My last final is this afternoon and somewhere in the hour between my final ending and my mom picking me up from the dorm I have to finish packing and cleaning. I didn't think it was possible that cleaning could take me this long, but I have to be extra careful this semester, as my roommate is moving out and not coming back. What this means is that if his half of the room is not spotless when they do room inspections while I'm gone, I get slapped with a $50 minimum fine for not being prepared for a potential new roommate.

I don't know if I'm getting a new roommate. I hope and pray I'm not, but I can't say for sure, and if I do, then I'll just have to make do. Here's hoping for the best, as usual.


Well, most of what I've been doing around here lately has been backroom stuff, I suppose. I'm taking care of things for *DailyDeviants as usual (and you should apply to be on the team, just so you know), and I applied to be on the #SutureHQ team as well. Instead of laughing at me and showing me the door, the kind `ndifference actually allowed me to join, so I'll be on the team there looking for good poetry features. I'll also be making the journal design for the group, and that's currently in progress. My productivity was impeded a bit by finals.


No. We're not speaking of finals, screw that.


LIT NEEDS SOUND
The Dave is taking commissions
Aditi's hosting a workshop on you. Yes, you.
Deviants are thankful for (part 2)

And go thank `CookiemagiK for all he's done on the CR team, and welcome ^Damaged927 back to the CR team!


I'm going to be basically in ninja mode for the next two weeks. Home means no internet and the like, but I should be around-ish every few days, I've still got things to be doing around here. If you don't hear from me, I hope you all have a wonderful holiday.

As you may or may not have noticed, I didn't post a journal the day after my last one, or the day after that, either...in fact, my journal updates seem to be fairly spread out lately.

Something is wrong. Everyone stand up, call the nearest veterinarian, and proceed to run around in circles flailing your arms about.




I've felt very wiped out this past week. Some nights I haven't fallen asleep the way I normally do, so I haven't been getting as much sleep as I'd like. Still not sure why this is, though I think the sore throat I've got might be partly to blame when it comes to why I feel more tired than normal, even after the nights I get a decent amount of sleep.

Either way, the next two weeks are going to be a bit of a whirlwind for me. Two papers, two presentations, three performances, and a full set of finals before I'm out for the semester. Stressed? A little bit. I feel surprisingly calm about this semester though. I'm not sure why. It could be a bad thing, to be honest. I find the more stressed I am about things, the better I do. This semester has been very...lackluster in that department. Ah well.


I has a group!



#AnkartaKingdom is primarily going to be run through the chatroom, but the group is going to be the hub for all chat-related information, event times and things like that. As time goes on, there will likely be more going on there than just chat-related stuff, but for now that is the focus. So yeah, stop by, say hi, meet some people!


Which means the return of the wrapping paper design that ^Thiefoworld originally made for this journal! I really like them, but I took them off the journal for the main part of the year so that I could use them specifically for this time of year! Very festive.

Have you hugged a GM lately? Because you should.

29 days and 51,783 words later, I win! The sad bit is that the story isn't done yet. I've still got a fair amount to go before I get to an ending, and there's several spots along the way that I felt I rushed more than I should have, and overall it's very much a first draft, but it's written.

Truthfully, NaNo was not in the slightest bit stressful to me. Everything ELSE I had to do during the month was stressful to me. The main difficulties in this month were the days I didn't write, and there were a lot of them. I had various papers due two weeks ago, and so the greater part of that week was spent writing those rather than story. The other thing is that I write mainly at night, and there were nights where I just wasn't around to write in the first place.

So, by the end of the month I was well behind, and to account for this I spent most of last night and today writing, blatantly not paying attention in Spanish class to do so, even. >_>; Now, another thing you should know is that when I'm determined to write, I write a lot at once. If a short story's first draft isn't done in one or two sittings, I get impatient with it, so I got myself into that mindset yesterday.

And in the past 24 hours, I wrote almost 20 thousand words. Please note: I do not recommend doing this. These 20k words are probably the worst I wrote all month, and I did not get much sleep because of it, and consequently I will likely pass out repeatedly tomorrow.

Anyway, I'm writing'd out for the time being. Sometime before I go to bed there'll be an article out for the Thanksgiving Note Project, and a journal for *DailyDeviants. Come tomorrow I'll post a more useful journal than spazzing over being done with NaNo.