How exciting, my first meme! Yay! Thanks, Tammy.

Okay, I'm only allowed to use one word to answer the "questions."

1. Where is your cell phone?
purse

2. Relationship?
blessed

3. Your hair?
side-part

4. Work?
want

5. Your sister?
twin!

6. Your favorite thing?
talk

7. Your dream last night?
none (terrifying, two nights ago though)

8. Your favorite drink?
water

9. Your dream car?
runs

10. The room you're in?
dining

11. Your shoes?
none

12. Your fears?
Job

13. What do you want to be in 10 years?
Happy

14. Who did you hang out with this weekend?
Julie

15. What you're not good at?
laidback

16. Muffin?
please

17. One of your wish list items?
job

18. Where you grew up?
ugly

19. The last thing you did?
cookie

20. What are you wearing?
jammies!

21. What aren't you wearing?
socks

22. Your pet
none

23. Your computer?
dell

24. Your life?
Stressful

25. Your mood?
content

26. Missing?
friends

27. What are you thinking about right now?
sick

28. Your car?
dirty

29. Your kitchen?
dishes

30. Your summer?
boring

31. Your favorite color?
sapphire

32. When is the last time you laughed?
Skating

33. Last time you cried?
Late

34. School?
MISS!

35. Love
Michael!


I tag, um, dana516,blueberrybliss, miss_pidge, angels_of_fate (Maggie or Julie or both)</div>

80 / 150 (53.3%)

I am now in leg 2 of 4 for OMWF (also known as "Act II"). So my goal is the halfway point of the novel, or 150 pages. I'm on 80 (because you can't just read the little meter...). Woo!

I realized I wasn't going to get a thing done now that school is out (writing-wise) if I didn't bother getting up like I did during the year, which was, yanno, kind of early. Not going to be fantatical about page count; I'd like to have Act II finished by July 1, but we'll see, with that nebulous job hunt still occurring, etc.

The other thing is I simply MUST copy-edit. I'm on contract with Double Dragon E-Books for a stinking LONG sci-fi novel and they need it back by August 1. I am not as far along as I should be and so I need to spend a lot of time on that in the next couple weeks. I know I have the time to get it done just fine, it's the discipline, man. I'm not a huge sci-fi fan, which I thought would make it easy to copy-edit because then I didn't have to worry about getting sucked into it, which has been true to a fault. I'm not a fan of sci-fi, so I haven't felt like working on it at all! My fault. It's coming, just slowly. I need to disconnect from the intermawebthingy and that will help. With the weather becoming nice, perhaps I shall take the laptop somewhere out of wireless range and crack that open. :-D

Also, in other writing news, I have settled on my post-OMWF project, called SSY. (I am so creative with my titles, no?) Because I have OMWF plotted out (at least, the part I'm working on) I just need to WRITE it, so I'm currently doing prework for SSY. Good thing of it, too, because there is a stinking LOT of prework for this thing. It's straight fantasy and it's kind of huge. I am really looking forward to it; I have a very vivid cast of characters already in my head. The OMWF gang is wonderful but SSY's crew is speshul somehow. Perhaps because I can hear them already in my head and I'm so very early in the process? Probably. You'll be hearing bits about SSY in the future.

Also - I am attempting to go to Kenya for two weeks or so in November (including travel time) to work in an orphanage. Does anyone have any fundraising ideas for me? The team I'm with would like to buy our plane tickets ASAP but money is slow coming in. We're going through a missions organization called Kids Alive! International, so we're sending out letters to raise support and we'll be doing car washes and yard work, but... we kind of need more money now rather than later. Anybody have experience with this sort of thing?

See? Me and M.

Grades closed today and so they're all posted *snoopy dance*

I am disappointed that I got an A- in Senior Sem, but....


It was my only A-. And everything else was a A. So, my official numbers are:

Semester: 3.931
CUMULATIVE COLLEGE CAREER: 3.876 :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D Woo.

And, um, have I mentioned that I graduate TOMORROW? *faints*


As I told PBW in comments, Hope's not so crazy but it helps when you back it up with perseverance. (Ever hear the joke about the man who wanted to win the lottery so he prayed to God that he would? But he never did and finally got mad and yelled at God, and God said, you idiot, why don't you buy a ticket first? Yah, kind of like that.)

The semi-exciting news first! I'm going to get a new blog! A "real" one, so to speak. Finally talked it over with M. He caved because he said he's been thinking of getting a myspace page and when I pointed out that I would use a blog the way he would use the myspace (as in, not spill our lives to the world, but in a themed, specific way; writing for me) he said that would be okay. So I'm going to look around at different hosts, talk to my compter-tech BIL, and see what I can come up with. Stay tuned for my moving (and then, Joely, you can add me to your blogroll.)

The exciting news you've been waiting for (or not): I'm starting OMWF Act II! I wanted to dive into it yesterday/today but I realized that I actually have other Life Things still to wrap up like catching up on a mountain of laundry, continuing my babysitting gig, and, um, still graduating, but I've added about a page and I feel like a train... slow to get moving but wait'll I do! And I also have a couple different things brewing for the next project; at some point I'll probably take a poll to see which one I should do, but not till I'm at least halfway through OMWF. I don't want to get ahead of myself, you know.

Hope everything is going well for you all in LJ (and blog)-land.

I'm inspired by Joely Sue Burkhart. Here are some May Goals!

1. Write another 75 pages of OMWF. Hope to do this starting next Wednesday, at a steady, brisk pace though probably NOT ten pages a day. 

2. Write at least one section of the project that has been percolating for the past week or so and has really gripped me. No details, but I'm thinking of it as "Gritty Faulkner without the headhopping," and that's all you're getting from me. I have been DYING to write something that's not neatly genred as fantasy or paranormal or whatever and I've finally found it. This one is known as the Untitled Lit Project, or ULP, for now.

3. Submit my senior project. O.o (No high hopes for this; it's SUCH an unusual format; 11k stories are just not marketable.)

For those curious, the pictures below are of me (stripes) and my twin (brown). I needed a URL to share the pictures at another website so I uploaded them here. Sorry for the intrusion?