Bandwagons

And now I’m a cheater

You might have noticed the enormous jump on my NaNoWriMo ticker today. It’s because I cheated. It was either cheat or quit. And I know that cheaters never win, but neither do quitters. So, really, I wasn’t going to win either way. But this way I’ll at least get a nifty little badge that says I won. And that’s all that really matters.

But is it really cheating? You decide.

My characters are reciting Samuel Taylor Coleridge poems. They’re on a road trip, and that’s what everybody does on road trips. It was a perfectly natural progression. Right?

Flotsam / Jetsam

Friends

1. We had dinner last weekend with some very nice people who had a six-month-old daughter. I was a little worried about how Poppy would relate to the baby; she hasn’t had all that much experience with children smaller than herself. But she was so sweet and gentle and careful. It was lovely.

2. Some of our Missouri friends are here for a visit this weekend. So we’re actually going to go out again and do things today!

Reading

"The Keep"

I finished “The Keep” this morning while Poppy was watching “Sesame Street” (and, really, I should’ve been cleaning something). It’s a crazy, breathless story that left a lot of things unanswered, things I was sure were going to be the crux of the whole story. It left me feeling a little disjointed. But I liked it, and I’m adding it to my “recommended” list.