Monday, November 30, 2009

NaNoWriMo WINNER!

Today is awesome because I won NaNoWriMo! Also, there were some other things that were awesome today:
- I saw graffiti that said "There is no spoon..."
- I saw graffiti that had 'nazi' spelled as 'nasi' (bloody morons who can't spell).
- My Contemporary History class turned into a Crowd Psychology class, which was totally awesome.
- Did I mention I finished NaNoWriMo? I didn't just reach 50,000; I finished the book. Now all I have to do is edit it somewhat (I'm not putting loads more time in it).
- I had a really interesting conversation with a classmate from elementary school (yes, really).

NaNoWriMo word count: 50,632.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

almost finished!

Today is awesome because I have only 700 words left to write for NaNoWriMo! It took me forever to get today's 4000 words written, but I managed. I'm a little behind on my homework now, but I think I just might be able to finish it before I have to leave for class tomorrow (no promises though).
49,323 NaNoWriMo words!

Saturday, November 28, 2009

the book is my b%^#h

Today is awesome because I finished my Medieval History homework and I managed to write a little over 2000 words for NaNoWriMo. I'm still behind, and I'll be cutting it close, but tomorrow I'll just put NaNoWriMo before homework, drink lots of coffee and get the b%^#h finished! That's right: the book is my b%^#h. Thank you Maureen Johnson.
45,963 NaNoWriMo words!

Friday, November 27, 2009

relaxing day

Today is awesome because I decided to take the day off from useful things, and I stuck to it. It was very relaxing, until I realized that it's two days till the end of NaNoWriMo! Oh God! I'm too tired to write now, but I did force myself to finish the plot... sort of.
43,613 NaNoWriMo words.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

...

Today is awesome because every time I went outside, the rain stopped long enough for me not to need my umbrella.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Gothic!

Today is awesome because about half of my Medieval History class was about Gothic and Roman churches and the differences and similarities between them. I like churches. A lot. A really big lot. I could study History of Art just for the churches is how much I like them. Anyway, that was cool, and I'm also well ahead of my NaNoWriMo goal at the moment, which is very relaxing. The only stress-factor in my life right now is that I'm trying to decide whether or not to apply to the Honours College at my university... I'm kind of terrified of making the wrong choice, joy!
43,101 NaNoWriMo words!

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

NaNoWriMo WIN!

Today is awesome because I'm pretty sure what minor I want to take, starting next semester, namely Non-Western Studies, which is really cool (especially the fact that I've managed to make a choice). And also, I did some massive writing for NaNoWriMo, because I revived my plot (which had died yesterday, sadly)! Yay!
40,227 NaNoWriMo words!

Monday, November 23, 2009

Today is awesome because - I'm too tired for this and TFLN has killed whatever braincells were still active. Never mind.
NaNoWriMo word count: 33,594.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

writing

Today is awesome because I managed to write a little over 4,000 words for NaNoWriMo, which I hadn't really expected what with the stomach and backaches I had this morning... I took my time (extensively) for my Contemporary History homework for next week and all in all today was a very relaxed day. The whole week is going to be very relaxed as a matter of fact, because except for some 50 pages that I have to read for History Introduction and preparing a debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict, all my work is done! It is a great feeling.
31,671 NaNoWriMo words!

still alive, no worries

Oh dear, I've been a bit absent lately, let me catch you up: Friday was awesome because I got loads done for Middle ages and even managed to write a little for NaNoWriMo (more on that later), and Saturday was awesome because I went to a friend's birthday. I hadn't seen her, and a few of our other friends who were there for ages, so it was great to see them again.
My total word count for NaNoWriMo as of yesterday is 27,454, which is not so good, but I've got a lot of writing planned for today. My Contemporary History homework is almost finished, and after that all I'm going to do is write write write. Thai is, for as long as I can manage sitting at my desk because today of all days my back is killing me. Oh well, you have to suffer to accomplish something (or somesort).

Thursday, November 19, 2009

WIN!

Today is awesome because I got back the results from my essay, and I got a 7.9! I was in complete shock when my professor told me, but I am so so happy about it.
In other news: 26,456 NaNoWriMo words! A very productive day indeed.

EDIT: I notice my posts are getting shorter all the time. I think and hope that will get better after I stop exhausting all my creative energy with NaNoWriMo every day.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

busy day

Today is awesome because I finished everything I had to do, including 2,000 NaNoWriMo words, which is good. I wanted to do more, but I just didn´t have the time, what with all the homework. Anyway, I think I did pretty well with the time I had. I feel like my plot is getting away from me a little, but I´ll manage.
23,171 NaNoWriMo words!

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

NaNoWriMo!

The Internet broke yesterday, so I couldn't post. I'm also too tired right now to remember why yesterday was awesome.
Today is awesome because I wrote over 5,000 words for my novel! I'm halfway through catching up now, pretty much. Technically, I need to hit 30,000 tomorrow, but I don't think that I can do that (ok, I know that I can't do that), but I'm a lot closer now than I thought I would be this morning, which is good. Otherwise, today was boring, especially the History Introduction lecture, that was a total waste of time.
21,205 NaNoWriMo words!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Essay is DONE

Today is awesome because I finished the second version of my essay on the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 and it doesn't suck. It's actually not half bad, and I really, really, really hope that I'll pass.. Kind of a lot depends on this essay (in my mind at least). If I fail, I can't retry untill next year, so I want to do it right.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

...

Today is awesome because version two of my essay is almost done! All I have to do is write the conclusion and then fix any mistakes I might have made along the way and it's DONE!
Consequently, no NaNoWriMo.

Friday, November 13, 2009

essay 'snot dead

Today is awesome because I'm sort of understanding what I need to do with my essay and how I'm supposed to do it. Also, I wrote about 1600 words for NaNoWriMo, which I really needed. I'm still pretty far behind, but I'll have more time to write next week (fingers crossed!) so I'll be catching up on it then, if my plot doesn't die somewhere in between. It's still pretty alive though, which is good. I'm pretty attached to my characters, which isn't so good, because it means that every time I put them through emotional stuff, I get emotional too.
13,931 NaNoWriMo words!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

procrastination

Today is awesome because... I relaxed. Yup, that's it. I decided to relax and I did it. Pretty lame, but I feel a lot better because of it. Well, that and the fact that I got to figure out what the hell is going on in my head for an hour. In other news, I feel a winter depression coming up, so I need to hurry up and figure out a way to battle it before it hits me full force... That should be manageable, right?
No NaNoWriMo today, but I feel pretty good about procrastinating that. I also found my old Sony Walkman with all my music from when I was in Australia. Ah.. the memories!

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

prelim-results!!

Today is awesome because I got the results back from the preliminaries I took in october! I scored a 7.4 on Economic & Social History and a 7 on Ancient History. Which kind of makes not just my day, but my week. Awesome! I took the evening off to celebrate. Also, I bought Twitterature by Alexander Aciman and Emmet Rensin. Absolutely brilliant.
12,183 NaNoWriMo words!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

studybreak

Today is awesome because I took half the evening off from studying. I really (really really really) needed that. I've been studying like a madman (madwoman) for days now. I needed a break. I can't actually afford a break, I think, but my brain needed a breather from the relentless absorbing of information ten hours a day.
No NaNoWriMo though, no time, and when I finally get a chance to not study, I want to relax my brain instead of pushing it to produce words and sentences and something that makes sense, basically.

EDIT: As I'm reading that last sentence, I realize that it really doesn't make any sense... Oh well.

EDIT 2: 11,039 NaNoWriMo words! I decided I had an hour in which to write anyway.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

finished!

Today is awesome because I actually managed to finish everything I have to do for classes tomorrow! Yay! That was unexpected. And I'm listening to 'A Song About an Anglerfish', which is really happy-making-ish. Can you tell I'm tired? My English is really suffering, but I can't really be bothered to think about what the heck it is I'm typing. It's one in the morning, by that way, so technically, it's already monday. And that means that yesterday was awesome because I managed to do everything I had to do.. *brainmelt*. Never mind. Tomorrow begins when I've slept and woken up again and it's light outside, that's the rule I love by.
No NaNoWriMo today, btw.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

DFTBA

Yesterday: 9,742 NaNoWriMo words!
TodayL 9,742 NaNoWriMo words!

No NaNoWriMo words added today, but I did get a lot of homework done. Sort of. I put a lot of time into it, anyway. Today is awesome because I had (and still have) 'DFTBA' by Hank Green and Michael Aranda stuck in my head pretty much all day, which brightened my mood considerable. I like working on my essay, it's not that, but I'm just terrified that I won't get it finished in time (especially considering all the other stuff I have to do, I am swamped!) or that I will muck it up and fail Historical Skills. Which would suck immensly. Right now, I'm barely awake. G'night.

Friday, November 6, 2009

debate

Massive fail because I forgot to post yesterday. But I have an excuse! I had a severe brain-melt last night. Anyway, yesterday was awesome because one of my professors complimented me on my debating after I'd gone in front of the class and held a short argumentation about the bombing of Dresden at the end of WWII. I had about ten minutes to prepare.. So I'm really relieved that I actually managed to speak at all I was so nervous. I had to hold the table so people wouldn't notice my hands shaking. But it went ok, and I'm really glad they forced me to learn this in high school because I automatically speak in the right way (calm, clear, confident), even though I feel like I'm about to bloody faint.

I'm not sure why today is awesome yet, but starting off with an air-raid warning is pretty cool. The alarm went off about fifteen minutes ago. Don't you just love twitter as an information source? Everyone from around here was tweeting about it and it turns out there was an accident at the dairy plant about 16 km from here where a cloud of hydrochloric acid (HCl) was released and headed to the town (not my town).

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Medieval History

Today is awesome because my Medieval History class was more like a what-the-heck-was-going-on-in-the-early-church-and- what's-the-idea-behind-dragging-around-corpses class. That was pretty awesome. We also tried to come to a conclusion on why the sunni and the shi'ites enjoy chopping each other's heads off, but we didn't quite make it to that before class ended, sadly. I'm starting to think that meybe theology is my thing as well. And Islamic Studies. And loads of other things. Social Studies, for example. I want to know too much. Well, that and I got my Historical Skills essay back today and my professor completely torched it. Like built an impressive pyre and watched it burn slowly to death for hours torched it. It's embarassing just to look at it. Then again, everyone's essay got torched, so it's not like a did really bad.
7,530 NaNoWriMo words!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

the Berlin Wall

Today is awesome because I've been studying my heart out bust still found the time to write almost 1,000 words for NaNoWriMo. Also, writing a tiny paper on the fall of the Berlin Wall was pretty fun. Right now I'm still studying History Introduction, as the Globalization paper ate my day and I still have to read a lot of stuff for History Introduction before tomorrow's lecture... Busy busy busy!
5,714 NaNoWriMo words!

Monday, November 2, 2009

WWII pwns NaNoWriMo

Today is awesome because I attended a lecture by professor Renner about the Second World War, and it was amazing (the lecture, not the war). For example, I'd never before heard of Germany and Russia starting the war together, as allies for crying out loud. I don't understand why they don't teach us anything about that in, say, high school, because the evidence seemed pretty straight-forward to me. Anyhow, it's way too early for me to form any kind of judgment on this, so I won't. Just airing my thoughts here from a second.
4,895 NaNoWriMo words!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

NaNoWriMo

Today is awesome because it's the first of November and that means that NaNoWriMo has begun! I've only been able to write 800 words so far because i was busy with all kind of useful stuff for university, but I intent to catch up on that tomorrow. I'll make a little (though not too much) more time then. And the beginning is always the hardest (I hope).