Sundays & The Website

Sundays are usually really short lived for me. I never really concentrate on the day itself but more on the fact that tomorrow is a Monday. So even though I could do so many different things on Sundays I feel like I've accomplished nothing at all simply because Monday will come and I still have something else I need to do. Blah.

Anyways, so I've been marathoning DN Angel today and yesterday and I've noticed a few things.

1. Dark is a pretty boy. So much so it's not really appealing at all. I prefer Daisuke over Dark any day.
2. It seems really weird how Risa is 14 and Dark (who is seemingly much older) is interested in her... Like sure he's interested in her because of her aunt, but still, kissing her is sort of awkward.
3. Risa and Riku are really rich. I didn't notice it the first time I watched the series but their house is HUGE. But on a side note, if they have a driver to take them to their beach house, how come they have to walk/bike to school everyday?
4. Also, Satoshi is adopted right? He has to be if his 'Dad' is 26 and he is 14..

Yeah, I'll probably notice quite a few more things before I finish. It's just weird because I watched this anime like 5 years ago and I can hardly remember anything that's happened in it.

OH AND I ALMOST COMPLETELY FORGOT TO MENTION.

If you haven't noticed the site is now hosted through blogger, so the layouts are temporarily gone. I need to set up Sky's Content to prepare for the layouts to move over there. I'm thinking of putting my icons back up as well, although I don't know how often those will be updated... Oh and I'm going to start tutorials. It's mostly going to be php stuff and cool little shortcuts you can do with your web code that I learn from time to time.

Ok, back to marathoning for me. BYE

Goals

Whether they're daily, weekly, monthly, or even yearly, everyone has goals they want to reach. Goals are a way of measuring our skill and differentiating between success and failure. I sort of did a half ass New Years Resolution blog and I sort of want to do it justice now.

Now that I live on my own I realize how much I want to accomplish in my spare time. I feel like no matter how much I do in a day I don't really do much towards my overall goals. For instance, I want to be finished Sky's Content before the start of my next term in school. The planning for Sky's Content suggests about 15 more chapters at least. I don't know if you noticed, but it sort of took me 3 years to write the first 15 chapters that are out now! (Well technically 16 if you count 11.5).

Not to mention I also want to write about 3 - 4 web applications I've been planning for a while now. One of them being re-doing EOE so that the system is a lot more automated. I.E. Sign up form that automatically populates the information into a database and then sends an e-mail to Angela and myself to approve.

But at the same time I really want to blog more and make this site to include you guys more. Like I said before, I'm not really sure how many people read my blog on a regular basis. I've been doing this for about 8 months now and I figured that I should really start trying to add to it.

I guess my resolution really is to do more. In 2009 all I did was write about 8 chapters of Sky's Content and set up EOE (sort of badly).

So in short, here is a list of my goals that I have currently set:

• Write at least 1000 words daily until Sky's Content is complete (not including editing days).
• Finish an old video game that I haven't played yet once every two weeks.
• Complete version 1 of at least one of my web applications by the end of this work term.
• Have the site redesigns done by the end of February.
• Blog at least twice a week.

Anymore and I'll tell you guys in future posts. In the meantime I'm off to finish my 1000 words for Sky's Content today. CIAO!

Third Person

The third person.

When I write my stories I always write in first person. Sky’s Content is in Yuri’s perspective and I’ve become so accustomed to thinking of things like: What does she know as a character? What do I know as an author? What details is she missing? etc. There are so many things that happen in the story that I know but is never told because Yuri never has any knowledge of it happening.

There’s also a lot of stuff that does happen but I never put because it doesn’t really fit into the flow of the story. BUT ANYWAYS.

So now I’m trying to write the second part of Sky’s Content in the third person and I’m really struggling. I’m so used to concentrating on her feelings and what’s happening to her in the moment I don’t really know how write where I have to explain other’s feelings as well. But at the same time I don’t really know how to write in third person grammatically. What sort of tenses am I suppose to use, and how I can write the story so that my own voice comes out. I don’t want to just write the story like it’s just saying what happens, I want to be able to say ‘this is what happens and this is how it affects each person.’

I know that I can just stick in the first person if I really wanted to, but there’s so much that happens outside of Yuri’s little bubble now that so much of the story would be lost. And I need to get comfortable in the third person anyways. For a lot of the story ideas I have the best way to write them is in third person.

It’s just sort of really frustrating because I feel a disconnect between what I’m writing down and what I want to say. It’s like I’m a two year old whose trying to talk and do it’s own thing but just physically can’t yet. x_X

BLAH.

My plan to fix this right now is to read a lot of books in the third person and just see how the style is written. At the same time I want to do some writing exercises to improve my grammar and the overall flow of my writing.

Let’s hope I can become more comfortable with third person because this is REALLY annoying.

BLLLLLLLAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Urgh, chores

So growing up my parents didn’t really make me do chores. I would do them sometimes out of boredom but really I didn’t do any ever. So now that I am living on my own I’ve come to the realization that after you eat spaghetti, the bowl, fork and cheese grater are dirty. And you need to clean them. Every time.

Now I know a lot of people are like ‘Karol that’s life, deal with it.’ But like, it sucks. Like I do it. But that doesn’t mean I enjoy it >=/

Anyways so I’m working as a web developer at a bank company and it’s pretty interesting. I always thought that web design/development is one of those things I would only like as a hobby and not as a job. But I was wrong, I rather enjoy the fact that I’m editing images and web pages just like I would on this web site. Although who knows, in 4 months I could hate it with all my soul.

*Can’t think of a good way to transition to next topic*

So I have a heater in my new room since it gets pretty cold in here. My parents brought it over yesterday and I thought the story behind it was pretty interesting. Turns out this heater is as old as I am. When I was born apparently I was yellow (For whatever reason, I knew there were complications when I was born. Don’t really know the details) and I had to be just in my diaper all day. But my room where I was in was cold, so my parents bought this heater so my little butt wouldn’t freeze off.

And now the same heater, almost 20 years later, is still keeping me warm,

Alright, that’s it for this blog. I got to go do some chores -_- BLEGH.