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Happy Winter-een-mas, day two! (Sorry I forgot about day one *cough*)

*evil laughter*

A few things worth noting.

-Windows Media Player 11 makes my computer complain. Apparently it doesn't have enough virtual memory. Bah, I say. Bah.

-Yesterday was speshull! ^^ I played Apples to Apples, which was extremely entertaining (as usual). Apparently my hair is idiosyncratic and my love life is disturbing. o.o There were only four of us playing, and we stopped after an hour and a half. I ended up coming in third with twenty-six green cards. Meh. I blame the fact that of the other three people, one was a senior I've only really known through drama club, one was a girl I've only known for about a month (or two--pinpointing that's a little iffy), and another was a girl I met last week and have seen twice in my life so far, the second being yesterday.

...Yeah, this happened at USWA. Apples to Apples at a writing club, yes. And the reason I didn't know these people fantastically well was because of the members I've actually had since the beginning, two were absent (one mysteriously, one with an excuse), and the other two left before the game.

Well--okay, the reason I didn't know these people fantastically well was because I hadn't known them long enough. *cough* Sorry.

On the upside, this does in fact mean that USWA is growing. Eight people now, if you count me. This is actually rather perfect--I only ever expected/intended it to be 5-10 people. I mean, finding room in the Borders café for 10 people is a lot harder than finding room for 5, and more than that... 'twouldn't be fun. Though being in Borders like that is fun. Books~!

-Today is my first full day of Christmas vacation. Technically vacation started for me at around 12:30 PM yesterday when I finished my last midterm, but then I went and spent most of the day at USWA, so... ^^

However, I have an essay and a project to do over break. That means... today and tomorrow, 'cause I ain't working during Christmas and I won't be home for the New Year's weekend...

I'd better get back to work. *sigh*

cheers~

Oh, boy. I was just thinking recently that I wished I had a blog, so I could post random entries about my life, too.

...

Yeah, um, I have a lot of blogs, and I don't use any of them quite like that. *sigh*

Ah well. There's a slight possibility I'll return to something close to regular entries sometime in the near future, though.

cheers~

Ehhh...

I just spent almost an hour and a half messing with the formatting of my NaNo novel. I have no idea how that much time passed, but it did. However! Now:

-It has a (temporary) cover

-It has a table of contents that updates when I tell it to (...WOOT!)

-Every new chapter is set down half a page

-The headers and footers are like a real book's (chapter and page number of odd-numbered pages, page number and book title on even-numbered pages, just the page number at the bottom on pages starting new chapters)

-It is now properly double spaced

(I think it was the header/footer thing combined with the TOC thing that ate up most of the time.)

But now I can show you my table of contents! Ready? (Copy/pasting into xanga messed up the formatting, so you don't get any page numbers, but... whatever..)

Prologue: In Which the Story Does Not Really Start… Yet 1

Chapter I: Where The Stage is Set. In Other Words, Things Happen That Are Important to the Plot Only in How They Make It Possible For Future Events to Occur. 4

Chapter II: Where Finally, After Long Tedious Explanations That Probably Only Further Confused the Reader, The Plot Decides to Actually Begin- 23

Chapter III: Our Heroine Sets Off Into the First of an Indeterminate Number of Travel Chapters. Go, Lori, Go! 38

Chapter IV: In Which Things Occur, The Plot Moves Along, and Characters (Hopefully, Maybe) Develop  53

Chapter V: Where the Author Realizes That Having One Chapter About Three Times As Long As The Others Might Not Be The Best Thing to Do—Hence New Chapter Break! 87

Chapter VI: Where Finally, After Entirely Too Long, The Rest of the Major Cast Is Introduced. 105

Chapter VII: In Which Interesting Things Happen. Trust Me! 139

Chapter VIII: Hopefully, This Chapter Will Reach the First Death, Because Otherwise I Don’t Know How Much Longer I Can Bear to Wait 173

Chapter IX: Apparently, It Didn’t. But It Will Soon. I Hope. 206

Chapter X: Morbid, Morbid Deaths With Lighthearted Stuff Between Them Because I Would Go Insanely Depressed Otherwise- 230

Chapter XI: More Of The Same, Yes. Except Not. I’m Not Actually Entirely Sure. The Plot’s Not Going Quite The Way I Imagined It Going. 285

Chapter XII: In Which The Chapter Title Style Returns to In Which, and The Plot Moves Forward In Ways Other Than Character Deaths (Though There’s Some Of That, Too) 300

Chapter XIII: What?- 336

Chapter IV: The End The End The End The What?- 373

Epilogue: Where the Story Ends, Right Before The End Itself… Or Something Like That 411

(Also: sorry about the white. Not my fault.)