Exclusive Insanity

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.

V, you're here today, right? RIGHT? That means we have to hang out tonight! Give me a call? Or drop me an email, either one works.

In other news, the postal system and I are friends again.

Well, I'm up to 19K as of last night... I think I'm slowing down! I must fix that immediately.

Right now, I'm totally just writing garbage. I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I just went with the first thing that really came into my head. I think I'll play with the romance now, just for the hell of it.

Yes, I have a detailed story plan. I just... want to delay a bit, because I'm not sure if I have enough to cover 50,000 words. There's a certain point that I don't want to get to until I'm over halfway there, and so I'm doing a bit of playing around for now.

Anyway. Finished my networking assignment and sent in the results. Excellent. I was given my essay topics - those are due near the end of the month. I also have to get my journal finished up - I'm way, WAY behind on that.

There'll be another short writing assignment due next week, but those don't take long.

Other than that, I watched one of the episodes I'd missed of Gundam Seed. Um... okay. When I started the episode, I was surprised - the narrator at the beginning was Hawkeye! And then the opening theme started, and I was surprised again. What the hell did YTV do to the opening? They - they BUTCHERED it! I thought that puny little thirty seconds of Invoke with some random mobile suit fighting scenes was IT. Damn.

I wonder why they did that. The original opening sequence was really neat.

I did much better with NaNo yesterday - I'm up to 13,500 words or so. Only 1500 to write today, and I'll have reached my goal for the week.

Excellent.

In other news, I started listening to one of my CDs yesterday, and the theme for Gundam Seed came on... it made me suddenly realize, "Crap! Gundam Seed!" I forgot to watch it *again* on Friday. Damn. And I was looking forward to this week's episode.

So I decided, fuck it. I went and downloaded some episodes. I'll watch them some time later.

I came across a list - I can't remember where, I just know insaneneko linked it on her journal - of someone's top ten hated things in yaoi fanfiction. I just kind of mentally nodded at numbers ten through two, the usual sort of things, and then kind of stopped and did a double take at number one.

Goth Gundam boys.

Goth. Gundam boys.

I would say *who*? Who the hell writes this? The fact that it's on her list means that more than a few have done this, enough to aggravate her. The HELL? Goth Gundam boys?

V, we should've put this in our Mother of All Badfics. Or does that count under vampire? We should've included it somehow, though... If only because the idea of Quatre in black eyeliner with a spiked collar is about to give me fits. Good lord, the things people come up with...

Work this morning. Bleh. I wish I had more time to sleep. I'm going to be writing and then heading to Sarah's birthday party tonight, too.

Ah well.

Stole this one from girl_starfish.

If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favourite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else. This is merely to wet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s).


Threads of Fate (my NaNo story):

Somehow, Patrick decided hours later, standing by the side of the road a mile or so outside of Derry with his thumb held up for outgoing traffic, his vacation had turned out extremely weird.


Blurring the Line - from part five:

Brian was aware of Omen watching him with interest from the bed - of Cet staring at him as if he'd announced that he was going to strip naked, paint his body black, and do a line dance.


Game Over (my baby) - from part one:

"Great. Wonderful." I threw my hands in the air. "It's my life's dream. No thank you. I don't want to play a game that involves midget ghost guides and weird computer CDs that know your name and disappear from your CD-ROM drive."

(That was more than one sentence... Oh well, what can you do?)

I downloaded a program to find and get rid of the Adware on our computer. It seems to work pretty good, so I guess that's a good thing. Problem is, hotmail's not working for me now - it hasn't been since I ran the thing - and I wonder if they're related.

Anyone else had this problem, ever? It's very annoying. I can't check my email.

Meh. Anyway. I'm at 8800 words, which means I didn't write as much as I would've liked yesterday. I think I might be slowing down already, and that's not good.

Hopefully I'll get back into it... Problem is, I've got an assignment that I want to work on today (it's due Monday, but it's a hassle to leave it because we always get a new assignment during lab) and then belly dancing tonight, too. I don't know if I'll as get much writing done as I want to.

I guess we'll see.