Recap: Among the crowds

Valleyfair mall after Thanksgiving always held an uncanny amount of people. I almost forgot how many, but I got a reminder yesterday. Very sharp reminder.

Around 47500 words now. Whoa.

And somewhere around Soniya's anti-pigeon sentiments, Victoria's beaver shirt, Christine's koala Darth Vader III dreams, Anna's "OMG-school's going-to-start-for-me-soon" panics and Kate's losing battle with the bottom of her pants I thought that well, insanity really CAN become a long lasting tradition.

And we're not talking about asylums here either.

[edit 20:17]
Have finished NaNoWriMo story with around 51 thousand words!
Yay! Utterly and ridiculously proud of myself for having finished self-induced misery.

I am going to do three things that I promised I'd do somewhere while I was in the middle of this:
1. stop all non-academic writing for three days, which means tomorrow, Monday, and Tuesday I won't be working on any writing projects. Including this journal, which won't be updated, just so you know.
2. lock away my story and not look at it for an entire month. I need it, trust me, I do. It's possibly brain-damaging.
3. spend an hour lying down somewhere with earphone blasting music into my ears at a loudness that prohibits any thoughts. I deserve this.

Done! I'm done, I tell you!
Utterly ridiculous, yes.