"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Not quite where I should be, but that's not unusual, is it?

Anyway, I actually got off my duff and played a bit on that keyboard I bought months ago, inspired by Josh Groban's new cd and an uptick in the number of times that Five For Fighting's The Riddle has been playing on the radio again. It's a beautiful thing when it works.

Do you ever have the feeling that you have to put the things that you want to do off so you can do the things you should do? Why is it that I'm so much more interested in writing and reading fantasy the the science that I trained in? Why do I want to play music and read and write and draw and hike and whatever else so much that its hard to focus on the things I have to to make money?

I muse, then I write. See you at 20k.

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  House on TV

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...but I still have time to take quizzes. I'm approximately 3000 words behind on NaNo and I still have to write out the biochem paper. But I will get there, I promise.

Raise your hand if you're not surprised at the rating I got on this quiz. Wish I could do so well on Biochem.

Swimmer You are 70 % fantastical!

You breathe fantasy as a fish does water. Excellent job! Chart your course and start swimming, because there's more for you yet in the fantasy seas. Feel free to ask me for any book recommendations!

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  Immediate Music Abbey Road (think zoomy trailer music)

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Please get out and vote today. It is your right as an American, and you CAN affect the way the country is run. Please take advantage of this opportunity to make your desires heard.

And if you care about Progress and Improving the Quality of Life, you'll give serious consideration to voting for Claire McCaskill and supporting Amendments 2 and 3 with a YES vote. Missourians, this is important. Wouldn't you rather open the door to hope instead of slamming the door on progress?

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I can't believe I lost another hat. Where the hell did it go?

I also can't believe a) I managed to hit a curb and blow out a tire on a section of road I've driven hundreds of times and b) how damn much it costs to replace a tire.

And I still have to write a freaking biochem paper.

GRRR. ARGH.

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