I should maybe/probably put something up here about what I've been doing. Then again, that's a pretty quick fix - not much. I have been applying to hundreds of jobs, hearing nothing back, and being harped upon about how I'm not trying hard enough. Which is fun ( Read more... )

It's been a loooong time since I last posted, so I should probably file some updates ( Read more... )

Holy shit you guys! By complete accident, I just found 16 pages of my 70-page (and otherwise completely lost to time) final project for the creative writing class I took at nerd camp in 2000. Oh my GOD y'all I lost this YEARS ago! I bet it's horrific. Just flipping through the pages, the character names are giving me MAJOR retroactive embarrassment ( Read more... )

Ugh making ZERO progress on creative projects is pretty disheartening, I'm finding (again). I can't stay mad at Russia for having lost all their pre-Christian worldbuilding myths, because the stuff they've put together since then is so awesome (I will never not love Prince Ivan, even if he's kind of a jackass sometimes), but it doesn't help me make ( Read more... )

Ugh taking a break from GRE studying. I haven't been doing it nearly enough as it is, but good lord is it dull. Plus it wants me to go through the verbal stuff first and keeps saying "you should really work on your vocabulary! Really! You don't know enough words!" and it's just nonsense: they haven't had a single word I've not heard in the book so ( Read more... )

Ugh how does such a long time elapse between entries and I don't even notice? Bleh. Then again, since so many people seem to be abandoning LJ in stages (and I can't really blame most people - it's dying tiny deaths every day, it just makes keeping up with people harder), it's not like anyone is concerned for my post-count. Still ( Read more... )

Back to bad habits, I see. Oh, well.

I spent the weekend and Monday not writing for NaNo, and haven't since (I've been busy AND I'm not halfway to 50k, so it's just not going to happen at this stage. I'll keep working on this one, and try again with a new one next year.) I spent Tuesday and Wednesday morning in London, meeting up with avatar1983's parents ( Read more... )

My NaNo is still behind, but I wrote 4k words yesterday, bringing me up to 20k in total, which makes the deficit only 4k unlike the 6k it was before. Ugh I have been so bad. I really need to get at least the required 2k done today, but I haven't written a word. I'm still trying to figure out what needs to happen in the meantime ( Read more... )

Blerg I am having serious motivational issues with NaNo. It's not that I don't know what's going to happen or whatever, it's just that I feel so overworked on this front. I've been writing so much every day that I feel sort of burnt out, you know? Well I say every day, but I didn't write at all on Sunday, and I stopped three hundred words short of ( Read more... )

So I just had my singing lesson. I was extremely nervous and when the first thing that happens is "Caro Mio Ben" appears in front of me and I hear, "Let's start with this" I wasn't any less nervous. It didn't help that I could not hit the first note right off the bat - I really needed to warm up etc and I was dying of tense anyway so yeah. Anyway ( Read more... )