Although… the last part of this entry is pure awesomeness (well, in canon, the characters I chose are pure awesomeness), so it’s maybe not that bad. :-)
Okay, sorry for the time-hogging. I’ll just shut myself up and say, wobbling over the edge of my bed: Where’d all the rum go? :O
( 'An orchestra is to music as boredom is to terrible results' --Matt 'The Fucking Amazing' Writer )
- mood:
cheerful - music:Green Day: Jesus of Suburbia
That said, here’s the third one. It kinda sucks that none of the numbers (1, 4, and now 3) get repeated – like if it had been 3 months and 3 days since I wrote the first entry, and I now give you the third – but I’m not going to wait another two months to post this up, so it’s really too bad.
It’s Miss
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potterfreak0515 who betaed this, as usual, so a big round of applause for that. *big round of applause for that* And yes, I do mean it: she’s fantastic.So, without any further delay, ladies
- mood:
productive
( Ah, love, thou art beautiful. )
Also, ( I cut all over the place. )
Moreover… My dad installed an awesome (I use this word way too often) lamp for my room, so as I’ll now be able to read in my bed (finally!). It’s one of these lamps, like in the hotel rooms, that are screwed onto the wall and they have this arm thingy, on the end of which is the bulb, and to turn it on, all you have to do is touch it! Fuck yes! It’s really, really cool, and good in the dark so you don’t have to search all over the place for a switch.
For the bag meme— I
- mood: in love
- mood: accomplished
Yes, I am alive. And I even found a meme today that I felt like doing, so here it is.
All that said… ( Turtle traffic in here. ) And – just one more thing – ( Mrs Lovett is a beauty of nature. ) And as that is all I have to say… Au revoir everyone.
- mood: amused
In my quest to write fics about everyone and everything (read: OMG I’M A LOSER) I decided that it would be simply fantastic to write one about potterfreak0515 (hereafter referred to as Crystal Diamond Ruby Chrysoberyl because it’s shorter. Sorta.) and her wonderful wizard rock concert, in which she made the floor tremble. (NO! NO! I’m not joking! She, *points at Chrysoberyl*, even said so!)
So here it is. Again. I’m hoping this all goes better than what I did with poor, poor fera_festiva. To whom, by the way, I probably owe an apology. (But I don’t owe one to Chrysoberyl just yet because I haven’t posted the fic yet! But once I do, I’ll have to say sorry for many things, including what I now call her. Chrysoberyl, by the way, is a real stone.)
- mood:
blah
1. It’s 6:14 a.m. and I really, really need to sleep. Why, you may ask? Because of #3.
2. I got a dark blue comforter for my bed which, against my coffee-brown wall and close to my dark blue curtains (the exact same colour as the blanket, as a matter of fact), completes my Ravenclaw room. Fuck yes.
3. If you skipped #2 because you went directly here after reading #1, which told you to come here, go back and read #2 right now you lazy bum. That said, I’m going to the cabin this evening (like, after I sleep and wake up again… i.e. the evening of the 3rd of August, which is today since it’s 6 a.m.), so… Yeah. And this, just after I took a total and complete spaz at megan73 because she said that she’d be leaving… I had forgotten that I was gonna leave, too. :O *embarrassed*
4. Book of Badassity, which I had temporarily dropped, is now not temporarily dropped but in fact not dropped at all. And I have another project in mind that will only be posted, however, after a certain entry to the Book is published, during the writing of which the idea came to my mind – thus it explains the project. So yes, that’s another project added to my list, and I think it might be quite interesting.
5. The Book will not be updated very often, however, because it’s a huge challenge. It’s just a fun side project. :-)
6. Note to potterfreak0515: I know you don’t receive an email when I upload my beta version of the Ginny Project, but I’ll hopefully do so today around noon to four. Then you have a long, long time to answer because I will be gone! :’C
7. Just for stealing from fun: Which Harry Potter character do I remind you of? ^_^ No need to answer (meaning, I’m scared of being insulted by responses such as ‘Argus and Umbrage’s lovechild’).fera_festiva
8. That’s all! Now I hope I get to sleep soon. Otherwise I’ll work on the Book of Badassity some more, heh.
- mood:
not tired enough
matt_writer, and betaed by my friend potterfreak0515. Many, many thanks to her and her nitpicking. :)- location:Under my laptop.
- mood: accomplished
So a bit before JK published her prologue, my sister and I both wrote one in a language that is not exactly French, not exactly English. Well, I’ll put it this way: it shows we’re bilingual. Anyway, I’m posting mine by popular request (aka potterfreak0515 telling me, ‘Please keep posting French stuff because I enjoy attempting to translate it!’) so here it is. The jokes are bad, most of them are inside ones, anyway, but whatever. She’ll enjoy translating it. :-)
(And yes, it does skip from French to English to French to English, usually at least twice per paragraph. And yes, some words, like ‘checkant’ and ‘poker’ are hybrids of French and English. ‘Checkant’ is ‘checking’ but with the ‘-ant’ of the French Participe Présent, whilst ‘poker’ is ‘poke’, like, to poke, like I poked the wall with my knee, with the ‘-er’ of the French Indicatif Présent.
- mood:
embarrassed
Translated version:
- mood: embarrassed
Just doing some brainstorming, really. :-)
So…
- mood:
tired
This was posted last night as friends-only, but I then changed it to me-only because I wasn't sure if I wanted to post it anymore. I now changed my mind again, so here it is, good as new and, in fact, public:
OK, so I have 4 entries to the Ginny Project written up and almost ready to post (which will be done one by one, of course), and I was wondering if anyone would be interested in being my beta. Basically, I’d send you the fic via email (in an attached Word file, so it’s easier and I don’t have to copy-paste images and all the nondescript) and you give me any feedback whatsoever. Grammar (loads of rules I just do by ear, because we’ve never learned much at school! And I’m French! Oh no!) and content wise, or if a joke is just really, really unfunny (I'd love criticism about that!) – anything. You’d just have to tell me; in return, I’d credit you with every fic I write.
Of course, if you do show interest and I do ‘hire’ you, you can back away anytime you like.
That said, if I decide that I don’t want you anymore [ ;-) ], I’ll also feel free to, well, stop sending the stuff. :-)
Anyway. Is anyone interested? It would be very appreciated. :D
ETA: Chances are, though, that I’d only send you the entries that I want to be revised. If I’m confident enough, or just don’t want to make a big deal out of the particular story, I’ll just post it right away. :)
Another ETA: Actually, to make the Beta's and my job easier, I'd just post the fanfic as a friend-only post, and put the Beta in a special group of friends so only s-he can see it, and then s-he'd simply have to work via her-his friends page instead of emails. Would that be better?
Oh, and if you read this and it has been quite some times since I've posted it, I'd still love to hear from you!
- mood: anxious
- music:Hans Zimmer: I See Dead People In Boats
First off, I busked. (If you click on the link, it’s #5 in the list.) Yep. This is how it went:
1. I woke up.
2. I ate.
3. Showered, etc.
4. Packed my stuff.
5. Looked everywhere for the certificate I got one year ago for a $10 discount at the nearest French bookshop. This was to be used to buy the DVD of of ‘Les Choristes’. Couldn’t find it, though.
6. Went in the car with my violin and manuscript.
7. My parents dropped me off at my violin teacher’s house so we could practise ~30 minutes.
8. During my practise, my parents bought Les Choristes & dropped off my manuscript at the publisher. I had a lot of trouble letting them drop it off, because I’m paranoid and trust no one with it, but my nervous problem due to playing music in public helped me forget about it.
9. I went to the Forks – where I was to busk – with my teacher. It was raining, so we had to play indoors.
10. We played. Ooh, nerve-racking. Loads of old people were watching us – they were about
fera_festiva’s and cecilly_mad’s age, actually – and they were talking amongst themselves quietly. It was frightening.11. Well, I got $13 by playing for 15 minutes. Pretty good, I’d say! =)
- mood: cheerful
- music:Nicholas Hooper: The Room of Requirement
- mood: touched
- music:Some from this movie, but only in my head. :)
In the comments for my previous entry, potterfreak0515 asked me what my title was and, slightly embarrassed, I said told her what it was. ‘Jake Williams et l’océan d’Or’, or ‘Jake Williams and the Ocean of Gold’, has been my working title for the past three years and, quite frankly, I’ve always disliked it. Anyway, so I told potterfreak what is was, and she agreed with me that it was bad. Thus I decided that I should really, really try to think of a shiny new one, and after quite some time, scribbling, Google-ing and looking through (online) dictionaries, I actually found one that I like! Well, sorta. It’s OK. But it’ll do.
- mood: content
- mood: tired
And, just as a warning: This sucks bad, OK? It is utter crap. So be careful, and I won't be insulted if you don't comment or read or even delete me from your friends list. Well, OK, the latter would be a bit insulting, but still, you can do it if you want! ;)
- mood: amused
OK, so I haven't posted in some time, even though there were quite some things I wanted to talk about.
Why, you ask? Well, I've been rereading that stupid book, which I'm not even happy with. It it so boring. Two days ago, I reread 110 pages, which took me 7-8 hours, and yesterday I did more or less the same (OK, so more like 3-4 hours, but still a lot - 90 pages. You see, it takes a lot less time as it gets more and more perfect, heh.) and today I've done 3-ish hours and I'm bored. Well, at least I'm practically done. I've got another 240 pages to reread one last time, and I print. That's it. This is legendary, or whatever. Not that I think I've got any chances of getting accepted by the publishers, but I'll send it anyway. :)
So now that I've said why I didn't post, I will post.
- mood: bored
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