we shouldn't be giggling, it's a crime scene

I cleaned off my desk today.

Well, when I say cleaned off, I mean clearing enough room for my computer and the paper work I'm currently engaged in a battle to the inky death with, so everything else sort of ended up on the floor and the half of my bed that I use for storage.

I managed to forget every single grammar work sheet for class today, the printer's decided to get revenge on me, and I also spent three minutes trying to find a pair of scissors before remembering that they were hanging on a string taped to my wall. Yeah, I'm having that sort of day. It's probably a very good thing I'm not the one cooking dinner tonight.

I'm waiting for the manager of QRB&M to call me back, which is why I'm typing rather than going to get the cup of tea I very much need.

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There was a purpose to this blog post, but I seem to have forgotten it.

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For the people who know me in the strange dream state of real life, I'm selling buttons for a homeschool fundraiser and I would very much appreciate it if you bought one [or talked other people into buying them]. I've got little blue ones that say: CHS caryhomeschooler.org . They probably aren't that interesting unless you happen to belong to CHS, and they're $1 each. I've also got larger, reddish-brownish buttons that say: MY HOMESCHOOLER WILL SAVE YOUR HONOR STUDENT FROM THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. Those buttons are $2.

I'm going to go and have that cup of tea now.

And, despite what my blog seems to think, I am posting this on a Wednesday.

Thinking outside the bloody stupid imaginary box

"If you hurt them in any way, I will hunt you down and cut your heart out with a rusty spork."

- Me.

I've got a Scottish accent at the moment, so if you would like, you can imagine this blogpost as it would sound read by someone with a Scottish accent.

As you can probably tell by the title, I'm not entirely thrilled with the phrase "Think outside the box" at the moment. Though apparently, that's what I'm doing at the moment.

I've started planning out a romance story.... not entirely certain if that is a good thing or not. And yes, there is some semblance of a plot. And yes, I am absolutely certain that it is going to go up in flames, but it's something different and it will give me a break from working on Scars of War, although I suppose I may have to change the title... something else to think about, yes?

Anyway, Script Frenzy starts in less than a week.

- non writing news -

I picked up a copy of The Reformed Vampire Support Group yesterday, am about five pages in, and am rather enjoying it. Finally, a vampire book that appears to be dealing with things properly. Also picked up a copy of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and am very much enjoying it. I love my library, in case you've managed to meet me and not figured that out by now.

I think that's all I've got to say for now, and I hope you enjoyed this pointless blog post.

I promised Danny a blogpost and this is what I thought of.

"Is there an "I must act like a bloody idiot" clause written into your contract, or is it just you?"
- Something I came up with while watching telly really late at night....
Righto.Terribly sorry about the hiatus, but sometimes things get out of hand. But today is Tuesday and I've been having trouble getting to sleep on Tuesdays lately, so I might as well use the extra hours doing something resembling something useful, yeah?
So apparently there's a new X-Men movie coming out. I saw the [really big] display for it at the movie theatre when I went a couple weeks ago with a friend. [True Grit was just as good the second time around as it had been the first.] And I'll probably go see the X-Men because I watched the first four and I like a good action film.
Also, The Hobbit is becoming a reality and I am thrilled. And no, that's not just because of a rumor that a certain David Tennant might be part of the cast. I liked the book, read it a few years ago. Apparently the movie will be in two parts, which I like; it's a large story and try as one might, one would miss a lot of things if one tried to squeeze the novel into one film.
- Writing news - [because you're all so thrilled to hear me talk about my characters and such]
I'm about half way through figuring out where exactly my novel is going. The main characters have apparently developed minds of their own, and yes, I realize just how crazy that sounds, but I can assure you I had no original plans for the main character to become a drug addict. That was very much unexpected.... or maybe I've just been watching too many old episodes of House M.D. lately. There is also some semblance of a plot now, and for those of you who have known me for a while, you know spectacular that is and you're probably all taking bets to see how long this euphoria lasts before I'm back moaning about how I have no plot.
Script Frenzy starts in less than two weeks and yes, I am very excited. I am writing a dystopian, and I have grand plans for thinking outside the bloody stupid box.

I have some pretty nice neighbors. One of them, Ms. B., always askes how my writing is going and almost always encourages me to talk to her about what I'm writing and always asks questions and she's just awesome because she's actually interested in what I'm talking about. Another one, Mr. S., he has this hobby of rocks and cutting and smoothing them so that they're really nice to look at and he let me choose from a selection of stones that he smoothed and I now have a very nice inspiration rock. Although, if you think about it, most of my neighbors are pretty neat in their own ways.


And I think that's it for now. Yeah, I think that right here's a good place to stop.