Morning Funnies

Son's friend on the way to school - "I think Harry Potter would have been a better movie if I'd gone to the bathroom before the movie.

Son's other friend (wearing ski cap and shorts - "What!? It's slushing! It's not supposed to slush. Where's the snow?"

Heard on the radio concerning an imminent winter storm -
Anchor 1, "I hope this isn't a haberdashery of the year to come."
Anchor 2, "What? We're all going to be wearing hats?"

Type A ...

I am not.

Thought, gee, with this NaNoWriMo thing, I could use it as an exercise to make better use of my time. I know the principles of time management and goal setting - I've even taught classes on it - but I am a hardcore Type B person. More so than I realized.

I've been trying to set a schedule for myself - and I can't even get around to making the schedule. I just do. No plan. No goals. If something needs to be done - I do it. Otherwise there is no urgency.

I know it's possible to force a Type B into Type A mode - at least I think it's possible - maybe, but from where I sit I've been entrenched in my mode of operation waaaay too long. Time for a reboot.

Back Story

OK, trying the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) - so I might have a few more thoughts than normal. (Insert empty head joke here) I am rapidly growing a healthy, nay admirable, respect for the author that can reveal a complex back story without resorting to a load of exposition. How do you reveal the details without killing the pace of the story?

"He hit him."

"The grey-green sun shined off the sweat specked scales of his opponent as the boot-camp entrenched typical gut punch landed."

I've got to find a happy medium in there.