mornings we have toast and tea
i gaze across the table, she glares right back at me
and when we're getting low on jam
i give her the last spoonful, that's just the way i am
and i drive her to work each day
even though it's early, and work is far away
and i don't even say a thing
when she plays the radio so loud you cannot think

because i know it's true
i know it's true
that i was made for her and she me too
and i'm pretty sure that she thinks so too
she'll be coming back soon

on last night's snl.
there was a moment between meyers and samberg.
during weekend update.
i am not making this up.
i have a new pairing!

fanfiction.net and del.icio.us have nothing though.
i cannot be the first person to think of this!
in any case. time to write.

<333 love gj

okay so maybe a lot of incoherence tonight.

because all i've been able to come up with for the past week is single lines of nonsense that don't go together.

parts that are not mine are in italics. because i've listened to a lot of wonderful music lately.

follow to the

i wrote this tonight and yeah?
i don't know. it's kind of boring and isn't really about someone in particular, though it sounds like it is.
i kinda wish it was!

( anyways. )
and i xposted on fbook for no apparent reason.
apparently i wanted people to read this one?

♥ gj

I feel the DIRE need to post this. I don't know if anybody else is going to find it funny, but I found it absolutely hilarious, and if it makes somebody else laugh even half as much as I did then it's totally worth the time spent to post it.  Hope you enjoy it!!


<3 GJ

ps. Hope everybody is doing well.  Have hardly been online lately-- promise that once exams are over I'll go through to catch up on everybody's journals and read everyone's NaNo's and all of those good things.  And also post my own NaNo and some fics that are eating my brain alive! (some since October...)  I actually miss knowing what's going on with everyone.  Exams over: Dec 10th.  CAN'T WAIT.

So, I'm kind of owning this website assignment that I'm working on for my Education InfoTech class.  All it is is building a simple website, but mine is pretty impressive if I do say so myself!  It's due Tuesday, but I'm going to finish as much as I can tonight (this morning?) so that tomorrow I can have time to look at it and fix things.

It may sound logical, but this might be the first time in my life I've planned to finish something ahead of schedule and am ACTUALLY going through with it.  So... *pats self on back*

In other news, NaNo is at a standstill for the time being until school quiets down.  Aka, definitely not going to finish before month's end.  Karen and I have decided that we'll finish by Christmas eve, because what better gift to wake up to on Christmas morning than a BOOK that you WROTE?! (Also, there are speaks of a new shoeboxproject post in the pre-new-year's time frame... how exciting is this!!

Back to work! Ahh! Must finish and get (some tiny, insufficient amount of) sleep!

11148 words!  Woooo!

Syntax assignment due tomorrow morning at 11:30 am, worth 15% of final grade.. haven't started.. Boooooo!

Haven't been on the old LJ in ages.  School got so hectic, and will continue to be so for the next couple weeks.  However, I've had a huge epiphany and have decided to take a completely different route-- I won't be continuing my program in the winter term, I'm going to head to a college nearby in the fall and take a program in Child and Youth Services.  The best way I can think of to explain it is like a social work program.  You deal with kids and teenagers who are having behavioural and emotional problems due to family issues or other circumstances.  I got the whole huge speech from my parents about how I "won't make any money doing that" and I'm "going to see things that will make me bitter and think that everyone is by default a terrible person".  Well, yes.  I won't make a lot of money, but it's not like I was going to be making a fortune as a teacher either.  And I don't want to sound like I'm being all martyr or something, but somebody has to do that work, and I genuinely would want to do it.  So after talking to the parents for a while, they conceded-- they aren't "happy" about it, but they're not mad either.  They "think I can do better" but they're willing to let me choose my own path.  I'm hoping that I can prove to them it's something I'm serious about and that I can actually make a difference.  That's what I want to do, so I'm glad I'm going to get the chance to do it.

Anyways, moving on from school because it's boring.

I had a long weekend working and I went out on both Friday and Saturday night, which was nice.  And last week was interesting, my mom surprised me with a shopping trip to the States, since our dollar is so high right now and it's Christmas shopping time.. and yeah, that was good too.

I think I'm going to just go ahead and post my NaNo story as far as it is right now (9100 words) in another post, because I feel like I should do something with it.  And what else to do with it but throw it onto the LJ!

I'm in class now, so I should probably stop typing.  Yes.  That's it.

<3 GJ

Was reading shoebox, as usual, and just had to post this.

"Remus moves aimlessly through the stacks to his favorite carrel, the little rejected one alone in the very back between linguistics and classical history. He likes that it's a little crooked, as if its deformity has led to its being banished from the ranks of orderly carrels up front.

Remus is also aware that it is thoughts like these that make it unlikely that he will ever be able to form a meaningful relationship with anybody."

Have I ever mentioned that Remus and I are the same person? Gahd.

*adding this in later*

"This will probably end in tragedy," Remus admits.

Oh God. I just want to eat him alive.

 Alright, third try in like 5 minutes at posting this entry!  So my book is about this young man who has some really terribly shitty things happen to him.  As a result, he ends up coming into a great amount of money, and the book is all about him using it to build himself a new life around the remnants of his old one.  I hope that's enough bg info for this passage to make sense (I think it should be enough).  Read away, if you like!




<3 GJ

Good news and bad news time.

Let's start with the bad: I'm so far behind on NaNo already, I only have 2500 ish words.  Which is like.. less than half of what I should have. Damn it.  Also, panicked about this one term paper due Wednesday... not going so well.  And I think I failed my Syntax test on Friday =(

Good news: My computer has been shipped and should be here in the next couple of days! That makes me really happy.  And in the "random" column, I was at my best friend's work Christmas party last night (early, I know lol) and in the silent auction I won an iPod Nano! I thought that was pretty sweet.  And lucky, cause I'm not one who usually wins stuff.  So I was really happy about that! =)

Anyways, I'm getting back to term-papering now and neglecting the novel.. but priorities, right? Too bad they're my parents' priorities and not mine. .Anyways, researching and writing and then going to actual work to make some money to pay for that soon-to-be-arriving computer!

-GJ

-GJ

Alright, just woke up after writing to about 1:30 last night, wordcount is at 1,390!  I'm impressed, honestly  =)
Will go get food soon and then hop into the truck and barrel up to the lake for the day.  Hope things are going well for everybody else so far!
Oh and I snagged this wonderful icon from somebody off of that spotlight community, nanoljers.  I feel it accurately describes my dilemma.. I can't stop editing!!  Arghh.. must overcome this obstacle.. sooooon..

-GJ

Dear lord, I am so excited. Less than 2 hours left here until midnight, and I can't WAIT!!   =)

I already had a Slurpee to jack myself up on caffeine, and I have several bottles of water at the ready to keep me hydrated overnight lol. I don't plan on staying up RIDICULOUSLY late, but.. late. Past midnight is late for me to begin with, so we'll see how long I can make it for!

Tomorrow I decided that I am going to head up to the lake with mon père, so I'll bring my notebook in the truck but I doubt much will get done-- it's awkward to just sit and write when there should be conversation going on.  Also, I'm almost guaranteed to drive one if not both ways. Not that I'm complaining, I definitely love driving (especially to the lake) but it will inhibit my writing skills.. hands on the steering wheel and all.  And there's a write-in tomorrow night! I can't wait to go to it and meet all the other people writing in Winnipeg =) I have a friend at school who's writing too, and I met someone on the forums who goes to the same school as us so the 3 of us will be getting together and writing every now and then as well.

Time to ditch my family, my social life, school, and work as much as possible for the next 4 weeks!

AHHHH! ONE HOUR AND THIRTY THREE MINUTES TO GO!!!!! =D *squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

Good luck everyone!

-GJ

Okay, so this story is kind of dumb, but it relates to R/S so I figured I'd post it (them being my OTP and all).

My brother was out at a Halloween party and he was telling me all about it yesterday morning. He said at one point, he was outside and there were these two dogs that came over and started chasing him around (probably trying to get him to play, but he was drunk so he said he was terrified of them haha). Anyways, the dogs were chasing him about outside, and he went back inside to tell the person whose party it was that her dogs had gotten out of the house-- to which she replied "What dogs?" Turns out she didn't have any dogs, so my brother told her that there was a big black dog and a smaller brown one out in her yard and she might want to do something about it.  When he was telling me the story, I was like "Don't worry, it was probably just Remus and Sirius." Well my brother found that pretty funny, and added "If it were them, they'd probably be doing a lot more than running around. They're so gay."

OH YEAH!! So basically, my conclusion is this: My brother has no reason to WANT it to be true, he just thinks it is. Therefore, since he's clearly unbiased, it must be true! It's all the confirmation I need, anyways!  =)

Hmm, well I bought a laptop yesterday. It should arrive somewhere in the vicinity of Nov. 6th-- not pre-NaNo like I'd hoped, but oh well.  I'm really excited to be able to head out to Starbucks and be able to actually get stuff done there instead of just scribbling on paper and then retyping it later when I get home.  I caught the tail end of a sale at Dell too, so my computer started at $549 (I added shtuff on though, aka more RAM and a better battery) and it ended up at just under $900 so I'm really glad. I wanted one of the new Inspiron notebooks that's in 8 different colours, but they're at least $200 more expensive and have less of the things I wanted than the cheaper one does. So I decided to be practical (for maybe the first time in my life?) and sacrifice the fashion for the function!! I feel like I deserve a medal for that hahaha =P

My manager bought me lunch yesterday ^_^

I'm still panicked about my term papers. I have ideas for both of them, but they're not very sturdy so I need to work on them soon. Preferably this afternoon or something.

Ah! I'm so obsessed with Marianas Trench this week. I always loved Shake Tramp, but now I can't stop listening to  and Low. They're just really great songs (and angry and angsty and everything that makes good music!!)

I had my first guitar lesson on Wednesday too! It went well, as well as it could for a person who's never played before. I actually think it helped that I've played so many hours upon hours of Guitar Hero on Xbox-360.

I think that's about all for today..

Happy Puppyshipper's Day!!!!!!

I'll post pics of my bracelets (the idea for which I blatantly stole from interrobanging) later on!

GJ

I've decided what I'm doing! Ahhhh!
Original, not fan. (Say whaaaat?!)
The idea is in my head.  Right now it's mainly a character, but there are bits and pieces of plot in there too.  They are angsty bits.  This character is simply exuding angsty plot!  All over the inside of my head!  And I'm loving it. (Wow. I sound REALLY crazy. I promise I'm not actually.)  Although, I am having to physically restrain myself from doing anything beyond an outline. I am so effing eager to get started!!  Only 12 days before we can begin!

Oh and I spent the entire night at work thinking about this bunny (is it called a plotbunny anymore if it's about to inspire a 50000 word novel?) and yet somehow managed to stay focused enough that this one customer actually went up to my manager and told her that I'm an "amazing, kind, helpful, intelligent, and efficient employee who should be very much appreciated".  (Huhhhh? Well, I guess I am fairly perky!  =D).  I was stuck in fitting rooms the whole night, and I helped her and her daughter find some jeans in a rush because the daughter had chronic fatigue so they couldn't really spend a lot of time at the mall.  Apparently she really appreciated it!  Also, since I was jammed up in the FR's all night, I only got to be on till for about 25 minutes at the very end of my shift and I sold 3 loyalty cards in that time!  I'm so proud of myself hahahaha probably more than I should be about something as stupid as selling Signature Cards... But it's my forte!  My manager calls me the Sig-Card-Superwoman.  =)

Incredibly pumped for Nov. 1 and sincerely hoping this enthusiasm doesn't fade anytime soon,
GJ