UNC Student Organization for Undergraduate Literature

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0858479/

The gist: Smart People is a story about a pompous English professor, who in the years following his wife’s death, has become a scourge to his students and an emotionally absent father to his rebellious son James (Ashton Holmes) and his perfect preppy daughter Vanessa (Ellen Page). When he suffers a concussion in a freak accident, he meets and unexpectedly falls for an E.R. doctor (Sarah Jessica Parker), a brilliant former student who is still harboring a grudge over a bad grade he gave her years before.

(Yes, I copied that from Wikipedia.)

I figure at least some of you will be interested in this - NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, 2007. The idea is to write a novel (defined as 50,000 words) in 30 days - i.e. November. You don't have to write something spectacular, flamboyantly rich, or even particularly good; it's intended rather to spark creativity and such. Plus, it's really fun.

I'm in. I've done it for two years now. The first year I actually succeeded in writing something (although it should probably never see the light of day); the second year was a dismal failure. Best two out of three?

(Uh. I think I should probably have provided a link: http://www.nanowrimo.org . )