The Mission:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).

Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past - frequently simple goals such as new year's resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organizing and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.

Start Date: Sunday, March 16, 2008
Goal Date: Sunday, December 12, 2010

-Items in italics are currently in progress.
-Items that are stricken out are completed.
-Idea stolen from nitesh_update.
-Some items are more important than others.
-Will not be completed in order.

( 101 in 1001 )

posting from the radio wooooo~

Forcing millions thousands hundreds a handful of people to listen to MY music wooooooo

...

SO TIIIIIIRED. WANT SLEEP.

So I am stuck on campus for the next gazillion hours. Well, stuck on campus and then crashing at a friend's on campus. I don't like, I have found, sitting around campus on my own. Have to be up at 4:30 too...

why is it not Wednesday yet.

D:

So. it's Day 22 of Nano.

And I am...uhm. 36,674ish words behind.

...

and I still plan on finishing.

this could get ugly.

I need to stop doubting myself. One day, I will believe that the world is not out to get me.

...well, entirely. If you'll note the time, I think it is still after me a little bit.

And I still need help! If you feel up to the challenge, anything that is not green is still looking for a reader!

1. For Skype conversations during the later half of the week, but
2. I had this idea for my iMovie project; I've switched from "The Day The Saucers Came" to "Instructions". I want to have each subsection of the poem be different voices. The only problem is, I would need the recordings by Wednesday night (preferably earlier so I can edit it all together). If any of you lovely folks feel like helping, and can get it to me by Wednesday, you will have my unending appreciation (and credit in the credits, of course). Just leave a comment if you're interested/can help me out! <3

...and today I get to find out how badly I may have messed up my demo tape! Hopefully not badly.

( And here's my spring, as of 10:00 this morning. )

Also, I have all my finished work (barring the random painting day, the Cubist Smallcreep and the Contrast Octahedron) scanned and posted to its own folder on dA. Though I seem to be growing out of my dA in general - it seems just as easy to shove everything on Flicker than to worry about all the people there. I mean, everyone I interact with on dA I follow here, as well, so it's not as if I'd be losing anything but the influx of omztrendy dark/emo/angsty/anime art that seems to get shoved at me there. I know my style isn't fabulous, or dark, or whatever; and I know I am probably the furthest thing from trendy you can reach while staying within Earth's gravitational pull. I'm A-Okay with that.

I have the sneaking suspicion that I...completely flubbed my demo tape. I guess we'll see later this weekend. I hope not, though. So badly.

Somehow, I am several thousand words behind in Apeman. Again. Hoping to rectify this problem over the weekend, though. The story is kinda plodding along at the moment, another thing I hope to fix. Getting ahead would also be nice. (haha)

And...that's about it for the moment.

This dude is also awesome.

 

I know I haven't kept up with Star Wars since...the second to last book of the New Jedi Order series, but....uh. How on earth have I been enough out of the loop to miss enough happening in the books to turn a character page into this? My goodness, that's as long as Hitler's wikipedia page*!

However. I will now give you a moment of extreme maturity.

*does the 'My Two Favorite Canon Characters Are Somehow Still Alive' dance around her X-Wing Squadron** books*

There. Now back to spamming out NaNo. Must.get.on.track.
















*I have not read Hitler's wiki page, I just looked at how long it was.
**X Wing Squadron was, by far, the best Star Wars subseries ever. I would have been the happiest 14year old alive if they'd made them into movies instead of focusing on the prequels.

Does "The Day The Saucers Came" count, in your lovely minds, as a narrative? I need a narrative that can be turned into a short iMovie, and I am having the worst of times figuring something out. Saucers would be fun, but I don't want to use that and then get shot down.

( What do you think? )

The Last Minute Story Switch strikes again!

I am a day behind thanks to it, but I have no school tomorrow thanks to an in-service day at the school where I am observing, so instead of Hogan's Heroes fanfic (that idea was good, but needed much more planning; it will return or thejokerlaughs will kick me)...

Well.

Apeman, complete with Fursplosion Chach, will be taking its first test drive.

And, as is my tradition, all nanobabble other than "oh my giddy aunt my brain is going to fall out" complaints will now take place on atrickofthetail. See you over there, if you're inclined to friend it.

Go Phills, twice in two years would be nice - and then I can tease Justin-the-Yanks fan mercilessly...

****Marks of a Good Book*****
*When you pick it up intending to read 50pages and you realize two hours later it's two hours later and you just read 200 pages.
*When you find yourself wanting to flip to the back of the book to make sure the characters you like don't die, but not wanting to because you don't want to know how it ends
*When you find that there is, in fact, a Death character (who doesn't talk in caps or act all cheery) that you actually enjoy.

if you've read the book (or my posts the last few days) this book is obvious. Ha.

ETA: .....and how on the good green earth am I supposed to consolidate all my thoughts on that book and Hitler Youth into a two page paper?

Radio went good today. I may have convinced one of the other trainees to name is show "Almost Legit," because everything in existence is "legit". Apparently "legit" is the now boss? I dunno. I get to run the boards for an hour next Tuesday, the last day of training. My playlist is slowly being constructed...and! We have computer logging back! After several weeks of being reminded how to fill out playlist sheets (we're actually helping people get paid, technically. How awesome is that?) it is now...not necessary. Ok then! And I now know how to log EAS hijackings broadcasts.

I also discovered today that the adviser I've been freaking out about meeting with is a very nice, friendly, helpful man. I like discoveries of this type.

I also-also am pretty sure I did pretty good on my math midterm, and my tech professor pushed the due date on a project -one I had not started and was feeling doomed (albeit deservedly) about- to next Tuesday.

All in all, today was a good day. :)

Tentative Spring Schedule
Monday:
Assessment for Instructional Planning - 11:00-12:15
Diagnostic Reading - 2:30-3:45

Tuesday:
Teaching Reading in the Content Areas – 9:30-10:45
Strategies of Classroom Management - 11:00-12:15
Fundamentals of Math 2 - 1:00-2:15

Wednesday:
[see Monday]

Thursday:
[see Tuesday]


...a Monday morning radio slot would be really helpful, actually...

I have radio training on the 27th and the 3rd, and then I have my timeslot for recording my demo tape already signed for the 10th. It sounds easy, according to the paper on the head announcer's door:

1. Introduce the show. Tell them your name, the show name, and the station.
2. Introduce a song, start it playing. Let it play 15-20seconds, then fade it out.
3. Start another song, let it play 15-20seconds, fade it out, while fading the mike in.
4. Tell what the last song was, then play carts.
5. Play last song, let the whole song play, only fading it out at the very end.
6. End your demo tape like you'd end your show.

Easy-peasy. Aaaaaand I've picked out my show's name. *points at icon* *grins* That way, my show promo can be the most awesome thing ever, provided I can find an appropriate sound clip telling people "In case of emergency, please tune your radio..."

Stolen from kyrahlynn and bootheel and orangejulies and possibly a couple others!

"I figured if people were curious enough about my brain babies this could prove enlightening. It also helps develop characters and stories for myself. Don't be afraid to ask about something that bothers you either, like what Toby's licensed profession is or why Jack is such an angsty cuss why the characters from BtTatT always seems to be wearing the same clothes or why various characters in various settings hate each other. I will answer honestly because there is usually a reason behind everything I write.

Ask me either a broad question (i.e 'what is the meaning behind this picture?', 'who is your cruelest character?', 'what story is this character from?', 'what is the worst/best thing that happens in your story?') or a specific question/request ('what does ___ come from?', 'why is ___ like that?') and I will answer you. Or you can ask meta- questions like 'what was the inspiration for creating ____?'"

Links for Reference
DeviantArt: Errant Evermore
Writing Journal: atrickofthetail; Master List
Flickr: Has all my old BtTatT art from cleaning my old dA

I have my placement for Reading Foundations. :D It's a semi-inner city school in downtown Lancaster, and I got kindergarten! I was hoping for third grade (third graders are the funniest kids in all of elementary school), but kindergarten is my next-favorite age range (various classmates think I am crazy because of this. The main source of "trouble" in that regard, however, is a Yankees fan so I disregard almost everything he says on principle alone*), so I am happy. That's two days a week for the next four weeks, starting Monday.

Only two weeks to go in my radio training! Both me and my fellow trainees got our first chance at running the boards last Tuesday. My time lasted a grand total of fifteen minutes before one of the departments in the SMC got the idea that they were going to be jolly jokers and started calling once every thirty seconds. WIXQ has two phone lines, so you'd barely get off one before the next was ringing. So I was trying to cue songs, fade songs in and out, find songs, check lyrics (the clown who requested Jane Fonda by Mickey Six was especially unappreciated! Talk about slow burn FCC violation!) and answer phones for a little while before my trainer realized what was going on, went back on air and ordered them to stop calling.

There are technically now three trainees on Dave the Pirate's show, and one of them** is only going through the training as a courtesy, he's been hanging out at the station since he started and he knows how to do everything. I was getting flustered because I accidentally left the mikes on, and accidentally restarted one of the songs and he kept telling me to calm down, and went off on this tangent about how he'd be freaked out if I sat down and did everything right the first time.

All the people at the station are pretty nice, though sometimes it's awkward being the only female there. The other not-me not-Matt trainee is Roger, who working on a fantasy novel about a dwarf assassin in modern times***. We spent the last bit of the session playing oldschool Tv theme songs: Power Rangers, Duck Tales and Darkwing Duck. Darkwing was the most amusing, as it meant I got to watch Roger, Matt and Alex (another DJ who I hadn't met before but who came scurrying in to say "There is nothing like driving through downtown Lancaster with my windows open, the breeze in my hair, a cigar in one hand and the theme song from Power Rangers blaring out of my radio) do this epic air guitar (and keytar) dance to "Let's.Get.Dangerous." It led into a conversation on "Der Fuehrer's Face," and Alex admitting he's writing a parody of "My Humps" called "Mein Kampf" that is just...augh. I wish I could remember the whole thing, it had me laughing hysterically.

My nano is attempting to rewrite itself again. It still wants to be Hogan's Heroes with science fiction elements, but the treble plotlines idea has phased itself out because I realized I liked Sking**** and Skint MacDonald***** too much to want them in a fanfic before I'd done anything else with them. We'll see, though. I predict at least two more idea shifts before next Sunday. It seems that NaNoWriMo has popped up on someone else's radar at the library now; I'm going into the library to talk to someone about it sometime next week. Which is actually pretty cool, because I can't make it to any of the kickoffs this year. It'd be nifty to have a local group, even though I will not be able to be a ML this year, even if I hadn't missed a deadline (which I am pretty sure I did). If you're nanoing this year, you should totally add me already. :P

So that's about the State of the Sarah right now. I need to get off my butt and start reading The Book Thief, since it's 522pages and I have a paper to write on it, Nazi Youth and two biographies on Amelia Earhart...






*Really, though, I do listen to him. Except when he's making our entire children's lit class look like a herd of slackers by turning in papers that aren't due until December...
**Our library is absolutely hideous when you're in a hurry. The elevators take approximately 20years to get to you, and the stairs are killer. I ran up them when they were doing library fest. It took me an hour to stop feeling like I was going to puke on someone. It claims it has four floors. That is a lie, it has eight. Nine if you include the basement.
***He wants to call his show, once he gets it, "Green Fisted Goblin Vengeance." Station head says it's too long, but if there's the "Golden Pony Power Hour" I don't think Roger's is pushing it. I have found my people. They are not in ElEd, they're in Communications. Oh, well. Someone's gotta take that brand of crazy to other careers, right?
****Pint sized heroine of Valley of No Moons
****Washed up hero of Summer Smells Like Fireflies. Name similarities are not coincidence.