Resolved

Seeing as: I'm swanning around the house in a bathrobe bored out of my skull and avoiding any real work these days--

and seeing as: While I've been dreaming and thinking, I haven't sat down and written anything, be it poem or short story or original fanfic, by myself and entirely of my own volition (i.e. without online collaborators, challenges, assignments, or just people egging me on) for what seems like ages--

and seeing as: I'm so bored and it's so quiet that I fear I might be coming down with some sort of bicameral condition out of sheer attention-whoriness and having nobody around to tell me to stop being nuts and do the dishes--

Resolved: I will write a dirty novel. The Great American Dirty Novel. It will be at least 50,000 words long, and I will not have a time limit (but I will try to get some done on it every day), and it will have an outline that I will stick to and an ending point and everything, and more importantly I will not show it to anybody or talk to anyone about it except for the word count and basic progress until it is at least rough-draft done. All of the characters will be nominally original, even if they are based heavily off characters who are not.

Here is what I am going to do today:
--Get dressed. Eat lunch.
--Walk up to Dress Barn and inquire after status of job application if it's not raining.
--Clean if it is raining.
--Call people I need to call.
--Answer e-mails.
--After that, begin outlining the Great American Dirty Novel.

Here is what I am going to do tomorrow:
--Wake up early.
--Walk up to Dress Barn if I did not the day before.
--Do any further cleaning.
--Make any calls I could not finish the day before.
--Update resume, send to nearby publishing company.
--GREAT AMERICAN DIRTY NOVEL.

On Friday maybe I'll read a little.

put up your road block, hang on to your crown

I took a walk and took some pictures.

( Pineapple houses and haunted Masonic halls )

More pictures!

drworm put up a Facebook album with pictures of Spike and Giles (the cats)! Go look! They are the cutest, and I miss them.

The one thing I don't like about living here is that I can't have any pets. I do not come from a family of pet owners, so even after I'd lived with the cats for a while, it was sort of weird and delightful to know that there were little animals in the house who were not intruders, and who were little beings who could come and hang out with me and not talk or require complex interaction. I miss that :( I can't even have a little rat or something. Perhaps someday.