Slow day today. Lots of scratching in the dirt, not much progress. Tomorrow, I’ll be back to the novel. Here are Monday’s stats: “Jing the Quae”: 749 words Weekly Total: 749 words Write-a-thon Total: 49,170 Very slow day for me, mostly because Jing the Quae is almost as stalled as it was when I set it down a few months ago. We’ll see what I come up with tomorrow, when I turn my attention back to To the Happy Country…. But, on the other hand, I did hit the gym. Tuesday & Wednesday Updates: Tuesday stats: I didn’t get around …
Month: July 2007
Write-a-thon Week 3 Completed: That’s Me In The Corner, Overachieving
Not really, but it’s hard to keep up this rate of production. I worked hard on Saturday, but of course, my Internet connection was dead all weekend so I’m only able to post about it now. And now that I’mposting, it looks as if I’ve outdone my own foolishly naive overachieving goals to a moronic degree. To the Happy Country: 2967 words “The Empty Slough”: 3206 words (to finish the draft with with a total of 5346 words) Weekly Total: 17576 words Write-a-Thon Total: 48421 words I’m not sure I’d feel right banking words, though if I, were, I think …
Non-Write-a-Thon stuff…
Lately, my updates have all been write-a-thon related, so here’s something on a different tack altogether. I booked my tickets to Japan (but not to Russia — I’m considering using the trans-Siberian railway next summer instead, and seeing Vladivostok at that time instead, though I may take a brief jaunt up to Sakhalin Island from Hokkaido, if I can get the visa easily and things look doable. There’s a ferry, at least…). So instead of Far-Eastern Russia and Japan this summer, I’m going to do a little more time in Japan and spend the remainder probably here in Bucheon, reading, …
Walking
Went for a two-hour walk on the evening of the 4th with Lime, and a 1-hour walk on the evening of the 5th. We discovered a lovely little countryside-looking area right by the University — lots of stuff growing in fields, frog orchestras croaking like mad, trees all around. This is a good hint why the area is a lot cooler than usual. Anyway, LONG walks. We’ll be hitting the gym again soon, though.
Canadian Ex-Defence Minister Says Alien Technology Gonna Save the World
Yes, really. A former Canadian defence minister says be believes advanced technology from extraterrestrial civilizations offers the best hope to “save our planet” from the perils of climate change. Which is a tremendous insult to all the people working in alternative energy, technology, science, research, for the environment, studying climate change, studying ecology, and to the mothers and fathers and spouses who tell one another and the kids to turn off the lights when they got to bed. What an embarrassment. (And yeah, I read this as a link from a story about Haut’s letter on Roswell, which actually hit …