Nanowrimo Ate My November...

Which is why I haven't posted on here at all, all month.
Anyway.
Happy feast of St. Andrew to my several friends named Andrew. St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland and also apparently of reformed prostitutes. Who knew?

So, novel. No, I'm not going to post it here... I think most of it will never see the light of day in its current form. It needs several years of research and I need to learn German, Hungarian and Slovak... Or at least two out of the three.
Anyway, to make up for no posts all month, I will post the haikus from my novel. These haikus were found using a haiku finder. For a novel of this length (just over 50k), there are a fair number of haikus. For a while I had one about every ten pages. And then at about the same time that the plot went alternate universe, most of the haikus dried up. Oh well.
Haikus below!

“What happened?” I asked.
I didn’t like the way everyone
was staring at me.

He looked miserable,
but I had no idea
what he was saying.

When the last notes had
died away, we all sat still
for a few minutes.

"Nothing but an itch,"
he muttered, scratching his back
where it bothered him.

E-even with all
the propaganda, the truth
will out by what isn’t said!

I could see nothing.
Complete and total darkness
obscured my vision.

Haiku finder here-http://mrfeinberg.com/haikufinder/

AugWriMo

So I should be working on the WriMo, but I don't want to. I've been reduced to having a character of mine work in thinly disguised bits of real world history. None of these characters have turned out quite the way I thought they would. And honestly my attention is kind of being stolen by the party in the back of my brain that claims that they ALL fell down some stairs and hit themselves upside of the head on both sides. Really. Dangerous stairs in this port. Very dangerous stairs. Except for the one clever cloggins who insists that he hit himself repeatedly while drunk. Nothing to see here, sir. Nothing at all.
They intrigue me. They really do.
But I will be strong! I will stick to one story at a ti- oh we know how well that's worked in the past... But really. Tonight I will break 10k if it kills me. And then I just have 20k more to go because I'm not going for the big 5-0. I couldn't, not now anyway. Maybe in September if I'm still stuck on the 'let's weed with screwdrivers' team. So now, I shall stop procrastinating and get back to work!
Oh, for any amongst the readership that cares, the whole babysitting thing this weekend went off well and without a hitch. Much fun and ever so grateful to be single and childless still!

Navy Heritage/Pride/Show-Up-In-Whites Day...

Huh?
I'm confused. My handful of readers (probably only one) is probably not surprised. I've been confused a lot of late. I don't get it... I'm in a div. that does outdoor work A Lot. And when it's not outdoors, it's cleaning. Blech. So, having us all wear whites tomorrow (except for five poor people who are still stuck cleaning) means what exactly? A half-day? I'll take a half day. But I'm not sure what that has to do with Navy Heritage or Pride. Or why everything is about Pride these days. I mean, Pride and Professionalism? I know we're supposed to take Pride in the proper wear of uniforms and all that, I don't know why we don't just call it something else.
Now for some completely unrelated stuff.
-I haven't packed a lunch once this week. This is reaching crisis proportions because today I spent 11 dollars on lunch at Panera. It was delicious so I don't really have regrets, I'm just saying. Usually I spend about five at Tacobell. I wish they had a subway on base... sigh.
-I eat really bad for me crap on PT days because I reason that I've already burned a lot of calories so I should replace them. I don't think it works the way I want it to.
-My AugWriMo is progressing. That's about all I can say for it. Right now I'm a little annoyed to find that culturally the hill people are resembling some real world hill people that I don't like. I mean, I planned for the baddies to resemble certain baddies in real life, but the hill people were supposed to be annoyingly neutral- not unlike certain places at all, I guess. Whatever.
-I want a bagel. Now. And a beer. But I'm not going to have either. I'm going to be good and go clean... after all have company coming tomorrow.

Well, now I feel silly...

It was good to get that rant out of my system yesterday. I got up this morning and went to PT, to hear the four most beautiful words at a PT session (well, second most beautiful phrase since the first one is 'PT is cancelled') ''At your own pace'. Thank you, God!
So I at-my-own-pace ran the 'little' loop. It took me a while, but greatly to my surprise I was NOT the very last person! Shocker, I tell you! I was second to last, I think. There was an older petty officer back there, somewhere. He never passed me, therefore I was not last, right? I ran and I ran and I ran... I got farther than I did on Monday without stopping, much to my happiness. I was still hella far back, and still providing 'motivation' for the other people near the back. If it looked like I was about to catch up, they took off.
It's weird, really. Despite that rant and the fact that I'm dreading getting up at oh-dark-thirty tomorrow morning too, I don't have the special terror of running that I once did. Maybe it helped that Warrant didn't yell at us today. Somebody in the back was yelling, but it wasn't as frightening.
And then, at the very end, I got some good news. Warrant asked who was planning to bike or elliptical and told us that we would start machine PT on Monday. Thank you, thank you God! Finally! The bad news- and it's not very bad, is that apparently they supervise the bike/elliptical very strictly here so you can't get away with half-assing your pushups or situps. I'm not too worried about that. I'm good with both and I can only improve. And I will improve. Life has taken a dramatic turn for the better with regards to PT. When it comes to other Div. things, still not so much. But I got a lot of useful things done today and will continue to do lots of useful things tomorrow, hopefully. I need to make a list so I don't forget anything important...
And I'm now 4k behind on my AugWriMo...
I'll fix it...