What I'm Listening To: Proud Mary-Tina Turner and Ike
I feel at peace, except for the throbbing in my calves. I did a stair workout the other day, combined with a strengthening workout for my calves and a 5 min ab workout thrown in. Boy, did I feel refreshed. I have missed being as physically active as I was in the past.
Midterms are still raging. This week into the next is my hell week. I have a midterm for my ComDis 240 class on Thursday, two on Monday; one for Spanish 223 and the other for AOS 100, and then my next exam is Wednesday for Philosophy 210. I will need on the strength I can muster to get into next week. Everything is looking up now that I got accepted to Spain, and everything is falling into place. Even the most trivial, such as my hair. If you, woman or man, are ever worried about hair growth or loss, get Beauty4Ashes and I guarantee you that you will see a difference. It is working wonders for my hair and is making me wonder whether I am going to get kinky twists or not when I go to Spain.
So when I'm taking a break from midterms, I am writing. I am now at a little over 10,000 words, basically the first two chapters, but I am trying to concentrate on midterms these next two weeks so not a whole bunch of writing will get done. And then spring break! I'm so excited to go on spring break that I can barely contain myself, mainly because I have never really gone anywhere for spring break and this year I am going to Daytona beach with a couple of people. The poetry contest is supposed to be announced this month and the next phase of the ABNA awards is next week as well. Keep wishing me luck! I had to do some more research for the worlds, especially Vanheimr because I had to know what I wanted in order to draw it. I am no Tolkien, but I do believe that my little worlds look fabulous. Norse mythology is amazing, I wish they had more books based on it, but at least my new one can be a modern interpretation of it.
Minor detail: my phone broke so I'm using my old phone (going back to the good old Pantech Matrix) and going in between that and my HTC Touch so that I'm still able to talk to people. It could be worse, but because I'm not on Facebook and can't really use my phone, the only options left are email and twitter.
Another minor detail, so my co-worker Joanna and I were having a conversation about Nicholas Sparks and his books/movies. I loved A Walk to Remember and The Notebook as movies (I've only read A Walk to Remember), but we noticed a disturbing pattern. Basically all of his books have someone tragically in love and then someone has a terminal disease and dies or something. And I'm no expert on this, especially because I haven't been published yet, but I almost wish he would write something different, maybe a story about someone who had an amazing love story with a normal life without the audience feeling sorry for them because they had a disease--something different. I mean, he's the master at that and he'll probably keep doing it because he makes money at it and that's all he's really known for, but I'm tired of seeing his books being made into movies because 1) I feel like they aren't accurate to his books anyway and 2) It's the same old story and he really tells it the same old way (formula: terminal disease, someone falls in love and someone leaves or dies). Think about it, I'm only going to reference a few: The Notebook=Alzheimer's and old age, A Walk to Remember= Leukemia, Dear John =autism, Last Song =stomach cancer, Message in a Bottle (he died trying to save someone from drowning, but you get the picture). But people will keep buying the books and watching the movies (I probably will torture myself and see Last Song, ONLY to see if it's any different, but it just sounds painfully the same).
And another thing, the fact that he Miley Cyrus said jump and he basically said how high made me sad. The writing process for this script was basically that she wanted a film to break out of her kiddie roles and said she wanted to do something like A Walk to Remember because that helped Mandy Moore. So Disney made a few calls and he wrote up a screenplay (before the book mind you) and then SHE and her family agreed and approved it and there you have Last Song. I'm waiting to see how good this acting will be and I don't know if I agree with how that was done, that scares me, but whatever, that's basically how rich people exercising their money get what they want. That's just my opinion though...
