Life is crazy again xD

So today I found out I'm leaving on another competition trip on Wednesday, this one involving four interviews, a few more fancy dinners, et cetera. v_v Whenever I go to one of these competitions, I always feel like the random, not-super-rich individual of story fame who was invited to dine with rich people. A bit out of place, but in a fun, bookish way. So I get to go do that again, and in 30 degree weather. This should be fun! ^_^ I think...

On the other hand, I have to miss karate classes and physics class, and this week we were talking about light and sound, which is INTERESTING. Bummer. >.> Ah, well. A necessary trade-off.

In other news, I'm getting madder and madder at my history textbook. "They found a skull that looks something like a modern chimpanzee but is a few million years old. It's believed to be the earliest known ancestor of modern humans." Uh...COULDN'T IT JUST BE A CHIMPANZEE, PEOPLE? >.<

But hey, I didn't know the evolutionary theory of the origin of humanity as well as I should've. So I'm learning something, at least...


Last night was the first-ever Plotting Party; Jamie and I worked on my stories about a place called Mirkal and the people who travel back and forth from there to our world. I had only a very few ideas of where the stories were going before we plotted last night, and now I have so many epic ideas I don't know WHERE to begin. Do I finish my current novel, Listed, or work on the prequels to it so I know exactly where I want Listed to end up? Or do I just plot the back-story and continue to write Listed as I do so? Or should I work on both at the same time? (They'll probably never get done that way, but at least I'll feel like I'm writing SOMETHING...)

I'm also trying to become accustomed to journaling. I'm writing in my journal a lot more than I used to (especially since my newest one has a leather cover and feels like something out of a book), but I'm still not writing as much as I should. So tonight's goal is to write at least a page-long entry, chronicling the past few days.

And I also want a new microphone, because I'm FINALLY starting to record music. But my microphone causes these annoying clicking noises...here, see what I mean?

(That's my favorite bit of improvisation from tonight, by the way. In case the video doesn't tell you, it's called "Recognition".)

Anyway, I must go check to see if my karate uniform is dry; if it isn't, I can't go to my Instructor Training class tonight. Ah, well, I won't miss much. It's the first day, and all I'd probably find out is how to teach the classes I won't be in this week, as well as what level I'm at in the program. At the last official check, I was at Level 2 in the kids' program, but since then I've been moved to the adults' program, so I have no idea what level I'm at once again. And I'm too scared to ask, so....

More to come later, if I think of anything to write about :)