Goodness. First breather since Thanksgiving. Apologies for not writing sooner, but everything sort of just collaborated and planned on being due at the exact same time.

First off, I FINISHED NANO WRIMO. So, to all you naysayers, neener neener neener. I did it! Yeah, it was a little hard, what with me accidentally breaking my computer (let's not tell this story) just as I got back to the dorms right after Thanksgiving. But thank goodness for Dell and their amazing technical support. So, I typed what I could during the week when I wasn't catching my two days of missed homework up, but Friday was when it really began. Skyelar and I looked at our wordcount that morning. It was dismally behind by about 22,000 words. And we had until midnight to play catch up.

I wrote 18,000 words that day.

That's right, I totally wrote almost half the entire book in just one day. I can't even begin to describe how amazing it is that my Fridays are almost devoid of any classes, and what classes I do have are delightfully brief. Skyelar and I were fueled by so much coffee, I'm surprised I didn't overdose on caffeine. But we did it! Granted, we lost so much sleep waiting for the validation page to load, we may as well have pulled an all nighter, but we finally managed to crash before the sky grew light again with the comfort that our novel was submitted and we had done a job well done.

And then school started to lose its mind. It was like someone suddenly the on switch in all the teachers. Papers were everywhere, panic in the streets, nobody slept a decent amount at all, my suite mate actually went one night without a single hour of sleep. Poor girl was tottering on her feet by lunch the next day. Study guides and exams an preparations for finals. Projects and essays and research all colliding into the past two days. In the past two days, I have had more homework and quizzes and presentations than I had averaged in November.

Absolutely ridiculous. But all in all, the next two weeks are shaping up to be quite the challenge. A few finals, thankfully not one for every single class, but all of them important. So, like I said, this was the first moment of freedom in a while. Don't be too upset if I don't write again until vacation begins, but I will try to relax my brain with more posts this month.

That's all for now.