fine whine

Heh. There I go, splitting an infinitive, "to not be". I've pointed this so-called rule out to others but never really found it useful myself. When I split an infinitive, it is often for the same reason that I double a negative: to add emphasis or to be clearer. Does it matter? To me it does, but I would like to think that I try to be precise in my communications.

Hah. More on that later.

I just watched American beauty for the first time since I bought it, and it seems a little more, well, relevant this time around. It's rife with jabs at downsizing/efficiency experts, suburban intolerance, and home decorating tips. I'd elaborate more on what I found this time around except that I plan to get back to writing my novel tonight after a week's haitus.

Why am I doing it again? I've acknowledged that this one will likely be as crap as last year's, and yet I intend to do it. I'll be rushing to do so, also, but in the end only the numbers matter. In the end what will I have accomplished? Little, other than enduring a stunt I'd done once before.

So why do it? Am I trying to be cool? To chalk this up as a dubious accomplishment? I don't know. It's a stunt and I'm going to do it and I might even type a large chunk of it on my Palm (batteries willing) now that I've picked up the incredibly neat folding keyboard for it. That thing is a marvelous piece of engineering -- I'll just need to wait to see what it does to battery life. I'm open to finding any possible distraction to keep me from actually typing those remaining 49,000 words.