Hey all! How are you doing?

I feel like I've been really busy over the last week or so and, because of that, I haven't had much time to be on here or to write. I think I might have to drop out of the Leverage big bang but I'm going to wait and see. I have fifteeen days to write at least 14,000 words and it would be doable if all I had to do was sit in front of my laptop and write but it's not. We're still decorating and packing for the holiday and then I'm going on holiday without my laptop and then there's like, five days maybe when I get back but that's a busy week too because I get my results and things. So basically, I'm going to try and keep writing it but if I don't get it finished in time I'm not going to stress. Oh, and I think I'm making in gen instead of Nate/Eliot because I think it'll work better with my idea. I think.

I signed up for spnslashbigbang and the spn_reversebang - that sounds bad after saying I'm struggling with the Leverage one but the deadlines etc are much later so I'm thinking ahead with those. I already have an idea for the big bang, obviously I don't for the reversebang, so hopefully that'll turn out well. Who else is taking part in either of them? Speaking of, thebigbangjob still needs more Leverage artists!

I'm going to get organised for this holiday - print out all the prompts and plot outlines and stuff to take with me so I can at least try and get something written. So yeah, wish me luck with that :D

I still haven't heard back from the summer school people about this library book so I'm going to give them until after lunch and then call them if I don't hear from them by them. I've been thinking though and I don't think they can realistically fail me for this. Surely they must know that I wouldn't be so keen to check if they've found the book and stuff if I wasn't telling the truth. I just really want to know for certain because it's nagging at me.

As I mentioned briefly (loudly) yesterday, I'm now a registered Pottermore beta-tester and member. My username is pretty cool - ShadowMarauder178 - because I love the Marauders :D Anyway, I'm very excited and I'm looking forward to getting my welcome to Hogwarts letter (welcome to pottermore email.) So, who else among you is no longer a muggle? ;)

 

It took a while (aka some of yesterday and all of today) but I finally have a first draft of my essay done! Who'd have thought it'd take so long to write 1200-1500 words?! I think it's pretty decent for a first draft. I'm going to go back to it later tonight once I've eaten and do some editing then spend tomorrow morning doing more editing and I'll hopefully be able to submit it tomorrow afternoon :)

Me and some friends are going to the pub tomorrow night for a friend's 18th so that should be fun - it's going to be nice to get out the house and be sociable and see some of my friend again!

I also managed to get started writing my fic for the h/c tag prompt challenge. I like what I have so far, I think. It's going to be gen which I haven't written in a while so I'm enjoying myself :D

How would you guys feel if I did the 30 day fic meme all in one post instead? I really want to answer all the questions but I feel like I'm going to fall behind if I keep doing it day by day again.

Plan for after I've submitted my essay:

• Read all the Harry Potter books again.
• Write. Lots.
• Finish season one of The Mentalist

I promised a proper update so here it is :)

This past week has been a LOT of FUN. I was really looking forward to it beforehand but it's even better than I thought it would be. I only began actual subject seminars on Wednesday but we've already had nine sessions and I enjoyed every single one of them. I think I'm going to break this down into a few sections so that if you're only interested in certain things you can just skip to those bits!

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• I'm very, very tired! On Wednesday I was out in seminars and then at the quiz from 9.30 till 11. Then yesterday I was in from 9.30 - 5 without any breaks apart from lunch then straight to Brownies for 6. Next week's timetable is a bit quieter, I think.
• Please let me know if I've missed anything important and link me to it/tell me about it here.
• My sister and I are going into town later to go shopping for presents for my mum (it's her birthday on Thursday.) K might be meeting us to go for pizza (fingers crossed!)
• I'm going to postpone the memes etc until summer school is over because I'm not sure when I'll be able to get online etc.

• Today was fun and not nearly as scary as I would have found it if I'd done it a year ago. I met up with the people I spent time with last time and we went to the sessions together and had milkshakes and coffee and free lunch.
• I'm not timetabled for anything tomorrow apart from a referencing session (which is apparently very boring) at 4 so I'm going to catch up on things then. (I have an awesome 4th of July picture to show you all and I need to post the WIP meme snippets too.)
• Thank you, si_star_x for the v-gift!
• I'm going to try and watch leverage now seeing as I was going to go through the uni internet stuff tonight but I've realised it needs to be done on campus computers so it'll have to be done tomorrow instead.
• If I manage to watch Leverage I'll post my reaction!
• It was so fudging hot today. I'm tired and the intense sessions haven't even started yet - eek!!!!!

• You're getting a bullet post because I've tried writing a post about ten times now and it keeps screwing up so I'm being lazy this time.
• I'm also going to have to post the WIP meme snippets tomorrow instead of today because lj keeps screwing up.
• I went to a friend's 18th party thing today, wore a dress (!) and stood out in the sun. All was good.
• My summer school starts tomorrow. I thought I'd be nervous but right now I just feel excited more than anything. People there won't know me so I'm going to take the chance to change who I am. I'm no longer going to be the shy one who hardly ever speaks up in class, I'm going to be someone who does. Strangely, I've been feeling more and more confident over the last few months and I like it. I'm still me, I'm just not getting nervous (read:terrified) over stupid things anymore.
• I need to go and try finish reading Atonement now so that I can say I've read at least one of the books on the course (I gave up on Pride and Prejudice AGAIN.)
• I'll let you know how things go tomorrow/what my timetable is like etc.
• I have a dog licking my arm.
• That is all.