NaNoWriMo Debriefing

Posted by mimi on Dec 1, 2008 in dish | 1 comment Fifty thousand, seven hundred and forty words later, I am a proud 2008 NaNoWriMo winner, which basically means that I can post cool graphics on my blog attesting to that fact and, if I’m jonesing for concrete validation, I can download a certificate to print out. But it’s not like I didn’t know that going in. NaNoWriMo is a personal challenge. It’s also conducted on the...
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NaNoWriMo Update #4

Posted by mimi on Nov 29, 2008 in dish | 1 comment Just over 24 hours left to go in this year’s NaNoWriMo, and a little more than 8,000 words to write. I’ll have to write fast, though–there’s a lot of book still to cover. I’ve been dwelling more on earlier chapters than in the past, so I have a decent-sized chunk still to sketch out before I can legitimately write “The End.”Okay, back to the book. More...
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OMG They Just Rickroll’d the Macy’s Parade!

Posted by mimi on Nov 27, 2008 in dish | 0 comments I don’t know which warped brain at Cartoon Network thought this up, but it’s freakin’ BRILLIANT. Watch and sing as the Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends Rickrolls the entire Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade:Excellent!
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You’re My Obsession

Posted by mimi on Nov 23, 2008 in dish | 1 comment One lovely benefit of the Interwebs is the ability to Google your whole backstory. You can look up old jobs, old home towns, historical events, and even better, historical men (come on; you know you’ve Googled your high school crush).But something gets forgotten…if you can Google, they can Google you back. And that’s exactly what happened to me last night, and I’m still...
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