I'm kind of pimping this everywhere, so why not here?

I'm in a class about new media, art, culture, participation and connectivity, and for one of our projects I wrote a small web application that basically imitates one of those line-by-line pass-along stories that you've probably done before. And, of course, I need people to participate, so if you have a few words to spare, I'd appreciate it greatly.

So, without further ado:

It's actually going places?  This is the best I've done since senior year of high school.  It's coming along slowly, but it's actually, you know, getting written.  I just have to keep remembering that I can edit later.  Write now, edit later!  I bought the desktop version of Write or Die, which is really helping, since it means that I can set it to go for twenty minutes and end up with 500 more words.

Also, I got some new shoes, and they're adorable but they also have a 3.5" heel so I'm going to have to learn to walk in heels properly I guess.  They're actually pretty comfy for heels, it's just that I haven't worn heels a lot so I'm not used to the change in balance.

Oh, and today was neat because some of my work from last fall was in an art show for the Arts & Sciences school and I got to go to a reception for it.  It was pretty sweet, and a lot of people said they liked my piece. :3  I was really surprised to get chosen, though, especially since they only pick something like 40 pieces every year out of what I'm guessing is quite a lot.

And I'm totally amused that there's a community called aiyatheydidnt .  That's pretty awesome.

If you mention to a guy friend in conversation that you've always wanted to go check out the observatory on campus during open hours and he sends you an e-mail later suggesting you both go when it's open on Friday and you say yes, is it a date?

The answer to this question is very relevant.

I needed something to write about, so it might as well be this.  Er, yes, no and yes, I think--I woke up on the late side this morning and didn't have time to go get a haircut, so that would be neat.  The month overall is actually going pretty well, though.  I would re-do the year if I could, though, since early '09 was, er, not that great which is to say pretty teeth-pullingly awful.

Anyway!  My evil plan to be super fit this year is going swimmingly, although I still feel like I have been run over by a truck from Turbo Kick two days ago.

I think I am going to make a serious effort to get Stay on the Sunny Side hammered out during NaNo this year.  I have the outline pretty much finished, so it should be fairly easy going (although I feel like I should do some character drabbles in the pre-season to get the right feel on the dialogue).  And because it has the potential to be insanely awesome. (That, and I'm kind of hoping to have it polished up for sending off for possible publication before the whole vampire craze dies out.)  Anyway, if anyone cares, I'm going to be blogging my NaNo progress on tumblr this year: sparklynano@tumblr  There will be illustrations and selected excerpts.  Assuming I make it past the first few days, which is always a toss-up.

Okay so it's been how long since I've updated my LJ?  I just never know what to blog about.

Finally found void-filler post-ATLA, and it's Fullmetal Alchemist.  I am always waiting for Thursday FMA video stream day on tenterhooks :D because it is delicious and awesome.  FMA and Soul Eater, actually, which I found a while back and discovered was awesome—it's like what would happen if HP Lovecraft wrote a shonen anime.

Also, Project Runway is back YESSSSSS this makes me so ridiculously happy

Having trouble deciding what to do for NaNo this fall, if anything.  I have Daybreak (re-named Stay on the Sunny Side; urban fantasy w/ vampires and mages and werewolves, you know the drill) which is now a lot more hammered out and ready to be written; then I've also got I'll Tell You Everything Tomorrow (magical girls and serious business), or Eleventh Hour (teenage mage hijinks).  Or there's probably an idea that I haven't even thought up yet.  I've also been toying with the idea of generating story events randomly and trying to connect them together.  Of course, I don't even know if I'm going to be able to set aside the time for it what with class and everything else that I do...

Attempting to teach myself Japanese; can now write and speak some pretty simple sentences.  I'm trying to teach myself a few Kanji a day.  It's pretty neat.

Maybe I should post drawings here or something.

...so yeah.

I just archive-binged xkcd, and it was awesome.

Also, I have a cold and it is terrible.  Especially when I need to be doing homework.

Look, updating again!

I've been reading Penny & Aggie for years, and it's been great. But I just really don't know where they're going with this most recent arc, and it's frustrating the heck out of me. Also, I hate Marshall, and it has nothing to do with what he just did that earned him the ire of most of the readership—he's just so annoying. And yet I cannot stop reading. *sigh*

On a slightly more positive note, I am already running ahead of my goal for NaNoWrimo at 21k+ for Nov. 1, so things are looking up. It is about vampires, which probably makes me kind of creepy, but it's actually a very sweet and (relatively) cheerful story. Despite being about the undead.  Vampires seem to tbe the big thing this year—well, they've been popular in literature for a while (I counted 20+ in the YA section at a bookstore once—and individual series, not single books), but this year there's a metric ton of people doing them, if the Fantasy subforum is anything do judge by.  It's a little odd, but also kind of funny.  I don't think I've seen this many people doing the same narrow subgenre in the four years I've done NaNo previously.

Speaking of vampires, I just started playing in a LARP that does a Vampire: the Masquerade game and it's kind of awesome!  So every other week I dress up and play Kait Marsh: Ace (Vampire) Attorney.  So now I guess I'm an official nerd, or something.  Not that I wasn't one already, I guess.

Dick Blick is slowly leeching away all my money.  I'm beginning to wonder if having one so close is such a blessing after all.  I just cannot resist the lure of watercolor pencils and nice markers.

Mm, interesting things... that's about it, anyway.