NaNo and other stuff

[charliesmum]

Well, I'm up to 15,520 words in my story. That's not too bad. Not sure how good the story is, but whatever. It's getting the words down that count.

In my story my main character is left an antique lap desk that should Be Important Later. I googled 'antique lap desk' images, so I could describe it properly, and found the perfect desk. It is exactly what I need in my story, and it turns out it is worth about $3,000, which is nice. For my fictional heroine, anyway.

Last night my husband was playing with his band in Asbury Park, so Charlie and I had dinner at the Pop Shop. I had this really good cheese sandwich - I decided to be adventurous at try the goat cheese sandwich that had olive tapenade on it. Because I love tapenade. It was really delicious.

Meanwhile, Charlie has been saying all week he wanted to go to the Pop Shop for breakfast on Saturday because they have this 'kids pajama party' where the kid gets a a free breakfast if he or she is PJs. So we went again this morning. Lots of adorable kids in their adorable pajamas. The owner, Connie, took photos of all the kids and it will be on their website in a week or so. I shall point you in that direction when the time comes.

Anyway, justleakynow's husband was working last night and today, and this morning teased me about how often we show up there. It's my goal to get my own table. Well, not really, but how cool would that be?

Why is it some people on ElJay seem to go out of their way to be belligerent? I posted something on lost_tv yesterday, mentioning this pretend "Driveshaft" website. I wasn't sure if the site was an 'official' site or a fan made site, and said so in my very first sentence: I don't know if this Driveshaft 'fan site' is an official Lost site, ala the Hanso one or not.

This person's reply was: Considering that a huge number of us on LJ know the fans who run the site, is this really a serious question?

I mean, is it just me, or is that kind of rude? It seems to me the person is deliberately trying to bait me.

Meanwhile, I had a theory about Lost that I posted there, and shall put here under a cut for anyone who cares:

What if, thanks to the whole electromagnetic or whatever thingy, due to the 'life-extending' project, somehow makes time go more slowly on the island. So, while a year has passed in real life, it only seems like 40 days.

This could explain the unexpected rain - to the lostaways it is a weird rain storm, but maybe it is 'rainy season' in real time.

And maybe, somehow the 'others' are in 'real' time, while our lostaways aren't, which would totally help explain a growth spurt on Walt's part when they do get him back.

And Danielle says 'has it really been 16 years'? because to her maybe it only seemed to be a year or two.

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I did post the first chapter (http://www.livejournal.com/users/charliesmum/189356.html#cutid1) if you are at all interested. :)