Last night I got to 14,526 words in my NaNoWriMo novel.

I watched a movie on TV last night called Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood. The film, which is based on a true story, is set in Los Angeles in 1928, and tells the story of single mother Christine Collins (played by Angelina Jolie) whose nine year old son goes missing. Five months later the police announce that they have found the child, but Christine insists that the boy they have found is not her son. Continuing her search for the truth, Christine comes into conflict with the notoriously violent and corrupt 1920s LAPD. It was a really good film and very well made.

Later on I watched a horror movie from 1981 called The Entity, directed by Sidney J. Furie. The movie is based on a supposedly true story from 1976, and tells the story of a Los Angeles woman (played by Barbara Hershey) who repeatedly comes under violent attack from an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the attacks are all in her mind, but a group of parapsychologists are determined to prove that the attacks are caused by an evil spirit. It was very slow-moving in places, but pretty atmospheric.

I went along to my parent's house today for lunch. It was a fairly quiet afternoon.

Tomorrow I'm going to get my wisodm tooth removed. Apparently, because of the angle it's coming in at, they are going to be cutting open my gum, drilling a hole into my jawbone and kind of levering the tooth out. Then stitching it back up again. needless to say, I am not looking forward to it. I'll have to take a lot of painkillers apparently and probably won't be on-line tomorrow.

It was another really busy night last night. I got up to 10,312 words with my NaNoWriMo novel, and I was so tired when I was finished that I almost immediately fell asleep on the sofa. I spent three hours working on it and I was so frustrated by the end that I really did feel like packing the whole thing in. I won't though. I'll keep on with it and win the challenge.

I was only in work for a half day today, which was really good. I stopped off and got the complete DVD box-set of The Wire TV series, so that should be really good.

Last night I was pretty busy. I got to 6,126 words with the NaNoWriMo story. It was kind of easier than it was last night because I had a pretty good idea what I was going to be writing about (basically this new vampire is forced to prove his worth to his vampire community by undergoing this kind of trial thing in which he is forced to undergo various surreal hallucinations and confront various powerful creatures).

Work was really quiet and dull, as it usually is. It's another episode of True Blood this evening. I'll probably be sick to death of vampires by the end of November!