Last Day!

It's the last day of NaBloPoMo, and the last day this month I can forget (or nearly forget, like today!) to post. And I had this post half-planned...
Well, I started my Pre-calculus book today, and I hate it already. There's a lot of CD or online stuff, which I knew, but what I wasn't aware of was that even though my brother worked through this thing, even though my mom paid for this set, I have to register for the "class" so I can get to the quizzes, which costs me $150. No. Way. Logging in as my brother allowed me to buy a 30, 90, or 180 day extension, but I don't even really care to do that. Stupid thing. I think I may just write a research paper in the trigonometric functions and call it good. That or go back and finish my geometry.

It was giving us a bit of freezing rain today, so I got an unexpected afternoon and evening off. I'd have rather gone to small group, but that wasn't my call.

As for this National Blog Posting Month, it's a good idea, but not for me. I'm not a professional blogger or anything, and since I don't have a topic in my head every day, I don't see why I should post every day. It does help me remember that my blog is here, though.

Um, other news... oh! Last day of blogging, first day this year that I got up early and wrote. A good 1500 words I think. I could have gotten more but the chapter was done and I was far too lazy to start the next. That's a job for tomorrow morning.

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Trig Functions

I'm actually writing this on Friday night, but I'm setting the post time for Saturday, so whatever. It counts. I had a thought, so I thought I'd think about the thought before I forgot it.

Ok, so I'm taking the ACT in two weeks (really? yikes stripes!), just so I can hopefully get a better score on the math section (the second of five, there's also English, Reading and Science sections). If I don't... I have to take Intermediate Algebra in college, which besides covering stuff I already know (having just finished my Algebra 2 book), costs money without giving me any credit. Blech. I really shouldn't be that worried, I'm pretty sure I have enough trigonometry to get a good score, but I'm the kind of person who gets nervous about it anyway. I need to work on that.

Anyway, I'm brushing up on my trigonometry for the test, since that's what I had no clue about when I first took the test. Most of my knowledge of trig comes from my Physics book, which didn't help me a whole lot with knowing when to use which, since the book told me what situations use which. Oh well. I can't remember very well what kind of trig questions are on the test, since I hadn't the foggiest idea what they were talking about every time that came up, I just picked whichever circle I liked. Oh well. So anyway, the trigonometric functions tell you the ratio of the sides of a right triangle. That doesn't seem all that useful right away, does it? Anyway, you take an angle, and you apply a function to it, which gives you the same ratio as if you'd divided the lengths of two certain sides of the triangle. So there's sine, cosine and tangent, and a few others that I have no clue about and have never heard of before. We'll skip those. I don't even remember their names. At any rate, the sine of an angle gives you the ratio between the opposite and hypotenuse sides of the angle, the cosine gives you the ratio between the adjacent and hypotenuse sides, and tangent gives you opposite and adjacent. There are only two angles in a given triangle to do this to, what with a right triangle having a right angle and all.

They used to have charts for all of this, now they use calculators. Now, the ACT says all of the math problems can be solved without use of a calculator, though it can speed things up to have one, so I won't really have to use any of these numbers in a problem -- which is really too bad because that's what I know how to do. Instead I have to remember what I just said above, which I probably won't be able to remember. I guess that's why I'm writing it down, so I can remember a little better. I'm weird like that. I really hope I do ok on my Pre-Calculus, even though right now in the middle of my winter funk I don't care about much. But as long as I do ok on my ACT I guess it doesn't matter much how I do on my Pre-Calculus... well, it does a little. It could be interesting. If I don't get myself confused I may just move on after the trig sections, instead of going back to the beginning. I just finished Algebra 2, I don't really feel like going through three quarters of that again starting next week. Is that unreasonable? I hope not, because I'm skipping to chapter 4 or 6 or something, where the trig is.

Another Day, Another Post...

Yeah, I don't have anything witty to say today. I'm glad this thing is almost over. Um... I finished my Algebra 2 book today, which is nice, now I start Pre-Calculus which at least might be interesting for the inevitable change in teaching style. It's a lot more CD stuff that I might prefer, just because my netbook doesn't have a CD player and it's a bit of a pain to load the stuff up every time. I wonder if I can get by with just the textbook... we'll see.

I have less than half of my science left, quite a bit of reading (I got a few weeks off because I finished Emma early, but that's over now), Latin... Italian... writing. I still feel uninterested. I guess this is the closest I ever get to bored, in the middle of winter. I don't really want to do anything, but I know there's plenty to do. I never really feel like there's absolutely nothing to do. I wonder a little bit what's that like. Maybe I should try lifeguarding, I've been told that's the most boring job ever, particularly on the shifts where no one's there. Eh, I think I'll pass.

So I Miss a Few More Days

Tuesday and Wednesday I was out of town, resulting in non-blogging. I did think of something to ramble about, though: why is it that so often anticipation of an event is better/worse than the actual event?

It reminded me about some thoughts on fear I've had before. I don't think any emotion can be bad by itself, we have them for a reason. If a person is afraid of something they usually have a reason. Snakes actually pretty dangerous critters. Or if a person's hurt you, emotionally or physically, you're a little afraid of them, so you can avoid them. It's just when it gets out of control that fear is so bad. Of course, that's pretty easy to do. I have an irrational fear of spiders, which I didn't used to have. When I was little, I didn't really care. In Africa, I didn't really care. We came back, just about everyone I know is scared to death of spiders. And snakes. I still like snakes, they're awesome, but spiders freak me out a little bit any more. It's frustrating.

Anyway! I figure dread and anticipation are somewhat similar principles. When you dread something you think about it, all the ways it could go wrong, you speculate. That's not a bad thing, but only when it gets out of control. I guess this could be applied to every emotion though, even the ones like affection and the like. Of course, it's not appropriate to be totally without emotion either, it's just a moderation thing, I guess.

I Forget Another Day

This time I do not want it on the record that I blogged today. Wait, actually blogging puts it on the record... Hum. Oh well.

I may or may not get posts written for the next few days, what with real-life stuff going on. Maybe I'll be able to think of something interesting to talk about during the break. I do have an idea for a future post, but it has to wait until the end of the month I think, for maximum efficacy.

I was thinking about something the other day... it's kind of annoying how I'll pondering things that can often go into blog posts, but then I can't remember them when I get the chance. It's like a dream or something. It occupies my mind while it's there, but vanishes pretty thoroughly afterward. I can think about things over and over then, I guess. When I'm on a certain topic I can usually remember if I've given it serious thought before though. I guess I should write these things down or blog them as I think them, but that's a little boring, in my opinion.

I got some sunshine today, but I still feel a little listless, which doesn't make much sense since I have a list right on my phone, full of things to do. Clean my room, finish the chapter of the story I'm working on... I need to edit and upload a chapter today too. So why do I feel listless when I have quite a nice list?

I Miss My Ice

Snow is great and all, but sledding's only ok, honestly. I much prefer ice skating, but that's not really possible with a few inches of snow on the pond, and it's not like there's a skating rink in the city or something. I mean, seriously.

I think I'm nearly done with my stupid story, if I can just get my rear in gear and finish it up. I plotted out the last few chapters yesterday, so maybe now I can color in my lines and get this over with. March is NaNoEdMo, and I plan to spend it working on Crystal Frontier.

I did not forget to blog today. I wish it to be on the record as such.

Progress Progresses

I have three different windows open that I'm supposed to be typing in or working on -- blogging, editing and writing. We got a ton of snow last night, and I think I'll try and get out for a walk for before it gets dark on me.

I think I can feel myself hitting a bit of a wall in school. I have all the normal stuff to work on, but it's stopped being quite so interesting. I'll get over it, I suppose. It's not unusual for me to get into a mid-winter funk, I think. I'd like to actually finish school on time, so I'd better not fall behind. At least I'm not behind yet.

Hmm... maybe instead of a walk I can take a nap.

Music Theory Thoughts

Haha! I have something to ramble about today. Um, what was it again? Oh yeah! While ice skating one more time before the snow messed up my skating rink, I was considering the structure of your average hymn, melodically speaking. And since I can use some fancy music theory terms and explain them it should make things extra long and rambly. Ok, here we go:

So I was thinking that most hymns use a binary melody system, following the pattern AABA. What this means is that there's really only two melody lines, probably four to six measures each. You sing the first line twice in a row, then go to the next melody line, and the first line ends the verse again. Uh, think "Come Thou Fount" or the more recent "In Christ Alone (My Hope is Found)." This is actually a pretty classical technique, though I'm sure a lot of classical music connoisseurs wouldn't consider hymns particularly works of art. Whatever. I was thinking onward, about a Negro Spiritual (just about the only one I know) which uses a modified version of this. "Wayfaring Stranger." The first two lines are actually a call and response, with very similar melodies. Call and response is another classical music thing, where there's a melody, and then a variation to kind of complete the musical thought. The chorus is a second melody, also call and response. This segues into a little bit of variation of the first call and response, which has the best ending on it.

This covers one kind of hymn, but I haven't thought much about hymns with more of a chorus to them, to try and classify them. How Great Thou Art has a verse of call and response (at least that's what I'm calling all of these, there may be a more specific term), and a chorus that I want to call a period, but I'm not quite fresh on that bit of music theory. I need to ask my piano teacher what book that was again and pick up a copy. I quite liked it as a reference and all that. I'll add that to the note I had for my piano lesson goal-things.

In other news, I'm looking for the right Minecraft map editor to get my terrain in order to create Yavn. I need something that maybe could generate mountains and hills and stuff where I want them without me having to make everything block by block. That'd just be annoying, yeah?

Now THERE'S an Idea!

So I've mentioned before that Minecraft is incredibly addicting, not to mention fun, all because you can build anything in it. Seriously. Anything. But here's what I didn't think about before: Why am I not replicating Yavn in Minecraft? I'll probably make in a new world, instead of working on my own. This'll involve some spacial calculations... I'll probably start by finding a suitable place for the Capital, and from there I need to figure out exactly where I want my other Capitals, and the town and such... I have a few cities, and I'll have to figure out just how far away they are. Then there's the issue of sculpting the place... I might end up using a map editor to at least roughly generate my landscaping, but after that I think I might as well build in-game. I prefer it that way.

I'm all excited about this now, but of course I get the idea just a few hours before babysitting...

Aaaaand I forgot.

I realize I never posted anything on Saturday. I thought of it late that night, having whiled away my afternoon watching Full Metal Alchemist with my brother. I decided I'd write on Sunday to make up for it, and even had half a thought on a ramble, but I can't remember it now. After church yesterday was lunch with friends, followed by a much longer nap than I meant to take -- 4 to 8. I forgot totally about it after that. For some reason I'm still sleepy from all of that. I slept in a bit this morning, but not more than usual, really. I don't really know why I'm so groggy. Today I just wish I knew what interesting topic I had to ramble about, but I've got nothin.

Anyway, I don't think I've got much else to talk about as it is.

I Like Weekends

This week wasn't particularly busy, but I'm happy for it to be Friday. Fridays are nice. they come right before Saturday, which is usually nicer yet. It's too bad every other Friday holds a science test (this one included), but that's half over now. Wow. My school-year's about half over. I'm to take my eighth module's test today, out of sixteen modules... my literature goes a month longer though... my math is almost finished, I'll move on to Pre-Calc in February. It's kinda scary... I'm too spacey today to think that much about it. I just hope I don't fail that test.

Um... there's still snow. I think I'll go skate a little more today, after my test. Maybe while I listen to my audiobook. I've already done far too much work on my Minecraft house today, it's put me a little behind in school for the day. I guess I'll go finish that up now.

I Nearly Forgot Again, Didn't I?

I'll try and get something interesting done tomorrow, I promise.

We still have snow hanging around, and the pond froze good and solid today, so there was ice skating. I did school, had a piano lesson that wasn't all that enjoyable, since I haven't practiced the right stuff. I really need to get my rear in gear, what with my senior recital coming up. If I can just decide to do something, I do ok. My problem is that just having someone tell me to do something isn't usually enough. Not that I don't appreciate direction or that my own motivation is always enough, it's just that I need a little of both sometimes.

So anyway, piano gets added especially to the list of things to do.

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What Happened Today Again?

Hmm... Not much of import today, or at least not much of comment. I suppose I need to upload a chapter of my Fictionpress story today, to keep on track. Or maybe tomorrow. I thought I had a piano lesson, but I don't. I do tomorrow though...

Um, I finally got the last three songs of David Nevue sheet music today, and played through them. They're nice songs, but I need to listen to them again and work on them a little bit.

I haven't been out to enjoy the snow yet today. I should go do that before I run out of time. Minecraft will pretty much always be there (Thursday we get musical blocks! Can't wait), but the snow won't last forever. Well, this batch is supposed to stick around for a week or so, but still. It won't be so nice after a while. I should enjoy it while it's enjoyable, right?

I'm not making any sense any more.

Last-second Post

It's late. I'm supposed to have blogged. I haven't. Therefore, I'm posting something quickly from my phone. I'm such a night person, and yet I try to be a morning person, all bright and perky when I get up. Well, that'll never happen. I imagine I'll always be bleary for a half hour or so. I think maybe everyone is. What makes a person a morning person is that they rather get up and over the bleariness before everyone else. At least, that's my idea. I know I feel better for getting up earlier, if I can just manage it. It's almost midnight now, so I figure it's probably out of the question for me to get up at six tomorrow. I gotta end this cycle...

Too late to do it today.

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A Dvorakless Post

So I was thinking last night about my learning Dorak and whether it was worth it. I mean, I'm pretty fast on Qwerty, and even if Dvorak is faster, how long would it take for me to learn it so I'm as fast as I am on Qwerty now? I think it's probably not worth the effort. Oh well. Right now I'm somewhat slower than usual, what with trying to get used to my old layout again, but it's coming back fast. Just after pauses sometimes I forget where a key is. I'll get some writing done and fix that today I think.

So, two days of typing, wasted. Così è la vita (that's "such is life" in Italian. I tend to want to say it in the French, something like "Ce'st la vie" or something, but since I'm not learning French, but rather Italian, I try to use the proper language). I did get some writing done last night, while my brothers played Minecraft. After a while I went to bed, and they stayed up all night building stuff. I imagine they're about to head to bed though. I'll probably take a closer look at what they've done when I'm listening to Emma again. I'm still in volume two, but I think I'll be finishing quite ahead of schedule, maybe enough so I can listen to Three Men in a Boat or something before I'm supposed to read Wuthering Heights. Hmm... that might be another audiobook one. When I read sometimes I can go for too much comprehension, particularly when it's a style I'm not familiar with. It makes me read really slowly, and it's not feasible that I finish hardly any of my assignments on time. Well, I'm too lazy maybe. Anyway, listening is different. Stuff blows by a little, but in general I just let it wash over me and it's not only enjoyable, but I even understand what's going on at least as well as if I read it, I think.

In other news: SNOW! There was a nice coat on the ground when I got up this morning (an actually reasonable 7:30), and it's still going at it at... 10:40 now. It buys me a day off from giving a piano lesson to a friend, therefore freeing up my afternoon for school and Minecraft and writing, perhaps a little editing. I love unexpected down-times. Well, they're annoying sometimes, when it's really really last minute, but the weather forecast had predicted this, so I kind of had two plans for today, one where I run around like a chicken with its head cut off, and end up picking up extra slack this evening regardless, and one where I'm much more relaxed, get to play in the snow, and get everything else done. Ha. We'll see how much I actually get done.

Yoiks and away!

A Dvorak Post

And therefore probably typed very slowly. I've worked through a few rows of letters, and although I'm still really pokey while I type, at least it's not all hunt-and-peck. Some keys are, but only the ones I've not worked with. What's curious is that my sudden loss of skill seems to be limiting my vocabulary somewhat.

I got up at a decent hour, but not much has been done today. I'm planning on editing a chapter of that stupid Fictionpress story, and maybe, maybe writing another chapter. Probably not today. I'll take one more day to learn this layout.


... aaaannnd, patience vanishes. Ta!

Nearly Forgot!

It's surprisingly hard to come up with thing to ramble about, when one's put under pressure. Could that sentence phrasing be more british-sounding, I wonder? At any rate, I think maybe I did something today... well, school, including Latin, what with declensions and all.

Latin has the most declensions I've seen in any language, what with nouns typically declining not only according to number but to five different cases -- though it should be noted that often in either plural or singular or both the Dative and Ablative cases are combined. It's a little scary when you first look at it, but when you think about it, English declines according to a lot of those cases too, but only with our pronouns.

A case and all of the fancy names for them (Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative and Ablative) is really just a fancy linguistics term for what a noun does in a sentence. A noun in the Nominative case is just a pretty way of saying the Subject of a sentence. Genitive is talking about possessives ("Joe's" is in the Genitive case), Dative speaks of an Indirect Object in a sentence, Accusative the Direct Object, and Ablative is Object of the Preposition. In English we decline some of our pronouns according to some of these cases. "I" is in the Nominative case, "mine" or "my" is for Genitive, and "me" is for the rest. Pretty much every English noun declines to Genitive case, and almost all decline according to number (words like "sheep" and "moose" and "fish" being the exceptions). At least Latin's regular about it.

There are three declensions in Latin, with five cases and singular and plural each. I suppose that makes a total of 30 individual endings to memorize, though that doesn't take into account the cases that get combined in one declension or another.

Um, what else did I do today? I got a piano lesson, and my British diction is likely from listening to quite a bit of Jane Austen lately. I got a little Python studied... Oh! I also just now started working on learning a Dvorak keyboard layout. I'm not typing this blog post in it, but they say that typing with Dvorak is much faster than with Qwerty. We'll see. It is learning a new layout, but my Neo supports it, and it's easy to change the layout on a computer, so... We'll see.

Um... Hm.

I had such a nice long post yesterday, I don't really know how I'll live up to it now. Maybe it'll help if I pause my audiobook. Ok, well... my desktop Ubuntu partition works properly now, now that I've reloaded the whole OS. At least nothing happened to Windows when I was making big changes. It's not that my stuff isn't backed up -- well, I'd lost a few weeks of work on Minecraft, but I suppose I'd get over that. Better than losing a story -- it's just that loading Windows takes FOR-EV-ER, and all in all I'd rather not have to do that again. First the OS itself. Then the drivers for every little thing. Plus all my applications and wallpapers and stuff again. Plus removing all the junkware that riddles those drivers and the OS. At least Ubuntu isn't quite so bad. I have a few apps to download, but pretty much everything I want is available from a single spot --  the Ubuntu Software Center, since I'm such a n00b.

Anyway, I feel I should spend some time on the specific torture of loading an OS. We'll skip the sinking feeling of finding out your computer is basically dead and needs to be wiped and re-installed with everything, the futile attempts to save your data, and move on the resignation and defeat as you put in that boot CD. You've probably put it in before for some attempts at system repair, but to no avail. So you go and boot from this CD, and with a tear perhaps finding its way down your cheek, you press the key telling it to format the drive and install Windows.

First you get to decide the partitioning of the drive. If you're like most people, you just let it take all the space it wants. You don't care much right now. It partitions and wipes the drive, and then moves on to asking you information about time zone and naming the computer and whatnot. Then it installs some stuff. Then another question will pop up, and it won't go anywhere until you answer it. Then it goes some more... and then more options to decide upon, so on and so forth, each of these steps taking somewhere from 10 to 45 minutes, but you can never remember which are quick and which aren't, so you have to stay by the computer, checking on it, ALL DAY until the dang thing is finally installed.

Then you look at your fresh new desktop wallpaper, and you promptly get assaulted by the update screen, particularly if we're talking about Windows. Ok, it's got a lot of updates to install, of course. Whatever. Security and whatnot first.

Speaking of... best to get rid of IE as fast as possible. You nearly retch as you open it, but only to download Firefox or Google Chrome or something else that's faster and more secure. After that's done you start downloading your favorite utilities and programs and whatnot, sure that you're never going to remember all of them. You need to download your anti-virus software again, hoping IE didn't already kill you without it. Drivers start going into drives, and you end up restarting the computer multiple times that day. If you managed to keep your files backed up, those have to go back on too.

All in all, it takes all stinking day to get a computer to at least a semblance of what it was before you wiped it. For weeks -- months even --  you'll be trying to find files and programs that you forgot to put back on there. For some reason your browser bookmarks never transfer over right, whatever you do. It's like moving into an almost-new house that looks exactly like your old one, except the paint's different. You paint the walls, get your lights back on. A few light switches got moved around, and when you're unpacking all of your stuff you'll never get it quite in the same place as before. You'll be looking for things for months until you finally get used to where things are again. By that time, you may have to move to another almost-new, empty house.

Computers fail. I love 'em.

Programming Languages

Uhm... I think I've decided to learn one. It might be fun, right? Wait, I tried this last year, for a little while. I don't think I blogged about it though. It was like a week before my Weekend of Insanity noveling bit, and I was working on learning Python. Everything was happy, until I wanted to download this program for programming called Pygame. Well, at the time (I haven't checked lately) it didn't have a good edition for the Windows I was using. It did for Ubuntu, though. Ok! I'd put Ubuntu Linux on a computer before, it was easy as pie. The thing was happy to do all the work for you. I did that, and my little netbook was on a dual-boot for a while. I started noticing, though, that the Linux portion didn't always start for me. I do a little research, and I think I find a solution. I end up accidentally wiping my hard drive, right before I had to write 30k in a weekend.

I was a little to distraught and busy to mess with Python for a while, and by the time my computer was working happily again (thanks to my awesome mother, who's now fixed at least two more computers than she's broken!), I'd totally forgotten about the thing. I only recently got reminded again, and I figure it's a good way to to get more familiar with Linux, so I'm learning to program there. Yay!

So far not much exciting stuff to report, just learning some of the basics again. Except I haven't logged on to Ubuntu in months, and now that I just updated it, it won't boot. Again. I think this is a different problem than before, though. Instead of giving me an interminable blank screen, this just boots me out to the BIOS again and again and again. Grar. I'll work on it later. Maybe. I really love the idea of Linux, it's just actually getting it to work for me isn't working out. When I do get it to work for me, I can't get it to talk to the other computers on the network, or even use a printer properly. Flash is always slow to update, so I can go forever without being able to access anything that runs with Flash. I'm probably just too much of an idiot to get it to work (anyone out there know what a "tarball" is? It seems like I need that explained to me every single time, and I still can't get one to unzip or unpack or whatever for me right).

Whatever. Latin goes fine, I wrote a little bit on my Fictionpress story yesterday, maybe I'll do some more today. I should at least upload a chapter. If I end up with 30 chapters (pretty reasonable, methinks), I need to be uploading two chapters a week to finish up on time. I'm still getting into the swing of school. Someday I'll get up early again. That'll be nice. Particularly on Mondays. Long post. Disconnected thoughts. Going away now.

Tuesdays Aren't Busy

Not really, anyway. It's kind of nice. If I can still wrap up pretty much all of my school in the morning (like I did today, except for my reading assignment), then that leaves all afternoon for Minecraft and other such non-school related activities. My reading is covered too: for the next month I'm assigned Emma, by Jane Austen. She's a good writer, but I've found with most of my school books this year that good though they may be, I have a hard time reading large chunks of them at once, like I'm supposed to. I've not finished a lot of books this year just because I don't want to fall so behind. I'll just skip it, rather than read eight chapters a day. Anyway, this time I went on Librivox.org and downloaded Emma as an audiobook. I don't usually get audiobooks or podcasts listened to, since I'm usually doing something that requires though that distracts from what's going on in the story. If I'm going to have to just sit and listen, I may as well just read the book. That was before I was playing Minecraft xD now I'm listening to it while I play, since while the game can require some thought, it's not in words or anything like that, as if I was doing math or science or anything like that. I can kind of go on autopilot. If I get this book finished early, maybe I'll download one of the books I'd skipped before and see about listening to it. I gave up early on Gulliver's Travels, and although I enjoyed Three Men in a Boat, I didn't finish that one either. I mostly finished Frankenstein, and it was good, but I think I ended up skipping that last bit. I should find out how that ends, I suppose.

Unfortunately I can't play Minecraft while editing or blogging or writing. It's more a problem with not having enough fingers as my attention. Although editing and writing would be bad to do with only half my brain on them. Blogging, eh, who's gonna notice?

Mondays are Busy

I wish they weren't quite so. Oh well. I almost shouldn't be wasting time blogging, but since I did say I would blog every day but Sunday, I might as well. I've got to get my school done this morning, before a friend comes over at 1:30 for a piano lesson. She won't have anyone to pick her up until 5ish, and then at 6:30 I'm off to small group Bible study. No Minecraft, then, I imagine. Oh well. I managed to stay off it yesterday, I'll manage another day.

I just hope I don't have a hard time slipping back into my schoolwork. Taking time off never was very good for my brain when I came back. At least Latin should be at least a little fresh. I'll need to take some notes in there, probably nothing too work-intensive. Hopefully Physics is as little. I really don't want to spend a ton of time on it.

If I play my cards right, maybe I can play a little Minecraft...

Merry New Year!

Obligatory wishings of wealth and happiness go here.

Anyway, this month is NaBloPoMo, which means I post every day this month. Except Sundays. I'm going to try and keep Sundays as electronic-free as possible. Anyway, six days a week you should be hearing from me, and hopefully that's long enough to get me in the habit of writing something every day or so for a while.

What else do I have, BFS-wise? I should print of that calendar I put in my last post. Latin, right. I need to finish up that lesson today, so Monday I can get to work on the next. I was at a Christian youth conference Wednesday through Friday, so I'm not quite done with that piece of Latin. The conference was awesome, though, a lot of cool Bible study sessions and stuff like that. I'm still processing quite a bit of it.

Um... I also have that stupid story I'm putting on Fictionpress. It doesn't fit anywhere into the Yavn timeline now, what with the mission of the MC having already been fulfilled in another story, and because of the rewrite of Crystal Glare most of the facts in the story are inaccurate, and then when you add in the fact that I'm going to radically change Crystal Glare again, the whole thing becomes absolutely inaccurate. So I don't know what to call this dang thing. Fanfiction of an earlier setup? Maybe.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to enjoy my last day of Minecraft before school starts on Monday (don't forget, Sundays are as electronicless as possible. That means I might be able to finaggle some Minecraft time if someone directly asks me to help them out xD)