It's November again

It's November again, and everyone should know what that means. That means I sell my soul and put myself through the fire to write a novel in 30 days. Of course, this year is going to be a little different, obviously, so it's going to be a little bit difficult this time around. Here's what I'm hoping is going to happen.

Obviously I can't write during the week, or else sacrifice my job in the Air Force, and I'm not willing to do that. My job is what's going to pay for my writing for the next six years. So, I'll be writing on the weekends. Which means I have to write a minimum of 4,550 words on Saturdays and Sundays, plus the extra days I'll have during the 2 four day weekends we have this month. But since I discovered I can write about 600 words in half an hour, I decided to try to write 20k this weekend alone. That way I have a decent cusion just in case I'm having too much fun next weekend to write anything.

Oh, I'm going to on a trip next weekend with a friend. I'm so excited!

Anyway, we'll see how this all works out. I'm pretty confident that I can do it just fine if I push myself, but that's the thing. I've never been very good at pushing myself. Hopefully the three months I've spent here pay off.

Unfortunately, Artemis won't be visiting this year, and probably not next year either. I'm just too busy with schoolwork and trying to write this novel to have an extra something to do. A lot of people already think I'm crazy.

So, I'm off to write 20k this weekend and between 50k-120k this month. Wish me luck!

You Must Watch This

Take a gander

See what my Air Force does during spare time.

http://www.incirlik.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123277534

I so wish I was stationed on that base.

A little bit of info

Sorry it's been a while since I've posted (I'll be saying that a lot for the next two years.) I took my unit 3 test yesterday and today. I think I did pretty good on the speaking--better than last unit anyway--and I think I did okay on the reading and listening. I took a good friend of mine to church with my on Sunday. I think he had a good time, and I certainly hope he wants to come back, but we'll see.

P.S.
This is the 200th post. Just saying.

Random news

Due to some unfortunate events last friday night, things have been less than cheery here in cloudy/sunny California. And it's very unfortunate. A small handful of people made some poor choices that are now effecting everyone in my squadron. I'm not going to reveal anything, because that's against OPSEC, but I am going to say from Saturday evening until Monday night, I was miserable. It was bad enough that it made me want to go back to my sheltered life at home, and nothing else so far as made me really want to go home.

Thankfully, I've gotten over that little spell. Now I'm just studying my butt off for my test next Wednesday, and getting ready for NaNoWriMo to happen, hoping that I'll be able to somehow make it through November with my sanity intact, my grades still high enough to stay out of seventh hour class, and at least half of a novel completed (50,000 words is about half of any of my stories.)

Also, I've started writig lyrics in Korean for a video contest next year. I'm going to be making a music video with my best friend, who also wants to write songs in Korean. It'll be tough, but I think I can do it. My teachers are really encouraging.

It's always great when you become best friends with your roommate, especially when she thinks your habits and personality traits are funny and cute, not annoying. It really sucks when said roommate is forced to move to a different dorm the day after we had talked about staying roommates when they moved people to a different dorm.

Just saying.

I finally have a mailing address, after being here for two months. If anyone wants to mail me something, like letters or care packages for a lonely friend, hit me up for the address.