Endings

I realized today as I was walking out of my writing class that this semester was what college really is. Don’t get me wrong my first semester was fine and I loved it… but this semester really has me addicted to college. I took classes I wanted, not the ones I was told I needed to take (seriously worst orientation/ schedule making first semester. I was handed a list and told to take the classes there. Dumb.). I enjoyed every single class I took. I didn’t have to wake up early. I made friends. I was tight with my RA. And I’m sad it’s all ending. Six days till I’m done here. I won’t have to commute back for any classes (all my finals got moved to early next week) and I’m done. It’s sort of sad in a way cause I’m not coming back in the fall I’ll be at NYU. So for me it’s really strange. My suitemate is all excited for the summer break and how nice it’s going to be to be off campus for a few months and I’m like I’m never coming back. It’s like high school graduation… but different. like wacky different cause I’m changing schools and it’s not the high school to college school change it’s from one college to another… so I’m a bit wacked out about that…. Even though I’m still waiting for my NYU acceptance letter…. I still feel like I’m done here and not coming back.

And today was my last day of my writing class. And to be honest it was sad (I’m a dork I know). It’s strange because this whole semester I’d known that Writing 2020 was my favorite class and it wasn’t because of what we were learning or the essays we wrote, I mean ya those were fun, but what made the class was my teacher. She was such a huge influence! Like we would talk about things in class and I was like wow… that makes a lot of sense and she assigned us only two essays the whole semester but damn if those things didn’t challenge me and teach me something. And I realized while I was walking back from class (which btw it’s a beautiful day) I was thinking there have been very few teacher that I’ve had that actually TEACH me something. Ya I learn things but usually I forget it after a while. My writing teacher actually taught me things and it’s funny cause I’ve only ever had one other teacher who taught me something and that was my Creative Writing teacher senior year. Hmmm…. I see a trend… both teachers taught me writing… haha. But really that’s all my life is honestly and when someone can open my eyes to my writing and help me improve it’s the best thing in the world and that’s really what I got out of my writing course. By writing both the Literacy Narrative and the Process Narrative I sort of found out what my writing was and now I’m working on improving it all and it’s all cause of my writing teacher. I know there are people in my life that I was just destined to meet and my writing teacher was one of them. Sitting here writing this long rant makes me think even more about how the semester is over and my classes are over and when I walk out of my classes next week… I’m done. It feels liberating to have finished my freshman year in such a fantastic way!

So here is one more list… I think I forgot to mention. But Whiteman was my dorm this year. Lol and I was on the third floor… hence my lists… lol.

What I won’t miss about Whiteman 3rd floor
1) People deciding it’s okay to be super loud at 3 a.m.
2) People playing Frisbee in the hall
3) All the nice people who kept breaking the washing machine… yeah thanks
4) People slamming doors late at night
5) All the stupid annoying rude people
6) People being rude at floor meetings
7) The VERY loud dryer

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Catch Up!

Oops… sorry I’ve been bust and I know I promised a list a day… so I’ll make up with posting the lists at the end. I have other stuff to catch you up on first. Mainly last Friday I had my visit at Voorhees. It went reallllly good. I read from A Colorless Myth and then I explained about publishing then I did Q&A. Now let me tell you I talked to a senior creative writing class so most of the kids knew me from when I went to school. And when I first started the Q&A no one raised their hand, it was probably for just a few seconds but it felt like hours for me and I started to panic/ come up with more stuff to talk about. Then a girl raised her hand and after that it went awesomely. It made me so happy. I was so happy cause someone asked me about my Series and so I had a small rant on that and it was fun. The forty minute class period went super fast. Like I was afraid going in that I wouldn’t have enough material to cover the whole time but it was just enough time. And my signing is this Saturday!!!!!!! I’m excited but a bit nervous too…. So I’m crossing my fingers that it goes well. Also I can’t find my camera charger!!!! So I don’ know if I’ll have pictures of it! Eek! So I’m going to search the house when I get home Friday cause it’s not in my dorm. Ugh! I hope I find it.



And I’ll be home this weekend for my signing obviously, but also my family and I are going to the Met Friday night for an opera! It’s a German one called Der Fliegende Holländer. Or in English the Flying Dutchman! I’m way pumped! And oh my gosh I was just trying to find a cool picture of the opera or something and I just noticed this! It’s written by Richard Wanger and I just had my Nazi Era Germany class and we had read one of Wagner’s essays earlier this semester! Oh my goodness this is so cool! It makes me even more excited.


And onto my lists… which means one week till I move out! I totally can’t wait!

What classes I’m glad are over
1) Transition to Kean
2) Algebra (way too easy)
3) Psychology


Things that sucked the most this year
1) How fast it went
2) Writing stupid papers
3) Having to pay an arm and a leg for books

Funest things this year
1) Fire drills when I was still sleeping..... not
2) First week at school running through the sprinklers with my suitemate
3) Uno with the guys next door
4) The snow day snowball fight!!

People I’ll miss minus their names
1) My second semester R.A.
2) My buddies I talked to at the front desk
3) My suitemate
4) The guys next door
5) The nice people who know me in the Caf
6) My writing Teacher
7) My Nazi Era Germany teacher

What I won’t miss about campus
1) The overly small campus
2) The rude people
3) The stupid people
4) My advisor

What I will miss about campus
1) My teachers
2) The few friends I’ve managed to make
3) Starbuck on campus (although I’ll have a bunch off campus next year!!!!!)
4) My desk with the cork board on the back…. And my ability to stick memos there….

What I will miss about whiteman 3rd floor
1) My R.A. cause she’s totally the best
2) My suitemate
3) The guys next door (even though they’re loud)
4) My half of the room

Ta da! Now I’m all caught up on lists! The fun ones are coming up (like what I won’t miss about my roommate)! Hehehe

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List 1

Oh goody! I get to start my lists sooner! Cause in two weeks I will be moving out! And I will be done with kean forever! Whoooot! But before I post my first list I would just like to say how totally awesome my RA is. She knocked on my door yesterday and gave me a tulip! Cause she had done spring spruce up day and they were cutting flowers in one of the gardens. So it totally made my day. doesn’t it look pretty! Lol in my intercourse mug…. Rofl.

So my first list….


What classes I’ll miss


1) Writing
2) Nazi Era Germany Pre Holocaust
3) Biology 1000 (only cause it was super easy!)
4) Sociology

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Teaser

So as part of my writing class final portfolio i wrote a tesaer for The Snowy Waste and i thought i'd post it here!! Enjoy

The thriving country of Exyel slips into civil war after their national treasure The Armlet of Exyel is broken apart. It’s only hope of ever finding peace again lays in the hands of the prophesized Quest Quartet. In the first decades after the outbreak of war people were hopeful that these Questers would arise. But after 30,000 years of bloody battles the Quest Quartet is nothing but a child’s tale. Yet this does not faze three motley friends from taking up the task. Jamie Stean of Vanton, Nealock Jordan of Flar and Billy Bones set out from the small vineyard town of Flar to seek the only thing that will save their dying country. Although each has their own motive Billy’s is the purist because he, Sir Tantin Exyel, will remain in the form of a skeleton until his country once again resides in peace. So he joins up in hopes of bringing Exyel back to the magnificence it knew when he was king. The three leave in hopes that the tale of The Quest Quartet will be like the ones told by bards where they fought valiantly and conquered evil with no effort. What they never expected was for them to get swept up into a power struggle between Darkness and Queen Zayden'Ash of the Dragons. They did not foresee one them leaving to accomplish good for the quest and giving her life for it. Zayden'Ash is the savior of the motley group but also the puppeteer of it. She has the power to make the search for The Armlet an easy task yet she with holds her power in hopes of making The Quest Quartet a story to be told for an eternity. When the Quest Quartet threatens to fall to pieces will someone step up and push them toward finding the second piece? Or will they all fall to Darkness?

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Fun With Pictures!

So I was editing…. Then I got distracted by an idea and so I wrote that down. then I decided to take a new profile pic for facebook. So I did. Then I started editing it… and I’ve been playing around with editing it for oh… about an hour now… so I thought I’d share what I’ve been doing lol it goes from the original to a very edited one.
 

<--The Original

<--Cropped with a filter

<-- Rotated and cropped

<-- Saturation upped and a glow filter

<-- Hue and saturation changed

Ta da! And that my friends is how to waste an hour... now back to edits!
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Random Update

Hey ya,

Happy Saturday! It’s quite a weird day… I mean it’s all windy and looks sort of cloudy… but I’m starting to see blue sky… I think the weather can’t makes its mind up. But whatever. So last night I posted the last chapter to my FanFic! It’s officially 25 chapters long and over 100,000 words. Wow. Yay for me and my loserness. But it’s way cool cause I’m getting all these comments from people about how good it was and how they are going to miss it. It’s like someone’s dying instead of a story ending. Haha. But I put up a poll to see what they wanted me to write next and a lot want a sequel… so we’ll see. But on the upside if I ever wanted to take the story line and make it a novel I’d already be like halfway there. Hahaha. Cause I do rather like the plot line. Lots of twists and almost death. Oh man when I posted making it look like one of the main characters died I got soooo many comments from people saying they were upset. And I just laughed cause I knew he didn’t die. Muahahaha I’m so evil. I do love character deaths though. Hehe. Mainly because no one ever see it coming and if they do then they’re like oh they’ll be coming back from the dead and I’m just like nope. They’re dead and I enjoy it. Yes I’m a bit weird. Oh and I’m starting to count the days down till the end of the semester! So just a heads up when it gets down to two weeks I got this grand idea to makes lists of stuff I would and wouldn’t miss so I’ll start posting those this coming Friday!! Yay. Oh just a random note I went through my facebook friends and just deleted 36 people cause I was like um… I’m friends with you… why? Or it was someone who was a major asshole. Lol I’m happy I don’t have a lot of friends on facebook cause in reality I don’t have many friends. Funny right? Any how enjoy your day!

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P.s. come to my signing!!

MONDAY!!

Happy Monday!! Gosh I just love Mondays! I have writing class first thing which makes me ever so excited! And I’m working on my portfolio for being a fiction author and it’s pretty much the funnest assignment ever. Like right now I’m working on my assignment for next week. It’s a synopsis for The Snowy Waste. Muhahah. It’s so way fun. Plus all this writing about my writing is making me super pumped to edit. Which good news… I’ve decided to just take out a lot of stuff… so I’m down about 20 pages currently (and I’m only like half done with the cuts) but that’s okay cause I’m putting in more Raven sub-plot to make it even more mysterious and fun. That will probably just about cover the lost pages. But also I just came up with a super awesome new idea to add in which might make it longer… not sure yet…. I’m still fixing in where I’m going to add it and how it’ll give a lot away without giving away too much. Also I’m rewriting the prologue… muhahaha. I came up with an idea that will be super cryptic and exciting for the prologues of the Quest Quartet! So I’m reworking The Snowy Waste first. Ahh I feel so productive! Now all I to do is follow through on this productive stream…


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Stuff

Good news and bad news…. Good news = I’m dying my hair for the last time this school year. Bad news = I killed off my green, orange, and purple dye. I’ve had them for like a year so I think I’ve gotten my money’s worth. Lol. I’ll have nice hair for my VHS school visit and my signing in a few weeks. And I’ll get to order new dye this summer (I totally can’t wait). Today we went to a book sale that our county library holds each year I got some really good looking books to read for the summer and some history books as well! It was super cheap (which always makes me excited). I’ve been stuck up on edits lately because I’m angry at myself for including so much travel time and useless scenes… so I’ve got to consolidate and fix and do a bunch of things with that. It probably would be done or at least halfway done if I hadn’t been avoiding it lately. I’ve been working on my Fanfictions… which is fun but well… not productive for my book. Silly me. So I’ve got to man up and finish edits if I’m going to reach my goal for the end of this month. I also have homework to do for my Writing class tomorrow. I’m writing a query letter so it won’t take me that long (cause I’m modifying and making better one of my old ones) but I just don’t feel like being productive right now…. so ya… but tomorrow is Monday which means a whole new week to work with!


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P.s. i beat my brother's Robot Unicorn Attack score. hehehe. i got 113000 and he only has 98000!!

Sun and Tunes

It’s so nice and sunny today! I think it’s a day for editing… like a lot of editing! I hope I can focus and get it done. Haha. And I decided since it’s only 3 and I don’t have class till 7:30 that I would make a playlist! I made it at Playlist.com so I could share it with you all!

(sorry the playlist won't adjust and fit to the screen so you can't scroll down)
 So I just voted in the Suvudu final match of Jamie vs. Rand. I voted Jamie who is winning 51 to 49…. So we’ll see who wins. There is still 5 days left. And there is a consolation match of Drizzt vs. Kvothe…. This is a toughy for me cause I totally love them both! Gah!! (break to go read the scenario and vote) Okay I lied I voted Kvothe. Which btw he’s winning 63 to 37.


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BOOK SIGNING!!!!

*runs around screaming* MY SIGNING IS MAY 1st!!!!!!! Whooot! It’ll be at Califon United Methodist Church 2:30-3:30. Oh my goodness I’m so excited! This is way cool. I’m beyond excited! Like seriously I’ve been trying to set this up for a while and now that I actually have it’s fantastic! So tell all your friends and come out and see me! Yay!



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Twitter

So…. Now I’m totally a dork! I just made a twitter account. Hahaha. Follow me!
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Robot Unicorn Attack

Ahhh Saturday! Today has been yet another fantastic day! So yesterday a friend gave me a bamboo sushi mat and sushi wrapper-thingys. Now I’ve been meaning to learn to make sushi for like ever now it seems cause its way expensive to buy. So today my mum and I went Wall Mart to get all the things I needed to make it. I was beyond excited right. The only thing I was a wee bit worried about was I didn’t want to spend the $5 to get a little bag of Japanese rice so I used American long grain (online it says not use this cause you can’t make it sticky enough). So I just used the recipe online for making it with the Japanese. And guess what!!! It came out fine with the American. I was so excited! Cause the rice is the most important part and all right. Since my mum was a little afraid to use fish (even the sashimi –grade). But she said next time I can if I find it locally! This time I just used avocado, carrots, and cucumbers. It came out AMAZING!! Turns out I’m way pro at rolling it too!! Check out what I made!! We’re having it with dinner tonight! My mum and I tried some and it was amazing! I’m o way proud of me!

Since it’s Easter weekend my older brother is home so h shared a game with me. It’s called Robot Unicorn Attack and I’m waaaaaaay addicted. Spencer and I are in a competition to see who can score the highest. Hahaha! I beat his high score of 49,000 this morning with 68,000. Then he beat me with 98,000. Grrr! I haven’t had the time to try and beat him…. I decided to edit instead of play an addictive internet game. Hahaha.


Update on the Suvudu Cage Match!! It hasn’t been posted but it ended yesterday at noon and by the percents it’s going to be Jamie Lannister Vs. Rand Al’Thor. Kvothe tried to come back at the end though. He lost 47% to 53%. Next year I hope he kicks ass! As for Drizzt he sort of lost massively…. 37% to Rands 63%. I think I’m going to vote Jamie for the finals. Cause 1- he killed Kvothe so he’s got to be good 2- his name is the same as one of my characters (hehehe). Good reasons right. Rofl.


OH AND HUGE NEWS!!! I’ll know tomorrow afternoon what date my signing is!! So check back!


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Home!!

Ahhh being home… I woke up early so I could eat before catching the train. Yeah guess who forgot since it’s good Friday that campus is closed (aka closed dining hall). Yup. So I went for a nice walk this morning. Hahaha. I ate pretzels and raisins at my dorm cause my mum promised to make me breakfast when I got home! Yay! So it was a nice warm sunny walk to the station. Spring time rules. And I came home to my business cards! They look way cool. And guys fantastic news!! I’ve got a venue for my signing!! I’m just going to pick out a date! How way freaking cool! Today is beyond amazing! Oh to make it even better I’m finishing typing and fixing up my outline for my second series! Okay so I was on Apolo’s twitter page just now and he posted this a few minutes ago “Friday is up and rocking. I ask myself - how can I 100% maximize the opportunities today? The journey IS the destination!” Like can you say wow! He’s truly an inspiration to me because he’s always posting stuff like that up and it makes me go wow then I want to work on my series and it’s just so cool that he’s such a ligit person. If I ever get the chance to meet him I’d jump on that opportunity. April is going to be an amazing month… I can just feel it!



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April 1st Happiness

Happy April 1st! today was such a beautiful day! I walked around in a tee-shirt. It was still nice when I got out of my late class like 20 minutes ago. Sooooo wonderful! And you know how I said I found someone to draw for me!!! I was texting her during class and she’s totally willing to help! Like how could this day get any better? Oh that’s right I posted new chapter to both my fanfictions! Weee! And I already started on my Writing presentation. It’s basically going to kick butt. Lol. And I’m way hyper cause it was just such an awesome day. and tomorrow I’m getting up early to catch the 10:15 train home! Yay!







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