Exclusive Insanity

All I can say about yesterday is that NaNoWriMo is coming along pretty good. As of right now, I'm ahead, and I'd like to stay that way because I know I'll slow down when I hit that busy time for school.

Bleh.

Oh well.

Other than that... Um. Nothing. My word count is around 6700. That's not too bad. 43300 to go!

It's going to be a long month. But fun.

Anyway, I'm not going to keep giving the link - if you guys want to read the stuff, you know where to find it. I'm sure that not too many of you are interested in this crap, so I won't keep offering links.

I'm aiming for 15000 by the end of the week. We'll see how that goes.

In other news, really, REALLY glad I'm not American. Ugh.

It is pretty early in the morning - almost an hour before I usually get up. But... well... if I don't write *before* class, I probably won't have much time to do any of it until after work tonight.

Today is the first day of NaNo... and one of my busy days. School, more school, and then work. I intend to write between classes and after work. Hopefully this isn't too ambitious.

I want to see how close I can come to the ultimate goal. 50,000 words...

We'll see.

Also, for anyone who decides to read whatever crap I churn out, keep in mind that a couple of hours *studying* Ireland and looking at pictures is no match for actually *going* to Ireland, so I have no clue what I'm talking about, really. Thank you.

Hopefully everyone had a good Halloween. We did not let the cat out last night, for the same reason that the SPCA refused to sell people any cats a week before Halloween. People are freaks. Luckily, the cat didn't seem to want out, so we were all spared indignant kitty tantrums.

We had 42 kids come by our house. Not a bad turnout.

I'm off to check everyone else's journals and then write.

I finished downloading the Tokyo Babylon OAVs yesterday! I also watched the first one yesterday right before I had to go to work. It was pretty cute, although very eighties. Not that I mind.

The second one won't play. In fact, when I try to play it, it makes my computer restart. I don't like that.

I guess I'll never see the second one. Which sucks.

Oh well.

Since I worked last night, I caught Gundam Seed at nine-thirty instead of on the eastern YTV which plays it at six-thirty. I decided a little while ago that Fllay was annoying. Now I *really* dislike her. I know now why most of the fandom is against her - I can't see why anyone would actually like her. She makes all the other female characters look good by comparison.

I didn't like the pink-haired girl's dubbed voice. It made her sound really childish. So far, she seems neat, but her voice is kind of annoying.

Decent series, though.

The system was still down yesterday for my networking program - I'll have to check and see if it's back up. I'm going to try and get some work done on my Article Summary for philosophy this morning, though, since because of the system crash, the program isn't due until next Monday. And the summary is due Friday.

We'll see how that goes.

Yesterday went reasonably well. I got my essay back, and discovered that I managed to pull off 73%, which is a B. Thank god. Grades are still up there. Also, I got my short assignment done and handed in.

Excellent.

The only thing I have now to work on is that Article Summary, which is due next week. I'm going to try and motivate myself to work on it this morning, because after the lab today I'll have another networking program to work on as well. And next week is when NaNo starts, so it'd be nice to have the homework situation more or less under control.

But I'm lazy, so we'll see.

Did some work on Game Over yesterday. Part four has been edited - again - and I'll probably ask tsaiko to take a look at it, because I love her and she's wonderful. It'll be posted soon, I think. Woo! I also started on part five, which seems to be coming along. I'm starting to suspect that Tristan is attempting to take over the story. He seems to show up a lot.

Part five is supposed to focus a little more on Sasenti, but I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to butt in and grab some more spotlight.

Glory hog...

In other news, for those interested, part two of Going Under is up. You can check that out on ff.net here, on mm.org here or on my site. I'll be posting it on the forum shortly, too.

So I guess I should work on that short writing assignment for tomorrow... It shouldn't take me long. Only three hundred words - that is nothing. I have to pick a couple of sentences from an essay we read and talk about what they mean to me.

And then I really should get working on my journal, because I'm falling behind. I need to interview my mother, since that was an assignment, and then I need to collect some articles on something and paste 'em in.

Shouldn't take too long, and it'll probably be fun.

I also accomplished my goal of working on Game Over last night. And... um... part four is done... But the last scene is just *so* crappy that I can't leave it like this. It needs help *badly*. I really have to get someone to read it and help me, and then I need to do some major fixing. Possibly even scrap the whole thing and rewrite it.

I'm hoping it doesn't come to that, though...

I won't be spending money for a while, too. I'll say why when I actually get what I just ordered. Blargh. I'm way too weak.

I get a lot of use out of this icon. Maybe it should be my default or something. Heh.

Work this morning... bleh. Not fun at all. But once it's over, I have the rest of the day off. Tomorrow is my dad's birthday, and we are celebrating today. It'll be fun.

Yesterday was fun. Sarah did come to the anime club meeting, and intends to come for other meetings, too. Yay! We watched episode seven of FMA, which everyone said was depressing. And so it is. I'm still pretty fond of that episode, though.

Er. For those wondering, I'm going to post part one of my new Hikaru no Go story tomorrow. Probably on ff.net and mm.org and I'm still debating about the forum, since I've been out of things for so long. But we'll see.

A week until NaNo... I need to get working on Game Over if I want to finish part four before then.

I just realized that I haven't made a completely pointless non-real-life-related post in this journal in quite a while.

I think I should fix that.

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Well, my essay is turned in. My program has run. I need to do a graph and a traffic report, and then I can turn it in. It's due tomorrow by midnight, so I have some time.

I'm very relieved now that I don't have anything due in my English class until November 25th. Other than little pieces of writing that take almost no time at all. It just gives me some breathing room.

Which is hard to come by in school anyway.

Jer and I finished watching Full Metal Alchemist last week - that makes two series I've actually watched from beginning to end with him. FMA and Hikaru no Go. So tonight we started Orphen Revenge. By his request, since I showed him a couple of episodes a long time ago. It's fun. I haven't watched that series in a while.

Good to take an older series out and watch it again every now and then.

One more scene left in Game Over part four, and then it can be read through a million times and edited. And then posted. I just have to decide exactly how this scene will go.

I'll figure something out.

Yesterday was busy as hell, and now I'm ready for a full morning of essay writing. Actually, I've already started. I'm through taking notes on Mholo's family's culture and the outside culture, and now I'm going to work on the *wild* culture.

Doesn't that sound exciting?

My teacher told me to send her a draft today, since I wasn't sure if I was doing things right. So when I've finished taking notes, I'm going to write the draft and send it in. Hopefully that'll be finished in time for me to go talk to my Networking prof before Sarah calls about lunch, because I still need to ask about that segmentation error and whether or not we're expected to record all 40 protocols listed in that header file.

And then when I'm back from lunch, hopefully I'll have a reply from my teacher and I can polish up my essay for tomorrow. Then I'll work on the program again and hopefully get it running.

Bah. Today's going to be busy, too. Meck.

Oh well...

So I watched episode two of Digimon Tamers yesterday... Actually, I noticed that most of what they changed is Ruki's attitude - made her a bit snarkier. I like her better in the original.

Ah well. Either way, she is cool. Can't change that.

Jenrya also got introduced in this episode. He said a couple of words, and... wow. Envy. Heh.

Actually, I wouldn't really make connections that often. The seiyuu does a good job of giving characters a distinct sound. And Envy and Jenrya are no where alike in personality, so yeah. No problem.

It's funny, though - that's two seiyuu in Fullmetal Alchemist who came from Digimon. And playing two major characters, too. In both shows.

Kinda cool.

Speaking of cool, it's freezing here. The weather decided to get cold all of a sudden, and our furnace has stopped working. Bah. It's a brand new furnace! What the hell?

I guess we'll find out when we can call in, on Monday.