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The nanowrimo.org site failed me last night, and wouldn't let me submit my novel for the win.

*Is totally bummed.*

I signed up for Winter Quarter. I also found out that if I take Latin as my language, I only have to take 2 classes, instead of the 6 or 7 I would have to take for Spanish, or the 4 or 5 for French.

Here is my class list for next quarter.

LTEN25 Intro/Lit/US: Beginning
LTEN29 Intro/Chicano/Latino Lit.
LTEN153 Revolutionary War/Early National Period Lit.
SIO25 Climate Change and Society

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What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm   You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical mistakes make you insane.
Dedicated Reader
Literate Good Citizen
Book Snob
Fad Reader
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I am also way behind in NaNo-terms. These last few days have been NaNo-fail indeed. Except the widgets are working which calls for a Hallelujah! And, I am totally freaking out having to go speak with the Academic Lady In Charge of Upper Level Spanish at Uni next Tuesday.

I also have a new layout by milkgloves.

That's right, NaNoWriMo has come to town, and yes, once again, and for the fourth time, I am participating. The lovely banner which I have posted above is by et13_icons .

If you click the banner, you'll go straight to my NaNo el-jay. My NaNo screenname this year is allumette.

The Halloween/NaNo Kick Off party I went to last night was so much fun. I met so many cool people. Of course, all the cool kids were late. *wink* I dressed up as a geisha in full kimono, and dragged a friend along who looked like Michael Jackson's twin. Seriously awesome stuff.

Most epic part of the night was the story of Banana-Rama which A started writing as a NaNo joke about a heroin addicted banana named MacGuyver, who meets up with an anteater. Awesome stuff.

I wrote pages of really crappy first chapter, which I am trying to type up right now. Oh how I die for word count.

I totally forgot how much I love Izze sparkling drinks. The Clementine is kind of yummy. The grapefruit one is my favorite though, and it's impossible to find. I joined brigits_flame earlier today under my writing el-jay nom de plume: littleredfilly, in attempts to get back my writing grove. I also plan to get my writing all organized by NaNo.

Speaking of the life-sucking phenomeon known as NaNo. I am participating again this year. This will be my fourth year competing.

Year One: Heroine Addiction, [heroinediction], a bunch of timetravelling, Napeolonic War Fictioning goodness. I failed spectacularly with a work count of about 8k.

Year Two: Time Stitch, [timestitch], the sequel to Guttersnipe [therhymer]; Regan, on the eve before her wedding, is taken to prison. A whopping 12k. Totally miserable word count.

Year Three: Zombie Days, [zombiemice], FTW! 60k or so, and I didn't even finish the story.

Current Year (Four): For Allumette [dishabilles]: A murder mystery with bite; a Supernatural Historical Fiction detective novel. Hopefully this is also FTW.

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My sister and her dog, Tobey, came to stay with me for a few days. It was awesome, and so much fun. I decided to play hooky from a few classes; playing Monkey Ball Blitz and Beatles rockband with my sister and her friend Patti is so much more fun and such a better use  of my time.

:D

So adorable.

:D

Currently, I'm in Davis, California visiting with one of my best friends. It's rather hot outside. I also gave my eljay a new look. I quite like the facelift. I finally got to sign up for classes, and was pleasantly surprised when I learned that three classes equal a full load/12 units.

The three classes I am taking are:

LTEN 110 The Renaissance: Themes&Issues LE
LTEN 127B Victorian Poetry LE
LTWL 19A Intro/Ancient Greeks & Romans LE

I was going to try to get into a Jane Austen novel class, but it didn't work out with my schedule and the class was full already.

( [100] Films in 2009 )

You may start to enroll in classes on: Thursday, 08/20/2009 at 11:00 AM
The early enrollment period ends on: Sunday, 08/23/2009 at 11:59 PM

You bitches! That's over two weeks from now. All I want to do is plan my life out now.

I know, I haven't blogged about things like I should, but life happened. Soon and for the rest of my life, I will blog about Anya Marina/Lissy Trullie/The Virgins concert in May; Mexico trip; NY/DC/Toronto trip; and my house remodel.

Though I have been geeking it up a bit over at lemonysalt if anyone is interested, and working on some writing over at littleredfilly.

Laterz, peeps.
Kelle.

Going to Mexico. I'll be back on the 17th. I promise to take lots of photos.

:D

A new layout: "With words I cannot verbalise" by hoppingpotato.

New banner made by me.

:P

New layout: Tenderness by pozdnaya_vesna.

(don't let a good night's fun
come to an early end)

(Well here's a love song but I don't care
No I don't care 'bout it
Cause I don't fall for it yeah
No I don't fall for it)

Seriously, they need to stop killing my tv. The Unusuals was canceled. This makes me quite sad. It was like one big party of all my friends from other tv shows. And Amber Tamblyn's partner, Walsh, actually is a really awesome cool guy and not some creepy stalker serial killer he always is in other stuff, ie. SWAT and Dahmer and CSI. That was really nice.And, Amber as Casey Shraeger is really kind of awesome. And, Cole was really cool all in his name changing bible thumpin' ness. I also really wanted to steal Delahoy's mustache and glue it to the back of Bank's bullet proof vest. :D Just a little piece of Delahoy-Jesus. And, Beaumont, I immediately identified her as a fav character. Even Eddie Alvarez was adorably adorkable with his muffin basket.

Oh, Unusuals, I will miss you so.




And, who is their right mind put me in the college with all the pre-med students. I feel like I should explain this statement. So, I got into UCSD, and they have six undergraduate colleges. The one they put me in is Revelle, which is all science and math minded, and at admit, me and this other guy (Poly Sci major) were the only ones who weren't Pre-Med majors. Silly me and my Literatures in English major. I will probably be switching colleges come winter quarter. Me no likely this whole three quarters of calculus and five upper division science classes; of which, four have to be chem and physics.

Last week and weekend was hella fun, will be posting just about it very soon.


Also, it seems Burn Notice is part of my life now, seeing as how it has crept into my writing...

“See, Reginald. This was our problem. You never supported me in my work, and I’ve always, always supported you.”

Shocked, he responded forcefully. “I’m a cop. You’re killing people, Retta.”

Really. How Fiona of her.

*grins*

Kelle.

Really I do. This is a new layout; this time it is memoriam by  refutare.

Fun times.

I am super excited that summer is a mere three weeks away. And, despite being pretty much in need of a summer job. Other things are happening.

1. I am going to become an official supervisor at work. More money. This is always good.

2. I am going to Mexico on my birthday. Need I say more.

3. I am also going to New York and Canada because, well, because awesome friends are awesome, and we are going to be awesome together.

The Mexico trip is to San Miguel De Allende which is in the middle of Mexico proper, not Baja. And, I fly there on the 8th of June and return the 15th.

New York and Canada trip is in July. I am going to fly to New York the 3rd of July and I fly back from Toronto on the 14th. Oh, and apparently, *pokes smaur* Toronto is one of my mom's favorite cities in the world. How's that for an endorcement.

*is so excited*

I also have Transfer Admit Day coming up this Saturday, and all my transcripts need to be sent to UCSD. Fun times.

Laterz,
Kelly.