So...

I am finished all my exams (yay!). I know for sure that I have done well on two (double yay). I know for sure that I did horrible on one (boo). I think I will get a decent mark in fiction writing (but that's not the point). I know that I did horrible in Science Fiction class (mostly my fault). The good news is, all of it should balance out in the end. Bad news is I can't seem to get my GPA up to that 3.0. I am SO close. Another portion of good news is I will only have to take three courses per term to finish my degree (maybe 4 in one term). Bad news is if I want a concentration in creative writing, I need to space it out over two years. Point is though, I am done school, there are three weeks between now and my spring course and I have no job. This means that I am going to be bored out of my mind.

So, I am going to:
a)Work on WMRR like crazy
b)Play a bunch of old video games because I'm too poor to afford more
c)Try and make new videos
d)Clean my "lair" and finally get all my clothes back in my closet
e)Look for a decent job
f)Try to have a social life

I have Assassin's Creed 2 sitting in front of me (with a somewhat hilarious picture of Ezio and this old guy, who has a priceless expression of surprise on his face...I don't blame him though; Ezio is stabbing him in the back). I am waiting for people go to sleep so I can play in peace until I get tired. I worked on WMRR off and on today, but I couldn't get much time to just WORK on it. Interruptions...

Still working on Chapter 6. If all goes well, I will have it done by Friday. I'm trying to decide how to handle a rather epic battle scene involving a large group of guards, a giant minotaur robot and the search for a special coffee machine. I'm loving how random this is sounding. Makes more sense in context. Really!

Now because this seems the opportune place and time to do it, I'm going to type my list of books that I need to read in the near future. Many of these are "suggestions" from Fiction Writing. The "suggestions" are more or less mandatory.

In by bookshelf to be read:
"The Architects are Here" - Michael Winter
"Covenants" - Lorna Freeman (Need to get this back to Kristy...)
"Shadow's Edge" - Brent Weeks
"Beyond the Shadows" - Brent Weeks (have to get these back to Kristy too)
"Clan of the Dung Sniffers" - Lee Danielle Hubbard
"The Hidden Dragon" - Irene Radford
"The Court of the Air" - Stephen Hunt (no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to get through this book. I've tried 3 times and lost interest. I MUST DO IT)
"Jemma 7729" - Phoebe Wray
"Foreigner" - C.J. Cherryh
"The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" - Mordecai Richler (love this guy's name...mostly because a Fire Emblem character is named Mordecai...)
"Georges" - Alexandre Dumas
"Ivanhoe" - Sir Walter Scott
"The Darkness that Comes Before" - R. Scott Bakker
"The Warrior Prophet" - R. Scott Bakker
"The Thousandfold Thought" - R. Scott Bakker
"The Experiment" - John Darnton
"Phantom in the Night" - Sherrilyn Kennyon
"Dragon Master" - Chris Bunch
"Knighthood of the Dragon" - Chris Bunch
"The Fate of the Fallen" - Ian Irvine
"The Devil's Armour" - John Marco
"The Eyes of God" - John Marco
"The Sword of Angels" - John Marco
"The Larion Senators" - Robert Scott and Jay Gordon (and the rest of the series again because I forget what happens)
"Thomas More's Magician" - Toby Green
Little House on the Prairie series - Laura Ingalls Wilder
"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (need to get this back to my grandma)
"The War of the Worlds" - H.G. Wells
"Flowers for Algernon" - Daniel Keys
"Follow" - A. J. Matthews
"Shogun" - James Clavell (because I never actually read the last 300 pages)


Fiction Writing "Suggestions":
"Generation A" - Douglas Coupland
Anything by Robert Kroetsch
Anything by Joan Didion
"The Architects are Here" - Michael Winter
"In the Skin of a Lion" - Michael Ondaatje
"The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
"What the Crow Said" - Robert Kroetsch
Anything by Joyce Carol Oates
"Ulyssis" - James Joyce
"The Tin Drum" - Gunter Grass
"Not Wanted on the Voyage" - Timothy Findley
"Drowning in Darkness" - Peter Oliva
"100 Years of Solitude" - Gabriel García Márquez
"Perfume" - Susskind
"Sophie's Choice" - William Styron
"Coming Through Slaughter" - Michael Ondaatje
"The Murders" - Edgar Allen Poe
"Waiting for the Barbarians" - J.M. Coetzee
"The Historian" - Elizabeth Kostova
"Shadows of the Apt" - Adrian Tchaikovsky
"Collected Works of Billy the Kid" - Michael Ondaatje
Anything by Kafka
"The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz"

Books (and graphic novels) I recommend:
"The Lies of Locke Lamora" - Scott Lynch
"The Stormcaller" - Tom Lloyd
"The Way of the Shadows" - Brent Weeks
"Acheron" - Sherrilyn Kenyon (the second half anyway. If you like Twilight, this is how it SHOULD be done.)
"Neverwhere" - Neil Gaiman
"Sandman" - Neil Gaiman
"Black Cat" - Kentaro Yabuki
"The Hickory Staff" - Robert Scott and Jay Gordon
"The Count of Monte Cristo" - Alexandre Dumas
"Don Quixote" - Miguel de Cervantes