Sigh. It's so hard to find the "My Blog" link now. I keep going to the spot I'm used to finding it, only to click and click and get nothing. Well, one time I clicked on "contests" instead, but it's hard to reorient myself. Hopefully I'll get used to the changes soon. When my mind isn't addled by NaNoWriMo, perhaps...
         Speaking of: I broke 15,000 words this morning, which is good. I'm two days ahead, which makes me very pleased, especially considering that I have a paper due Monday, two due Tuesday, and a proposal due Friday. The plan for today: NaNo for an hour; work on the Monday paper for an hour; NaNo for an hour; work on the first Tuesday paper for an hour; NaNo for an hour; finish the Monday paper. I am getting better about measuring out my time. Good at it? No. But better.
         Tonight is my friend D---'s birthday party, which will be awesome. I haven't hung out with him or any of my study abroad friends in quite a while (besides in Russian class, which obviously doesn't count). I am quite certain that the entire night will just be people getting plastered and dancing to crappy pop music, but I could use some of that. Just not too plastered, or I won't be much help in tomorrow's early morning writing meeting.
         But it will be really fun. I can feel it already. I might even get E--- to come with.
         I've been dreaming about NaNo, and it still hasn't helped me figure out how to show the unease my main character has when someone with her same name dies. And I keep making notes to myself in the margins of the page about things that need to be fixed in the rewrite. Is it pathetic that I'm already seeing the fractures in the story and how to fix them?
         Hey, at least I'm not trying to fix them. That's what next year (or the next, or the next) is for. Also, fixing the problem that all three of the teenage boy characters are essentially indistinguishable. Yeah.