Category: personal

NaNoveling

Anyone notice the massive jump in wordcount today? That’s right, I jumped from 21K+ words to go to just under 10K words to go. Some of it was written at home over Thanksgiving, but I wrote over 8,000 words today.

I just had to brag.

whew

That sigh of relief comes with the onset of Thanksgiving Break. I am very thankful.

I haven’t quite unwound enough to have anything interesting to say, but I just wanted to say hi. Hi.

cell phone meltdown

The display on my cell phone died a few weeks ago. If you’ve sent me a text message in the last few weeks and I didn’t reply, well, that’s why.

Anyway, I now have a new phone, which I thought was going to fix everything, but it turns out that the vast majority of the numbers I had were stored to the phone itself, rather than to my SIM card. So I now have about five phone numbers.

I’m going through old emails to retrieve as many numbers as I can, but in the meantime, if you want me to have your phone number, please email it to me.

I’m ba-ack!

Well. After an unplanned hiatus, I’m back. I’ve switched hosts (the last one ate the SQL database that housed my blog, and was less than responsive to my pleas for help) and spent way too many hours trying to recover the stuff that I hadn’t backed up or was eaten. I lost much of May, and probably some comments, but overall I’m pretty pleased with the extent to which I was able to recover. Many thanks to Google’s cached pages. The poetry and gallery sections are not yet working, but I hope to get to them relatively soon. We’ll see.

Anyway, while I’ve been gone…School has continued to go well, and I’m now really excited for the coming semesters. It sounds like I’ll be able to tailor my McDaniel experience to my interests (well, interest: creative writing), and my advisor has been amazingly supportive so far. I haven’t officially made the switch yet, but I think I’m going to drop the Political Science piece of my major (I was English/PoliSci with a Writing minor) to give me more time to do the extra creative writing stuff. Again, we’ll see.

Non-academically, I am still loving my apartment here in Westminster, and I’ve made some on-campus friends I’ve really been enjoying spending time with. It’s also wonderful to have my sister here.

I would like to say that I will go back to updating regularly, but November is National Novel Writing Month and I have been convinced to undertake this insane task. They recommend lots of boasting before November starts so that failure to write 50,000 words carries with it a large dose of embarassment. So here’s my boasting: I’m gonna write 50,000 words in November! Yikes.

For now, I’m going to go do the dishes.

silence

It was not my intention, after the last post, to go so long without posting again, although I will admit I knew it was a possibility. One of the side effects of the new semester and new apartment is that I’ve been a little disconnected from my regular world. I spend far less time paying attention to current events, or thinking or reading for fun, and far more time reading for class and working to make my new space mine.

And, really, there was nothing I could say about Katrina, but it felt like it’d be weird to post without mentioning it at all. So there’s my mention. The whole thing is so terrible there’s not much else I can say.

So instead, I’m going to talk about: ME!

I’m really enjoying both my classes and my apartment. I picked McDaniel largely because I’d already examined and rejected nearly every other small liberal arts school in the country and it happened to enter my life at the same time. That’s pretty much how I ended up with my apartment, too. McDaniel, though relatively unknown, seems to have a very high caliber faculty who expect a lot from their students but are also extremely friendly and supportive. My apartment has high ceilings and wood-paneled walls that make me feel like I’m on a beach vacation. It’s a wonderful sanctuary. Eventually I’ll post some pictures.

For now, I am off to pick up my sister, who resides on campus, just a mile away.

off again

Given my recent posting habits, there’s probably no point in posting these AFK messages, since I could easily go an equally long (or longer) time even I were in town, but…

I’m off in a few minutes to spend some time with a great uncle in Tennessee. I may or may not have internet access there, and I may or may not be back in time for the Slam on Saturday.

But that reminds me, you should go to the Slam.