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T-minus four hours and seventeen minutes... and I am nervous as hell. I tried doing my optical materials homework just now, but I can only think about beginning this novel at midnight tonight. I want to hit 10K tonight, and while I'm hopeful, I don't think it is going to happen.

I should stop being pessimistic. I'm going to hit 10K tonight/tomorrow. Thank goodness DST ends tonight -- I get an extra hour to play with tonight.

I've been toying with the idea of trying out some sort of polyphasic sleep schedule this month, but I don't think that that will work out too well, not with classes and work and exams this month and such.

I feel like I've lost sight of what my novel will be about -- once again, I'm having difficulty seeing the forest for the trees. I'm so focused on developing my characters right now that I feel like my actual plot has fallen by the wayside. I suppose I'll just write and write and write and see where it takes me. That's the entire point of this month, right?

There's a Rutgers thread on the NaNoWriMo site, and it would be really cool if we all could get together for a night in the Alcove. Hell, it would be pretty fantastic just to meet up with another person and have a write-off or something along those lines.

I tried out the Barnes and Noble in North Brunswick as a writing spot Thursday night, and I didn't like it. The seat was too low for one of the tables I was sitting at, and so I had a really hard time getting comfortable enough to type on my laptop. The place just wasn't ergonomically sound for an occasion like this one. They also don't train their staff very well on how to access the wireless provided. *sigh* Gotta find somewhere else besides Ops and my room to write in the middle of the night... even though it probably will be Ops. I mean, I know everybody there, there's usually at least one free station, internet access, and a couch! Who can beat that?

50,000 words is still pretty daunting. It's pretty daunting when combining that with school, exams, work and the like. *sigh*. Gotta make it all work, is all...