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In which I rant about UNFAIR and UGLY parts of the world, too close to home
How can some women think it's okay to abandon their children?????
My now ex sister-in-law has just disappeared with her new boyfriend, and apparently said in front of her three sons that she didn't want them! I'm learning all of this through the rumor mill, since I'm still in that weird limbo of not-a-kid-but-not-really-a-grown-up-in-this-family- ( Read more... ) -
Happy Halloween
There is a black cat lurking around the house, and this morning, in the dark of TOO EARLY,it is entirely possible that it crossed my path and I didn't cross it in return, because thrity minutes later, time perfectly to the drmatic ending of Michael Jackson's Thriller, my car blew a tire and I had to change it in the dark by light of Hillary's phone ( Read more... ) -
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My free proof copy went to the noble purpose of binding a (roughly) 60k word Big Bang Theory fanfiction. (heehee that's right ( Read more... ) -
the bright side
Hillary and I tried to go to school today, but the car broke down in Resaca, 45 minutes from home and fifteen minutes from the college. It's so inconvienent for several reasons, the first being that my car (our back up car) was already messed up, so now I am basically carless. The second reason being that we can't miss class tomorrow, it doesn't ( Read more... ) -
Hilla told me to
100 Truths
001. Real name → Heather Emily Griggs (or is it?)
002. Nickname(s)→ Hetta. (as Hetta and Heewee; three-year-old-speak for Heather and Hillary.)
003. Zodiac sign → Aquarius. Today's forcast: "Even if your best friend is in tears, you’re somewhat distracted by personal issues today. There’s a bright side, though - you should dream up an ( Read more... ) -
This was fun!
PhotoMeme
1. Go to Wikipedia and hit random. The first article you get is the name of your band.
2. Go to quotationspage.com and hit random. The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album
3. Go to Flickr and click on "explore the last seven days". the third picture no matter what is you album cover
4. ( Read more... ) -
Work
I mean this in the creative and non-creative sense ( Read more... ) -
Ah, the spirit of NaNo is with me.
I’ve been suffering writer’s block for weeks now, haven’t got a single thing done, just stared at my computer or read over past works of brilliance. Then this morning I had a break through, and it was so simple I feel like I have to write about it, put it out there where other pathetic writer’s like me can read it and get a clue.
All I did was ( Read more... ) -
About time for another one of these...
I've been having a great writing streak lately. I don't know if it is because I am inspired by the so many amazing stories around me right now or if it's just that time of my write-a-bit-don't-a-bit cycle that I've been on since...well, my entire writing life ( Read more... ) -
Personal Legend
So I won NaNo WriMo 2009!
When I tell people who aren't familiar with it, they always ask, what did you have to do?
Well, I got 50,000 words in 30 consecutive days, that's what I had to do!
I actually over-achieved. Apparently I am super competitive. And it's not like anyone in the writing group had made it a race or anything, but I needed to be ( Read more... )