Maledicte

• Once again Delicious has fucked up. Idk what's actually going on business-wise (I gather someone bought the site and wanted to put their own stamp on it) but I imported all my Delicious bookmarks to Google Bookmarks and then deleted my Delicious account. Both as a way of saying, "Fuck you, please die in a fire," to the people who fucked up the website, and also to remove the temptation to keep bookmarking there. I'll have to take some time to get to know Google bookmarks (which needs a shorter and catchier name) and to edit all my bookmarks to make them readable again, but then hopefully everything will be fine again. For a while.

• School is still going well. I wrote the worst paper on Machiavelli for my Ethics class... and got 25 out of 25 points on it. The only comments from the teacher were that it was well constructed and well thought out. Which... is sort of hilarious actually. I mean, if I had handed in that paper at SJC, my teachers would likely have given it back and been like, "You're joking, right?" Apparently the bullshitting skills I learned in high school will serve me well here. Anyway, I seem to be getting good grades. Here's hoping that continues.

• I have a meeting with my Academic Advisor and the guy in charge of Study Abroad in 25 minutes. I am looking forward to that, but a little worried that the deadline for applications for next semester (Spring semester, which is sometimes deceptive, as it actually includes a whole lot of winter) are due October 1st. Which is impossible for me to meet. On the other hand, spending a fall semester (which, again, is deceptive as it usually includes a fair chunk of summer) in Barcelona might be awesome. Then I could always take a few weeks before the term begins and do some exploring in Europe. Though, really, I could also just take weekend trips to Paris/Berlin/Nice/Madrid/other places in Europe when I'm there for school. But that's sort of exciting.

• I've also been notified by Hillel and some other Jewish Youth organization that I might be eligible for a Birth Right trip to Israel. While that's not exactly the safest place on the planet right now... not a whole lot of places on the planet right now are totally "safe" anyway. I'm definitely going to sign up to be selected, but I want to wait for a summer trip. I don't want to miss school. I gather that the trips are fairly short (10 days, someone told me) but you can extend your trip once the group breaks up. So I could do some exploring of that region too. (Egypt, Turkey, Greece, &c.) Fingers crossed for that, as it's possible I could age-out (apparently). Hopefully I am still young enough that I have a little time for this.

• My first real workshop is tomorrow. I am somewhat anxious. I submitted a story that I'd already written (at my first Alpha, I think) but that I've been wanting to revise pretty much since the moment I finished writing it but never really knew what to do with it. Actually, about two days before I handed it out to the class I realized what I wanted to do with it, but I am hoping that I will still get some good things from having people look at it. (I don't think this piece ever got workshopped at Alpha, so.) I am excited but also nervous. Eeeeee.

• Rosh Hashana starts tomorrow evening, and I have already informed my teachers that I will be out of class for Thursday day. Yes, I could technically make it to class if I really wanted to, but it's a holiday. And I suspect that I will be exhausted, as I am also taking my mother to the airport at 6:30am. I am very much looking forward to the singing, even though the director (I think) wants me to sit in the most visible place of the entire choir seating. I expect I will be bright pink and shaking for all of our songs.

• Still working on fic things. Not making much progress because it makes me cranky that they aren't doing what I want, but. Technically, still working.

• A friend of mine -- or, rather, someone I thought was a friend -- is being passive aggressive, and lying to me (I think) and talking about my behind my back (or so I've been told). Which is upsetting. I knew she was a compulsive liar and that she had trouble keeping anything confidential (and by trouble I mean that it never happened) but I overlooked that for the majority of our friendship because there are a lot of things I actually like about her. I think I'm going to give up. I've done my part. I've made the effort, and if she's not going to, I don't think it's fair to myself to keep trying. Which... is rather sad.

And now my meeting is in 10 minutes, so I think it's time to wrap up this post.

• The Secretariat trailer makes me tear up. As does watching any clips of his races on youtube. There is just something about that horse that makes me teary.

• I think I know what I want to write for NaNoWriMo. Now I just need to start constructing the plot a little more, and tweak the characters enough to give me some structure. I'm going to really try and get everything ready for me to write when November rolls around, so that I don't have to worry about the plot too much while I'm writing. Hopefully that will allow me to focus on getting the right number of words on the page. Here's hoping!

• That all being said, how do I reset my nanowrimo.org account? There's gotta be a better way than deleting all of last year's info, right?

• I've decided against doing any sort of holiday fic exchanges this year. I'm only interested in finishing the two fics that I started this summer, and not really looking to write anything other than original stuff for the next little while.

• Not that I really have time these days to do a whole lot of original writing. D:

• So not caught up on any of the TV shows I'm watching, and other shows are starting up again. How will I ever keep up? I did finish watching The Pillars of the Earth though. Which, while it was annoyingly inaccurate with the characters' ages/looks, was really amazing. And it had a song in the soundtrack that we sang during Freshman year music, and then later Euclid came up. I was like, "This is awesome. It's Freshman year come back to haunt me in my TV shows." Still, it was amusing and fun.

• I got an awesome pair of boots at Target last night. And discovered that Revlon is now making their lip stain again. In a different sort of applicator, but still. It's still called Just Bitten though, which amuses me to no end.

• A couple weeks ago I got free tickets to see Lúnasa here in Santa Fe. The show is next weekend, and I am super excited. I am taking my dad. :> Because no one but him could properly appreciate it with me. Here, have a video of my favorite song. I hope they play it.

• There are a bunch of things through the end of the year that are playing/showing/being performed at the local theater that I want to see. And they apparently have awesome student rates, so I might actually go see some of them. Including a "live in HD" showing of Das Rheingold, which is now playing at The Met in NYC. $15 student tickets are kind of way too good to pass up.

• My kitten was playing with a live bird in the living room this morning. I heard from the woman who's cleaning our house and apparently the bird died at some point. I am sorry, little birdy. I was running late, and you scare me, so I didn't rescue you. D:

On Monday, I started a novel. Yeah, so much for not setting any lofty goals for 2010. Mira bought me a "Congratulations, you're writing again!" Moleskine (and one for herself) and we holed up in Barnes & Noble for several hours and wrote. And plotted. And then wrote some more. It was really nice. I'm excited about this new endeavor, and I am looking forward to working on it.

Today I went to Borders and bought myself a copy of 2010 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market.

I am feeling quite proud of myself.

Look, Sky wrote something! Granted, it's only a teeny little drabble, but that's still more than she's written in months.

Title: Exhausted
Author: Sky
Written For: 15minuteficlets challenge #178
Author's Note: It's 5am. I dont know.

( Exhausted )

Ok, so I dislike this drabble, but I can't figure out how to fix it without rewriting the whole thing. I might just end up doing that, but here's this ne for now.

Tristan is my half-elf assassin/thiefy and Tahmores is ravenpirate's Lord.

( #78 - Lies: Tahmores/Tristan )

I substituted "violet" for "purple." That's why you won't actually see the word "purple" in this drabble. Deal with it.

P.S. Kiran is a character of ravenpirate's, and Varian is mine. We stuck them together for our first RP (which also proved to be our longest, I think). I think it's also our favorite. :3

( #16 - Purple: Kiran/Varian )

Title: And Seven Were Deadly
Author: Sky
Part: 1/7 (That's the plan, at least...)
Rating: Er... R to be on the safe side.
Warning: SLASH. DO not flame me or I will be annoyed. You have been warned.
Disclaimer: Actually, these boys are mine... XD
A/N: Random bit of pr0n for ladyjaida's birthday. There are more parts of these to come, at some point.

( And Seven Were Deadly )

Happy Birthday, Jaida-snoo!! I hope you have a fantastically spectacular day! *schmoogles*

Title: In The Mornings After
Author: Sky
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 2863
Fandom: The Night the Fireflies Danced
Pairing: Kaden/Cade, Kiran/Kaden. Graphic sex scenes contained herein.
Warning: The aforementioned sex scenes are of a homosexual nature. Read: SLASH. Do not flame me for it. Also, INCEST. Do not flame me for this either. I will get annoyed because I warned you.
Author's Note: You didn't recognize the above fandom and pairings because they are from ravenpirate's novel. It has not been published. In fact, it is still in stages of heavy revision, and she's not entirely sure what she's going to do with it yet. This was written for her because I promised... almost a year ago now. (If you recognized the fandom and pairings, it just means you know what I'm talking about and your not special, or you're Megan, and you are.) Basically... this is a fanfiction for my friend.

( In The Mornings After )

I've decided that you're totem animal, airiviel, is an otter. *nods* I was looking at my Medicine Cards Book ( the cards are lost somewhere in the garage ), and I decided that you're the otter. Which makes so much sense to me, and I have a feeling that it will make sense to you too.

Yeah, so why have we recieved no comments on Kirwan Collaborations? We worked so hard on that, people, please read and let us know what you think. ( Also, Alpha people should particularly look at Finished In A Single Stroke as it's a story that I want to send out, and I would appreciate some comments or crits on that. Yup. )

I love how I was having a conversation about Neil Gaiman on the Oysterband Yahoo group I joined. That made my day.

College Visit Update: Er, St. John's is nice. Hell, I love that campus, I love what they study, I love the people, I love about everything about it. It's just not where I want to be, andit's not what I want to be studying. It's not how I want to further my writing career. So I'm probably just keeping that as a safety. The visit was fun though. I met someone I might keep in touch with.

During the discussions, the visitors aren't allowed to say anything, and I never once did. Except that the math class, which rajenath was in, could all have benefitted from the education in geometry that I had. They put up diagrams, I made a sketch, drew out a few things, and then thought, "Ok, QED, done." And then I looked up to find that they hadn't gotten anywhere. It was amusing. In a frustrating sort of way, I suppose.
[/random college shit]

I really should be packing, or doing laundry, or cleaning this room, but I am far to lazy. Actually, now that I think about it, laundry would only take a second. I could do that easily. But that means I have to get up out of my comfy chair. Wow. Lazy much?

So yeah. Leaving early tomorrow morning, to arrive in Brooklyn, NY, late on Tuesday, so that I can go to the senior meeting on Wednesday. And I fully intend to print out the practice SAT test so that I'll have something to do in the car tomorrow and the next few days. Which means I will actually be productive. Maybe I'll attempt to write too. ( I have an urge to write fanfiction. Specifically Weiss fanfiction. Or something along those lines. I'm wondering if I should give in to the urge or not. )