krista_daggers' Journal

New school semester, new hell
Okay, what the fuck. I got approved for a specialized class where you meet a teacher one on one and work on a lenghty translation, but I HAVE NO TEACHER. Like, hello? First week of class is over and I don't know who is my teacher or when to meet him him/her or anything. STRESS. I forgot to call about it today, must must must call Monday.

Also, Japanese already sucks. The teacher rambled so much I didn't understand the lesson. So now I must go and teach myself this week's lesson. Better get started now. I have a feeling this is going to be a self-teaching semester. -_-

The rest doesn't look so bad, but urg, there's going to be a lot of school work.

Current Mood: blah

That was fast
According to the internet, the average time to get a rejection from this magazine is 12 days. I'm in Canada and I got mine today, 12 days after I sent the story. Fast indeed.

Ah well. Maybe I'll sent it elsewhere. In the meantime, I have my first rejection slip ever! I'm keeping it.

Current Mood: awake

^^;
It's a little awkward to get up and move in the house in your underwear, expecting to be alone, and then find out your sister's boyfriend is sick and didn't go to work that morning. (Actually, my sister didn't go to work either, but she's still in bed.)

My life is not an anime so I didn't throw things at him. I just kept about my toasts business and then went to grab some pants. Still not wearing a shirt, because a) filty hot, b) if he gets to go about shirtless, so do I, c) he's seen it anyway, so whatever.

Ah, the perils of rooming with a boy that isn't yours.

Current Mood: awake

July 2: First Adventure in Short Story Submission
One big envelope: $0.50
30 printed pages for proofreading: $1.50
30 printed pages of definitive version: $1.50
US return postage for the answer: $2
Mailing everything to the US: $6.50

Getting a rejection slip in answer: ~~$12~~ Priceless

Okay, I've only mailed the short story out today so I can't be sure I'll get a rejection slip, but 99% of the stuff they get does get rejected, so let's not have too much hope. But hope will be permitted if six weeks go by without an answer. Rejections are sent out first, you see. Long wait = good sign.

Current Mood: awake

Writing woes
Ahhh, revising and editing is hard. It takes so much longer than the writing. But it's moving. I'll have two short stories in good order by the end of the month, I swear it.

I tried to submit a bit of a short story for concrits to a writer com but all I got were two people telling me I'm great. It's nice for the ego but doesn't help me improve. I kinda want to submit to a magazine or two, but is it good enough? How do I know when it is? How can I improve it before I send? I'd like to minimize the chances I'll wait 8-12 weeks just to get a rejection slip back. 8-12 weeks is a long time to get your hopes up.

Plus of course I'm wondering to whick magazines to send my two stories. Do I try the big league right off? Or should I try smaller magazines where I might have a better chance to get published? I can't do both at once because magazines don't want multiple submissions. Meaning that until I get rejected to magazine #1, I am not allowed to send the story anywhere else. 3 months between submissions is long. Could take years to find someone who wants my stuff at that rate. I'll probably get rejected anyway, but I won't know until I try.

Work for the next 4 days. Meh.

Current Mood: bored

Dear God: Take Evil Back
And I do mean Evil as in my second sister. See the time? Nearing 5 am. I'm still up. Sylika and her boyfriend Do are still up. Because Evil got drunk, and then got very sick and kept crying, and being the softie that I am I tried to take care of her. I worried a lot because she kept trying to vomit and couldn't so after roughly an hour of her being like that we all went to the ER. On the way she started to laugh and from there slowly sobered up some. When she fell asleep waiting for the doc to get to us, we figured she was doing fine and decided to go home since it was past 4 am and Sylika was supposed to start a new job at 9 this morning! And then Evil started bitching that we woke her up and screaming and running away from us and the car. Do had to drag her back to the car. We finally got home: the bitch went to sleep, Do and Sylika went for a calming walk and I'm writing a lj entry. I'm not angry anymore, just disgusted. I try to love Evil, I do, but it's like she spits in your face for it.

I really wonder how to survive the rest of summer. Moving in with Fred or renting a new place with my sister sound so much better than staying here. But the last one would require money. I need a proper job.

Current Mood: blah

Off I go
Leaving for Japan in about an hour, where I'll go and meet with a friend. I'll update whenever I land my hands on a computer. I'll be back in a month.

I'll try not to die. Later, y'all.

Current Mood: anxious

%%&%&*& or trying to organize my last semester of classes
Taking for sure:
Japanese intermédiaire 1 -- Mercredi 18:30-21:30
Version commercial -- Jeudi 15:30--18:30
English literature cultural context -- Lundi 12:30-15:30

Now I'm missing a version class and an English class. The only remaining version class is medical, which is Thursday morning. It would really suck to have class in the morning, go home for a nap, and have to go back for another class. Plus I don't wanna take that medical stuff class. It sounds hard and bleh. So I wonder whether I could instead sign up for Children's Literature (also Thursday morning) and whine that oh noes, I can't graduate if they don't let me take the special 'sujet libre' class (it's a thing where you translate 3000 words, a teacher grads you on it and that's about it). And then I could drop the Children Lit class anyway and go for the short story class on Tuesday morning. >.> I don't want to take that one either, but at least then I'd be able to sleep in the afternoon.

laeb, didn't you take the Children Lit class? How easy is it?

Current Mood: annoyed

My life is so hard
It's 3 am. I could:

A) Go to bed, sleep 8 hours and go to the Text Analysis class tomorrow.
B) Finish my book (another 1.5 hour to the end I think) and skip Text Analysis class so I can show up to my second class in some sort of coherent state.

...oh, fuck it. It is mathematically impossible for me to get less than B in this class, considering I got A on the first exam without listening to anything she said in class. I'll just study the material.

ETA: So there. That's book #19 read since 2008 rolled around and it's not enough. More books, MORE. I'm a book junkie. ;_;

Current Mood: guilty

Oh god why
The worst thing to be doing at 7 am is vomiting. I have no idea why my stupid body decided to reject my delicious stawberries and I feel somewhat indignant about it. They were GOOD strawberries. Not sick-making ones.

Looks like I'm not going to class. I just want to crawl in bed and let sleep take the sickness away.

Current Mood: worried

I will survive
It's past 3 bloody am. I've just stopped working on something I have to hand in tomorrow. I'm so tired I could cry, but it's done! Now I just need to survive class in 4 hours, and the group meeting afterward. Then Fred and I are off to the convention with our costumes and stuff. We're both going to wear a dress at some point, and that's an unusual event for both of us. :p

*drops in bed*

Current Mood: busy

>_
There's no good way to learn that rent hasn't been paid for the last two months. I feel vaguely ill about it, even though dad found the money so we can catch up this month.

It makes me want to kill the moronic sister stuck in NB. God, dad has problems paying rent and now he has to pay her bloody bus ticket. Plus, dad keeps saying he's going to give me money for Japan. WTF man, I'd rather he keeps paying rent! I can afford Japan on my own, else I wouldn't be going.

Current Mood: blah

Family, life, stuff
My second sister is so dumb it hurts. She went to a tournament in Montreal this weekend but never returned home because her ride didn't show up. Instead of calling mom to arrange to buy her a bus ticket, she went home with a friend. The problem? Said friend lives in freaking Fredericton, NB. So now she's not in a city 2 hours away from home, she's in a city 10 hours away from home. And of course mom wants dad to pay her bus ticket back. And she's still not going to her classes, so she isn't graduating from high school this year. -_-

School is letting me breathe a little this week. I've only got a kanji test Tuesday night and nothing to hand in Friday, yay. So I'm able to relax and write and stuff. I've managed to post up to chapter 9 of my novel. Some things about it make me happy, other things... I dunno. Sometimes I get the sinking feeling it isn't good enough and I'm not going anywhere. But let's get through the first edit, and see what it looks like.

Current Mood: blah

Amazon costume, Version 3
Still a few tweaks to make, but it's starting to look pretty damn good.

( Pic spam, wee )

Mkay. Bed now.

Current Mood: blah

Stupid shoes
So, the sandals are here. Only they don't fit me, too big. *swears*

It's not like you can stuff napkins in sandals!

ETA: Well, they look good in the mirror even if they're no fun to walk with. I wonder if I can do something to keep my feet from moving around in them. They're not hugely too big, but they don't strap down my feet correctly.

Current Mood: annoyed

Also, my chinchilla is still sick
Friday: Revision to hand in
Saturday: Work
Sunday: Work
Monday: Translation to do & send to partner
Tuesday: Kanji test
Wednesday: Text Analysis exam, studying required.
Thursday: Translation exam, vocab revision required. PLUS a to-do-at-home part of the exam to hand in. (we get it tomorrow)
Friday: Another revision to hand in
Saturday: Work
Sunday: ~~HANG SELF~~ Take day off.

I also have a regular class next Wednesday but if you think I'm going to do the homework for it... HA. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to write. To hell with tomorrow's homework.

Current Mood: stressed

A bit of TMI for y'all
I was already blaming my decreased libido on the pill, but the internet tells me I can also blame it for the longer time it takes to get some lubrication going. It's annoying, but I guess it's a trade-off for keeping human parasites out of me.

Men have it easy. This is my jealous face.

Current Mood: annoyed

Costume, stage 2
New stuff:
-Black cape
-Leather whip
-Wrist bracelet
-More side chains
-Shortened fabric

Still to come:
-Leather choker (Fred is making it, it was replaced by a store-bought choker for these pictures)
-Proper underwear in case of wardrobe malfunction. :p
-THESE BOOTS HERE. I bought them, now I must wait for them to get here. *grabby hands*

( Pics under the cut. :D )

Current Mood: amused

Yo, Fred
I won't be going to work today, because it is now 6 in the morning and I still can't sleep (I went to bed at 2 am). As to why I can't sleep...stress. You sould have slept over. I was all relaxed earlier and then you left and I had to start *thinking* about stuff and here we are, 6 am and no sleep for me. My brain needs an 'off' button because I can't use it responsibly. >.>

On the bright side, a day off will allow me to get a bit of homework done.

Current Mood: tired

Woo, convention
Looks like Fred and I decided to go to Ad Astra. I just reserved a room. I've still got to inform the two other people that we're all going. :D

Fred, fyi, the booking gave me an estimate total of $271 for the room, plus a whole $16/day for parking (Toronto hotels are cheap bastards). So $319 for that. If we count $150 in gas and $50 for the entry ticket, it's $284.50 for each of us, plus any food.

ETA: And yes people, this means I'm going to prance around in my chainmail bikini. Might not be able to wear it for long (cold!) but I will wear it a bit. Now we need to finish it!

Current Mood: lazy

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