Kurry's Journal


...Or indeed, the decade. (Quote is from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The movie. Yes, I'm a nerd.)

It is possible that I will not be able to get online for the next little while, as I will be extremely busy packing, getting ready for school, and generally running around in a flap. (As well as having to get internet set up in the new apartment...) So I'm going to say this now, before hell hits the fan and splatters all over my holiday. XD

I hope all of you have a very Merry Christmas (or Chanukah, or whichever holiday you may or may not be celebrating right now). I hope the new decade brings you many blessings and that you all find the paths you are meant to take without too much strife. I love all of you - Aly, Talen, Kotori and Dai, Inoni, Anubis... you know who you are. ;3 Take care of yourselves and drop me a line if you get the chance to tell me how things are.

I can't say when I'll be back, but I'll make sure that internet is one of the first things we get set up once we're settled. (Might be able to check things at school too. You never know.) In the interim, however, you can be sure I'll be very busy writing and working on the new projects, so expect interesting announcements and updates in the new year. (I'm so excited about all the stuff I have planned. Should be fantastic. I can't wait. :3)

Be safe and happy, and above all, keep the balance.

See you in 2010.

Cheers,

~ Ry

Kurry's Journal


Well, not quite a WHOLE month. But close enough.

Oh... my... GOD, November was so busy. X.x Literally everything came at me all at once. But I made it through exams, and now I'm trying to find a new apartment... wait, wait, I need to start at the beginning. And it needs to be in lists, otherwise I'll just ramble for an age.

Things that Happened in November

~ My parents came to visit and I'm officially 'out' now. (I guess... whatever.)
~ Finished my fiction piece (for class at least... it's turned into a novella. I'm going to work on it more over the next month)
~ EXAMS. UGH.
~ Deciding to find a new apartment and starting that process.
~ Lots of work getting done for my writing job
~ Generally being stressed out and frustrated and tired and not having enough time to do anything.

Sigh. BUT. Now that school is over, I've got a work/writing schedule worked out for December, and I'm sticking to it come hell or high water. I need to make some money, and I need to reach a whole bunch of milestones with my work. Like so:

Denzfic: Should be at 50,000 words by the end of December
Bellhop Fic: (This is the new novella) Should be at 10,000 by the end of December
Jakfic: Umm... can't remember... I think I said 50,000 for that one too, but the Denzfic is more important right now.

I really feel bad about the Denzfic, because I went through all of NaNoWriMo without writing more than a hundred words on it. 100. Yeah, that's lame even for me. But I'm determined to push it along until the draft is done. (Hell, I should just have a deadline for every month except April and November, because those are exam months. Then I could leave off the writing and focus on school. Yeah... why didn't I think of this before?)

Anyway, I just needed to get all that off my chest. We've got a meeting with a landlord on Sunday, which will hopefully give us a new place to live that won't break the bank (or break in general... the bed and the closet door here went in the same week... seriously annoying. But anyway.)

In other news, it's been really nice to just chill out and catch up on some stuff I've been letting go slack. Been watching NeoAngelique Abyss on Crunchyroll. It's not bad - a little cliche, but the cliches are fun to make fun of, and the story itself is pretty cool. Going to follow it up with Tegami Bachi. And Miracle Train is, of course, adorable. :3

Can't decide what to read next though. I'm leaning toward Seer of Egypt, but I can't remember if it's the first book or not and I don't want to start in the middle of anything. Might just finish off Uriel's Machine, reread my fiction self-help books and get a bunch of writing done. Went through Wicked and The Devil and Miss Prym in two days because I was so starved for recreational reading. Wicked was AWESOME. Or wicked, if you'll forgive me the pun.

Dad bought me Season 1 of Heroes for an early Christmas present. I have the coolest parents.

Cheers all.

~ Ry

Kurry's Journal

Holy jeez, it's been a whole month since I wrote last. Things got so insane I don't even know where to start. So, in the lovely style of , it's time for BULLET POINTS!

I am ecstatic to announce that I now have two jobs, both paying roughly $12 an hour and both sporadic so I still have plenty of time for other things. This is a HUGE relief to me. It's very nice to be bringing in money again. Thank. God. :whew:

The reason I haven't been journalling much, even when I finally got said jobs, is because midterm/essay season decided to hit along with everything else all at once like usual. However, I just finished two major projects today and got them handed in, so schoolwise the pressure is largely off until finals. YAY. This means that I can focus on the rest of my projects, outlined below.

NaNoWriMo: I have hardly written a thing for Denz's fic since the month started. I'm a terrible person. But Denz and I HAVE been doing a lot of planning for the story, so I'm looking forward to finally being able to sit down and start writing proper scenes and editing the ones I already have. Once I get that started, I'm sure my wordcount will hit 50,000 in no time.

Disclaimer: I am NOT trying to win anything this year. If I do get offered a prize, I will turn it down, because I'm still working on the same novel I've been working on during all my NaNoWriMos for three years. I know it's not fair, but I can't start a new major story until I dent some of my old ones. Hence, no winning - I'm just in it for the support and the deadline, which inspires me to write.

There. Now my conscience is clear. Moving on.

Speaking of not starting new stories, though... Heroes is making this VERY HARD! We're on the third season now and man, it's just as much of a trip as the first season! My adrenaline hasn't gone back to normal in two days. @_@ But it's SO GOOD. I can't stop. I'm getting addicted to the idea of Peter/Sylar too. I wrote about 1,500 words of scene with those two in it today. The thing is terrible, writing wise, but I enjoyed it. It might end up being a story; if not, I'll just keep it for my own guilty pleasure. :3

Going back to the essay thing for a moment... I've also been doing a lot of reading/studying of my own. I'm reading Uriel's Machine again, properly this time, and oh my god it's incredible. I can understand most of the science involved, and it sounds purely plausible that a seven-tiered comet hit Earth 10,000 years ago to create the Great Flood. Like, the Biblical, Noah-in-an-ark Great Flood. That one. I really want to finish the book so I can find out where the Watchers came from. It's amazing. Read it, even just so it can blow your mind.

Geez, I just realised I also broke 6,000 pageviews while I was so busy. I'd better draw something for that. Better belated than never. I've been wanting to draw one of my new boys for awhile, maybe I'll try him. Either way, I really do appreciate all the pageviews, faves, etc. Thanks so much for visiting, and don't hesitate to leave comments. I'll hopefully have some new pieces up once I get more free time and finish NaNo for the month.

Projects I have going right now:

~ NaNoWriMo
~ Story for fiction class
~ Multiple articles for my job
~ Jakfic
~ Altean arc in the rp
~ Diversity contest piece
~ SEE stuff

Wheeee, that's a lot of writing! My portfolio is going to be huge by December. :3 I'm really pleased with all the writing I get to do right now. It's a good mix of professional and fun stuff. I just have to make sure I stay caught up in my classes so that I can pass my exams. It's all good after that. The really awesome thing is that I think I've only got, like, one exam in the actual exam period. So I'll have tons of free time for a month. I'm looking forward to it. (More ushering!)

Oh, and my parents are coming to visit in like, six days. Almost forgot about that.

Okay. Well, that was extremely verbose. I'm going to go do some laundry and try to finish off at least one thing on my list now. I feel better now that I've kind of caught up with myself and laid it all out here. Man, I love journalling. :3 I forget how much I miss it when I don't do it often enough.

If you read this whole thing, good for you! Have a cookie.

Cheers,

~ Ry

Kurry's Journal


Hey folks. Sorry I haven't been around much. Things have been insanely busy these past couple weeks with school and all.

I just wanted to announce a couple things. First, I have finally jumped on the bandwagon and made myself a fic journal since my website expects payment after 20 pages and I don't have the money right now. Ficjournal is here:

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Everything over a rating of PG-13 is friends-locked, however. If you want to be added, note me there and I'll put you in.

Second, I finally got my feature published. They paid me $75 bucks for it. I'm extremely pleased and planning to start a new one very soon. One every two or three months should do it.

Third, still trying to find a job. No rapid updates on that because the situation could change hourly and I don't post journals that often.

Fourth (okay, maybe it was more than a couple announcements), my fiction is kind of on hold at the moment. I was doing really well, but for some reason last week took a hell of a lot out of me, so I'm just taking a little break. Going to read some stuff and do some editing, get the rest of my finished works posted at Scribe Sanctuary, and then I'll probably go back to the Jakfic. Or maybe work on all those oneshots I've got going. I've also been wanting to draw again, which is sad because I don't have a sketchbook anymore - my old one is full. Still have that little one though - maybe I should just draw headshots to get back in the groove again.

Fifth, HEROES! OMFG! Amazing. We borrowed the first and second seasons from Sunie's mom. SO. GOOD! SYLAR! AND MOHINDER! And... hell, I don't think there's anybody on that show I don't like. Ummm... Mohinder's voice is dreamy. Could listen to it for hours. And Hiro and Ando are ADORABLE. For srs. WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG TO SEE THIS SHOW??

..oh yeah. Because now I get to watch like fifty episodes all in a row. That's why. :3

Patience is its own reward, I guess.

Anyway, that was about it. Still alive, still fighting battles, still writing. Don't think I could stop now if I tried.

Hope everyone else is doing well. Note me if you want to talk, I'm listening.

Cheers,

~ Ry

Kurry's Journal


I do not write about Sunie very often. We are somewhat private people in that regard; I always do my best to protect the sanctity of our lives in my writing. But I have long known something about Sunie that I want to scream to the world. So here, just once, is that scream.

Sunie is actually a saint in disguise.

I know. I could hardly believe it either. I searched everywhere for her white saintly robes, but she must have hidden them really well because I can’t find them. Those new pillowcases of ours are suspiciously heaven-fresh though.

I’m a selfish person. I know it. She knows it. Every day I get up and prepare myself for new, unknown anxieties. But in the back of my mind I know I’ll be okay because Sunie has stayed up late the night before compiling a list to combat each and every one of those anxieties. She doesn’t have to; just waking up to her kills most of them.

She’s got this patience that you really wouldn’t expect from a Gemini. I can be panicking and flailing all over the place and she’ll just talk soothingly at me while she gets my arms into the straitjacket so I don’t hurt myself. And then she’ll feed me chow mien and we’ll watch The Boys^TM together. I’m never happier than when we are in the same room, endless free time stretched out before us like a smorgasbord at Denny’s, courtesy of family gift cards. God, I love gift cards.

But the best part, the part that makes me go all gooey like a cookie too long in the microwave, is that she accepts all my little quirks as part of who I am without question. She can watch me come in the door already ranting about work or school or giant fuzzy attacks and not bat an eyelash. She gives me exactly what I need, though; indignation on my behalf, understanding, a smack upside the head when I’m being an idiot. The works.

I know I don’t make it easy. What with my being as sick as I have been, Sunie has had to take on far more responsibility than is really her due. It’s not fair, and I feel terrible about it. But I have plans. Oh, do I have plans. Mostly to stop eating us out of house and home. I really should make myself a ration list.

Sometimes I’ll tell her stories just to make her laugh. I love how we can so much as look at each other and know what the other is thinking. I can forgive her for being disorganized just like she forgives me for being a stick-in-the-mud, because both of us would fall apart without the mud and the mess in our lives.

Sunie can’t wash a dish to save her life, but she’ll tolerate me hanging over her shoulder saying ‘You missed a spot’ without braining me with the soapy frying pan.

I am so, so grateful for that.