Exclusive Insanity

Yesterday was a long, looooong day. Especially work. Some people brought in their kids, who were kicking around a mini soccer ball inside the laundromat, and of course it inevitably managed to hit me in the head. Gugh.

At least I don't work again until Sunday.

Several good things: I got my Philosophy paper back, and had pulled off an 85. It even had a little smiley stamp on it. I was happy. And in English, the journal presentations didn't take very long so we finished early. Mine went well, too - I read a clip from Game Over. The instructor asked if I was going to be in the Creative Writing course next semester, which she is teaching. I am, so that's cool.

Only one more project to work on now, but it is a difficult one. I worked on my networking assignment a little this morning, and it has a problem that I can't figure out. I'll be going to see my teacher after I've finished checking everything. Then I'll try to work on it again, and THEN I'll get to finishing up my NaNo story.

I am at 49K. 1K to go by tonight. I should be able to manage it. Hopefully.

I'm almost finished with the story, too, so I think I'll try to polish the whole thing off as well.

If I do, it'll be the first original story I've actually finished. That should give me more confidence when I get back to work on Game Over.

Excellent.

I finally got into the episodes with the Rhythm Emotion opening theme... the last nine, I guess. I didn't know that. In any case, I'm happy. I really love this song.

... Getting inspired for Gundam Wing fanfics. I got hit with a plot last night. Nothing major, just a couple of cute ficlets. Well, it was originally one cute ficlet, but it spawned a sequel somehow.

Blargh.

I need to finish NaNo first, and school. I'm too busy right now to write fanfics. I've put way too much off to the last minute. I still have 3K to go for my NaNo story, and I didn't do any homework yesterday either.

I'll have to get it done today before work. At least some of it, anyway.

My goal for today is 48K. That's only 1K more than I have now. I have too much else to do to hope for more.

I work tonight. And tomorrow night. Last night some lady came in and borrowed our broom to sweep up dried cat shit that had brushed off whatever she was washing. I had to wash it with bleach when she was done; it stunk. I am not anxious to go back in to that evil place.

Oh well...

In better news, I found a torrent with all 26 episodes of Kyou Kara Maou that have been subtitled so far... It's just about 4 gigs, which isn't too bad, and I'll get the episodes I'm missing. So that's cool.

I know I should be working on homework today, but I'm way too lazy. I still have two journal entries and a question sheet to finish, but I'll probably end up reading fanfiction and leaving everything for tomorrow. I'm going to try and get some NaNo work done, though.

I'm at 46K. Heh. Didn't get as much as I wanted done yesterday, either.

That's okay, though, because I'm really close to being finished. Hopefully I can make it.

I got help with the program, but it still has problems. I'm leaving it until Monday now, because I have a lot due on that day and the program isn't due until Thursday by midnight.

Priorities...

I might even just say screw it all and go watch Gundam Wing. I watched episode 38 last night and 39 this morning, so I am in fangirl heaven at the moment. Yes Trowa, he IS crying, go get your sexy ass up there and make him feel better! And then get into lots of trouble so he can risk his life trying to save you! GO!

... Sorry.

Yeah, I think I'll slack off and go find some fanfiction. At least until I realize there's not much time left before I have to go to work and I should actually get something done if I don't want to be freaking out at the last minute.

Well, one essay is turned in. The other has an outline that I plan to turn into an actual piece of writing this morning as soon as I'm done checking LJ. This one is a little more interesting, since it's Philosophy. The other one just reminds me why I don't take literature courses any more.

Ah well. On to utilitarianism!

I also managed to get to 42K yesterday. I'm hoping for 44K today - there will be a new Networking assignment, though. I also have a final exam question sheet to work on, and a sorely neglected journal to fill in, both for Monday.

I'll be busy over the weekend. Especially since I work both days. And Monday, too.

I still have 8K to finish...

Bah. The end of November is usually pretty packed.

I'll live, though - it's not as bad as I was worried it would be. At least after tomorrow both of my essays will be in.

I have a question. Why is episode 30 of Gundam Wing called 'The Reunion with Relena' if said reunion only happens in the last two minutes of the episode and isn't really much of a reunion at all?

If you can answer this, then change the reference to that episode called 'Catherine's Tears' and tell me why we only see her tears for about thirty seconds at the end.

Some series just shouldn't title their episodes at all.

I managed to write out my essay yesterday, using only the points I wanted to make with no references. I managed to get it more or less structured the way I wanted. So now I'm going to go and put a quote in to support everything I say.

Shouldn't take too long, hopefully.

After that, I'm getting my mother to proofread. She does a pretty good job of that.

Then tomorrow, it gets handed in.

NaNo wise, I'm up to 37K. I'm hoping to make it to 40K by the end of today. We will see how that goes.

I'm tired. Bleh. Six hours of work ahead of me this morning - which maybe isn't that much compared to some people's shifts, but I'm tired and I want to be in bed. Stupid work.

I haven't gotten any work done on my essays, which is normal. I didn't really think I would. They'll probably be written at the last minute, as usual.

Heh. Oh well.

In better news, I'm up to 34K. I'm hoping to have 35K by time I go to bed tonight, so that's definitely a good start. I'm still in the middle of that turning point for this story... after I've finished, it's more or less downhill. I'll have to start thinking about the new character I'll have to add, though.

Ah well. She'll be fun. Hehe.

15K to go, and a little over a week to do it in. I dunno...

Guess we'll see how I manage.

So I need a new costume for belly dancing. This would set me back more than I really want it to, but mom agreed to chip in. I love my parents.

My sister had some kind of misunderstanding with her boyfriend yesterday, and came home in tears. It was kind of... odd. They've been seeing each other for a long time now - he's almost like a family member. In any case, she seemed very worried that they would break up, but apparently they talked it over and worked things out.

Hopefully that's a good sign.

Now for better news. I did manage to get one of my essays figured out - I now know what I'm going to write on, and how I'm going to organize it. Which is a lot better than I thought I'd do yesterday. Also, the networking assignment is only the first half of our final project - and the easiest half. I'm almost done already.

And my word count is up to 32K.

Now if only I can keep this pace up...

Well, I actually did get that short assignment done yesterday - plus as much as I'd wanted to write in my NaNo story.

Now, if I can just keep up this pace... I can still make it.

29K. I'm getting there. Less than half to go.

Just watched episode 20 of Gundam Wing, too. Trowa's so hot in uniform. I love him. And that impossible little flip thing at the end where he pulls a gun on Heero is just awesome.

This series rocks.

Next up... Quatre goes psycho. I wonder if the insane laughter at the end of that episode will be more or less creepy in Japanese.

I guess we'll see.

School today, and then I'm going to try and at least get some kind of outlines done for my essays. And then more NaNo. And all of this before I hang out with Jeremy. We'll be finishing off the rest of Orphen Revenge. Then it'll be Gundam Wing. And probably Gundam Seed after that.

Excellent.

Well, it was quite a weekend! I had tons of fun in Vancouver, especially at Les Miserables! My god, it was awesome! It was three hours long, but it seemed so much shorter... I could've sat there and watched for a lot longer. Damn, what a great musical.

I seriously hope I'll get a chance to see it again some time. It was absolutely wonderful.

Our hotel was pretty good, too. We were staying at the Delta, which had very nice rooms - and we were on the 19th floor. Yeah, I'm a geek, I thought it was incredibly cool. There was a decent view of the city from up there. It was a lot of fun.

And yesterday, I got to go shopping. I went back to the Crystal Mall, to Sakura Media and Evertoys for some more anime stuff. There was a lot there. I debated with things like a Gundam Seed special with wackysubs, the Hikaru no Go character CD with the very attractive picture of Hikaru, Akira, Waya, and Isumi on the front, the Kyou Kara Maou soundtrack, and - well - soundtracks for just about any anime I could think of. It eventually came down to Gundam Seed OST 3 vs Gundam Wing OST 1, and I decided on GW, because 1) I think it's a better series, 2) I know the music better, and 3) it was five dollars cheaper. Actually, it was only $10 total. I seem to have gotten into a good habit of finding well-priced Gundam Wing merchandise.

And it turned out to be a good call, too. I found all three Gundam Seed soundtracks available for download on Box Torrents, but none of the GW soundtracks.

I'll have to buy more GW CDs if and when I'm back in Vancouver.

Other than that, I picked up some FMA stuff. An action figure of Edward, a keychain of chibi Alphonse with a bird on his head, a tin case with Roy and Ed on the cover that came with a mini-notepad decorated with pictures from the anime, and some stickers.

So, yeah, a pretty successful trip.

The down side? I've gone four days now with only about 200-300 words of NaNo written.

I actually sort of took the day off from writing for NaNo yesterday, without deciding to beforehand. It's okay because I'm ahead, and I wanted to spend time with my friends.

I did some Gundam Wing viewing in the morning, and then Jo and Adam came over and we watched more of it. Jo was so impressed with the set that she bought the same sort of thing for Escaflowne. V and Jen joined us later, and we watched more until I had to go to belly dancing. GW is the only anime V actually likes - and it is lovely. I enjoyed watching it very much.

I'm watching the whole series through by myself in Japanese, even though I mostly prefer the dubbed voices. I've never actually seen the original, so I figured now that I have the opportunity...

Yeah. I'm very happy with this purchase.

Also, last night we went out for dinner and then bowling. It was a lot of fun and I totally spaced on my quiz today, which means I got up a bit early this morning so I'd have time to review the material being covered.

I'm not really worried. I'm getting an A in that class and this quiz is only worth about five percent or so.

Anime club meeting today, and then more hanging out with V and Jo. Excellent.