• Going to get ready for work. I hate getting ready for work. I hate work. All cold water = super bonus points. #
• I have a specially quarantined folder for email from my boss. There are seven messages in it. I am afraid to open it. Oh my blood pressure. #
• Read email. Process incorrect information. Process inane assumption #1. Process faulty logic #1-3. Assimilate anger re:erroneous action. #
• Question logic of working here. Question makeup of society which necessitates such a job. Question own intelligence. Ponder just giving in. #
• Being away from this baffling unintelligence has spoiled me. I am expecting logic and some higher thought processes, and I am disappointed. #
• Water heater update: Now they think it’s a gas valve. They’re overnighting part, repair squad to be back on Wednesday sometime between 8-5. #
• Dear ad salesman: Listen to your own message “I’ve been trying to reach you all summer and now into the fall.” and get a clue. #
• Nothing like a last-minute event/promotion, all information for which is being translated through a person who speaks only mktg. gibberish! #
• Tricked water heater into starting up. Will now do exercise then take shower while water is still hot. I feel uber-crafty right about now. #

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• Crap. Water heater pilot light out again. Relit it somehow, but now flame is sputtering and orange, not blue. Don’t smell gas, but WTF? #
• Oh, well all the other appliances are working, so I think it can’t be that. It may be a clogged vent or else condensation dripping on flame. #
• I. Am. So. Aggravated. Water heater back off. No one to help until tomorrow at earliest. Washing one load of whites while I can. #
• Holy shizz, was that place crowded. #
• Craft show, Target and now delivering lightbulbs to @todderickv #
• It’s not delivery, it’s DiGiornio! Or however you spell that. At least my oven is still working for now. #

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• It’s a 10 year cool kid reunion at CBs tonight. #
• 5 min at Jade room, 5 min at Mangia, now at diner. #
• All alcohol limits exceeded tonight. Must go to bed. Will wait all day for ineffectual repairman tomorrow, betcha. #
• I am the repair guy’s first call of the day, he’s already here! Cross your fingers he can fix it! #
• He fixed it! I can haz hot water! #
• Repairman: “Do you have your receipt handy? I need the exact date of purchase for the repair file.” Me: “Umm, no, but I can check my blog.” #
• NaNo = 48,141 words, and no one will help me procrastinate. #
• I am excited to announce that I just won NaNoWriMo by uploading a 50,351 word novel to their servers! Wheeee! I can’t believe I did it! #
• Due to @todderickv’s head cold, I am not heading to Maplehood to hear rockabilly. Which is just as fine with me, because sitting on (cont) #
• my couch in my PJs, luxuriating in a post NaNo glow seems like a fine idea to me. It also looks to be cold and heinous outside. #

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• Waiting for my parents to arrive so my Dad can pronounce judgment on the water heater. Preparing for day of clanking pipes and swearing. #
• Parents gone, Dad could not fix. Called Sears repair serv. will come tomorrow. Laclede’s repair service is more than phone sex ($1.54/min.) #
• I just keep sitting here and suddenly thinking “Man, I need a shower. I am going to go grab one right quick.” and then I realize. #
• I am such a moron. I just realized that tomorrow isn’t the last day of Nov. I have an extra writing day. While that’s good, I now feel dumb. #
• Leaving for @todderickv ’s place, to get my shower on. Keep thinking I’d better grab a quick shower before I go. Duh. #
• Home from @todderickv’s, nice and shiny clean. Have an unexpected few spare hours before everyone’s meeting up. Nap or writing? #

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• Need to get my unwashed self, bag of toiletries, laptop, change of clothes + my three dogs into car to go to my parents’. Not in the mood. #
• At my parents, trying to keep their dog from wrestling Jake. He’s got spots on his tummy again. Damnit. Dad lecturing me on w/heater use. #
• I have at least had a shower, so feel somewhat human. @todderickv doesn’t know I am going to be showering at his place tomorrow. #
• My slacker brother finally showed up, so I think we actually get to eat soon. #
• Back from family homestead, much delicious food was had. Day went relatively smoothly. But I have 6k words to write by Sat. Ack. #
• NaNo update. Oh. My. God. Aren’t the last 5-7k words supposed to be easier? 44,564 and counting. Slowly, slowly counting. #
• The Hannibal Lecter of Lemurs. http://tinyurl.com/6p2aza #
• NaNo update again: OK then! I am at 46,640. 3,360 words to go by the end of the day Saturday. And tomorrow off work. :-) #

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• 43,065. A little short on NaNo words today, but I was doing lots of research. #
• Dear people holding loud, jocular conversation on my street corner. It’s TOO COLD to stand outside. Please freeze to death or move on. Thx. #
• I am home sick today, so T-day vacation starts early. Umm, thanks lady problems? I do so love for you to wake me in the middle of the night. #
• http://twitpic.com/o5wt - Dear Crazy Lady: Please turn on our heating pad before we all freeze to death. Thx, the dogs. #
• I think that @avandonsel rocks a flirty hint of stripey tights without being obvious about it, FTW! Note: lady is also tall, thin & young. #
• Oh, to think that I naively imagined I might make it through this day without opiates. Ha HA! #
• During mating season, raven’s testicles swell to 30x their normal size. Think how inconvenient that must be when they’re buying pants. #
• People baffle and confuse me. http://tinyurl.com/6nxytw #
• Anyone with gobs of money to spare may certainly purchase for me a Lori Earley print. I favor “Drained.” http://www.loriearley.com/prints/ #
• In further proof that only SUPER EXCITING THINGS happen to me, my water heater is broken. Now emergency trip to Lowe’s for new (cont.) #
• igniter that will not work, necessitating call to plumber who won’t come until Fri. Being a homeowner ROCKS. Don’t let anyone say otherwise. #
• Of course no place in the city carries that part. Of course. #
• No, it’s just called a ‘Universal Igniter Switch’ which, according to Whirlpool you can get “anywhere.” They’re sending, here Monday. #
• I think the idiot at Whirlpool’s tech support had me break the thing even worse, when she told me pull a wire free. That wire looks broken. #
• And looking at the way it attaches, I don’t see how I’d get it to work, even if I had a new ignition switch thing. I hate everything. GAH. #

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• NaNo update = 42,035 and now I can go to bed. #
• If I did hallucinogens, this is where I’d go to do them. http://www.slsc.org/content.aspx?id=3859 #
• Where the hell is Paulson pulling these numbers from? Because they stink. #
• Oh, so Felicia Day is a dipshit. Nice comment on Ferraris. http://tinyurl.com/6yk22s #
• Kudos to this StL lady for being able to fall asleep again after her car was shot up outside her house. http://tinyurl.com/5sk3ob #
• I wish @twitter would enable selective privacy. Setting some tweets to followers-only, without locking down your whole feed. #
• Deliberately misspelled words used as a marketing ploy make me want to punch someone. #
• Someone just sent me an email containing so many factual, logical & grammatical errors that my brain seized up and refuses to work anymore. #
• http://twitpic.com/o1ey - Again, Target’s package design department has the last laugh. #
• Ugh, you can tell it’s been years since I cooked real food. Threw chicken packaging in garbage last night, house suffused in unholy stink. #
• On the flip side, chicken has been marinating 24 hours, which means kip satay and nasi goreng are MINE tonight. #
• http://twitpic.com/o2am - Photo evidence that I *can* cook.I even dirtied three whole pans! #

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• Well, it took four days, but you finally canceled the project you should never have invented in the first place. Well done. #
• Florescent lights should be illegal. Unexpectedly catching sight of yourself on a webcam while under florescent lights should be doubly so. #
• Most people would like a boss who is so easily fooled/confused. But seriously - why can’t this guy grasp any basic business concept? #
• Dear Longest Day in the History of Boredom: Just stop it already before I get irked. #
• Christmas WANT http://www.lolmart.com/winfailstamp1.html #
• Anyone want to spice up my writing tonight? I need a challenge. Give me a word you’d like me to incorporate into my novel, and I will (cont) #
• do my best to make it happen. Unusual word are fine, but obscure medical terms and such probably won’t be workable. C’mon, challenge me! :-) #
• Colmes leaving Hannity and Colmes. Will anyone notice that he’s no longer there acting as man-sized paperweight? #
• Look at the expressions of discomfort on these reporters’ faces as Peter Schiff schools them. http://tinyurl.com/6fh8gd #
• For people who are really sick of explaining themselves http://i36.tinypic.com/1hv5f9.jpg #
• OH MY GOD I HATE THIS WHOLE BORING DAY WHY ISN’T IT OVER YET? Seriously. #
• Schnucks on Arsenal was a madhouse. But luckily there was a guy in green “Luck O’ the Irish” Zubaz & some flip flops, keeping things classy. #
• Balls. I hate when I am jonesing for a song and it’s not available for download, purchase OR piracy anywhere on the Internets. #
• It is truly frightening how many people post webcam videos to YouTube of themselves singing showtunes. Is there a class in self-humiliation? #
• How is “delectatious” not a word? That’s a fine word. Suck it, Webster. #
• OK, well now I am weirded out. http://tinyurl.com/5jpntm #
• 522 more words. Surely I can come up with 522 more words before 11 p.m. Right? #

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• 3,300 words written. Going to go ahead and push through to 4,000. This entire novel has been written with Loreena McKennitt as BG music. #
• The cop in that Florida teen internet suicide case has temporarily got the most famous ass in the world. #
• Hrm. 7:39 a.m. on Sunday, and I just heard what sounded like a barrage of gunfire somewhere close to here. I love city living. #
• Changed the ever-breaking belt in my Oreck vacuum. Whoever came up with that belt-access design needs a smack. I am filthy and aggravated. #
• Kitchen clean, bed stripped, vacuum run on 2 floors, shower taken. Now have to start laundry, run errands then write. My life as a Glamazon #
• Just got back from snapping reference photos at a few city parks. It’s a gorgeous day. #
• Photos from Benton and Forest Parks today http://www.flickr.com/photos/superbadgirl/sets/72157609877445378/ #
• At the end of every weekend I have to attach my work keys back to my main keyring. That always make me so sad. #
• Civics quiz: http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx. I got 26/33 correct for a score of 78%. Gov’t officials averaged 44%. #
• Currently loving on Language is a Virus’s character name generator. Think I found perfect name. http://www.languageisavirus.com/namedatabase #
• Didn’t think I could do it, but stopping now at 40,449 words. Plus a plot point that came together so beautifully I could do a dorky dance. #

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• ♪♫ Listening to (and loving) “Little Toy Gun” by HoneyHoney on @Favtape http://tinyurl.com/69rytj #
• OK, I get TOTAL Sherlock Holmes points for deducing exactly what happened at Todd’s w/o even knowing who was there for sure. I rule. #
• Although, I did really love that table. #
• Jake’s bloodwork=Platelets and white blood cell count good, coagulation time inconclusive. Have to take him back in for another sample. :( #
• 9.5 on the cutester scale http://tinyurl.com/55lvwd #
• I am freezing to death and Chelsea is laying on the vent soaking up all the heat in the office. I don’t have the heart to move her though. #
• On my way to pick up @todderickv and eat some Basil Spice. Can’t wait to hear more about last night’s fracas. #
• Dinner was good, chicken was somewhat unidentifiable. Didn’t have room for ice cream, which sucked. Took long drive. StL so pretty at night. #
• 1,840 words so far today. No sleep until 3,000. Whoo, this is my 2,500th update. I random think a lot. #

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• I think Jake’s developed petechia again on his tummy :-( Back to the vet for us in the morning. #
• Interesting. See some of the ballots in the contested MN Sen. race. http://tinyurl.com/5gew26 #
• watching @billstreeter live-vlogging his road trip is weirding me out. I keep expecting him to drive by my house. #
• Back from vet, Jake got stabbed in the neck again. Should hear this afternoon if he’s stopped clotting again. As usual, he acts fine. #
• In the meantime I have the day off, and am still looking for recommendations for people’s favorite 1st person narrative works of fiction. #
• Although scrabbling through my bookshelves I did just run across Kage Bakers 1st-person “In the Garden of Iden” which I forgot I loved. #
• Pondering my NaNo novel which is 1st person & seems alternately too spare, then too drowning in dialogue. Want to read 1st person done well. #
• I don’t know why these dogs act like it’s a balmy spring day. Apparently they think I’m interested in heating the whole outside! /myDad. #
• OK, this will make you smile. http://tinyurl.com/5p9956 #
• Heading out to grocery store then Dave’s for chicken tacos, then out for some drinks. It’s cold and I want to stay home under some blankets. #
• Dave rocks some chicken tacos, but I started drinking too early. #

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• Happy b-day to @ginabanina and @cbellers! Good luck to @The_Cyr! #
• Here’s another one in the Rollins/Danzig vein - I keep thinking the lady from Concrete Blonde has a shot at becoming homeland security sec. #
• Cycle: 1) You request work from me 2) I question details of your request 3) You investigate 4) You get back to me to cancel request. (cont) #
• Can we not just skip to the part where you cancel your nonsensical request, and you could just never contact me in the first place? #
• I am serious, this man is menacingly stupid. There is nothing he says that makes any sense at all. Ever. He’s anti-sense. #
• Why would only one of my eyes be bloodshot? #
• I am so tired right now I could pass out. Plus I keep effing up everything I touch. When’s it going to be 2:30? #
• 3,567th reminder to self: Never read the comments section for news articles online. You will just end up hating humanity even more. #
• Shepard Fairey video interview. http://tinyurl.com/6h8tye #
• I propose a new holiday called “International Smack a Life Coach Day.” #
• Look at these cool old-timey postcards of St. Louis parks! I <3 the Benton Park ones. http://tinyurl.com/5qx4cs #
• Help! Suggestions of books you enjoy which are primarily first-person narrative. I would like to have them please. #
• The sweetest thing in the world (can you spot all three?) http://www.flickr.com/photos/superbadgirl/3047359930/ #
• Retweet @KBestOliver What. The. Fuck. http://tinyurl.com/6bed7o #

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• Alright, finally broke 30k. All of this chapter came to me during shower = awesome, but I can’t stay up all night & write it = less awesome. #
• I would like to opt-out of this day. Is that an option? #
• When did speaking directly and clearly to someone become a sign of disrespect? Is being unable to own/articulate the truth somehow polite? #
• Having a hard time focusing today. Tired of reviewing things. I miss working, as opposed to inspecting other people’s work. #
• http://twurl.nl/iktzef And I thought I was the only one out here who was this cynical #
• The cleaning people are having an argument in the room next to my office. Really loud. For 20 minutes. Concentration now worse than before. #
• SO tired of First Lady Fashion talk. Shut up on that, no one cares. For the love of everything, aren’t there more important topics? #
• 32,010 words total. I think that’s a bit behind, but I don’t care for now. Have to be at work at 6 freaking 30 in the morning, so bed now. #

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• Dear my employees: When I ask for shit “1st thing in the morning” don’t make me come and hunt your ass down to get it. K? Thx. #
• Look, it can’t possibly be necessary for me to run every meeting. Surely someone else can effectively bring a meeting a close, right? #
• Oh suck it Joe Lieberman, I am so sick of your stupid face. I wish someone would punch you in your saggy jowls and shut you up. #
• By no means use the quote I wrote for you, but try to make up something that’s insulting to our intended audience. That’ll work. #
• Heading to grocery store. There will be cookies tonight! #
• http://twitpic.com/mkdi - Just say no to weirdo Ugg slippers at the grocery store. #
• Dear sore throat: If you know what’s good for you, you will be allergy-related and not illness-related. #
• Blah, could something please be interesting for five minutes? The whole world is a big pile of meh this week. #
• There. Now I’m listening to country music. I hope you’re happy, world. #

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• NaNo update: 2,108 words today puts me at 28,955 total. If all goes well I should crack 30k tomorrow! YAY! :-) Now bed. #
• Why oh why do people have to get up to such retarded shit when I take a day off? And why does my boss think words have no specific meaning? #
• Marketing 101: When ordering promo products, if logo is so small as to be unreadable, marketing value of product is lost. Can I get a DUH? #
• Sure asstard, my presentation was much enhanced by your constantly walking in/out talking on cell phone. Nice standard you’re setting there. #
• Tired of people telling me how they’d euthanize their dog if medical care were more than $XYZ. So… you’re bragging about being heartless? #
• Does Christopher Hitchens style himself some kind of hard-partying playboy? Button your damn shirt. Good. Now here’s your Visine. #
• I am freezing to death. I hate winter, and it’s just now starting. Boo. #
• http://twurl.nl/mjg3zy OK… what? (NSFW) #
• OK @tweetburner you’re sucking harder than ever lately. Here’s the (NSFW) WTF link http://tinyurl.com/2xs5ow #
• I have been angry with, and resentful of, this entire day and have thus written nothing. Not too productive an attitude, I realize. #
• I also find my writing hindered by an abominable lack of cookies in this house. #

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