writing recommendations

So, I have a bit of a harsh professor this semester, and he recommended that we each write something incredibly personal. For me, he suggested something to do with religion.

And that's something that scares the bejeezus out of me, to use that pun. it seems that if I wrote about that, it would come out so incredibly dark or so incredibly personal or so incredibly biased that I don't know if I could.

Woah what weird dream?

So yeah. Another weird dream blog.

It started out with a cupcake competition. As all good dreams do. There was a cupcake competition on the back of a boat that Allen and I were the cleaning crew for. Not sure why. The grand prize was a gold necklace that somehow fit me perfectly. In order to compete, Allen and I had to crawl through the sand underneath the boat dock to hand the judge cupcakes, without the MC noticing. (BTW, the MC was wearing one of lady gaga's outfits)

But then, the zombie tsunami came. (my dreams words, not mine). It was a large tsunami that came without warning, and killed almost everyone. The rest of us had to flee deeper into the city to escape the dead, who were now crawling back to try to kill us as well.

Me and a group of people, about ten of us, no one I knew, had to flee back to an entirely inside labyrinth of a school. It wasn't a school I recognized. But it was haunted.

It was partially haunted by dogs that had been infected by the T-virus (t for tsunami, logically) who would come and try to rip people to shreds. Those were easy to take care of, you could just shoot them down and it'd be no problem.

Worse was the ghosts. They were the ghosts killed while doing something repetitive, so they're stuck doing it forever. If you disturb them, then they try to kill you. And they couldn't be killed (duh) so you had to try to defend yourself. The one that really scared me was the one playing baseball.

So we wandered through this labyrinth, and came across another group of survivors. There were joyous reunions by some, and I found a college friend, who sadly didn't recognize me until I brought up slenderman. Weird.

Then we came across a dog ghost, while we were all trying to sleep in a giant ballroom. The ghost dog came up and started sniffing us, and one lady said "Please don't attack, this is my peaceful drink, and I don't want to spill it." The dog slinked away, into the corner, keeping an eye on us. And that's when we realized that the ghosts could be talked to and reasoned with.

So the rest of the night we had to be very quiet, for if we moved too loudly the ghost dog raised it's head and growled.

And that was the dream.

3 of my most favorite possessions

Continuing on this blogging thing. this one was, again, fairly difficult to iron down.

But I'm hoping that writing this will help me get motivated to start my outline. Again. This is like the 4th outline.

1. My camera. Yeah, the big old Canon digital eos rebel that's way less advanced then most point and shoot cameras are now. But I love it so much. So many good memories associated with that camera, and so many memories captured by that camera.
   
2. My flute. Cause it's amazingly beautiful, and I practiced so much with it for years. it saddens me that I haven't been as able to play it in recent times.
   
3. This one's gonna sound silly, but my external harddrives and backups of my stories. If my house/apartment started burning down, i would grab one of those so they wouldn't be lost.
   

4 things you wish in a romantic partner

Yeah, Allen fits most of these rather well.

1. MUST be caring. Without this, there is no hope.
   
2. Must be at least respectful of religions, if not outwardly religious.
   
3. Making me laugh is a plus. I have to be able to be silly with them, cause if I can't be silly, I can't be myself.
4. I would like them to be stronger than me, cause I am rather weak, physically, and having someone there to help out is great. Note that this is not a requirement, cause that'd be a rather stupid one, but something that is just rather nice.
   

6 people who mean a lot to me.

AND this one was difficult. I ended up doing a lot of "this GROUP" of people mean a lot to me.

1. The group of friends I call the science fiction cult. Even though we rarely get to watch science fiction together anymore. Bree, Beth, Jad, Alisha, Craig, Whitney, Liz. I could fill this entire list with just them. They are super supportive of me, they make sure I stay on the right path, and even though I can't see them as often as I'd like, I love them dearly.
2. The UCR creative writing peeps. Lisa, Jason, Brian, Estrella, Steve, Belen. Cause even though we didn't really start hanging out until like the last two quarters, they are super awesome and GREAT to encourage me with my writing woes.
3. Allen. Duh. I've written about how awesome he is, of course.
4. My sister. Cause we bicker like crazy, but I never realized how much I talk to her (especially online!) until she went away for basic and doesn't have constant internet. It was really painful the first three weeks.
5. My parents. Cause yes, we differ, but they're still great.
6. My classmates at USC. Cause I am as awkward as heck, and they still hang out with me, and we have tons of fun. AND we get productive writing type things done. Usually.

ten days of writing challenge.

The ten days of writing challenge.

Day 4: write 6 things you wish you had never done.

Well, this is difficult. For everything I could think of, if I didn’t do it, my life would be massively different, and not generally in good ways. So remember that when I’m listing these.

Also, these are rather vague. Deal with it.

1. Have crushes so easily and so deeply my freshman year of college. It made me ignore my schoolwork, ignore my true friends, put far too much emotional energy into it, and nothing came from it except for broken friendships and the knowledge that I would never have worked out with any of the three guys anyways.

2. My living situation for one of the summers in undergraduate. Yes, I was saving money, and living with a friend, but it eventually (like a year and a half and many twists and turns later) led to dissolving of that friendship and a lot of troubles with almost everyone I know. Granted, if I hadn’t, then I’d still be friends with some negative people in my life…but that was a painful way to do it, and it caused more problems than just the dissolution of that friendship.

3. Trusted one of the three people I hate. Ever. That man was never worthy of anything resembling trust. Granted, without that, I would probably have a way too idealistic view of humanity which would not have been good when entering the world…but it was very negative and hurtful.

4. Trusting a one friend’s dealings with another. I took this friend at their word, and didn’t realize that they were systematically lying. It almost cost me my friendship with the other friends, who are too precious to lose like that.

5. Taking the road trip up north freshman year. I was taken advantage of (or, rather, my car was), I lost money out on it because people wouldn’t pay for gas, and it was motivated purely out of selfishness. I didn’t really have any good memories from it, mostly just memories of people mocking me and tearing me down, and it gave those people the message that I could just be mocked and treated that way.

6. Being so timid my first semester of grad school. Granted, my summer was a bit traumatizing, and I didn’t really trust myself to make friends at all, but my classmates are awesome and they completely blew my expectations out of the water.

10 day challenge again

7 things that are always crossing my mind.

1. Hmm, I wonder what [character A] would do if [character B] did this. (you have no idea how much this crosses my mind. Especially when I’m trying to just pass time.)

2. Dear god children are annoying.

3. [insert random lyrics to random song here]

4. I wonder if I did _____ wrong.

5. KITTY!!

6. Oooh, Shiny! (I get easily distracted)

7. Damn homework…