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First things first...

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Whee! Only 4,661 words until I can buy myself another book about writing! (I have a lot of fun reading them, even though I write without referencing them. I feel motivated afterwards and like I might have learned something, and I love to discuss writing, so this is almost as good as that!) And also, of course I then lend them to

blondeyetti, so it's like a cycle of goodness ^-^

(If anyone ever feels like discussing writing, by the way, OHMIGOD PICK ME, PICK ME! because I really, really enjoy it. My project, your project, writing in general...)

Bulletpoints, because I haven't used them in a while!

Anyway, real life stuff! We've been given LOADS of work this week, and I was going to go to the anime club's fangirl sleepover on Saturday, but I don't think I can justify the time to myself TT-TT I really have loads I have to get done, which is sad. (The sleepover is from, like, two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, so it really would eat up too much time, unfortunately.) I have loads of Self-Directed Learning due.

Today I downloaded some free novel-planning software off the net, and I have to say that I really like it. I'm not going to use it to actually write my novel, but it's useful to look at structure and things - like tracking where each character is, where scenes are, whether there's enough tension all the way through or if there are low patches, that sort of thing. I plugged in everything I've done so far, anyway, and I'm half in love with it. If anyone's interested, you can find it here, it's called ywriter.

I'm getting all wound up more easily at the moment, which I think is probably because of a few different things - more work, plus going to talk to the phD student about Mum stirred that up, and one of my friends' Dad died. (I'd say who it was, but she hasn't said that I could, so.) Plus the Postal Strike is still on here, with no end in sight, and I'm getting PISSED OFF. I ordered my copy of the new Temeraire book from the States so that I could read it as soon as possible, goddammit!

But basically all my issues are closer to the surface at the moment, so for instance I'm finding it hard to convince myself (again) that the reason I've not met anyone yet, like, ever, is not because there is something fundamentally wrong with me, it's just a case of timing. Sometimes I'm just very aware of being twenty years old and never had a boyfriend, you know? I want somebody to be close to, who will say nice things to me even though he'll tease me like hell too, etc etc. And so on and so forth.

I need ten more fics that I love enough to rec on my del.icio.us, because then I will have exactly 1000 fics linked on there, in loads of different fandoms. Can anybody rec me anything to read? Please?

Okay, that's it for now :D

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What SDL is it - neuroanatomy workbooks? Whatever it is, bring it to the sleepover - I'll help you out with it, thereby saving you from having to watch the brain-melter that is Boku no Sucky Sucky XDDDD You don't have to turn up at 2pm - turn up aaaany time you want. Kaneen is planning to show a lot of random stuff so it doesn't really matter what time you get here, there'll be something or other on. I won't be showing up to it till late afternoon either as I have archery till 3pm and I might go downtown after XD It's pretty easygoing - you can leave whenever you want as well.

Is it your birthday soon or something? I was wondering if that's why people are sneaking around you at the moment :P

I share your annoyance with the postal strike as well - I'm waiting on my placement pack! ><;

I've got too much work, really, to go, I'm sorry :( Maybe for a little of the afternoon, but... *sigh*

It's not my birthday until March, so God alone knows what they're up to *is impatient some more*

The post started up again today though! And I got three of my four packages!

*Hugs* honey.

Hope the postal strikes stop soon. Nothing should be allowed to stop you reading the next Temeraire book. I've still only read the first two, but I'm planning on getting the next two soon. I think they could be perfect escapism.

If it makes you feel any better, I'm 26 and never had a boyfriend. It worries my mum no end, but I reckon it'll happen when it happens.

If I can find any fics that you haven't read, and that are good, I'll let you know :-) Probably going to McShep, but then you probably knew that ;-)