I'm a NaNo writer!

Mood: excited, yet slightly guilty.
Feeling like: jumping up and down, but also hit my head against the nearest wall.

It's official. A few hours ago, I signed up for the crazyness that is NaNoWriMo and, like I said in those forums, I'm willing to finish my 50,000 words novel even if, along the way, I manage to lose what little sanity I have left...

Dear friends of mine who read this blog once in a while, I beg you to please drop a line or two in the comments... I'm gonna need a lot of moral support. I don't think I'll write anything else for this blog for the rest of November, but you never know. Perhaps at some point I'll be so frustrated that I'll decide to take a break and do something just for fun... only time will tell.

And now I gotta go, I still need 49,639 more words that won't be written on their own =)

I'm off...

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Listening: Linkin Park - Hit the Floor
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NaNoWriMo

Mood: mortified.
Feeling like: crying... and hitting someone.

I simply can't believe I'm seriously considering this.

I must be completely out of my mind... Why else would I even think about entering? And why else would I consider entering now!? Now that everybody else has begun... Now that they all have had 7 days of work...

For those who know what NaNoWriMo is, I'm pretty sure you'll agree I've completely lost my flipping mind!

For those who have no clue, I'll explain briefly: NaNoWriMo is some sort of contest in which participants try to achieve the insane goal of writing a 50,000 words novel in 30 days...

So yeah, I know I'm absolutely crazy, insane, mad, etc. But... I dunno, I just have this weird urge to participate— to prove to myself that I can write 50,000 flipping words in 30 freaking days. And I hate that feeling... I know I shouldn't try to add one more thing to my already enormous to do list, but I want to enter NaNoWriMo... so badly!

God... I'm gonna have to think about this A LOT! Tomorrow, I'll have my final decision.

I'm off...
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Listening: Breaking Benjamin - You Fight Me
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My geekyness level.

Mood: fairly satisfied.
Feeling like: eating something... I'm hungry!

A few months ago, I took a test to check my "geekyness level" and I turned out to be a "computer geek wannabe". That result was satisfying for me back then, since it was over 50 points and the average score for women is 35; for men, 56 (ergo, I was as geeky as a regular guy, and guys are, theoretically, geekier than girls).

Today, however, I decided to stop by that page and try again and... guess what? I'm now geekier than a regular guy :P

Ladies and gentlemen... my score:

If any of you have taken the test, I'd love to know what were your scores =)

I'm off...

"Carajo"

Mood: amused.
Feeling like: eating a chocolate cake! Yum!

Undoubtedly, a journey is always enlightening; and a journey through internet is no exception. Everyday, one learns something and today, I learnt something funny about the origin of a 'bad word' in Spanish: carajo.

According to good ol' wikipedia, that word comes from latin word carassus (an alternate name for... well, the pennis). This word, with time, became the name of the biggest mast in a ship (talk aboutmetaphors, huh?), and then, eventually, was also the name of the basket thingy that's around that mast.

One of the less cruel punishments for sailors was to tell them "¡Vete al carajo!", meaning: "go to the basket around the big mast", where they'd be left for hours, until the were veeeery dizzy.

So that's why saying "Vete al carajo" is a baaaaaad thing, my dear kids. lol! I just thought it was a fun fact sort of thing... =)

I'm off...

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Listening: The All-American Rejects - Can't Take It
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