update: evil november, why are you so evil?

oh man.  i have had the most insane november so far.  i am calling it a triumph that i even got out of my bed this morning.  let me try to break this down in in bulleted list.

• work: i don't know why anything surprises me anymore.
• gym: i'm doing it.  i really am.  i mentioned before that the lovely ladies in my family have a goal to each walk 450+ miles in under a year.  i broke down recently and got another gym membership.  you have to be sneaky about gym memberships, i've decided, or they tend to hound you.  so what i do is i sign up for the gym at one location and then i never go back there. i go to a different location, because i hate people trying to get me to sign up for a session with the personal trainer or like... keeping tabs on me or something.  i hate it.  anyway, i have been going to the gym three times a week, and because i go to one of the smaller locations, i have to get there before the after-work rush or else i won't get a working elliptical.  i'll get the one that sounds like an elephant.  so i have to flee from work and don't have much flexibility for staying late to catch up on things.  this makes life difficult.
• voting: oh my gosh. i waited in line for an hour and a half last tuesday to vote.  there is never a line like that for voting, unless it's a presidential vote.  my goodness.  good for america for being invested, i guess, but i was slightly homicidal by the time i got to the front of the line.  and they have electronic voting, so i didn't even get to take my aggression out on some chads.
• nanowrimo: WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?  (LISA TINGEY, I'M LOOKING AT YOU.) for those of you who are not familiar with nanowrimo, it stands for National Novel Writing Month.  the goal is to write a 50,000-word first draft in one month.  thirty days.  my friends lisa and shar are doing it, and lisa convinced me to join the madness.  MADNESS.  i'm way behind on my word count right now, but i'm further on my novel than i've ever been, so i suppose that's kind of the point, right?  the whole idea of nano is to just get the first draft out without worrying about whether it's horrible or not.  i suppose if you do that, sure you could probably get 50,000 words out in a month.  but i cannot do that.  i cannot let go.  i have to edit and polish things as i go.  it is just the way i roll, yo. i'm still aiming for the end of the month, but i figure that if i have my novel done by the new year, that's good enough.  i will have a full first draft of a novel, which is something i've never had before. 
• THE WORST LUCK EVER: on second thought, this bullet needs its own post.  so.  get excited about that.