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[rivendellrose]

Finally had my exit interview (which turned out to be nothing more than a bunch of paperwork) at the Museum yesterday morning, and then spent the rest of the day wandering downtown Seattle with coramegan, nekokoban, miss_arel, sjen, and zinjadu. I spent some time in Westlake while I waited for them to get downtown (the interview took less time than I'd expected, and I'm always a sucker for looking at loads of pretty things that I can't afford), and then we hit Pike Place for lunch, then bussed up to Toys in Babeland, then to Uwajimiya's in the I-Dist for shopping and dinner. Very successful outing all around.

Then, it was back to the house to watch The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which I quite liked and, thus, got no absolutely writing at all done during... and after that we were all on such a Disney high that we ended up trooping over to coramegan's to watch The Lion King. That's still my favorite Disney movie ever, and it had been sooo long since I'd seen it.

On the way there, zinjadu and I started back up on our perennial Source of Much Obsession - casting and plotting and conceptualizing for the perfect production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." This quickly turned into what I will simply call a religious experience for me, as we managed to come up with the perfect casting and concepts for all main characters, and worked out some pretty damned snazzy visual stuff if I do say so myself. This production would rock the socks of the Shakespeare world, I'm telling you. None of this neutered early-19th-century shit with Rupert Everett (gods bless him, but NO) as Oberon. Oberon is not a weenie little limp-wrist, folks. Nor is Puck a cute little friendly imp. Not happening. And Hippolyta? Have people missed the part where she's an Amazon? Or where the world of nature is severely messed up because of Titania and Oberon's fight? Yeah.

...In other news, I'm seriously considering turning NaNo into "fuck this 'novel' thing, I'm going to try desperately to write 50,000 words of anything that isn't schoolwork." Because this novel thing? Not going so well. *Whimpers* No significant progress since last update. I'm feeling very much the failure right now on that front. And I still have schoolwork to do, of course.

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[narsilion.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you had a fun time yesterday. Your Dad must have brought you up the laptop? Yay!
On the NaNoWriMo, can you write 50,000 words being lots of different fics??
That would be so awesome, cause then you could post them, and the rest of us could reap the benefits!!
What are you up to for the weekend?
Oh, and by the way, I'm getting another kitty!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

....Woah, woah, another kitty? What happened?

Dad did bring me the laptop (and then I forgot it at Cora's last night, so I have to go meet her on campus in a few to get it back), and technically NaNo's supposed to be a novel, but it's the wordcount that matters, so a lot of people do that. I'd love to be able to do the novel, but I just don't think my attention span is long enough, with classes going on and everything, and it's been soooo long since I last wrote something this big, even. So... yeah.

Gonna be working a lot - I have an outline for a paper due on Tuesday, so I've got research to do, and a lot of reading of course.

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Well, Karissa happened to notice these kittens going and coming from under the neighbors porch a week ago, and went to talk to the neighbor. Seems they knew they had a feral cat living under their porch, but had know idea that she was pregnant.
They just made sure she had food and water.
Anyway so Karissa brought the kittens to her house and called some group that she found online that will pick up ferals and spay them, clip their ears and take them back to where they were, so she had them come get her.
There are 5 kittens, and Barb has been trying to find homes for them, then they found 1 more so actually there were 6. Barb and Karissa are keeping the all black male, and I'm keeping the bright orange fluffy male. The others are females
The feed store down the street from Barb is going to keep 2 of the females when they get a little bigger for Barn cats, that leaves 1 white with smokey tips on her ears and paws and bright blue eyes, and she'll be so easy to find a good home for, she's the most beautiful of all of them.
I wasn't going to take one, cause, 3 cats in an apartment, but he's soooo darling, and Barbs going to keep him a few more weeks so that he'll be big enough to defend himself if Snape plays rough.
I was thinking Remus, but I'm not sure.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Oh god. We'll have two fluffy orange boys in the family! He sounds adorable, I can't wait to meet him!

[differedfrom.livejournal.com]

You work in Seattle? Hmm...I don't think I knew that. I also work in Seattle, though I live in Bremerton.

Sounds like a pretty good time yesterday. I don't get to do a hell of a lot in Seattle too often, but when I do it's always fun. It's really a great little-big city.

As for NaNo, I would say write what you want to write, then see if you can stitch it together into some coherent whole. One of my original ideas was to write a series of vignettes, each focusing on a different character in the story. Each would be sort of its own story, independent from the whole but adding to it, each in its own voice. I'm still sort of toying with the idea, but now that I'm pretty far in it doesn't look like its going to happen that way. You're welcome to use the idea if it strikes your fancy. :)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Live and work here, myself - or at least in the Greater Seattle Area, since I'm not technically sure whether the U-District and Wallingford are in the technical city limits or not. Bremerton's a nice area, from what little I remember.

I don't get downtown for fun enough, either. Normally I'm too caught up in work and school and all the usual mundane stuff to just catch a bus to Fremont or downtown or wherever and relax for a bit, so yesterday was a really nice change. I'd bet that being over here for work makes it hard to relax on this side of the water.

Unfortunately, the ideas I have don't mesh very well together, but I'm enjoying playing with all of them nonetheless. At this point, I'm just going to be struggling to get as many words written as I can during this month, no matter what the subject matter. I should've known I wasn't disciplined enough to pull off a full novella while trying to keep up in classes.