Some Nonsense For You

With a nearly unheard of effort, I'm going to post another September blog! I know right?! Be amazed. I've had some things on my mind, not too heavy but I feel like sharing.

For the first, I'd like to share a new artist that I've stumbled onto and has been playing non-stop via iTunes and CD in my car. Her name is Charlene Kaye and she is inspiring and brilliant. I love her sound and her emotion and her lyrics. You should go check her out!

For the second, I've been in a weird place in my reading mood. I'm having a bit of trouble finding a book that I fall into reading. Perhaps it's because I just want to write more (November will be good for that) but, I think its also a bit of mindset. Musically I'm in a different mood too and it might be a nod to my emotional mood. I'd hate to say I'm in a dark place right now, I'm not, but some of my creative/artsy/musical passions are seeming to flow that way. Which I suppose is good since the story I'm writing isn't a happy one. Actually, that could be the reason for the mood. Oh, well.

And for thirdly, at the beginning of the year I decided that I should go through my movies and watch them all in alphabetical order (which is how they are organized). I'm only in the "H's". Now, this isn't to say that I have sooooo many movies that I'm ONLY in the "H's", but it is more along the lines of: like with everything else I seem to be procrastinating. I think that probably follows the mood thing somehow. (Things to understand). I have been watching a lot of things via Netflix, however, but still not as much as I'd like because my list of things to watch continues to grow but never seems to shrink.


To continue with the fourth, I'd like to ramble on a bit now, just because I can, and I'd like to tell you how much dieting sucks. Counting calories is possibly the dumbest thing I can think of (at the moment) and it's a horrible way to diet. However, in order to fit into a bridesmaid dress this coming Saturday, it has been deemed a necessary thing. You had better believe that on Saturday morning I WILL be drinking my lovely fatty and delicious White Chocolate Mocha, because let's face it, by then it won't matter. And, to get facts straight, the dress fits and zips but a certain someone can't breathe. Two weeks of a pretty strict diet should help that. I've been eating salad and not a lot of calories, no coffee (lots of tea) and I've been exercising and stuff. It should be fine. Mainly, salad is good for the salad dressing, and maybe the tomatoes and cucumbers. Leafy greens are pointless. Yup. I can't wait until I can eat what ever the beep I want! It'll be grand!! I miss coffee!!!!!! One thing I have discovered that I like is yoga.  I think even after my "Diet" is over I will continue to do yoga.

Lastly or for the number fifth, I'm happy its becoming fall. The weather always helps with moods (Even if you have to look at the weather from inside work) and it brings around style changes and layers and lots of fun. I'm looking forward to fall and most of the things that come with it. Well, that's it from me.


















Floccinaucinihilipilification

Pretend This Is Still August, Thanks

One of these days I'm actually going to pay attention to the days of the month and I won't keep missing blog posts. But, to be fair, it isn't like a whole lot has been going on. So, just think of my lateness as me protecting you from boring. Yup, that's my excuse for August and I'm stickin' to it!

So, I'm gearing up to apply for Grad School. I'm hoping that I get in to Grad School. I'm only applying for two schools with the actual reality of knowing I could really only get into one of the two. But, might as well try; I could surprise myself. I'm sat today in Starbucks, motivating myself to work on my writing sample. It is possibly the MOST important part of my application. I really hope that my writing is up to scratch and that the people who are going to read it for my application like it. So far, with everyone who has read it (professors included) there has been a good response to the story. Whether or not it is my writing or the concept I don't care, people like it. So, naturally, that's why I thought I would try to use it for my application writing sample.

I've actually been working on this story all summer. My goal is to have it done or mostly so before I send it in for Grad School. Not that anyone is going to read the ending for a while, but it would be nice to have it done so I could reference the ending half when I edit the first bit. This particular story has actually already been through a great deal of editing and expanding from back when it was a 25 page short story. It ended up being too confusing with such a thick idea squeezed into 25 pages. Currently, it is now 73 pages and 22,427 words. I'm almost done writing it and I think I only have maybe 10 to 20 pages left of writing to do for it. It isn't a short story and it isn't a novel. It's been labelled a novella. THe idea is too complex for a short story, but I don't think its big enough to be a novel. It would make for a boring novel, actually. Just not enough would happen and it would be about as bad as Katherine Ann Porter's Ship of Fools (possibly the worst novel I've ever had the misfortune to read . . . well, sort of read). Anyways, the title of the story is "The Curse of Beauty." Maybe I'll let you all read an excerpt at some point! Just keep in mind when you read it (whenever that happens to be) that this isn't a happy story. It's a Post-Modern Distopian story. Very interesting but very dark. During edits I'll actually have to hype up the dark a bit, because it seems to be getting too light towards the end which won't make the ending as good. But, all in good time.

In other news, LeakyCon was fantastic. So much so, that I'm going next year. The registration process opens tomorrow for next year (which is in Portland, OR). I am definitely going. So, for those of you who don't know, LeakyCon is a Harry Potter Convention that is still growing and blossoming into a celebration of all fandoms.

Of course it focuses mainly on Harry Potter, but I went to a panel called "You're a Jedi, Harry Potter." It compared Star Wars and Harry Potter and it was really very interesting. Now, I'll give you the SparkNotes version of my LeakyCon experience, because like Paris a LOT happened in not a lot of time. Essentially I woke up at around 8 AM each morning and went to bed around 3AM each morning for the confrence. It spanned from Thursday afternoon to Sunday afternoon. THere were panels, performances, dances, concerts, and a LOT of coffee. One of the hilites (and the actual reason why I decided to go in the first place) was the StarKid performance of A Very Potter Senior Year. It was the third and final installment of StarKid's Harry Potter Parody Musicals. IT WAS AMAZING!!!!! That's all I can say because I don't want to spoil anything. It ended up being something like 4 and a half hours long. The first act was 3 hours and the second was one and a half. The funny thing is that no one complained except for that it ended. It could have been 6 hours long and we would have all sat there and loved every second of it. It should be hitting the internet via YouTube sometime later this year (just my personal guess). I went to the Joe Moses One Man Showses.

I met Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter Movies). I got signatures from most of the StarKids. I sat in on a Severus Snape panel where a confrence goer dressed and well-versed in ALL things Snape helped make that panel the BEST panel EVER!!!

I shopped in the merchandise area (I bought quite a few tshirts . . . not all for me might I add). I had a blast even though I waited in line for a lot of the confrence. I made some friends in the lines. I think it was incredible that no matter where I was in the confrence I could turn to the person next to me and just strike up a conversation without them thinking I was strange for talking to a stranger. We were all there celebrating something that we love and it was a very surreal experience. It was also kind of nice to see some people who are a bit more . . . enthusiastic than me. It kind of made me feel a bit normal (but in a good way). I just loved the experience completely. Portland here I come!!!!!

Later this month, my best friend is getting married. I'm in the bridal party and it should be fun (even though I have to wear a pink dress)! Then shortly thereafter, my dad and I are flying to Arizona and then driving a vehicle he owns out there back home. It's gonna be great!! I'm so excited! Annnnnd I get to have 11 straight days off from work! Hello vacation!!!! It will be nice to see my Aunt out in Arizona and it will also be nice to spend some quality time with my dad as we don't see a lot of each other due to us both working so much. Our work schedules don't always match up so well. Excited!! It will also be nice to have such a lengthy extent off from work. Maybe it will help me to get through the looming holiday season. Maybe.

Just a side note, as I'm sitting here in Starbuck there is a group of kids outside the window waving at us all sitting inside. Just thought I'd share.

Well, I think this blog more than makes up for my lack of Augusting. So there you go!!! And, if you don't know who Team StarKid is, I'm going to post you a link to their first Harry Potter Parody Musical: A Very Potter Musical. Enjoy!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmwM_AKeMCk&list=SPC76BE906C9D83A3A&index=1&feature=plpp_video














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