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NaJoPoMo 2011 Day Two Santa Anas
Posted Nov 2, 2011
Was woken up early by Santa Ana Winds and couldn't sleep afterwards. Here's a little explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_winds (no entry devoted to Santa Anas in the guide.)
That entry does not convey how unpleasant they are. This isn't even a particularly bad one. It's not hot, only 73°F, just dry and windy. Sometimes, usually when they occur earlier in the season, it can be in the 90s or 100s, which really suck! The dryness and the allergens it blows in make me feel like I have a bad cold. My nose is dry and runny at the same time. I'm phlemy and coughing and my eyes are watering. 
I don't feel like making a proper journal entry, so I hope this passes. I feel like taking an anti-histimine and going back to bed, but I don't have any in the house. Oh, and whining, obviously, I feel like whining.
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NaJoPoMo 2011 Day One
Posted Nov 1, 2011
So this is my first journal entry for h2g2's NaJoPoMo 2011. I can't believe I actually signed up for this since I actually hate writing. I hope I don't spend the whole month complaining about how much I hate writing.
It is unclear to me what my hang-up is. I was a little writer as a very small child. I wrote a short story about a postal stamp which everyone thought was so cute it got published in the elementary school paper.
Later in school, I couldn't tolerage criticism about my writing very well and developed a phobia about it. I spent college avoiding any class that required much writing at all. I'm sure I missed out on a lot because of that. When I did have to write in college, I would procrastinate until very shortly before the assignment was due, then I'd write some half assed tripe in the middle of the night.
This was the 80's so there was no computer. I had a manual typewriter that I inherited from my parents. I used to play with the typewriter when I was in preschool. I loved to pound on keys until I got the strikers all stuck in the middle and it became unusable. I managed to pull the strikers apart in high school and it became usable again. So in college, this is what I had to work with.
Actually at the college I went to, some instructors allowed you turn in papers hand written, so I did that a few times too. My handwriting is and was atrocious, though I think it's gotten much worse since I so rarely have to hand write anything. I can't imagine those papers even got read. (What a drag for the instructors to have to read all those papers!)
Due to my phobia, I often had to take "incompletes" in my classes. Meaning I had until the middle of the next semester to finish writing the final papers. It was embarrassing and still is. Of course I'd still put off writing the paper until very shortly before it was due and at least once had ask for more time to complete the paper.
It's been 25 years since college. My writing phobia has slightly abated, but mostly in informal writing like here. So here's to NaJoPoMo! 
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How about this new space?
Posted Oct 23, 2011
Looks about the same as the old space except it says I'm "shelbing" rather than my preferred "hellboundforjoy". Oh well. Shelbing is an alter I use more than Hbfj these days anyway. I can be found on Facebook under "shelbing" if anyone's interested.
I'm glad the Guide is getting its own space. I hope things go smoothly with the move. I seem to have transferred OK except for the name thing. Anyone else here?
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Hace mucho tiempo
Posted Sep 28, 2009
I haven't been here in months and haven't posted in years. I'm sad to see some of my friends from here have left, or not visited in a long time. Clearly I'm not one to talk. I've re-contacted some of you on Facebook where I spend a lot of time now. If any other friends reading this would like to friend me on Facebook, leave a note here and I'll let you know how to find me.
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Testing
Posted Apr 26, 2006
Well I haven't been around here for quite some time. I wasn't around much for a while, then I gave up the Telegram word creation and I stopped coming almost all together. Now it's gotten back to me that there have been some changes around here and that there's another great exmigration to elsewhere. So I thought I'd stop back and see what's been going on. Specifically, today we'll be testing the curse word filter. So here goes: This message / entry has been blocked as it contains a word which other users may find offensive. Please edit your message and post it again. santorum
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