Thoughts on the Journey

I've now read the majority of Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters series and I've found them an interesting mixture. Overally I found the way the world and magic works very satisfying, she really paid attention to details such as how men and women acted and were treated in the early and late Victorian era and the time between the Wars.

Also there were very few characters that weren't incredibly fleshed out and believable. My only real complaint was that in a few of the books, the plot got tied up too quickly and easily or just wasn't terribly satisfying. Plot wise I think my favorites were Phoenix and Ashes, The Serpent's Shadow and The Gates of Sleep since she did a very good job of working the original fairy tale into the story in such a way that it wasn't glaring and really made sense.

I wish she had done it better with The Fire Rose, I get the feeling she had to sort of manage her way to a happy ending that doesn't match with the fairy tale. I do like how she really knows how to use an Epilogue properly since not many authors do. These are books I could see myself rereading some of them more than others and even trying to play a few of the characters in them, because they just feel real to me.

Tomorrow I have my interview so will be going to be early and waking up really early so that it can all get done in one day. I just meant a small amount of the money I have to buy a really lovely birthday present for my mom and Twilight, it was the right amount of money for free shipping and sometimes you just need distracting sugary books. At this point, I don't see myself approaching the right word count for NaNo and will just keep plugging at it for myself. Its only my first year and its getting me writing.

I want it to be over but I'm scared. McCain needs to concede, not truly believing it until that happens.

Just wow, tonight I'm incredibly proud to be an American.

Also I've decided if I can just write everyday for NaNo, that's the best start, word counts are still being hard for me. I'll get there though.

Well I just heard my brother Robert's father in law go on about being a Realist which is a label I hate as a reason not to vote Obama. Also I can't get the NaNoWriMo site to load and I wrote 338 words which is a start.

I was hoping to do more but listening to Larry and my Dad argue drained a lot of my energy and left me just wanting to hit things and then seeing the security light in my car or at least noticing it for the first time and freaking out means that I wrote a page.

Its a good page and I seem to have started in the midst of the story but oh well it happens. I have realized though that if I go and hang out in either the Swarthmore Public Library or Dunkin Donuts, I can get free wireless so I think I will be there for parts of the afternoon.

I didn't expect to be this tired and so will have an early night since logging in and out for each pup is annoying and bothersome and I had to change Tiwa's password since I forgot her old one. Right yes, now to go and finish reading my historical mystery and NaNo finally worked for me.

Its weird, today has had some great moments, my makeup has made a lot of people smile when I went shopping which is what I love. I feel like I'm doing right as pooka, adding some extra smiles to the world.

Then I have moments when I feel rather grumbly, the party we're having tonight basically was a good friend of my parents saying we should do something for Halloween. So we're having a pumpkin themed dinner, Mom's making pumpkin soup, I'm making sort of pumpkin gingerbread and Dad's going to carve a pumpkin with his chainsaw.

The downside to all this is reminding me that while this couple is lovely and I love dressing up, I'd much rather be hanging out with friends in Philly. Also monster.com got me a job interview just somewhere I don't want to be so I'm feeling rather mixed up. A man just called me from Afliac in Salisbury, Maryland asking if I'd be available for an interview and I turned him down. Salisbury is an hour south of here, I want to go north so I said no.

I also kind of feel a bit sad that I haven't had any good Halloween ideas for Milliways since I had such fun with it last year. Well I'll start NaNoWriMo tonight and write about Tiwa and then tomorrow be off to Pa etc for the weekend. Tomorrow I'll be at my brother's so maybe on a tiny bit and then for the rest of the weekend, it all depends where we stay.

I would love if maybe on Sunday afternoon, it might be possible to have lunch with someone. Oh and I'm also going to do my mother's facial makeup so tonight will be good and next year, people my age and finding a way to go bird.