NaNoWriMo approaches. Gosh, it feels like an entity. I hear its footsteps, creaking down my hallway! Ah! I'm excited, but Agni, it's impending. Nothing quite like dreading what you're looking forward to.

Excited for Halloween. Best friend so far can't go trick or treating because her work IS A STUPIDFACE and scheduled her for that evening. I could cry. Feels so very wrong. D8 So, I'll celebrate and be happy. But I'd be happier if I knew she could enjoy herself. \:

Enough about that. Knowing she'll read this, I don't want to remind her too much. ...as if she wasn't already thinking about it.

Well, some may have noticed that I'm not exactly on here too much anymore. Part of this is due to me having found an online game that I actually really like, and I’ve been playing it and perusing the forum for it quite a lot. Also, and I really am abhorring how silly and dramatic this whole thing sounds, a lot of the art I'm doing now I end up keeping to myself. Like, I did these portraits for my novel, but I want them to be special for those who read it. Kinda like the toy in a cereal box. And... Yes. My drawings have been things I don't exactly want to reveal to the public. They're not bad- quite the opposite, I'm adoring them. I guess I simply want to either keep them a secret, or keep them amongst only a few people.

Thus, I may not upload all too much here anymore. What with my novels and art for/associated with them not going up (minus the tribal dragon and human portrait of Sanjai), all that may go up here is scribbles. Who knows. Most of the people who watch these journals are close friends of mine anyway, so it really won't affect them. They see when I webcam, or what have it. So yes, just clarifying for whoever needed or wanted to know why I'm taking so long to do things now. I just don't come on so much.

And with writing another novel coming up...either expect me on a lot more, or a lot less, depending on how and when and where I procrastinate.

So yes. 8) At least I'm enjoying myself, right?

Oh, I did just download some software that's like a free knockoff version of Photoshop, so maybe those doodles will go up. I dunno. I don't like doing extravagant digital pictures. MSN scribbles are where it's at, yo.

P.S.: I need to pee, yay.



EDIT: *Flails more.* SHE CAN GO TRICK-OR-TREATING, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. THIS IS AWESOME.

Happy Halloween, everybody!

Well, this is a quick journal right after you all just saw one.

Anyway, I have a biology class. The teacher assigned a project that is due (for me) on November fourth, though I need to announce my subject by...maybe around October tenth?

I really like this project, though, because of how open the subject criterion is. We need to report on "something to do with biology."

For instance, he showed us a YouTube video about a type of wasp that paralyses a cockroach, drags it to a small, enclosed space, lays her egg in it, then leaves it while her baby eats it alive from the inside out, then escapes. I only knew about the kind that did this with tarantulas!

Anyway, he said that would be a great topic if he hadn't already showed it to us. It COULD be something we've already gone over in class...but how boring would that be?

So, I know there are a bunch of amazing biology things out there (I'm particularly interested in those having to do with organisms themselves), and what I ask of you is: Have any of you seen something awesome out there on the Internet (or somewhere else, if it's amazing enough) related to biology? If so, I'd like to see. I'm enthralled in this stuff. I read this for fun. Glowing flowers, genome disruption. It's like my crack.

Anyway, I'm thinking of a few things. I don't want to do this because it's too depressing for me. I'm thinking about doing something on the involuntary actions of the human body (specifically how the spinal column sometimes controls our muscles before our brain can, a.k.a. "reflex"), but I thought that was kind of bland.

For the presentation part, we're making a poster and setting it up in our lab class, then we'll meander around and take turns speaking while everyone else stands and watches. Sort of like a science fair, but without the experiments.

Anyway, I want something that a typical passerby being would actually be curious about. I like providing people with interesting information. Anyway, thank you. 8D

And I'm really excited for my pee to stop smelling like them.

How are you? 8D

Oh, and should I spam dA with a few random practice gagstrips I've been doodling?

Pft, like anyone will say "no," and mean it.

So I was looking to see if our gate had closed (We have a gate blocking people from getting up our driveway all the way that is opened by remote.) when my nut of a dog, Jypsy, accidentally smacked into my legs from behind. My left foot flipped a little, and I scraped the top of it in three places. It hurt, turned out I was bleeding a smidge. I cleaned it off, put band aids on. No big deal. Skin loss total of the surface area of a dime.

So anyway, last night at eleven I noticed a red line over my vein coming from the largest of the three scrapes. I figured that wasn't good, and went to show Mom. Well, despite cleaning it and such about once a day evidently it got infected and the infection had decided to migrate into my blood stream. This was oddly exciting to me. So I took 1000 mg of Amoxicillin that we had in the house (an antibacterial agent), as well as an aspirin, because, well, infections hurt.

So after talking to a nurse hot-line at blue cross, she referred that I either call my doctor and consult this being, or go to an ER right away. At that point it was about 12:30, and I had gotten four hours of sleep the day before, so I wasn't' too thrilled at that idea. Well, Mom called and got the nurse's station, and they said they'd consult someone else and call back in about forty-five minutes. I went to bed and Mom said she'd wake me up if they said to come to the ER.

Well, she woke me at seven something to check my red line of not good. It had faded significantly. By about ten, I think it was gone (I went back to sleep after she woke me, but I kept waking up a few times for no particular reason.). So this morning we went to the doctor, and I got my own Amoxicillin, as well as antibacterial wash. Also, I'm going to take oregano oil (somehow, haven't been specifically told what to do with it yet) because my best friend who knows her way around things like that recommended it.

So I'm not going to die. I feel pretty awesome about all this. For a second in time, my blood was likely a bio-weapon. 8D Nifty.

So, worry not. Not that that will get people who read this to stop but you know. |:


In other news, I have more people than I thought going to/reading my novel. It's so odd to me. Reading it: my friend from Germany who I don't think has a deviantART account, ~Kaosbarn, ~GMSuerte, ~pirate-kittie, ~Magic-Dragon-Paul, maybe ~Got-My-Wings, ~Twerpa, ~Frosty10123, and ~breadmaggot in no particular order. I'm just showing these people off, to be honest. XD

Please make me stop saying that.

I'm almost completely done with my novel. Yay. Just one arts to go for it.

So, I started commmunity college and applied for a job. Job hasn't called back (yet).

That's about it.