Eh.  I have to have a six-page story written and ready for critique by Tuesday.  I have two pages written and it's very cruddy.  I hate having a minimum.  Some short stories don't need to be so long, I think.  Also.  Longer stories are not at all conducive to me being lazy.


Man.  I am starving.  Ran out of meals on my card for SodexHO so I don't get to eat today, since I have no money.  At least I still have some Coke-zero.

Hey.

Fortuna.

Get back to writing.

That is all.

 

A short story for class that gave me a lot of trouble.  Needs work and I know it's going to get torn all to hell by my classmates. :/  Still, I enjoyed writing it, which makes it worth it, in a way.

( Imaginary )

A very small snippet from my short stories class.  The idea here was to develop and idea/scene whatever for a story based off an assigned painting.  Mine was Jules Brenton's Song of the Lark. 

http://imagecache5.art.com/p/LRG/8/846/FKVY000Z/jules-breton-the-song-of-the-lark.jpg


( The Song of the Lark )

***

My group wanted to write a story with the woman as a fourteen year old girl during WWII watching a plane crash.  I don't really think they understood that the assignment was about capturing and creating mood.  So I abstained and wrote this on my own.

Then, we were given a pre-written set of very cheesy dialogue, which we had to write a scene for.  Didn't have to be a complete short story, or even a complete scene.   My partner told me all of my ideas were very unoriginal despite using every single one of them.  (IRGers, he was the one whose story I had to critique...)

This is why I don't do group projects.

****
( Other People )

*************

The idea in my head was for the this to be the first part of a rather long short story, with enough in there to grasp interest and set up future events, but not overcrowd it.  The only part of the dialouge we could change was the "I need a ------- with skills like yours." Line.  We had to fill in the blank and I added an extra word.  The ending is rather rushed, and I don't think I conveyed the parts of Author I really wanted to get across, and fear Burston is not more than a cliche at this point.  Hrm.

You know, I didn't even turn this in.  I let my partners read their's aloud.  Was too busy brooding.

Dur hur hur, who let me near Farmville?  It's like Pokemon in its addictive simplicity, except it really makes me crave vegetables.  In fact, its all I really do on faceboob anymore.  :/

Haha, I have an account for Akio on facebook if anyone wants to friend him - my Akio is the one whose avatar has a white background and does not show his face.  Be nice and friend him, since his sister seems to be giving him the cold shoulder.


(And yes, I do have him playing farmville and showering me with gifts as well....)

(Also *hinthinthint* someone should go over to Kokanshu's Kingdom Hearts Anonymous Kink Meme and fill out that neato-keen request for some impolite Saix/Vexen wrastlin' for a certain person's birthday last week.)

*hint*

Hurr.  Found out about the results for my Fitness for Life Exam.  Good news in that I am not so stupid as to  score a 29%, bad news in that I am still stupid because I entered in the wrong exam form number and my scores were thus graded against the wrong exam entirely.  Part of me is so relieved because I TOLD YOU ALL I DON'T GET SCORES THAT LOW while another part is still mad because it's my own damn fault anyway.

Also, I was the only student out of 150 students to get a B on our History exam of doom (270 pages of reading, and twenty seven pages of lecture notes covering additional information.)  I gotsa the highest grade and, due to the low grades of everyone else, if on the next two exams if I make higher than a 70 (AND I WILL GET A's DAMNIT) I can throw the first score out anyhoos.

THIS CALLS FOR QUITE THE COLON CAPITAL D.

:D

THERE IT IS.

Also, Empty Movement is going to over go quite an update-overall thingy here in some time, and I hope that my fanfic submissions are accepted.    Also, as far as fic goes, I has this insanely stupid urge to write something involving Marluxia's other and Beauty and The Beast as canonically as possible.

SO, while on a major nostalgia trip, I remember an old show I used to watch, O'Grady.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wildmerlewallace

Please tell me someone else remembers this show.  D:

That and the movie Heavyweights.  I am so jonesin' for that movie right now.

I really don't get the departmental exams here, or at least the procedure's surrounding them.  On a very naive level, they make sense.  No one is screwed out of a grade by a squirrelly Professor's incongruesly hard tests while another in the same class gets and A only because their Professor is very lax.  It can also help gaurantee that certain standards in education for that department are met.

All of this, however, goes out the window when A) Professors are not allowed to know what is on the exam in anyting other but the vaguest sense, by which I mean they know the chapters it covers, and that's about it and B) reviews, study guides, etc. are not allowed.

So, the Professors don't have any way to mold their cirruculmn around the exam which they are purposely supposed to (how can it be otherwise when the exams are designed to count for 50% of a student's grade?) and the students have no way to figure out how to divide up or study 300 pages of text reading, and five websites covering additional information?

For instance, while studying for my Fitness for Living departmental exam, of which the average grade is 42%, I studided EKG's.  What they do, how they do it.  I was not, however, given any information in either my lectures or my textbook whether or not an EKG is infallible.

Really?  The test, which is supposed to focus on application, didn't care whether I knew what an EKG was for, or why I should get one, or how to use the information from it, the steps involved in the process,  or what kind of health problems or risks they can reveal.  No.  None of that mattered. 

(Also interesting is how this is often the case for general education classes.  It just feels like another one of MSU's tricks to get our money by having us fail a course they know we have to take.  They do something similiar with our computer intro classes.  The exam to waive the class is extremely difficult, I took it and failed by 3 % (You need an 80% to pass) and the test-taking procedure itself is very faulty.  Accidentally hit a wrong key on a single step of one 10-step long problem and immediatly miss the entire problem, no take-backsies.  And yet the class itself is completely remedial.  You learn how to OPEN A FILE and MAKE A WORD DOCUMENT.)

Maybe I'm just exceptionally bitter because, being a nit-picking student who cleared a 4.0 relatively easy last year and did put in an honorable amount of pro-fucking-active studying for this exam, I get my results back on and was so ASHAMED of myself that I immediatly felt nausesous and threw-up.

And I'd be way fucking angrier if I weren't so goddamded depressed for failing.

So, after work and recovering from a bout of character-building sinus infection, I decide that I am hungry.  It's 11:00 pm and my parents are asleep, so the kitchen is dark.  I start searching squint-eyed through the shelves.  Then I realize I have this...energy.

And so I dance.  Arms flailing, hips swaying, feet stomping.

In the dark.

While still trying to look for food.

My mom wasn't half as amused as I was.

Okay, Light needs to make herself some more expressive avatars and some more lolzy avatars.

I'm still desperately trying to get the hang of photoshop, so if anyone knows any good tutorials, has some neato tips on avie making, anything at all.......HOLLA.

I have a kitty.

Go on, be jealous.

Also, in real news pertaining to my life, I'm heading up to Chicago for a week this Thursday. 

Which means I'll be even LESS active.



Also, for those of you into SKU and not into downloading torrents, some nice person on youtube is slowly but surely uploading the entire remastered series for your viewing pleasure.  Watch it before it inevitably gets taken down.

Oh.  That's right.  I have a livejournal.


News?  Besides my horrible habit of neglecting to comment on friend's posts? 

Well, I register for Spring classes on Monday, which is the last day you can register, which means I get leftovers.  I have revised my trial schedule a total of eight times in one week, since so many of my classes keep closing. 

Also, Thanksgiving break starts on the 25th for me, possibly the 24th if Brady can pick me up earlier.  I should be back by December 1st.  During my break I have two tests to study for, a persuasive speech to start, an 18x27 drawing of my face as seen in a mirror, ten times, about 10-15 pages to fill up in my sketchbook, two article reviews to write and a math worksheet.

Really, I don't mind the work, since I'll have no internet access during the break and my mom works straight through it.  :/

In awesome news though, I've been kicking ass.  I've spent the past day and a half collecting material, buying coke-zero on sale, studying, cleaning the suite (again!) and spending some much needed quality time with my favorite suite-mate because we both needed to get the fuck away from certain other people. 

Also, I had Cheddar's today, and it was cheap and delicious and not Sodexhoyay!

Here's meme I got from my good friend stormcrow216.  Basically, I rattle off ten things I love or generally tolerate that start with the letter he assigned me, which is M.  Respond to this and I will assign you a letter as well. :3

1. ME.  That's right.  If I wasn't me (and that's a scary thought), I would do me.  But I could never settle for anyone other than myself, so I would only end up heartbroken.

2. MATURE.  Not just in terms of conversational topics, I also enjoy maturity in people.  This is probably why I jones for older men all the time.

3.  MANGA.  It's fun and shiny and I read it.  There.

4.  MIKAGE- An awesome and psychologically but endearingly  warped character from my favorite anime, Shoujo Kakumei Utena. 

5.  MEANING.  That actually exists.  It's too good of of a thing to just make up or staple in between the pages of bad romance for depth.

6.  MONEY.  That belongs to me.  Preferably.

7. MEN.  That are naked and that belong to me.  Preferably.

8.  MICHEAL CRICHTON.  An intelligent author who neither dumbs down his writing nor condescends to his readers.

9.  MICHEAL JACKSON.  Screw you, whatever the guy may or may not have done, it doesn't make Thriller any less of an awesome song.

10.  MYTHOLOGY.  Don't I sound smart and unique.  Contractions aside.


And there you go.  :D

In good news, my mom got a job working at a neighboring town's prison.  In bad news, she hates it.  I don't blame her though, guards yell at her and taking care of prisoners is not the kind of job that warms her heart, not when there's a good chance that if you look away from that needle for more than a second, your patient will shank you with it.

:$  Makes me nervous.

In other news Sodexho turned me down for a job.  Oh wells, guess I'll have to look elsewhere. SOAR is looking pretty nifty, so I think I'll take a summer semester.  

Communication and Drawing assignments are sneaking up on me, but I've got a trick or two up my sleeve.

In more kind of bad news, I've run out of money on my debit card (because I am an idiot) so I am going to have to dip into my emergency paypal funds.

And the trip to the Anime Convention in Arkansas I was really looking forward to is nixed because our ride backed out, after I already pre-registered, of course.

But this is all dumb stuff.

I can handle it.  I refuse to think otherwise.

SPEAKING OF WHICH OH YEAH MY LOANS FINALLY CAME THROUGH BOUT DAMN TIME ONLY TOOK THEM WHAT, FOUR MONTHS????

:D  Yayz for money I'll have to pay back later BUT NOT TODAY HAHA!

My mom got fired.

And my dad doesn't work.

I need to get a job, le fast.

Also.  Fuck you, life.  Making college all fun for me and then scewing my mom over.  That's cheap.  It almost makes me angry enough to write TougaXUtena fluff.

Don't worry, I won't.  No one gets that angry.  Or that depressed, I hope.