siriusly_lupine

The semester is over, my POS of a project has been handed in; NaNo is over and I haven't so much as glanced in the direction of my novel; the holidays are approaching and I haven't started shopping yet...

Still, my school out of the way and the decision whether to return next semester or not still up in the air, I now have time to get back to some things... namely, the gym and my fan fics. I hit the gym both Saturday and Sunday, and I plan on going tonight after work. My muscles are not at all sore but definitely feel used. I meant to work on the fics this weekend but I seem to have run out of time. I have the first three chapters revised and I plan to revise the remaining chapters at a rate of 2 per week, or more if I have the time and inclination. I figure that the revising will really aid me in getting the feel of the story again.

I wish that I had an office at work. It has been so boring lately that it would be great to bring in my notes and stuff for MotN and just work on that... sorta like I did with NaNo. But my cubicle does not have a door and there is too much involved with writing the fic here. At least with NaNo, everything was basically off the top of my head, so I could make it look like I was writing something for the company. Though, I may just go ahead and give it a go next week when most of the office is off.

It is a Saturday night and I am staying in (as usual). In a fit of boredom and curiosity, I just decided to sign up at eHarmony...

After answering 5 million questions (slight exaggeration), I finally received my list of matches. Since I wanted to keep my options open, I did not select a 'region' - therefore, all 7 of my initial matches are from England.

Surely that is the universe's way of telling me something???

On Wednesday night, I hit 50,034 words...

Pretty proud of myself for reaching the goal on my first time out.

Until yesterday, I was still lacking an ending to the story - I fixed that just after stuffing myself on Thanksgiving dinner, just to get it completed, and I now stand at 50,238. It is total crap, but it is done. I will do a quick run through on Sunday to clean it up, then I am washing my hands of this particular story.

My grad class project is due on Dec 7th, but after that it is back to the grind on my fan fic projects. I am not allowed to start a new original fiction project until my two fan fics are fully finished. Giving myself until May 1st to have everything wrapped up on that end.

This whole adventure has definitely motivated to write again after a very long hiatus.

Hit 41,000 words tonight. Almost there. Yay!

Hit the halfway mark last night!!

It's all downhill from here...

27,794 / 50,000

It is storming like crazy along the Jersey Shore.

Luckily for me, today is my one office day this week, so I can stay warm and dry.

This weather does make me want to write though, which is excellent for my word count.  Bad for work productivity, but oh freakin' well.  They over-work me anyway, so this is just me getting my revenge ;-)

Brought the Mac to work and set it up on my desk to look like I am just playing music off it.  If anyone asks, I just say that I am doing a bit of homework on the sly. 

I'm up to 22,300 words.  Almost halfway there.

 No ice skating today.  Damn hockey teams.

Hit 14,000 words today.  Yay.  Ahead of the goal for Day 7.  

 Still plugging away despite a hellish week at work.  I'm over-tired so of course it seemed like a great time to write.

I hit 12,600 words today, so I am officially 1/4 of the way to the goal.  Yay!  

On another note.  I am going ice skating tomorrow.  Should be fun, as long as I don't break any bones from constantly wiping out.

 2,000 words down.  48,000 to go.

Wow, it feels good to write again!

 NaNo starts today - technically it started 7 hours ago, but I figured I would get my sleep in first, then write.  We'll see how that works out.

I was hoping to sleep in today, but with the extra hour, I guess that's just not going to happen.  I was awake earlier than I normally get up for work - I hate that!

Anyway, I'm excited to write!

How did I not know that FlashForward is based on a sci-fi novel?  I've been watching the show for weeks (and loving it) and only yesterday did I take a second to watch the credits - entirely by accident really, since I was watching it online and didn't move quickly enough to exit.  I am such a nerd.

Needless to say, I ordered the book from my online SciFi book club (I'm a nerd, remember?) and I'm pretty geeked up to start reading it.  It will be a nice break from Vampire books for a spell.

After several years of wanting, intending, or hoping to, I have finally just gone and done it.  This morning I signed up to participate in NaNoWriMo.   

Don't have a clue yet what I will write, but I have four weeks to think about it.  I have a bunch of funny stories from my life that I may use as inspiration for an entertaining chic lit novel.

The best part is, I can write it on my MacBook.

I am really hoping this will kick start my motivation to finish my fan fics...

 I bought the macbook this afternoon... LOVE IT.  Should have picked one these up years ago.  

Haven't started the process of transferring data and whatnot from the windows laptop and desktop since I don't want to stop playing around long enough to try.  That will likely be my plan for tomorrow, if I can even do it.  We shall see.

Well, it's official.  I am a grad student.  First class starts on the 14th - Monday classes lucked out this semester with Labor Day the week after classes started.

Work has been absolutely insane, which is good, I guess.  Keeps me busy and out of trouble.  There has been some OT almost every week so that is good.  I need all the $$$ I can get right now.  Saving up to buy a Mac Book next month and for two classes next semester.  Good Times.

Signed up to do a benefit bike ride this coming Sunday.  33 miles roundtrip.  Should be interesting since I am so out of shape.  I've been training a bit the last two weeks but not as much as I would like.  I know I can do at least half the distance so it may come down to mind over matter and forcing myself to finish.  Especially since I am going to do it with my mountain bike.  Apparently, I have to make it as difficult as possible because I refuse to spend money on a road bike.  Oh well, it's for a good cause.

Today is an office day - 2.5 hours in and I am already bored.  At least it's a short week.  And summer hours are over so the days are shorter - only 9 hours instead of 10. 

Received word last night that I was accepted into the grad program I applied for!  Very exciting!

Just waiting on the official paperwork, but I think I will take only one class this fall to get back into the groove.  If all goes well, I will bump it up to two courses a semester starting in the spring. 

Looking forward to getting back into the environmental classes.

Ugh, I seriously dislike Sunday evenings.  They always lead to Monday mornings.

In a moment of sheer brilliance, I decided not to blow $800 on a new laptop and just dropped $25 on a new AC adapter for the old one to hold me off for a while.  Granted the old laptop has definitely seen better days, but if I can deal with the odd resolution and semi-dysfunctional space bar for a few more months then I will actually be able to afford a new one.  I just don't want to finance yet another thing right now.

If only I could find the notebooks with my story notes in them, I would be on the road to fan fic writing success.

Well look at that - I didn't even start looking and I found a new icon.  Sweet.  If only everything was that easy.

Anyway, bored at work (shocker!) and sick of FB.  I am wishing that I was already back into the writing as it would give me something to do that would still look like I'm working.  That will have to wait until I buy a new laptop.  The search is going well on that end, so I should make a purchase in the next week or two - just waiting on my security deposit refund.

Hmm, if I can't write yet, perhaps I will catch up on my reading - I am way behind on that.

Why can't I find a theme that I like?  All the good ones seem to be for the paid accounts and the free ones I like are ones that friends already have.  This one will have to do since I am tired of searching.

And I just realized that I need some new userpics.  Can anyone remind me about good places to find them?  I've been out of the game too long!