Back to Blogging

I had a conversation with a friend of mine a couple days ago. We both like to write, but seldom find the time to do it, even though we both have blogs that we could be updating. And that got me thinking about this place. Obviously it's been a while since I posted, but I do really enjoy blogging. With the amount of interesting things that I find on the internet everyday that I just really need to share with someone, or even just put somewhere and talk out my feelings about, blogging could be really good for me.

So, I guess the point of this is that I intend to start posting here more. I do not promise high quality everyday. And it won't always be one thing or another. I hope to post a mix of videos, my writing, pictures and just talking about links or something happening in my life.

I'll start right now with an update on my life. I have the same Dunkin' Donuts job that I've had since I graduated high school. Except now instead of working nights, I'm the Assistant Manager and I work a dark o'clock early in the morning. It's been an interesting transition for this night owl, but I still enjoy it. I am still working my way through college with online classes. I do participate in NaNoWriMo every year (I think I'm pretty good at keeping my sidebar updated with that). I tried Camp NaNoWriMo in August this year and didn't even break 7k. I am still very much a James McAvoy fangirl. I would appreciate it a lot if TPTB would release one of the three movies he filmed last year and early this year (or even Arthur Christmas! Give me anything.). I am still in love with X-Men: First Class. I have grown this love by attending a fan meetup for XMFC and starting to read X-Men comics. I am of legal drinking age (I was the last time I posted, but now I've found people that I can be around and drink and just have a good time). I like drinking, but I'm responsible about it. I saw Train in concert on Saturday. It was fantastic.

I think that's it for tonight. I've got comics that I really want to read. Expect the layout and design to change.

Nice to talk to you again, blog people. Have a good night!

Camp, Typing and Guild Stuff

If you’ve noticed the new badge on the side of the site (or you know me in real life), then you know that I am participating in the first ever Camp NaNoWriMo this month. It is very slow going as I am learning to touch type Dvorak at the same time. I know where all the letters are now, but my typing speed is around 15 words per minute, and that is hella slow. So my writing is going crazy slow and it probably doesn’t help that I’m not out of the ‘oh god, who are my characters?’ stage of the NaNo writing. My goal for today is to just reach the day two word count goal, which by my math is 3226. I’m at 2729 right now and I am counting this blog post. I figure the easiest way to improve my typing is just to keep doing slow freewrites until my typing improves. I do truly enjoy Dvorak and knowing that I am capable of touch typing, since I’ve never done it before. It’s just very frustrating that typing a hundred takes me so damn long! My problem used to be that I would get stuck with story ideas (that problem definitely isn’t gone), but now the bigger problem is that typing takes forever.

I think I’ve been working on this blog post for at least half an hour. I handwrite things faster than I can type them right now.

However, my characters are cooperating with me when I do get to writing. Which has been in bed with my ‘all things NaNo’ notebook, then I type it the next day. It’s been pretty nice because my main character looks like Matt Bomer. And my main female character, who was the main character before Mark (Matt Bomer looking) decided he was far more interesting, looks like Piper Perabo. They aren’t a bad looking couple for my novel couple, not that they’ve actually met yet. I’m still working on introducing Mark , but I did already introduce Jessica when I thought she was going to be the main character.

Outside of writing, things are going well with my guild. We ventured into Blackwing Descent last week as a guild. We only have 8 interested raiders so we had to pug two healers to help me keep people alive. One of the healers we got was a 15 years old and extremely annoying. We had a shaman healer the first night who was very quiet in vent but seemed to be a competent healer. The second night the shaman wasn’t online so we pugged a paladin healer who we since gotten an alt of into guild. She’s pretty cool. I’m very pleased by how we did in Blackwing Descent. Most of the people from guild had never been in there. Magmaw took three tries to kill, which is not bad for our first Cataclysm raid boss aside from Argaloth. We one-shotted the Omnitron Defense System. That one was surprising and a lot of fun. We really didn’t explain the fight very well, but it was apparently well enough. Maloriak was a one shot as well. After that we went to Chimeron where we wiped for several hours over the two days. We switched to Atramedes to see how we could do on him. On the first night we were winging it and wiped on his trash several times. By the second night I had done some research and we were able to one shot his trash. Atramedes took several tries, but the blind dragon finally dropped! We weren’t able to take down Chimeron but there’s a ton of time for that. For a first Cata guild run it went really well.

The only thing I would like to improve on is my guildies talking over me in vent. It was very frustrating trying to lead a raid with several people talking over me. Or even offering to explain a fight that I just explained “better.” It’s something I can work on with them though.

Well, other things to do tonight! Thank you for reading.