Time Crunch!

I've started my week by re-reading one of my favorite books "Time and Again" by Jack Finney" a time travel story where an illustrator is recruited into a secret government project sending him back to back to 1882. The method by which he travels is not accomplished by any device or vehicle like the one employed by H.G.Well's time traveler in "The Time Machine". Its a metaphysical one like in the book "Bid Time Return" by Richard Matheson on which the film "Somewhere in Time" starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour is based, where you move through time by convincing your mind your are in another place and time apart from the present. Time travel via the consciousness...groovy.

I think time is one of those final frontiers we've yet to conquer and perhaps we shouldn't. But if I had the ability to think myself to another time it would have to be at the turn of the last century so I can witness the silent movie era as it unfolds as well as enjoy some vaudeville. Time travel has always fascinated me as I imagine it has many people. I think it's a great concept and I love the book.

Thanks to one of my favorite blog sites, Dee Declares http://deedeclares.blogspot.com/ ( Sorry. I haven't figured out how to create a link with just the name alone.), I've recently become of aware of something called National Novel Writing Month where upon a person is tasked with writing a fifty thousand word novel starting November 1st and ending on the 30th of the same month. Sounds like quite a rush and I'm seriously contemplating giving it a go. Again, this would be a continuation of my short term goal to expand my horizons and marketing abilities. It's a catch-all kinda goal which suits me just fine.

I've never written anything beyond term papers, comic strips and bad poetry so I would definitely be diving (more like belly flopping) into some serious stress for thirty days in the middle of the holidays. Do I really want to do that? It can be a hectic time of year and adding the Herculean effort of writing a novel might turn me into a real pill to be around. I must ponder this awhile over a tall glass of milk and Little Debbie's Snack Cakes.

I also wanted to mention that today marks the beginning of Hell Week for Pammy. The flamenco show she's working as production manager opens this weekend. She'll be very busy for the next five days making sure all aspects of the production are moving ahead as the final dress rehearsal approaches. She'll also be clocking in at her regular job as pastry chef and that alone can be very hectic too. To make it an even crazier week she is also helping with a dinner for the cast after the show closes this Sunday. Pammy lives life to the fullest. Her middle name is Carpe Diem. I love that about her. Needless to say I will do what I can to help make her week as pleasant as possible.