Is NaNo worth the cost of friendship?

[larinzia.livejournal.com]

So, has anyone else found themselves jumping everytime someone mentions the IPod Nano? I have a co-worker who has been discussing (ad nauseum) his possible purchase and I've joined the conversation TWICE now without realizing that they were talking about Nano (second 'n' being small) and not NaNo (second 'n' capitalized). Silly Lar! All I wanted to do was discuss my favorite activity!

As this is my third year doing NaNo, I've been talking it up more than in the previous years. Last year, I convinced two or three people to join. This year, I've brought out the big guns. I've taken to brow-beating people into joining. A part of me feels bad but the other part doesn't. Now, the one I feel the worst about is also the one that SHOULD have been doing this with me for the last two years. She's a lazy writer, much like me, who really just needs a swift kick to the pants to get her motivated. I've let her stew the last few years, making her read my NaNo attempts as punishment. This year, I did the unthinkable...I told her mother she should join. Horrible, I know, but understandable. I finally got her to attempt that she was scared of the goal, of the work, of her talent. That makes me happy. Those kind of excuses are workable.

For my birthday present (it was yesterday), she wrote in the card that she couldn't afford to buy me a present so she's doing NaNo. I got my wish. Now I have two months of "cheerleading" ahead because I know this isn't going to be easy.

But I did ask for this!

All hail NaNo!

Comments

[wondersheep.livejournal.com]

Yeah, someone had 'nano' as their subject line and this link (http://ipodmybaby.com), and it took me a second to figure it out.

[aika-hanyou.livejournal.com]

I perk up everytime I hear the word... one of my friends says Nano and I think the contest. They do it for fun now.

[dawnheart-tane.livejournal.com]

The first time I saw the iPod Nano thing, it was on a TV commercial while my sister was watching some show. I happened to be walking through the living room at the time, and I stopped dead and was gaping at the TV in shock--what publicity! What greatness! What marvel!--before I realized, Oh, stupid iPod nonsense...

I still have to think twice when I hear "Nano". Who do they think they are, using that term for anything other than THE NaNo??

[mementolucifera.livejournal.com]

I want a Nano for when I work on my NaNo. ;-; They're both so great, one is crazy, one is cute, and together it is good.

[curiosity.livejournal.com]

Meh. True friends understand your obessions and have a Bail-You-Out-of-Jail fund already set up when you get arrested for writing on trains and have to explain it wasn't graffiti, per se . . . .

I'm sure joining NaNo won't stress anyone who's really your friend. Although it's gotten to the point where about 5 of my friends have blocked me on messenger . . . .

And iPod should be sued for copyright infringement or some shit. I'll bet it's all a scam because they know . . . they KNOW and think we'll think it's all cute and shit and we'll buy their freakin' Nanos and . . . *shifty eyes*



I gotta go, it's time for my meds.

[curiosity.livejournal.com]

P.S. I like your icon.