I will post an old picture today as I'm not going to have time to produce anything new. As you can see there is a hill and the person is at the top of it, but there is a much bigger hill ahead.
I'm very tired this morning from the inside out. I feel like it's going to be very difficult for me to get through the work day and evening. I hope I perk up soon. I only have 1/3 of my coffee left, so I doubt that is going to do the trick. I feel like I've been coming down with something for the past two weeks, but nothing materializes. When things are like this, I just wish that whatever wants to attack my body would get to work, so I could just get sick and be done with it. I think that I have sort of a super immune system from years of working with the public, but sometimes it seems to do its work slowly. Either fight the thing off or let me get sick. None of this limbo crap.
As for NaNoWriMo news, I continue to climb up the mountain and am now at 18,631. When I see that number, I just have to think, only 7000 more and I will be halfway there. That 50,000 can seem a bit daunting and insurmountable (sorry about the very predictable mountain climbing metaphor), so I can't be thinking about that too much. I have to set small goals and go from there. As the fine people of NaNoWriMo say on their website, this second week things are a little bit tougher. The first week I was just sort of working on adrenaline. Now it's starting to feel like work. Still fun work for the most part, but my ideas are not just pouring out like they were on the first week. In fact, although I did make it to my goal of 2000 words for yesterday, I think it was my worst bit of writing yet and it was the hardest to produce. Going into this without a plan may come back to bite me in the butt. I'm thinking of sitting down on that butt working on some sort of outline. We'll see. In many ways, I do like just writing and seeing where it will take me, but that may be a bit difficult to sustain for 50,000 words.
I am a fan of Tabasco on Facebook and also follow them on Twitter. Today they have a deal on their goods for followers. Unfortunately I have no money. I found these as I was browsing through their website. I would really like try them.
Oh, and look at this. I would like a rhino statue here in Minneapolis (or St. Paul would be fine too) and not one that is stuck away in a corner at the library. One that is out there for everyone to see. Lucky Charlottesville.
2 comments:
I heart the art today and the metaphor is a fine one indeed. There always seems to be another hill ahead but it is good to look back and see what hills have already been climbed along the way. Your NaNoWriMo project is clearly an appropriate and fitting example of such a metaphorical climb. And although looking ahead is, I'm sure, daunting and challenging, I am happy to hear of your success to date and of all the words you and your butt in chair efforts have managed to create so far!
Hope you don't get sick. I had a "thing" like that a few weeks back and it never did turn into anything other than an ongoing annoyance. Perhaps it is the distant cousin of those SuperBugs that being just a simple little PeskyBug which is incapable of completely bringing you down but is capable of being very annoying.
I heart Tabasco--but Mad Scientist is a Hot Sauce Freak--I will have to puruse that site and see what they've got to offer.
Far as rhino statues go, would be nice to have one in our fine cities the best we can do here might be the stuffed rhinos and rhino masks at the Como Zoo Gift Shop.
Back to writing for me.
Hope you aren't getting sick. I'm sluggish today.
Maybe we should make our own rhino statue....where would be a good place to display it??
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