Does it taste weird because it's lowfat cottage cheese, or because it was sitting in a bag next to your desk for the last five hours, instead of in the refrigerator? Is that odd flavor that's almost yoghurtish a sign of nutrients at work, or parasitical bugs that are going to lodge in your intestines and make your life a misery for the next twenty years*?

Today's dietary indulges so far include - 1 scrambled egg, 4 oz lo-fat cottage cheese. I'm not exactly back on the diet...but I'm sort of back on the diet. Much as I love those memories of years filled with high-caloric, non-nutritious junk food, the truth is it just doesn't agree with me any more. I feel better when I don't replace vegetables and lean meat with Cheetos and ice-cream bars.

Writing challenges abound during November. It seems that those reluctant or unable to commit to NaNoWriMo's (really**) very reasonable 1700 words a day are promising at least 100 words*** added to stories currently in progress.

I think that's pretty cool. Everyone should commit to some kind of goal in November, from the grandiose to the modest. Make a concrete commitment and work to keep it. It's the practice...the writing every day...the getting into the habit, that's what it's all about.

Me? My commitment is to write 10,000 words in November. Somewhere in between the two mentioned above. That's because I estimate it's going to take 10,000 words to finish the S.E.N. That's 333 words a day.

The Weinermobile! is next door. I must remember to bring a camera to work tomorrow.

* Or did I just overdo the salt?

** Really, it's very reasonable. I write blog entries longer than that. Frequently. I've probably written more than that today. (Your mistake is that you continue to be obsessed with quality.****) But I can't participate this year. I have the S.E.N. to beat my head against. That's enough for any one person.

*** Seems hardly worth opening the file for that, but that's the opinion of someone who finds it easy to add words but hard to add words worth keeping*****.

**** I must admit, I'm somewhat embittered by constantly reading about people who are polishing up their efforts to create actual stories out of them. I can't do that with mine.

***** For instance, my one, completed NaNoWriMo project was about 57,000 words. Of which the first 30,000 words would have to be replaced completely, in order to make a decent story.