Day 13

13335 ★ 50000 (26.67%)

Yeah, it's not going very well at this point, and I'm feeling lethargic enough that I don't expect more great strides tonight... I'm trying to keep it in perspective, though: I would be pretty okay with not getting to 50k (especially if the badge is as ugly as last year's); I would be much less okay with dropping out completely.

It was odd at the Unitarians today; I led the adult forum (like secular Sunday school), and I thought I had this great topic, we'd all tell the group about novels we liked and talk about novels and prose fiction and their role in our lives and society. Four other people showed up besides me --- and none of them read novels hardly at all, and they got confused as to whether classics and historical fiction counted or not. Maybe I'm just too wrapped up in my own POV; these are mostly very smart people but I was like "huh?" It's like the time another of the Unitarians asked me (as best I can even understand it) if anime and manga entailed a belief system, and I had to get over the wtf before I could even answer that. I don't know where people get some of this stuff...