New Words

I learned a new word yesterday: corpuscular. It refers to animals whose activity is heaviest in the twilight hours, as opposed to diurnal or noctural animals. Apparently many organisms one assumes to be noctural are actually corpuscular.

I am definitely a corpuscular organism. I detest the morning and the afternoon isn't much better. I usually feel like the Tin Man until around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when I suddenly become raring to go and DO something, which drives my husband crazy. He's definitely diurnal; he's up at 7 am, downing the first mugs of his approximately 2 quarts of coffee, and watching "Good Morning America". If I get up at all in the morning, it's at 4 am to let the dogs out, after which I return to bed, where I stay until I'm too achy to lay there anymore. Gravity is a terrible thing sometimes.

I started this blog mostly to motivate myself to write. I've always wanted to be a writer... any kind of writer, really, whether it be a technical writer, a journalist, or a copywriter, but especially a novelist. I read some of the dross that passes for fiction nowadays and think, "I could do a better job than that!" Usually, though, after about the first 50 pages I tend to think what I've written isn't much better than some of the other crap out there, and give up... until the next time inspiration strikes again.

Hence, this blog. I don't know if anyone will read it or not; I'm not counting on it. I think it's more a running commentary to myself than anything else. My favorite thing in the world is to learn something new, something that makes me give myself the proverbial slap across the forehead, the "Aha!" moment - so that's what this blog is about. Mostly.