Manifestation of Stress

Music: (I've Had) The Time of My Life by Glee Cast/Dirty Dancing
Mood: Elated *Insert smiling fox*
Location: Desk (That's in the Awesome Possum Bedroom)

I have successfully imported all my posts from LJ to Blogger. I didn't think it was possible. A big thank you to Livejournal2Blogger. They really rock. I'm not really new to Blogger because I used to have a blog here. I kind of miss the icon-driven-ness of LJ, but then again, I missed my widgets and my custom templates and my followers box more ;).

On to my day...

I never knew you were supposed to tip the newspaper boy. He's been leaving cards on my doorstep. I think he's left 3 by now... I didn't get it until today (I'm relatively new to this newspaper delivery business). I had to google "newspaper carrier christmas card" to figure all this out. Well, I stuffed $15 in the envelope he left, added a pretty thank you card, and drew a huge smiley face on the front of the envelope. Hope that makes up for it... I'm so ignorant ;).

As for that Scarlet Letter essay, I FINALLY finished it. I sacrificed lunch for my violin audition. And then I had an hour and 15 until my next class, during which I frantically wrote. Towards the end, it's REALLY CRAPPY quality and I totally screwed up my MLA citations. But at that point, I was so tired, I really didn't care.

I'm sad. :( I had an A+ in English. We'll see how all this goes...

On the bright side, I finally got my Borders gift card!!! I already know what I'm spending it on. Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead. That series is amazing. So sad that it's coming to an end.

P.S. Don't you think the slide show at the top of this blog is so pretty? :)

Rainy Day

So, some interesting things from today:

1. If you dream about asparagus, something unpleasant will happen. (http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/dreamdictionarysearch.pl?method=exact&header=dreamsymbol&search=asparagus)

2. They sell purple Christmas trees at Borders. They were also 30% off. I wonder why...
2.5 Met a really cool staff worker at Borders. She introduced me to a book that made it to my TBR list.

3. Our neighbors have started smoking again, and the smoke filters through my balcony window and kills me.

4. I have a To Be Read list ready!!! Can't wait to go out to Borders and buy all that stuff once I amass enough gift cards from Secret Santas and such.

5. Halfway through Clockwork Angel by Cassandre Clare, and I'm LOVING IT!!! It took a few chapters for the action to really start rolling, but once it did, I can't put that book down!

6. The hazelnut praline crunch topping from Pinkberry is DEATHLY GOOD, even if they charge you an extra 50 cents for it. So is the pumpkin froyo.

7. There's this little cafe in Santana Row with the BEST mini creme brulees ever.

8. This is about yesterday, but I attended Mom's Microsoft party in SF last night. Not as fun to be the only teenager dancing in a sea of adults.
9. Thanks to Glee,  I'm now addicted to "The Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing. Sam and Quinn are the best. And Santana's hot despite her evilness.

Okay, so the story behind the story about the asparagus. :P I have an option from 5 promps for my essay on The Scarlet Letter. Since I didn't start this essay until 11 p.m. the night before it was due (which was approx. 57 minutes ago), I decided to go with the easiest topic, which was to pick a word that started with "A" that we thought the literal scarlet letter stood for. I googled "cool words that start with a" and ended up at a dream dictionary  with REALLY COOL WORDS such as abalone, acne, abortion, and the abominable snowman. I also ready about pin cushions and platypi (platypuses?).

Okay. I really need to stop so i can get back to work. :P

Before that, quick update on TRTP. I didn't win NaNo :( I deleted too much stuff along the way and school ante-Finals is like HELL. I ended at a sad net count of somewhere around 25,000 words? Halfway. Eek. I also, right after that, scrapped 23 pages and rewrote them. I'm 2 pages away from finishing those re-written 23 pages now. Let's just say that recently, my google searches have included items such as "mangled bicycle, burning christmas tree, dead tree, burning city, destroyed city, destroyed city with tiger, broken telephone pole, overturned jeep." You get my gist. And I must've watched the music video for "Run This Town" three times (I know, that's barely anything--but usually I only listen to music in the background while I write. I never scrutinize every detail such as exactly how the backup dancers clap their tin crowbars together)

I'm happy with what I got done though!

And now I have to finish my TSL essay. So far I have 13 words, aka an MLA header and the title which says "To Be Announced."

XPPPPP It's just kind of impossible to write an English essay after I wrote/extensively edited 10 pages of TRTP yesterday and Friday.

NaNo Day 3

Daily count: 1910 (although I think I just deleted 1 word...or did I add 1 word? Same difference, which isn't really a difference at all)

Total NaNo count: 5305/50,000

Total TRTP count: 26,725/95,000

Page count: 119/420

Here's the little word meter from Writertopia symbolizing my progress:



Up 1 percent from yesterday...

:)

And now I have to get up early morning to read chapter six of The SCARLET Letter. See? If I keep doing that, maybe I'll start spelling it right again.

Speaking of which, I was listening to "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne, and it made me think of the first time I heard that song. Which I think was back in 7th or 8th grade when I was still writing fantasy stories with warriors and dragons and the classic good vs. evil plotline. I was obsessed with Smallville that one summer, which made me abandon my writing project. XPPPPP The lyrics that made me fall in love with the song: "Is it enough to love? Is it enough to breathe? Somebody rip my heart out... and leave me here to bleed."

Totally applicable to TRTP. Not so much to dragons and warriors.

I'm adding this to my TRTP playlist, which I think has 19 songs at the moment, although I have no idea what I was thinking when I added half of those. Violin and zzz time now!

Scarlet/Scarlett

I hate working on TRTP at school. Even while I'm in the library, there are constantly people walking past and glancing over my shouder (Which is why as soon as lunch ended and my free period started, I moved to a back corner of the library...which was empty until these talkative senior girls invaded my space -_-. Well, it COULD be much worse, so I'm gonna deal)

This whole Scarlet/Scarlett thing continues to bug me. Nonetheless, I just finshed all things TSL (The Scarlet Letter- and I did it again, the "Scarlett" thing) related. I actually LOVE this book. We have a lot of chemistry, Hester Prynne and I. If only there was less homework regarding the book...

As for TRTP, I managed to fix up chapter 15 in Latin class today while simultaneously participating in a translation of Horace's Ode 1.1 That's the difficulty of being in a 3 people class. Everything you do is closely monitored. And yet, that's my laxest class, and therefore the best to work in. XP Sucks how I was like "Wh-what?" every time the teacher called on me and screwed up a few very eimple grammar constructions. It's okay. Horace is like the T.S. Eliot of Caesar's lifetime.

I have exactly 1 hour to get as much work done on TRTP as I can. Well...let's get started!

Hundredth Page Party!

Yeah! It's 12:26 a.m. and you know what I just realized? (After an on and off 20 minute violin practice session. In case you were wondering what I do during the "off" intervals, I sit on the floor and ruminate about TRTP. Typical, huh?) I REACHED PAGE ONE HUNDRED YESTERDAY. AND I DIDN'T NOTICE IN TERMS OF MY USUAL "OMG I'M ONE FOURTH OF THE WAY DONE!!!"

So I'll say it now.

I REACHED PAGE 100. Yes!!!

Okay, so what does that entail?

Here are some of the things it entails. I spelled "scarlet" in The Scarlet Letter wrong again today while I was writing my mini English essay. And I just spelled it wrong again while typing that a minute ago. Now I wish I chose Scarlet to be her name instead of Scarlett...but too late. I'd just watched Gone with the Wind when I added Scarlett's character to the story, so too bad. I did it on my pop quiz too last Wednesday... My teacher probably thinks I'm crazy.

Yay. And now ending on that positive note, my eyelids feel like rocks. Good night!