Animals

I felt that there were two reasons that made my videos on the NaNoWriMo Viddler Group from last year different compared to the videos I uploaded this year so far. This year they miss a little bit of this, as I want to call it, adorable-factor. Last year animals where involved in my video’s all over the place. So for example I took my rabbit Bob hostage and threatened to eat him if I wouldn’t make the 50k in November. Of course no animal was harmed during November 2007 and neither any animal will be harmed this year. I don’t even eat the flesh of rabbits, because I would feel guilty eating a pet. On the other hand there is a chance that they are eaten by me if I’m not aware of it. If they are shredderd through a dish or something. You could call it accidental pet eating or something like that. But again: I don’t eat pet’s. I couldn’t imagine to say to my girlfriend after the dinner: ‘Oh dear, didn’t taste Bob delicious?’

It all began with my cat Upke interrupting my introduction video a couple of days before the start of NaNoWriMo 2007. This was followed by the sisters Gerbill (I’ve got 4 of them) who were digging in their tank in the background whilst shooting one of my wordcount videos. Guess who had more attention, my wordcount or the sisters. Right, my word… the sisters Gerbill. Understandable!

This year I have mixed feelings with NaNoWriMo because I dislike the most important thing of the whole event: my novel. It’s not spellbindig. Every problem is solved far before the story really begins. With other words: my novel is effing (<- no bad slang for someone from a foreign country, isn’t it?) boring. Therefore I take my novel this year much less serious like the one I wrote last year. This gives me kind of a bad feeling, because I feel it isn’t really fair to the people who are as serious with their novels as I was last year. Maybe I’m just a little weird to think so, and the reactions I got on my video of Day 24 so far proof that I am wrong. I am weird but don’t have to feel guilty.

I hope everyone will stay motivated for the last days. Here is my wordcount and animal video of day 24:

See you soon!

Mario

I was thinking about what to write as a first post of my new personal blog. Sometimes it’s hard to find something to start with. So why not just post about the e-mail I received yesterday morning. It was send by my girlfriend who is very animal minded.

She told me that she had adopted a chicken via the Dutch website www.adopteereenkip.nl. She had read about it in one of these magazines she gets from her mother so now and then. Now she pays € 29,50 a year and has the warranty that her chicken is doing fine. Beside this she has an adress in her neighbourhood where she can get 6 eggs a month during that year.

Via a webcam she can take a look at a couple of chicken who are freely running around at a farm instead of sitting behind bars with tenthousand other chicken. One of this free chicken must be her adopted one. Of course she don’t knows her chicken in person and they all looking pretty much the same. However, she has the feeling that she did something good.