I won script frenzy! Wooo!! I'm so glad I did it this year. I struggled with my story from page 15 to page 85, telling myself every day, "I'm giving up today - this story is going nowhere." But it was actually going somewhere and I'm quite happy with what I have now.
I found that way harder than Nano. But now I can brag that I've gone from knowing nothing about scriptwriting to having a 100 page screenplay to call my own :)
Actually, I blitzed from page 85 to 100 today. Well, truth be told, my script ended on page 99. But the story was finished and I'm sure it will pad out a little with editing. Shhhh. It's 21,308 words long, so it's actually got more words than most 100 pages scripts (20,000).
I'm happy. Now I get to deal with all the little tasks I've been ignoring, like setting up the watering system in Yoshi's tank, playing Fable 2, making penelope_stone a playlist.
But first, I'm off to the shop.
30 April 2009
16 April 2009
pets
more newt news... today, newt ate some tubifex worms straight from my hands and nymph ate a bit of a cricket. i don't really want nymph to get into the habit of eating crickets, because they are yoshi's food. it was so cute when newt ate from my fingers, though - and he seemed really hungry too. he was in the floating log, with his head poking out, so i just gave him the food. he retreated to eat it and them poked his head out for more. he did that twice more, and after the fourth bit of food, i decided he'd had enough. he has a cute little belly now :)
i don't really have a lot of other news. i was playing fable 2 last night and got to crucible. it's so much fun. i didn't think it would be this much fun, but having to keep the crowd entertained gives it a bit of variety.
i can think of nothing else to say.
i don't really have a lot of other news. i was playing fable 2 last night and got to crucible. it's so much fun. i didn't think it would be this much fun, but having to keep the crowd entertained gives it a bit of variety.
i can think of nothing else to say.
15 April 2009
A silly sort of post
I've been listening to Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass a lot recently. I got it off davidnarby when I was down last weekend. I kinda like Glass anyway; liked what I've heard of him before - Passages with Ravi Shankar and a few random mixes. And now I've just noticed that Koyaanisqatsi is from 1982, and so am I. I have this funny thing that there's a connection between me and lots of things from that year. Because I like lots of things from that year.
lordkilljoy's gone off to Raw for the evening and I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do with myself. Generally I spend my days doing stuff and looking forward to when he comes home, but now he's been and gone and I don't quite know what to do in this situation. I guess it doesn't help that I'm feeling just the slightest bit apathetic at the moment. I have 10 pages of script that I need to get written, but I woosed out after 3 pages today. And the exciting climactic end to act 1 just finished and the start of act 2 is less than dramatic. Sometimes I wonder how I'm not completely emo. My writing is so angst-filled and immature.
I'm rolling my eyes at myself.
I also don't know what to get for dinner. I'm feeling lazy and uninspired. And we have nothing that you can just pour boiling water over or quickly heat up in a pan. And it's way too miserable to even think of going to the shop for something. Actually - I think it's stopped raining, but still.
I have a cat at the top of my Firefox. Hee, that sentence seems wierd when you take it out of internet context. Anyway - it's all thanks to Personas for Firefox from Mozilla labs.
I think I'll do a stir-fry for dinner.
Right, since I've decided at least that much, I'll go now.
p.s. I've been waiting for a good occasion to use this usericon for ages. I'm not confused, but I'm at a loss, so it's adequate.
ooh - gosh - how could I forget. I'm going to see The Princess Bride in the cinema on the 11th of May. It's going to be the coolest thing ever. I've been 100% in love with this film my whole life. I know the whole thing off my heart I've seen it so many times. It's going to be fantastic.
p.p.s i don't think i've ever used this mood before.
lordkilljoy's gone off to Raw for the evening and I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do with myself. Generally I spend my days doing stuff and looking forward to when he comes home, but now he's been and gone and I don't quite know what to do in this situation. I guess it doesn't help that I'm feeling just the slightest bit apathetic at the moment. I have 10 pages of script that I need to get written, but I woosed out after 3 pages today. And the exciting climactic end to act 1 just finished and the start of act 2 is less than dramatic. Sometimes I wonder how I'm not completely emo. My writing is so angst-filled and immature.
I'm rolling my eyes at myself.
I also don't know what to get for dinner. I'm feeling lazy and uninspired. And we have nothing that you can just pour boiling water over or quickly heat up in a pan. And it's way too miserable to even think of going to the shop for something. Actually - I think it's stopped raining, but still.
I have a cat at the top of my Firefox. Hee, that sentence seems wierd when you take it out of internet context. Anyway - it's all thanks to Personas for Firefox from Mozilla labs.
I think I'll do a stir-fry for dinner.
Right, since I've decided at least that much, I'll go now.
p.s. I've been waiting for a good occasion to use this usericon for ages. I'm not confused, but I'm at a loss, so it's adequate.
ooh - gosh - how could I forget. I'm going to see The Princess Bride in the cinema on the 11th of May. It's going to be the coolest thing ever. I've been 100% in love with this film my whole life. I know the whole thing off my heart I've seen it so many times. It's going to be fantastic.
p.p.s i don't think i've ever used this mood before.
09 April 2009
animals and other news
i finally got newt to eat something. (newt is the small, skinny one.) he ate 5mm of morio worm yesterday and the same again today. nymph (the larger, more rounded one) didn't eat anything yesterday and just had a smidgeon of morio worm today. maybe i'll get him to eat tomorrow. but i think nymph has been scavenging around the bottom of the tank, because he's always lively and he's growing and has a bit of flesh on him - not like newt who is just skin and bone. but even compared to yesterday, newt is looking a bit fatter. so i'm happy. we're heading to galway for the weekend and i won't be nearly as worried about them as i was last weekend in cork.
it's actually amazing the lengths i go to for our animals. like, to get yoshi eating crickets i held them in my hand for ages and ages, just getting him used to the idea that they were food. and for the newts, i take them out of their tank and then cut up a live worm and feed it to them in a little tub. i do this because they aren't so fast and not so good at catching food as it swirls around their tank.
i put some activated carbon into the filter yesterday and it's made a huge difference to the water. just the sponges in the filter helped to un-cloud the water, but the carbon has made it ultra-clear. i kinda feel like i should get an ammonia test kit, but they are really expensive. and it should all be gone by june anyway. and with daily water changes, i don't think it will get that bad.
yoshi is well. lazy as ever, but eating well and doesn't seem to have any major problems.
script frenzy is going well. i'm going to catch up on the advised word count today - yeay. after a very slow start and speed writing to catch up, i can now relax a bit. i've kinda been at nanowrimo writing levels for the last few days, and even with that scriptwriting goes way faster.
the weekend+ in cork was good. we went over to frosthearted and my_name_is_fiki's place to watch wrestlemania. i bought a pair of jeans too - i love them. i imagine they won't come off for a month, as happened with the last pair of pants i got. that's kind of the way jeans go with me. i get a pair and then wear them until they wear out and then angst over having to get a new pair. but then i eventually find a pair i love and do the same to them. and usually at this point i go: i never really liked my old jeans anyway, and never wear them again.
i think that's all my news. enough procrastination. now i write.
it's actually amazing the lengths i go to for our animals. like, to get yoshi eating crickets i held them in my hand for ages and ages, just getting him used to the idea that they were food. and for the newts, i take them out of their tank and then cut up a live worm and feed it to them in a little tub. i do this because they aren't so fast and not so good at catching food as it swirls around their tank.
i put some activated carbon into the filter yesterday and it's made a huge difference to the water. just the sponges in the filter helped to un-cloud the water, but the carbon has made it ultra-clear. i kinda feel like i should get an ammonia test kit, but they are really expensive. and it should all be gone by june anyway. and with daily water changes, i don't think it will get that bad.
yoshi is well. lazy as ever, but eating well and doesn't seem to have any major problems.
script frenzy is going well. i'm going to catch up on the advised word count today - yeay. after a very slow start and speed writing to catch up, i can now relax a bit. i've kinda been at nanowrimo writing levels for the last few days, and even with that scriptwriting goes way faster.
the weekend+ in cork was good. we went over to frosthearted and my_name_is_fiki's place to watch wrestlemania. i bought a pair of jeans too - i love them. i imagine they won't come off for a month, as happened with the last pair of pants i got. that's kind of the way jeans go with me. i get a pair and then wear them until they wear out and then angst over having to get a new pair. but then i eventually find a pair i love and do the same to them. and usually at this point i go: i never really liked my old jeans anyway, and never wear them again.
i think that's all my news. enough procrastination. now i write.
01 April 2009
animals
so i'm off to cork for the weekend (yes, i'm aware that it is only wednesday).
script frenzy starts today.
the newts are still alive, still not eating.
yoshi ate 4 crickets this morning. i'm so proud of him :) it's kind of silly being proud of a lizard for eating. i mean, everyone has to eat. now if only the newts could understand this.
did i mention that i figured out what species the newts are? they are chinese warty newts (paramesotriton chinensis)(i can't believe i know the latin name off the top of my head). not that it makes a whole tonne of difference, but it's nice to know.
i really have no news at all. i had serious anxiety dreams last night. when we went to bed newt was lying on the bit of wood we have for them out of the water. it's usually not a good sign at all, so i guess my dreams were worrying for me. but he's ok today. i think he was just shedding - i found skin in the water today. it's a pity yoshi dosen't shed so easily. he's still got old skin clinking to his head, arms and his whole lower half.
yea, so i hope everyone is still alive and well when i get back.
script frenzy starts today.
the newts are still alive, still not eating.
yoshi ate 4 crickets this morning. i'm so proud of him :) it's kind of silly being proud of a lizard for eating. i mean, everyone has to eat. now if only the newts could understand this.
did i mention that i figured out what species the newts are? they are chinese warty newts (paramesotriton chinensis)(i can't believe i know the latin name off the top of my head). not that it makes a whole tonne of difference, but it's nice to know.
i really have no news at all. i had serious anxiety dreams last night. when we went to bed newt was lying on the bit of wood we have for them out of the water. it's usually not a good sign at all, so i guess my dreams were worrying for me. but he's ok today. i think he was just shedding - i found skin in the water today. it's a pity yoshi dosen't shed so easily. he's still got old skin clinking to his head, arms and his whole lower half.
yea, so i hope everyone is still alive and well when i get back.
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