How did I not hear of this earlier?

The Macy’s Day Parade was Rick Rolled?!?! This may be the best thing ever. Seriously. (WATCH THIS!!!!)

Today is the day

Within a few short hours I will have completed NaNoWriMo 2008. Only 1,856 words to go until I cross the 50,000 word finish line and have, technically, completed my novel titled (drum roll and/or dun dun dun, not included): When We Conquered.
Victory tastes oh-so-sweet.

European Snapshots Version 2.0

Beautiful gardens in Dresden, Germany

Xiu Xiu at The Meet Factory in the outskirts of Prague

Castle grounds in Krakow, Poland

Pretty gardens in Prague featuring a nice view of the castle way up high

David Cerne’s Piss Sculpture in front of the Franz Kafka Museum in Prague

One vantage point view of Stockholm, Sweden

Swedish ducks and sunset (at 3:00 [...]

Supposed Synopsis

I’m not quite sure what to say about my novel now that it is near completion (current word count: 44,499), but I have done a spectacularly poor job at keeping my blog up-to-date with such information and excerpts pertaining to the wretched block of work, and, so, I thought it worthwhile to copy and paste [...]

Even genius’ fail sometimes

Dear iTunes Genius,
I don’t know exactly how you function, what your thoughts are, where you get all your handy-dandy information from, but, iTunes Genius, I’ll have you know that you fucked up. Big time.
You see, I hold a decent amount of faith in you and your accurate playlist crafting talent– that was until you followed [...]

Stockholm is….

clean    modern    friendly    attractive    cold    water-filled    compact

makers of grand espresso    a home for beautiful women    and men

You Can Vote However You Like….

VICTORY! Looks like I will, in fact, be returning home to U.S. soil in December. Thank you America for restoring my faith in the political system. I don’t want to start scribbling my blog with political meanderings, but I couldn’t resist vocalizing how proud of and excited I am about our next president. I was [...]

Ctrl +V

Before I officially call it a night, I must share this. I went to paste in my excerpt and this is what came out:
if all else fails i may join in on the tourism business
Too true my friends, too true.
Alright, goodnight night zombies.

Laura Veirs, helping me get the words out

Day two: 3,400 words in
I’m two days into this writing fest and feeling pretty great about it. The words are flowing fairly well and I’m beginning to get very involved and attached to my characters. They’re relatable and terribly flawed men and women. I like them. I still haven’t come up with an appropriate title, [...]

I’ve solved a problem

I’ve decided to write a novel. Deja vu anyone?
As a result of my less than stimulating course work at Charles University I’ve felt quite unchallenged and unproductive. My brain is wasting away because, aside from my pleasure reading, it is running idle.
For those unfamiliar with my personality, I really, really can’t stand it when things [...]