When in doubt, make a list!
Here is my to-do list for November/December:
-NaNoWriMo... sigh. I'm so full of excuses for this one. Didn't see that coming! I'm going to do my best, but I doubt I'll reach 50,000 words. I'm on just over 5000 now and it's been that way for a few days, I think my average is 300 words a day and then I get distracted.
-Now that I've finished reading Celestine Prophecy, which had an unexpected comedy ending, here is my new reading list. It's nearly all teen lit with the exception of Matthew Reilly, which I think might be junk archeo-adventure:
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-Finish watercolour I'm working on now, which I'm quite happy with. Also finish this one, I've been messing with it for about 6 months. I find if I don't keep doing something in 'the heat of the moment' it tends to take me forever to get something done. Loving working from a large oil canvas to a 'small' (A3) watercolour, but really need to apply myself to do a bit more each week. I find stopping to wait for a layer to dry kind of messes things up because I lose interest.
-Get my vegan on! That's right, back here again. It was about this time last year that I fell off the vegan wagon. It was a slow but gradual process, but I found that I've been miserable food-wise ever since. Eating vegan makes me feel happy on the inside. I've been nearly-vegan for most of this year, if it wasn't for cheese. Stupid cheese! But now I'm prepared to do my research and make the journey to far away supermarkets to get substitutes that don't have that mealy, fucking disgusting aftertaste. Or buy a book like this. Yum! I'm excited about it. Tonight, I'm making some sushi with some strange fish substitute Lee2 bought from Lotus in Northbridge. Looks very tuna-y in the packet, and no cooking instructions, but we'll see...
-Plan for next year... once I find out what I'm teaching next year! *gulp*
-NaNoWriMo... sigh. I'm so full of excuses for this one. Didn't see that coming! I'm going to do my best, but I doubt I'll reach 50,000 words. I'm on just over 5000 now and it's been that way for a few days, I think my average is 300 words a day and then I get distracted.
-Now that I've finished reading Celestine Prophecy, which had an unexpected comedy ending, here is my new reading list. It's nearly all teen lit with the exception of Matthew Reilly, which I think might be junk archeo-adventure:
- Chosen by P.C and Kirsten Cast (library, looks like a Twilight ripoff, but I wanted to read some crappy teen 'horror' to compare myself with)
- Zombie Blondes by Brian James (I only bought because it has a Sas Christian artwork on the cover and I went 'ooh... shiny.' Again, inspiration for my novel.)
- Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught (library, looks pretty good though.)
- Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly (library, thought I might read cos he had a signed poster sent into work. Think I've read Ice Station but can't remember.)
- The Amanda Project: Invisible I by Stella Lennon (bought. looks quite different, bought thinking ooh this could be cool for teaching until I remembered I probably won't be teaching next year.)
- Oh and I almost forgot to add Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which I never intended on purchasing, but I was in Kmart, and it was staring at me. Haha. It was next to Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, but I haven't read the original of that one *shame*.
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-Finish watercolour I'm working on now, which I'm quite happy with. Also finish this one, I've been messing with it for about 6 months. I find if I don't keep doing something in 'the heat of the moment' it tends to take me forever to get something done. Loving working from a large oil canvas to a 'small' (A3) watercolour, but really need to apply myself to do a bit more each week. I find stopping to wait for a layer to dry kind of messes things up because I lose interest.
-Get my vegan on! That's right, back here again. It was about this time last year that I fell off the vegan wagon. It was a slow but gradual process, but I found that I've been miserable food-wise ever since. Eating vegan makes me feel happy on the inside. I've been nearly-vegan for most of this year, if it wasn't for cheese. Stupid cheese! But now I'm prepared to do my research and make the journey to far away supermarkets to get substitutes that don't have that mealy, fucking disgusting aftertaste. Or buy a book like this. Yum! I'm excited about it. Tonight, I'm making some sushi with some strange fish substitute Lee2 bought from Lotus in Northbridge. Looks very tuna-y in the packet, and no cooking instructions, but we'll see...
-Plan for next year... once I find out what I'm teaching next year! *gulp*