Now that that's done with...

I have nothing to do at work.

Seriously. Nothing. I have no tasks, no assignments. I spent the first hour finishing up some unfinished analyses, and the hour and a half after that cleaning my office. I probably filed well over a thousand sheets of paper, and easily twice as much as was filed went into the recycling. I now know where everything is, and no longer have the Training Schedule April-June 2003 sitting forlornly on my desk.

And now? Nothing.

Hm.

(Looking at the icon for this post, however, has reminded me that I learned a useful Photoshop trick yesterday, courtesy of Creative Bits. When using the Eyedropper tool, if you right-click (in Windows) or Option-click (in OS X), you get a menu that lets you take a point sample (in other words, the color of the pixel you point to), the average of a 3x3 square centered on the pixel you click on, or the average of a 5x5 square. Which is pretty cool if you're dealing with things like odd gradients or dithers.

Now I just have to actually, y'know, learn how to use Photoshop.)

Get in there, you big furry oaf, I don't care what you smell

So, against what may be my better judgment, I've decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short) this year. I've had significant doubts about whether I'll even get close, but then, curious, I went through and concatenated all of the LJ posts I had made over the month of September. Just the text of the posts - no titles, no comments, no quoted text, and I got rid of the "[info]"s that pop up when you copy LJ usernames to plain text.

9,581 words.

In LJ alone.

Hm.