Things I've discovered this week!

There are quite a few things I have discovered, learned or otherwise realized these past couple of weeks and here are some of them:

1- I'm really not that bad of a bike rider...I was coming home from school on Walnut and there were four teenage boys (15-17) on bikes right in front of me as I passed one of the intersection. Within seconds, I smoked all four of them and left them far behind with an amazing view of my back...tires. It may sound pretty shallow and immature, but to tell you the truth, smoking those kids made my day and I was laughing all the rest of the way.

2- 'The Cure' must be one of the most amazing bands ever to have lived on the face of this planet. I don't know why I never realized this until now, but better late than never! I have been obsessed for a couple of weeks now, and have been listening to albums of theirs that are dated from anywhere between 1983 to 2008...wow. Good stuff.

3- I really do enjoy what I am going to school for. Sometimes it seems like I don't because it seems like the end is sooooooo far away. But really, I look forward to learning new things that apply to my future career. The ones that apply mind you, I still have a hard time going to class and loving every second of a lecture for classes that I will never use ever again in my life, but that is okay I guess...they need money and apparently they think that my time is more valuable sitting in a classroom than out spending time in the workforce, just to accomplish my general education.

4- It is alot more work to write a section of the book when the character whose point of view you are describing is an it and not a he/she. If you're describing the actions and thoughts of a person, than throwing in he or she in a sentence just seems so natural. But when the character is a thing, or an it, than you need to rearrange the structure of your sentences often in order for it all to make sense and not get confusing between which it is the character and which it is just something else in the sentence. Anyway...I'm having some fun with that one.

5- I discovered that my goal of a 1st draft at 160,000 words is too limited. I re-evaluated the sections I need to work on and the outline of the story and it puts me at about 230,000 words for a first draft (that translates to about 450-500 pages). We'll see how that goes.

6- Participating in the creation of a wedding cake can be more stressful than studying for a midterm and probably more painful than having your nails pulled out with hot pliers, but it doesn't make it taste less amazing.

7- Thanksgiving is awesome...You get to remember what you're thankful for and then eat so much food that it's just craziness!!! I'm thankful for Thanksgiving and for turkeys.

8- There's so much more but I need to go to bed. Thanks for being a part of the blog. For those of you who never leave comments because you don't know how, just click on that says '# comments' right below the end of this paragraph and a window will pop up. See you all later.