Shake, rattle and roll

A question to the Californians on my f-list: do your earthquakes tend to go "boom"?

Also, to the North Carolinians that are freaking over it, come on! LOL An earthquake that measures 2.6 on the Richter scale? We're not that wussy. Hurricanes are scarier than an earthquake like that.

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Note to self: Going home will be SERIOUSLY screwy today. If my calculations are right, the President will be coming back to Greensboro from Randleman around 5. *whimper* Dear Mr. President - way to fuck up my commute home. Couldn't you have gone to see Kyle Petty sooner? Kyle's cool and all, and we adore him muchly, so thanks for going to the camp and checking things out, but still.

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Need to ditch all my Jimmie Johnson icons. I don't like him anymore.

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Due to the creation (by rearranging of furniture and bringing in my ferns) of a reading nook, I spent way too much time last night curled up reading a book. Like, didn't go to bed when I should have, insisted on finishing the book. Which means I went to bed at 2 am and got four hours of sleep. So yes, I'm on Coke number two.

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Ever have one of those days where everything's going along swimmingly and despite 4 hours of sleep you're surprisingly chipper (well, that may be the three soft drinks and M&Ms talking) and there's clown joking and excitement over weekend events and then you hit the downer?

Downer hit as of 15 minutes ago. Thanks mom!

Today is my former best friend's 30th birthday. (Who I suspect can actually read this - oddly enough.)

Yeah, I'm just gonna ignore the world now.

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Writing

Have made the vow and gone the distance and will be doing NaNoWriMo this year. I'm so fed up with ideas for stories and never getting around to doing anything (usually due to overthinking and procrastination). So last night I jotted down some character ideas, swore to not think about plot (as it appears to be a rambly southern tale in which plot is generally incidental), and today I signed up. Huzzah! My bravery astounds. Now start taking bets on how far I'll get before stopping.

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NASCAR

Two days to Harvick. Pardon me while I have a heart attack now.