I won!!!!!

...My characters are evil and need to die. I did not want to start playing with international politics this close to the deadline, especially when I don't even know what most of the countries are named!

This is fun. Except for the days where I don't do much...

(But I'm still ahead.)

Word count for today's not uploaded yet, but it's still ahead of the strictly-necessary count and behind my personal goal. Ah, well, no classes tomorrow!

14,123. Another 2k tomorrow and I should have a fairly nice cushion for next week.

I wish there were three or four NaNos per year and not just one.

13,465 words and counting. Up to date - now I just need to keep writing and make myself a nice little cushion for the upcoming days.

Next week's the worst.

Currently in play: weretigers, werebears, assassins, abductors, abductees, ambassadors, bodyguards, kings, nobles, international plots, Mysterious Forests, and the odd sorcerer or three.

...Ye gods. I am so going to have to run this through the Mary-Sue Litmus Test when I am done...

First name:

Get Your Cyborg Name

Middle name:

Get Your Cyborg Name

And we cannot forget that I am also one of the:

Get Your Cyborg Name

This was just too much fun.

Biology majors annoy me. They can't get out of the required year of physics, so instead they decide that it's unimportant and they can just skate through it, promptly forgetting every blessed thing they learn the moment the class ends. Never mind that they have to take a second semester of it after they finish the first. Never mind that any half-way decent med school will test you on it before acceptance. So they all sign up for credit/no credit and do absolutely nothing so far as earning a decent grade goes.

They skip out of class incessantly.
They refuse to so much as look at the homework.
When they are in class, they ignore the professor and make no attempts at interaction.

And then they have the audacity to complain when the average score on a test comes back a 35 out of 100, thereby ticking off the professor who is trying to teach these things to them and failing because they Just. Won't. Learn. And, of course, the repercussions from that then fall on both the just and the unjust. Is it time to flee Sodom yet? It's beginning to feel like it.

If physics were any harder than their other classes, I would be much more inclined to sympathy. But these students have for the most part gone through a year's worth of chemistry with A's and B's - a class that requires rather more memorization of formulae than physics, along with ten thousand other rules. A number of them have taken and passed Organic Chemistry, which is supposedly the bane of the Bio major. They've taken botany and zoology and microbiology and genetics and kept up an acceptable GPA, but the moment it comes to the physics class every ounce of skill and dedication that would normally be applied is royally defenestrated. Dr. Mokhtari takes great pains to make sure that everyone has a printed copy of the assigned problems, but what can she do when the students fold them up and never look at them again?

I'm not jumping ship: I'm in for the duration, and I will be getting a decent grade. But somehow I suspect that the Physics II classroom this spring will appear rather barren compared to the current one.

The thought pleases me.

Word count as of last night: 4186. I'm hoping to keep on about 2k words per day instead of 1667 - it builds a buffer into the system. So far, so good!