I just drove at night for the first time. I felt very accomplished until I nearly swerved into the wrong line while making a right turn on La Cienega, and someone honked at me. :(

Tomorrow is the freeway.

The Freeway.

DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN, DON'T LET ME DIE YET.

O_O

On the bright side, this is...what, my fifth time driving? And I'm already on city streets in Los Angeles at night.

Pretty cool.

:)

Current Mood: excited

Waiting list:

Johns Hopkins University
Washington University in St. Louis

Accepted:
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Davis
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara
Fordham University (26k scholarship!)
New York University--Liberal Studies Program

Rejected:
Harvard College
Yale University
University of Pennsylvania

Unless Johns Hopkins takes me off the waiting list, my university of choice is....

*drumroll*

UC Berkeley! GO BEARS! :-D
 

I really really really hate flaky people. Especially flaky musicians. I'm especially going to hate having to tell the composer that my band flaked on me, so I didn't get to play his piece after all. Sorry.

On the bright side, this means I don't have to butcher the piece like my MTV-generation guitarist wanted to. Because God forbid someone has to listen to a guitar-less piece for more than thirty seconds, right? Let's totally butcher Christoph's piece because the guitarist doesn't have enough class to appreciate it.

I suppose telling Christoph that I didn't get to do his piece is a lot better than him finding out that my guitarist completely bastardized it. Perhaps this particular instance of flakiness is a blessing in disguise.

This is why I love professionals.

College count:

Accepted:
UC Davis
NYU--Liberal Studies Program
UC San Diego

Waiting List:
Washington University in St. Louis

Rejected:
Yale

Letters yet to arrive:
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
Fordham
UCLA
UC Santa Barbara
U Penn
UC Berkeley

Current Mood: irritated

Tried Acorn Rack and found that even after all the crazy HTML stuff I did, I couldn't even fit two chapters on one page. So no Acorn rack. Catherine suggested Dreamweaver, which may or may not cost money. Anyone else know any sites?

Wrestling with the LJ formatting while trying to post new chapters, it dawned on me that this wasn't working out, and perhaps I should consider moving my story to another website.

What say my readers? Should I just post more chapters here and let you deal with the obnoxious double-spacing and space limits, or should I move somewhere else?

Note: "Somewhere else" must have security settings so I can keep my story private except for my friends. Do you know of such a place? I'm thinking perhaps Acorn Rack, but that could get tricky...

Non sequitor note: Graduation is in three months, and college letters come in three weeks.... *dances*

News:
1.) Chapter 17 is no longer a Pile of Muck.
2.) My college apps are done. I get the remaining answers starting March 26 and ending April 3.
3.) That model in the advertisement on the right looks absolutely horrendous. Get some pants, girl. And stop bleaching your hair. You would look better as a brunette anyway.
4.) Thanks to Catherine, I actually have some ideas for the next chapter, which I will unfortunately not be able to start on until after Saturday due to speech tournament.
5.) I am so freaking sick of high school.
6.) I was rejected from Yale and from the University Scholars Program at Washington U in St Louis. But that's okay. I'll be REALLY bummed if Johns Hopkins rejects me.
7.) I think I'll be posting more chapters soon. O___O

Currently looking for a clever icon that will make sense to people who haven't read my story...any suggestions?

So Kel hasn't been getting any coffee.... :-P

I saw my last July 5th post and decided to mimick it for old times' sake. So happy it-was-4th-of-July-27-minutes-ago.

I need a creative pick-me-up. >_

Microsoft Word took out half the paragraph indentations in my document.

Meaning I have to go through all 138 pages and right it.

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHH.

Current Mood: determined

103 words

Speedtest

I was wrong.

I ended up almost completely rewriting chapter 6 and totally changing the mess hall scene in chapter 7.

Luckily, no one's read the versions I put up here.

So anyway, I'm putting those chapters on lockdown until the new ones are proofread etc. I'll put up a reminder when I post the good ones.

Current Mood: confused

I've updated all the new chapters currently posted, so you all can go read them again without having to worry about getting misinformation. I'm up to chapter 17 in my edits, so expect to see those sometime in the near future. I might even start writing from scratch again by the time the year's up... :-D

I just pinpointed yet another change I made that wasn't at all a good change to make. I totally messed up the PB plot with my not-so-good change, so I have to go back and fix a bunch of chapters. So if you've already read all the new chapters I have up here, you'll have to read them again once I edit them. To avoid this in the future, I won't post chapters until I'm at least a plotline ahead so I know that I won't have to make you poor readers go and reread things. It'll be a long wait, but I think it's worth it.

Oh, happy it-was-July-Fourth-forty-two-minutes-ago. God bless America and fix its many many many flaws.

*sigh* I love my free speech.

More words on Kel from Duncan:
Duncan: ah. 'sides, she's dead sexy in teh robes. i mean....hrm. damn. i said that out loud
"I'd let her put a spell on me anytime ;)"

Duncan: i figured kel might like a laugh or two. drop that insanely formal act she always has up. she needs to get drunk. or something.
Duncan: she'd so have a one night stand with her little buddy there... (jesus, i forget his name.)
Duncan: both of them plastered. weepy confession of love all around, wild kinky sex, then a morning after of "what the hell? oh my god!"
Duncan: it'd be worth it. probably do wonders for both of their self confidence


Heheh...and I thought I was the only one who thought Kel was smokin' hot. :)

I HAVE WRITER'S BLOCK. Stuck..on...chapter...11...WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

Any suggestions on how to get my characters to say and do things without my prodding them?

And meanwhile, Smith keeps butting in when I'm trying to talk to Olos. Attention-seeking politician... *pokes him with the stick*

Current Mood: cranky

Nine Inch Nails. Year Zero. I am in love with it. Can anyone read the lyrics and guess why?

So I finished the new icon and it is now my default pic. Tell me what you all think.

Oh, and big version, or small version? There are two.

Another random thing: I'm changing the spelling of my penname back to the traditional spelling. I don't want people mixing me up with Myriam Shedina and thinking I did a little author-insertion there. So, for the record, the name is Miriam Michal, the way my grandmother spelled it when she gave it to me.

Of course, that's not my legal name. You won't track me down by it. Sorry, all ye stalkers and hackers out there.

-Miriam

I'm making a new user picture because the one I have makes absolutely no sense unless you know a long string of information which not everyone knows.

Just saying.