Day Five - Dec 5th? Really?

According to the NaNoWriMo site, I'm not going to reach the 50,000 word mark until December 5.  Well that's just mean.  I mean, I got all caught up last night - actually, I got ahead by 200 words.  Why will I not finish on time?  So cruel...

Anyway, I'm at about 7600 words.  My goal is to get 15000 words done by the end of the weekend so that I can be 3332 words ahead (so ahead by about 2 days of work).  A girl can hope, can't she?

On top of my 15000 word goal, I have a whole host of other things to accomplish this weekend:

• History of the English Language Test on Middle English
• Advanced World Literature E-mail reaction to the Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (about 2-3 pages)
• Advanced Expository Writing paper on culture in the controversy and banning of HuckFinn edits
• Attend the guest speaker for ROTC (of course, the guest speaker is Mom, so that's cool...)

I'll get it all done.  Somehow.  Maybe I just won't sleep this weekend.  

Anyway, about NaNoWriMo:

The excitement is wearing off.  NaNoWriMo isn't novel anymore (Yay - bad puns).  It's losing its charm with each ounce of my spirit it drains painfully through my fingers.

This day has been particularly hard, because I'm trying to describe the way a spaceship would look that is fifty years advanced from where we are now through the eyes of someone who sees it as a piece of antiquated junk.   What was I thinking when I picked this idea as my NaNoWriMo idea?

But I wrote a total of over 3300 words yesterday.  If I can do that, I can clearly finish up my 1667 for today.

Wish me luck.