Been one of those weeks....

So. Monday. Last Monday to be exact.
I'm in this group called Sketchy Business here, it's a gorup that gets together and writes skits, puts together a show, and performs about once a month. We meet Mondays and Wednesdays. I'm no actor, so I write for them. My friends run it so I figured I'd go a help out. I'm directing a couple scenes for the show this coming Wednesday which involve music that I cut on my computer. I play this on Monday for the rehearsal, close my computer and when I get back to my room my monitor won't turn on. Turns out the backlight blew or something and you can't see anything. Now this isn't the first time this has happened, though it was with another computer.
So I'm without my computer now. I go to Campus Computing in theonly time I have free Tues. while they're open and leave my computer there. I get a call later saying it's the backlight and that I can come pick it up tomorrow.
I pick it up Wednesday morning. they guys basically tells me it could be this, this, or this, but he's not sure. All I'm thinking is did you even open it up to see what might be wrong? Doesn't seem like it. However at this point there's some silver lining in that I do have a credit with the school and I went to see if i could use that for a new computer because that one has had numerous things go wrong with it prior. So that's good news. I'm still without a computer, but things are looking up because I can get a new one.
Thursday, things went alright until the end of crew when I burned my thumb and middle finger on my left hand on a gobo. It was pretty bad. I went to dinner and then came back early for night crew. I was fussing with the same gobo because it was square, but needed to be round. It had a little thing in it to like cut/peel off to make it round, but mind you gobos are pieces of metal. cutting makes for sharp edges. I was putting it in the frame and it was getting stuck and wouldn't go in all the way so I grasp the edge of the frame with my thumb and forefinger of my left hand and pull the gobo out. Remember the sharp edges? They went pretty deep into my forefinger and it bled for a long while. This was half an hour before crew started, and I was leading this night shop as it was the focus day for lights. Needless to say that was an interesting time of me being quite absent minded and walking around like ET with my finger in the air to stop the bleeding. [By this time my finger was wrapped in gauze and a bandaid with tape to keep it on. Now no adults are really around because this is in the student run theatre, and I didn't go find anyone because I know my first aid, plus if I told/showed Heather it would mean a hospital trip and most likely completely unnecessary stitches. I didn't get stitches for when I drove a chisel into my hand my sophomore year of high school. This wasn't as bad as that.
Friday comes around and I get my paycheck as well as the credit check from the school. The mail at school has already gone through so I stop by to cancel my drum lesson [because it's hard to hold drumsticks properly when you have a finger that you have to be careful about not bending a certain way so the cut heals together] and then head to the post office in town. I pay $18.30 to get the checks home the next day so I can get the money and get the computer that weekend. Come to find out even with all the plans running through my mind knowing the bank is closed Saturday that it won't really be possible and that I basically spent $20 for nothing.
Saturday was just me being frustrated over the whole week during morning crew painting the floor and I don't hardly remember the rest of the day save going to the show that night and then the Hookah bar afterward. [I'm not a smoker, so I sat there while most everyone else did. Still had a great time.]
Sunday went to church, then lunch. It was a much better day because we had figured out that i could transfer the amount I needed from my mom's account into mine because she had enough even with the check not clearing to get the computer. So I did that and found a ride to Best buy and bought myself a brand new Toshiba laptop. Millions of times better than my old Compaq. [Not an old computer really, I'd only had it for over a year and a half but with all the issues I'd had with it, it wasn't worth it anymore.]

So a hell of a week. Now this week starts tech for the show I'm designing so that should be interesting. The director and others are making ridiculous requests of the other designers and it's frustrating me to no end, and I don't even get any of it because there's nothing special for lights in this show. They want to add in a hanging bookshelf instead of a table with a lamp. The walls we put up are not structural. They can't handle a bookshelf hanging on them--even with only one book. The facing ins only a quarter inch thick. It's RIDICULOUS. And they've asked to change the legs of the bed for the third time. And by how much this time? An inch. REALLY? Is that really going to make any difference at all?.

UGH. People can be frustrating. Life can be frustrating.
Things are going better now in general for me. The slice has pretty much sealed back together, I've stopped putting the butterfly closures on it. [My first aid kit for some reason had them and that's what my school nurse put on the chisel wound and it worked wonderfully. I was super excited when I saw them.] My new computer is wonderful. Bigger screen than before and I literally cried because it made NO NOISE when I turned it on. I thought it hadn't turned on. My other one was so loud it was terribly embarrassing.

Anyway, it's almost 1:30, I should probably go to bed and stop ranting on and on about all the shit that's been going on this past week and that will be going on. It's really not all that bad--last week was just a terrible exception.

Sakitu

Helloooo out thereee....

Why hello.

It's only been like a year since I've even looked at this thing....okay not quite, but pretty damn close. A few updates? Why sure go ahead.
I've finished my first year and a half of college. I'm currently in my second sophomore semester. I'm a theatre major in a 3 year-2 summer program so the six weeks this summer counted as my first sophomore semester. I'm in the middle of designing the lights for the first show in the student run theatre--we open in two weeks or so. Jared? Yeah, still absolutely adore him, and he's now in his first year at school. He got a full ride to his college for all 5 years that he'll be there [He's getting his Masters in Vocal performance and Music Ed.] So I won't see him for a while, but worked with him when I got home this summer and had a wonderful time. Nano? Nope. That I don't even remember. Things go so far away from me I don't even know.

So things have been going pretty well in general. School is AWESOME. The administration drives me bonkers for the most part, but the theatre faculty is worth staying for--I love them all and couldn't imagine school without them. With fewer tech majors coming in and few in the class above me, our class of 7 or-so techs will have dominance over the department come next year--I'm really hoping for a design job in the Playhouse next season--definitely looking for one at Okoboji this summer. I've made just wonderful friends, whom I don't know what I'll do without when I graduate. Will terribly miss them and I know that already. One in particular is like my other half--Kim. I've even made friends with her friend from home whom I've never actually met. I'm almost closer to her than some of my own friends back home. Glad to say we are getting to meet since I'll be spending Thanksgiving at Kim's house since I can't afford to fly back home.

As for Nano [coming up in a month and a half or so] I've just started looking back at the website and came up with a wonderful idea--at least one I enjoy right now. Incorporating my love of male characters [I only really roleplay male characters, don't really know why] and them being very intelligent, with my love [albeit lack of knowledge] of history.
It will be starring Dr. Austin James Wilder who's 32 years old and was orphaned at 6. He's a genealogist and works in the special collections department at the University of Vermont. Despite being on of the best in his trade--Austin cannot track down his own family. He has no other relatives alive that he knows of. The only ones he knows of are dead. No matter what he tries he always hits a dead end in his research. So of course, the day the book starts is the day that all changes. As I remember reading somewhere [i think--maybe I just came up with this all my own--probably not] "A book is the day that something spectacular happens to the main character." Now that's in quotes, but it's my wording and such since I don't know if I read it somewhere or not. And day is a broad term--a book encompasses the time of this spectacular event. Your characters go on living normal lives, but no one wants to read about that. The extraordinary days are what get written about.

Anyway, It's fairly late [okay only 9:50] but it's still late enough for me to ramble, so I apologize.
I'll break this off for now. I doubt anyone is paying attention to this anymore, if anyone was to begin with. So Hello out there if you see this, and comment if you do--even just to say Hi back. =3

Sakitu

Ugh

Well, putting off this research paper was, of course, a bad idea, but I'm so used to doing that by now it's just normal. I work better at the last minute I find, I focus better--though in sporadic intervals. However, I'm stuck at 318 words for a paper that needs to be at least 750, and I'm stuck and can't find resources or articles online that are good. The paper is about the Apollo mission and more specifically why we got to the moon first. It's to be combined with three others at some point, but yeah. It's due tomorrow--story of my life. Needless to say I'm going to be catching up on today's word count tomorrow because as soon as I crank out 500 more words for this essay I'm crashing only to wake up early tomorrow to print it out. -sigh- I suppose I should stop procrastinating again and go look for more articles in my never-ending quest for knowledge....
[why do I need to do this again? I'm a theatre major? meh, ah well...]

Small Update

I'm off to a rolling start! At least 1700 more words than my last NaNo attempt which admittedly was in the middle of November or slightly after is started and only got like 300 words... I'm currently up and running at 2107 words.
Here's a small random tidbit that helped me get to those words, an excerpt in other words. :)
Though not a particularly relevant/good/long/etc.. one....

"Well that's why I don't teach history. I couldn't stand the thought of the subject. No, I'm an English teacher. One of the best, I like to think. My students certainly enjoy my class. I'm regarded as the cool teacher, everyone requests me which is a pity because I only like to have about 15 people tops in my classes. I teach any number of English courses you can imagine, even one that only lasted two months and met every other night that focused on National Novel Writing Month. We spent half a month sort-of laying out a guide for the student's novels and then spent the whole month focusing on pounding out word counts, finally we spent the last two weeks looking over each others' and having a laugh and talking about revising stories. That's beside the point, however--You should know I simply teach English at the school and am probably the most popular teacher at the college...."

Hope there's at least someone out there enjoying this. 8D
Goodnight for now and hopefully I'll remember to post another update on things tomorrow...

First Day

Okay, so first day of NaNo and I've got not a single clue about my story. My idea has shifted from wanting a nerdy, librarian type to narrate a story, to a time traveling group, to a Robin Hood-esque story perhaps set in modern times, to my current love which has no plot or anything just me wanting to write from a villain's perspective. Remeniscient of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog in the sense that the villain is kind-of more of the good guy than the hero. I think I've decided to set it in some school setting. I do know the sort of idea, based on this quote that I love to death;
"Villains are so much more pro-active than heroes. Heroes, by their nature, are purely reactionary forces. You never get a hero just doing things by himself, he always reacts to an event pout in motion. The villain is in all ways and agent of change. A catalyst."

That covers the whole idea behind what will hopefully turn into my 50k+ words at the end of the month. I'm hoping to get at least 2,000 words written tonight before I retire and hopefully some will get typed out during my lunch break after my statistics exam. I'm completely excited because I can't wait to 'meet' this new character of mine that will be the focus, and perhaps narrator of the story. He feels like he's going to be very interesting. 8D

Oh and here's another calendar, well same as one of the others, but it has the 75k/100k word count instead of 50 and 100. Again, if anyone wants to request a calendar to be made I'd be more than happy to take it on. It'll be a distraction from homework and perhaps some of the troubles that may arise from my story.

NaNoWriMo

So Yay! NaNo is almost here, just a couple more weeks and the madness begins. I've decided I'll try and post daily/weekly updates here or something of the sort. Not that anyone looks at this thing, but maybe someone will take interest in how my novel's going. Let's hope. =]

This would be my second attempt at Nano, though last year was a complete and utter fail, like no where close. Too much going on. This year I'm into this, I'm super determined to get it done. I've actually got someone who knows what this thing is and will be writing as well, and hopefully I can get the creative writing department in on it too, I'm going to send the head an email either tonight or tomorrow about it just letting her know it's happening. Which is good 'cause we also have a script-writing class which is perfect for Screnzy in April.

But yeah, I'm so into this, this year. I've made two calendars (out of boredom sure) with wordcount goals on them. One looks like a chocolate bar and it's for 50k and the other is very sleek and lovely and is for 50 & 100k. They're both made with the Nano colors. I'll post links to them here if anyone cares to take a look at them.



If you see them, like them, and want them in a different size, Nanomail me at Sakitu on the main site, or just comment on here and leave your Nano username so I can mail the re-sized one to you. Anywho, lots of ideas cranking around, none solid enough to write about but I'm working on that. Lots of little ones I like that could make for a very random story, but I'm a very random person so it would fit. 8D

-Sakitu

Jared

Okay, so I've been doing a show all summer--You're A Good Man Charlie Brown--out in the Valley so I've been getting rides out there everyday, basically, with Jared. Now, Jared and I have been good friends for a couple years. He's a singer in Camerata, directed Variety Show last year and will produce it this coming year, he'll be a senior, and he's just about the most amazing person you may ever meet. Not even exaggerating. He is so amazingly thoughtful and sensitive. He's an amazing singer and listens mostly to soundtracks of musicals. He raises birds, has his own little business with that, wants to be a music teacher. We have a lot in common, wanting to do many of the same things before settling down back here in the state we love. We also agree on many things and have the same train of thought most of the time. It's absolutely the most wonderful thing in the world. My best conversations have been with his on the way to or from rehearsal.

I am totally and completely in love with this man. Well not quite literally--like I really do like him a lot. I can see myself with him which has never happened with any other guy. There is no way I can get together with him, it would be pointless and would completely ruin what we have now. I'm off to college halfway cross the country in about 18 days and he's still going to be here in school. I wasn't sure how he felt about me--and I'm still really not, but our cast party was tonight and I was out with the rest of the younger people from the cast/crew having desert after and when I got home he sent me a text saying thanks for the great night and that he'd see me soon. I never get texts like that, not from his especially. I hardly ever get texts from him anyway. You have no idea how great that felt--well maybe but anyway--I sort of want to tell him that I really do like him but I don't want anything to happen just now and hopefully we can get together once he's out of college and get something going maybe. I'm just not even brave enough to do that--I don't want things to get awkward.

Anyway, I'm not looking for advice, I just wanted to get this out and see what people just thought about it. Maybe share some stories back and forth. So all ya'lls who may be here from Menagerie please comment, and anyone else who may happen across this I'd love to chat about stuff so drop a comment.