Yes, it is not quite midnight, but very close to midnight and the baby next door is still partying. It's one thing to be having a party on a Sunday night and making all kinds of noise when some people in the building are probably trying to sleep, but why is the baby still involved? Shouldn't all babies be in bed by now? This one isn't--I just heard it in the hall giggling sinisterly as babies tend to do when it's almost midnight and they're still partying.
I'm still plugging along on my "novel," but I do think at this point, I should stop calling it a novel and I think that the fruit fly that just landed on my nose agrees. He very forcefully landed when I was typing the word "novel." Or maybe he just disapproves of babies partying when its close to midnight on a Sunday night. Hey, it's not my fault, little fruit fly. I have no control over this baby. I will never totally understand fruit fly communication though. Even though I like to think they are communicating with me, they are probably just finding some small trace of the banana that I ate earlier. My "novel" now has 39,489 words. It is very arrogant about that fact, but I keep reminding it that it is full of crap, so it should not be so high and mighty about its word count.
Tonight I was on the nanowrimo website and they had one of their silly video dares and one of the dares was to include King Tut, King Kong and King Henry VIII in a dream sequence. I thought, hey, my "novel" is already crap, so why not? I do have to say this was the most fun I have had since I started this crazy thing. I like to write nonsense stuff and my "novel" has been kind of realistic, so I just ran with it. I also threw in George Washington and Benjamin Franklin for good measure.
Oh, and as you can see above, I drew more pachyderms this weekend. Do you see the extra trunk? There is an extra elephant there that you can barely see, but his trunk is visible.
2 comments:
wowwweeee you are cruising on that novel and with the addition of your new characters, well, you'll probably pass 50,000 words in no time! Don't listen to that fruit fly--I believe he is a relative of the monkey that sits on my shoulder calling everything I do crap and their opinions should not be given a second thought.
I like the pachyderms very much. they are most cute.
As for babies partying at all hours, well, that's just not right. Don't they have to get up and go to work early in the morning? Baby jobs of Drinking milk and eating rice cereal usually start around 6. That baby is going to be off today for sure.
Hope Baby calmed down and you got some sleep eventually.
I do like your pack of pachyderms and I see the hidden elephant.
Send that baby over here so you can sleep....I'm up all night anyway! It's too bad that the parents aren't watching their child if it is out in the hallway at that hour...or was he with his parents? I do feel for you having your upstairs neighbor clicking around in her heels all the time.
I'm really proud of you and how far you are along in your writing. It won't be long now. Squash that fruit fly.
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