because it's the only way i could actually get through the month of november and have any hope for winning at nano.  seriously, it's like an extra 4 hours a day to write.  luckily my daughter still takes a nap in the afternoon so i can take a nap too if i get in the weeds.

so, nano.  how the heck am i going to write 50 thousand words?  i made myself enter a fanfic challenge-type thing so i had practice at a deadline and writing a bunch of words.  but that's like 5K, a mere 10% of 50K.  how????!?

on a completely different note, i have to go to concord mills mall tomorrow.  actually, i have to go to the honda dealership in concord tomorrow afternoon and there's no way i'm hanging out at the dealership with my 3 year old while they do the regular maintainence thingy on the car, so i'm taking their offer of a shuttle service to the big scary mall.  we will be visiting build-a-bear and hoping the stuffing machine will not make weezy cry this time like it did the first and only other time we went to build-a-bear.  it is kind of creepy, when you think about it.  sort of stepford/frankenstein bears.

ETA: she totally cried, but got over it quickly.

the nobel prizes are starting to get announced and i was happy to see that robert gallo (who essentially bogarted a strain of a virus from the pasteur institute in france and then declared he had discovered HTLV - which was the name for what ended up being called HIV - forgive me if the details are not exactly right) was NOT included in the hysiology/medicine prize.  that is what you get for stealing other people's research.  not to mention that little stunt cost out government 6 million dollars or so when it came out that he did it (after he got a patent on the virus for an antibody-based test; we had to pay the french government back royalties).  punk.