Kitsune no Tora

Drinking: chocolate milk
Should be doing: studying for my nervous system practical in Anatomy & Physiology, writing a book report
Doing: talking to Taylor, reading fanfics, internet-ing
Wants: reviews on my fanfic because I am a spoiled little ho who got used to getting a review at least by the next day, and for it to be May 4th already
Worried about: finals next week
Needs: a job RIGHT NOW
Thinking about: Youmacon (ffff so excited dammit BE OCTOBER ALREADY), writing, Hetalia
Should start working on soon: Duplicity (still stuck on ch. 7 of the rewrite)

Kitsune no Tora is feeling: Overwhelmed, unnaturally tired, and slightly achey

So I haven't touched this blog in for FUCKING ever. XD; Ooooops. I just didn't really have any urge to write in it nor the time last November due to school and NaNoWriMo, and then after that I was just so out of doing it that I totally forgot about it and never got that urge back. I've visited a few times but never posted anything, because I didn't really have much to say. It was just about school and whatever I might've been trying to work on at the time, and I just didn't have the effort to bother about putting it here.

I've never really been a diary 'this is what I did today' writer kind of person anyway; I love the idea but practicing it is a whole other story. I don't have enough motivation. :P

Anyway.... my trunk was fixed a few weeks after Youmacon, it just magically started opening again, IDK. My car is weird. It also leaks on me when it rains, but hopefully the caulk that my dad put on the rusted parts of the roof fixed that. It was supposed to be clear, but it started out white and some of it must not have dried correctly or something because parts of it are still white. So now it looks like a massive bird shat on each corner of my car near the driver and passenger side doors. Not that it doesn't already look like that anyway, since it's parked under a large tree... XD

ILU, my little blue rust-bucket, but srsly you get uglier by the day. <3

So I've been doing lots of writing recently. Usually after NaNo I have a huge dry spell (with maybe something in January or something, but that's normally just a short oneshot in an attempt to get writing again) because I was writing a whole lot before then and just wore myself out, but the Rune Haven contest is doing me some good. It works like The Village Square's Writing Festival: we basically just stole their rules and changed them to fit us, lulz. I've been moderating it since Usagi has been busy (gots meself moderator status at Rune Haven because I offered X3), and so far I haven't missed a contest yet! 8D I'm proud of myself. Sure, a few of them are shit because I either didn't have any ideas or any time to write and just cranked something out (see: Confidence and Photo Album) just for the sake of participating, but hey, I've been writing and putting something out at least every month. <3

This month's theme is "Fairy Tale", and I submitted my entry yesterday in an attempt to have something before finals started kicking my ass. The deadline is the 30th, and I wouldn't have had any time to work on it until next weekend, which was too late. So I started it Thursday during class and slowly worked through it until I finished it Saturday afternoon. I got the idea for it right away, and I looooove it so much, even though the style is drastically different from what I usually do. But it's so adorable~ Dorothy tells Leonel a bedtime story, and the story is one of my favorites from when I was a kid, but altered so that it fits RF characters and monsters. I think I did pretty decently with it, although I do wish I had the time to research the monsters in-game rather than with the fogu Bestiary list--for one, the monster names are different between RF1 and RF2, and two, many of the spellings changed. Plus I believe there are more of a variety of monsters in RF2 anyway. But fogu was the easiest to use and I didn't have the time to start playing and befriending the monsters I was interested in just to get their names, that would take too long. I'd get absorbed into playing, too, instead of writing. XD; And that wouldn't be good.

It ended up soooo much longer than I anticipated, though. ^^; It's a tad over 7,000 words. That's a record for me with oneshots; they usually aren't any longer than 3,000 words or so. That's probably why it hasn't had any reviews... nobody wants to invest the time in a monster like that. XDD; But, anyway, it's titled The Legend of Damien, and the link is right there if all one of you who might be reading are interested. :P

Oh yeah, that reminds me. If you look back at the last entry made here, I mentioned something about posting my NaNoWriMo novel here. I decided not to, because this is more of a blog about what's going on in my life rather than a place to put my creative pursuits. So I made a different blog on a different site. Here it is: http://themusingsofkit-kit.blogspot.com/

There's an 18+ warning on it because I'm a dirty yaoi fangirl who sometimes likes to write lemons, but any post that has such content is marked, so if you don't want to see it you can avoid it. Basically, that blog is just for writing. I'll post little excerpts from what I'm working on, archive any of my writing that I wish (mostly fanfics), including my NaNoWriMo novel as it is, and complain about any writer blocks I get, etc. :P I also might muse about writing in general, but that only happens if I'm feeling a little philosophical while I'm posting, and that in and of itself doesn't happen incredibly often. So basically, Mindsay is for me to wangst about my life, while Blogspot is for me to wangst about or whore my writing. XP So if you're interested in my stuff and would like to keep better track of my writing than my fanfiction profile does, that's the place to watch. It doesn't get updated like every day or anything, but recently it has been updated every week or two, which is a hell of a lot more often than this thing. XD;;

I can't wait for summer vacation, argh. Next week is going to be utter hell. I have a practical (exam) on the nervous system (I have to memorize the major nerves of the body, including where they go and what they do, and the parts of the brain and sensory organs) in Anatomy & Physiology on Monday afternoon, then a test in Calculus on Tuesday morning, then an exam on the last few chapters in Anatomy Wednesday morning, then my final exam in Calculus Thursday morning. I also have to write a 6-9 page book report for Myth Magic and Folk Religion, due Thursday night, which was technically due last week but I was lazy. Then the following Monday I have my final in Anatomy.

My teachers apparently figured it was a good idea to pile the last test AND our exams on us the last week of school. Cue me stressing out and panicking, not liking that I'm doing so, so then I go and find relaxing and fun activities and end up not doing any studying. LIKE RIGHT NOW ARGH. FML and my level of motivation. PRODUCTIVITY AND ME DON'T HANG OUT OKAY?

After finals are over, I will then have to go out and find a job, lest my mother kill me and my bank account drain down to nothing sooner rather than later. Woooooo gas going up in price! -.- Don't get me wrong, I would love to have a job and work through the summer (at least that's something for me to do other than vegetate at home and write), but the last fifty bazillion times I applied for a job I got absolutely NOTHING back. Not even an interview. Even though they said they were hiring. Apparently I am not even good enough for an interview. SAD. FACE. Especially since most of those are applications that I either filed online or just dropped off at the store; it's not like they got a good look at me and decided I was too ugly or something. And I'm qualified for a damn stupid service job at some restaurant or store; anyone with half a brain is. But nooooo I don't get anything. It's like the world is out to get me and wants to make sure I fail or something.

But I digress.

Anyways, I really really have to get back to memorizing those nerves and what they do and where they go, so I'm off. Night, digital abyss.

Kitsune no Tora

Eating: candy
Drinking: Apple cider from the cider mill! 8D
Writing: Lifeless
Reading: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie for school
Thinking about: How much homework I still have to do, NaNoNovel

Kitsune no Tora is feeling: tired, drained

Hi guys!

...It's been a week since Youmacon, and I STILL haven't blogged about it. XD I FAIL

Okay so. I don't remember a whole ton of details because I was hyped up on Monster, brain-dead due to lack of sleep, and sore from walking a lot and sleeping on the floor in a sleeping bag with another 11 people in a cramped hotel room the size of my bedroom. Actually, it was a little bit bigger than my bedroom, but I digress. XD

Okay so. Thursday I got up, finished packing, did some internet things and then went to the Gamer's Alliance (a club at school) to pick up Andrea. She was not there. She was out shopping for her Youmacon stuff. XD I waited for her for about an hour, watching the boys play Halo. It was mildly entertaining. She finally arrived, and we transferred her stuff in her car to my car, and she left her car for her mother to drive home after she got off the bus later that afternoon.

We went back to my house and watched Silent Hill. 8D It was awesome, except for the fact that the room was too bright even with the blinds closed and we couldn't see a lot of things. My TV also decided to have a fail and make the music and sound effects so loud we couldn't hear the talking. DX Andi has most of the lines of the movie memorized, though, so she just told me what they said when I didn't catch it. XD

Around 6-ish we left, I picked up Micah and we set off on our way~ Everything went pretty smoothly; I drove and Micah, being the most competent with directions of the three of us, read off the directions to me. We listened to music from Andi's iPod Touch which she rigged to my car's radio with a tape deck, and it was awesome. Until the road that lead us to the hotel didn't show up. XD; We ended up on Michigan Avenue, which is a train-wreck right now because of construction. We ended up driving up and down it confused until we found the Town Center's service drive (which was ALSO under construction, ick) and FINALLY made it to the hotel.

We then proceeded to wait aimlessly for 2 hours for the girl (Michelle) who reserved our hotel room, because we couldn't get in until she checked in. DX I was supposed to meet someone from the NaNo forums there, but I missed her because of it. DX

When we finally got in we watched a few of the Death Note live action movies and then went to bed at like, 2 am. XD

Friday we did more fun things and took pictures and walked around a LOT. There were fun panels and the opening ceremonies, despite the extremely long line (that we were lucky enough to notice and sat in for a long while so we could get good seats), was a lot of fun. I like the announcer guy, he's funny. XD

Saturday was much of the same, except the morning I was leading Andrea around, because she dressed up as Deep Drive Riku with the blindfold. She could still see, but everything was fuzzy because she didn't have any glasses or contacts in in addition to being mostly blocked from the thin blindfold. I also dressed in my Halloween costume -- I was a gyspy. I have pics, which I will post a link to at the end. XD We also played Death Note Mafia from about 11pm until 6 am, even with the time change. XD 8 hours straight, yay! Eventually somewhere around 2 or 3 our moderator left, so I moderated the rest of the games, switching off with Andrea and this one other girl once. It was fun. 8D I bought the cards for it from Nikolai, so now I can play whenever I get a good amount of people~ <3

Also, my roomate flooded the bathroom Friday night. XDD She was really really tired, and taking a shower. For some reason, her brain didn't realize that the plastic shower curtain goes INSIDE the tub, because if it's outside the tub the water splashes over the side and floods the floor in about 2 inches of water. XD She had to go downstairs and get someone from the hotel staff to clean it up, and then sat in a corner in shame when he brought a mop, a bucket, and the hugest armful of towels ever. XD I took a picture, but you can't really see the water...

I had to go to the bathroom when I got there, so I had to take off my socks and roll up my pant legs so I could go. Still got my pants wet, and Saturday morning I got my socks wet because it had soaked into the carpet outside the bathroom door. D:

Sunday was lazy. We spent the entire morning lazily packing and feeling generally worn out. Check out was at noon, which Michelle did check out in time for, but we ended up in the room waiting for a cart to take our suitcases until almost 1. The guy who packed the stuff in my trunk didn't know that you have to pull the handle back into a closed position before you close it, or else it either doesn't close or gets stuck. Now it's stuck. DX I can't open it. We had to fold the seats down and drag Andrea's stuff out the side door when I dropped her off because no one could open it. :/

We walked around for a while, taking a few pictures but not many, and I sat and watched the Spoony Bards for a while because my feet hurt so incredibly much. We lost contact with Micah, so we waited around for a while for him to show up or call us so we could go home. Eventually Andrea told him we were leaving and if he didn't come right that second he'd have to find another ride, but then he texted her back, saying he was already home and had fallen asleep. >.> Uh, hello, thanks for telling us, jerk. I thought I was his only ride home, since I DID take him there, but noooo, he found a ride and didn't think to tell me. DX We waited around for nothing, and I was already in a bad mood from not getting enough sleep.

We drove home around 6-ish with minimal problems. It took me a while to find the North ramp for the Southfield freeway, but we did and we were on our way.

It was a blast, and I can't wait for next year. I am DEFINITELY cosplaying, no excuses. I'm definitely doing Riza Hawkeye from FullMetal Alchemist next year, but I want to do more than one costume. I'll probably do someone from Axis Powers Hetalia, but I'm having trouble choosing from Russia, America, North Italy, and France. XDD

Pictures are here! http://s431.photobucket.com/albums/qq39/TK-Kitsune/Youmacon%202009/

OKAY ENOUGH ABOUT YOUMACON

It's National Novel Writing Month! 8D I both hate myself for doing this to myself and love it because I'm getting SO MUCH DONE OMG. Even if it is utter crap. XD

I decided to just do Lifeless, rather than Precious Wingbeats. PW is just too complicated and too much to do for NaNoWriMo, and I haven't figured out all the plotholes yet. Lifeless is relatively simple, so that's what I'm doing.

I got a TERRIBLE start, I didn't start until the 3rd because of Youmacon and fatigue/homework, and only wrote about 300 words that day. XD I'm sitting at 8,865 words right now, which is pretty darn good if I say so myself for 4 days. XD I'm going to try and get to 10,000 today, maybe 11,000 if I can.

I'm thinking about posting it here, as I go. I haven't decided yet, though.

I'll ramble more about this sometime later this month, I'm sure. XD Goodnight, digital abyss~