Let's see, update time. Halloween was good, we had a bunch more kids than we typically got, so that was exciting. It still annoys me when older "kids" go out to get candy and they don't dress in costume. At least make some sort of effort to celebrate the holiday (although I do like halloween in general, I think it's a cool holiday, even as its evolved). The worst is when people deliberately ask for more candy, just plain rude if you ask me, but then again, I'm just the guy holding the bowl (and here's a bonus hint: If you're a small child, you'll get more candy from me anyway, so older "kids," you're out of luck!).
I went out to University of Scouting, which was surprisingly a lot of fun! I met up with a whole bunch of people I hadn't seen in a while (two of my old camp directors, Al H., Shirley D.) and a bunch of people I had just seen the weekend before at Camp Twin Echo (I also passed on my idea about the opening to the Athens Olympics being used for the 2009 Conclave, and it is a possibility!). The training was good, although I didn't like one of the trainers, I didn't think he was very effective. The information was a little daunting though, I'm still a bit nervous, but I think I can handle it. I'm pretty sure most of my nervousness stems from having just come from such a bad situation in a unit, I'm projecting it to be like that all the time in all the units with me trying to sort through it all. I know that that's not the case, just scared I suppose.
But it will be cool, I'll be able to help out units (I'm hoping to work with the Venture units, from what the other commissioners were talking about, it seems I have the best grasp on that particular program), and the rest of the District's commissioner staff is awesome, and such a wealth of information, it really will be great!
A bunch of us decided that we should participate in this years National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The premise is that every day, people say they are going to write a novel, but people never finish them. November is set aside for people to actually write that novel they've been thinking/talking about. The goal is to write 50,000 words in the month, and if you do (and verify it on the site), you are declared a winner. Being a winner then grants you the bragging rights to talk at fancy parties about your book. I'm probably crazy for doing it, but it's been fun so far, although I did start two days late, and the group of us (12 of us from the Myst/URU forums) are having fun urging each other on.
I don't think it's great, there really isn't a plot as of yet. It's a hodgepodge of seven characters, all of which will at some point meet up and interact with at least one other character. But for right now, I'm letting the characters tell the story and seeing where it takes me. I may send it off to one of the publish your own work sites on the net once it's all done, just to have a bound copy for posterity's sake, but other than that, don't look for it to be published anywhere, it's more for me (and the bragging rights!).
Other than that, still more applying and resumes and all that fun stuff. Hopefully I'll post again before the weekend, but if I don't, I'm going up to SVC to help out with Koinonia (and very excited for that too), talk with everyone soon!
