waiting for the night / to fall / when everything / is bearable
Well, it's official: I have graduated from the University of Oregon. And you know what? I'm fucking tired!
But that may have more to do with the fact that my in-laws stayed in my fucking tiny apartment for an ENTIRE week, which means no space for anyone. And my kitchen got rearranged by my mother-in-law. Ugh.
HOWEVER: I got an iPad as a graduation gift! It's excellent. I keep thinking of it as the iPADD in my mind, because TREK IS LIFE. I've been reading Stephen King ebooks non-stop, in preparation for actually having time to plot my Trek big bang horror explosion.
My current soundtrack for it is basically filled with Depeche Mode, but not the super happy stuff. The darker stuff, about ladies in black and zombie rooms and damaged people. Terrific.
Even more excellent is that I will get to be in Portland from the 27th to around the 3rd. Gonna see my mom, and my cousins, then spend some epic time in Powells trying desperately not to buy every book in their new apocalypse section. I miss Portland so much, and having to stay in Eugene for another year pretty much bites the big one.
Still, if I get accepted to the book publishing Master's program at PSU for the fall of 2011, then I will be back, hopefully for good. And will never, ever live in Eugene again.
And I REALLY want in this book publishing program. The due date for the application isn't until January 18th, but my mother (who graduated from both bachelors/Master's PSU programs--the latter in public planning and policy management) swears that I should get it in as soon as possible, because they look at them in the order in which they were received, I guess. That means I need to design my own portfolio, like my own literary journal mock-up.
Thus, I'm seriously considering attempting to make some sort of online magazine of Trek fanfic, just to practice (and troubleshoot) the whole process before I do my official submission. Would anyone even be interested in something like that?
But that may have more to do with the fact that my in-laws stayed in my fucking tiny apartment for an ENTIRE week, which means no space for anyone. And my kitchen got rearranged by my mother-in-law. Ugh.
HOWEVER: I got an iPad as a graduation gift! It's excellent. I keep thinking of it as the iPADD in my mind, because TREK IS LIFE. I've been reading Stephen King ebooks non-stop, in preparation for actually having time to plot my Trek big bang horror explosion.
My current soundtrack for it is basically filled with Depeche Mode, but not the super happy stuff. The darker stuff, about ladies in black and zombie rooms and damaged people. Terrific.
Even more excellent is that I will get to be in Portland from the 27th to around the 3rd. Gonna see my mom, and my cousins, then spend some epic time in Powells trying desperately not to buy every book in their new apocalypse section. I miss Portland so much, and having to stay in Eugene for another year pretty much bites the big one.
Still, if I get accepted to the book publishing Master's program at PSU for the fall of 2011, then I will be back, hopefully for good. And will never, ever live in Eugene again.
And I REALLY want in this book publishing program. The due date for the application isn't until January 18th, but my mother (who graduated from both bachelors/Master's PSU programs--the latter in public planning and policy management) swears that I should get it in as soon as possible, because they look at them in the order in which they were received, I guess. That means I need to design my own portfolio, like my own literary journal mock-up.
Thus, I'm seriously considering attempting to make some sort of online magazine of Trek fanfic, just to practice (and troubleshoot) the whole process before I do my official submission. Would anyone even be interested in something like that?