LBJs

*I've been keeping this journal for over a year and a half now, so you'd think I'd know not to hit the "Back" button on my browser while working on it. But no, I keep doing it. So this is the third time I've started writing this entry.

*Busy day coming up: it's the annual football game against Episcopal High School (a/k/a ehs) and I'm on dorm duty. Luckily, all but a handful of students opt to spend this Saturday night with friends or family, so it'll be a pretty easy night. Before that, however, I get to wrangle a busload of students up to Alexandria for the game, which might go well or poorly--it's hard to be sure. At least I think our team's got a good chance of winning.

*The novel now stands at 11,795 words, just ahead of schedule. (Whether I'll make today's quota is questionable; I may have to go for 3333 words tomorrow instead.) So far the process has been relatively smooth. One scene was a piece o'cake. Another was more like a piece o'beef jerky left in the desert sun for a couple of days. And one was like a piece of animal pot pie--potentially delicious, but the exact nature of the dish remains a bit uncertain at the moment.

*I'm still not sure about the title "Moving Day." I'll be using the phrase in the novel, definitely, but I'm not sure it has the zing a good title should have. Other possibilities have included A Plague of Starlings, His Name in All the Earth, Robbery, Memories Are Made of His, and First-Person Plural. I'm hoping I'll come up with something better, but I know it often takes a while for a good title to jump out at you.

*I don't know how I missed it until now, but this morning I heard Cake's cover version of "I Will Survive." It's funny as hell on one level, but it's also oddly affecting. And I've got to share it with my sister-in-law.
6:47 AM

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