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He had me at the waving wheat.

9am

mascarah:

Obadiah Parker (Matt Weddle) !!! - Hey Ya cover

#92 on my all-time playlist. The original song got *so annoying* back in the day but was still fantastic, this cover does it justice and gives it a whole new replay life.

LOVE it!

Via adventures of mascarah.

4pm

November is National Novel Writing Month

Earlier today, Emma sent me a link to this web site about National Novel Writing Month. Basically, this organization annually hosts a “fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.”

While it sounds a little intense and slightly insane, I signed up to be a part of it. I am not kidding when I say I have dozens and dozens of word documents, draft emails, hand-written scribbles, AIM conversations, you name it, of chapter outlines, first pages, character bios, plot summaries and potential titles for all the short-lived ideas I’ve had over the last 6 or 7 years. Writing a novel is something I have wanted to do since I could read, and I have continuously failed to take it to the next fundamental level.

Ideally, this is not a project one should rush (1,667 words a day is ungodly!), but I think at the very least, this designated month and this challenge could serve as mere inspiration to really jumpstart something I have often been too scared to fully pursue. There’s no reason I shouldn’t be dedicating non-work-related time to really putting this all together. Needless to say, if every time I wrote a blog entry about not having enough time to write, I could have written the next bestseller by now.

Here’s hoping.

12am

While watching the opera, I realized that a lot of the music and lyrics sounded surprisingly familiar, so I mentioned to Michael and Melissa that I thought this might be the same opera they saw in Pretty Woman. And I was right!

I was totally Vivian (in the first half of this clip) tonight.

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“People’s reaction to opera the first time they hear it is extreme. They either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don’t, they may learn to love it, but it will never become part of their soul."

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