Camp NaNo: Days 23 - 26

Okay, so now I can't even manage my blog. Fricken hell!

Wordcount: 38028.

ARGHHH!!! I hate school sometimes!! Interfering with my writing!!... In any case, I managed to do 2,000-ish words last night - go me! I still am about 3-4000 words behind! I've really gotta step it up.

(How the hell was this so relatively easy last November!?)

This is Shi, with this expression: O.o

Camp NaNo: Days 18 - 23

Well, I didn't update every day like I wanted to. The reason is, schools started again. In a fit of depression, angst and procrastination by sleep, I didn't write anything. My wordcount has stagnated at: 33149

Now, guess who is behind?? That's right!! Me!

So I'm going to try to catch up over the weekend, and study, and do all my homework, and clean my room, and learn a new song on guitar for a performance in 2 weeks.

This is Shi, deciding to engage in a liiiittle bit of procrastination...

Camp NaNo: Day 4

Okay, so I kinda forgot to post yesterday because I went to bed early-ish. So this is what happened:

Word count: 5401

We're on school break for 2 weeks, which is awesome for writing/Camp NaNo,  but also means that I wanted to dye my hair. We have rules about colours at school, so on holidays I go crazy to make up for it. Anyway, being out of lift and peroxide, my sister and I headed to the local shopping centre via public transport to pick some up. The buses and trains make it quite a long trip, I must say, but we successfully returned with all products.

We did a little bit of writing, fuelled by the lollies we also bought, and then we dyed our hairs. This took significantly longer than expected - I decided to do my roots as well, which I hadn't been planning on (good thing we got more of the stuff).

Main characters of Sekai-Ichi:
Onodera Ritsu and Takano Masamune

And after that, my sister was in need of some cheering up, so we watched some Sekai-Ichi Hatsukoi, which is a great romantic comedy anime based on the manga of the same name by the author of  Junjou Romantica (which is also a great romantic comedy). The main story follows the editors and artists of the shoujo manga department of Marukawa Publishing, and their romances.  It's set in the same world Junjou, and Usagi-san even gets a cameo, which is awesome. I've always loved having characters from other series come in and out occasionally if possible. If I ever decided to write a story in the same universe as previously, that's what I'd do too.

But by the time we finished that, it was late so we went to bed. And now I'm behind on my wordcount! I've gotta get my arse into gear and just write more.

And more and more, dammit.

This is Shi, going off to write more (and more and more).

... who dreads November

I'm procrastinating.

It might seem silly, but there's a very good reason why I am. There's a pile, a huge mountain of homework stacked up on my desk, in my bag and on my USB keys and emails. I don't want to do it.

There are also little red notes, written into my school diary, proclaiming days and nights of nervousness. SAC days. Days of doing SACs. And I don't want to do them either.

So really, I should be doing my homework as practice for my upcoming, inevitable SACs. It makes sense to practice writing essays, and complete comprehension questions, applying my understanding to every little detail in the course outline so that when that SAC day comes, I know my stuff. It would be a breeze, right? Just go in, knowing my stuff, and complete everything in a 75 minute period. Done.

And because my head knows that, I'll stop procrastinating, and do my homework. I'll do all of it, or as much as I can, because I know how important my grades are and I really do care about doing well.

But just hearing teachers say that awful E-word just makes me dread November. "You have to know this for the exam", they say, or "this will probably be on the exam" or even, "this is how they separate the good kids from the great kids in the exams". Everything comes down to what you know on that day, with those white pages staring you in the face, and only you can decide how much you can pull yourself together, and just write the answers.

So I dread November. Not really because I feel like I won't know enough about my studies to do well on the exams, but rather because I'm wondering: what will I know afterwards? When I have to  go out into the world as an adult, will I be prepared? I always thought that highschool would prepare you for that, but now it seems we're being prepared for November, and that's all.

So what about December? And the next year after that? After I've relinquished the memorized theories, dates, names and terminology, what will I know that can help me in the real world? I really do wonder.

This is Shi, procrastinating just a little more.