Back from interview number two. Not...really sure how it went. Though they're really selective about who they hire, even though it's a temp position. It could probably go either way at this point, but I was told they'll get in contact with me. I guess that's a good sign?

I guess I was dressed nicely, at least, since another customer in Macy's thought I worked there haha. And now I have a winter coat. It is a lovely purple pea coat and I fell in love with it and t was half off and it's warm so I went for it. And I won't get paint on this one.

Been doing a bit of world building over the past few days. Figuring out the names of countries and peoples and towns that might become cities, and scratching the surface of cultures. Unfortunately, my NaNovel has been left in the dust. I'm going to try and get back into it before the end of the week, see if I can still catch up. I mean, I've still got half the month, I'm sure I can at least hit the 50k. But I also want to actually have an ending for this one haha.

The roomies got a chinese dwarf hamster yesterday. Her name is Peanut, and she is adorable. Runs really freaking fast, too. With her, the hedgehog and the betta fish, it's like we have a miniature exotic pets zoo.

I've started going back and rethinking a certain comic and many of its elements so much that it effected my dreams last night. At one point, I was seriously writing up a timeline of events for and leading up to the story itself, right in the middle of the dream. Which also seemed (very) loosely based in some of those same events.

And then I was on a flying power metal pirate ship, singing. Power metal songs. On a flying power metal pirate ship. And I was possibly singing in my sleep, which is very silly.

Oh, and I heard back from Borders. I'm going in to meet with the management to discuss the position on Tuesday. Huzzah!

 Interview seemed to go well today. And it's full time. Yessssssss!
Almost lost it at the depot. Saw a guy that looked a LOT like my uncle from far away, was wearing a Salem State hoodie (my uncle was an alum), but then when the guy was closer, he didn't really look all that much like him anymore.
There were lots of older folks on the bus this morning.
Got some Christmas shopping done after the interview. Explored the North Shore Mall since I'm not as familiar with it. Probably just walked around three times before actually being able to do any shopping. It's a really nice place, though. And I have dress shoes now.
Sarah and Glenda found me after I got off the bus from the mall. We went grocery shopping, and I got some pineapple soda. Not sure how that's going to be.
Then we went to see Boondock Saints II with Tim. It was better than I expected. The dialogue in the beginning was a bit choppy and it tried way too hard to be badass, but it got snappier and funnier and generally better as it went.
I didn't write at all today. I kinda didn't feel like it after getting home. Maybe tomorrow.

That is my day in a nutshell.

I've been trying to give myself some time to sketch when I'm not sending out job applications or NaNoing.

( So this might turn into a weekly art post thing... )


I was watching a bunch of old movies a while ago, starting with Nosferatu at my brother's recommendation and The Seventh Seal at Karen's. And I totally fell in love with the latter, so I've been trying to hunt down some more of Bergman's work. I can't help but feel like The Face/The Magician in some way inspired The Illustionist. Maybe it was Max van Sydow and Edward Norton's facial hair. Oh, and the whole magic performer thing. So hey, I'm all for more recommendations for old movies.

In other news, I have an interview at Borders on Tuesday. Hope that goes well.

I'm out. Keep it classy.

Okay, now that that's out of my system. Wow. I can't believe Halloween is this week. There are benefits to living on the outskirts of Salem, namely avoiding all tourist activity. Godspeed to anyone venturing into the center of town, however.

But Halloween this weekend also means NaNoWriMo starts on Sunday! And so does the end of daylight savings! DOUBLE YES. I should probably write up a synopsis of my NaNovel for my profile thing. So far, all I've got is "Girl moves into house with DOORS THAT LEAD TO SELF-CONTAINED WOOOOORLDS OOOOOOH!"

But of course, there's more to it than that (:

All signed up for this year's NoNoWriMo. The idea I was kicking around seems to be leaning towards young adult fantasy. Soooo anybody else going for it this year?

So the little comic I did last week made me realize how much I missed making them. I've been kicking around a few ideas for one-shots, but I've also gotten the urge to start ICIB, since it'd be in a similar style. I don't know if that's such a good idea, though. I mean, Abaddon's at a stand still, and I guess I figure I should tend to that one before jumping onto a new project? Though I suppose I could find some kind of balance and work on them both.

All I really know for sure is that I want to make comics again. Gah.

What do you get when the Gaslight Anthem covers one of my favorite songs by Hot Water Music?

THIS:



YES YES YES YES YES YES YESSSSSSSSS

This, my friends, is what they call an Org core wet dream.

OH, AND THIS IS WONDERFUL TOO!

Hit 5500 words with the short story, and it's still going. I am going to have SO much to cut from it after finishing and going back to do the second draft.

Anyway, happy October! The leaves are getting a tinge, though it's mostly still green outside. It's getting rather nippy out, though! 

You know what? Writing is great. I've gotten a few thousand words written for a short story, the idea for which I've been kicking around for a little while, and I am having a blast. The freewriting is going surprisingly well, ideas are just coming to me! It's been a while since I've been able to do this. And I think I might actually end up finishing it. It's the furthest I've gotten writing a short story for quite some time. It's a bad habit I have, not finishing these things...but I think this time, it stands a chance!

I'm also very tempted to look over some older stuff to see if I can fix them up and finish the unfinished ones.

So I've been reading up on Etruscan gods as research for the universe of a certain relatively friendly neighborhood necromancer, and came across this very funny link  about Charun. Yessssssss.

It's fun delving back into a project that's been sitting on the back burner for a while. I'd been playing around with the rules of Iron's world over the weekend, but I have the events of the latest chapter of T.A. Pratt's Bone Shop to thank for the revived interest in Etruscan deities...since it lead me to look up haruspicy. And then the Etruscan connection from there. Yeah. I'm a nerd, I know, but the origins of these things are just so fascinating!

What's that? You haven't read Bone Shop yet? Well, you'd best fix that! And be sure to check out The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making while you're at it! (Though I must admit, I haven't read the latest chapters of the latter yet, and I need to change that!)

Whelp, opened up a floodgate. I started sketching earlier, but now I have to go to bed. Except I can't sleep because I want to keep drawing. But I need to be up in the morning.

Daaaaamn iiiiiiiit.

Sci-fi/Syfy original movies always know how to make me laugh

I've been thinking about the comic lately. A lot. Mostly how can I make it better? As well as can I even keep doing it? There's a lot of work to be done if I want to overhaul it, and I'm even considering just deleting what I have up on Smackjeeves because that version is going nowhere. Seriously, I haven't worked on the thing for, what? Three, four months? I want to make it better and have more of it finished before I start posting it again because I hate the terrible wait between pages. I want to keep the story moving. I want to improve the art. I want to fix what I have so far, to streamline it.

I'm also kind of considering going all digital with it. That's fewer supplies, smoother transition between steps, easier and quicker to make fixes where needed and just overall more efficient. But I like drawing it on good ol' bristol board. I guess it'll come down to what will produce the better-quality pages in a reasonable amount of time.

Maybe I should take up a smaller practice project before going back to it. Maybe I should try some one-shots. Abaddon is a pretty BIG story. So far it has been my practice project, and I've learned some things from making it...but it's come to a standstill. A lot of my creative endeavors have. But now I have this urge to work on things, and I don't want to let it go to waste. I just...don't know where to start.

Well. In other news, Saturday I went with the roommates and Jim to various places, including a used bookstore where I got Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book, Mallory's Tales of King Arthur and Ursula Synge's Land of Heroes, which is a prose retelling of the Kalevala, all in hard cover. And the whole shebang cost less than ten dollars. Reading Land of Heroes and the Kalevala also kinda made me want to work on Superhuman again.

Oooooh boy.

I feel a bit like an old lady. For the past week, I would work a graveyard or late night shift, come back and fall asleep watching Forensic Files, or wake up in the middle of the day and watch Law and Order repeats until my next shift.

One possibly good thing has come of this. It's revived my fascination with forensics, and I'm thinking of going back to school and getting a second bachelors in it. It'd probably get me much further than creative writing will, at least as far as realistic jobs go.

Anyway, I had my last desk shift today and start my new job at the campus bookstore tomorrow. It's going to be so weird going from having shifts all over the place to working a regular shift every day (and having most weekends off!) And it's from 10-3, which is the time where I usually have no idea what to do with myself if I'm not working.

Also also also I AM SO EXCITED about the new Sonata Arctica album coming out. SUPER STOKED. Somebody at the lj community found this and ooooooh man. I really want to see these guys live again. Though their next tour date around here...they're not headlining, they're supporting Dragonforce. I don't really care for Dragonforce. And even if I were to go just for Sonata and leave before Dragonforce took the stage, I don't think I can afford to pay the 25 bucks for a set that'll probably only be about a half hour. Sadaface.

Hoping I can fall asleep early tonight so I can be up bright and early for the new job tomorrow. Woo!

This is pretty much what my room looks like right now:

So I realized. Talk Like a Pirate Day is next month. And NaNoWriMo starts in 2 1/2 months.

I think I will happily await the one and prepare for the other. I have an idea that I am kicking around. It came to me in a dream, trufax.

Been doing lots of sketching lately. Mostly having to do with world building. Maybe I'll post those once I move the scanner over to the apartment.

Didn't have to work today, so I drew a little something

( Two-no,no make that Three versions heeeeere )