Or trying as hard as I could. I now sit at a healthy 2589 words, which is still about 4000 short of where I need to be at the end of the day, but it’s 2300 words ahead of where I was yesterday when I called it a night [1], [2]. I’ve been at my computer off and on since 6:30pm, doing either chunks of writing or short sprints (7 minutes writing, 5 minutes cleaning off the dining room table or picking up dry dishes or cleaning Bing’s litter box). It’s gone well that way, and the only reason I’ve stopped for the night is that I’m tired and you can only force it for so long before the words start to dry up.
As for the election results, I’m a little too scared to hope. I remember going to bed in 2000 thinking Gore had won it, and waking up at 4am and finding out that he hadn’t, and it was looking very likely that Bush had won. Yes, things look good for Obama right now and I really hope he wins (and Props 8, 2, 102 and 48 fail), but I’m not holding my breath.
…Oh wait. McCain is giving his concession speech on CNN right now. Never mind, I guess.
[1] Although election officials in Florida will need to verify that first before anything is official.
[2] Tomorrow, if I write another 2300 words, I’ll be up to almost 4500 words, which is only around 3400 words behind where I should be.
Go, Rebecca! Kick that word counts ass! (PS- I kinda, um, quit. Because I’m braindead and have no mojo. I know- you can shame me! I totally need it!)