Posts Tagged ‘200-W-A-D challenge’

Sick Day

28Oct08

For the record, I DO feel sick–to my stomach, in particular–and I AM pretty sure that the 16-hour migraine I had yesterday is going to come back today, and I AM feeling exhausted from plowing through school migraine in tow yesterday.  However, if I’m feeling well enough to do my 200 words this early in [...]


I’m going to a concert in a few minutes (FC Wind Symphony–which is cool, though I wish it were a real symphony [you know, with strings and such] because I am a sucker for the strings, but no offense of course intended L because I’m sure it’s actually going to be really fantastic and who [...]


Delinquency

24Oct08

Two days now, I’ve missed my 200 words.  This?  Is a massive fail.  I even THOUGHT about it last night and was all, “I don’t feel like writing!” so I didn’t do it.  I suppose I was worried that I’d write about NOTHING, like I am about to (and, to be accurate, like I’m already [...]


Fail!

22Oct08

COMPLETELY forgot to write yesterday.  Bummer.  And I was doing so well!
Here’s another interesting search term that led people to el blog here: “fwhat to write in a first time mom’s car”.  Why on earth are people searching for these things?  Also, fwhat brings us together.  Thank goodness for typos!  Let it be known that [...]


I’ve got a horrible headache and all I really want to do with my evening is go to bed and/or read The Borrowers Afield in the bath, but alas, I made this ridiculous fucking commitment to writing 200 words a day and well that’s just fucking great!
I had fucking inservice all day today at school [...]


Alright, so an unforeseen side-effect (hyphen necessary?  Probably not.  I’ll get back to that question, though.) of committing to blogging 200+-W-A-D is that I’m tending not to write because of some meaningful occasion or interesting ponderance I’ve been mulling over, but rather because I have to.  As a result, my posts are becoming, perhaps increasingly, [...]


French music!

17Oct08

I’m listening to this awesome cover of “Oh What A Night” and it’s in French and it’s actually making me dance in my chair right now, which is causing me (apparently) to write an incredibly long run-on-esque sentence because it just seems to fit the chairdancing vibe right now.  Et fin!
This is quite plainly the [...]


SuperTired!

16Oct08

Oh my gosh, I just realized that I can put a poll on here.  I’m totally doing that.  Then the two of you can weigh in.
That’s pretty much the coolest thing I’ve ever done.  Still!  Not two hundred words.  So let’s go…
My kids today (9th graders) worked on tableau, a strategy I’ve always sort of [...]


My blog is at the top of the results when one googles “meaty rill”!  Nice!  I’m thinking of retitling the blog in honor of that little revelation.  Many thanks to whomever made this happen.  Also: What on earth is a “meaty rill”?  I’m hoping that all those poor souls out looking for “meaty rills” on [...]


So I went to this writing conference this weekend in which the speaker, a published writer and high school teacher, talked about the importance of making time to write.  He does it by committing himself to writing 200 words a day.  That sounded easy-ish to me, and so… I’ve decided to take up the challenge!
Sunday, [...]