Thursday, June 01, 2006

What's the verdict?

Alright, I guess the decision is yours. Do I get my bragging rights? Here's the problem: I finished my fifty words, but I hit the fifty word mark approximately three hours and fifteen minutes after May officially ended.

By the numbers (because all the cool kids are doing it):
Number of words: 50 028
Number of references to Igor Kravchuk: 1
Number of muderers: 2
Number of characters named after hockey players: 2
Number of times the character of Igor, the socially-hadicapped convenience store clerk gets laid: 3 (he's lucky that Jenna is such a slut)
Number of times I decided that a nuclear bomb should kill all of my characters but then decided against it: 2
Number of pages I used up by having one of the characters quote from the book Pity the Nation by Robert Fisk: 1.5
Number of pets in my novel named after game show hosts: 1

Distractions by the numbers:
Number of times in May that I played Tetris: 1
Number of novels I read in May: 2
Number of hours per week that I work more than my brother: 10-15
Number of times in May that I got drunk: 2
Number of Paul Coffey Night Igor Ulanov game worn jerseys that I won off of the Edmonton Oilers online auction in May: 1
Number of rather robust barbecues purchased by my parents in May which my mother insisted on naming "Igor":1

Number of novels I wrote in May: 0.99 (I made that number up)