Viewing the other answers will bring you much more joy than my answer ever could.

(I'd make my own MP3 mix CD, (he said, cheatingly))

First, though I am now not doing NaNoWriMo, I decided that I liked my start enough that I'm going to keep going with it, just not at the NaNoWriMo pace. There's not much there and it's not that good, but it has potential.

That's your context for this conversation I just had. Forgive the paraphrasing:

Mika: Write any novel today?
James: Nope.
Mika: Going at your own pace?
James: Yeah, I think so. I'm in no hurry.
Mika: Is it about wrestling?
James: *snort* No, but this is not the first time I've been asked that.
Mika: Who else?
James: Chad was all like "What's your novel about? Is it about Hulk Hogan? Is Hulk Hogan in it? Is it about wrasslin' at all?"
Mika: So he thought you were writing a fanfic then?
James: I guess so, a Hulk Hogan fanfic.
Mika: And what would it be about, Hulk Hogan having sex with the author? Isn't that how fanfic works?
James: Usually, as far as I know.

I don't really remember how the conversation went from there, except it mostly involved me repeating the title and Mika making this "heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" noise because she was laughing so hard that was the only noise that would come out. She also made me promise that I'd use the book's title as the title for my next blog post, so here we are. (The Reader's Digest condensed version only leaves in the dirty words.)

We determined that he'd still say "brother" a lot. And that by using only my first name, I'd be like the Cher of homoerotic Hulk Hogan fan-fiction.

This seems like it's maybe one of those blog posts that will get me in trouble somewhere along the line. People understand wacky inside jokes, right? 

Probably best not to assume that.

The actual topic of the novel will remain a secret until I decide that the manuscript is both relatively finished and also not entirely awful anymore. This means you'll probably never know what it is.

And, so much for NaNoWriMo for another year. Much like the last time I tried it (about five years ago, not long after I started this job), work has gone kablooey. One more ridiculous project, one more unlikely yet immovable deadline, one more personal project canceled along with a few days I'd booked off a couple months ago.

Deleted the rest of the post. Thinking about deleting Facebook, Twitter, and LJ accounts. Tired of noise.

I have never participated in a seance. I do not believe we can messages from the dead, and so I would probably never participate in one, but if I had to, I would sit there, hold hands (or do whatever it is you do), and keep my eye-rolls and snarky comments to myself in an attempt at civility.

And with that, I am done 31 days of blog posts and 31 Writer's Block questions. The month of blog posts will return next year sometime; the month of Writer's Block questions will not.

I expect next month will be fairly silent here as I am taking on NaNoWriMo for the third time, trying to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. Hopefully, it will actually work out this time. Ultimately, it depends on work. If work is slow, I should be able to do this with no problems. If work requires a lot of overtime, I don't have a prayer. I guess we'll see.

And now, I really should go write my Ben Folds review before November starts.

Didn't we cover the topic of costumes at the start of the month? I seem to recall posting a bunch of photos, back when I put effort into this sort of thing. I'm glad tomorrow is the 31st; not for candy, but so I can bring a merciful end to these 31 days of blog posts and Writer's Block questions (before launching into NaNoWriMo, which is even more soul-crushing).

Anyway, I don't think we're doing anything for Halloween this year. If something should come up at the last minute, I have my Mr. Peeps costume that would suffice. Not sure what Mika would do, though; but like I said, I don't think it's going to be an issue.

In the interest of fully answering the question, I bought my Mr. Peeps costume on eBay. I had a tax refund and a moment of stupidity.

Tomorrow is my EDO. No work for me! We'll see what kind of hell this unleashes next week. I have made a to-do list, but there's not much on it - vacuum, write my Ben Folds review, buy a few groceries, make a pumpkin pie, pick up my paint pen from the Toyota dealership, take out the garbage, do laundry, do dishes... maybe I will make those Bits and Bites that I have been threatening. I should also sleep buckets because I haven't been doing enough of that lately, even though my new American comforter is super great. In fact, I should go do that right now.