Stuck...

Okay, so I'm writing this for me to understand how I want the next part of my story to go down, as they say. Kes is onboard a shuttle meant to take her to her friend who's already up at college. But the shuttle's going to get taken over by "space pirates." My problem? I don't know why these people are hijacking a silly little insystem shuttle which has to travel in real space and time because it doesn't have a warp drive anyway! But, here's a list of ideas...

--- the hijackers are stupid and don't realize that the shuttle lacks a warp drive -- their effort to take over the ship is just really inept.
--- they're terrorists
--- they're representatives of one side of a planetary civil war being fought elsewhere -- they hijack the ship because the leader of their opposition is going to be onboard and they want him dead or as a hostage
--- they're doing like pirates used to do -- take all the money and run
--- they are just about as out of ideas as I am

On a (probably) unrelated note, my left lower eyelid has been twitching for the last few weeks.

Urg...

I've gotten absolutely zero homework done tonight -- I've been too busy going out on errands, writing my novel, reading, and following the course of the midterm elections. Part of me knows this is probably irresponsible, but I figure I'll pay for it later...this is one of the things that I maybe can put off.

And hey, if I can write thousands of words tonight as I stay up waiting to watch the Daily Show/Colbert Report Midterm Midtacular at eleven, I'd say it's worth staying up.

Hopefully, I can dress proudly in blue tomorrow. That's all I'm saying. But at least I know that we've got the first woman speaker of the House of Representatives in the bag!