Distractions

Hello All,
I know I have not updated this thing in forever but college has gotten in the way and any free moment I had I dedicated to my story (which still isn't finished). Now, here I am, with enough free time to make a work-a-holic feel antsy, and I am blogging.
Not that there is anything wrong with blogging of course but I feel like this time should be spent on actually finishing that stupid story that I love so dearly. I think my patients with it has just run out and I just can't handle it anymore. Part of me has started to wish that my word document could take a brain reading of my mind and write it for me but I have yet to find the button to accomplish this.
Anyway this post is called distractions for a reason and hopefully by now you have figured it out. Yes, yes YOU are the distraction keeping me from my writing, in fact you are my fifth. My others consist of Charlie McDonnell youtube blogs, teaching myself how to work iMovie, getting in touch with people I haven't hung out with sense pre-school, and writing another story. The last one seems a bit stupid I know but I was running out of things to do.
Now don't get me wrong, my story isn't so frustratingly difficult that I can't write it, I am just sick of writing the same story over and over again for three years straight. I have everything planned out, languages written, and maps drawn up, I just need the will power to fill in the skeleton. Which is why I have given myself a dead line. On January 18th I must be finished with my novel, no excuses! By then I will send it off to my grammarian to edit and then off to the publishing house in hopes of someone buying it.
Well my first iMovie is done, so I am going to go now and hopefully start writing.

My First College Post

Whether my life is one novel or a book series, I have moved onto my next adventure. College. After finishing my first week in a liberal arts college I have learned a lot of things and yet very few of them are academic.

1) Liberal Art's is NOT the same thing as an art's school. Though they might tell you this, it is not true. Coming from an Art's high school I expected basically the same thing that happened over there to happen in my new college environment. But no one dresses express themselves, no one does anything to stand out of the crowd. They are all so alike it is hard to tell them apart.
2) The campus is divided by two groups: commuters and residents. They rarely ever mix.
3) Introducing yourself as a nerd (in a joking sort of manner) black balls you from making friends.
4) College students think they know everything. They don't. If they did then they wouldn't be showing up to class an half and hour late hung over.
5) No one likes somebody who actually cares. Each of them put all of their energy in trying to be cool instead of their academics and their intended major.

Now here is the list of things I have learned academically:
1) How to make pin shots.
2) Socks are not allowed in yoga.

Pretty dismal I know. But thankfully I have started to make friends. I have a close knit group that I eat lunch with. They, like me, actually care about academics. I have made a group of friends I can study with. I have at least one person to walk to class with each day. And I have found someone to carpool with twice a week. The only downside about the carpool situation is that I barely know the person. So each drive his filled with awkward silence and sometimes awkward conversations.

From what I hear, things will get better. I hear that our college years are the best. I hope they are right, because so far the best year of my life was my senior year. But who knows. It was only the first week and that is usually when people are still trying to find their way.

Now off to finish a bucket load of homework that is so easy it is tedious...
Kx

Harry Potter Blog 5 of 7

Here we are with only two days left after this. Thursday is coming up really fast and I am psyched!

Today I will be showing a video about Quiditch. Which, according to spell check, is still not a word. But yet it is a word that many people around the world not only know, but play. Yes Quiditch is an actual sport now. In fact colleges have their own teams and play the game rather competitively.

Here is a news reel about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UfPij5ABdo&feature=related

Money Makes the World Go Round.

It is sad but true. I have tried to imagine a world without money but I am afraid it would never work because human beings would just find something else to replace it with. But then I thought, what about trading? That still wouldn't work because we wouldn't know how many lemons would get you a computer. So in the long run I guess money is important and I am noticing that now more then ever.

Starting college is a scary thing. But it's not the starting over that scares me, it is the "what comes after". What if I don't get a job? What if what I major in has no help for me in the real world? What if I never complete my dream of publishing my book? It is a rather scary thought to think one day I might be homeless...

So this summer I have decided to make as much money as I possibly can! While I get a job, get ready for college, and try to write a book that I hope to one day get published I will be making bookmarks to sell on the side. Though that seems like a tiny thing that will barely get me any money. It will be something to do during me free time that will help me in the long run.

Now the next thing I need to learn how to do is write a blog.