I'm not MIA!

I've been so bad... This month, I've been consumed by graduate school applications. And visiting friends. And procrastinating. I haven't been reading much. And I wanted to do NaNoWriMo, but I haven't even done that! :( It's been an unproductive month, book wise. Well, except for buying them, as usual...

I'll be better. I'm "off" on vacation this week and I'm hoping to read a bit, since I seem to be hoarding library books again. I need to relax. In between writing essays for grad school apps. :)

Wish me luck!

Why I haven't been reading...

Nanowrimo is sucking up all my reading time...big surprise. :) I've got over 8000 words! YAY! Still a lot to go, though... Still 8000 is pretty good. But I'm going to have to get reading too.

From bookmooch:

• 101 Salivations: For the Love of Dogs by Rachael Hale

From half.com:

• Quincy the Hobby Photographer by J. Otto Seibold

Cheap books & hoarding

Yeah, super cheap silly YA books from Borders:

• The Scarlet Lettreman by Cara Lockwood
• Wuthering High by Cara Lockwood

And...I seem to be hoarding library books again. I was doing so good. I was keeping my checked out items around 30 (which includes DVDs and CDs). Now, I'm gathering books again. I need to just read the stuff I have. Of course, I always end up coming home with picture books and manga, which I read first b/c I can read it fast, but then the books I have get neglected (as evidenced by the fact that my currently reading list has not changed for over a week). :( I need a job where all I have to do is read books. That'd be sweet...

Ah...I'm having visions of my own bookstore again. *sighs* Dreams...

If I'm trying to do NaNoWriMo, it's not a good time to be hoarding and collecting more books. If all goes well, I won't have much time to read. But...well, it's not going so great. I doubt I'll make it to 50,000 words this year either. I think I did about 20,000 last year. I'll be happy if I can make it to 20,000 again.

I better get busy...

NaNoWriMo

I just logged back in to my NaNoWriMo account. I think I'm going to give it another try this year. Last year was my first year. Really, I did it so I could try to be writing every day and it worked pretty well (but sadly did not continue outside of November). I mostly did poetry. Most of it pretty bad, but some of it I was pretty happy with. It was kind of cool--the poems reflected what I was feeling/doing that month. I was quite smitten with a boy...it's cool to have that documented in a way, even if it is rather embarrassing now...

I've got lots of ideas. Let's see if any of them come to anything. :)

Wish me happy writing--starting November 1st!