SUCCESS

Ladies and gentlemen, I FINALLY have a job.

I got a call from the place I least expected: "William-Sonoma". It's a high-end kitchen store with some merchandise that is worth more than everything I own. For a kitchen. I expect a lot of snooty customers. I have to think of a way to toy with the super rude ones without making the company look bad. This should be fun. In the meantime, it looks like I'll be learning a lot about cooking...which is hilarious since all I can cook is soup, cookies, crappy stir fry and Kraft Dinner. I'm reading through the dress code here and LORDY are they specific. Here are some of my favourites:

"Women are required to wear hosiery with skirts shorter than knee length (up to 4" above the knee)" (lol hosiery)

"If wearing pants with belt loops, a belt is to be worn, except on jeans" (I don't own a belt)

"Small, understated patterns are acceptable (i.e. checkered, plaid, floral, hounds tooth)" (wtf is hound's tooth?)

"Aprons tied behind the neck are to be worn underneath any collared shirt" (would be a little weird on top)

Anyhow, this should be quite the experience.

I have been reading through WMRR to write down main important information in each chapter so I have a guideline for future chapters. I forget what I've done shortly after I've done it with writing, so this should keep me on track. I have to do school work, record mission 7 of Dungeon Keeper and get through my paperwork first, but if I have time (or energy) I will finish chapter 7. Finally.

I Just Posted..

But meh.

I had to show this to people. It's been a long time since I've been so impressed by a video. This is probably because I've been watching reviews and YouTube poop, but I digress. The animation was just...wow. I don't know if you watch Red vs. Blue, but there's a lot of running jokes in this episode and they were actually funny. I am entertained.



Nothing else to report really other than...I GOT AN INTERVIEW TOMORROW AT 1. True it's at Staples, but when you have under 65 dollars to your name you aren't picky.

My Little Corner

Of a many-cornered internet. What would you call a million sided object? A milligon?

I finally feel like I'm in control of many aspects when really they're all over the place and firing molten "wtf" balls at my face. I don't even know what that means. I posted a parody of "Pain" by Three Days Grace that I found in my documents today. I just thought the song would be more interesting if it involved zombies...singing about brains. I was bored on a road trip last year. What can I say? At any rate if you want to see the horribleness:

Brains - A Parody of "Pain"

In other news, I am trying to avoid writing a project proposal. This is mostly because I have no idea what to do. I was going to try and write a short story and do a critical response on it (also because I can reuse the short story in my portfolio if it's good), but I might just do a research essay because I've done so many over these last four years that they're like eating really painful and tiring cake. Easy, but painful and tiring to eat. Maybe an analogy about making cake would have been better here...

WMRR progress goes slow, mostly because I have lacked motivation over the past few weeks. If anyone looks at my other blog you'll understand why. I want to finish my current chapter so much, but I need that extra little kick to get it going.

Though progress on this has been slow, I wrote more on "EGAWT". Yes I decided to put the "T" in. It makes sense because there is a lot of "T" in me. Mostly green, but sometimes Earl Gray or ginger. I added parts about POVs and intrusive narrators. For now all I have to finish is the part on Time. A friend of mine is supposed to send me notes on poetry writing as well. At any rate, I present the updated...

EGAWT

Dreamstate

I'm done with being an emo face about the contest. I'll try again later this summer and in the fall once I hear about more contests. In the meantime, I'm going to work on my portfolio for Fiction Writing II. I need some new material to present. Yesterday I came up with some WEIRD ideas for stories in class and on the train. I wrote a segment I thought of down and man, even I'm not sure what's going on. I like it though. I tried some new styles, use of tense, breaks and subject matter. I want to try and experiment with as many forms of writing as I can to see what works and doesn't work in various situations. I think what I have works...but I really have no idea. I posted the work on my DeviantArt for some cold, hard criticism. What better place to look for brutality than the internet? So far I've had....TWO VIEWERS! Yeah, I'm not too popular =p

As for WMRR I've put it on hold until I've experimented a bit more. I've figured out a lot of parts that I was confused on or missing, but I realized I need to go back (especially to chapter 3) and add some much needed information. At any rate, here's to moving on.

Dreamstate

Check it out and let me know if it fails as much as I think it does.

Balls

Just balls.

I kind of hoped my submission would make it a little futher. Never expected to win, just wanted to do better. Better luck next time I guess.

Yeah....

Everything's Eventual

I think that was a title of one of Stephen King's short stories. Never read it though.

Amazing how every time I have a paper to write I end up writing blog posts instead. Three years of university and I can safely say I hate writing papers. The research is cool, the subject matter is interesting, applying it in a coherent, proper MLA/Chicago style paper just irritates me. I usually can only get out about 200 words before I get distracted and take a 20 minute break. That's on a good day. You can see why I love fiction writing so much. I'm able to write stuff I'm interested in and have FUN writing and all the rules can be broken.

Not that determining whether a text is a Western Gothic, Canadian Gothic or an another genre alltogether isn't interesting. I just feel like tearing a text to itty-bitty pieces destroys the whole point of literature in the first place.

I have to admit, aside from Literary Theory, Canadian Literature has been my favourite English class (this doesn't count Fiction Writing...I'm counting that as a writing class, not English literature). This may have to do with the utter dullness of my other English subjects. I did learn in poetry that rice paper books are edible, drinking liqueur with silver in it won't hurt you, Tim Horton's french vanilla coffee is delicious, love is like a red red rose and seamen ovulate in boats on the sea. Also, sometimes a wheelbarrow is just a wheelbarrow.

OH! Let's get back on topic to WMRR...I haven't made much progress. In fact, I took a step backwards! In order to save my laptop from dying an early(ish) death, I had to reinstall windows. I didn't back up the most recent copy of WMRR. I only lost about 200 words, but I also lost my Microsoft Office cds. I AM using Open Office...but I feel I need an excuse.

Okay, now I'm just procrastinating.

OH LOOK A VIDEO!

Dividing by Zero

Well

This has nothing to do with anything. I just saw the title of my last post and this song popped into my head:

Sixteen Tons

A song I haven't heard since grade 9. So weird.

Not going to get much writing done this weekend; I have an essay due on Wednesday next week and I have to have 2 paragraphs done by tomorrow. I haven't really started yet. I blame Oblivion and its addictiveness. Arghhhhhhh

Another Year Older...

But I doubt I'm any wiser.

I'm now legal in the States as of...4 days ago. Not that it matters really. I'm not much of a drinker. My friends and family are amazing though. They all fooled me and threw me a surprise party. I watched the video of me walking in and I look like a deer caught in the headlights. It's great.

Had a fairly unproductive weekend. I thought a lot about where I want to go from here in terms of writing. Wrote a little bit of chapter 7 and edited and posted a new video. I'm glad to see at least 17ish of 35 subscribers are watching and enjoying it. Makes me happy. I often wonder if they'd watch if they knew I was of the female gender. I'm sure about 95% of the people that watch think I'm a guy. Not sure why, but it's kind of funny. Am I really that masculine?

At any rate, word count is sitting around 37,500. Hopefully I'll get to 40,000 this week. Simple goal it is. Apparently turning into Yoda I am. Going to play Oblivion I am.

Save me from the addiction.