Okay, I'll tell ya what I'm a'gonna do...

Starting tonight, there will be two updates to the Diary per evening -- but only until we mesh the day of the week. So Wednesday night we'll fall back to only one entry per night. The date and such will still be shifted a bit over 8 months, but it will then be synced up with the day of the week it's written on.

Two words that say it all when it comes to excuses for missing the Dear Diary entry tonight.

I wanted to have through Sk8r Grrls Episode 26 (end of Book III) finished for today. Today being the Anniversary date of the first posting of Sk8r Grrls. Due to recent occurrences and guests this weekend and homework overload this weekend... I didn't get that done. I also wanted to get the Character Codex done for posting today. Another failure... however... thanks to the wonderfulness that is Heather Rose Brown... I do have something for all of you today. It'll be posted later -- around 10am Eastern time.

Yeah. So. I had some issues with my ISP. Practical upshot was that I had 15 essays, a quiz, and a 10-page research paper that I couldn't turn in. So Thursday night, I finally get the okay from my professor to turn them in late and still get full credit. However (gotta be a catch, right?). She has to turn in grades Saturday evening. So she gave me until noon Saturday (My time, Central... She's in Pacific) In about 2 hours time I did all the essays (which I'd done the readings for when assigned) including citing sources, as well as taken the test. So. Tonight was for working on the Research Paper. I find myself doing anything BUT working on it, and it's a full quarter of my grade for the class! Here I am writing a blog about writing the paper instead of writing the ding-dang paper. The topic is an engaging one, though, and I find myself having difficulty keeping emotion out and objectivity in. Bride Burning.

I need to talk to a list of 5:

• Cathy Michel
• Anistasia Allread
• Kaleigh Way
• Angharad Bonzifeeder
• Laika Pupkino

I am asking for a small group of folks to bounce a story off of. It is NOT finished, but I'm just getting into the writing of it. Wrote what's there in about 20 minutes today. Any takers?

So, when I was talking about posting the pieces of this story I wrote as a sort of fanfic, The Violet Ajah, I was proud of the fact that I had actually gotten James Rigney's permission to write it, as well as the fact that he liked the first 4 chapters of it when I sent them to him. [NOTE: James Rigney is the real name of the author known as Robert Jordan]

Please limit the amount of characters unbroken by a space to a dozen. Thank you.

It saddens me a little that I've had more people interested since I've cancelled the Outsidey Awards than when I was awaiting nominations.

For clarity's sake, no, I haven't gotten "lazy" lately. I've been having issues with life. The last time I shared something personal here, I said I'd not do it again because of the reaction I received -- which very nearly made me leave and not come back.

If you've not heard of them, the Spiral Scouts are an inclusive organization.

An answer to those that Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts won't let in.

Okay, just so you know the general types of folks doing the voting, so you can make assumptions of their tastes (whether you're right or wrong to do so!)