The Final Two Days

So now my Expedition is over. I still have some money left over from the $105 I got from the school and I'm not sure if they expect me to give it back or not. I mean it did come out of the fieldwork fees that my parents paid at the start of the year(I ended up returning it). Thursday I managed to get out before the blizzard got really bad because I had an appointment with the Dermatologist at Kaiser. I had two moles removed, which included the one I had on my nose. It's so wierd because whenever I look in the mirror or scratch my nose I expect to see or feel it there but all I find is a band-aid. Untill now I didn't recieve my manuscript in the mail, but since I don't have internet at my mom's house (where I stay Wednessday-Sunday morning) and wasn't able to get to the library before today (it's closed thurday's and for some reason it was closed before six yesterday) I didn't get Matt's email where (contrary to what he had promised before) he had sent me my manuscript back with all of his comments in bold red lettering. Technically he had sent it on Thursday, but seeing to the fact that I was snowed in because of a blizzard I was unable to get it. Even if I had made it to the library yesterday I wouldn't have been able to use it because of the fact that my computor uses dial-up and I don't have a jumpdrive that works with my computer. Well I do but is in a box somewhere in my dad's house and the one my mom bought my said it was compatible with Windows XP but when I plugged it into my computer it said that it wasn't compatible. So I'm thinking that I will print off my current copy when I get to my dad's house on Sunday so that I can show where I got in my expedition then (if my printer has enough ink) I will print off Matt's copy to show his comments. I'll use his comments but I will just have to use them on my own time and not be able to include that work in my Expedition.

Edited Little

Today I spent most of my time reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and writing (though not on my book for the most part). With numbers picked out by one of my friends I even got three writing prompts out a group of seventy from this site: http://theblob.org/raina/prompts/ My entire morning was spent at Peaberry (a Colorado based coffee shop chain) reading and writing a little (another possible story idea, but who knows is it's any good. I didn't get past the first few sentences). After that I treated myself to lunch at a nearby Noodles and Company (though it is so depressing to go out to eat alone. My friends and I need to pick the date when we're going to go to Bump and Grind for Sunday Brunch. Don't worry it's not a strip club). Most of my afternoon was spent at the library reading some more and getting my prompts online. I managed to get home around two so I could get some editing done before the end of the day. My manuscript still hasn't arrived and I'm having trouble contacting Matt. I've sent him two emails and left a message on his machine (though I called three times with no luck) asking him if he sent it or not. My Expedition is ending on Friday and at this rate I will have had no feedback on it other then my own, and knowing myself there are probably things that could have been fixed that I completely overlooked because they aren't easily noticed by the person who wrote them unless they were looking very hard for them (but since I don't know what those things are I can't really know what to look for and how to fix it unless someone pionted it out to me).

Didn't Write Today

I had absolutely no desire to work on my book today. Part of this, I belive, is that instead of doing all the things I wanted to do during my Expedition (like study writing styles and really taking the time to read the two books on writing that my Humanities teacher lent me) I sort of forced myself to write. Just write and not read the books on writing that could have helped me maintain my momentum and my mind. I, in my own silent way (well not exactly silent, but what ever way that can be concidered mine), said "I'm going to do this my way and see what people suggest/do later." Well later as come and tommorow I am going to try and catch up on what I didn't do. If I don't finish I may cheat alittle and take some time during my spring break to do so. This morning I did nothing but read The Mists of Avalon. I then had an enjoyable lunch at the Tattered Cover Boookstore on Colfax. The rest of my afternoon was spent there. I wrote in my journal and ended up buying a really pretty paper-back copy of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

So Close to 100

Today I started a little later then usual due to the fact that yesterday I attended the last of two writer's workshops (and partly due to the fact that I go barely any sleep last night). I got about a page worth of typed work out of it. The point of it was to continue the scenes we had begun last week and get our characters into trouble. Since my world has already been created I didn't exactly due this. I did write, but not to exactly to the prompt. Part of it asked to describe what a normal day looks like and that is what I wrote. The rest of the class had an easier time with the prompts then I did because their world were relatively knew and the hadn't been working on them as long as I have or fleshed their stories out as much. But I still managed to get some writing out of it. So today I added what I had written, which made my book come very close to 99 pages. If I manage to get my manuscript from Matt Davis (even if it is two weeks late getting back to me), and with a little extra work on my part, I could possibly get my book just over 100 pages by the end of the week though I doubt I will be able to do such work with my synopsis if I don't manage to get a second set of eyes on it. Other then that I read mostly. I've been struggling to get back any sort of writing momentum. I really need to get out of the house. It'll completely kill my creativity if I don't.

End of the Third Week

Today wasn't very eventful. I started out with reading and working on my book (not much progress there). Around lunch time I visited the school for a few minutes to visit those of my frinds that are there, to get my keys ffrom my sister (I locked the door with a key that she had borrowed from the office the day before that I returned as I left), and to drop off part of Kera's late birthday present and the little things that I brought for Didi so she wouldn't feel left out (oh how I love having kindergardeners for crew buddies). Later next week I will bring the other half of the present (yes I know I spoil them). Then I spent the afternoon looking up sites that could give me writing prompts. I found one that has fifty-something (more then enough for the rest of my expedition) and another that has a cool little quiz (made in 2004) that I can take about my book. The most exciting things that happened today were my adult cat Bella (who is about 4 years old) throwing up in the kitchen and my (well really Bella's) kitten Pepe (who is turning 1 year old in July) sitting on my torso purring while I read.

Writing again, but not as much as before

I started off my day at the school. My friend Eve (who is a Junior) left today with her class for their trip and I promised to say goodbye to her. They left around 9:20, though I left a little earlier (they were already loading onto the buses, I felt unnecessary). As I was walking away I just started crying. I didn't cry long, maybe a minute, but I couldn't fully understand why. Sure I was sad to see Eve go, but she is only going to be gone for nine days. I guess it has to do with the fact that she is, and the rest of my friends are, really important to me and I don't ever want to say goodbye to them. But that can't really explain my crying because if that were true I would have cried when they went on their mini-challenges and I went on my Expedition. The rest of my day was spent reading The Mists of Avalon and writing my book. With a little cutting and pasting, along with a few new sentences, I managed to get my book to 98 pages. Today was relatively quite and I got a good amount of work done.

Kinda Break Day

Like the day before I didn't do much work. I read some more of The Mists of Avalon and wrote in my journal a bit. My entire day was spent at RMSEL in the company of my friends and a few shadows (visiting students). A few people were surprised to see me visiting, but then again I did visit for half a day last week. It felt good to be there. The Juniors were packing out for their trip tomorrow. I always liked the feeling of packing out for a trip (GOD I MISS IT!!) but unfortunately there have never been trips for the Seniors (which is stupid) other then crew trips in the begining of the year and the whole high school (which is only about 100 kids total) end of the year trip, unless they travel during their Senior Expeditions (which I did not. Damn). The reason I didn't write today is because I have been forcing myself to write the last few weeks and have lost my momentum and motivation. The words just won't come out of me. Hopefully I will write something tomorrow, even if it is a story unrelated to my book. Oh, and Matt Davis still hasn't sent me my manuscript. It should have arrived yesterday, but didn't I will need to contact him again and see if he really sent it.