krista_daggers

New school semester, new hell

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:17:01 GMT

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.

That was fast

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:58:08 GMT

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.

^^;

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:26:06 GMT

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.

July 2: First Adventure in Short Story Submission

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:27:22 GMT

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.

Writing woes

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:46:26 GMT

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.

Dear God: Take Evil Back

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:02:31 GMT

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.

Off I go

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:14:40 GMT

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.

%%&%&*& or trying to organize my last semester of classes

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:18:20 GMT

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?

My life is so hard

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:08:10 GMT

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. ;_;

Oh god why

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:25:58 GMT

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.

I will survive

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:22:35 GMT

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*

>_

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:12:48 GMT

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.

Family, life, stuff

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:15:03 GMT

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.

Amazon costume, Version 3

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:01:48 GMT

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

So currently, it looks like this.

We're going to shorten the fabric above the knees, like this. (I'm on the toilet cuz the only big mirror I have is in the bathroom and I wanted to look at the shoes, I don't hang out there for fun. :p)

Oh, and this is the sign I'm holding.

Mandatory pic with my monsters. <3

So yeah. We need to find a way to make the sandals fit better and we have to shorten the fabric, and then I'm set. We still need to do Fred's sign. His costume includes a dress. There will be pics of that too. *grins*

Mkay. Bed now.

Stupid shoes

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:27:06 GMT

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.

Also, my chinchilla is still sick

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:57:26 GMT

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.

Costume, stage 2

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:09:10 GMT

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*

See my fearsome pet monster!

Yo, Fred

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:12:15 GMT

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.

Woo, convention

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:46:45 GMT

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!

Angst

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:27:23 GMT

Okay, okay, that's quite enough pain for this month, knock it off! Should be in class right now but not going for cause of Being Female.

Plus, whenever I feel too ill to do anything interesting, I tend to default to angsting pointlessly. So what am I doing instead of being in class to (pretend to) learn stuff? Angsting about writing of course. I want to throw a tantrum and print out my novel to burn it, stomp on the ashes and never speak of it again. I know I'll change my mind as soon as I'm feeling good enough to write, but somehow it doesn't keep me from angsting to the fullest. I want some bloody talent already. How long does it take to be good enough? Sigh.

Fantasy logic: less armor = more protection!

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:20:20 GMT

Following this logic, my chainmail bikini is enough to get me through a war if I find myself in one. :D

So yeah, this is what Fred and I (well, mostly Fred, I model) have been working on, for pretty much no reason other than we can. We're not quite done, but close. We're going to add another pair of chains on the sides, a bracelet, and possibly some sort of greek sandals. I also wonder whether it should be shorter. Thoughts, girls?

shuffles

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:52:32 GMT

So, you know. I've started editing my NaNo novel 07. I've posted the first chapter and I'd really appreciate any comments on it. It's safe for work, with just a little implied het sex, and stands at 3885 words.

Summary: Jace didn't believe in the supernatural. That was before he found out he'd slept with a demon and that his adorable little sister is a demon hunter. Now Jace is trying to start a new career as Mr. Knight in Shining Armor in order to protect these two women from their enemies--and from each other.

Class, and why I'm having the weekend off

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:07:58 GMT

Meh. I bother to go to class this morning, and lookit, no teacher. We all waited half an hour and left.

But this happened too:
Me: *takes out pen and paper from backpack*
Richard: Why is there chainmail in your bag?
Me: ... *takes chainmail bikini top out of bag to show what it is* Well, my bf made this for me, so I'm bringing it home. (fyi, I slept at his place last night)

Richard proceeded to be very amused. I didn't mention I totally plan to make some sort of fabric & chainmail loincloth thing to go with it. I mean, half a costume isn't a costume. Might as well do it right. I have some red fabric left from when we made the Elric coats, so if Fred makes a thin chainmail belt, I can sew it on.

And then work called my pager while I was waiting for the bus. I called back to speak with the schedule lady, was transfered to an answering machine (meaning the lady was on the line already). Called again, asked to speak to the other schedule lady but the transfer was badly done and it told me to hang up. Out of change, I gave up, took my bus, got home. I called again for lady #1, answering machine once more! Called again for a very last try, no answer at all from the secretary. In a very last ditch attempt, I looked at the number on my phone to see from which line I was called and tried to call that number rather than the secretary number, figuring it might let me talk to one of the bloody schedule ladies already. Nope, secretary answered. Feeling stupid, I again asked for a transfer to either of the schedule ladies. Line was busy. Dude, the world doesn't want me to work this weekend, so FINE. I'm not gonna. I'm still on call if someone calls sick, but otherwise, I'm going to read my new books all weekend. Na.

Best class ever

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:06:41 GMT

Tonight's Japanese class was great. We were put into groups to practice and I landed with a nice girl I started befriending and a Japanese exchange student who attends the class for no reason that I can see (he's Japanese, wtf is he doing in a class for beginners?). He's really, really cute. Okay, half of the cute comes from his Japanese-speaking. How geek do you have to be to get turned on by a Japanese person talking Japanese? It was really embarrassing to practice weak Japanese sentences in front of him, but he praised us and I could not stop giggling like a complete moron... >.> I don't know if my retarded fangirl brain can handle being in the Real Japan with Real Japanese people EVERYWHERE. Maybe I'll need a blindfold! Fred can guide me around and tell me when we're away from the dangerous bishies.

Fuck you, Apple

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:30:07 GMT

I've never bitched about my computer before, but there's a first for everything. The new OS for mac is defective.

Times my computer crashed from the time I got it to the time I upgraded to Leopard: 0
Times my computer crashed since upgrading to Leopard last week: 2

I just lost half an hour of editing, and I'm so not fucking happy about it. I bet they were too busy jacking off over the iPhone to test Leopard properly. They better release a patch ASAP.