Daily Word Count 2/9/10

I am a twenty-something with a motivation deficiency and a tendency to meander around a while before getting to the point. I have a high tolerance for alcohol and a low tolerance for stupidity. My only real ambition is to become a genius. That is, to be considered to have a "degree of mental superiority that enables its possessor to live acceptably upon his admirers, and without blame be unbrokenly drunk." The auspice under which I aspire to such heights of glory is writing fantasy/sci-fi novels. And, I suppose, convincing people to pay to read them. Hence the living acceptably upon my admirers. In the meantime, merely living within one standard deviation of normalcy is challenge for me, an amusement when I fail. I am very amusing. Welcome to my world.
This blog is a chronicle of my struggles with artistic endeavors of both the short and the long variety, and also--more so?--the random interesting tidbits that catch the attention of a girl with an NQ (nerd quotient) of 180. So sit back, pop a cold-coldie or a Caucasion, or whatever your beverage of preference may be, and prepare to have your mind blown in the most elegant and only occasionally sexual of ways...

This one, or I should say these two stories are a play on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, organically grown out of one too many listens to "Sweet Sweet Viola" by the Hackberries on the Shakespeare at Winedale album Shakespeare's Palbable Hits.
If I am to give myself 3 months per romance novel, for example, I have until the end of February to finish this one. If 4 months, the end of March. If I'm going to the end of February, I need to be writing something on the scale of 1200 words a day. If March, probably more like 800 (I haven't actually done the math on either of these). Either way: 535 won't cut it.
So. I think I should just retitle this blog Elena Reviews Movies because that's about to be what it is for the next few weeks. I have a shitpile of stuff I want to talk about.
Barring that, I'll have to settle for continuing to look like one of Ender's little Dragon soldiers at Battle School. My scarf is a UT logo one, so burnt orange (though really more orange than burnt orange) and both my heavy running sweatshirt and lightweight cotton hoodie are gray. And orange and gray were the Dragons' colors....