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HOBBLEIT

Hi there, The title is from a newspaper article i read about a bloke from Thornley who went crazy, beat up a pub landlord, spilt whisky and threw a parrot on the fire. It amused me. I was at Durham Cathedral today. 'Twas fun. I also volunteered to help out at the advent fair. That'll probably be boring 'cos they're opening the monk's dormitory. Spent quite a bit of the morning gutting Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning so I can write a book review. Also have to finish my presentation for Tuesday. I was at the Durham County Records Office on Thursday. I had no idea what I was looking for so I ended up looking up baptismal records of my family. I'm also at the hospital a week on Thursday for yet another outpatients appointment. You'd think after 7 years my ear would be better. But no. Well that's all I have to say TTFN Jennifer

SAVEWASH

Hi, everybody! As my last blog said, I'm not spending much time here this month because I'm trying to write a 50,000-word novel. (See www.nanowrimo.org for more details.) I'm happy to report that I'm at 32,000 words! I never realized how much discipline this would take or how much of the rest of my life would seemingly disappear while I'm doing it. It's not easy, but I think it's probably good for me. I've had some days where I had absolutely no idea what to write, but I forced out those 1,7000 words anyway. Needless to say, it won't be Shakespeare, but I'm trying to keep it from being completely awful. I've been lurking here quite a lot; it's my reward when I finish the day's words. I'm sorry I haven't been posting much, but I want to thank everyone who has been because it's keeping me sane (at least as sane as I can be considered, lol). 18,000 more words to go!

LADYKNIGHT

Not much in the way of fic writing. Sad to say, I've got other projects sapping up my creative enegery. School Dinner Theater production, Drama Class (for which I can't wait to do monolouges, hoping to pull something out of Firefly), a little story-type thing of my own (Main female character designed to, were it made a movie, be played by Summer Glau.) However, I've been pouring all my pursuasive engery into converting new recruits...so I'm gonna give a little update on how that's coming. My mom's roommates' son's girlfriend is now my mom's roommates' son's ex-girlfriend. Thus...not sure how I'll be getting her Firefly. Clay has my copy of Serenity. Havn't gotten it back yet, nor spoken with him much on it. If he dosen't watch it soon, I'm gonna ask to go over and watch it WITH him along with at least a disk worth of eposodes. Speaking of a disk worth of eposodes, Lorrann borrowed disk three over a weekend. When she returned it, I asked what she thought. She responded by looking at me and, trying really hard not to laugh, and saying "I can kill you with my brain" we both cracked up laughing. Since then, whenever we do one of our dialouge-based role-plays, we're in the Firefly 'verse. More to come. Grandma needs her compurter. BTW, Grandpa's already a browncoat. Reminds me of Book some too. Edit: Not much actual progress beyond what I told you, though I have a long list of potential recruits. Class party tonight, hanging out with a bunch of friends or a friend that I ran the base concept behind Firefly by. Had a pretty Shiny reaction. 'course all I mentioned was the formation of the Alliance and departure from earth. Might run back home for a disk before tonight. OH! My friend Chelsea has already seen the BDM complemets of another browncoat (who SO reminds me of Wash) and I'm planning on introducing her to the series sometime this week. If I can get her even half as obsessed with Firefly as she is with Ninja Turtles, she'll make an awesome browncoat.