Have I mentioned how insane I am to be thinking about doing this? (At this point, it’s still thinking. The doing is yet to come.) It’s November. November, people. This is the month when I must, at the very least:

• read, read, read for 4 courses w/ exams
• finish outlines for aforementioned 4 courses
• read, read, read (& take notes) for course w/ paper
• write rough draft of aforementioned paper
• write research proposal (& do other related stuff)
• read, read, read subs for TC’s Dec issue
• make selections for aforementioned issue
• once list is final, set up December issue
• send out acceptance / rejection letters (?maybe someone else will do this?)

Ahhh! Nevertheless, I’m still going to give it a shot. To that end, I’ve got all the subs sorted & ready to read, already, before the end of October. Yay, me. I’m going to finish w/ my non-law-review journal assignment (reviewing essays) this weekend. Have outline for paper done. Almost finished with bibliography. Will finish this weekend. Have good start on outlines, some more so than others. And on the plus side, actual *studying* for exams and writing of final draft of paper can wait till December 1. Ah, yes, the bright side. We’ll see how I feel about that in 2 days.

I think I mentioned that I scheduled NaNo writing time into my calendar as my first appointment of the day, in lieu of my usual morning activity: reading blogs / forums. See? I think it’s really possible to do this, if I just skip that little time suck. I won’t be giving up blog reading entirely, because of my paper. And of course, I’ll want to know how others are making out. But it will have to wait till later in the day.

I think that’s it. Oh, yeah. A first scene came to me one day on the bus. I was sitting way at the back and I “saw” (imagined) something (apple or something of that ilk) rolling up & down the aisle as the bus braked and accelerated. And I’m like, yeah, that’s a good image to start with. So I have something to get me started Monday morning. We’ll see where it goes from there.