T -6 hours (and counting)

I ought to be doing NaNo prep work, given ... well, given the fact that NaNo starts OMGSOON.

For instance, my main characters don't have names. Nor do the country or city they live in. Nor do I have any clue what sort of cultural feel places have. Nor have I decided on what language to steal names from, which may or may not be related to the cultural feel. Nore have I figured out how much I can steal from existing Earth cultures without doing obnoxious cultural appropriation... but anyway, I should at least have *names*

Instead, I am refreshing Echo Bazaar waiting for more actions. *facepalm*

( tangent re ebz )

Really, the universe (and my subconscious) is conspiring to make the first week of NaNo as difficult as possible, what with rehearsals, and birthday, and going to see a movie (Secretariat! *horse-obsessed inner twelve year old flailings*), and birthday celebrations, and new addictions like ebz, and knittings that will probably seem really really attractive and must be started right this minute zomg and stuff.

...anyway.

My mom, who knows about NaNo and is decently supportive even though I don't know that she entirely Gets It, asked me today if I'm getting up early tomorrow so I can get a good start on the novel.

"No," I said, "duh, the time-honored strategy is to stay up until midnight and get a good start *then*."

"And write until 2 or 3 am?"

"Something like that."

"You aren't serious, are you," she laughed, kind of like I had proposed swimming the Atlantic or fighting velociraptors or something: this was a joke, and she was in on it.

>_>

I assured her I wasn't.

I mean, I'll probably only stay up until 1...

Loremaster update

...probably the last such until a) just before Cataclysm, or b) I manage to get all of Loremaster, whichever comes first.

Kalimdor is at 626/700; this makes it likely I will get old-world loremastering done before Cata. There are 11 quests in my log right now, some of which will probably have follow-ups. Still need to check Felwood and Azshara, and the dungeons I haven't done (I doubt RFC has alliance-side quests, but there's sfk and scarlet monastery and dire maul which I am doing very soon now because that's what some of my quests are for), and then I guess I search for quests that start from item drops?

Seeker (which I'm not directly going for as a title, but will get nonetheless) is at 2908/5000.

Outlands have not changed -- Nagrand 62/75, BEM 1/86, Netherstorm 0/120 -- but I'm not so worried about them. Cata is changing old-world stuff, but I don't think it's necessarily affecting Outlands, and especially if I can get Nagrand cleaned up, the other two it won't matter any if my quest count gets reset *g*

ETA: As of the end of the day, 647/700 (only 53 left to go!) and, er, apparently I never did Un'Goro on this character. So yay \o/