Did you eat a lot of candy tonight? I didn't. But I ate a lot, anyway.

But tomorrow begins "Virtuous November". I have so many things going on. First of all, I signed up for the National Write a Novel in a Month Challenge (www.nanowrimo.org) and I am going to write a 50,000 word novel in November. Boy o boy!

I am also going to be taking the GRE on November 6. I can't remember if I've told you all that I'm going to apply to the graduate program at the University of Washington to get my MFA in Creative Writing. I have to take the GRE to get in. Ack! I've done some preliminary practices tests in the verbal and analytical writing areas. I think I'll be fine. The math? Hosed. Totally hosed. The U says they really just look at the verbal scores, but will a record low math score count me out? Who knows? I can only do what I can do.

And, of course, I'm still training for my marathon. I haven't been keeping up with recording it here. Naughty me! But I did 12 miles last weekend. Took me three hours and 7 minutes! I was NOT fast.

This weekend I only have to do 8 and I hope to be much faster. We'll see. Certainly don't want to injure myself. Better to be slow and finish than be fast and not finish.