{"id":125,"date":"2004-10-20T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=125"},"modified":"2004-10-20T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T02:46:00","slug":"national-novel-writing-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2004\/10\/20\/national-novel-writing-month\/","title":{"rendered":"National Novel Writing Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s coming up. I heard about it a couple of years ago from some fanficcers I knew and thought it was a good idea. At the time though I didn&#8217;t think I could manage it. Now Blogger seems to be making it easier and I&#8217;m actually thinking about doing it. Hmmm&#8230; need to think a bit more. I have til November 1st to decide if I can write a book in a month. I&#8217;ve got stories upon stories in my head but they&#8217;re all half-formed and vague. Maybe this would help give me clarity.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also got my next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/gallery\/MelsColumns\/10_10_04Lost\">column<\/a> to write \ud83d\ude42 wheeee! It&#8217;s not due for a week or so and I&#8217;m 3\/4ths of the way through it. Still totally digging it of course and I&#8217;m surrounded by such inspirational people at work (and at home. My kidlet&#8217;s pretty damn inspirational.) Ahhhh love my job.<\/p>\n<p>Except tomorrow I have to go to the evil Remax realtors. Blech. Everytime I walk in that place to do my freakin&#8217; job, the snooty lady there rolls her eyes as if I&#8217;ve just farted in her car or something. I&#8217;m there a grand total of four minutes (I timed it) to upload their pitiful listings (they&#8217;re a very teeny agency.) So I don&#8217;t know why she and her dorky husband think it&#8217;s some great issue whenever I show up. Ugh it makes the whole thing unpleasant.<\/p>\n<p>I have to drive around to five agencies during the day to do their uploads and the other four couldn&#8217;t be nicer. They chitchat, occasionally offer me coffee. Not Remax. Ah well.. Apart from them I enjoy doing the uploads because I get to get into the ofice around 9:30 after I do three agencies, and leave around 4pm to finish the other two, one of which is right across the street from my home. It&#8217;s perfect \ud83d\ude42 It gets me out of the office for a while which is sort of nice &#8211; only because I have to say my chair there is not so good and sitting on it for 8 hours a day is killing my back. Otherwise I like being there because the work and the people are a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Enough of that. What else is happening&#8230; The kidlet began volunteering at the hospital. She wanted to do it of her own accord, with no prodding from me or anyone else which I just think is so admirable of her. She&#8217;s not quite old enough to be a full-time volunteer so they let her help out in Skilled Care where she reads to the older folk there recovering and just generally visits with them. I think she likes it so far. She just rocks so much \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Well I could go on, but my bed looks very appealing right now. I think I&#8217;ll go flop on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s coming up. I heard about it a couple of years ago from some fanficcers I knew and thought it was a good idea. At the time though I didn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}