Journal: Random News and Junk

Yeah, I really should write some kind-of update here. It is getting on toward the end of the year, and I don't think I've written many journal entries or news updates. I've been doing more micro-updates on Twitter and Facebook, which aren't really that interesting. Movies I've been watching. Books I've been reading. Word count updates. Oh, you have to go to Goodreads for the books I've been reading updates.

So, yeah, little drips and drabs, but nothing much terribly coherent. As if these journal entries tend to be overly coherent, but that's as much by design as accident. I mean, I never set out for these entries to be coherent. The only reason I didn't label this section rant rather than journal was out of a certain amount of self-amused pretentiousness and rant just has a certain connotation that I didn't want to get into.

I'll refer to these journal entries as rants as much as I like, but I just don't feel like calling the whole entire category by that name. As stated above, journal entry just has the right amount of amusing pretentiousness that appeals to me something awful. [...]