Went to Borders and got a copy of Transformers: The Score. I love Borders. The staff there actually want to help me find the things I'd like to buy. They also send me nice coupons and see me glancing at manga series on the shelf and say things like "Oh, are you looking for the newest volume? It's on the endcap."

I also discovered a small costume museum on the second floor of the South Coast Plaza Annex. I only had time to dart through it, but the display will be there until the end of the month so I must return with digicam and notepad.

I won an argument with a story as to its format ("you will be short and not long because otherwise I will not write you") and thus started in on the October challenge for the prowlxjazz comm. Why are we all ending up doing prompt #3 first? But I also got nudgings on what I think are #1 and #4. I have informed them that they, too, will be short.

I also had some things start coming together for the next piece in the Ghost Stories series. Topics of research have included Stunticons, ghost trains, and James Dean's fatal crash, among others.

I went to dance class, where Wonderful Husband and I tango'd, revisited the foxtrot, and samba'd our little brains out. We got a new step in samba this week, one which we agree makes the dance much more fun and much more interesting to us.

And I quit lollygagging around and wrote more on The Novel. Not much to be sure (only 199 words), but the point is I wrote. And tomorrow I will write more. But for now, I am going to shower the sweat out of my hair and off my body, and then go to bed in something resembling a timely fashion.

Ghost Stories series, entry #4....

( Beware of hitchhiking ghosts... )

And I came home after being stalked by Sunstreaker (see last blog entry for details; why is it that the only two Lamborghinis I have ever seen in my life were both yellow?) and being sleep-dep'ed again, I typed up the following instead of working on The Novel. Which means my writing targets for the next three days are upped to 3.5K/day... fortunately they're weekend days and a Monday holiday.

Anyhow, I give y'all an instant-gratification sequel to "Ghost in the Machine."

( Of spooks and ghouls and the grateful dead... )