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The day after: thoughts on my Month Impossible (Saturday, 01 December 2007 10:54 PM ): NY - Long Island: Belmont Park - Finish Line Originally uploaded by wallyg Today, I did not have to write a massive number of words for a crappy first draft of a novel. I didn't have to draw anything....

Month Impossible: Day Thirty, This is the end (Friday, 30 November 2007 09:51 AM ): Cold War Clock Originally uploaded by ckaiserca Ten in the morning, November 30. Fourteen hours to go, fifteen thousand words to go. I am cutting it really, really close.       UPDATE: 12:15pm: Now at 37,011 words, plus...

Month Impossible: Day Twenty-Nine, Tick-tick-tick (Thursday, 29 November 2007 09:27 PM ): clock Originally uploaded by Poagao It's a quarter after nine pm, the second to last night of November. Here's what I need to finish before midnight tomorrow night: 1. Write 19,692 words and have them verified by the NaNoWriMo...

Month Impossible: Day Twenty-eight, Strip malls and worldwide connectedness (Wednesday, 28 November 2007 11:58 PM ): It is a quarter to midnight on a Wednesday night at the end of November. I'm sitting in my car, parked outside a strip mall on McKnight Road, a shopping district in the suburbs north of Pittsburgh. I'm parked here...

Month Impossible: Day Twenty-seven, Murderers, animated treadmills, and yet more writing (Tuesday, 27 November 2007 11:36 PM ): I've mentioned before that "Murderers," currently playing at City Theatre on Pittsburgh's South Side, is a terrific play and well worth your time and money, yes? The play is three monologues, each by a different actor, each beginning with...

Month Impossible: Day Twenty-six, Let's get it on (Monday, 26 November 2007 11:59 PM ): Steelers win. Worst ever Monday Night Football game, and possibly worst ever NFL game. But we won, and it counts. Starting my NaNoWriMo writing for the day ... now. Yeah, it sucks. Even my mom thinks I'm not going...

Month Impossible: Day Twenty-five, Quakers, Presbyterians, and pirates (Sunday, 25 November 2007 10:41 PM ): Some thoughts at random: I read the headline "Quakes kill at least three on Indonesian island" too quickly, and I thought, "But the Quakers have always been a nonviolent people." And what are Quakers doing in Indonesia anyway? Repeal...

Month Impossible: Day Twenty-four, revving up (Saturday, 24 November 2007 11:40 PM ): There's less than a week left in this month of challenges. Little time to blog, so let's quickly asses the situation.... DrawMo update: I'm drifting behind on drawings -- only 15 done, meaning my new quota is two a day...

Month Impossible: Day Twenty-Three, Count it out (Friday, 23 November 2007 11:20 PM ): I've reached the happy word count of 12,345 words in my NaNoWrimo novel draft, which seems an opportune time to stop and post a short blog entry. It is still not at all certain I'll reach the 50k mark...

Month Impossible: Day Twenty-two, Pie! (Thursday, 22 November 2007 11:35 PM ): Pie! Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey And how did the pies turn out? Fantastic. Actually, come to think of it, I didn't have any of the pumpkin pie, but because the filling didn't all fit in the pie shell I...

Month Impossible: Day Twenty-One, Pie Preparation (Wednesday, 21 November 2007 11:51 PM ): I'm on dessert duty for my family's Thanksgiving meal tomorrow. I rarely get dessert duty -- Mom usually makes most of the dishes and brushes aside my offers to make pie, leaving me to bring a vegetable or other side...

Month Impossible: Day Twenty (Tuesday, 20 November 2007 08:32 PM ): I had scheduled a meeting with a client tonight. I've always been open to night meetings, especially since small business owners sometimes have day jobs or other commitments that make it hard to meet during work hours. As I was...

Month Impossible: Day Nineteen, studying Spook and getting serious about the novel (Monday, 19 November 2007 11:38 PM ): Today I tried to sketch Spook, my other cat. Officially, Sammy is my cat, and Spook is Sammy's cat. When I first got Sammy, she was cooped up all alone during the day -- I worked in a real office...

Month Impossible: Day Eighteen, Rain Dogs and Carmen (Sunday, 18 November 2007 11:58 PM ): Carmen Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey The song "Rain Dogs" by Tom Waits popped up on my iPod, and I thought I'd make a drawing of rain dogs. This would be my first DrawMo drawing from imagination, rather than from...

Month Impossible: Day Seventeen, 2PointHome (Saturday, 17 November 2007 11:56 PM ): If you've been following my Month of Challenges, you know that today I planned to finally catch up on NaNoWriMo. You also probably know me better than I do, and guessed that I would not succeed in this plan. I...

Month Impossible: Day Sixteen (Friday, 16 November 2007 11:59 PM ): A few weeks ago, I traveled to Seattle for the annual LFM Alumni Conference. LFM stands for Leaders for Manufacturing, which is a program within the Sloan School of Management at MIT. I graduated in 1997. I attended a few...

Month Impossible: Day Fifteen (Thursday, 15 November 2007 10:34 PM ): Thumbnail Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey I've lost the concept of downtime. I still experience downtime, but not on purpose. That is, I'll plan to spend an evening working -- as I did tonight -- and then I'll start fixing...

Month Impossible: Day Fourteen (Thursday, 15 November 2007 03:03 AM ): Necklace Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey Almost halfway through my month of impossible challenges. It's not quite time yet to reflect on the wisdom/stupidity of these things I've set out to do. So instead: Here is a drawing of a...

Month Impossible: Day Thirteen (Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:43 PM ): The John Cleese Plant Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey A couple of years back -- 2003? -- I subscribed to John Cleese's website. This meant I could watch subscriber-only content on the site, humorous videos and such, and participate in...

Month Impossible: Day Twelve (Monday, 12 November 2007 11:50 PM ): I like to joke that "work gets in the way of the rest of my life." Today I can joke that "the rest of my life gets in the way of the rest of my life." The second Monday of...

Month Impossible: Day Eleven (Sunday, 11 November 2007 11:55 PM ): Boot Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey I said yesterday that weekends are when I catch up. I'm reminded today, though, that Sundays in the fall are when I get very little done, due to football. I'm in two fantasy football...

Month Impossible: Day Ten (Saturday, 10 November 2007 07:11 PM ): The weekends are when I catch up. I meet up with friends I haven't seen in weeks, I stop by my parents' house to tell them what I've been up to and find out how they are, I sleep an...

Month Impossible: Day Eight (Friday, 09 November 2007 12:33 AM ): Tonight we held BlogFest 12. I was smart in that I scheduled very little for myself for today, which meant I had time to do things like run to the store for cake, and make and print signs and a...

Month Impossible: Day Seven (Wednesday, 07 November 2007 09:51 PM ): Samantha Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey If I had undertaken NaDruWriNi last weekend, I had a terrific topic planned: the question of pet blogging. I adore my two cats, and I find their daily activities charming and fascinating, but I'm...

Month Impossible: Day Six (Tuesday, 06 November 2007 11:07 PM ): A strange kind of irony has taken hold of my life. I've been busy these past months, to the point that I thought my workload was as heavy as it could get. And then as soon as I started this...

Month Impossible: Day Five (Monday, 05 November 2007 04:58 PM ): I'm on my way to meet friends and then head to Heinz Field, for Monday Night Football with the Steelers hosting the Baltimore Ravens. It's raining, it's cold. It's going to be fun. When I return: a sketch of the...

Month Impossible: Day Four (Sunday, 04 November 2007 11:44 PM ): Tomato from my yard Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey Two steps forward, one back. I created two drawings today while watching football, meaning that I caught up a little on DrawMo but am still one day behind. I also wrote...

Month Impossible: Day Three (Saturday, 03 November 2007 07:11 PM ): Third day of the incredible challenges, and progress is scant. I've posted each day of course, so that's something. Just by telling you that I'm falling behind in other things, I can keep up with NaBloPoMo. Sweet! I wrote a...

Month Impossible: Day Two (Saturday, 03 November 2007 01:27 AM ): Ain't it just like the night, to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet? I drove to Pittsburgh this afternoon for work, and I hung out in the evening for fun. I meant to come back early and...

Month Impossible: Day One (Thursday, 01 November 2007 09:15 PM ): Today we started NaNoWriMo and DrawMo. It's also the start of National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo, of course). I've wanted to blog more, as many a blogger does, and this seems the right occasion. Plus I plan to update you...

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