if this post feels a little disjointed, it’s because I feel a little disjointed right now. There’s lots of stressful and often unpleasant stuff rattling around in the deep dark corners of my brain right now, and it’s got me both totally on edge and wallowing in what may not necessarily a deep well of depression, but is certainly at least a not-entirely-shallow cistern.

I’m not going to go into all that, because you don’t necessarily want to read it – my therapy will be this year’s National Novel Writing Month project. I figure that if I’m going to be feeling shitty like this anyway, I ought to channel it into something I can at least pretend is productive. And, I had fun last year, even if that novel is mostly a bit of crap. So, if I start putting things up here even less often than has become habit, that’s where I’ll be.

By the way, don’t go looking for the NaNoWriMo site right now – as of this evening, it’s getting slammed. Less browsing, more writing, people!

The other thing I wanted to tell you all about is that tomorrow (Tuesday, November 2) is election day in these (allegedly) United States. If you’re an American, you have at least a congressional election to vote in, so get out there and do so. Even if you’d rather have dried leaves than ground beans and steamed milk in your hot water beverage*, I’d still encourage you to vote, because it’s part of the American experience. However, I’ll also try to convince you of the error of your ways before you hit the voting booth, because that’s another part of the American experience…or at least it should be.

For example, if you live in Virginia’s 4th congressional district, voting for Dr. Wynne LeGrow like I did a couple of weeks ago (absentee – I’m not going to be home for election day) is an excellent idea because he’s got great positions on the economy, the environment, and on health care, and if he’s elected to congress, he’s likely to do more over ten years than sponsor and pass just one bill and spend most of his time in DC running a prayer group.

Anyway, get out there and vote…and maybe when you’re done, write a book.

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* –please enjoy my enjoy my particularly tortuous figurative language attempting to point out the superiority of “Latte Liberal” over “Tea Party.” This is made even more torturous due to the fact that politics aside, I enjoy tea quite a bit, and can’t stand milk in my fair-trade organic coffee from the excellent coffee and pastry shop near my office.