I don't necessarily aim to actually finish the novel by the 25th of this month (I finished the previous Nano novels on that date), but I do anticipate that I will reach 50,000 sometime on Sunday. Or at least I hope so. I'm at the point where I'm not quite sure if the story will finish itself pretty much around 50,000 or if it will go on a couple more thousand words. I'll try not to worry about it.
And as for those purple bars that have finally appeared on the Nanowrimo website, I find them depressing.
Notes on Chapters 29: Finally, we find out what happened to Aeneus. However, I've introduced another little mystery. And, um, there's some stuff happening in Chapter 30 too. The same warning from Chapter 24 also applies to Chapter 30.