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Kitsune no Tora

Drinking: Monster energy drink
Listening to: Spongebob Squarepants playing in the background
Should be doing: Finding a new job, actually taking my medicine, fanfic writing
Should have already done: FAFSA


Kitsune no Tora is feeling: As of Monday: Frustrated, overwelmed, tired
Today: Relieved, freed

The past week and the beginning of this one was just TERRIBLE and STRESSFUL.

I absolutely despise the paper assigned to us by my Humanities paper. It's so out of my element. :/ We had to take some piece of art/architecture from the metropolitan Detroit area and write a research paper.

I wasn't completely clear on what we were supposed to DO, and that's just so broad of a subject that I was just at a loss for what to do. I ended up putting it off, and, the day it was due, I had nothing.

Since the paper was a third of our grade, I had to come up with SOMETHING, no matter how terrible, because otherwise I would fail the class. Which would be a very very bad idea. D: I ended up deciding on Thursday night (it was due that afternoon) to do my school, since the architecture is pretty cool and I figured the information would be simple to get, I did have the library of the same college to root through.

Boy was I wrong. It was IMPOSSIBLE to find anything on the buildings themselves. I couldn't even find the damn architects. DX The only name that came up was Perkins and Will, but when I searched it nothing for the school came up. :/ And there were absolutely no records available to me on campus.

I ended up scrambling and bullshitting my way through the entire paper, and STILL ended up a page short. :/ There wasn't much I could do, though, so hopefully I'll get at least a C on it. Any lower than that and I get a C for the class, which isn't good at all. D:

Trigonometry has also been kicking my ass. I really hope I did decently on my final today, although I'm not confident at all. The entire second section was just one big train wreck. DX Edit: I just got my grade from my teacher. I completely BOMBED it, like I thought I did. I got an F, leaving me with a C in the class. DDDX Damn it, that just totally toasted my grade point average. DX

But, there is ONE good thing about today: I AM FREEEEEEEEE~ <3 Until September, anyway.
I only get like, a half of summer. ;_; I'm never taking summer classes again. D: It was just baaaaaaaad.

Just for the hell of it, I did that rate my life thing.

Quite honestly I'm not very surprised.

On another note, I finally get to spend time working on the collab. :3 Raven has already started, and it has been my turn for a while now, but I've just been so busy and stressed that I couldn't get myself to work on it.

But Raven seriously needs some help, though. He really rushed it the first time he wrote his section, it sounded more like a summary than anything else. So I told him to flesh it out, and he explained that he was trying to cut down on unnecessary babble and just get on with the story. I told him that there was a fine line between too much information and not enough, and that he crosssed the line a little bit, and he agreed to work on it.

The problem is, now he's adding unnecessary details. He definitely needed more detail, but not the kind he's adding. :/ It's just BORING. I told him to include what his character sees and experiences, but he's not good at that, apparently.

The only reason I'm really bugging him about it is that I know that there are some of us who use a lot of detail when writing (myself included). We have to be able to shape this into a cohesive style, something we missed out on last time, which caused it to suffer.

Taylor and I have our work cut out for us as betas. ^^;;; We have a lot of new people who are pretty young, and we have no idea on their writing skill. I expect to be rearranging sentences so that it flows better a lot; I've already run into that with Raven. Taylor and I have decided that she would go through it first, fixing minor things like spelling and grammar, and anything awkward that she decides is bad enough to merit changing. Since I have more guts to tear things apart, I'll go through it and fix the flow and try and mesh the style into something more singular.

It will still be their writing, I'm not going to completely tear it apart or anything, I'm just going to FIX it, like I would as anyone else's beta.

So yeah. :3

I came up with a oneshot idea a couple of days back. But I had a little tiny plot hole, so I had been brainstorming ways to fix it. Fortunately, Sunday night as I was going to sleep I figured it out completely. Satisfied, I went to sleep.

I really wish I had thought to WRITE IT DOWN, because I had completely forgotten what I had planned by Monday afternoon, when I finally had time to work on it. :/

That night I sat down and tried to rack my brain for the information, but it didn't come. I managed to piece together another way to fix it, although not as good as the first time, but then the unthinkable happened.

My MS Word subscription ran out. None of my documents in docx format work. I can open them, but they're read only. I can't even copy and paste. WHAT. THE. FUCK. AT LEAST LET ME COPY AND PASTE IT INTO WORDPAD, IT'S MY FREAKING WORK!!

Of course, I still had to finish my Humanities paper that night, so after a few moments of freaking out I decided to try saving it on my flashdrive and work on it on the desktop. Thankfully that worked, so I finished my paper. I didn't want to deal with my oneshot after that, so it has sat locked on my laptop since then.

What a piece of shit. Now I have to download my sister's MS Office so that I can do anything beyond read my documents.

I could technically just retype everything, but there's NO WAY I'm doing that, that would take too long. Of course, by now I have forgotten my new way of fixing my plot hole, so I have to sit and think about it again. I haven't been able to concentrate on it as of late, though. Most of the thunder of the idea is gone. :/

But it's SUMMER, so I should have plenty of time to get back into the idea again. XD

Still on the topic of fanfiction, The Village Square's monthly contest is still plugging along. I haven't entered since January, with my fanfic All I Deserve (the theme was Opposites). But this month (er, last month), I manged to get inspired by the theme Secrets, and wrote a funny little oneshot called Dirty Little Pleasure.

The title is a little misleading, since it's only T in rating because of very mild language, but whatever. XD It fits, I think. Surprisingly, it's a crossdressing fic. I just got so amused by the idea of Jake from Rune Factory 2 (the most angry character in the game) dressed up as a french maid that I couldn't help myself. XDDD I BLAME KINGDOM HEARTS FANFICTION XPPP

Voting started last night at midnight, and I put in my votes a couple hours ago at my grandma's. It was sooooo hard to pick. I managed to narrow it down to 7, but after that it got real painful. DX

I really don't think I'll win, because the contest focuses on Harvest Moon more than Rune Factory, and my fic is something only a select few will like and probably vote for. I think that's the reason why the last time I entered I only got 1 vote - then again, I was probably lucky that I got one, because there were so many entries that some people didn't get any votes at all. There's more votes allowed this time, but I have a feeling that quite a few are going to end up unloved. ^^;

Plus, I think my entry the last time was a lot better than this one. And there's so many other amazing entries, I really don't think I'll win. I will be pleasantly surprised if I even get a vote. XD

This weekend is the 4th of July~ I'm excited. Normally we go to my uncle's house on the lake and watch the fireworks over the water, but I think this time I'm going out with some friends Saturday to watch some somewhere in downtown Detroit. Should be fun; I don't head that way very often, and it has been a long time since I've seen some people.

I really want to hang out with Andrea, though, that's pretty much the only reason I'm going - she said I should. XD;

BUT I'M SUPER EXCITED ANYWAY. 8D

This is getting super duper long, so that'll be it for this update.

Goodnight, digital abyss.

Kitsune no Tora

Playing: Jak and Daxter, Guitar Hero
Wants: School to be over, sleep
Body: OVERHEATING ARGH WHY IS IT SO HOT
Writing: My RF2 yaoi longfic and a little oneshot that popped into my head.... if only I could get motivated and inspired enough to work on them seriously.
Should be doing: Researching my paper and studing for my test

Kitsune no Tora is feeling: overwhelmed, tired

Uwoooooh. Yeah. Didn't I say a few blogs back that I wouldn't leave this alone for so long again?

And it has been what, a month since I last touched this? ^^;;;

BAD LISA D8

So... updates, updates.... I had a blank blog just sitting here saved from back in mid-May, so I would assume that that blog was to talk about our new pets. My mom was really missing Jasper after he got squashed, so she had been looking around for shelters to get a new cat or a dog. After that was unsuccessful (the only shelter we could find was a good hour away by car) she turned to the paper. Somewhere around the 17th she found an ad for standard poodle puppies.

We ended up getting a black one, he was about 4 months at the time. His name is Barney, short for Bernard. I went with her to go get him. They were being bred by this little old lady, so they were largely unsocialized and very. VERY. stinky. AND NOT HOUSETRAINED. HE IS STILL NOT HOUSETRAINED. HE CANNOT COMPREHEND THAT THE HOUSE IS NOT A TOILET.

And poodles are supposed to be smart...

Anyway, when he got him, of course the news went straight to the forum. Taylor was uber excited, rofl. XD I asked them for name ideas, because none that we came up with we liked. Taylor insisted on Morgan Freeman (ROFLLL), and thus that became his forum name. I told my mom and sister and they looked at me strange and shot it down immediately. XD In the end it was my mom's decision to name him Barney. I hate it, but he is HER dog. I don't like him much anyway. He's stinky and slobbery and messy. And pees on the carpet. Ick. Amusingly, he's afraid of Pat, my mom's drunkard boyfriend. I guess maybe he had some bad experiences with grown men as a puppy? He's slightly scared of Joey, my brother, but not as much as Pat. And he's around  him more than he is any of us, sans Mom... W/e.

The next day after we got Barney, my mom saw another ad, this time for Ragdoll kittens. She has wanted one of THOSE for like, forever, ever since Jasper died. So of course she jumped on the ad. He was $400. FOUR. HUNDRED. DOLLARS. For a fuzzy little animal weighing a little over a pound. How fucking ridiculous is that? But my mom insisted on it, and my brother and sister really wanted him too. The three of us (my sister, brother and I) split most of it, and my mom paid for the rest and the cat littler/food. I didn't want to spend that much on an animal when we could get a perfectly good cat at some shelter for a quarter of that amount, but they eventually guilted me into it. Taylor helped their points too. :/ She freaked over the cat, rofl. XDD She kept telling me to get it, and I eventually just gave in and forked over my money. ;__;

I wanted to go when they went to get the cat, but my mom flat our refused to let me go and took my sister with her. That was sooooo annoying. I was the one that didn't want to get it, at least let me know that my money will be spent getting one that I want! I asked for one with a black nose and blue eyes, if they had one. BECAUSE THOSE ARE SO ADORABLE EEEE 8DD

Apparently all the ones with that coloring were scratchy and clingy. So the one they got is only one color, and one akin to what natural sugar looks like: Almost cream colored, but slightly brown. Kinda like khaki, but lighter. He's cute and all.

Of course, I mentioned this to the forum. Mima got all excited, and when I asked them all for name ideas, she came up with Fubacu. ROFL. Apparently it's short for "fuzzy ball of cute," and he is henceforth known as Fubacu on the forum.

Again, that was shot down immediately, no surprise there. My sister went on this cat names website to look for names, and discovered "Edward Scissorpaws." HOW FUCKING EPIC IS THAT. XDDD I demanded that be his name, but everyone refused. ;_; We were so bad at coming up with names that my mom just ended up calling him "Squirt," and it stuck. I don't mind it, and it does fit him, but I don't like it much.

He's cute and cuddly and soft, but he's such a BITCH when he's hyper. He attacks everything that moves, tries to demolish my skin (he likes to bite and scratch your hands when he's hyper) and my laptop cords, and gets into everything. DX I like him better than the dog, though, at least he has some good points. XDD

.....ROFLLLLLLL. I just looked up at the tags bar. One of the suggested tags are "fucking gay mom." HOW FUCKING HILARIOUS IS THAT? XDDDDD *is dying with laughter* And where did I mention anything being gay?

Umm... what else did I have to say....

School is a bitch... I have a big trig test I'm NOT READY FOR AT ALL tomorrow morning, and a paper due Thursday for Humanities that I have no idea at all how to even begin researching, which I was supposed to have started about a month ago. And it's 1/3 of my grade. Yeah.............. not good.

At least school will be out in two weeks. Stupid summer classes. Never doing that again. You have to cover and learn the same amount of material as a 15 week class in 7.5 weeks. NEVER AGAIN. TOO MUCH PRESSURE AND WORK FOR  THE SUMMER.

I need a new job though. Since I won't have any classes for the Summer II term, I lose my work-study job then. So I have two weeks to come up with a new job. There's the Burger King a few miles away, but I dunno if I want to work there... but I guess it's better than nothing. A lot of my friends have been having trouble getting jobs. Some didn't get any at all. I'm really worried. My car is out of gas and I'm losing my paycheck. DX

...Oh yeah, I got my car since the last time I posted. It was my uncle's, but he got a new one and said I could have his old one.

I spent the entire day after I got it cleaning it. It STANK SO BAD. UGH. Like old fast food and cigarettes. Now it smells like Febreze and Lysol, rofl. XD It's an old rusted out blue '97 Chevrolet Venture. IT COSTS SO MUCH FOR GAS, THE STUPID THING. I don't need a freaking minivan, I'm the only one in it 99% of the time. I just filled it up halfway about two weeks ago, and I only drive about a mile and a half to school and back maybe 6 times a week. AND IT'S ALMOST EMPTY AGAIN. Stupid thing. :P Gas is too expensive and I don't have a good enough paycheck for it.

But it's a car, and it runs (albeit probably not for very long, it has over 250,000 miles on it), so that's good enough for me, I guess. It still needs a name, though. I wonder what I should name it...

Uwoh, it's like almost 1:00 am. DX I need to study some and go to bed, I have class at 9:30. Further updates soon, hopefully? I know I had more to say, but I really don't remember what it was at the moment. XD;;

Goodnight, digital abyss.