After a few weeks of not having much to blog about, I all of a sudden have quite a few things to blog about.  I’m just going to put them in one entry to make my life easier.

I woke up today to the lovely sound of my phone making a crackling noise that sounded somewhat like my alarm clock tone.  I hit snooze to see if it would do it again and it did.  Then I messed around with the ring tones and now my phone seems incapable of making any sort of ringing noise, choosing only to vibrate when someone calls me.  This really wouldn’t be the end of the world if it chose to happen while I was home and not while I was at school.  I’m long since due to a free upgrade and just kept this phone due to its excellent battery life.  However, since I’m not home I can’t get a new phone right away.  The phone’s in my dad’s name and I can’t just go into the AT&T store and get a new one without him.  So, he’s going to email me a list of phones that I can get for free and I’ll choose one.

I’m also sick, which doesn’t help matters.  Just a cough/sore throat, no fever, so that’s a plus.

The one good thing that happened today is that I discovered that I do not have to take anymore French classes in order to graduate!  Turns out only incoming freshmen needed to take two semesters worth of foreign language, not transfer students, so I’m in the clear after taking that one class over the summer.

Then I had to get my story critiqued in fiction workshop today.  The actual critique wasn’t bad.  My class seemed to like my story and had constructive things to say about it.  But then I got my grade.  C+.  Mostly due to mechanics!  It’s a fiction class, not a mechanics class!  He liked my story, just not the mechanics.  I don’t think mechanics should lower your grade that much.  I’m so pissed off about it.  It’s going to kill my overall grade which will then kill my overall GPA.

I’m so ready for this week to be over.  I wish mid semester break was this weekend instead of next.  I need a break.

Where did September go?  Seriously, that month went so fast.  Seems like the first day of school was just last week.  But nope, it definitely wasn’t.  Mid semester break is in a few weeks, which means that, hence its name, it will soon be the middle of the semester.  Guess who hasn’t started her senior thesis?  Hehe, that would be me.  I really should get started on it.  I am such a bad procrastinator.

October also means that Nanowrimo starts in a month.  I have a plot and I’m excited about it.  It’s a futuristic story about what happens after scientists figure out how to cure death, and it becomes mandatory that people cannot die.  That’s the story in a nutshell, but it’ll be more complicated than that.  I just hope I’ll have the time to work on it.  After finishing last year’s Nano in a mere two weeks, I decided to up my word count goal to 75,000 this year instead of Nano’s standard 50,000.  I’ve changed my mind now that I’ve realized how busy I’ll be that month.  If only I could use my thesis for my Nano, that would motivate me to get it done!

Class has been in session for over a week now, so I have sat through enough lectures to give you a sufficient opinion on my edumacation for the semester.  This semester is odd because only three of my classes have meeting times.  Besides them, I am working in a research lab and working on my senior thesis.

Class number one is Literary Analysis and is currently top pick for the semester’s most boring class.  It is a required class for every English major and minor, hence the reason I am taking it.  Right now, the only good thing about it is that my roommate is taking it with me and we get to rant about it after we leave the room.

This class involves reading five novels.  The first one, which we are currently reading is called A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe.  I will not recommend anyone read this book.  It is awful.  How it won a Nobel Prize I’ll never know.  I’m quite happy that we only have one more day of discussing it.

The professor is kind of strange.  He cannot stand still for more than a minute and spends class pacing in front of the chalkboard.  On the first day he freely admitted that he was the toughest grader in the English department and that he has favorites.  His favorites are those who speak in class.  I don’t really speak in class much.  Yeah, I’m kind of screwed.

Second class is Fiction Workshop and is currently holding the place of my favorite class.  A few of my friends from Creative Writing are in it, which adds to its awesomeness.  We each have to write two short stories and read a bunch of short stories from an anthology.  All of our stories get critiqued in front of class.  I’m already working on my first short story and I plan on putting it online once I’m finished.  The professor is very nice and seems quite normal.  Definitely an enjoyable class so far.

Third class is Animal Behavior.  This class is good so far, although we’re still learning about the history of Animal Behavior.  Then comes the research methods section, which is guaranteed to be boring.  I’m sure it’ll pick up after that.  I just can’t wait until we do the unit on animals and their desire to locate and consume food.  I almost wish we had to do a paper on that because I could easily write a 20 page paper about Benny and his insane desire for food.

There’s not much to say about my other two classes.  In the research lab I’ll be conducting research, but I can’t blog about ongoing research.  I haven’t really started my thesis yet, so there’s nothing to say about it.

A little over a year ago I started writing a fan fiction, In Moonlight’s Shadow, that was about one of the characters in my Albus Severus Potter series.  It soon became the longest and best (in my opinion) story I’ve ever written, including original fiction.  I just kept thinking up more and more plot points and it kept getting longer and longer.

Today, June 29, 2009, at approximately 4:35PM, EST I finished it.  I was listening to the song ‘Black Santas’ by Lauren Fairweather (which is a song you really wouldn’t understand unless you’ve read Paper Towns by John Green).  It topped out at 259,871 words in 62 chapters.

I’m very glad that I finished it, but it is going to be strange not working on it nearly everyday.  I have a sequel planned out that I can’t wait to start.