This is actually two videos, because the first one is sort of happy and sad and poignant and somewhat horrifying, all at once. The second video is the first one with a happier ending. I can't decide which I like better.

I didn't expect this, but I kind of love it. I want the arrangement they did so Cadence can do a slightly-less-catastrophic version. Lol.

A friend posted this on my wall a few days ago. It'd be much more appropriate for St. Patrick's Day, but it's making me happy now. So... yeah. Best version of Danny Boy EVER.

Well, in spite of my procrastination, I managed, somehow, to write eleven pages of new material for the Baby Reaper story this weekend. I'm kind of absolutely thrilled about this. It's been difficult - there has been much frustration and rearranging of index cards (I've plotted out the entire story on index cards, the easier to see where I've been and where I'm going, and to move things if I need to). But I've added lots of new things, and I know where I'm going next. I also know how the story is going to end. Not like it did in the last draft - that ending kind of sucked, mostly because it happened too quickly. I'm excited. It seems like I might actually have a novel on my hands if I finish it.

Scary thought.

I do it quite well. Even now I'm writing a blog instead of working on things that need to get done. Like the Baby Reaper story, or my Chaucer presentation. Granted, I'm about 90% done with the presentation, but then there's this small part of me that's like "Why don't you just go ahead and get it done, then you won't have to think about it any more?"

The rest of me says "Nah. Don't wanna."

So instead of doing my work, I'm writing this and looking for new pictures for my desktop. For a while I've been using one that came with my computer of a pink lotus-flower, and it was really pretty, but I'm getting tired of pink. For some reason, though, I prefer pictures of nature-y things for my background, even though I don't really like being outdoors. You'd think I'd rather have a picture of, say, a really architecturally beautiful building, or maybe the interior of a castle, or some such. But no. I go for landscapes. Trees, and fog, and cliffs, and sunsets. Snow, sometimes. Kind of reminds me of Sewanee, actually.

Anyway. Here are some pictures I've found that I really really like.













There are several more, as well. I'm having a hard time deciding, and a lot of fun finding even more to choose from. I should probably make my choice and get back to working on things that actually need working on...

That is a quote out of this book I got for Christmas. Life goes by way too fast. Do you feel that way? Sometimes I wonder where the time goes. Although sometimes it feels like it slows down to the point of crawling - those are the days where I get everything done and then sit for hours, antsy because it seems like there should be more things to do and yet I know there's not. I try and fill those times with writing but it doesn't always work. I generally end up staring at my story, wondering what the hell I was thinking, starting something like this that I don't even know how to finish.

I'm so afraid of this story. Like... it's such a huge thing now. It started off as fun and simple and easy but now it's hard and it feels like I'm fighting for every word I put on the page. And I don't have the time to fight for this story. I need it to come easy, like it did when I started it, but I don't know how to make that happen. And then there are the other ideas - those never stop coming. And I just write them down and set them aside but I can almost hear them calling to me. It's a very weird place for me to be.

Also, a friend of mine is writing a story using a typewriter. That is so awesome. I kind of want to do that.