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I feel like I have a hangover...but I don't. I just have spent too much time looking at screens and not enough time getting sleep, so I'm kind of groggy and my head hurts. I'm also really hungry right now.

Last night, I watched Love Actually, which I hated. Good lord, there was no real conflict... some minor conflict, yes, but nothing of any substance, so most of the time, I sat there wondering why the people wouldn't just do the obvious. I was bored out of my mind. And the plot with the husband/wife/new girl never got resolved, as far as I could tell. *sigh* I don't even remember any of the characters' names. Total fluff.

This is all an attempt to get caught up on Alan Rickman movies, after seeing Die Hard (which I also did not like, although I enjoyed the Hans Gruber parts (or I liked it, but I did not like any of the ...(forgot his name) parts), which is how I ended up thinking that I should watch more).

I do want to see Truly, Madly, Deeply, because I saw that it features a cello, and it may be worth it just for that. Who knows?

I also watched Convicted, which I found to be much better, though I watched it second, from 12 - 2 in the morning, so it's possible I'm not remembering well. The ending was a little disappointing... Yes, I'll admit it, I like torturing fictional characters way too much for my own good. I also wish it had been reversed, with the woman saving the man, but, well, we all know how I feel about that. In any case, it may give me some inspiration.

On the writing front...not so great. I wrote randomly at work, during some of the free time I had, but I'm somewhat stuck in Chapter 7. And the evil chapter 8 is looming... I say "evil chapter 8" because for some reason, no matter how many words I have per chapter, I always get stuck at chapter 8. Except for last year. I don't know what it is about chapter 8, but that's always where I get stuck. Anyway, chapter 6 was amazing... at least I really like it. Reading it over again is always fun. Alas, not excerpt-able. But after that, it's hard to get back to the nitty gritty reality of Hogwarts.

I did discover some problems with my plot, but also some solutions, so that's good at least. And the outlining seems to be helpful, since I'm not having the "I feel like I already wrote this" problem. Still, part of the problem with chapter 7 is that I feel somewhat constrained by it.

Anyway, so here I am writing about writing and not getting anything actually done.

I'm at 19,520... some of my Coffeehouse friends are shooting for 25,000 today, but I don't think I'm going to do that. I'm going to stick to my original 1,000 words-a-day goal, and get to 20,520. I have Friday off, too, so I should be able to go crazy over the week-end again :)

*cheers mad writing*

(Last year, my motto was "Don't write badly, write madly".)