don't get old. seriously. it sucks. don't go to school. don't be a history major. and don't study the middle east....


grrr....


So...my new-found obsession with Twilight has probably caused my GPA to drop. Totally worth it :D. Anyways, junior year is almost over, and, seeing as how I'm spending my summer rotting away back home, perhaps i'll actually get back to being creative and writing. I'm planning on it...just too many ideas swirling in my head, and I'd rather *finish* a fic before posting it. so, here's to summer and being productive.

and, as usual, thanks for still caring.

-zth

i'm not dead....i promise...

working on actually breaking my streak of NOT finishing fics, or taking a million years to do so. i'll try harder :)

42 days until i'm 21...can't wait!

so i was going to waste time as i normally do and do some research for my story (haha, yea) by watching old hey arnold episodes on youtube.com. but there were none. Nor were there any danny phantom eps there. I figured that youtube finally was cracking down on copyrighted material all together, but then i see that the entire card captor sakura series is still on there, which made me happy and pissed me off at the same time.

so i dug a bit by going to my #1 source for all things ponderable, wikipedia, and apparently Viacom, which owns Nick, MTV, and Comedy Central, requested that all copyrighted videos (totally over 100,000) be taken down. Now, I understand that this material is copyrighted and is owned by Viacom, but give me a break. Youtube was awesome because it gave people a chance to watch tons of shows that are not shown anymore, or are shown in limited supply. I've seen the entire CCS series because of this, and I have been able to watch it in the original Japanese (yeah, the english adaptation of it is absolute crap, but that's another issue). I've also been able to watch my favorite clips of the Daily Show and The Colbert Report, Danny Phantom, and Hey Arnold! The last is most important to me because it is not on Nick anymore except in certain blocks and on holidays.

Comedycentral.com currently has portions of TDS and TCR on their website, but not the episodes in their entirety. Viacom already has a partnership with iTunes, which sells entire episodes of the Daily Show. Wonderful. Really. I understand that a lot of people work for Viacom and they work hard for their money, but really? You have to once again take away television from the viewer. Must you be driven completely by the $$?

I'm probably overreacting and letting my communist side out, but seriously. If you are going to get rid of the free access to old shows, than either put it on DVDs, put it back on their air, or start creating quality shows, because you guys are lacking. As for current shows, youtube.com let us keep up when we missed episodes and let us watch old episodes if they weren't on dvd yet. It's impossible to put the daily show or the colbert report on dvd, and even when they did, it sucked (i want my $30 back). youtube was beautiful, and still is, because it exposes us to different television shows that we no longer have access to. If i'm ripping some CEO off by watching youtube, I really don't care, because they are still giving me the enjoyment of watching their show, which is really what it should be about.

anyways, i'm going to sleep early tonight, and i have a lot to do this week, but the roomie will be gone this weekend, and because i'm a loser, i'm going to use the time to sleep and write!! oh yea, the next chappie will be long. i'm already around 4000 words, and i'm probably not half way done....i really need to ease up on this.



later days, and screw viacom

**OH, and brit shaved her head. Who does she think she is, Natalie Portman? I do feel bad for the girl, because the public is ruthless, but at the same time, that's the price of fame, and she never exactly shied away from it before. I hope she can get her act together for the sake of her kids. And i feel guilty and a bit dumber that i'm talking about this, but whatever.

i can't believe how in my first story i sometimes wrote chapters that were less than 2500 words long. that's like...nothing. granted, college and even high school makes you every wordy, and i've tried to make myself a lot more descriptive...i'm good at dialogue, but i'm not very good and describing things between actions... i hope i'm getting better at this. i still suck at proofreading...i just get sick of reading my writing and i get excited to share it. my professor actually told me in my writing class that my writing got worse as the semester went on. i wanted to tell him that i'd like to see how his writing would fare if his life went down the shithole while he was taking 20.5 credit hours.

then again, he's a genius, or close to it, so i think he'd be ok.

(oh, and never take 20.5 credit hours...)

my job starts saturday...fun times...and i'm actually going to have some fun this weekend...good stuff. and i'm trying to get an RA position for next year. my god, i'm growing up.

i also get to overact tomorrow for my communications class. vocal variation. this class is dumb. useful, but that doesn't mean i have to like it. but i'm doing the famous "to be or not to be" speech from hamlet. **there is a reason i'm telling you this. so if anyone is actually reading this, they just got a hint**

anyways, i think i'm going to read over all my old reviews, because it makes me happy. because i'm vain. anyways, i'm trying to keep improving myself as a writer.

anyways, back to writing my story, because who the hell does homework these days anyways??

procrastination equals masterbation...in the end, you're just fucking yourself...

Yes, that's right...I've finally started a new story.

Hey kids, bad day got you down? Don't do your homework...write a story about death!! That's how you deal with your problems...

hmmm....

I'm pretty proud of the start to this, considering I haven't started a new story in years. My whole heart is going into this, because the themes of it is very important. I've been doing some research for it, and i'm enjoying myself. Hopefully I'll be able to keep this up. My job starts on saturday, and i'm still taking 15 credit hours, which isn't that much, but i have quite a bit of work for my classes...don't be a history major, too much reading. And i'm trying to get into shape so not only do i look cute when I head to Italy in May, but I also won't crap up and be sore the entire time like I was on my trip to Europe last year.

I've totally been bitten by the travel bug. That's why I have no money...

anyways, if you have any questions about the story, just ask. and please keep encouraging me to write...if you bug me enough, I will write (probably shouldn't have told you that, but what the hell...)

until then...

so...if you are reading this, THANK YOU!!! anyways, i'll be putting updates on my progress on fics here...right now, i'm writing whenever i don't have/don't want to do homework. Oh, the glamorous life of a poor college student. anyways, here's the update so far:

A Sure Thing: on hiatus...i messed up the story, and i'll probably rewrite it before i update it.

New Stories: haha, me, being overly ambitious and retarded, have currently started *3* stories...

How to be Dead: Probably the next to be published. I'm still tweeking the first chapter, and i'll probably write more before i publish it, but hopefully i'll get to that before the end of the month. H/A fic.

Dreaming a Reality: definitely the hardest thing i've tried to write, and the idea's been in my head for YEARS. anyways, i have some things written down, but i need to fully outline the plot before i go farther. probably will be rated r, or whatever the equvalent is on ff.net

untitled: a card captor sakura fic... i'm finally branching out!! first 1000 words written today. Woo hoo!

anyways, that's all for me for now...sorry about the A Sure Thing thing...but i started it 3 1/2 years ago, and it is entirely my fault that i'm in the situation i'm in now, but i don't think i was very true to the characters, and i think i can do a lot better now. i think i'm a better writer (though i still don't think i'm that good.) than i was when i was 16. so, please be patient, and you will be rewarded...