a turquoise flower

Apparently dates are being announced for returning shows for the fall tv season already:
Castle comes back Monday, September 24
Once Upon a Time comes back Sunday, September 30
The Vampire Diaries come back on Thursday, October 11

Psych is also supposed to come back sometime this fall but probably not until late October or even November.

But I have no idea when fall semester starts though. Priorities, I have them.

(And uh, I have no idea where I've been for the past three weeks. I'm gonna try to get back into posting awesome comic book moments for the 100 Things Challenge but I haven't been feeling very excited about comics these past several weeks. Am hoping that might change soon and I can get back to the challenge. This is why it'd be helpful if you planned things better, self.)

♥ Whooooo!! Finished my pink_stargate entry! The Quest for True Luv (John/Rodney intentional badfic with intentional misspellings and with the caveat that it shouldn't be taken seriously because it was hurriedly written in one day and meant to be bad.)

Now if I could only finish at least one prompt I signed up for smallfandomfest, I'd totally love myself. I desperately wanted to finish all three prompts I picked to write for, but seeing as this round ends in eight days, I'm not holding out much hope. GOSH WHY SO FAIL SELF Ah well, at least I started it - that's half the battle.

♂ So Tumblr has been awesome for finding writing advice that rocks (among other awesome stuff that rocks)! A few links:
Nuts and Bolts: Thought Verbs by Chuck Palahniuk
Kurt Vonnegut's Rules for Writing Reprinted (very general but some pretty important points)
Chuck Palahniuk's 13 Writing Tips (again, more general advice but worth a read)
Writing every day...

Actually, I'd recommend just going through http://writingadvice.tumblr.com and their tags and trying to read everything posted there.

next up: totally finishing up memes awesome people gave me and some thoughts on shows I caught up with this past week and maybe some reviews of awesome comics/books read/to be read. This is what happens when I keep opening up this blog window to write in and keep writing in it for weeks and never hit the post button.

So, um yeah, look who went and joined Tumblr. (And is calling herself "May Child" because she thinks she's being clever.)

It'll mostly consist of me reblogging awesome things I see.

(But I found out you have to pay to use some of the themes. Which is making me all ragey and WTF and stuff. Y' know, Tumblr, I am a poor college student here. And I'm betting that Tumblr's demographics include mostly poor college students. But whatever, I'll just use the free, simple themes.)

I went on a crazy adding spree and added everyone I knew from here, so don't be alarmed, it's just me. -P:

...or alternatively happy Single Awareness Day! (I don't know why you'd *say* happy Single Awareness Day but that is what they say, isn't it?)

So finished a story last night. I'm not sure if I'm too happy with it. I was ecstatic to write it because it's a new fandom (well, new for me). I have no idea why I have the big Smallville bug right now but Chloe/Oliver is just too cute.

Also the mods over at teamatlantis are just the biggest sweethearts ever! ♥♥



(If you ever need to know how to win me over...just mention dolphins and have Jason Momoa and Joe Flanigan pose together in huggles. ♥ I'll be yours for all time.)

I'm in a surprisingly good mood considering my big A&P test in less than an hour. (I studied though! I so totally studied and memorized all my flashcards that I needed to! Didn't get to go over all the slides again but eh...most things that will be on the test were on the flashcards already...I hope.)

bullet list!

• I really need to write porn. Why does writing fail me at such an awesome time?
• Some "The Vampire Diaries" spoilers. Most of the things they spoil I could've predicted already. And some of the things they spoil, I wish wouldn't turn out true. Like that Stefan spoiler in particular. Didn't they already do that?
• After avoiding "Smallville" for ten years, I'm totally hooked now. Reading summaries like these and catching up on the show is not helping. And I mostly watch just for two characters - Oliver and Chloe. Chloe, I know has been with the show since the beginning but she's been absent for most of the last season because the actress, Allison Mack, has other commitments and she's only going to be in five episodes for the last season which is sucky. Oliver is the Green Arrow in both the comics and the show and he's such a fascinating character because he's the only superhero on the show who doesn't have a superpower beyond just his human strength and agility. But really, I love all the characters and the guest stars that appear. I came for the Chloe/Oliver but I stay for the Lois/Clark, and Martha Kent and Tess Mercer and Emil the Doctor and Cyborg and Aquaman and Impulse and just gah. I know the fandom though is such an explosive place and I'm shocked at the hate that is sometimes heaped on Clark, who is the main character and therefore does get the major plot lines and the most screen time so y'know I understand that minor characters often get shafted and that's just how it goes with a show like this that brings in a lot of characters and plot lines but that is only a 40-minute show (60-minute if seen live).
• School started last Tuesday and so far it's going great. I vowed to actually really buckle down and study and it's been going great. The trick is to not turn on this blasted laptop until I've finished everything and it actually works. So now I'd really like to make the Dean's list - at least for one semester - that'd be lovely.
• I also mailed the application to the Nursing program at my uni and now I just have to wait, which is killing me. I have no idea if they'll send me a letter if they reject me or what or how long it'll take them to go through everything and reject or accept me and let me know. I told myself I wasn't going to obsess over it and whatever happens will happen but, ugh, just the wait is killing me.

Writing is going good (I hope I didn't jinx it by saying it now thought). I have two different stories in my head I'm in the process of writing down so we shall see if anything comes of it. Still haven't finished my Big Wolf on Campus fic. I have no idea why this story doesn't want to get finished except maybe for the fact I'm not working on it as much as I should. But it has plot! and sex! And unfortunately I wrote all the porny, good stuff first and now don't want to go back and add in the plot. *hands* And I really like the plot too so I don't want to leave it and just have it be a sex piece because it really wouldn't make sense without all the stuff that happens prior to the good, porny bits.

The one good thing from me not finishing this story is me rereading all the other parts and editing as I'm reading. This process helps because once I finish this story, I am so not gonna want to look it again and the editing process will fall by the wayside.

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I don't know if I've talked about this on here - I have over on Twitter - but am totally committed to getting a Nursing degree now (as opposed to before when I was just on the fence about it). The nursing school applications are due the 15th of this month and I've yet to start. Someone please just light a fire under me. This is my future here and I'm just dilly-dalling like I usually do.

But I totally have to have faith that I'll be a good Nursing student because this preemptive thinking that I'll fail before I even start is getting to be detrimental. That has always been my problem though - I'm not good at the positive thinking but I'm really trying to change in that respect. (Funny enough, it's my brother that keeps telling me to think positive - "the power of positive thinking" he calls it. Geez, you send him away to college for a year and a half and he comes back all mature and stuff. What is that about?)

Man, am I tired today. And it's not even midnight yet! What I wouldn't give to not love sleep so much and actually be productive while I'm supposed to be sleeping, instead of just not being productive at all.

And just so you all know, closetd0rk is really, really pretty in real life. And awesome and stuffies. And yeah. <33333

*tries to go back to her studying*

SUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 70 of these films, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films on this list.Put x’s next to the films you’ve seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and submit post at the bottom. Have fun.

HAHAHAHA - I think this is totally wrong. I think it should be the other way around - if you've seen less than 70 of these films, then you have no life (like me :D) (I think the horror section killed me [uh - no pun intended?] because I've only ever seen one and that's about one too many for me. I am a WUSS, really.)

( movies...lots of movies  )

Things That Are Annoying Me Greatly

= Stupid Itunes and its need to get updated what seems like every month. And every month, I have no idea what version of Itunes I'm gonna get. I wouldn't get the updates, honestly, but the download prompt is insistent and won't let you be in peace until you download it. So you have no choice but to download the updates. That stupid, clever Itunes. *sticks tongue out*

= The fact that a band I love and subsequently have been listening to my whole life, the Goo Goo Dolls, is going to be in MY STATE, IN MY CITY next month. You know how often that happens? How often the stars and planets align perfectly and a big name band like that comes to this small, piddly-diddly town?? NEVER! Now, NORMALLY this wouldn't annoy me (I WOULD BE SHRIEKING FOR JOY AND WHEN I FOUND OUT FOR A MOMENT I WAS) but it's on a Tuesday and at 7:30, and I don't get out of class on Tuesdays until 7:10. Blah, blah, blabbity blah!! Why couldn't they come on a Friday or Saturday or even a Sunday??? WHYYYYYYY?

= School in general. That first week was OK and everything but it's all going to go downhill from here.

- wheeeeeeeeeee!!!!! in the process of making my first fanvid!! There's just so much to learn! A few things I did learn so far: (1) cutting and placing relevant clips is apparently an art form in itself, (2) sometimes the mute button will not work T__T and sometimes not even the cutting button will work right (for me at least)!!! (3) I still have no idea if I can move the clips around in the specific order that I want, haven't found any way to do that, so now the clips are just being played in the order that they're dropped. (4) It takes a really, really LONG time to create clips from one episode/media clip. Like an hour and twenty minute long movie, it takes about 86 minutes to create clips you can drop in your fanvid, and for a 22 minute show, it takes about 22 minutes. Which translates to a lot of down time before I can fiddle around with the clips and get to the actually making of a fanvid (because when you create clips, it freezes Windows Movie Maker so that you can't collapse the window or do anything else on WWM until the process of creating clips is done).

- it's going to be horrible! but despite that, I'm sooo freakin' excited!!

- also had my interview this morning for volunteering at the hospital. It wasn't like a real interview interview because there are so many positions you can work in and so few volunteers. It's not like a job where you have more than one person vying for that position. It was more of a meet-and-greet sort of interview - but still, nerve-wrecking. (And the lady doing the interview did ask me questions like 'why do you want to volunteer at MMC?' but mostly it was me signing a few papers and her trying to pencil in when I can volunteer - because my college schedule is crazy).

- so thinking about volunteering and still going to the part-time job I already have at the library and going to class...things will be super crazy for the foreseeable future and I will not have much time for other things. (Other things being like land comms and general tomfoolery.) Super depressing. :(

MEMES~!!!~

* Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! Fandoms, books fics I might get around to writing one day, characters in my fandoms, ideal holiday destinations, goals for the future, celebrity crushes, books I wish would be made into movies, OTPs, anti-OTPs (which I think I mean least fave pairing), love songs. And I will answer them all in a new post (or in comments).

* the ones in bold relate to me:

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I woke up today with sharp pains in my stomach. And then such strong nausea that I felt like almost fainting. Maybe it's the heat? I dunno. The stomach pain has gone away and so has the nausea, but I feel like it's hiding at the edge just waiting for me to feel secure that I won't get it to attack me again.

Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show

Day 08 - A show everyone most people should watch

I feel like this is a repetitive question (see questions #1 & #2) but some other shows I haven't talked about that can be included here are: Freaks and Geeks (I know it's old, but good in my opinion), Degrassi: The Next Generation (this is probably more for people who like high school dramas), Supernatural (a show for people who aren't...weak-stomached? I guess? And don't mind gore and blood), Star Trek: Voyager, Star Wars: Clone Wars (admittedly I haven't watched all the episodes either, but if you're a SW fan, it's definitely something to check out), CSI, Glee, The Vampire Diaries, and Scooby Doo.

( rest of the 30 days )