I probably won't post more then chapter one, but it's short-ish and written completely different from the rest of the novel so far. Now I should get back to essays D:

( We Started the War - NaNo 2009 - Chapter 1 )

This week is World Opportunity Week at the U of M and I really wanted to go to some of the presentations about being part of an Semester Abroad or Teaching English as a second language in a far away country. And for two days I dove into the booklet they're giving out on campus and reading the website. But then I realized that I don't have that freedom to leave the country for that amount of time. I have sugar gliders my parents don't appreciate being left with. And I love my boys more then anything, but at the same time I crave that freedom to just leave. So yeah, that was a heart breaking moment for me. I might still go to one of the presentations, if only to keep living the day dream.

Hallowe'en weekend was crazy! Lots of fun. I went to the bar with my brother and his friends for the first time, a little strange but not to bad, except when my brother wanted to fight this guy who was just being a creeper/jerk. So I pushed them apart. The Burlesque show was pretty good, but short. We stayed at the bar till 12:30, which was when it was suppose to end, looked around and found we were the only ones still there. Of course I drank a little too much on Saturday night, but didn't notice till I got home and tried to sleep. Then tried to write, got about 200 words out and decided it was impossible to even try xD Oh, and I'm too lazy to post pictures right now, besides I think everyone has seen them since I've posted them in numerous other places already.

Past the 4k mark on my NaNo novel, it's going okay so far, but I'm looking forward to getting to the scenes that are more properly planned out in my head. Time balancing this month is going to get tricky.

This has already been up in my Gaia thread for a few weeks now, so I just changed the code over to post it over here.

( Introducing my NaNo Cast )

So I've spent the last few hours trying to find the proper procedure for medical examinations for migrating into the US. A few times already I've come across sites wanting money for answers in their FAQ. One was from a lawyer site (So no surprise there!), BUT I was linked to the lawyer site directly from a .gov site. I think one of my TB books had a general overview of the process but I have also been able to find that online, but nothing that puts all the pieces together for me. Oh well, one of my searched brought me to the process for Australia - not really sure how that happened but I might be able to use it.

New Tegan and Sara leaked online and I downloaded it on Sunday. Not to worry though, I still have my pre-order copy on iTunes and I'll probably buy a real one, just cause. Other fans don't seem to care for it since it's a big change from their acoustic days but I'm still loving it. It makes me feel like writing, but pretty much everything makes me feel like writing right now xD

This next week is going to be pretty hell-ish, just busy with school. I am looking forward to the ballet on Thursday night I just hate having to find parking downtown. But the main cause of stress in my two mid-terms Monday followed by two mid-terms Tuesday and on top of that I agreed to take a reference test for the library on Wednesday(Really don't know why I agreed to that...). Halloween weekend is bound to be eventful but the closer it gets the less I want to do anything Dx I want to be able to curl up and kill my brain on tv or something after all that test writing.

Fort Garry Library told me they were desperate, nearly begged me to work a few shifts for them, one of which was this Thursday which I most definitely said no to. But I didn't really have a better reason that 'I hate full day shifts' for not taking a 9:30 - 5:00 shift on Nov. 7th. It's going to be torture. I don't know anyone there. I'll have to make small talk with the people since I'll be stuck at the front desk the whole time instead of on the floor like I normally am. Ugh, that complaining should be put off till it's closer to the actual date.

Over 700 words on my Tuberculosis paper, not counting the hand written bits or any actual analysis going on just yet. Should do a 15 minute word war with myself.

This was actually written last week but I wanted to get all that Ramathian writing out of the way before posting it. So this is my small NaNo sketch, just trying to find a feel for the story.

565 words.

( In the Hedges of Harmony )

Oh conclusions, sad in so many ways x] It seems my too headstrong characters are still as head strong as ever. But I may have humanized Malvin more then I had ever planned too. Now I need to concentrate on studying some illnesses.

( Part 5 - Black Gathers on a Beautiful Day )

Second last part, as long as the plot doesn't go on to long anyways. I'll try to hold back in the future ;)

Happy Thanksgiving f'list <3

( Part 4 - I'm waiting for a hero to save the day. )

This whole sort story thing has gotta way out of hand, so I made sure to squish it at five parts.

Must prepare for a full on study day tomorrow, oh how I hates it.

( Part 3 - And now it was time to try and start fixing things. )

So much snow! I love it, but the roads are ice and I need to head back out there to get to work!

Went to a Hallowe'en themed wedding social last night, might steal some pictures later. I wasn't supposed to work at all today but I'm now working twice, but, I have the house to myself for most of tomorrow which means I have a nice full day of studying to look forward too.

And now we continue to the second part of the large Ramath-lehi plot, things are getting messy.

( Part 2 - And we didn't even notice when the sky turned blue~ )

Busy days - what's new? Just been called into work a lot, so even all the time that was meant to be dedicated to school work is being taken away. But no biggie, I'll live. But for the reason I'm making this update...

I was being a studious little student on Sunday so I let myself do some writing, a small NaNo character sketch piece and a piece concerning all my characters over at Ramath-lehi.com since the big world wide plot is slowly being revealed. So I'll post the later first, since it's just part one so far, with at least one more part to follow.

( Part I - In the dark, there is Nothing. In The Nothing, there is death. )

Oh Linux computer room, oh how I've missed you. There are cameras in the other computer rooms that stop me from eating, but here so some reason I eat while underneath the 'No food or drink' sign and feel no fear. (Wait, there is a camera here, I just always forget about it, oops). And even though I have no knowledge what so ever about these operating systems this is still my favourite computer lab because it's always so empty.

School has obviously started to take over my life, LJ updates will be rare, even though I spend hours in front of the computer on weekdays and at least one or two during the week. Sadly this time is spent researching. I hate researching, it's so time consuming.

I have too presentations to do today, one which was all of half an hour ago. I think it went well, or that I at least raised some good points, still couldn't get much class discussion going on, kind of hard when only 5 of us show up to the class. The next one in about an hour should get more discussion going, more kids and more importantly, more talkative kids.

Super stoked that it's the 1st! NaNo site should relaunch later tonight, then the Gaia guild and Prize thread will open up so I can hobnob about with everyone from the last few years. Of course studying all the while...

Anyways, I should stop reading about the proper way to structure and plot a novel and try to read this article about Mother Love and Death in Northeast Brazil.

EDIT: hey you #fridayflash-ers, be sure to leave your name if you comment!

This might be my last #Fridayflash for a while, not sure if I'll be able to write consistently with school. Not to mention if my weekends look like this one. I have two work shifts today, one more on Saturday and two more on Sunday. Good bye weekend!

( #Fridayflash #3 - Art of Growing Up )

I didn't plan on posting this when I started writing it but it just go so long that I thought it had enough 'shock value' to be postable material xD It should be longer but I stopped adding 'Optional Readings' believing that I'll never get to them!

( I have once again succeeded in freaking myself out over school. Sometimes it's not so good to look at the  )

If you have 20 minutes to spare and have a thing for eco-friendly, mind boggling architecture, you should watch this video, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo/video-mingled stories of his eco-flashy designs. I want to live in his buildings!

But since that was my computer slack time of the day, I should go do some school reading. Then maybe make some time to write my #fridayflash story which I'm a little on the fence about... And then piano lessons later tonight. First one of the season! (And probably my last year of piano depending on how much I can practice between school and work.

Skipped some classes to get my hair done today, it's surprisingly hard to get in to see my hair dresser. So now it's a richer, darker brown with a fair bit of purple highlights. I have very much missed unnatural coloured hair :3

I have continued 28 Gears -part 3 but I probably won't use those as #Fridayflash pieces because I actually want to learn to write short stories. So I'm hoping I'll still be able to manage a story a week even with school starting.

( Catholic Guilt and Lima Beans )

Today if my first full day of work this summer, 1-8:30, usually I pick up more during break but all the other times I asked I was usually in class. Which I don't mind, I like my small 3 1/2 hour shifts. So I guess this is my last money grab before school.

I haven't let myself take any more painkillers since Saturday morning, my jaw still hurts from time to time and I can't open my mouth all the way still but I think that's the last of my problems to stick around.

House of Leaves is sucking me in, which makes me want to go to work less, I only have 2 days till school starts and reading gets put on hold again. In the last few days I've also been out dancing, got lost in a corn maze and cleaned my room. It never fails that I'm productive the last week before school, but hardly productive for all of the free time I had for the rest of summer, durrrr.

( I even did some Photoshop character doodles this weekend. That's right, this time it's art under the cut and not writing! )

I had actually written something different to be my first #FridayFlash piece but it needs some touch ups done to it, so I wrote the continuation instead.

Part one can be read in a previous post or On my DeviantArt Page.

( 28 Gears - Part 2 )

Now I'll go start reading all the other ones that are clogging up my Google Reader feed

Samm is engaged?! ENGAGED!? This is blowing my mind, I can't believe it. I always joke about being excited for a big wedding party, but this is kind of creeping me out, lol. 20 is really young in my mind to be engaged...

So it might not be the pain that is keeping me up, but the fact that the meds that are suppose to keep down the swelling also cause sleep problems. And as I have learnt over the past year, I'm pretty susceptible to side effects.

So what have I been doing with all this awake time? Well this morning I went through pictures and made a college of all the hats/headgear I've been caught wearing. I've got 8 different ones so far and I need one more to even out the page before I post it anywhere. Looks very unprofessional to just have that empty space sitting there, haha.

Last night I stayed up and worked on a first piece of a story that I completely blame Sims 3 for. One of my Sims sits down to write a novel and I have to name this Sci-fi novel. Well I can't name a novel and not start thinking of a story. So I named it 28 Gears and decided it sounded like a good title to play around with a Steampunk genre since I've never written in it before but I've always found it ridiculously pretty to look at/read about. And since I was craving some new music I typed 'Steampunk Music' into Google on a whim and actually found music.


I finished at 11:50 last night and almost submitted it as a #FridayFlash hashtag on Twitter but felt like I was cheating since I wrote the first bit a few days before and had high doubts that I would continue to write it.
( Part 1 - 28 Gears )

I was also productive enough to finally say that I've written the first chapter to Squadron D, which has been an on again off again novel that I've been working on since December 2004. And I would probably keep working on it tonigh, but having only gotten 5 hours of sleep last night I think it might be a good time to try and sleep again.

I'm so happy I took that second summer course. I feel like I do nothing with my time now, so it's a good thing I only have 2 more weeks left to kill. My days generally involve reading time, computer time, tv time and video game time. Then I just fall into a lull of not wanting to do any of those things.

Hmm, if I go a buy my school books early would I actually read them?

Right now might just be Puzzle Time. Professor Layton is just as good as the first one, if not better for the single fact of the Memo feature which lets you jot now notes on top of the puzzle. And all the extra cut scenes + new voice actors definitely adds to the feel of the game. However, I've either gotten smarter (which is a possibly side effect from school so I've heard) or the puzzles may be a tad easier. So far I have less then 7 saved up in the riddle bank that I had to pass on so solve later.

Wisdom teeth are coming out tomorrow, meaning I have to stop eating at midnight tonight, then survive till 1:30PM Friday on clear liquids and all the pills I need to take Pre-Op. So in other words I might disappear for a day or two depending on how well I can bounce back from the surgery. I've heard good things and bad things, and I'm fighting the urge to Google anything about it!