- my first voice lesson went very well. I have a lot of work to do, and need to organize my lesson binder, but that's fun stuff!
- I was selected as a student speaker at graduation! I get to give my speech! This MFA thing gets more and more exciting every week :D
- Mood:
cheerful - Music:Tarja Turunen: Oasis
Aragorn is a leader, but doesn't always want to be one. He takes on impossible situations and faces them, even when defeat is almost imminent. For nearly all his life he preferred being behind the scenes, protecting others and content to be just Strider. When the opportunity to be greater comes, he's reluctant. He has fear of his weaknesses, which makes him realistic.
I can get things done. I can lead. But a lot of the time I'm reluctant to, and I'm afraid my own weaknesses will get in the way. I don't want to lead anyone I care about to pain. At the same time, I will stand in the face of impossible odds and overcome them, because it's the right thing to do. When it comes down to right v. easy, I try more often than not to choose right, and so does Aragorn.
Sometimes I identify with Frodo, too. The whole feeling burdened, and that everything is MY responsibility. I can take it a little too seriously, to the detriment of my own health, and to taking it out on other people. It's hard for me to let others help me, and I feel that if I don't do it on my own, I've failed, but usually when I give in and accept the help things go much better.
1. Must pay rent. I like having a place to live. Definitely need to pay that.
2. The official deadline for the MFA final draft is here. I'm not worried, because I passed mine in last week. But still, it's a major milestone. I'm taking tomorrow off work to celebrate!
3. Only three weeks left of school. CRAZY!
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evildamsel's wedding this month!Okay. I need to get going to work. the only thing that's going to get me through today is knowing I don't have to go tomorrow. Yay personal day!
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11. Chill :D
- Mood: cheerful
The icon is also my new profile pic on my Facebook.
I feel incredibly giddy.
Also. I've started writing scenes from the sequel. I'd say I have a good ten pages (single spaced) already.
- Mood:
accomplished - Music:Smashing Pumpkins: The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
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"Oh yeah? The Jerk Store called. They're running out of you!"
...okay. I can't claim that one. That's vintage Seinfeld. But I'd say that's truly l'esprit de l'escalier, especially since George flew all the way across country to tell the guy that.
Four years of writing her story in various versions and incarnations.
Two years of intensive, nonstop writing and revising and editing what will be the final version of her story.
Which boils down to four heartbreaking, gutbusting, lifekilling semesters making that story publishable.
One final semester of intensive, painful, irritating, painstaking edits.
Three weeks polishing it all to shining.
One last day of print-preview checking.
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One printer.
At least ten black ink cartridges.
Literally hundreds of dollars of postage.
My sanity.
My correcting.
My apartment's general, regular cleanliness.
My cooking.
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But the end justifies the means. The cost was well worth paying, for what I've ended up with.
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Seven of Wands is officially finished.
- Mood: accomplished
- Music:Muse: Take a Bow
I just want to check the early chapters in the copy my friend Luke edited, to be sure I fixed any of the issues he caught.
I ran the scene by
evildamsel and she likes it, thinks it works and adds more depth to more characters. I want to run the edited version by Luke and Tim. I want to make sure all three think it fits where I inserted it.If it does...
If I do the final tweaks...
Then hit "print"...
I'm officially done with Seven of Wands, and several days ahead of schedule. (I wanted to mail it on the 28th, at the very latest. Now it looks like I'll be able to send it out to both mentors on the 26th. Due date is June 1st.)
I still need to let it all sink in, and it probably won't until the manuscript is out of my hands and in the mail, and even then not until I'm sitting at the tattoo parlor commemorating the occasion.
- Mood:
weird
evildamsel it'll get where it needs to be,and quickly.Next I need to add it in where it will go. Then smooth the edges some. And that means one thing.
I'm literally 98% done with it now. I'm so close...
I limped around a bit, put my foot up later on, and by the next day the only sign was a slight bruise just below my knee.
Okay okay, so not completely dramatic or anything, but really, it could have led to a significant injury. I'm sure I've had others in the past, because I can be kind of clumsy, but that one was pretty recent.
Yeah, karma had fun with that one. However, now that I am an English teacher, I LOVE it and don't think I could be anything else. Funny, how life works.
- Music:Mozart: Lacrymosa (stuck in my head)
When I graduate I plan to start cooking a LOT more. I used to do a lot of cooking and I loved it. Since starting grad school and all that craziness, I haven't done much reall, decent cooking for myself. It's hard, because I live alone with cats. When I've had a long day, then have more work to do on my thesis that night, plus maybe work a couple games during the week AND advise the school magazine... sorry, but popping something into the microwave or ordering out are really far easier than prepping, cooking, and cleaning up afterward.
And yes, I will have choir and voice lessons after I graduate, which will also take time, but my financial and academic future won't be riding on either, so I don't have to worry about it the same way I do my grad work.
- Mood:
blank
hokay?
- Mood: amused
In all seriousness, I didn't get bird flu. Didn't get mad cow. Didn't get West Nile or EEE, and there have been no fatalities in the US from it yet. If I do get it, I'll have to make a banner that says "I survived Swine 09".
Of course now I've probably jinxed myself.
- Mood:
apathetic
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