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Ugh.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:17:02 GMT

I'm sick. ): Probably have tonsilitis or something, which really sucks. But my tonsils are crazy swollen. And I feel like shit. I haven't been able to sleep, hence I'm awake right now, but I'm seriously considering trying again. My stomach doesn't feel great and I am tired. If my sickness doesn't go away over the weekend, I don't know when the next opportunity will be for me to get to the clinic (and, furthermore, if they'll do anything to really help; I've kinda heard horror stories about them undertreating serious problems). Blarrr... It hurts to swallow. I suddenly had a sore throat Thursday night while doing Snob Rock, but it was only on the right side. My right tonsil was swollen some but not ridiculously. Then yesterday the sore throat waned and then the entire back of my mouth swole up. And theenn the sore throat came back with a vengeance. Sigh. My breathing space is about the size of the standard metal jeans button.

And one of my roommates left for the weekend, and apparently left her alarm clock on. I have no idea for how long it's been going off, but I don't know if I'll be able to stand it the entire weekend. Since I prefer to spend my life on the couch, and her alarm clock noise is coming obnoxiously through the door. Once my laptop battery gives me the triangle, I'm gonna go back and try sleeping again. I hope it works, otherwise my whole Saturday will be pretty lame. Not that it won't be regardless, since I feel like shit. So far no fever, though, so besides the throat problem I can totally convince myself I'm not sick. (Except when it came to going to psych 302 yesterday, because my professor is pregnant and I wouldn't want to get her sick.)

Adios xangalaand.

Here's to life

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:59:25 GMT

Life lately has been good. I just got back half an hour ish ago from my Brazilian jiu-jitsu class. And I feel awesome. Overall, I'm pretty happy with life.

And I lost my desire to write here. Haha. That's a hallmark of my happiness, actually.

Commercials For Novels: The Dark Tower

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:59:10 GMT

I think that there should be a new area of advertising: adverts for books. The kind that go on TV for a few seconds, with actors. I wrote one up last night for The Gunslinger, although I don't know how good it is because I've yet to take a promo class.

[Scene opens on the man in black from the back, camera following him as he walks. Camera zooms back to show his whole body and the desert in which he's walking]
NARRATOR: The man in black fled across the desert,...
[Fade/cut/zoom back to the gunslinger's back, full body, guns emphasized.]
NARRATOR: ... and the gunslinger followed.
[Camera circles the gunslinger at the hip, going around the guns, and zooms in on his face until it zooms into his right eye. Scenes flash:

(1) dance halls of Gilead,
(2) people of Tull lying dead at the gunslinger's feet,
(3) Jake falling in the mountains,

VOICE ACTOR: Go then.

(4) the Tower.

Fade to black.]
VOICE ACTOR: There are other worlds than these.
[Fade in 1-3 critics' reviews.
Keyhole transition: THE DARK TOWER I: THE GUNSLINGER. Fade in: Stephen King]

I don't know how long that would realistically run, at all, if it'd be too long. If so I would cut out the dance hall in Gilead, because it's not incredibly important, I just liked the way it contrasted with everything else. Plus I love the way the scene looks in my head, where Roland is watching over the balcony.

I hope to write more of these for other books. I think commercials would definitely bring more people into reading, especially if the commercial highlights some engaging scene in which you have just enough information to be curious about what's happening and what will happen, but not enough so that you feel like you don't need to read it.

The Importance of Being ... Literate.

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:03:48 GMT

So I've been reading a good bit of book discussion here on Xanga lately. Most posts about books, kind of sadly, revolve around Harry Potter and Twilight. While I won't knock either, because I haven't read either, it's kind of disappointing that nobody seems to want to discuss other stuff. There are plenty of great books out there, and nobody cares about them. Albeit my idea of a great book is obviously different from everyone else's, I would love to see a Xanga site started up of book reviews/discussions that I could actively participate in. I won't say I'm voracious, but I'm an avid reader, and I think I prefer to read about books and start my summer reading list than I do half the stuff I actually read on here in my subs in the first place. Hm. I would propose to do it myself, or something, but I don't have the time or the charisma to actually do something like that. I've never had a successful start-up. Still, I'd love to see it happen. Where people can discuss John Steinbeck (leave me alone, I love East of Eden), Stephen King (how could you not?), other classics (Crime and Punishment, Huckleberry Finn <3) and not-as-populars (Long John Silver, The Thirteenth Tale). Sigh... it would be amazing.

Writer's Block Frustration

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:54:00 GMT

Aghh! I can't come up with anything to write. I think all the legal/crime drama I watch on TV (think Law & Order, Criminal Minds, Forensic Files, CSI) is draining my imagination of otherworldly things. My fantasy brain is having a nervous breakdown. I hate writing mundane things, with little to no fantasy dimension in it at all, and without some bits of fantasy in my daily life I'm lost for ideas. The only books I have here are realistic, besides The Dark Tower 7, which is too depressing for me to read during school (not to mention long). I wish I had It or better yet, The Talisman. That book got my imagination going in overdrive, with the traveling in two worlds and a quest to save the queen. Sigh... I can't even build upon the last thing I wrote, because it's really... final, and any more of it would just be redundant and rather plotless.

I'm thinking I want to do historical fiction + fantasy. Because that's a fun combination. And if I ever get my imagination back, I will. @_@

My DeviantART

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:58:54 GMT

http://kaihlo.deviantart.com

Check it out. Here are some thumbnails:

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Traffic Lights on Optimism Ave
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Pride
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Simple Kind of Lovely
We're Colorfish
Fountain Cascade

Have you ever met someone with the same last name as you? How did you or he/she react?

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:28:13 GMT

Never in life, not counting family members. Pretty uncommon last name in the United States is mine.

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Aura

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:12:19 GMT

Now that I think about it. I get migraines with aura, which means that before a migraine I get this blurry spot (apparently called hemianopsia), usually right in front of my vision. So I can't see anything that I actually look at. It doesn't happen a lot, but it tends to happen in... spurts. It's been an issue for two years now. I'm starting to worry that it might affect me at school--not being able to read during an exam--and if I did actually drive. If it happens again in the next week, I might go to the doctor if not just so that it's documented in case it does start during/before an exam. The first time I had this kind of migraine was in my precal class, so...

Ugh. The actual migraine still hasn't gone away.

DeviantART

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:31:09 GMT

Kaihlo

This is a link to my DeviantART account. I have a few prints up for sale, but mostly I like putting my photography up for people to see. If you have an account on DA, drop me a comment or something. Or leave a comment on here and let me know what you think of something.

Here are some thumbnails of things on my account (*sigh* ruined by GIF formatting):

Can't Wait For School

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:15:14 GMT

I can't wait to go back to school. I have two more days (well, the rest of today, and then all of tomorrow) and then we're off on our six-hour drive to Huntington. I'm kinda relieved, too. The constant boredom of summer, having nothing to do, nowhere to be, and no way to get there anyway, drives me fucking nuts. I hate downtime. I mean, I guess it's good I got to read and stuff for the summer, but I need to be busy from waking to bedtime, or I become incredibly unhappy. Irritable and unsatisfied. And spending all this time alone, I seem to forget what I'm like around other people, because the me who spends long hours alone is much different from the me that socializes. At least, I think so. If I could remember, it would help, ha ha. Once I settle back into the swing of things at school, I'll forget that emotionless me ever was out in the first place. It's weird.

But I can't wait for school. I hope I enjoy economics and algebra. I hope I have time for all the stuff I want to do this semester. WMUL and NSCS ought to take up most of my free time that isn't allocated to studying and homework (well, okay, I don't study), and SPJ maybe too. Not to mention the gym. I'll have music staff meetings for WMUL Mondays and the radio show Snob Rock every Thursday, I think, and Tuesday nights I have econ. I'm hoping to lose some weight and actually keep it off, too. Gahh. I hate this sedentary lifestyle!

Okay, I really ought to get Mom to take me to get my "necessaries" before I completely forget about them. That would suck big-big.