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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
7:57 pm	I Don't Believe It The New Orleans Saints, in their first EVER Super Bowl appearance, win. 31-17. Wow. Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; and they didn't win by a field goal, in overtime, like the Patriots so often. They WON. Unequivocally. Current Mood: shocked Current Music: When The Saints Go Marching In by Louis Armstrong (Comment on this)
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
9:21 pm	For The First Time In History I am not a sports guy. Given the choice between watching a match and almost anything else, I'll go with the almost anything else 9 times out of 10. If I have to watch a sport, though, my preferred one is football (American football, where the players can use their hands; I've actually seen more golf games than football games, but I don't consider golf a sport. To my way of thinking, if there's no chance that playing the game normally can result in a critical game-ending injury, it's not a sport. It's a pastime, maybe a game, maybe even an event. Don't get me wrong, it takes a lot of physical dedication to play golf well, but it's not exactly high-impact, y'know?) It's got tactics and strategy, requiring both individual excellence and the entire team working in concert to allow the individual excellence to shine. I'm from southern Louisiana, so growing up, there was no local baseball or basketball teams, anyway. There was the LSU Tigers, and the New Orleans Saints. And though the Tigers were definitely a great team, the Saints were an almost great team. They were consistently inconsistent, until a few years ago never even making it to a championship game, let alone winning one. Let alone winning all the championship games. Let alone a shot at the Superbowl (which isn't just a championship game. It's The Championship, the whole meshulagah. I think I made that word up). It's kind of funny, actually. New Orleans has hosted a disproportionate number of Superbowls--and, if I'm not mistaken, more than any other city!--but their football team has never been to one. Until now. Two weeks from tonight, in fact, the New Orleans Saints will visit the Superbowl for the first time in their 40+ year history. They're probably going to lose--that's the conventional wisdom, isn't it? The first time you're at such a huge event it's an uphill climb separating the "event" from the "game." However, it has been known that the "rookie" team wins it all. That's what happened a couple years ago with the Jets against the Patriots, right? You never know until the game is over who the winner will be. Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: Are You Ready For Some Football by Hank Williams, Jr. (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
10:28 pm	It's Official! Current Mood: ecstatic Current Music: Shine by Collective Soul (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
8:19 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Twenty Two: 50,504 Words! Ta-ha, ta-da, ta-ra! I did it, I did it! 50,000(+) words in twenty two freakin' days. And some of them were even good words. I'd estimate at least 7-10% would be usable. But it's done. And, in fact, I've completed my story, too. The one I set out to actually, y'know, tell with this little project. Yippee! I'm a "novelist"! Ha-ha! Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; if I had come up short, I'd've just added a Tolkien-esque appendix. Yeah. Current Mood: ecstatic Current Music: We Are The Champions by Queen. (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
6:06 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Twenty One: 45,672 Words! 42,338 Words! Less than 8,000 words left to write in 9 more days! If I remain on pace, I should easily finish the stated goal. I think I may even get the story I want to tell done, too. I don't know. For a while, I thought I'd still have more book to write even when I passed 50,000, until around Wednesday last, when I wondered if maybe I'd wrap up the story I want to tell, and still have about four to six thousand words left to write for NaNoWriMo. But now, I think the thing could complete at about a thousands words either way. I don't know. We'll see, I guess. ETA: Mwahahahahaha! Now less than 5,000! Mwahahahaha! Tomorrow I begin the last part of the novel. Oh. My. God. Current Mood: excited Current Music: The Thing That Should Not Be by Metallica (Comment on this)
Friday, November 20th, 2009
8:02 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Twenty: 40,313 Words! Less than 10,000 left! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I'm so anxious! See my livejournal mood thingy! It's says "anxious" and it has a little anxious emoticon! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Current Mood: anxious Current Music: Its Allright by Black Sabbath (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
8:10 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Nineteen: 38,912 Words Well, better than the last couple days, at least. Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Don't Stop Believing by Journey (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
6:53 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Eighteen: 37,652 Words. Okay. I know touch-typing, but when I put my hands on the wrong keys three different times, it's time to quit for the day. Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: Paranoid by Black Sabbath (Comment on this)
9:41 am	[NaNoWriMo]Day Seventeen: 37,236 Words That's a bit more like it. I think I'm stuck in this instance due to the relationshippy nature of what I'm writing right now. Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; hopefully, I'll pass 40,000 before the weekend. Current Mood: awake Current Music: Megalomania by Black Sabbath (Comment on this)
Monday, November 16th, 2009
10:55 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Sixteen: 35,783 Words Ugh. Current Mood: frustrated Current Music: My Own Prison by Creed (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 15th, 2009
9:27 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Fifteen: 35,083 Words Boo-yah! 15,000 words left to meet their requirements. And the second half of the book is started. I may be rushing a little, though. To hell with it, that's part of the fun, right? Current Mood: content Current Music: The Writ by Black Sabbath (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
7:40 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Fourteen: 33,051 Words ETA: 30,726 33,051 Words! Guess I had more in me today than I thought! Whee! That's a bit more like it. I kinda rushed the segment I mentioned earlier, with the technobabble, because of the problems I had yesterday. But I passed 30,000 words, yay! I'm beyond the hump. Now I just have to keep pressing on. I still have half of my projected novel to write, and just under 20,000 words to finish NaNoWriMo. I can see the ending of the race . . . but only because of the way the course doubles back on itself. Current Mood: excited Current Music: Don't Stop Me Now by Queen (Comment on this)
Friday, November 13th, 2009
9:24 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Thirteen: 28,720 Words Bleargh. I tried, I really did. But it just wouldn't come, today. Current Mood: blah Current Music: Hand Of Doom by Black Sabbath (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
7:49 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Twelve: 28,413 Bleh. Emergency baby-sitting sapped my creativity and enthusiasm. And I've gotta do it tomorrow, too. I'm so close to 30,000! So close! Current Mood: blah Current Music: Lovely Rita by The Beatles (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
7:25 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Eleven: 27,666 Words I probably only managed to amuse myself, but the first part of the technobabble piece is done. I think 2 or 3 more days, at this rate, I should be finished with it, and about halfway done with my novel. EEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; I'll probably be repeating myself a lot in the next piece I write. But I don't care. This is so much fun! Current Mood: amused Current Music: Helter Skelter by The Beatles (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
5:59 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Ten: 25,770 Words We've reached the half-way point, as NaNoWriMo counts it! I, myself, have completed the second of six parts of my novel (like The Lord of the Rings, it's meant to be a single work divided into six "books.") Now I've got a big segment of technobabble to deal with. It's going to actually be meant as a joke. Because I'm doing this section without any true research (just a basic understanding of energy fields, Unified Field Theory, and wave mechanics). It's going to be interesting. Oh, and I didn't have writer's block this morning like I did over the weekend (starting on Friday, I actually had no freakin' clue where I was going with this section). Today, I knew exactly how it was going to go. I love that feeling. I've also got it for the next section, somewhat. I mean, I know, broadly, what I want it to detail, but specifically, yeesh. I mean, how do I write a few thousand words (or, honestly, several) on the creation of the universe using a (fake) Universal Field Theory, and make it interesting and funny? I've got a couple of ideas, but I think I wish I'd actually read even the Cliff Notes of the thing I'm going to be using as my main inspiration. Well, wish me luck. The second half (of NaNoWriMo's expectations; the second third of my projected novel) awaits! Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; 25,000+ words in ten days. That's 5 days ahead of schedule? What am I doing to myself? Current Mood: excited Current Music: You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) by The Beatles (Comment on this)
Monday, November 9th, 2009
7:43 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Nine: 21,836 Words Bad day, comparatively, to most of my other days (less than 2000 words!) But I'm almost finished untwisting my plot after the plot twist. It's just, the more I untwist, the more the twist has ramifications on what happens later! Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; and it looks like the NaNoWriMo webpage is all trafficked out . . . Current Mood: anxious Current Music: The Long And Winding Road by The Beatles (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
8:22 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Eight: 20,160 Words Well, I haven't beaten last week's record (115 words less than last Sunday's 3400), but I actually am a little impressed with what I wrote today. I actually progressed the plot! And yes, there is a plot. I'm actually kind of pleased with myself, here. I did have a very loose outline of what I wanted to write, but I had little idea how to fill out the middle part (which is what I'm in the middle of right now). I had a plot wrinkle, which developed into a full on plot twist, and am galloping headlong into what should be the end of the first third of the story. And it's now officially the second longest single piece of fiction I've ever written. I'm interested in what happens the rest of the week! Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Let It Be by The Beatles (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
11:19 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Seven: 16,874 Words Today started off terribly. Too many errands put off that needed doing, and then when I finally had time to sit and write, I was almost unable to keep my eyes opened. So I said "To hell with it, I am ahead, I'll take a nap." Then I napped, woke up, and wrote and wrote. This is now officially the third longest single piece of fiction I've ever written (~18000 and ~21000, for second and first place). Man, I hope I can keep going. I'm actually not disgusted by about a tenth of what I've put down. Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; tomorrow will be the real test, I have other errands I need to finish up. But last Sunday, 3000+ words. I wonder if I can top that? Current Mood: energetic Current Music: Fool In The Rain by Led Zeppelin (Comment on this)
Friday, November 6th, 2009
8:39 pm	[NaNoWriMo]Day Six: 14288 I was under the impression I'd be babysitting today, so I didn't get an early start. But still, over 2000 words. Maybe I've found my pace? Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; I also seem to have passed the Bechdel Test by accident. Current Mood: anxious Current Music: The Whip/We Got The Better Bomb by Audioslave (Comment on this)