I got sick last week but I'm feeling better today since I'm taking the day off school to rest and recover. Last week was pretty rough. Bad cough, congestion, and I kept running a fever. That sucked. I was worried I would get sick when she came up, but hopefully that didn't happen. I had a good Halloween weekend with her, and I'm going down to see her again this week so I'm looking forward to that.

I've been busy with school and I have been writing, but it's been personal projects so there still won't be many updates to this account. But I might post something up eventually.

I got into all 3 colleges I applied to and I tested for my recommended black belt last Thursday. I'm hoping to be ready for my first degree black belt testing in December.

Well, I'm going to go take a shower now. I'll see if I have anything else I might be able to post since I do feel bad about neglecting this account...

Omg school is crazy. I have never been this busy before. I guess that's what two AP classes do to you. The bulk of my homework is from AP gov and we have so many bloody quizzes! Argh! We had one today and now I have a test tomorrow. I hate this class.

So yeah, I don't have much time to write. I had a lot of time monday but I was lazy and didn't do anything. Today I want to write but I have a government exam I need to study for which I should be doing now but I need a bit of a break since I just did chemistry homework and studied for my Japanese quiz.

At least Japanese is fun. The class is kind of slow and I hate being the only senior in a class of mostly freshmen with a couple sophomores, but this year's freshmen are pretty good. There's only a few I've seen that I absolutely can't stand.

I'll update more when the weekend comes around. Gotta study.

Had my first day of school today. Damn it was boring. I always hate the first day since you get a syllabus thrown out you in every freaking class. Plus I have to work today which I really don't want to do... argh.

AP gov's going to be fun. My teacher kept saying "this is a class that's best for people with even the slightest interest in politics" and I hate politics, lol. I'm just taking it for the chance to not have to take it in college, and to experience the college class structure. My chem class is kind of small so I'm hoping that I'll be able to understand everything. Japanese will be fine, I just feel lame since I'm the only upperclassmen. It's all freshmen with a couple sophomores. No juniors. AP english had a hellish start. My teacher gave us a practice exam (on the first day of school). Which sucked!

And yay I can get on deviantART again! The router randomly blocked my access to the site for a few days which sucked. I went into withdrawals.

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...I start school in exactly a week. I do not want to go back to school since I'm going to be in homework hell. (1st semester - Japanese 1, AP English, Chemistry -gag-, AP Government)And I'm a senior, so I'll have all the college crap forced down my throat every five minutes by the school. Argh.

So yeah I'm going to be pretty busy with school and work. Once I get some more of my project with my friend done I'm going to go back to working on some of my own stuff but I'm definitely not going to have as much time. The story with her is my priority. I am going to finish this whole thing before I graduate. I have motivation, she inspires me, and I am going to make myself do it.

Hopefully this school year will be better than last year... I had bad classes and friend issues. First semester was awful and then second was still bad but it got better since I made a bunch of new friends (most of them graduated though, which sucks).

Anyway. Pity party over, I'll put up my writing goals later.

I finally thought of something to write that I can actually put up on this account. So I'll work on that once I finish this dang chapter. I wanted to write something with Rhy and his brothers in modern where they're all alive and not messed up. (Yet.)

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Wednesday marked my 4 year anniversary of being with deviantART. Awesome. Looking back at my old stuff makes my eyes burn and I am so proud to see that I have improved so much in 4 years of writing. Thanks to everyone who's stuck around to read my stuff. Love you all, even you fav and run people who I sometimes want to hunt down...

(I'm really tired so I probably should not be writing a journal right now)

And going to make my apology again, there really won't be a lot of stuff posted to this account for awhile. I'm caught up in my project and I honestly have zero motivation to go back and write my other stuff. My story with Lae will get focused on once I get more of my new project done, but that probably won't be for awhile. So yeah, don't expect much updates from me (not that I've been putting much up this year anyway)... I have bad writers block or general disinterest in all the stories I was working on. And writing this new story, which takes place in modern, has pretty much driven me away from a lot of my medieval fantasy stuff. I like writing in modern since it doesn't feel overdone. I did medieval fantasy for years. Started it in 6th grade, and I'm coming into my senior year. So it's nice for a change... something new.

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I finally put up some of my Europe pictures. Sorry it's not much but I have so many pictures. I just picked the ones that stood out. If you're friends with me on facebook you'll be able to see a ton more.

So there's those pictures up. I'll be adding more later. I went to an anime convention over the weekend with and that was fun. I got random hugs and candy for being L, which was awesome. Both of us bought a Death Note and made some fun photo comics with that. I took a bunch of pictures so I'll put some of them up.

Can't believe it's August already. My summer's slipping away so fast... before I know it I'll be in school hating my senior year because of my crappy schedule. Anyway. I think I'm getting over my jet lag. I was able to stay up until 1 yesterday and woke up at 8. Almost crashed at 9 tonight but managed to stay awake.

I'm going to be busy next week and a little of the week after, but really after that I finally get to relax for the rest of the summer. Which means more time to write. I've been pretty inactive on this account... I started a huge new project with and that's pretty much taken over my writing. Once I get some more chapters written I'm going to start going back to my other projects. I wanted to finish a ton of things junior year, but I was lazy, procrastinated, and had massive writers' block in way too many things. That's what happens when you leave stories for too long...

So yeah. I'm going to really try to get a lot done for the rest of this month. I have work and convention this week, which I'm looking forward to (not the work, lol) but after that it's story time.

To Do List
New project - Chapter 3
Overdue thing for Ash's birthday
Tower of London short story

Hiatus Stories
Predator and Prey
-Edit/rewrite all 4 chapters
-Brainstorm ideas for future chapters
-Get chapter 5 written
Lae series
-Give the books new titles since the old ones suck
-Rewrite the sequel (3 chapters + prologue)
-Continue the story, work on outline, get to writing
Stay With Me
-Rewrite everything, finish the incomplete chapters
-Work on outlining, continue the story in general
Return to the Modern Realm
-Edit and do general revisions
-Finish the story
-**If possible, have it finished by December since it takes place in that month
Various short or not so short stories I've started but never finished