So this weekend was nice. Cold's pretty much gone, I'm ahead of tomorrow's word count and the story is going pretty well, I think. Really, quotas aren't really a concern anymore. I'm more worried about hitting story points so I can write 'The End' by March 30. But before this budding confidence, there was Friday.
I came in under the daily quota on Friday due in no small part to a sudden terror that gripped me in the morning when I started to write. I couldn't get rolling. It might have something to do with the train ride again. It seems to be either feast or famine on the Blue line. I sat down and got the laptop set up before I noticed that I was sitting across from a crusty-faced crack addict. She was somewhere between age 40 and 75, it was hard to tell. She smelled bad and talked to herself and frequently fell asleep mid-sentence. Then there was the huge snoring guy. It probably registered on the Richter scale. But the best was the unattended backpack. They made a minor fuss, but then just took it off the train without taking precautions, like, say getting us the hell off the train. So maybe it was no wonder I couldn't get into the swing of things.
The afternoon commute featured a train so full that I couldn't even get my laptop out without risking damage. With all this, by the time I got home, I was sure that I was going to be an abject failure in this endeavor. That's just how my mind rolls. But Addie cheered me up and Saturday morning I put on an iTunes playlist artfully titled 'Kicking Ass' and rolled up my sleeves. 2500 words later, I was having a beer.
Today was great too - although I noticed that I might be in for some technical difficulties. My little Mac G4 PowerBook 867 MHz is nearly smoking. I'm serious - that's not entirely a metaphor. I can - even right now - smell the circuitry heating up. Maybe it's all the software I have running. Word, Excel, Curio (great brainstorming software), iTunes (constantly running), a web browser, several widgets... My poor computer can't handle it. The CPU temp got up to 135 degrees at one point and is nearly always maxed out. I back stuff up. A lot.
Anyway, that's all for now. Wish good fortune tomorrow for the train rides...
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Hey, remember that other laptop we used to have that actually did start smoking? That's when we stopped using it to pay the bills...
Remember, keep ahead of schedule. Some days down the road may be harder than others.
Go bro go!
-David
Thinking of your endeavor daily!
-David
Hey there! Good luck on keeping the pen flowing, fingers nimble, etc. etc. Thinking of you on your great new adventure. Here's to artistic blocks and crashing through them in triumphant ways!
Christina
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