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Kitsune no Tora

Eating: candy
Drinking: Apple cider from the cider mill! 8D
Writing: Lifeless
Reading: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie for school
Thinking about: How much homework I still have to do, NaNoNovel

Kitsune no Tora is feeling: tired, drained

Hi guys!

...It's been a week since Youmacon, and I STILL haven't blogged about it. XD I FAIL

Okay so. I don't remember a whole ton of details because I was hyped up on Monster, brain-dead due to lack of sleep, and sore from walking a lot and sleeping on the floor in a sleeping bag with another 11 people in a cramped hotel room the size of my bedroom. Actually, it was a little bit bigger than my bedroom, but I digress. XD

Okay so. Thursday I got up, finished packing, did some internet things and then went to the Gamer's Alliance (a club at school) to pick up Andrea. She was not there. She was out shopping for her Youmacon stuff. XD I waited for her for about an hour, watching the boys play Halo. It was mildly entertaining. She finally arrived, and we transferred her stuff in her car to my car, and she left her car for her mother to drive home after she got off the bus later that afternoon.

We went back to my house and watched Silent Hill. 8D It was awesome, except for the fact that the room was too bright even with the blinds closed and we couldn't see a lot of things. My TV also decided to have a fail and make the music and sound effects so loud we couldn't hear the talking. DX Andi has most of the lines of the movie memorized, though, so she just told me what they said when I didn't catch it. XD

Around 6-ish we left, I picked up Micah and we set off on our way~ Everything went pretty smoothly; I drove and Micah, being the most competent with directions of the three of us, read off the directions to me. We listened to music from Andi's iPod Touch which she rigged to my car's radio with a tape deck, and it was awesome. Until the road that lead us to the hotel didn't show up. XD; We ended up on Michigan Avenue, which is a train-wreck right now because of construction. We ended up driving up and down it confused until we found the Town Center's service drive (which was ALSO under construction, ick) and FINALLY made it to the hotel.

We then proceeded to wait aimlessly for 2 hours for the girl (Michelle) who reserved our hotel room, because we couldn't get in until she checked in. DX I was supposed to meet someone from the NaNo forums there, but I missed her because of it. DX

When we finally got in we watched a few of the Death Note live action movies and then went to bed at like, 2 am. XD

Friday we did more fun things and took pictures and walked around a LOT. There were fun panels and the opening ceremonies, despite the extremely long line (that we were lucky enough to notice and sat in for a long while so we could get good seats), was a lot of fun. I like the announcer guy, he's funny. XD

Saturday was much of the same, except the morning I was leading Andrea around, because she dressed up as Deep Drive Riku with the blindfold. She could still see, but everything was fuzzy because she didn't have any glasses or contacts in in addition to being mostly blocked from the thin blindfold. I also dressed in my Halloween costume -- I was a gyspy. I have pics, which I will post a link to at the end. XD We also played Death Note Mafia from about 11pm until 6 am, even with the time change. XD 8 hours straight, yay! Eventually somewhere around 2 or 3 our moderator left, so I moderated the rest of the games, switching off with Andrea and this one other girl once. It was fun. 8D I bought the cards for it from Nikolai, so now I can play whenever I get a good amount of people~ <3

Also, my roomate flooded the bathroom Friday night. XDD She was really really tired, and taking a shower. For some reason, her brain didn't realize that the plastic shower curtain goes INSIDE the tub, because if it's outside the tub the water splashes over the side and floods the floor in about 2 inches of water. XD She had to go downstairs and get someone from the hotel staff to clean it up, and then sat in a corner in shame when he brought a mop, a bucket, and the hugest armful of towels ever. XD I took a picture, but you can't really see the water...

I had to go to the bathroom when I got there, so I had to take off my socks and roll up my pant legs so I could go. Still got my pants wet, and Saturday morning I got my socks wet because it had soaked into the carpet outside the bathroom door. D:

Sunday was lazy. We spent the entire morning lazily packing and feeling generally worn out. Check out was at noon, which Michelle did check out in time for, but we ended up in the room waiting for a cart to take our suitcases until almost 1. The guy who packed the stuff in my trunk didn't know that you have to pull the handle back into a closed position before you close it, or else it either doesn't close or gets stuck. Now it's stuck. DX I can't open it. We had to fold the seats down and drag Andrea's stuff out the side door when I dropped her off because no one could open it. :/

We walked around for a while, taking a few pictures but not many, and I sat and watched the Spoony Bards for a while because my feet hurt so incredibly much. We lost contact with Micah, so we waited around for a while for him to show up or call us so we could go home. Eventually Andrea told him we were leaving and if he didn't come right that second he'd have to find another ride, but then he texted her back, saying he was already home and had fallen asleep. >.> Uh, hello, thanks for telling us, jerk. I thought I was his only ride home, since I DID take him there, but noooo, he found a ride and didn't think to tell me. DX We waited around for nothing, and I was already in a bad mood from not getting enough sleep.

We drove home around 6-ish with minimal problems. It took me a while to find the North ramp for the Southfield freeway, but we did and we were on our way.

It was a blast, and I can't wait for next year. I am DEFINITELY cosplaying, no excuses. I'm definitely doing Riza Hawkeye from FullMetal Alchemist next year, but I want to do more than one costume. I'll probably do someone from Axis Powers Hetalia, but I'm having trouble choosing from Russia, America, North Italy, and France. XDD

Pictures are here! http://s431.photobucket.com/albums/qq39/TK-Kitsune/Youmacon%202009/

OKAY ENOUGH ABOUT YOUMACON

It's National Novel Writing Month! 8D I both hate myself for doing this to myself and love it because I'm getting SO MUCH DONE OMG. Even if it is utter crap. XD

I decided to just do Lifeless, rather than Precious Wingbeats. PW is just too complicated and too much to do for NaNoWriMo, and I haven't figured out all the plotholes yet. Lifeless is relatively simple, so that's what I'm doing.

I got a TERRIBLE start, I didn't start until the 3rd because of Youmacon and fatigue/homework, and only wrote about 300 words that day. XD I'm sitting at 8,865 words right now, which is pretty darn good if I say so myself for 4 days. XD I'm going to try and get to 10,000 today, maybe 11,000 if I can.

I'm thinking about posting it here, as I go. I haven't decided yet, though.

I'll ramble more about this sometime later this month, I'm sure. XD Goodnight, digital abyss~

Kitsune no Tora

Drinking: Water
Listening to: iTunes on shuffle
Talking to: Well, I WAS talking to Taylor...
Excited for: YOUMACON!! <3 and NaNoWriMo
Depressed about: Failing my calculus test this morning
Doing: Packing for Youmacon~

This morning suuuuuuucked. I failed my calculus exam. ;3; I just couldn't do most of it. I really think I need some help in it. ^^; I'd go to the student advisor for the class, but he's only around in the morning before class, and there's just no way I can get there that early. I just don't want to. So I'll have to go to the ASC and find a tutor, I guess...

So.... recap! Sunday, my friend Andi and I went to a haunted house--the Realm of Darkness out in Pontiac. It was a lot of fun~ I didn't really get scared that often, but that was probably mostly because Andi was clinging to my arm and she went first through everything. XD I only got scared twice or so, once when they blew air at us after we walked into a completely pitch black room, and another time when Andi screamed. XD And maybe once when someone jumped out at us, I dunno.

We failed at all the riddles and trivia, though, so we didn't get to meet the Wizard and collect prizes. :( We'll have to do a better job next year~

Apparently one of our forumers at ALoP has the Swine Flu. D8 Chiharu claims she has had it for the past three days... I'm sure she'll be fine, but that would be the first person I know who has contracted it. Since I'm going to be around fifty-bazillion people in a closed space during the con this weekend, my aunt insisted she buy me a bottle of hand sanitizer, and I try out those medicines that are supposed to prevent you from getting sick. I forgot to buy them, though. XD;; I still hope I don't get sick with anything, that would suck. Last year I lucked out, but this year I'm staying at the hotel so I have a higher chance of having prolonged contact with potentially sick people... ewww con funk. D:

Yesterday I had my midterm in Short-Stories and Novels. I dunno how I did... I don't think I did extremely well, because I had a hard time with the essay questions, but I hope I did at least decently. It won't do to fail two classes this semester (the other one likely being Calculus). :(

YOUMACON STARTS TOMORROW!!! <333 Today I have a bunch of stuff I need to do (one important thing I still have not done yet...) and then I'll finish up those things and go pick up Andi.

Today I had to:
Clean out my car
Start packing my suitcase--still have to do that
Buy drinks and snacks
Start packing the cooler
Begin packing the car
and charge my DS/rearrange my game case for games I might actually PLAY.

Tomorrow I have to:
Make sandwiches
Finish packing cooler
Finish packing suitcase
Finish packing the car
Organize online things

And then a little before 2 I have to pick up Andi from her class at school. We'll then be coming back to my house, watching Silent Hill (yay Pyramidhead~), and then we'll head off for EPIC FUN TIEMS in Dearborn!

I'm so fucking excited. 8DDDDDDD <33333

I have a big huge list of individual things I have to remember--like my medicine and the batteries for my camera, which I am 60% likely to forget on my own--so hopefully I won't forget anything. XD

NaNoWriMo also starts Sunday~ I'm not so sure I'm going to be doing Precious Wingbeats anymore. It kinda lost the NEW SHINY STORY spark, and I've realized there's a shitload of plotholes and things that don't quite make sense. So I dunno what I'm going to do... I might do Lifeless, but that already has the first chapter written and finished... I could just continue and not count the first chapter in my count, though. I really really should get that story done, I have the whole thing plotted out with lots of scenes to do, so I know I could easily get 50K out of it, and it has been sitting around since March-ish. Might as well use NaNo for a crash-course in getting the story out, yes? :3

I don't know. We'll see. I'll have to decide soon, though, I'm already going to get a bad start because of Youmacon.

I've got to start packing and then go to class, so this is all I can say for now. Goodnight, digital abyss~

Kitsune no Tora

Eating: Skeleton gingerbread man with green icing - pretty epic. :P
Drinking: Coca Cola
Playing: Nothing atm, but I really should play Avalon Code, Rune Factory, and finish up Rune Factory 2... oh, and Kingdom Hearts, the game I've had for about 2 years now (borrowing from a friend) and am only just after HalloweenTown. iFail. XD
Excited about: YOUMACON IN 22 DAYS!!!!! And NaNoWriMo is kicking up~
Should be writing: Duplicity rewrite
Should be outlining: NaNoWriMo plot
Happy about: Being free from school until Monday~

Kitsune no Tora is feeling: SUPER ESTATICALLY EXCITED, sleepy (constantly)

Uhh... hi?

Didn't I say a long time ago that I wasn't going to leave this for such a long time again?

...I guess I lied. XD Oops.

ANYWAYS...

Since the last time I posted, school has started. I have class Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. Mondays I have Calculus I 11-1, Tuesdays I have Short-Stories and Novels 1-4, then Career Planning 6-9, and Wednesdays I have Calculus I again 11-1, and then a (annoyingly easy) Word Processing class 6-9. Not toooooo busy of a schedule, but Calculus is kicking my ass. D8 I suck at trigonometry, so I fail terribly at all the problems involving that stuff. ^^; We just got done with limits, I think I did pretty decent on the exam this morning, but I'm not positive. It was hard. D8

Today I hit an animal driving through campus on my way to get some lunch. I was driving down the road and this squirrel just jumped right in front of my car. I braked a little, and I didn't feel anything or see anything in the road in my rearview mirror, so I'm hoping that I didn't actually hit him. But it made me sad anyway. :(

I want something (preferably living) to cuddle. But I'm not going to ask any of my family (eesh no), and my kitty Squirt is the most uncuddly cat ever. He doesn't like to be held for very long and he will NEVER sit on your lap. The most you can get is him sitting next to you. I had to trick him this morning to sit on my lap - I was in the living room on the couch and had a blanket over my legs because I was cold. I stuck my hand under and moved it around, and he jumped into my lap trying to get my hand under the blanket. He stayed there. :) But it was only because he didn't realize he was on my lap...Too bad I had to trick him, though. :/ I really hope he grows out of it.

YOUMACON IS IN 22 DAYS!! I'm so super duuper excited. 8DDD Too bad my cosplay fell through. :( I took a last ditch attempt to get the right fabric so that my aunt could make it for me (she's a talented seamstress, and I know if she made it it wouldn't fall apart or anything and be of good quality), and now it's too late to order one. :( They say it takes 25-30 days just to ship it out to me, and probably somewhere around a week after that before it gets on my doorstep, since it would be coming from Hong Kong. :/ *sadface* Andrea said that I should still find something simple enough and cosplay, but I have absolutely no idea who to do. She said she'd look some up for me, though, so we'll see how that goes.

...Maybe I can find some overalls/coveralls, a blonde wig, a peach bandana and make a cardboard wrench and go as Winry Rockbell, haha. XD That could work... I dunno. I'll have to think about it. I want to do something that is easy, but not stupidly simple, like L from Death Note or something. Those are just lazy. :P

I'll definitely do Riza next year, though. And maybe someone from Hetalia, I dunno. 8D I'm partial to Italy~ He's so cute. <3 Plus it would be an excuse for me to act like a dork (moreso that I would normally at an anime convention. :P).

I WONDER IF WE'LL FIND JESUS AGAIN. XDDD And I hope they have Death Note Mafia again, that was a lot of fun, despite the douchebag who decided to act like a pompous smart-ass and ruin everyone's fun halfway through the night last year. I just hope it doesn't coincide with Mario Party After Dark again, I really wanted to go to that, but couldn't tear myself away from the game. XD We played it from like, 11 to 4 in the morning last time, it was a blast.

We should also totally do Otaku Family Feud again, we killed everyone at it last year. Pocky Brigade FTW! We'll need to find Jessica again, though, I didn't get any contact information from her. Maybe Andi did...

Aaaaaand NaNoWriMo is gearing up again! I'm both super excited but ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED at the same time. ^^; I've been having a lot of problems writing recently. I can see and imagine the scene in my head, and it's great. The words flow through my head perfectly. But when I go to put it on paper/document, it just... dies. No words come. It's insanely annoying. Hopefully I can break that before November. I'm already going to get a bad start because of Youmacon (the last day is November 1st, and after that I'm going to be completely wiped and have no will to write anything), so I really really hope that gets broken soon.

I decided to go ahead and do the sequel to Duplicity as my NaNo novel. Except it's slowly becoming too AU to be the true sequel. XDD; PLUS, Duplicity isn't actually DONE, I even went so far as to restart it because it sucked. ^^; So I'm technically writing the sequel to a story that hasn't been written yet. SO SMART Y/Y? Especially since I'm an extremely linear writer, I just can't jump around in my story. It just ends up weird and doesn't feel right. That's PROBABLY why Precious Wingbeats (working title of the sequel) is becoming so intensely AU. ^^;;;; Oh well. I've been using an outlining technique called the Snowflake Method, and so far it has been doing me some good. I've actually got things down; I guess restricting myself to your normal outline format was what was blocking me from creating previous outlines. I'm on stage 3 with Precious Wingbeats, and plan on trying it all the way through. I'm just too lazy right now to plot out all the characters, since I know them all pretty well at this point...

CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE END OF THIS MONTH OMG. <333

I've been so intensely sleepy a lot recently. It's weird. I get enough sleep: anywhere between 7 1/2 and 10 hours. That's what I've been getting for most of my life now. But it just feels like I need a nap all the time, except during some points of the day. I have the hardest time EVER getting up. I feel like I need naps during the day (which I have never done in my life except on occasion). I don't know why... my lifestyle hasn't changed at all. Maybe it's a mental thing? But what would make me want to sleep all the time? Idk. :/ Oh well.

...I must be sitting weird, because my wrists are starting to hurt from the typing. D8 I guess I'm done for tonight.

Goodnight, digital abyss.