NaNoWriMo

I really, really, really wanted to do NaNoWriMo last year. I heard about it several years ago and have always thought it would be a lot of fun. Last year I promised myself that if I dropped out of graduate school, I'd do NaNoWriMo this year.

Well, obviously I haven't dropped out of graduate school (yet. hehe. *nervous laughter*). But I will be done with qualifying on the 9th (*more nervous laughter*). And I'll take the following week off. After that, yeah, I'll have to get back to lab and actually get some work done. And during that week off I'll probably do nothing but sleep, and maybe go to Maine with Ann. BUT.

I really, really, really want to do NaNoWriMo. I used to write a lot. I wrote tons of stories in middle school and high school, and even one or two in college. I always wanted to write a novel. Damnit, I want to write a novel! I have no idea what it would be about, but I know there's a novel inside me! There are probably fifteen novels inside me, and they're all running around, bumping into each other, and screaming to be written, and here I am in graduate school.

Well, crap. Should I make the attempt?

EDIT: Nothing ventured, nothing gained! Naysayers be damned.

EDIT 2: I dunno how this is gonna work, with school and climbing and knitting and reading (non-science) and having a social life and WoW. Oh well. If it fails, it fails. I will have made the attempt.
And damnit, if I drop out of graduate school, then next year I promise to make it all the way to 50000.