The Work-in-Progress Meme!

Okay. This is something I've concocted primarily because I want confirmation that I'm not the only one with a folder full of half-finished fiction on my desktop that might never get written at this rate. So here you are! The Work-in-Progress Meme! When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y. Yes. I know I went "when on Earth did I write this" several times. And that's always fun. I really am convinced that somebody's been messing around with my computer and uploading their stuff, though, because I have zero recollection of a good portion of this. Especially the older stuff.

( So here's mine! )

Whew. That was fun. I should go to bed now.

My Random Day

First, I would just like to say that as I'm typing this, my oh-so-wonderful neighbour across the alley has brought out some sort of horrible woodchipping machine and is merrily screeching away at something that's undoubtedly pretty manly and shirtless and things.  The upside to all that noise, though, is that it drowns out the ear-splitting barking and whining of his huge Rottweiler.  The downside is that this condo complex forms some sort of magical auditory thing so that, if I don't want to roast and have therefore opened the window, even the softest whisper or the shuffle of sneakered feet on grass outside sounds like it's right in my very own bedroom!  Someone in acoustics needs to take a look at this place and figure out how that works; I could make a fortune that way.

(Of course, the worst part is the splitting sugar-headache I've given myself.  Heehee.)

So I decided to do something different today.  It occurred to me that I keep blithering on about going to the mall but hadn't actually got around to doing it by myself.  So this morning I walked in the general direction of work, then dramatically boarded a different bus and sped cross-city to the mall!  (Note: I'm not quite as much of a slacker as this action makes me out to be.  Just working ahead.  Yes.  I call it "procrastinating in advance".)

So I wandered aimlessly around the mall and wound up going in circles and just buying candy from a few different stores.  And then I went to Chapters and wound up chatting with the cute guy at checkout over my t-shirt ("Buy fair trade and organic to defeat the evil robots") and my purchase (a luverly five-book box set of the Hitchhiker's trilogy, complete with a bright yellow sticker that proclaims that while the recommended retail price is a whopping CAN$ 84.95, it's mine for just CAN$ 34.95!).  I then decided that I'm really a pretty boring mallgoer and toddled off to find a quiet corner to read my new books.

But it was fun. :D  And then I caught a bus that was heading toward the university, got a bit claustrophobic and just hopped out at a random stop, and realized (once I'd wandered down an alley in search of identifiable landmarks) that I was only two blocks from home.  So serendipity just saved me walking the twenty blocks from campus!  Huzzah!  Of course, I'll never remember where that bus stop was in the first place...

Okay, I've given up and have closed the window.  I doubt it was helping with the temperature in here (currently 30.1 degrees and rising) anyway.  I'm going to stop eating candy before I fall over, read me some Douglas Adams, and listen to Gregorian chants.  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you summer!

The Friday/Thursday... um... Ten.

Right.  I forgot that I'm doing the Friday Five thing now.  Um.  So here's two weeks' worth, and this week is early to make up for the other being late. *beams*
( Every day's Friday! :D )

So there you have it!

An interesting meme I found in a blog from 2004.

( This is, apparently, my 100 list. )

That was fun.  Just got back from playing basketball with my roommate; we're both terrible at it and have agreed to make it a regular thing.  Huzzah! :D