For those of you unfamiliar with Nanowrimo, it’s the November group project for writing a novel. The goal is to just do it, regardless of how good or bad it may be. Just to be able to say, hey, I wrote a novel! And, just doing it means it’s far more likely you’ll actually write something worth editing and refining into something really, really good.

My mother recently bought us a 5-year plan book, which basically consists of pages of oddly sized and positioned text shouting, “You’re an amazing person! Honor your ancestors and celebrate your mother!” amongst other stuff. It also makes for a really strange bathroom read. “You can do it! There’s only one person like you!” keep reading »

So, oddly enough, whenever we’re remotely low on cash, I find money. Today was no exception. A pile of cash was chillin’ outside of our building as we walked out to go food shopping, discussing the week’s budget. There was a neon post-it note attached, so we put up a note saying we’d found some money, and wanted to do the right thing, so please call us and let us know how much you lost and what the note we found with it said. keep reading »