~a-fiery-boom

I need to pee.














Well... not really. I do have the urge, but that's not what this lovely journal is about (thank goodness!).

I have decided to quit being lazy and start favving stuff I like. So, I will start with the visual stuff first since it is faster than writings.

I feel proud of myself for this new goal. Since I got on here, I always felt bad that I haven't favved anything (except my id) and yet people favved my stuff.

But it shall now change, so prepare for countless (er, or maybe not) quantities of favorites from your truly!

Sorry for the silence nad lack of deviation everyone. School is keeping up with me and won't bug off! Leave me alone! Well, actually it's fine, but still!

Yesterday I finished Howl's Moving Castle. It was quite enjoyable, though I am very mad at the movie now, due to all the big changes. Oh well.

It was so good, I read it within five hours. This could be for several reasons. One, it was plain out good. Two, it was a noncheesy romance. And three, Calcifer the fire demon is awesome.

Seriously, though, I was surprised to find that it was written by one of my favorite authors - Diane Wynne Jones. She wrote the awesome time/dimension warping story Hexwood. And, I was even more amazed to find that Howl has two sequels, the first of which I am reading right now.

So, there's my ever vague review of the... well, there's another review of some sort of media. Enjoy!

I tend to have very random urges and wants at very odd times. The past week, I have especially been craving a video camera... because then I could record all my conversations and laugh at them later.

But, I should rant about that later. Not now. Today, in one of my classes, I experienced the biggest putdown of my life. Well, maybe not, but I couldn't believe the ignorance of the two who were insulting me.

One of my classes had a strange way of getting vocabulary words today. Everyone in a group had different words, and we all passed them around (not my recommended way, it takes far too long).

I needed two other sets of words, and instead of letting me have them, the two girls who had them refused, their reason being that I was caucasian and not hispanic like themselves.

Now, I hate prejudice of any sort, and I have grown up with the relaization that people of different cultures and races actually can be friends, so I was quite peeved by this.

But, this has been my only down this week, so I feel extremely lucky!

So sorry I haven't been submitting lately, I feel so horrible, but these past seven days have been perfectly awesome!


For one, I tried rock climbing on a wall on Friday, and it was fun though I didn't make it to the top because I was scared of coming down. That same night my friend introduced me to the wonderful world of Monk. First good crime show I have ever seen!

I've also been revising my star story like crazy. I'm quite impressed by the results, as it is about ten times as good as it was before.

And, and, and... I finally gots myself a sweetheart! Which means I shall not be celibate my entire life, and that I indeed possess the abilities to romantically attract people. Go me!

The only down is that... I'm having issues with one point prspective in my drawing class. All class on Thursday, I was staring and staring and staring at the hall we were supposed to draw, and even when the teacher showed me what to do, I couldn't do it!

It bugs, but I do really well with two point perspective, so that is half of the concept down!

That's basically all I have to entertain you guys with today, so hopefully this is at least half as interesting as myself!

So, two days since the writer's conference ended. And it was great! I learned so much there in all the workshops, and from other writers as well. Plus, I got some awesome new books on writing, and I was able to do the first part of my revising my story while there, so I am on a roll!

And... the great news - I am offically networking with published authors that I know personally. They are all really talented and great people to hang around with, seeing as my group of friends is all in there.

I just feel really great about my writing. One guy took my story's first draft during lunch, hande it back, and told me it had a lot of promise once I spruced it up. I didn't learn till later that night he was a national selling author. Since then I have been on cloud nine.

I'm just so happy that I went. I wouldn't have got even a quarter of new knowledge if I let that wretched cold get the best of me. Anyway, I won't go into detail, but it was awesome!.. Though I missed you all while I was gone!