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Okay, it's been the new year for a full month exactly today, and I've been saying I need to start posting more in my livejournal since the first of January. I better take care of this before it goes on any longer!
The new year has been really busy, I feel like I've been back in Gainesville for a year instead of not even a full month. School is school and all, I'm keeping up with all of that and doing my best to .. well .. do my best. I don't have long now before I'm going to be filling out applications for the University of Florida and I'm still not entirely sure exactly what I'm doing. I'm majoring in English right now, but I'm doubting my skills to make it as a writer. Well, I'll figure something out one way or another.
I need to keep up with my journal here and keep up with the things I'm doing to try to "better myself" or what-have-you.
Firstly: I'm working on a short story as we type. I need to get my name out if I'm going to do anything at all, so I've been working on this short story that's a little too short and a little too unfinished still. I'll post the whole thing up once I finish it up and hopefully some people can point out any bad parts or bad grammar. After that, I'm going to be sending it to every magazine it would fit in that might buy it, and I'll either fall or succeed!
In other news:
I'm trying to do more reading in 2008. I love to read and I just never made too much time for it back in the beginning of '07. So, thus far I've read:
In Lucia's Eyes by Arthur Japin -- This was a pretty okay book. I'm glad it was so short because I don't think I would have stuck with it if it was any longer. It was nice enough, but had no personality.
Empress by Shan Sa -- Ugh. I don't know why I kept reading this one. The prose were very flowery and the author didn't stick to the idea of only letting the reader know what they need to. Three quarters of every chapter was spent telling us about the way the environment looked. I'm ALL for flowery details, but it really needs to be kept minimal.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy -- It was on Oprah's book club. I don't know what that really says about it, but if Oprah is getting people to read books like The Road, then she deserves a million gold stars. The Road is probably up there with my favorite books, it really inspired me in its simple but effective style. I want to send my dad this book, but I know he'd never have the time to read it and if he did he might not get past all the harrowing details and to the parts about how it's all just a novel about a father and son. Great book. I'll bring it down to South Florida and give it to my dad and see if he'll try it or not.
The Subtle Knife & The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman -- Holy crap, anti-religion. Seriously.
Started running again as soon as I got back to Gainesville! I've gone from running 2 miles a day to now (starting today) running 4 miles a day. I haven't really been on the look-out for any physical changes, but I certainly feel a whole hell of a lot better. I can't wait to get out there tomorrow and run again. I'm going to need to buy myself a new pair of shoes, though. I'm thinking of getting those Nike+ shoes that calculate how far you've run.
4 miles is a good amount for my weekday runs, I'm satisfied with that -- but my next goal is to get working on longer distances so I can sign up for a marathon when I get the chance. It shouldn't be the bad, really.
Now then! This weekend is the three year anniversary for Jessica and I! That's incredibly awesome~ We're going to get together and make home-made pizza and hang out tomorrow, I'm sure it's going to be a busy weekend with schoolwork and all! I have a paper do in Advanced Composition on Friday, a test in Astronomy on Thursday and I have to work on my paper for Women In Lit. I have to go to the bookstore and get a grammar book, because apparently I need to learn some of the finer points.
And now that I've said all I have to say, I'm tired. Aaand feel crappy~
The new year has been really busy, I feel like I've been back in Gainesville for a year instead of not even a full month. School is school and all, I'm keeping up with all of that and doing my best to .. well .. do my best. I don't have long now before I'm going to be filling out applications for the University of Florida and I'm still not entirely sure exactly what I'm doing. I'm majoring in English right now, but I'm doubting my skills to make it as a writer. Well, I'll figure something out one way or another.
I need to keep up with my journal here and keep up with the things I'm doing to try to "better myself" or what-have-you.
Firstly: I'm working on a short story as we type. I need to get my name out if I'm going to do anything at all, so I've been working on this short story that's a little too short and a little too unfinished still. I'll post the whole thing up once I finish it up and hopefully some people can point out any bad parts or bad grammar. After that, I'm going to be sending it to every magazine it would fit in that might buy it, and I'll either fall or succeed!
In other news:
I'm trying to do more reading in 2008. I love to read and I just never made too much time for it back in the beginning of '07. So, thus far I've read:
In Lucia's Eyes by Arthur Japin -- This was a pretty okay book. I'm glad it was so short because I don't think I would have stuck with it if it was any longer. It was nice enough, but had no personality.
Empress by Shan Sa -- Ugh. I don't know why I kept reading this one. The prose were very flowery and the author didn't stick to the idea of only letting the reader know what they need to. Three quarters of every chapter was spent telling us about the way the environment looked. I'm ALL for flowery details, but it really needs to be kept minimal.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy -- It was on Oprah's book club. I don't know what that really says about it, but if Oprah is getting people to read books like The Road, then she deserves a million gold stars. The Road is probably up there with my favorite books, it really inspired me in its simple but effective style. I want to send my dad this book, but I know he'd never have the time to read it and if he did he might not get past all the harrowing details and to the parts about how it's all just a novel about a father and son. Great book. I'll bring it down to South Florida and give it to my dad and see if he'll try it or not.
The Subtle Knife & The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman -- Holy crap, anti-religion. Seriously.
Started running again as soon as I got back to Gainesville! I've gone from running 2 miles a day to now (starting today) running 4 miles a day. I haven't really been on the look-out for any physical changes, but I certainly feel a whole hell of a lot better. I can't wait to get out there tomorrow and run again. I'm going to need to buy myself a new pair of shoes, though. I'm thinking of getting those Nike+ shoes that calculate how far you've run.
4 miles is a good amount for my weekday runs, I'm satisfied with that -- but my next goal is to get working on longer distances so I can sign up for a marathon when I get the chance. It shouldn't be the bad, really.
Now then! This weekend is the three year anniversary for Jessica and I! That's incredibly awesome~ We're going to get together and make home-made pizza and hang out tomorrow, I'm sure it's going to be a busy weekend with schoolwork and all! I have a paper do in Advanced Composition on Friday, a test in Astronomy on Thursday and I have to work on my paper for Women In Lit. I have to go to the bookstore and get a grammar book, because apparently I need to learn some of the finer points.
And now that I've said all I have to say, I'm tired. Aaand feel crappy~