New Years Eve

On the eve of a new year I’ve decided to do some thinking. I’m 20 years old, I know it’s not old. But it’s also not young. It was strange when I turned 20 this year, I realized I was no longer a teenager. There’s something about being a teen that lets you be immature while still growing up. Now I feel I need to think seriously about everything. I graduate in 2 years and I have to be able to stand on my own. I know I’ll be able to but it’s still intimidating. It’s like looking up at a huge mountain and you know that you have to climb it or you’ll be stuck where you are forever. So I’ve started climbing my own mountain this year. Before I’d simply looked up at that mountain, never attempting to climb it, yet I was planning what I’d do till I was 30. I had planned to work with the NYPD in the Forensic Unit, get a studio apartment in the city, and not get married till I was well past 30. And now… now I’ve realized a few things. First off I don’t know if I’ll live to be 30 so why plan so far ahead? This life is short. Tomorrow might be my last day here. Or I’ll live another 50 years. Who knows? One thing I do know is that I want to live a full life, however long it is. I’ve had friends come and go. I’ve attended a funeral for a friend in high school and it’s only now that I realized what I leaned from Tucker. Live life. Just two simple words but there’s so much that goes behind that. I realized that things have changed and my future has changed too so I’ve given up on my old plans. I’ll live where I’m supposed to. Work where I’m supposed to. And marry when and who I’m supposed to. It might be six months or six years. Either way I’ll be happy. Another thing I learned from Tucker was to dream big. So I’m dreaming big and making those dreams happen. I leave for Ireland in 17 days. A new chapter of my life is starting. I have blank pages that need to be filled. But I know this chapter will be short, 4 months short. Because after I finish the semester I will get on a plane and come back to the states but I have no intentions of staying. I’ll be back on a plane for London. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I no longer have a future in New Jersey. Things have changed and my new life starts in London. Another new chapter that will last as long as I want it too. I will only end it when I see fit. Because tomorrow today will be history, this year will be history. History is in the past, it’s only purpose is to get you to your current point, once you get there it serves as nothing but a story. You can’t change it so just accept it. I realize that I used to be so concerned with time, with wanting to grow up faster, with wanting to finish school as fast as I could. Time is no longer important to me because I know that everything will happen at just the right time and I’ll be ready for it at that time. On this new years eve I would like to shed my old skin, shed old fears, and leave behind burden I’ve carried. I want a fresh start. And I want to live. I’ll live life and be happy with everything that comes my way. I’ll thank God everyday for giving me another day to live and breath in the sweet air. I’ll count my blessings and be thankful for my family and friends. I’ll be thankful knowing that there are things coming my way that I can’t even imagine and I’ll be happy when I finally receive them. I’d like everyone to know that at 20 years of age I have finally decided that I don’t care what other people think and that I will live my life how ever I want, I will ignore naysayer’s and skeptics, I will remember those I have lost and live as if I need to live for them too, but I will be me and only me. I might never come back to New Jersey for more then a few weeks, and I’m fine with that. I might never have these opportunities again so that’s why I’m grasping them and holding on tight. I’m going to live like tomorrow will be too late. After all I don’t know when my road will end but I do know that I will have zero regrets.

The Kean I Know

Hi all. Happy Holidays.



So I thought I’d do this post. I’ve sort of been working on it for a while. The last feel weeks of school I’ve been taking my camera to class and I’ve been taking pictures of campus. So in honor of me moving out last Thursday here’s the Kean I know!

Heading toward the gym. nice trash cans right?

Cougars Walk coming out of the quad

These two pictures ore of the first snow of the year and my last snow on campus, I woke up the next morning and it had melted. But it was nice while it lasted!!

That's UC straight ahead and i just thought it looked soooo pretty lit up at night

The lovely view from my room hahahaha

um.... this is behind the library... yeah...

Crossing the street toward the new STEM building. It's such a nice place to have classes. 

I like the wheeely chairs

Walking up the STEM sidewalk/ looking over at main campus

Main Campus by Wilkins Theater

So there's the Kean I'll remember!

Laters,

Insert Title Here

I’ve been working on my paper for my Revolutionary Era Europe class since I got the assignment two weeks ago. All I have written is the intro and conclusion. Now mind you I have an outline to go with it… I just haven’t written it. Why? I have Quotes to back my points up. I have the research. I have more then enough nifty ideas to tie it all together. So what’s holding me back? I can’t come up with a title I find suitable. It’s one of my downfalls I suppose… I can’t write a paper without first giving it an epic title. I can’t write a book without giving it a mindblowinly epic title. Sure I’ll change it but it needs a title for me to invest my time in it. I feel that if something doesn’t have a title and I’m going to be investing my time into it then I’m sort of afraid that I’ll drop it and move onto something else. So now I’m trying to come up with a title for my paper or else i'll be leaving it till tomorrow night and i don't want to do that.

Writing Journal

I’ve started a little exercise for myself. Even though I already do an excessive amount of writing it’s only for a few writing projects. So I’ve lost confidence in my writing of other things. Thus I am starting a writing journal. I vow to write in it everyday. The entry must be at least one page and it can’t be about my book or any of my short stories or fanfic and so on. It’s going to be all new!



So that’s what I started tonight. The first story was inspired by this song.



Laters,

Tales of Writing and Christmas

It hasn’t occurred to me that I do such an excessive amount of writing on a daily basis. I used to think I did so little because I finished my the first book in my series. On any given day I might cut a few hundred words and maybe add a dozen or so. But then I realized just yesterday that I write a whole lot more. I write papers or homework assignments for classes. I work on my fan fictions which I write about 5,000 words per chapter and I write new chapters almost every day. I also work on other writing projects like short stories and my other books. This also includes scenes that just demand to be written. Some of them are long and some aren’t. for instance a death scene that occurs in the second series is 24 pages now and I just can’t leave it alone because I keep tweaking it. *sigh* Alas I’ve come to the conclusion I have an addiction to writing.



And in other news my favorite part of Thanksgiving break isn’t just going into the city to watch the parade but Christmas decorations!! We put up our Christmas tree on Saturday. We use a fake tree now since we have dogs. Pus between my older brother and I we’re not usually all home to go tree hunting like we did when we were younger. So the task of putting together the tree fell to me this year. My mum gives me the base and the stand and told me “It’s going to be a pain to put together. But it only takes me a half hour so you should have no problem.” So I diligently set about putting the base into the stand. It was frustrating because it didn’t line up and wouldn’t stay still. After 45 minutes my mum is like you must be doing something wrong. So she gets out the stand that’s for a real tree and screws the base into it in about 5 minutes and trys to put on the top piece which puts it pretty close to the ceiling and she’s like “Was it this tall last year?” I just left the room because I was so frustrated with the tree. About five minutes later my mum calls me back to thee living room and the branches are laid out by color and she’s holding a piece of the tree. And she informs me that the reason the base wasn’t going into the stand was because she had given me the wrong base. Needless to say I was not a happy camper. I spent 45 minutes putting the wrong base into the stand. It was easy to put the tree together with the right base…. Oh the joys of Christmas!

Laters,

Books

So I saw this on one of my friend’s Facebooks and I totally loved it.






The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions:


Bold those books you've read in their entirety.


Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 The Republic - Plato
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hug


I’ve read 19 out of the 100. The ones that are italics I’ll probably get around to finishing them one day. But it’s funny because most of the ones that re bold are books I had to read for school. So I feel slightly ashamed that I have so few that I’ve read of my own free will. I’ve read hundreds of other books that are recent Fantasy or Sci-Fi ones… so that makes me feel a little better.


Laters,

Have You Ever Been Cut Off By A Bus?

I officially experienced the most terrifying thing in my life. I was cut off by a bus. They didn’t even have enough room to come into my lane and bam they just pulled in and I had to slam on the breaks and almost get rear-ended. Good game right? Then again it was bound to happen. Anyone who drives on Morris Ave in Union knows what a clown operation it came be. I just had to share because it was really scary for me and it reminded me why I hate driving in the yellow area. But I have to now to get to school after the weekends.


Which by the way only 53 days till I depart for Ireland! I move out of Kean on the 16th! That’s so super exciting! I’m done here!


Anyhow I’ve got to go eat before class. We’re doing more cat dissection in anatomy today! Yay!


Laters,

Entangled Fates

I’m so fickle sometimes. So The Snowy Waste has had it’s title for seven years now. And this morning as I was doing my life coaching assignment for the week (which is to set goals) I realized as I was typing The Snowy Waste completion as one of my short term goals that the title no longer fits. Basically I’ve changed the plot so much that the title no longer fits with the whole story. I brainstormed two new titles. 1- Threads of Time and 2-Entangled Fates. Then I went to google books and googled to see if there were any books by the same or similar titles. This threw Threads of Time out the door. So The Snowy Waste is now entitled Entangled Fates. Cool right? And it’s not even one o’clock and I’m making such big changes!!



Laters,

P.S. Pat Rothfuss now has NOTW shirts! yay!

FanFiction Dorkyness

Those of you who have been following my blog for a while know I’m one of those total dorks that writes FanFiction. I don’t care what people say about it so go ahead and bash it be my guest. I totally enjoy it. It’s a way to let of steam when I’m totally stuck on a part and REALLY REALLY want to write but don’t know what to write. So I write fan fiction. I’ve been doing for about a year now and it’s still lots of fun. I also do it because I love to see what people think about my writing. I’ve gotten very few negative reviews. I also like it cause I reply to my reviews and I’ve gotten pretty close with some of the people the review and none of them are in the states! It’s funny cause since I write fanfic for a manga series we always gush about the recent chapters and what not. It’s never any person detail but I still feel like we’re good friends. I also like it because when I started the reviews were few and far between then I started posting more new chapters and what now and now my stories of 4 or 5 chapters have almost a 100 reviews compared to other stories that have 10 chapters and are just making 100 reviews. I’d like to believe I’m a popular writer plus I update just about every week and people love updates! Just to give you a full scope my first series ended at 25 chapter 101,000 words (that’s a good sized book btw) and people were so mad that I ended it. But it was totally killer ending and I didn’t want to drag it out and make it a shitty story. And it has 364 reviews. Yup it makes me so happy to look on my chart and see the views of my story over 1.10K. Even if people don’t review I enjoy knowing people read my stuff and enjoy it! So I’m off to do edits now and maybe some fanfic. Check it out, just the last few days of people viewing my stories... makes me so happy...

Laters,

WorldBuilder and Apolo Ohno

Okay so this is just going to be a quickie because I feel the over powering need to get some serious writing done! Two things really… First off I love how Patrick Rothfuss has the means to make my day with a bog post. But seriously go check out his blog, T-Shirt designs are up to be voted on! I’m so excited! I’m tots def going to buy one when they come out!!!!! And since Pat is so freaking AMAZING WordlBuilder 2010 has started. Incase you’ve never heard of it head over to Pat’s blog… check it out. A quick blurb about it from me is Every year Pat gets a bunch of totally cool signed books and what not from famous authors. And for every $10 you donate you get entered into the lottery for these things. And Pat (along with other sponsors) will match the donations. And allt he donations go to the Heifer Project. Pat explains it a heck of a lot better on his site. So check it out and donate, cause I am!




And secondly I’m totally addicted to Apolo Ohno’s book. Go buy it! Incase you ive under a rock and haven’t heard of it. It’s call Zero Regrets; Be Greater Than Yesterday. And basically it’s epic and inspiring and the things that he says…… I could just rant on and on but I’ll spare you and just post a few of his quotes and you’ll get the picture all on your own.


“Zero regrets. It’s philosophy not just about sport but about life. School, business, academics, love - anything and everything. It’s complicated and yet not. You have to figure out who it is you want to be. Not what you want to be - who. There has to be a vision, a dream, a plan, then you chase it with everything you’ve got.”


“We need to work hard and dream big dreams and chase those dreams with abandon, with zero regrets.”


“Every one of us has choices, and the way we frame them and make them sets us on our paths”


Laters,

Potty Phone

Remember how I said my dorm hated me… it’s official now. I dropped my phone in the toilet… don’t ask me how it just fell. Cause I bring my phone in with me to listen to music in the shower so I don’t take a half hour shower. So I was completely without a phone yesterday. But I got a new one today! Originally I was going to have to wait till thanksgiving break to get my phone for next semester but do to my idiocy of dropping my phone I got it today. It’s a BlackBerry Bold. It’s cool and it’ll be going abroad with me next semester! Yay!



Laters,

Pictures and music funness

Get ready for a fun blog of pictures and music!



First, a lovely picture of my current outline for the Quest Quartet…. Although it might not be a quartet much longer.

Spiffy right. I felt the need to tell my roommate what it was so she wouldn’t think I was crazy. And it is quite small since I have no intention of moving my posters that continue to fall off my wall… most of them are staying so I decided not to move them. But any way this is a lot nicer cause I can sit at my desk and work at it.

Now today I logged into my AIFS account to see if all of my application was received and low and behold…

The most rewarding sight I’ve seen in a while. Everything was received and a few hours after I checked I got an email saying I was accepted by AIFS to study abroad all I need to do now is wait while the University of Limerick decides on if they want me or not. But I’m pretty confident that I’ll get in.
Now I’ve had a bunch and a bunch of stuff happening lately. You know the whole scramble to apply to study abroad. Then a few mind-terms and now *drum roll* I’m applying to transfer to London Metropolitan University. Cool right? They have a forensics program and I can get a “joint-degree” aka a double major. Which I’ve just registered for at Kean, funny cause I’m leaving soon. And I have a job now. I’ll be babysitting about 15 minutes off campus for the same kids I do aver the summer. So this meant I needed a car so my brother brought home the car and I drove to school today. It was super weird driving myself cause normally my mum takes me back (I did have her write me directions). I knew what the route looked like I just didn’t know all of the exit names/numbers. But I got back and got pretty much the closet spot someone parking overnight can get. It’s right on the barrier that you’re supposed to park behind. So I was excited. When I got to my dorm I ended up reading a post by The Oatmeal (if you don’t know the site visit it NOW!). And this comic I totally get cause I wish it were true.

^Not mine! Just copied and pasted fromt The Oatmeal^
And now just for a few songs I’ve been addicted to lately. Enjoy!



And one last thing.... my new mug!!
Laters,

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind

“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind” ~Dr. Wayne Dyer



Now… incase you all haven’t gotten it I’m pretty much the most positive person I know. I take a lot of shit and still come out on top. Why? Because Karma aka what goes around comes around. If people are shitty to me that’s there issue and they’ll have to deal with the consequences when they come. So that’s why I care very little about other’s opinions. Be my guest and bad mouth me, I really don’t care. Also I’ve gotten my fair share of rejections (with my novel and college) but that’s all good, sure I cried a wee bit but I keep positive because if you’re positive and send out positive vibes then you’ll attract positive things. Besides smiling and being positive is a heck of a lot more fun then frowning al day. Finally all of my positiveness in negative spots and my build up of karma points is getting me places. No surprise by the way.


I’m going abroad next semester. That makes me super excited. I’ve been preparing my application (for the 3rd time) for NYU. Now all of that has been going smoothly. BUT!!!!! I’ve decided to give up on my dream of going to NYU…. Actually let me change that a bit cause I’m not given up entirely on NYU…. Um let’s see…. I’ve changed my dream (yes I like the way change sounds there). I’ve decided NYU shall be where I get my PhD in History. Yay for me! And for my final two years of college I’m applying to London Metropolitan University. Pretty cool right. They even have a Forensic Science major!! Whoop! And I’ll be in England, somewhere I’ve always wanted to live. So I’m applying there… sorry NYU…. And I’ll be able to get an internship with the London Metropolitan Police. SO my new plan is to live over there finish college there and work for a year or two in the London forensic department of the PD then transfer to the NYPD move back to the states and start my PhD! Whoop! And I’m so super hyper and excited about this!


Now that I’ve talked your ear off I’m done! Hahaha. Have a fantastic day!


Laters,

My Dorm Hates Me

My dorm really honestly hates me…. Now don’t get me wrong I love living on campus and my dorm this year pretty much kicks ass. It’s apartment style so I’ve got a living room, a full size fridge and a sink area and a bathroom (which my roommate and suitemates can sing and make noise in and won’t wake me up). So I’ve got it made dorm wise. Oh and did I mention my residence hall is supposedly haunted… cool right. That’s all cool and dandy, but it doesn’t keep my dorm from hating me. I’ll start with the long running problem of my posters…. They don’t stay up on the wall. Last year I had no problem I stuck on poster hangers and BAM they stuck up alllllll year. This year move in day I stick them up with poster sticky tabs (same ones I used last year) and no joke 10 minutes later they fall down. After me sticking them back up a dozen or so times I decide maybe I should tape them. So out comes scotch tape I stick them up and am happy to report that they stayed up for a whole day (at east) then they started falling again. Some of them stayed up and are still up but the problem child…

Yes that’s him the cute dino one (note the duct tape on the left hand corner). He never fails to fall down. Once a day I have to stick him back up. Even with duct tape he falls down, over, and over, and over, and over… well you get the picture I’m sure. On the upside he’s above my desk so when he falls he just flops on top of my books and stuff. It still irritates me.


And now the best part of all the fun…. The bathroom ceiling now drips on you!!! Yay! And it’s a pretty tiny cause it’s just the toilet and tub. So pretty much anywhere you stand you get dripped on. I’m praying that it’s not like toilet water or something gross.


Other then that my dorm rocks.


Laters,

Today's my day!

Have you ever had one of hose days where everything goes your way? Well that was my today! It was the dead line for my study abroad application. I walked into the advisors office and she was like okay what do you have for me. Because up until then I had only submitted the first part of my application and had my teachers write recommendations for me. So I take out my folder and stat putting everything in the right order and she’s asking me questions you like if I have this or that filled out right. And I’m like of course. Then she starts asking me about if I sent in stuff for my AIFS which is the company I’m going with and I explained how I had everything but my transcript. And she said she could fax over the one that she had of mine and I told her it was okay cause I sent un unofficial transcript and let my advisor there know and she was totally impressed. I was happy that I had done everything right! Then she asked for my GPA and I was like 3.5 and she was taken aback and she said good job to me…. I guess my GPA is a big deal. I know I can do better… but a lot of people I know on campus don’t have anything near mine… but alas I’m one of those nerds that LOVES school.



That was another thing. She wanted to know how many credits I was taking and I said 15. She’s like we recommend you take 12 but 15 is okay. I just don’t want to hear that you have to study the whole time. I assured her that I was one of those kids that loves school and studying and my 4 classes won’t be a big deal. Which of course I’m totally excited about! I mean come on four months in Europe!!! Whoot!! I’m starting to make lists of what I want to do and where I want to go! I’m beyond excited!!! I’m be leaving in three months and 2 days!!! I seriously can’t wait!!


Okay and here are some totally awesome pictures of the University of Limerick where I’ll be going!!

 Campus!!!

 In case you couldn't tell i'm totally psyched about next semester!!

The "Living Bridge" it connects the campus housing to the main campus

The Atrium of the University of Limerick Foundation Building

Student residences, University of Limerick (I'll be living in one!!!)

The Library! can't wait to see it in person!!

Laters,

Wee Wee Wee

Okay so here’s pretty much my most favorite commercial EVER!!!!







It’s mainly cause I have a major obsession with collecting pigs.


Laters,

Another Game of Catch Up

It seems I’ve forgotten how to blog… oops. I’ve been majorly busy though… so you know what that means, it means a loooong post and fun updates.



1) Basically since the last week of summer I’ve been getting ready for school then it was the first few weeks of school crammed together. So I’ve been getting into the swing of things, doing homework and what not. But it’s all good. My classes are super fun. I’m taking Chem 1, Anatomy and Physiology, Revolutionary Era Europe, World War one and U.S. History till 1877. They’re all really cool, I totally like my Europe class cause we’re focusing on the French Revolution now. Sooo cool! And I have a very good roommate this year. She’s super nice and polite and isn’t loud when she comes in at night. So my life is pretty much made. And my suitemates are nice too!


2) These last two and a half weeks I’ve been running around like a chicken with it’s head chopped off. Why you ask? Because I’m trying to go abroad next semester. So I’ve been rushing to get my application in. it’s all due Friday… eeek! But I’m pretty much done with it all. So it’s all good. Plus it’s Ireland. I mean come on Ireland. How super cool right. I’ll be at the University of Limerick! Whoot. I’ll be there for four full months from January 17 till May 17. Granted I have class way less then that. Classes will start January 24th and end may 14th. So I’m super psyched about that. I’ll keep you updated.


3) My birthday! I turned 20 yesterday! And it’s totally strange to think about it. Because I’m no longer a teenager now. And the next time that my age will start with a 1 is if I get to 100. Crazy right? It boggles my mind. It also gets me thinking that I’ll be starting a “real” life in a short year and a half! Yikes! But it’s also exciting you know the whole opening a new chapter to your life. So I’m totally down with it.


4) Edits. Edits. Edits. And then I finished edits and realized the rest of my series was shitty and that I had made so many changes to the first book that I needed to fix up and re outline the first series. Because no offence Quest Quartet but the second series is way better. Remember when I blogged about it last year. My epic outline on my wall. So that’s why the second series is put together so nicely. But it’s a good challenge. And so far it’s going nicely.


5) comparing schools. I’m still deciding on weather to put my effort in for another go at applying to NYU… I think I will because it will be a heck of a lot easier to graduate with my double major and now minor (in Irish Studies). While if I stay at Kean I’ll be lucky to graduate on time and no minor for me… so I’m trying to go for NYU. They’d better take me this time or I’m going to be so very angry! But it’ll all turn out just the way it’s supposed to so I’m actually chill with whatever. I’ll be living in the city next year anyway. I’m getting a flat with friends.


And I think that’s all I’ll bore you with for now!


Laters,

P.S. this is my 100th post! Whoot!!

Summner 2

So my second blog post for the summer is probably going to be quite long…. I’ll try not to bore you too much. I’ll start with fun stuff.



Every summer for the last 16 summers I’ve been painting sea shells and selling them for 25₵. My little stand sits out at the end of the walkway at my beach house with a little honesty cup. You’re probably thinking I don’t make that much money each summer…. But I do. The most I’ve made in one summer was a little shy of $150. Although it usually averages around $90 or $100. Ya that’s a lot of shells… like 400 a lot of shells. I enjoy painting them though. And now onto the punch of the story. All these 16 years I’ve painted shells and people come back every year. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting a few families. They’re always surprised to find out that I’m so old. Haha. But they always tell me how much they look forward to buying shells each year and what not. And not once have I had a shell painted for me, until this year. I was at the beach early to skimboard so I missed my shell getting dropped off. But when I came back my mum handed me a shell and said a little girl dropped this off for you. Mind the little girl was 8 or 9.I was totally touched! And I totally love the shell. Check it out.

Editing and writing of any form have been slow going this summer… I keep getting distracted or I’m too addicted to the beach. This is why I’m looking forward to school… anyhow most of my time lately has gone to reading my friend Ryan’s book. He bugs me allllll the time to read his book faster and I always tell him that I’m working on my book, which is a lie, but it angers him and it’s funny to get him mad. I’ve also been babysitting. Which is super good because now I have book money for the school year! It makes me so excited.


I’ve also been making friendship bracelets, you know the ones that you make out of the floss. It’s something the kids I babysit for were making and I was a bit jealous that they had such mad skills and they’re half my age. So I went home looked up online how to do it and I taught myself. I was so proud of me! And now I have cooler bracelets then they do because I can follow all they complicated patterns that they don’t have the patience to do. Hehehe. I know it’s bad but I feel so much cooler that I can make cooler bracelets then an eight-year-old.


Okay so tonight my writer’s group is putting on an open mic night at the library and I was trying to come up with something to read. I’ve been looking through all my creative writing poems and what not but nothing fit or I didn’t deem it good enough (mainly because there are people in the group that have mad poem skills and I didn’t want to be shamed). Finally like two hours ago I came up with a stunning idea…. I’m going to read from my novel! I’m just going to read the first part of my novel! I’m brilliant right.


Oh yes and my new compy!!! I FINALLY got it last week. It works wonderfully and I love him. I named him Beyard. I’ve already started covering him in stickers. He’ll be all super good looking for school in no time.


And that’s it for now!


Laters,

Summer Update

Apparently I have a lot to catch you all up on. it’s been nearly a month. Props to me and my summer lazyness on updating my blog. So it’ll be jumpy… but fun.



Honestly I’ve been productive otherwise. For instance I’m now 70 something pages into my edits on part one. I’ve deleted lots and lots but not to worry I’ve changed some plot lines which means I’ve got lots of addin in to do. But it’s slow work. Like I feel really, really inspired but I sit down to edit and I feel blocked. It’s this one part that I just feel like taking out all together but it’s half of the first part and I basically need it later on otherwise Myles can’t join the quest. So I have to deal with it and wade through the stuff I don’t feel like editing. It’ll get better…


I finished my friend’s book I was running edits on. it was short so now I feel bad that he has to read all of mine… I’ll probably tell him that he can stop after the first part if he wants. Anyhow, it was a good read and I liked the plot line. But it was short and fast, I’m usually a fan of the longer fantasy books. but that’s just me.


I’ve been going to my writers group every Tuesday since I got here! It’s so awesome to go. Like for serious I love it. I love what people have to say about my work. Because I’m the youngest person there, everyone else are like my parents age. And basically they don’t read fantasy so it’s always interesting to have them read my stuff. It’s usually grammar they pick out. And I always need grammar help.


I picked out my classes for the fall! Whoot! I’m taking Chemistry I, Human Anatomy and Biology, Photography I, U.S. History Till 1877, and The Tudor, Stewart Age. Pretty awesome right? I wanted to take a Japanese history course… but alas I figured Anatomy would look better on my transfer application. I’m still waiting to hear back from res life to see where I’m living. I’m crossing my finger that my roommate isn’t a douche like last year. I’m also hoping that I’ll be in the New Upperclassman dorms.


I haven’t gotten my new compy yet cause I’m waiting for my check from the insurance money. So I’m still fighting with my old one which is angering me quite thoroughly. Why you ask? Because I have two options to type with. 1: Type with a frozen screen and smack it ever couple of lines to look at the newly typed stuff. Or 2: hold the screen so it works with one hand and type with the other. Neither are very fun. But I’m dealing with it till I get my check. But there are some very nice days that it agrees with me and I don’t need to hold it for it to work and not freeze. Like right now it’s being nice… which means I should probably be editing instead of blogging but I’ve neglected this long enough…


The beach has been ever so good to me. I’ve already read three books. I’ll be doing a book review on them soon enough. I finally have time to catch up and read Laini Taylor’s books that came out during the school year. So that’s super good.


I’ve officially become a super nerd. My brothers and I have recently become quite the addicts to Magic the Gathering. I’ve got a red-white deck and it’s super fun to play.


I’ll stop there for today least I make your eyes bleed with my boring rant! Enjoy your summer!



Laters,

Pictures

Okie dokie! I know this is quite overdue…. But here are a few pics from my signing. I lost my camera cord so that’s why this has taken soooo long. Any who enjoy! Oh and I still had my super duper awesome hair (I’m not enjoying my natural color right now. haha)

My lovely table... with my books!

Me doing a reading (check out my swesome boots!)

Me.... being... dorky.... haha

Laters,

Rejected.... But it's all good

Alas I have been rejected (again) from NYU. But no worries what so ever. I’m applying for the Spring. Third time’s a charm right? Lol. But anyway I’m picking out my courses for the fall right now. And I’m excited. I was able to find a list of the courses I needed to get my degree in Biology and History on the NYU site so I typed up a guide sheet and that’s how I’m picking out my courses for the fall. It’s totally wack cause the Bio courses I have to take have lots of prerequisites so I’ve got to take chem in the fall. But what I really like about NYU is the only classes I have to take are Bio and History classes. It’s not like at Kean where I had a list of GenEd classes that I was basically forced to sign up for first semester. Yup that’s right I wasted my first semester of college taking classes that don’t count toward my major when I transfer. But it’s all good…. I also decided I’m going to minor in Japanese! Way cool right? So I’m totally psyched for that. So now I’m off to the common app site to start a new application! Yaaay!

Laters,