***stardust

Going home today, for the first time since August. ^_^ yay.
Band/choral picnic is this weekend, and turns out I *will* know people there - my sister & co. are going.
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If they don't kill me for it, I'm going to tag along and teach them how to pick on Mead, in preperation for next year. *g* Tradition needs to continue.

Not much news to give, really..
We're going to get a cat - like, really this time. *G* Britt and her dad are friends with one of the head-people at Lollypop, so we can get around paperwork, s'all good.
(I *still* think we should, the four of us, just sit down and talk with Norm, I think we've a good chance of convincing him..but Justin was so down on the idea, Meghan has to back him up, and Britt's not said anything about it in awhile..and I'm the odd one out all the time anyway.)
But this is extra-good cos we're cutting back on letting our visitor-kitty stay inside.. he slept in here two nights in a row again, and Meghan saw one of the owners outside one day..while the cat was sitting on our front porch. ^^;
So the poor lil kitty's curled up on my bed, sleeping peacefully and purring away, and Meghan'n'Britt decide to go all-out paranoid spastic that the owners know we let the cat in and all this.. to the point where, when the phone rang, they first let the machine get it, then made ME go get it when it rang again. e_e; Then they scooped the kitty and put him outside.
(A few hours later, I heard him meowing on the back porch - he's figured out how to get in through one of the glass-less windows, but he can't get back out of the porch unless one of us opens that back door or let him in. So I went in and consulted with Britt, and we decided to let him in, just for the night. Kitty slept at the foot of my bed that night, all purring and content, and kept my toes warm. *giggles* Surprisingly, he actually hasn't showed up again yet that I know of..so we'll see.

Went around town photo-spazzing a little the other day, cos the leaves are all changing and it's gorgeous out.. and I was waiting for my laundry to be done anyway, so I needed something to do. *g*
Also went back to the town library, cos my (renewed) books were due... picked up another five or six, which is probably too many for what spare time I have again, but one was The Giving Tree, which's very short, so maybe I'll manage this time. *g* Two angel-related books, The Princess and the Goblin (which I know I read once, but it was so long ago I barely remember it..just that it was good *g*), and something else that I'm forgetting. *giggles*

Signed up for NaNoWriMo this year.. and I know full well my chances of actually pulling it off are slim. *giggles* Between my brief attention span on any one project, and the fact that the longest thing I've written is..lessee.. well, the Mackie fic I'm currently running by people to see if it's done? yeah that's like, 8,800 words. "Until the End of the World (On the Edge of Forever)" is the longest thing I've *ever* written, and that took me a year, *and* that was a few years ago, back before I was as nit-picky as I am about my writing now. And that's.. *opens file, tho is still too scared to read it just yet* ... *laughs* 15,000 words, assuming that it's not counting all the little line-break things I flung in and all, and including the intro-bit (though not including the author's notes).
*relents and skims a little*
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whoa...
...y'know? this might actually still be *good*.
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That makes me very happy.
..I can see places already where the writing style is a lot less mature, but at the same time..there are places where it's already wonderful. That makes me so happy. ..and I know that the story as a whole is still good, it's still probably the best *story* I've done so far, it actually *is* a story, with elaboration and a climax and everything. *giggles* Probably the *only* one with all that.

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wow. I *really* like this! *laughs* goodness.

...this story, I promise to come back to, when I've cleared my head of all the other thousand things I'm working on right now...it deserves an update.
It deserves everything I've got. *smiles*

//end wanna-be-writer rambling

So, I finished Faust, and it was very good. The ending was a little disappointing, but then it *is* a tragedy... I with it had been drawn out maybe a little more, but that's just me, I'm not good at endings anyway. *g* Still want to read through another translation or two at some point, the one I had was from the 1930s, I'd like one a little older I think, although this one was still very good.
As my one class was cancelled yesterday, I had a good three hours between my classes, instead of the usual hour and a half, so after eating lunch outside and wandering about with my camera a bit, I was a little chilly and headed inside. Up on the third floor of the library, there's a 'quiet study area', the room has a name but I forget what it is.. it actually has like, *real* furniture in it, old and wood and very nice, as well as a few painting and things. The room as a whole? really doesn't work. *laughs gently* You've got this gorgeous old furniture, an old colourful rug under the sofa of dark carved wood and gold cushion, all this, in a room with walls of cement and thin, drab dark carpet on the floor, everything as industrial as the rest of the newer campus buildings. And the paintings..really don't help, they're a little varied.
But it's the closest thing I've found to a nice cozy little library room, and I do like the furniture, the sofa, large mirror with thick wooden frame, round table with a golden-metal center covered in intricacies, and small lounging chairs which line the one end of the room, are just enough old and phisto-ish enough to give me someplace nice to curl up and write and things.
So there, I finished Faust, and went looking around for Dante.. unsuccessfully, as I hadn't checked on the computers to find out what numbers Dante would be, and I can*not* for the life of me figure out how things are sorted up there. I mean I know it's by category, but I haven't the faintest what said categories are, what numbers are within them, and what categories what I want fit into anyway. ^^; Happily, however, I stumbled across the Milton section, and grabbed a copy of Paradise Lost. (And in there, so far, seems to be the culmination of every bit of angel-lore out there, and then elaborated on.. <3 <3 <3) Read that for awhile, occasionally resting my eyes a bit, though I couldn't quite fall asleep. Eventually, I headed out...and on my way past rows of books to get to the stairs, I was glancing over to see what was in that aisle...
And found Dante.
*laughs*
So I sifted through all the books of critique and found The Divine Comedy, in all its parts, and grabbed The Inferno. <3

Decided to read the Dante before the Milton, as the former influenced the latter. (And, admitedly, cos the Dante's easier to read, at least in this translation..I wanted to ease into my subject matter a little. There's soooo so much in the Milton for me to digest, and I'm only a little ways into it yet.)

So yay for reading. *g* I have angels and devils to my heart's content, and it's all putting enough ideas into my head that I might *actually* be able to hit that 50,000 words next month.
(yeah right. *laughs* goodness..)

Also been working like mad on my flash project for class.. we did a group critique the other day, and.. yeahhh. I'm so near the bottom. It makes me very, very sad. Granted mine has more detail than some, and that, as usual, is undoubtedly my downfall. But considering this is the first I've used flash, and I'm still incredibly new at drawing things on the computer.. I s'pose I'm doing alright. And I know it'll be cool if I can get it all to work together properly..
It's just getting it there. -_-;
I have no clue how to get the main thing it's supposed to do to work.
...actually I have *an* idea now, it's a little odd but it *might* work...hopefully it does, cos it's taken me like a week to figure out *this*. bah.
Thank goodness it's due Wednesday, and not Monday - Lawrence doesn't get on with Flash very well, there's no way on earth Rhonda will. ^^;

*laughs* Right, so much for not having much to post... going now, cos I need to clean and things before Dad gets here.

*Ananda Daydream * 12:30 PM * *

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