It has taken me several hours to crank through my words this morning. Kept having to find a place to hide, and then weathered lots of interruptions. When it's quiet, I crank along, but when Chick is coming in every five minutes to ask questions, I stutter step. The laundry interrupts as well, but I've gotten all three loads of gentles done and onto the line, now, so YAY.

14343 / 50000 words. 29% done!

I'm trying for 2500 words a day, which is overkill. But that means if I underwrite for whatever reason, I'll be okay. Also, with Thanksgiving and Boo's birthday also this month, plus knitting and basketball and things like that... well, yeah. I need give myself a cushion.

Today I found out more about who Rosemary is, and brought her on screen to give Cian someone to deal with. Cian? Needs some social skills, desperately. He has managed to piss Rosemary off completely, and I can't blame her at all. Also, did a bit of work with Doyle, and sketched out where Trea is. Need to write some with Trea, but she also seems to be living up to her role of "pawn" and "lost princess" and may well not be on screen for much of the first half of the novel. I think rescuing her will be where the pivotal scenes for the halfway mark start happening.

Um, that halfway mark is around the 50k mark. Obviously I need to keep writing when the month is done.

And for fun, a tidbit of Cian and Rosemary. For the record? This is not a paranormal romance. Rosemary is not going to fall head over heels for Cian after he manhandles her because he is OMG the alpha male she cannot live without. She's going to try to beat the shite out of him eventually, and he's just all EW at the idea of her in general.

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Cross-posted to both IJ and LJ.

Okay now that that is out of my system. PB suggestions people? I need a 15-16 year old girl, who is of Asian / Caucasian descent. Hair on the longer side would also be a serious plus. It's for DC comics Traci Thirteen.

Visual aides found: here, here, here, and here!

(cross posted to find_a_pb).

The idea that Nicki Aycox would make a great freshly bitten still dealing with her werewolfism Lavender Brown in her early 20s was not an idea I needed first thing this morning.

( asdkjsd I am so, so tired now. :| )

Look, it's more Logan Marshall-Green! I swore i was done, but in doing the last two episodes of Dark Blue that I had to do, Mr. Muppet Face had some more lovely expressions that i just couldn't resist. So small set here, but I had to do it.

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Nicki Aycox from Dark Blue, FINALLY. I've been working on finishing out a decent set of her for ages, but I needed to get a few specific episodes done to get it complete. Standard Dark Blue disclaimers of course (there are some odd ones, from before I got the colorations better figured out, too). She was around 23-24 when these episodes were filmed.

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Meta Golding, from Dark Blue. Someday I will be a completist and go find photoshoots to do as well, but for now, this small set will have to do. She has no age listing on IMDB so I'll go with guessing 20s, MAYBE early 30s (but I doubt it).

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Dylan McDermott was roughly 38 when these episodes were filmed. Again, please excuse some really interesting colour palettes!

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I hate iconning Dark Blue, and yet, I continue to do it. Please excuse some really strange colouration, but I've done my best to fix where I can. Omari Hardwick doesn't have a lot of facial expressions, but everyone once in a while he hits paydirt. He was 25ish when these episodes were filmed.

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7777 / 30000 words. 26% done!

Took yesterday off from NaNo because of traveling to go see TAI... with eternaleponine. So I had been spending some time trying to get ahead during the week (considering I took Wednesday off as well, that was a trick and a half!). I went straight from CT to a write-in at Brueggers without going home.

The write-in was a new experience for me. I was there for about 2 1/2 hours, and I was social for part of it. I ended up having to put my headphones in so I could actually crank out wordcount. Everyone was talking a lot, which was good and nice to talk to other people who were doing the same crazy thing, but I just had a lot of trouble focusing. And I really needed to make wordcount while I was there since once I came home I knew it wasn't happening.

Anyway, I ended up making over 2600 words today, which got me to just barely over target for the day. So yay!

11813 / 50000 words. 24% done!

My snippet for the day isn't a story quote at all, but the note I had to leave for myself when I mentally bailed on writing a fight:
[Insert battle here later when you can think. Cat jumps in, takes off one of the critters and shakes it up, ripping it apart. Jack shoots the other one. Shayne ends up injured with a long scratch down her shoulder]

Maybe spending all that time with middle schoolers has reverted me back to wanting nostalgic food things from my childhood, which consist of:

+Hamburger helper (I finally bought milk so I can make Stroganoff and Cheeseburger Macaroni. Booyah)
+White mystery Airheads (I have NO IDEA where I can find these)
+Caramel apple pops (Which I have a box of now and am going to go into a sugar coma this weekend if I keep eating them. Thanks Angeline!)
+Congee. Srsly. I need to get the recipe from my mom.
+Boxed mac n cheese with cut up hot dogs. I am SO MAKING THIS when I run out of proper gourmet things I should be eating.
+Tostino's frozen pizza. With the thin crust. In the red box. I seriously lived off of these as a kid and now I still can't get rid of my affinity for them.
+These non-existent Lifesaver drinks that no one remembers but me. They say they were released in the 80s but I totally remember them being around when i was 6 or 7, which was mid 90s. It was like sugar water but damn it was good. And I was obsessed with getting one.
+Bubblicious Peach Mango gum.

...I'm sure there's more if I think about it, but alas, I am such a nostalgia whore.

+Clean apartment
+Grocery shopping
+Finish Hurricane Katrina paper outline; email group members
+Start Hurricane Katrina paper (I hate group projects).
+Start Pandemic Public Law paper
+Start findings brief - prelim research on sexual attitudes index
+Read through climate change white paper draft, add in methods and policy recommendations section

Amazingly, that list is all that stands in the way before the semester is over, minus tackling Thanksgiving dinner this year. Thank GAWD this semester is almost over.

I'm having your baby, @trad!
15 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

Sure, lets go with the pregnant one!
30 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

Laughing at the rumors.
35 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

Papz snagged pics of me scarfing donuts. Could today get any better?
about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry

@emilyslofans actually, its for a secret project :) when i can tell you all i will!
about 2 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Well, its a fat day in fattytown today. So much for my Miu Miu. :(
about 2 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Why yes, I did update Dani's facespace status while hiatused. We can all blame entouraage for this.

I've also made a decision. While I can't bring myself to do journal comments and such just yet, I'm completely willing to help people out with their rpwrimo word counts. I'm writing like a maniac this month anyway, so what's a few more words here or there?

I want to do a fun log. So if anyone wants to play with any of my characters, let me know. I'm still busy studying for this OB test, but I need the break/distraction/whatever.

Because sometimes I have shitty days (weeks) and would like some sunshine, there is a Snaps Cup. Put your name in and I'll leave you a comment!

I think I might have to de-hiatus, just to do the snaps cup meme.

ETA: my link. I'll go start posting on the rest of y'alls once I'm done with my wordcount for the day.

It was a fight to get started tonight, but I picked a scene that would have a lot of emotional resonance for Cian. It's close to where Marc is emotionally this week, and I knew I could try to draw him out that way. And I've got him, a Cian on the cusp of figuring out that he needs to make a major change in his life. From this point in the book it'd be all downhill.

Except for the part where I'm writing out order and there's still half a book to come before this.

Anyway, set a goal of 3000 words for today and bypassed that by 40 words just as I reached a good pause point. Had to make up for yesterday and on Saturday I'll need to make up for tomorrow, unless I squeak a word or three out. We'll see.

9230 / 50000 words. 18% done!

[crossposted to IJ and LJ both]

Holy snaps cup, Batman.

I don't remember when the last one of these I saw was; I just remember that I didn't participate and comment on nearly enough people's posts. This time, it's my resolution to do better, and so I will.

My only real complaint about the past few days is that the leg I busted at Rocky Horror is restless. It is both sprained and restless. So, I've been taking it easy, trying to NaNo/RP/write for class/do my research assistant stuff, and, then, out of nowhere, it'll start going, "You know what we should do? THINGS. We should go do THINGS. Like, I don't know, DDR. Or running a marathon. Or going up and down the steepest hill on campus just because! Or, or, or SOMETHING. That'd be AWESOME, let's do stuff." …And it's sprained, so I can't do much more with it than the awkward, gimpy walk thing I can do with my crutches. I had no idea a limb could be both sprained and restless.

After a few RIDICULOUSLY LONG DAYS that involved writing a survey for Research Methods that I finished a mere half hour before class (Say what? Procrastination or an attempt at perfection? It is up for debate...), I come home last night to find a ridiculously large package from Amazon. Thinking it was the Caramel Apple Pops (Thanks, Angeline!), I am now confused since there's no way she ordered a 7 lb. box of lollipops.

Instead I find a Hello Kitty humidifier, courtesy of wonderful Matty, who said he figured I needed something that would make my apartment feel more like home. Which - was so sweet because this climate has been killer on my skin and - I just miss him. And am so glad I get to see him in three weeks because living away from him is more sucktastic than I like to admit.

And now, I am five weeks away from finishing my first semester of grad school. All I've got left is to write final papers and give presentations. And then - another semester commences, and then it's summer, and then I start work on my masters thesis. Good lord, time flies.

But anyway. Today was the first day of work, and I got to observe the program in action while distributing the pre-test for the morning session of girls. I felt SUPER OLD - and totally ill-equipped to deal with middle school aged kids. Elementary school kids and under? Fine. High schoolers? Sure. But I totally cannot deal with middle school aged kids - it just reminds me of a super super awkward time in my life that I have no desire to repeat. And busing to and walking in South Denver was an adventure too. People kept warning me to be careful, but honestly I'm one of them - what the hell are they going to do? Maybe nicer dressed but still, a minority. Whatever people. Diversity is good. I really doubt someone's going to shank me in broad daylight.

Now I have two hours to kill before going back to administer the pre-test for the 6th graders and the question is, whether or not I should get eggrolls and pho to go on my way home since I'm so close by to the best Viet food in Denver...