just stuff

making exam number one, and writing mostly today. Tonight, more gardening.

Yesterday they made us professors come to orientation for the HUGE number of students (i.e. 200) for advising. Well that's all and good but you know what would have made this better? A) test the students for placement on the day before advising so we're not there until 5 pm B) tell us how many students we can expect and which group you put them in. That way if we have 5 students and they're all testing after 1 pm then NO ONE has be here from 8 am on. I pulled second shift. For this i had to be there from 1-5 for TWO students. TWO. They had three biology profs, one chem and two math for TWO students (both biology) what a waste of a day. Efficency...is it so hard?

Because of this I missed going to the bank (Had to replace the card I lost) and then go to wal-mart to look for the one loan tomato cage that I'm missing. Well the bank makes you reapply for a card from scratch...this is moronic but whatever. And Wal-mart and the Shoe carousel...oh i shouldn't have gone. Bought more plants. Bought planters. Bought shoes. Stop me. I HATE shoes mind you. But I need to go back. Wally World has the black leather Dr Scholls I want for class (i didn't have any socks to try them on) and the earth shoe thongs i needed (love earth shoes, so comfy) and Shoe Carousel had these clogs...they are so cute. And even though they are HUGE they're almost level which means high heeled yes but they dont' act like them, they don't cock your ankles. Between them and the Rocketdogs I bought last week, i have cute shoes. I might even take a picture.

I also have a new bedspread up. I should take a picture of that too. I plan on getting a whole new bed, a real bed with headboards and stuff.

Writing wise, things are going good fan fic wise. Hyperion's Son's next chapter is done long hand. Now to type it. 30 Kisses smut, almost done, Royai angst, halfway done, two young Goku stories, in editing, chapter of Strands of Nightmare, done but needs typing, original fic, let's not go there.

writerly news

well the agent didn't take Machiavell Moon. However, he DID give me a lot of useful advice. One was the ending was too statacco and rushed (which a few of you pointed out but I guess I still haven't completely addressed the problem).

the other problem was he didn't understand why a player like Sulien didn't have a blackberry, lap top etc. Well i wrote this in 1994-95. Those things weren't common. Hell cell phones didn't work in South Dakota back then. So, i have two choices, purposely date this 1995 OR go through the whole novel and update it. I think i'll do the latter (and pray that i don't jinx a tension point or something doing that) I know i just did that in one of the early chapters instead of having Caksi run for the phone I gave him a cell.

Outside of a few clunky sentences, the other problem he had were my use of brand names...something I don't remember using but I'll be sure to go look for them (they date the novel which was his concern)

So..he didn't take it BUT to me this is still good news because the problems he had are NOT that hard to fix. I can catch all of them in one revision. He called it a good read and wants to see something else so go me.

What I really need is another good beta for it. I know some of you volunteered. Let me update the first four chapters then I'll open it up to offers of readers again (since i've forgotten who wanted to) When I do that, I'll screen the comments so you can give me an email for it.