Daily Archive: November 2, 2003

Despite my promise to myself to take it easy and not do too much today, I still managed to clean up the majority of the pigsty we call home, do three loads of laundry, go grocery shopping and finish the 2004 calendars for the AWC website, plus ordered 2 Xmas presents online, so I’m feeling pretty damned accomplished. Hadn’t noticed this, but Mom warned me that Putnam is in the middle of some huge scandal involving trading violations. 🙁 All my pension money from working 10 years in the U.S. is in Putnam mutual/IRA funds. Of course I haven’t been...

Several of my online friends are getting started on their Great American Novel thanks to National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo as it’s affectionately if unpronounceably called. The peculiar thing is that in reading about all their preparations and such, I’ve had absolutely NO desire to join in this phenomenon myself. The reason I find this peculiar is because I started this online journal with the intent of kick-starting my own writing again. However, since I work best on short pieces and poetry, I guess it’s not all that strange. Plus, the idea of adding another commitment to my already...