April 10, 2012

I'm slightly concerned that I'm not getting enough sleep, and that lack of sleep is causing me to go even more insane than I already am.
Thank God I'm only here for less than four more weeks.
Anyway, I took a field trip to Res Life with Laura earlier today to drop off my housing form, and everyont there was pretty nice.
Carey and I also performed horrible stand-up comedy at Sam's space-themed coffee house event last night, in which we stood up in front of the room of people and told horrible blind jokes and mediocre stories that we thought we were funny, however, not too many other people did.
Just goes to show that I'm meant to be a writer after all, and should throw away any dreams I had about becoming a comedian.
The presentation my group and I had to make in anthropology today went really well, though I was falling asleep partway through the class (not when we were presenting, thank the Lord), because my roommate's not letting me get any sleep because she's frustrating.
Sometimes, I wish I had that remote from like Click or something, and then I could press a button and obliterate her/send her somewhere else where she wouldn't bother me and I could get a decent night's sleep. But I digress.
Umm... What else? In the ways of my in-progress novel, I have over 3,000 words written. That's a start, considering a novel is typically around 50,000 words for an average length.
Meh.
I should go finish my anthropology homework for Thursday because I won't have any time to do it tomorrow and then print it out.
Stupid homework.


Later!

April 4, 2012

It was beautiful out today. However, karma decided to be a bitch and granted me five hours of classes.
Also, my RD got glue on my jeans.
But that's beside the point.
We all got Dominos tonight (and by "we", I mean my roommate and three of our friends). And I bought the full version of Scrivener (at the student discounted rate, of course). It made me happy, because now working on my book is even more of a reality than i thought it could ever be.
But I still have that paper for expository writing looming over my head. The one that's due Saturday night by email, no later than 6pm.
It's so stupid.
Once I'm done with that, however, there's just one more paper to write, then the final portfolio, and then I'm done!
I also have two other final papers to write (one for my Cultural Anthropology class; the other for Lit Study). They shouldn't be as much of a problem... hopefully.
I'm so optimistic sometimes when it comes to school stuff. Maybe it's just because I'm determined to end the semester on a good note and have an amazing, stress-free summer.
Or maybe it's because I'm slowly going insane and spiraling downward into a pit of psychoticness.
Speaking of which, Fear came out yesterday (the fifth book in the Gone series by Michael Grant, if none of you knew), and I have yet to buy and read it. I want to finish City of Ashes before I dive into another book. And I'm more than a third of the way through City of Ashes, so...
Life would be a lot easier if I could just sit on my butt and read and eat and slep all the time without having to worry about a damn thing. I'd love to live that life. But, sadly, this is reality, and it sucks.
Wow. That was morbid.
Anyway, I think I shall go continue reading. Or trolling around on Tumblr. Whatever works until my roommate gets back and I can go to bed.
Bye!

April 3, 2012

I literally spent most of my day running around campus. Woke up before 7, ate breakfast at 7:30, went to class 8:30-10:20, then walked over to the library with my group for the anthropology presentation we’re working on. I had an appointment I went to at 11:30 for registration for next semester’s classes, and that took about 45 minutes. Then I returned to the library and we mainly finished our powerpoint with the exception of like one or two slides and some additional details.

After all that insanity, I came back to the dorm and dropped my stuff off, grabbing lunch with my roommate and Carey afterwards. When I was finished, I went back to the library for like the third time and did a little more work on my literature review (it’s due Saturday and currently I have 816 words left until I hit the minimum word count of 2100 and I feel like my head’s going to explode). After an hour of that, I came back to the dorm again. Roommate was in class. I Skyped with PJ for like twenty minutes, then the stupid fire alarm went off and the surprisingly large amount of people in my dorm at that time of day (it was around 3ish) congregated outside on the sidewalk across the street.

Returning to my room once again, I worked a bit more on my literature review while Laura heckled me about it and she did some of her own homework, invading my room like always. I seriously don’t know why she doesn’t just live with me, or in the empty room across the hall.

I just really can’t wait till this weekend. It’s Easter, after all, and we’re having it at my house like we always do. We’re also celebrating two of my cousin’s birthdays, since one of them was on April 1^st and the other’s is the day before Easter. We’re having a cake with both their names on it and everything.

All I want is for it to be summer. Then I can work more on my book and the fanfictions I’m writing, and go places on vacation. But then summer means it’ll be next semester, and I’m going to die next semester due to lack of sleeping and breathing. Here’s my (tentative) schedule:

M/W/R/F 10:30-11:20am - Marine Biology (with a lab on Thursdays 1:30-4:20pm)

M/W 2:30-4:20pm - American Writers II

T/F 12:30-2:20pm - Prose Writing

T 10:30-11:20am/F 8:30-10:20am - Intro to Sociology

Reasons why if you look up death in the dictionary, you’ll see a picture of my face. I did it with an advisor, but if my actual advisor says no to the lab, I'll end up taking Spanish in its place. There are pros and cons to both.
And I just pretty much posted something similar to the above on Tumblr, but that’s beside the point.

It’s 4:12 and I should continue working on my assignment before procrastination comes back to bite me in the ass. Again.

April 2, 2012

"The only power I have is that I can make a mean sandwich."

"That's a domestic skill you'll have to have regardless. You'll make someone a great housewife, Nico."

Okay, so basically, I've started writing a novel (my third attempt, really, but the first one was a flop like years ago and the second one I wrote in my novel writing course my senior year of high school, but I still have all the materials from it and might continue writing it at some point). ANYWAY.
This time around, the story's throwing my OCs from the recent House of Anubis fanfictions I've been working on and placing them in a "normal world" outside the Anubis one, but most of the characters are born with these superhuman powers. Giana De Luca, our main protagonist, is born with limited vision, but in-turn she has hypersensitive hearing, for example.
She goes off to Upton Towers Preparatory School, a prestigious boarding school in England. There, she gets placed into Aldworth House, a boarding house instead of a dorm (and no, this story isn’t a rip-off of House of Anubis, though it did slightly inspire me to write it in a way). While attending Upton Towers, Giana finds out that there are more people in the world like her - people with powers. Another example is one of her housemates, Aiden West. Aiden can morph into anyone he pleases, after taking a quick mental picture of them and focusing his energy on becoming them. He can even pitch his voice to perfectly mimic the person he’s copying, and is often covering for his housemates when they’re wandering around outside after curfew or something.

While Giana’s not the only one with superhuman abilities back in her hometown, the students at Upton Towers are the biggest collection of kids with supernatural powers she’s ever seen in her lifetime, and they even coexist with the “normal” kids perfectly… almost as if everything’s too perfect.

Aldworth’s housemaster, Ebenezer Bristow (they nickname him Scrooge) is on some evil rampage to harness his residents’ powers, because the abilities skipped him when he was born and got passed to his siblings. He’s had to grow up jealous of his siblings and cousins because they were all “superior” to him and he basically felt like an outsider.

So, other than him devising some weird plan to do that, and some rebellion from the normal kids at Upton, that’s basically all I have for a summary - partially because I don’t want to spoil too much, and partially because I have no idea of the rest of it myself.

Anyway, I'm really enjoying crafting this world of characters and settings and just word-vomiting all over the place. I’m hoping to turn this into a series, and maybe to at least finish the first book by the time I graduate college (if not before that). I really want to get it published… I just hope I can.

Um, I should probably end here. I’m not good with this whole blogging thing because the only blog I know is Tumblr, and that’s just basically reposting stuff people already posted while coming up with semi-witty things of my own. So, whoever decided to actually read this, I bid you adieu.

Ciao for now!