Nanowrimo Day 22

[livingdeb]

Today I wrote 2245 words. I was hoping for 3,000, then for 1,667. So I was disappointed, then pleased. Now it's midnight again. Grr.

I'm just over a day and a half ahead, so things are still looking possible.

My blog buddy wanted to finish by Thanksgiving because he will be gone and busy all weekend, and he finished today. Totally awesome.

Today's excerpt is from yesterday's writing. Goodnight.

"How long do you plan to keep moving?"

"That's a question I haven't thought about yet. I've thought that I'd still like to live in Arizona somewhere, Colorado somewhere, one or two places in California, and the Pacific Northwest. But of course, that would take ten more years.

"Meanwhile, everyone else my age is getting married, settling down, buying houses, having kids, getting their career going. I'm doing pretty well on the career front, especially since I've moved here."

"Do you want kids?"

"I'm not sure. Not by myself. I think it depends who I'm with.

"Another issue is that I'm becoming very independent. Always having roommates is probably helping me keep from getting too extreme in my ways and becoming too much of a control freak, but I still wonder if I'm turning myself into the kind of person who wouldn't make a good partner."

"That's interesting. Do you want a partner?"

"The easy answer is that I'd rather have no partner than a bad partner. But a good partner, someone who would actually go on trips like this with me, that could be awfully nice. I don't know. I think I might be getting too picky to actually find somebody good. Plus I think it might get harder and harder to find a roommate. I imagine myself at age eighty, answering ads for roommates put out by college students, giving them heart attacks when I show up. This might be a lifestyle I just can't keep up. But I haven't wanted to think about it."

And so she doesn't, the whole rest of the book (so far).

Comments

Oh, and about the partner thing...

[fraeuleinchen.livejournal.com]

I too would rather have no partner than a bad one. That's my answer whenever anyone asks me why I'm still single (a question which I guess they think is a compliment; how could someone like *me* still be single!). :)

Re: Oh, and about the partner thing...

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

I'd also rather have no partner than a mediocre one.