9:00 a.m.
What's going on here, anyway?
Good morning, comrades. In case you're coming here from places other than the ol' jamelah.net start page, I thought I would use this first post to explain how things are going to be working here today. I am going to be blogging the day away like a blogging fool for a charity called Book Aid, which you can check out by clicking here. If you would like to sponsor me in this endeavor, I would really appreciate it (and I'm sure the folks at Book Aid would as well), and you can pledge a donation really easily by clicking on this link, registering with the site, and entering a dollar amount ($1 minimum). After I have successfully completed my 24 hours of blog, you'll be contacted early next week about how to send your donation directly to Book Aid. For the record, none of the money goes to me, though your pledges will, I'm sure, make me feel all warm and fuzzy, as though I were comfortably nestled in my bed instead of staring at my computer for 24 hours straight. And to those of you who have sponsored me so far -- Srah, Caryn, Anne, Rob and Sarah -- thank you, from the bottom of my soon-to-be-caffeine-drenched heart.
If you pledge anything between $1 and $5, I'll sketch/write something for you. For $10, I'll sketch something, plus send you a copy of one of my chapbooks, for $15, I'll write something, plus send you both of my chapbooks, and for anything beyond that, I don't know... I guess I'll throw something extra into the envelope (of a random, as-yet-undecided nature). This is retroactive, too, so for those of you who have already pledged -- comment an idea.
Anyway, my plan for the day is this: on the hour (starting at 10 a.m.), I will be posting a short prose sketch of a fictional sort -- these may be related to each other, or they may be all different, I don't know where the Muse will take me (I've just recently finished reading The Aeneid, so, like Virgil, I am all about invoking the Muse) -- and on the half hour, I'll post little updates about how I'm doing, what I'm listening to, how many cans of Diet Coke I've consumed, snippets of insanity shared between me and fellow Blogathoner Caryn, or whatever else. Should be fun.
So, if you're here and reading, don't be shy -- leave me some comments, yo. I can't explain how much it helps to know that people are there and actually feel like saying hello, and I'm not just talking to myself.
I guess that's all -- see you in 30 minutes.
Good morning, comrades. In case you're coming here from places other than the ol' jamelah.net start page, I thought I would use this first post to explain how things are going to be working here today. I am going to be blogging the day away like a blogging fool for a charity called Book Aid, which you can check out by clicking here. If you would like to sponsor me in this endeavor, I would really appreciate it (and I'm sure the folks at Book Aid would as well), and you can pledge a donation really easily by clicking on this link, registering with the site, and entering a dollar amount ($1 minimum). After I have successfully completed my 24 hours of blog, you'll be contacted early next week about how to send your donation directly to Book Aid. For the record, none of the money goes to me, though your pledges will, I'm sure, make me feel all warm and fuzzy, as though I were comfortably nestled in my bed instead of staring at my computer for 24 hours straight. And to those of you who have sponsored me so far -- Srah, Caryn, Anne, Rob and Sarah -- thank you, from the bottom of my soon-to-be-caffeine-drenched heart.
If you pledge anything between $1 and $5, I'll sketch/write something for you. For $10, I'll sketch something, plus send you a copy of one of my chapbooks, for $15, I'll write something, plus send you both of my chapbooks, and for anything beyond that, I don't know... I guess I'll throw something extra into the envelope (of a random, as-yet-undecided nature). This is retroactive, too, so for those of you who have already pledged -- comment an idea.
Anyway, my plan for the day is this: on the hour (starting at 10 a.m.), I will be posting a short prose sketch of a fictional sort -- these may be related to each other, or they may be all different, I don't know where the Muse will take me (I've just recently finished reading The Aeneid, so, like Virgil, I am all about invoking the Muse) -- and on the half hour, I'll post little updates about how I'm doing, what I'm listening to, how many cans of Diet Coke I've consumed, snippets of insanity shared between me and fellow Blogathoner Caryn, or whatever else. Should be fun.
So, if you're here and reading, don't be shy -- leave me some comments, yo. I can't explain how much it helps to know that people are there and actually feel like saying hello, and I'm not just talking to myself.
I guess that's all -- see you in 30 minutes.
