ADD strikes again. The Hangman series is taking a break for now (just vegging for now), and I'm working on Love is Stupid, a completely unrelated story with a completely different set of characters to duke it out with.
Hopefully I'll finish one of these damn stories...
Fell in love with the song "Tune It Up" by Timeflies. I like it, regardless of genre, and I'm dreaming up another... shit. I need to start writing these stupid ideas down before they eat me alive.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Kidney Stones Suck
At the healthy age of 22, I got a kidney stone. Now, when I first started to ache, I thought that it was just a muscle cramp, but OMFG, the pain just got worse.
Then came the vomiting.
Mom and I went to the ER at Mercy Gilbert (Mom's favorite place in the whole wide world [not]). We got there at about 8:30 PM. It was pretty empty, so we got to see a doctor pretty quickly. I threw up one more time at the hospital, though thankfully not during any of the tests. The drugs they gave me were... really nice, and I babbled at my mom for a while.
They sent us home with prescriptions for painkillers and anti-nausea pills and orders to drink more fluids. We went to a 24-hour CVS, but apparently it can be really busy at midnight. The pharmacist was nice enough to give us one anti-nausea pill to get through the night.
It didn't help.
After two extra visits to the white throne, I managed to fall "asleep". Three hours later, I went back to the bathroom for another round, and sometime during that visit, that little bastard stone plopped into my bladder. Instant pain-killer. At about 10 in the morning, that thing was completely gone.
I hope to God that I never get another kidney stone.
Then came the vomiting.
Mom and I went to the ER at Mercy Gilbert (Mom's favorite place in the whole wide world [not]). We got there at about 8:30 PM. It was pretty empty, so we got to see a doctor pretty quickly. I threw up one more time at the hospital, though thankfully not during any of the tests. The drugs they gave me were... really nice, and I babbled at my mom for a while.
They sent us home with prescriptions for painkillers and anti-nausea pills and orders to drink more fluids. We went to a 24-hour CVS, but apparently it can be really busy at midnight. The pharmacist was nice enough to give us one anti-nausea pill to get through the night.
It didn't help.
After two extra visits to the white throne, I managed to fall "asleep". Three hours later, I went back to the bathroom for another round, and sometime during that visit, that little bastard stone plopped into my bladder. Instant pain-killer. At about 10 in the morning, that thing was completely gone.
I hope to God that I never get another kidney stone.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
New Year's Resolutions
This year will be the year of change for me. I hope that I could get there with at least two major resolutions:
The first is "use my planner more". I tried this last year, but I completely failed at this. Procrastination is such a horrible habit to break. Hopefully, if I use my planner more, my grades would get better. At least homework won't pop up like the fucking ninja it was last semester.
The second is to lose at least 50 pounds, though I would love to lose 100+. Actually I need to lose a lot more than that (though I'm not really happy to say that), but 50 pounds sounds like a good start. Hopefully my planner and food tracking app will help me with that.
Minor goals of the year will be:
The first is "use my planner more". I tried this last year, but I completely failed at this. Procrastination is such a horrible habit to break. Hopefully, if I use my planner more, my grades would get better. At least homework won't pop up like the fucking ninja it was last semester.
The second is to lose at least 50 pounds, though I would love to lose 100+. Actually I need to lose a lot more than that (though I'm not really happy to say that), but 50 pounds sounds like a good start. Hopefully my planner and food tracking app will help me with that.
Minor goals of the year will be:
- Complete the Hangman series (which I've been working on since November) and self-publish it
- Do NaNoWriMo (Nov) and Camp WriMo (July & Aug)
- Not fail calculus or any other courses (but mainly calculus)
School starts in 4 days (Jan 5), but no one's prepared for it, I think. Hopefully I'll get my financial aid on Tuesday, though I get the feeling that it won't be until Wednesday. Shame on ASU for not being prepared. It's not like this came out of nowhere (it's been planned for a year at least), but oh well.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Hangman Series
I started on the rewrite of the Hangman series (my NaNo 2011 project). I remade it from 5 novels to a trilogy, but it's going to be odd fitting everything I want into only 3 books.
Right now, I'm working on the first book, titled Lost, but I do have bits of Found and Redeemed. I'm using the Scrivner program since I bought the full version today. I'll probably post some excerpts here.
Right now, I'm working on the first book, titled Lost, but I do have bits of Found and Redeemed. I'm using the Scrivner program since I bought the full version today. I'll probably post some excerpts here.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Christmas, Writing, & Getting Ready for New Year's
I've survived Christmas with relatively little damage. Got Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and underwear (of course) with some other things. Played a tiny bit of Oblivion, but found a renewed interest in Toy Soldiers.
I'm a bit surprised that I'm getting increasingly interested in completing the rewrite of my Hangman series, which served as my NaNoWriMo 2011 project. I think that I'm going to need to buy a lot of spiral bound notebooks next fall, but I think that we've got enough for my writing habits at home. I'll see about putting some parts of what I'm working on in future posts.
New Year's Day brings a new year (obviously), but it also brings new chances for excitement. I've already created my 2012 writing spreadsheet. I'm hoping to put some more time in with the Old Weather Project in Zooniverse, and it's getting easier to read cursive writing and more interesting now that it's more wartime. The ship I'm working on right now is the H.M.S. Ebro, an armed merchant cruiser in WWI, doing patrols in the Northern Atlantic. It's sort of funny when you read "Serviced abandon ship siren" written in the logs.
I'm a bit surprised that I'm getting increasingly interested in completing the rewrite of my Hangman series, which served as my NaNoWriMo 2011 project. I think that I'm going to need to buy a lot of spiral bound notebooks next fall, but I think that we've got enough for my writing habits at home. I'll see about putting some parts of what I'm working on in future posts.
New Year's Day brings a new year (obviously), but it also brings new chances for excitement. I've already created my 2012 writing spreadsheet. I'm hoping to put some more time in with the Old Weather Project in Zooniverse, and it's getting easier to read cursive writing and more interesting now that it's more wartime. The ship I'm working on right now is the H.M.S. Ebro, an armed merchant cruiser in WWI, doing patrols in the Northern Atlantic. It's sort of funny when you read "Serviced abandon ship siren" written in the logs.
Monday, December 19, 2011
End of Semester Exhaustion
The semester has come to an end. Finally. I survived my freshman courses with better grades than I expected, though lower grades than I would have liked. My GPA has taken a bit of a beating, but I'll survive.
I'm wishing that school would just start up again. I'm practically ready to throw my Nook across the room because I am sick and tired of reading. Yesterday, I finished one book, read another, and finished a third at 1 in the morning because it wouldn't let me go the hell to bed. In the three hours I've been awake today, I've read about a third of another book.
Next semester is going to be... interesting. APPARENTLY, ASU's course scheduling program is not the brightest thing in the world. Yes, it checks to make sure that two courses don't overlap, but it doesn't make sure that one course doesn't start when another ends.
I'm wishing that school would just start up again. I'm practically ready to throw my Nook across the room because I am sick and tired of reading. Yesterday, I finished one book, read another, and finished a third at 1 in the morning because it wouldn't let me go the hell to bed. In the three hours I've been awake today, I've read about a third of another book.
Next semester is going to be... interesting. APPARENTLY, ASU's course scheduling program is not the brightest thing in the world. Yes, it checks to make sure that two courses don't overlap, but it doesn't make sure that one course doesn't start when another ends.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Post-NaNo and Douchebag Professors
Well, NaNoWriMo 2011 is OVER!!! I managed to survive and win with minimal damage to my grades. My health, on the other hand, is a different matter... Oh well.
I've discovered the douchebag status of some professors. We gave our presentations for our major projects this week. Now keep in mind that there are two astrobiologists in a geology class. The faculty that were asked to come in and help grade our presentations are GEOLOGISTS, and one of them has little respect for astrobiology. After Jon, the other astrobiologist (I'm the other), gives his presentation on proposed landing sites for the future astrobiology field laboratory to Mars, one of the faculty asks him why NASA should spend millions on an astrobiology mission, when A) Mars is apparently one of the most sterile environments in the universe and B) the basic geology is not completely understood. Jon makes a fairly good argument from an astrobiologist's viewpoint. The professor then goes on to say "That is a good argument. For an undergraduate."
W.T.F? Hello, douchebag teacher. All graduate students come from undergraduate students, and this course is crosslisted as both a grad and undergrad course.
I've discovered the douchebag status of some professors. We gave our presentations for our major projects this week. Now keep in mind that there are two astrobiologists in a geology class. The faculty that were asked to come in and help grade our presentations are GEOLOGISTS, and one of them has little respect for astrobiology. After Jon, the other astrobiologist (I'm the other), gives his presentation on proposed landing sites for the future astrobiology field laboratory to Mars, one of the faculty asks him why NASA should spend millions on an astrobiology mission, when A) Mars is apparently one of the most sterile environments in the universe and B) the basic geology is not completely understood. Jon makes a fairly good argument from an astrobiologist's viewpoint. The professor then goes on to say "That is a good argument. For an undergraduate."
W.T.F? Hello, douchebag teacher. All graduate students come from undergraduate students, and this course is crosslisted as both a grad and undergrad course.
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