i see a red door and i want to paint it black
I have a new layout now, after a long search. And now everything is BLACK LIKE MY SOUL. Except in a kind of happy way. I also replaced the icon that Summer thinks is weird with a much better Shoeboxy one.
I am very proud of myself because I can play four songs in "Guitar Hero I" on medium difficulty. Mind you, I can only play one of them remotely well, but my fingers cramp up a lot. Especially on "I Wanna Be Sedated," which is almost entirely chords (except for two parts where you simply have to play a string of blue notes), and my brain went SPAZZ when I discovered that I had to play red-blue chords. But I'm getting better. & I'm really good at the intro of "Smoke on the Water" on medium. I got a 110-ish note streak on that. Except that song has some tough solos in it, during which my fingers are protesting DO NOT WANT.
I'm in the process of switching "Across the Ocean" from past to present tense because I find that I actually prefer writing in the present tense (blame The Shoebox Project). I'm also adding bits here and there, some more of Perrin's thoughts on things and adding conversations that had been glossed over earlier. They're still not off the damn island yet. Sometimes I wonder if they should leave the island at all because that is always when my writing hits a wall. But it's essential for them to leave the island because otherwise there wouldn't be the death that makes Perrin become even more of a Squall, and Keira won't meet the man who she later learns is her father. I just can't wait to start writing the Perrin/Julia romance, because I have a feeling Perrin is going to be laughably inept when it comes to romantic relationships, leading to much exasperation on Julia's part. She still ends up loving him, though.
I did my NHS resume last night. My mum was strangely picky about the wording of things and how it's set up (and I subsequently learned that for some reason she thinks that "since" is an "icky" word). She made me use the Resume Wizard on MS Word to do it. It now looks very professional-like. Today I have to do my application letter, which is supposed to fit on one page. I have trouble fitting things to one page. & I have to talk about how awesome I am. & it all has to fit on one page. Yeah, good luck with that. Don't they know that I tend to be long-winded?