you live your life as if it's real

 Meme! Stolen from this girl I went to school with like... 8-6 years ago. Good old facebook. But I am not posting the meme there, because my lj is cooler.


Hurrah for wasting some time. Back to proofreading I go now, I guess.

 

In non-fangirl related news, in no particular order, today I:
- found out the concert in NYC is cancelled.
- did not write one single word of my essay, even though it was due 21 minutes ago.
- signed a lease and paid a deposit for a place to live come September.
- did not study Herodotus, even though I have a test on it tomorrow.
- watched Buffy.
- went to class.
- posted a dii crit.

I am an unproductive idiot. Tomorrow has got to be better. But I guess having a place to live is pretty important...

Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name.
Click random article again; that is your album name.
Click random article 10-15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.
 
Band name: Reda El-Weshi
Album name: Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto)

1. Polly Becker
2. Nutford House
3. Metmyoglobin
4. Desperate Housewives: The Game
5. Adolph Strauch
6. Amphoe Pang Mapha
7. Dameon
8. Con-way
9. The Choice Program
10. Jerzy Szmajdziński
11. Suwara Ilkhanizada
12. Emu Airways

Ahahaha. Well that was fun! Thanks, bluebonnets, for helping me procrastinate!

I think I like this quiz result, haha.

( oh yeah, baby )

Today feels like a day that I ought to be able to spend lying in bed reading until four, and then laze about on the computer for the rest of the day/night. Alas, it definitely isn't. Latin quiz and Greek midterm (hoshitgonnafail) tomorrow. Ew.

But anyways, I've accomplished quite a lot the past few days. And writing an entry seems like a lot more fun right now than going over the optative again, so here are my good and bad accomplishments.

- I missed the bus yesterday morning because I forgot I still had to fill up my water bottle, and as a result was late to class.
- I forgot the stupid water bottle anyways.
- Aggravated my shin splints again. Ouch. -whimper-
- I broke my roommate's mug while draining my spaghetti. (Her mugs don't have a good track record with her friends, since the one I broke was the one Steph H. bought to replace the one she broke last year.)
- I read five chapters of Greek history yesterday, which is everything from one textbook that I have to know for the midterm on Thursday. Now I just have the other textbook to go through and all my notes. OMG time management.
- I went to the drag show with Avril last night, and it was pretty damn awesome. I was just sad that there was only two drag queens, since I could wish that more people would have the confidence to do that, but still. It rocked. I'm pretty sure those boys know more about how to move the female body than I do. Definitely know more about wigs, heels, fishnets and make-up, anyways. I really enjoyed it. The one queen stole the show, though. He was so charismatic and hilarious and awesome. Watching the audience was fun too. So many gay boys. And now I really want to watch Bollywood Hollywood again... Roccini!!! ♥♥
- I've now donated something over 2K grains of rice, not really keeping track, but yay it's fun and makes me feel like a good person. And I read the FAQ and About sections on the site, and it does seem legit, so that makes me happy.

And, in writing accomplishments:

Thursday, October 18
Word count: 536
All on my Arthurian slashfic [aka English project, tentatively titled "The Truth is a Multi-Faceted Thing"], very shitty but at least it's getting my ideas in a more concrete form. Written in English class, obviously. I don't know what it is about me and English classes at university, but they're always one of my favourite classes and I can never, ever pay attention in them. It's bizarre, but it was true for the two English courses I took last year, and it's true again this year. Everything about the course fascinates me, but I take almost no notes and zone out pretty much before the prof even starts talking.
Favourite line: Round like the womb, round like the moon and the earth and the sun.

Saturday, October 20
Word count: 274
That story I thought I had running around in my head about an illegal drug trader? Turns out it's actually about a woman with depression, and her path to overcoming it when nobody believes she's actually sick. Who knew. So yeah, that one's more started now. Tentatively titled "A Love Story". Because it is. However, that is also trite. So it will probably change. I hate titles.
First line: He ran the illegal drug trade from Tetra to Espen.
See why I thought it was about that guy? But it isn't. And names are subject to change. Not sure how fantastic this story is going to turn out... might be inappropriate to have "Tetra" and "Espen". And I might decide I don't like those names, anyways. It's all very fuzzy.

You know how they say a writer has to write a million words of shit before the good ones start coming? I kind of really want to tot up all my writing saved on my computer and see just how many words I've written. Obviously I don't have everything I've ever written on this computer, but I do have most of it, I think. So yeah, that can be my fun time-waster/de-stresser after my Greek midterm is finished tomorrow. I'm going to count the roleplaying stuff I have saved, because that taught me stuff about dialogue, plot, and most of all character development, so I think it's valid.

And now I must study Greek. I just hate it cause I don't even know where to start, y'know? Like, with Greek history I have an easy and logical studying path to follow: read the textbooks, go over lecture notes. With Greek... do I memorize verb forms? Vocab? The passages we've translated as homework? The indirect statements/questions stuff we sort of went over that one time? Grammar from other terms? All of it? But in what order? And what do I focus more on?

Ugh. Here goes nothing. I wanna go back to sleep.

 

 OMG Latin quiz today slayed me. And everyone else in the class. Fuuuuuuuuun x.x

On the bright side, though, we could leave as soon as we'd finished it. So I got out a good 15 minutes early. He told us to go use our time productively, so I went and chatted with folks in the lounge and then came back home to... do a meme!!


Right, midterm tomorrow. Probably shouldn't be writing this entry, but oh wellz. In about half an hour I'll head back to the lounge to do some "Greek studying". I sense another failed quiz coming up...

But first! I bought new jeans on Saturday. I'm wearing them today ^.^

And yesterday I did laundry, which I now have to fold. (But thanks to my icon, I'll be smiling!) (Thank you again, xsilvan!!) And somehow I have like a thousand chores to do... the floor needs mopping, my room needs vacuuming, the bathroom needs cleaning, the dishes need washing, the counters need wiping, and so on and so on. Le sigh. That would have been an awfully long list of gerundives if I were writing in Latin. (I am nerd, hear me roar.)

Maybe I should stay here longer, and study Greek by myself for a while. That seems like a really good idea, actually. I don't think I can afford to do poorly on another quiz. This one should be easier than last week's Monster Quiz from Hell(tm). So there's that, at least. Vocab and optative of -mi verbs, here I come. After I fold the laundry. And do some dishes and make some lunch.

I need to get on top of things, because they are starting to kick my ass. Except what I really want to do is roleplay. -.-

 Updated to do list. Sunday.

- study for grk quiz
- study for lat quiz
- translate grk paragraph
- make grk vocab cards
- leave laundry until monday (okay, so it's kinda cheating, but hey I get to cross something off)
- tidy room
- clean up kitchen
- stretch out soreness from dance yesterday
- walk to SLC and get long distance calling card
- eat something, idiot
- get CB's number, look up bus times, figure out if I can get a ticket, and other SA concert related things
- write
- if time, read ch 34 and 35 of latin (well, didn't so much read as follow along in class, but same difference.)

Blurgah. Stupid work. Mayhaps I should have done some of this yesterday... so far today I've already read almost 150 pages. x.x 

But first, time to do another sudoku puzzle. Time management is definitely my forte.

 omgomgomgomgomgomgomg Guy Gavriel Kay is COMING TO MY ENGLISH CLASS!!!!


aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

(I can b fangurl nao plz?)

No, but seriously, Kay is one of my biggest role models and sources of inspiration. I love everything I've ever read of his, and I own all but one (to my knowledge). His books always give me that "holy fuck, this is what I want to do with my life... but I'm not good enough and I'll never be this good... but I have to try..." feeling/motivation. He's genius.

So yeah. I am SO PSYCHED. If this somehow falls through, I will be devastated.

Hm, what else happened since last I updated? Well, the weekend was the reunion bbq (wheeee, fun!), shopping, a wee dinner party, and some more getting ready for school/unpacking. I am mostly all settled in... pretty much I now just need to decide where I want to shove stuff I won't need for a long time (winter coat, etc.). As is, that stuff is sitting unobtrusively along one wall. It can stay there for a wee while, but not forever.

School was fun yesterday, except the whole boy-I-hate-more-than-anything-else-is-in-grk-and-just-as-awful-as-ever part. I really think that in a few weeks' time I won't be able to handle him anymore and will have to email the professor asking him to do something about it. And I know I'll be speaking on behalf of the entire class.

Holy shit. Stopped writing this for a while to eat and chat with my darling Stephanie (who has spoiled me rotten today, buying me bubbletea AND making me dinner), but now there's the most awesome storm raging outside. Turns out the view from the 9th floor is amazing for storm-watching. We could see the wind making the rain sheet off the parking lot almost straight back up into the air again, and I've never appreciated just how much sky I can see from my window until I see the lightning streak across all of it. And the rain still pounds against the windows; all I miss is the sound of rain hitting the roof. Which, admittedly, is one of my all time favourite sounds in the world. Some people find it annoying, I find it incredibly soothing. Especially if it's a tin roof.

And now the sky is clearing, with little patches trying to pretend that it's still late afternoon and all the world is sunshine and lollipops, and other patches stubbornly remaining big bad ass clouds threatening doomsday. And a bird returns, winging madly from wherever it took temporary shelter to wherever it lives. Still, I don't think we're going to see the sunset tonight, folks. The badass clouds are beating the happy lollipop patches.

Okay, so, where was I before weather happened? School, right. So latin and greek are both scary as all hell, though greek is more so, naturally. I have hours of homework to do for both courses that I haven't started yet (oh yeah, off to a rockin' start) and since latin is tomorrow, I really should get on that...

Today I had greek history, myth and english (arthurian legend). I've already done most of the squee-ing for english, with one exception: I can choose to write a story instead of an essay! ZOMG! Sounds like time for thinly disguised MZB Mists of Avalon fanfiction, to me! Hey, maybe I should write some Arthur x Lancelot slash, and justify it as bringing the saga into the 21st century. I bet that would work, actually...

Oh man, the more I think about that, the more I like it. Updates will follow.

Erm, what happened in the other classes... fairly standard intro classes, not terribly exciting. Mind-blowing-fact-of-the-day (from grk hist): at Dimini, a Greek settlement from the Late Neolithic Period (c. 3800 BC) they found human remains, specifically of children who were buried under the house floors. Then the whole class sort of went "ugh!" so the professor had to clarify that this was a common practice of the time. So cool! I want to know so badly why they did it... I can think of lots of reasons why they might (the childrens' spirits still need protection; their spirits will be good forces to ward off bad ones; etc.) but I want to know for sure... those are just speculations, the professor didn't say at all.

Not much else of note, except that Karl (or possibly Carl) is in my grk hist class and that really surprised me. Dude, he's a chem major. But he's a cool guy, so I'm pretty excited for the chance to get to know him better. I liked how when the prof started actually teaching, he sat up straighter and went "oh, I like this class!" XD. It was pretty much what I was doing in my head... he just said it out loud.

In other really nerdy news, when my engl prof told us Kay was coming, she was like "any Guy Kay fans out there?" and a few other people raised their hands... pretty sure I was the only one whose hand shot straight up into the air instantaneously. Whups. Involuntary muscle spasm, I swear... ^.^

OMG xsilvan  and candy_remix  are at the blaqk audio concert by now. SO JEALOUS. You bitches better have fun and dance like crazies for me!

Does this entry have an end? Of course not! I'm procrastinating doing my latin and greek homework. Buuuut... I really should get to work. So I'll try and wrap it up. We hung out with Edward yesterday, and that was really really awesome, plus he's going to come by our place for dinner sometime. The poor boy was planning on living off of microwave dinners all year, so we will cook for him sometimes. And then today I talked to Phil for the first time since being back, and I should see him sometime this week, yey!

Okay, now I'm almost at the end. Remember my old friends the word count posts? You thought you'd escaped those? Fuck no!
Saturday: 886 words, and the novel hit 90 pages.
Sunday: none =( but it was a good day anyways.
Monday: 146 words plus mulling over the plot. Which is still progress, albeit slightly intangible.
The novel is thereby officially at 26.7%

And you'd all thought I'd forgotten about it... Pah! I ALWAYS give up on projects. Every once and a while I've got to do something unpredictable, so this time I'm sticking with it to the bitter end.

(Badass clouds are definitely winning, fyi, though at the moment holding off from actually raining anymore.)

I'll end this entry with a quote from the drunken boy Steph and I passed on the way home from thecityssummer  et al.'s house last Friday, when we were carrying our door mirrors back. Cause it wins almost as hard as the shirtless boys sitting in the back of their white pickup singing Backstreet Boys that we passed the next day in the UW plaza parking lot. I mean, nothing can win quite as much as that. But drunken boy came close.

"Hey bayBEE! ... hey baaaaybay... watcha got there? Is it a storyboard?"

I am here, my internet is working (always takes a while), my shit is fucking everywhere cause I haven't finished putting stuff away. You know that stage of unpacking where it just looks like you took everything out of your suitcases/bags/boxes and randomly chucked it all in the air to see where it would land? Yeah. That.

Should get back to sorting out my new home... it's pretty small, but will work perfectly I think. Some frosh-type people were playing Slim Shady outside my window last night, har har.

Steph and I have a roommate now! Actually she got here before I did. Her name is Esther, and she seems really nice =). I have high, high hopes for this year. And my fortune cookie yesterday at lunch said that good things were about to happen.

I'm so contented. It's nice to be 600 kms away from all those issues between my parents.

Arr matey, more unpacking now. 

Oh, but first (why yes, procrastination IS the name of the game)! My last night in Ottawa was lovely fun. The sperm conversation especially. And stupid bubbletea place locked their door to the bathrooms on the other side of it, so I was trapped =(. And now I have me a shitty angel/demon rp to join. I needs a character. Also a link. -pointed glance in a certain direction-

I can haz purple nao!

Wheeee. I had an insatiable need for purple, so now the ol' lj is redecorated. Not perfect yet, but in general I quite like it.

It was, of course, a perfect way to procrastinate writing. In my foolishness, I decided that today I will finish chapter five. Now that shouldn't be too bad, since I need to write 750 words today anyways for novel_in_90 and there's only 1,200-1,400 words left in the chapter. So really it's only like 500-ish words more, and anyways I should be writing more every chance I get, since I'm so far behind.

But but but 1,200 is such a scary number somehow. So I'm at 363 and stalling. But I will persevere.

...Now that I have purple.

ETA: Ho shit, yo.