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While going to school, working, and doing my 365 days of reading. Yes.
On the plus side, the reading takes my mind (temporarily) off of the whole situation. So, my usual lengthy break between chapters might be even longer than usual. Then again, it might not. I'm not sure anymore.
Just wanted to update everyone.
Okay all, here is the link for 365 Days of Reading.
http://ladynyxravus.livejournal.com/
Enjoy! Leave lots of comments. :)
Basically, it's 7 books a week rather than 1 book a day. So when I have those ridiculous boring days I can go through a few books and on those ridiculously busy days I can put it off.
Still a difficult task but slightly more manageable.
I'll post a link to the new journal for this in a couple hours. It would have been up sooner except I was moving right around the new year so I barely managed to find my computer, let alone set it up.
See everyone soon!
365 Days of Reading.
Allow a brief explanation: 1 book a day for 365 days accompanied by a review on the book after finishing reading it. I'd be the one writing the reviews, obviously, as I'd be the one reading it. That'd make for a post a day. No repeating books and no reading books I've already read.
I realize this seems like an impossible task but I know I read very fast and that I have read more than one book in a day even while going to school and doing assignments and fanfiction and such. So, it's not completely impossible but it's definitely a difficult idea.
I kinda really want to do it. It seems like fun and there are a million books I've wanted to read but could never convince myself to actually read.
So, thoughts? Also, I need suggestions for books to read. The Hitchhiker's Guide books are definitely on the list, as I've not only never seen the movie but I've never read a single one despite my amusement at various quotations from it lying about the internet.
I'd be creating another livejournal for this endevour closer to New Years, cause I'd like to start January 1st if I do convince myself to do this.
Life isn't fair. She doesn't even like the original Star Trek. I do and she gets to see arguably one of my favourite characters' actor.
Excuse me while I go cry in a corner now.
Enjoy?
( Life, Love Magic )
I have officially retired my obsession of the new Kirk/Spock fics. I have dabbled throughout that particular obsession with Bones/Kirk and have since decided that Bones is too adorable - both old and new - to not love. So I have changed my Star Trek obsession to Bones/Kirk from Spock/Kirk, with only a few notable exceptions.
Also, there are not enough good Harry Potter/Hellsing crossovers. I have written one chapter of such a story and am unhappy with the beginning but am still considering posting it. At least I know how I want this one to end, as opposed to, you know, every other fic I've ever written.
So there's a japanese film festival in Toronto this weekend. A friend of the family is friends/went to school with one of the organizers (at least, I think he's an organizer....he might just have a film showing) and she called to tell and asked if I wanted to go.
I was all....yay! But then she adds that it's friday to saturday and my hopes dropped. I, contrary to most normal work schedules, work weekends. Wednesdays to sundays. Which means the only way I could go is if I called in to work sick.
It would work too, cause I never call in sick. I've worked there for 2 years and have only missed one shift.
But because I know that we have two people on vacation and one of them being one of the normal people who work my shift on the weekend I know I can't call in. I'd leave them, one, without a supervisor and two, without a second person on the shift who actually knows what they're doing.
So now I don't get to go to what could possibly be one of the kewlest film festivals I'd ever see.
Feel my joy.
- Mood:
disappointed
It was a very cute movie. I really liked it. It also made me feel a little like I haven't accomplished anything with my life (getting into University, notwithstanding, but anyone can do that if they have grades like I somehow managed to obtain with little to no effort). It's like....this girl spent a year of her life just....writing a blog occasionally. I say occasionally because it was occasionally (I managed to find the original on the internet and started reading it a little.)
So now I feel like....what have I done? Granted, she had finished school and had a few jobs actually related to her chosen field and I'm just a teenager about to start university with no real idea of what I want to do while working part-time at a Tim Horton's.
Not exactly the recipe for success, I'm sure.
Well, I know I want to write. I'm a writer. It's what I do. I think of writing, I write, I read other people's writing. It's my basic life focus. Writing.
I have a small host of characters I've fleshed out enough that I would use them but....I don't know. I just can't plan things.
Julia gave herself a deadline so that she would finish it. Deadlines just make me put it off to the last second. That or I ignore them.
My friend Sarah put a note in her phone's calender that says she can kill me if five years from now I haven't finished writing a novel. I think about that and...I guess it seems like an impossible task. Even if we were mostly joking about that.
There are people younger than me who have multiple books published.
Where does that leave me?
- Location:Canada, Kitchener
- Mood:
contemplative
Denny and Alan get married. That is the only reason I am going to buy and sit through the entire series of Boston Legal; the promise that they get married.
Damn Shelby for telling me that. Now I am desperate to watch it all as soon as possible just for that moment.
Also, no longer dating other Alex. I am fine. We decided mutually.
How long did that last anyways? A month or so? I am not cut out for this dating thing. It is too....attention intensive. I prefer friendship; friends don't care if I don't talk to them everyday, so long as I talk to them every once in awhile. I am simply too lethargic for relationships. That, and I really could care less most of the time. Which is both mean and true, so hooray for me for being honest.
I am working on two versions of a Bloody Baron/Harry Potter fic, a Mundungus/Harry fic and.....I will remember the other later. It is sitting somewhere around my computer. I also have a good portion of the next chapter of AWDD done. I'm just stuck on one section; it is a very emotional and...hm...I suppose you could say life-altering scene and it has to be done right. I like what I have but every time I write the next bit the previous section seems wrong.
I will get it eventually.
In the meantime, I will continue to wait for my bank's website to update so I can find out how much I got in my paycheck. It is paying for an xbox.
So I am now sorta-dating a guy named, believe it or not, Alex.
How awesome is that? My name is Alex and if I date a guy named Alex then suddenly, none of my friends/family who haven't met him will forget his name. Provided that they know my name. Which, in a family as odd as mine, wouldn't exactly be unsurprising.
And I damn well hope my friends know my name. I'll disown them as friends if they don't.
So yeah....I am also endevouring - in a fit of upset over writer's block on the next chap of AWDD - to write a fic for every Harry/someone pairing on fanifiction that doesn't have any listings. I am currently the only person with a fic with the character settings as Harry and Bane.
Yeah, that's right. The centaur of obscurity that we basically know the name of. I used him.
It turned out pretty well, actually. Read it, if you have the chance.
- Mood:
cheerful
Well, they're willing to let me drive on my own, so I can't be too much of a menace. I failed at parallel parking and I don't check my blindspot when going into the left-hand turn lane from the left hand lane and I turned when there were pedestrians (though they were out of my way already!) and I can't remember what else I did wrong.
But it wasn't enough that she didn't pass me. ^^ So now I can drive the roads without someone sitting beside me who has a license.
I still wouldn't suggest running, I may be inclined to chasing you. X3
On a side note, is anyone else on fanfiction liking the new crossover support? I love it, personally. Even if it does mean that I get less views because I have chosen such an obscure mix for my crossover. Surprisingly though, I have been getting new reviews so that's a bonus. That and the people reading it generally know the Black Jewels universe. ^^
I plan to update fairly soon, if anyone cares to know. I've got about a half a chapter right now AND a new laptop so I'm enjoying the freedom to use the computer all the time without having to ask someone to borrow theirs. I don't know when I'll next update the revised edition - hit a bit of a block cause I can't remember where I was going with something I have written - but it should be within the next month or so.
>_< I really am terrible with my updates, aren't I?
>_<
I'm going to kill someone. Probably myself.
The University of Guelph. $2000 scholarship per year, provided I can keep at least an 80% average.
I'm so freaking scared/unsettled right now. Before, university was a vague notion. Now, it's a definite thing and I will be going. ><
I don't know if I'm ready for it.
Good thing I'm waiting for the other two to reply back on whether or not I've been accepted before I make my final decision. I've got until shortly after Anime North. (round the 28th of May)
>< Here's hoping for the best.
- Mood:>_
The basis of these challenges were to take a word someone offered up and use it somewhere in a short piece that you would post following their's. Then you would post a word and someone else would write a piece....etc. etc. Yeah.
So....here we go!
( Prompt: pencil )
( Prompt: force )
( Prompt: Consipracy )
( Prompt: Shiny )
( Prompt: Test )
So there they are: proof that I do other stuff while procrastinating my fanfics....I mean, in preparation for writing my fanfics. Oh screw it, you all know that I'm lazy by nature and not even my hobbies can win in the face of it.
I have no more room for my books. This is due partly to the stuffed animals that, try as I might, I can't bring myself to give up. They remain on a grand total of three of my shelves on my wall of shelves. The television takes up two on it's own and DvDs and figurines take up another....oh...one and a half. Oh nevermind, it's two. I forgot about the Lego Hagrid's Hut I've got up with the cat doorstop I'm using as a statue. The stereo doesn't help either but we've drilled holes into the wood to make room for the cords so the speakers really can't be moved.
Then there's the abundance of other stuff lying around and shoved into boxes piled on the lower, deeper shelves. I wouldn't have put books there anyway so I don't count them.
So, I've run out of shelving space for my books. I'm piling them on top of each other and in front of one another and leaving them around the house and loaning them to my sister and still I have no space. I'm contemplating buying a small bookshelf to put under the television by the wall. Or putting one above my second bed in the smaller portion of my room.
Of course, I've got no money (as I often find myself) so I can't afford any of this. Ironically, I can afford new books. ><
My mother suggests a purge of the bookshelf. I suggested she purge the house of windows and tell me how that feels. I also suggested she kill off my brothers and sister and what that would be like and she glared at me and said that my books could not be compared to her children.
I beg to differ. (But I won't tell her that because she'll smack me)
The Godfather annoys me. What kinda ninja-psychos are there in the mob that can sneak an entire bloody horse's head into a bed and have the occupant not notice? The movie seems interesting, but I don't have the interest to watch it - regardless of it's apparent cinematic immortality.
So, I've seen the famous horse's head scene and it let me down.
And the "offer he can't refuse" line is overused. It wasn't even that great a line.
And I can feel those hateful glares, fans of the movie, don't think I can't. Well, you can all go have yourselves a great big Godfather party with fake horses heads and ninja-psychos while I go...oh I dunno, watch snow melt off my front lawn or something.
- Location:Den
- Music:Crushcrushcrush - Paramore
Is it so unreasonable that I don't want to drive? I don't like driving. Mostly because the sum total of maybe.....3 times I've gone driving my mum was sitting in the passenger's seat alternately laughing and yelling at me not to do things that seem perfectly reasonable reactions at the time.
So now I need driving lessons. >< It's gonna cost me and I really don't want to learn and take my test in winter with all the snow and ice but I will because I want to have pleanty of time to get used to driving alone and with others before May. (Anime North - Toronto - an hour from my house on the best of days, let alone on a friday evening)
Ugh....I just.....would rather put the money towards a laptop. Or university. Speaking of which, I need to apply to that soon. Cut-off date for applications is the 14th. So I'm applying on either the 5th or the 9th. Ick.
And.....that's an update on my life, if anyone actually cares and reads this. XP
So I'm not doing the dragon egg thing anymore. >< Mostly cause I don't have the time (all of 5 seconds to post each day) but also because I can no longer access the pretty colour-coordinated breeding chart I had on my brother's laptop.
Do you know how long it took to make that? Too long.
Maybe I just started so I could make a pretty chart......I'm pretty odd like that.
I dunno. On the plus side, I was less bored for a few weeks where my work wasn't aware I was available all the time.
On a side note.....GUESS WHO HAS ALL HER X-MAS SHO
XD
All done and wrapped. :D I like wrapping almost more than I like getting presents.
Almost.
I had to fight tooth and nail to get the damn presents too.....>< And then I ran out of bows and got upset. So now some of the presents don't look nearly as pretty as they could. And because I'm a cheap bastard who isn't going to donate to charity so that someone else can have the fun of wrapping my gifts.
It also might have something to do with spending nearly $20 on wrapping paper I'll never use.
I got a key cut today! And I got it stuck in my door! >< I paid nearly $8 to get the damn key and then we had to pay an additional $5 to get the key out of the lock where it got stuck. Now my mum (since I'm a massive chicken) is going to take the key back to the shop and demand that they refund the money and pay for the cost of getting it out. Especially since the locksmith said that there shouldn't have been anything wrong with the key, just that it was a tiny bit thicker than usual but that it shouldn't have been a problem.
And.....that's all. I wonder who reads this? Probably no one. Still, I like typing so I will continue to post here as if someone cares and reads my ramblings.
Okay, so I was almost done a new chap of AWDD when.....it happened. ><
I may have, accidentally, broken my brother's laptop.
Which, in and of itself, should be of no concern to me, seeing as it's not mine, but seeing as how his laptop is so much better than my piece of crap computer that I've moved onto it until such a time comes that I buy myself my own laptop and transfer all my files over.....all of my work on my fanfiction is stuck on his laptop and may or may not be recovered. ><
On the plus side, I'm pretty sure I can fix then damn thing. The downside being, if I screw up, there go all our files and I'm pretty much stuck all over again. ><
If I can't fix it, I'm taking it to a professional and getting it fixed there. (on the brother's dime of course, it's not my computer, regardless of whether or not I was using it at the time of the breaking.)
So......yeah. That's all. ><
Bye?...... ^^;
