Heather: And My Bro, Saladin. Oh Wait...

Right now I am trying to write an essay for my history class on Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria that defeated the Christians in Jerusalem in 1187, but was totally chivalrous and awesome about it. Sadly, I've written about 3500 words on this assignment today alone (I'm almost at 7000 in total) and I really don't have it in me to write another essay. Especially not an essay with in-text citations.

Thus, even though I've been working all day, I still have so much to do and I can't bring myself to start this essay. Which is bad, because it's the most important part of my assignment, and ... fudgcicles, I just got distracted again.

...I'm going to go do my homework now. :/

-H

Kamie: Rise of the Guardians...

Is one of the most AMAZING movies ever! I saw it twice in one day. I have also decided Jack Frost will become my future husband... sigh. Oh well! I love the voice actors too! Hugh Jackman played Bunny and Chris Pine played Jack Frost! It was AWESOMMMMMME! Also on other...erm... incidences? Also, I have deduced that I will never... ever buy from Best Buy again. I'm just saying. I'm having terrible drama right now with it. I also do not want to start talking about it at the second. Let's see. I have school tomorrow. School sucks, I hate every grueling moment of it. I literally feel like I live in my own person bubble of Hell while I am in it... anyways off of depressing matters. My mom gave me an early Christmas present because she knew how much I've wanted one, she got me the Japanese Rosetta Stone... It is AH-MAAAAZING! I really love it. It's a lot of fun! :D Um... anything else? No... I don't think so off the top of my head. I guess I'll end this post for now.

-Kamiella Maze

Cori: That crazy old cat lady.

I used to have one living by me...we actually called her The Crazy Lady. She went around the neighborhoods and picked up all the trash in people's yards, and tried to steal my cats a few times. But anyway...she's not what this post is about.

Looking at the status of someone more than a year younger than me, and reading about how they're getting laid and wasted every Friday, makes me feel kind of old. I swear I'm going to be that crazy old cat lady someday...and seeing as I love cats (and bats), I don't think I'll mind it all that much. I really only like cats, bats, and the occasional dog though. Animals kind of annoy me. But I'll never let them be hurt, and I'll always end up with some weird animal (mostly cats) following me home when I take walks haha. If I didn't know any better I would say my hair is made out of catnip.

So I tried vodka for the first time the other day. You know that hospital smell? The disinfectant-and-people-have-just-pissed-and/or-died-in-this-place smell? Yeah, that's what vodka tastes like.

It's kind of funny. When we were younger, my older brother and I stayed up until ten to play with Beanie Babies while our parents thought we were asleep. Now we stay up until three to drink vodka and watch disgusting videos.

...We haven't changed much, now that I think about it.

Honestly...I'm bored out of my mind. I have to have something occupying my mind at all times or else I'll get so bored that I'll do nothing but lay on the couch for twelve hours, too bored to even blink, and think depressing thoughts. My grandpa got sick of it when I was six so he taught me Sudoku. My best time is three minutes on easy, and eight on extreme. He's teaching me how to play chess, poker, and rummy now. I'm going to have the best freaking poker face in the world by the time I'm eighteen.

So, uh...Caged. That sounds like a fun topic. I didn't do NaNoWriMo this year, because just thinking about it makes me want to scream (I've really burned myself out lately. Blah), but I have been writing quite a bit. Mostly just random little scenes...and mostly in French class. Madam Marsh wants me to write my latest one in French. I'm screwed. (I don't know what 'blood' is in French. Or 'scream,' now that I think about it. Quelle horreur!)

I think I'm going to go play Sudoku now...or write...or lay on the couch. Oh, look, Jamie is online...I think I'll go bother her.

Nat: Wanna help me?

Hi. I just posted this on Facebook so you may have seen it there, but I'm posting it here again in the hopes that someone will see it and maybe decide to help me out. ;) 

I'm working on a video project for my YouTube channel, and what I was wondering is if you'd help me by recording something and sending me a video/audio recording. What I'm looking for is either a personal story about someone that's important to you [the time you went to the beach with them, or why they're important to you, a list of reasons that you love them, or why you're glad their favourite ice cream is chocolate, I don't know, just something personal], or something that you wish you could tell someone but are too afraid to/would never tell them. 
I'm not going to be using the video, just the audio. So it honestly doesn't have to be good quality, film it in the dark for all I care. And I'll edit the audio, so you don't even have to worry about that. Also, if you could keep it anonymous, with zero names, that would be excellent.

Let me know if you want to help me out. 
Thanks ladies. 

:) 

Cori: Unfortunately...

I won't be able to finish my NaNo novel this year. Which makes me feel like a terrible writer. But I can't find my layout for the book (which was really good, but was destroyed by the virus), and I'm so behind that it's not even funny.

Anyway, enough about my problems, because they really don't belong anywhere on this blog (or anywhere else, for that matter). I think the Tumblr idea sounds great (I actually made a Tumblr yesterday, in the name of stalking some writing agents).

Speaking of writing agents - I found one the other day that I had overlooked a few years ago, seeing as how the genres he's interested in didn't fit with mine. Well...now they do. He's interested in horror/dark fantasy, which is what I write (I used to write light fantasy. Even the bad guys - who were cheerfully called 'evil' and 'sadistic' - were okay people. It was kind of disturbing.). His name is Brooks Sherman and I think he could be the guy; I'm going to write a query letter soon (my old one was terrible, I realize that now) and send it in to him. Wish me luck!

First I need to finish rewriting the third chapter of Caged, though. Bleh.

Nat: I don't have a witty title for this post...

Hi ladies!

Ready for a rapid-fire rundown of my life?

A. I'm doing NaNoWrimo, and so far it's going really well. I'm at 15, 961 words, which means that I still have to write 705 words today, but I've hit my daily word count every day so far. :D

B. I've been posting a lot on my personal blog lately, so if you're interested in reading that you can go here. If not, that's okay too haha.

C. I really like the idea of Tumblr, because I'm a bit of a Tumblr-addict, though I'm not sure how you link up all those accounts. But I'm sure someone tech-y can figure it out. :) I also think we should bring back the vlogs. [also if any of you have personal Tumblr accounts, you should tell me so that I can follow you.]

D. I'm going to this party next weekend and I'm so excited because this really hot guy that I like is going. XD My apologies for the girly-ness of that sentence. [sometimes I'm grateful that it's only girls on this blog haha...]

E. Congrats to the US ladies on the reelection of Mr. Obama. (I guess maybe not congrats, depending how you feel?) I got super involved in the US election, it was very stressful and I don't even live there haha.

F. We had a crazy snow day here on Wednesday and all the buses were delayed by at least 3 and a half hours. It was ridiculous. And then my bus stopped running altogether, leaving me stranded on my uni campus.

Alright, that's all from me. I've gotta go write 705 more words to get caught up. ;)

Until next time,
A

P.S. If any of you are also doing NaNo, let me know how you're doing, and here's a song for some inspiration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78mvUeBw7MM   

Kamie: Random talking

I really like the idea of Tumblr. It should be a lot of fun. I really like Tumblr, I think I need to get on it a lot more often. I'm happy to say that I'm enjoying being inspired to write again. I just wish I could jump in already, since I'm really behind on my NaNo count... But oh well, I'm still trying to see if I can reach my word count at the end of the month. I might, I might not. Oh well. Anyways, I'm so excited for college next year! UNT bound, never thought I'd see the day where I'd be heading to Texas. However, it should be amazing! :D Anyways, I guess I'll let y'all go, just wanted to give a small update. :)

-Kamiella Maze

Heather: MIA... Oops.

Hey ladies!

I'm sorry I've been gone so long! (Again).

I was just sitting in front of my computer when a new idea struck me. And so, now I'm trying to figure it out... But I'm also finding I need a name. Because I don't like the one I've got. Any ideas for a girls name so I don't go and spend hours pouring over babynames.com like usual? The need to know: I really have barely anything on her... But she's strong willed, because I clearly am incapable of writing about anything but a strong willed MC, but I was also thinking I'd like to make her less typical, you know? Not the usual bad-ass-that-acts-like-she's-not-afraid-of-anything type that I often end up writing about. Though, I don't know how possible that is, considering it might involve aliens, and a day of... taking. And frankly, a really pissed off MC. And my god, this idea is already sounding like every other teenage sci-fi novel in the world. SOMEBODY HELP ME BEFORE I PULL OUT ALL MY HAIR. AHHH. Hehe, oh boy...

It's so exciting to write again, since I haven't really since we finished Silver. :)

And, Nicole, if you want to make a really awesome looking tumblr (because frankly, I'm totally inept) I say go for it, and we can use it too. Maybe not give up the blog completely, but I'm up for a tumblr. And vlogs. Those are fun, even though all I ever really do is show off how I'm such a socially awkward being on film. But, you know, it happens.

:D I promise to post soon!

-H

Kamie: Happily Inspired Again.

First I'll start off with saying I like Nicole's idea about Tumblr, but maybe we can keep it on here also. And the Vlogs, I've wanted to do that for awhile! :D Second thing on my agenda is that I changed my NaNo book in a spur of a moment. I decided to go off an old idea off of my ex-friend and mine's old book, but I'm adding my own twist and there will be a lot more. Once I figure out how to better describe it I'll give an explanation. Right now I'm IMing my friend, while working on my NaNo, and watching This Means War, so... I think I'll make this a short post for today. Toodles!

Kamiella Maze

Nicole: Thoughts of Tumblr

Sorry for making another post so soon, but I thought I'd make another one in case it's in with my other one and no one reads it.

I know this blog has so much of our history, but what does everyone think about maybe moving over to Tumblr? It could be a completely fresh start with a clean slate. It might get people posting and excited again, because I miss coming on here to a bunch of posts about your lives and your writing. Maybe it's just my obsession with Tumblr, and I'm also not sure how to create a blog on there with numerous accounts but I'm pretty positive it can be done.

It's just something I've been thinking about. Also, another thing that might get people re-interested: what if we did some vlogs again? I'd love to know what you guys think.

Nicole: You all suck!

Where is everyone!? I can't really talk, but I have been MIA because of my exams. I miss you all! Congrats to the American girls too on getting Obama as a president again!

Howdy, I was going to make a post after I'd finished exams, but I came on and saw that hardly anyone had been posting so I thought I'd make a quick one. I have my last exam tomorrow! It's English Lit, so it should be fine, but I still have a quarter of a book to read for it *wooops.* I'll do it, it's all okay.

I finished up school for good. It was all sad and wearing my uniform for the last time and all that jazz, and then I realised I never ever have to go back there or see those people. We had our muck up day where we go crazy, pull pranks, dress up, trash the school and be really really loud which was super fun. I'm starting to get excited for it to be over completely, and be able to start fresh without school for a bit.

I haven't really been writing because I've been attempting to study for exams, plus my Joseph Gordon-Levitt obsession is getting a little hard to handle. Can you blame me though? I haven't really been writing either because I showed my work to a friend (and I rarely show my writing to anyone but you guys because I'm so self conscious about it) and he gave me some pretty negative comments, which I understand and I appreciate the criticism, but it was hard because I do get so private and shy about it and I do respect him so much. So there was that as well, it really put me off writing for a while.

I think I have something new to write about though! I had a weird dream the other night that I could hardly remember, and my mum kept interrupting, but I jotted down what I could from it and I think it might be interesting. Along with that, this Ryan Gosling quote about the movie "Drive" (watch it if you haven't, it's a little gruesome but I love it) really tickled my fancy: "Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip. We tried to make this film about driving, not about driving fast or stunts. When you drive, you can kind of put your identity aside in the passenger's seat, because you're not being watched, and you can just be the watcher."

I'll wait until my final exam is over and see what I can come up with. I hope everyone is going well.

Also, how was Halloween for everyone!? I love it, but Australia doesn't celebrate it (well, you can but if you do you're kind of a tool) so if you have any pictures of your costumes I'd love to see them.

Kamie: Uncertainty...

I'm very unsure with the idea of writing this post right now. I honestly have no idea how the heck the idea of getting on this blog sank into my mind... But under random reasons, here I am. I just read through all the posts that have been on here since my last post, and I have to say I'm inspired to try and stay on the blog again, if 1) I can... I'm not fully dedicated but seeing people still on here made me decide to try and 2) if I'm still welcome... I know it's been forever since I even thought to write a post even though it was to say goodbye. I've vaguely wanted to write or anything, but now... Now NaNo's here and I started writing off of The Clan... well somewhat, and I decided to check this blog... In many ways I"m glad I did. In other ways, I'm still disappointed of not seeing some of the more regular faces on the blog. Yes, I'm ecstatic to see Nicole back, and happy to see posts of Rachel, Cori, Nat, Kas, and Heather, but I still wonder what happened to everyone else... I'm almost certain Chelsea won't be back, and it's understandable. She's off in her own little world, so I'll talk to her about deleting her part of the page, unless she decides to really jump in and start working on this blog again... I don't know what else to say... This is sort of like my way of asking if I'm still welcome... so... am I?

I'll try and be on more often. Maybe I'm not done with this blog yet after all...

-Kamiella Maze

Cori is not ready for NaNoWriMo.

I'm really not. I'm still recovering from my computer virus, and still haven't gotten around to getting (most of) my books and other documents up again. My computer is kind of...empty.

Halloween was great. I wasn't actually planning on trick or treating, because none of my friends wanted to go with me, but I went with my dad and little brother and got lots of candy. I didn't have a costume so I did a ten minute makeup job and went as a vampire: the first thing I could think of. It actually didn't look all that bad. I did break out a day later though...ick.

Some lady thought I dressed up as Justin Bieber. My hair has grown a few inches since my last trim a month ago, and it's kind of made a bowl-type look on my head...and I was flipping it out of my eyes when she opened the door...I don't know why she didn't see the trails of "blood" on my face. She just assumed I was Justin Bieber.

I just thought I might share that bit of awkwardness with you. I have to go now...I still haven't finished my word count for today and I need to get a move on xD!