As ganked from /Nicholas, As evidenced by Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.

The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historical your lj. (Any decision, as long as it’s not Roe v. Wade.)

Loving v. Virginia, in which the Supreme Court ruled there could be no lawful impediment to interracial marriages.

This is clearly the same ruling, or the precedent for the ruling, that will eventually be applied to gay marriage in the US, and it blows my tiny little mind that we even have to fight about it.

In other news, yesterday’s pilates session has left my tummy sore enough to be amusing without being debilitating. That’s just the right amount of sore. :) Also, today marks 3 weeks without sweets. I didn’t lose any weight this week, but I’m not too worried about that. I did have a dream last night that I was eating french toast ice cream and some kind of pie, though…

miles to Isengard: 392
ytd wordcount: 333,300

currently: curious

I have a bunch of P-Con stories I want to tell, but I need to get away from the computer, and I fear that by the time I’m willing to come back and blog a lot I’ll have forgotten them. That, though, is a price I may be forced to pay, because I don’t want to be at the computer any more right now and am planning a Ludicrous Speed Writing Blitz over the next three days, which will not make me want to blog. Even as a procrastinatory technique. I’m pretty sure of it.

I’m at 106K on this book, and I still have somewhere between 40 and 70,000 words left. I can say with great confidence that the book will not reach 200K. I can say with somewhat less confidence that it won’t reach 180K. Short of that, though, all bets are off. (My editor’s going to kill me.)

But this morning, for the first time on this book, I had a flash of “the end is in sight!” It’s still a long damned way away, but there is a tiny bit of light at the end of the tunnel. I saw it, however briefly, and I am *glad*. I think that’s part of what’s inspired me to dig in and make a headlong rush for Ludicrous Speed. That, and, as I said at the con this weekend, I am not Douglas Adams. I do not love the whooshing sound deadlines make as they go rushing by. And this one rushed by two months ago. *grits teeth*

(I am, in fact, just about *exactly* as far behind as my injured hand took to heal. The only good thing in any of this is I did get HANDS OF FLAMES revisions /and/ line edits done, so those aren’t hanging over my head in any way while I try to finish this book.)

Arright. Off to get away from the computer. With any luck, tomorrow’s posting will represent a major jump in my YTD wordcount. And, um, also a major jump in the book’s wordcount…

ytd wordcount: 122,600
miles to Minas Tirith: 235.4

New computer is up and running, thanks be to Myles for providing it and Ted for doing the heavy lifting. Don’t have the files moved over from the old hard drive yet, but I’ve got the important things installed: City of Heroes, and SimpleMU*. :)

I have managed a whacking 1011 words today, which is not exactly covering myself in glory, although at least it made the 1K wordcount. Still, I don’t think I’m going to do more, as this was a morning when I found myself cleaning the kitchen and sweeping the hall in order to avoid writing. I think I’ll go…

…that sentence was supposed to finish–oh dear, this computer’s set up to a UK keyboard layout. Going to have to fix that. *searches for the ” key* Right. Where was I. Supposed to finish with “see Enchanted again”, but having just looked at the times it’s playing, I’ve missed it. Oops. They changed the schedule, like it was Friday or something. Doity bastads. Man, I wonder if that means I should go back to work.

Naaah. I’ll go for a walk instead.

In the rain. o.O

ytd wordcount: 22,700

currently: fine