compatible with a large portion of the public. And upon my untimely demise-- hopefully not of cancer, but, you know, that's my expected cause of death. By me, and absolutely no medical person. (You're a hypochondriac, internet; not me)

Which led me to my happy morbid thought of the evening: I don't want to be on life support for an extended amount of time unless the nice medical team has plans to take me off it very, very quickly. I guess I prefer quality of life over quantity of life.

So, I want to be unplugged (should it become necessary), but I want my organs to be disseminated throughout the populace as necessary before that happens. Or after. Not quite clear on when the organs would be. . .is harvested the right term? My feeble attempts to learn more about this topic before retiring for the evening are just making me think more and more about eventually becoming sort of insensate plant for other people's survival. Possibly after passing out at the DMV on my thirtieth birthday. There I'll be, in the prime of my life, IVs and tubes sticking into me like an incredibly pale pincushion.

...hurray!

Tweets for Today

• 19:25 Trying to get more people to sign up for #nanowrimo so i can have writing buddies whom I know. #

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Tweets for Today

• 19:23 Still need a real, um, what do you call it...plot for my #nanowrimo novel? #
• 20:11 My "I told you so" dance, my "it works" dance, and my "I have a good idea" dance are all the same. Hip bump to the air, and do a circle. #

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Tweets for Today

• 07:47 I keep telling myself I'm going to exercise before work. It keeps not happening. #

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Characterization

My last terrible idea is to do NaNoWriMo. I have a newer, even terrible-er idea: to create a character named Cecyl. Like what I named my ovarian cyst.

Cecyl will be a sickly guy. Naturally.

Tweets for Today

• 22:48 I've sent in my advanced ballot, so my superior brain has decided the election season is now over. I'd appreciate your cooperation in this. #
• 23:52 Doing character descriptions for my NaNoWriMo project, starting in one of your human weeks. Have not added any robots yet. Yet. #

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Surgery went fine

Surgery was over a month ago. It went fine. I have/had endometriosis. They cauterized it away. Everything else is fine in my insides; the cyst healed itself. I do not currently have any form of cancer, as far as anyone's been able to tell.

I've lost approximately ten pounds so far on WeightWatchers. Go Team Whatever! Current goal is to lose another fifteen pounds. That should end well.

In other news:

It's that time of the year, where Sarah Bunting challenges her readers to donate to DonorsChoose.

I donated twice so far, once winning an Amazon gift certificate in a mini-prize runoff situation that I turned around to start my NaNo research with these three books:

• No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days


• The No Plot? No Problem! Novel-Writing Kit


• Will Write for Shoes: How to Write a Chick Lit Novel

The books arrived today. I'm consolidating various accounts across the board, so I thought I'd update this blog here.