deviantART: by:Moonlight-Umbreon

Before I get started with the list... I just want to say thanks. To all of you. Because you're wonderful friends - yes you are - and sometimes I don't know what I would've done with myself without you. I

you all.

Real Life Friends

Online Friends

http://Moonlight-Umbreon.deviantart.com/journal/26867221/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:20:09 PDT I have eczema on the backs of my legs. I've been FIGHTING ALL DAY LONG to stop myself from scratching. I tried cream from the nurse, which helped for a little while but didn't last. I'd like to thank ~Elemental-Lady-Kel and ~this-is-random profusely for holding my arms down firmly during maths, when I was ever-tempted to scratch it hard enough to lift the skin off.

I just want it to go away!

Now to the part that you guys actually want to read. Two truths and a lie! And I'm sorry, but majority of you got rickroll'd.

I cannot tell the difference between right and left, making this option true.

I did, in fact, tell my vertigo-affected mother to "Look out the window, mum! Look how HIGH we are!", making this answer true, as well.

Which leaves us with the wedding option. See, I was actually two and a half when the incident occurred, and I never did succeed in blowing out the candles, as I wasn't tall enough.

I did, on the other hand, try desperately, before my Grandpa came up behind me, grabbed me by the dress and yanked me back to the seat, struggling all the way.

25% of you got it right.

Congratulations to you guys!

Which ones are you? Be honest...

NaNoWriMo Planning Progress

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Development of Characters (including minors):
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*Moonlight-Umbreon Remember my Geography Project? http://Moonlight-Umbreon.deviantart.com/journal/26786669/ http://Moonlight-Umbreon.deviantart.com/journal/26786669/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:06:06 PDT

Not even that, but that Canadian student-teacher-guy got me out of programming JUST TO GIVE ME my marking rubric and marked project back and congratulate me on how well I did!

H-h-h-holy crap...

Okay. I'll stop gloating now.

NaNoWriMo Planning Progress

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-Antagonist 1

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Cameos/References:
-~SoulfulInsanity's Grief
-Place the novel's set.
-Certain news items.

Chapters Plans:
-Prologue

-Chapter 1

http://Moonlight-Umbreon.deviantart.com/journal/26747631/ Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:15:20 PDT could do my maths and science homework, but where's the fun in that? Those can be procrastinated until Sunday.

But now I have a free Saturday night and nothing to fill it with. See, normally I'd write some fanfic - or even just normal fic - during a time like this. But I've hit a huge Writer's Block, and all I can think about is the collab, which can only happen in the middle of the day due to timezone issues.

So, now I've decided to annoy you all with NaNoWriMo updates in my scroll box.

Before we get to any of that, however... I've been searching through people's plot bunny journals. Trawling my own mind. Looking at comments on people's plot bunny journals.

But nothing's striking me. I want to write so badly, but haven't got a clue where to start. So if you know a fandom I'm into fairly well, if you have any ideas... please?

Because I'm dry of them. Kris took a holiday, in other words. Heck - even run some non-fandom bunnies by me, if you have them...

Sorry. Normally I wouldn't bug you guys like this. I guess I just need a little bit of inspiration right now...

(Oh yeah, found a new skin, too.

Just thought I'd like a little change of colour scheme. This one's nice.

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http://Moonlight-Umbreon.deviantart.com/journal/26685288/ Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:28:49 PDT

Or at least, my nano-scaled slice of the universe, anyway.

A lot of noteworthy things have happened this week. Mainly, perhaps my first real venture into adulthood. There've been other things, of course, which I'll highlight later.

Well, anyway. First real venture into adulthood. That would be going to Melbourne, by myself last Sunday, to see the open day for the university I'm hoping desperately that I'll get to go to. My day started off well. I woke up. I checked my messages. I had the standard argument with mum before leaving. And then I caught the bus to the train station, and caught one of the first ones in, seated next to a relatively young mother desperately trying to control her rather curious and uncontrollable four year-old, who ended up sitting on my lap so he could see out the window. It wasn't so bad. He was kinda cute, and while out-of-control, gave me something mentally stimulating to do for the whole time.

When I got into Melbourne, the first thing I did was go to the suburban platforms. But on the way there, I saw my Italian teacher! No idea what she was doing, but she was leading some kids (maybe the Italian exchange students?) around, probably sight-seeing.

I think we had an animated 1 minute half-Italian chat, before I dashed off when I saw the train arriving on the platform below.

Anyway. Got to the uni. Stumbled around and followed the crowd, hoping I was going in the right direction. Turns out you couldn't miss the place.

Got told to go to a few different buildings and collected a fair bit of information on the course I want to do. Had a great time, actually! And the people there were really informative. Especially one of the students, who was wearing a shirt that had printed on the front, "Video games are my love, my life, and the reason why I have neither."

Having gotten the info, I headed back. Although, I couldn't find the station! After a bit of aimless wandering, I found exactly the place I was looking for, and got a train back into the city centre. Not without its problems, however; I was on the wrong side of the platform, at first, and hopped on a train that was heading in the wrong direction. When I realised this, I jumped off just before the doors closed on me and bolted onto the other side of the platform, jumping on the correct train, again, right before the doors closed.

The rest of the day was fairly uneventful. Wandered through the city centre, got McDonalds for lunch from one of the hundreds (thousands?) of McRestaurants in town, wandered back to the station, and came all the way back home.

All through the day, it was either spitting or pouring rain, but I had my umbrella, so, all good!

At any rate, I enjoyed this first venture. A lot. I'm glad I got to do it, and I think it's given me some invaluable experience when it comes to almost becoming lost on transit. And it made me more excited to get to university than ever before.

In other, smaller, less text-walled news, I have so much to do for next week. There's a science test coming up, a suspected maths test and an oral presentation (the third in four weeks, I believe). I can't be stuffed working on any of it now, however, and will do it over the weekend. I'm not feeling too crash-hot, to be honest. I think I might've gotten a little food-poisoning from mum's stay-away-on-pain-of-death steaks, which tasted horrid and chewed like rubber. *shudder* (or it could just be a virus, but I'm leaning more to the steak) Ever since I got home from school, I've been feeling horribly ill in the stomach. If this persists, I could use a day in bed. Really. And I think mum has a right mind to force me to stay home tomorrow, too, because she's got the same thing, and feels exactly the same way. <... ]]> *Moonlight-Umbreon Day of Epical Awesomeness http://Moonlight-Umbreon.deviantart.com/journal/26559553/ http://Moonlight-Umbreon.deviantart.com/journal/26559553/ Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:40:15 PDT

TEXTWALL TIME!

Because there's something about today that is... really, really good. Okay, so admittedly, there's a lot of things about today that were especially awesome. Perhaps it was something to do with the meteor shower visible over Australia late last night, even though I crashed before I could see it.

Remember how I was nervously and tiredly drabbling on about my project last night? Well, I did it today. All eight and a half minutes of it. And it sounded so much better than it did when I rehearsed it! I barely looked at my cue cards, stood up in front of the class I more-or-less hate, and logically rambled it all out. And it went perfectly.

I barely stuttered, I managed to spit out what I wanted to say with no more than about a few three second lapses, and... holy heck, it just went so smoothly!

And I think I did way, way, WAY more than was necessary for the project; I had a bibliography that barely fit on the page (even when I stuck it on sideways just to get more references in), an 818 word essay for what was supposed to be a 400-500 word one, pictures, and a whole extra section which told of a hypothetical earthquake in San Francisco, diary/story format. And all that was bound neatly into a project book made out of poster paper. And my teachers liked it and told me to stop being paranoid about failing. They said I'd done really well. And eheheheh...

As if that wasn't enough to put me on a high, there was something about today that was... nice. I think it was the weather. It was nice and warm and had a kind of placid feel in comparison to all the cold and wet weather we've been having.

It doesn't end there. I have NO homework to do tonight, for the first time since... last Friday, I believe. And my Italian class was, for the first time in the history of Italian classes, fun. There were sherbet bombs handed out, Italian hangman, and the whole class was roaring with laughter at silly things - including the teacher.

Why else do I consider this to be an extremely awesome day? Not much else, really, except for the incredible high I'm on. I can't sit still! Seriously! It's like I've suddenly become ADD, or something.

I don't really care why I feel like this anymore. This is the kind of high that you might get once a year. It's that one day where everything, everything just falls into place with barely any effort at all.

I want more days like this. XD

]]> *Moonlight-Umbreon So Sleepy... http://Moonlight-Umbreon.deviantart.com/journal/26542496/ http://Moonlight-Umbreon.deviantart.com/journal/26542496/ Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:57:45 PDT

I'm about ready to drop onto my keyboard. Literally. So why am I here writing this journal? That's a damn good question.

I just finished my Geography assignment. I love the topic of earthquakes, seriously, but that was hell. I didn't realise there'd be nearly as much work involved at all, but I think I've got it down. I should be able to stand up and do my oral presentation tomorrow without even having written a speech, (timed myself, and it took seven minutes to churn all the info out) and my essay's finally on paper, because I had to handwrite it. (printer's out of ink) I've got my pictures, I've done my (massive and massively unnecessary) bibliography, and I think my wrist might drop off. Listen to it crack - or maybe, don't. That creeps some people out.

I'm just glad that I'm FINISHED!

Didn't get any chance to do any messages today, and I'm thinking that I'm going to be too tired to do any in the morning, too.

Ah well. Last week I did a header update, (smoothed the picture, and altered it a little) but had no reason to put a journal up and so therefore didn't display it.

I also have an urge to finally get back to writing Psyched Out, but since I can barely keep my eyes open, that might have to wait until tomorrow night, unfortunately. You might be able to expect an update of that, soon. (What? Me? Updating? Yeah, I know; whoa~!)

Aaaaanyway, bedtime, I think. If I make it to my bed without falling over, that is.

Will... attempt... to... get... to... messages... as... soon... as... consciousness... suffices...

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