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jinyu
Age. 37
Gender. Female
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Location Denver, CO
School. Other
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Sprocket's Training Milestones
Came home (Aug 2, 2014)
Asked to go outside (Aug 5, 2014)
Slept 4 hours straight (night) (Aug 5-6, 2014)
Crane Count
7/3/13 - 8
7/4/13 - 30
7/5/13 - 36
7/10/13 - 54
7/11/13 - 57
7/18/13 - 67
2/17/14 - 83
(cumulative)
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Moon Mod!
CURRENT MOON
To Read:
- Carrie
- Dream of the Red Chamber
- Time to Kill
- Scent of the Missing
- Stiff
Nano mod!
So... I was trying to work on my sketchbook for art...
Thursday. 11.29.07 12:23 am
When I started watching youtube videos! Actually, when you are trying to find art examples... it takes a while of seraching.






Cute cats!




scary cat...


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Why umbrellas look so sad
Monday. 11.26.07 11:29 pm
I was reading Zanzi's Blog and I was thinking about umbrellas. It didn't have a lot to do with socialism, so I decided that I ought to write a seperate blog about them. You see, I always think that umbrellas are so sad. The sit, slender and black in their umbrella holder, a thing that few people have because they are generally deleterious to your health. Some people buy bright ones, big ones, colorful ones, but mostly the one that you grab on your way to work... that one is black.


Then you walk along, the solemnic walk necessary to make an umbrella useful. If you walk too fast, you'll splash or you'll dodge the rain entirely, a sheet of sideways rain coming into your face. You hold it tight to you and like a terrified terrier, it clings to you, threatening to blow out the other way in the wind. The you shoulder your way into the building, shake it out on the entry way before holstering it and cursing yourself for choosing such a large one. You used it as a cane, it's regular click sounding like the ticking of a clock, following until the next time it rains.


I suppose that's why I think umbrellas are so sad. It's because, whenever you carry one, it's because you're expecting rain.

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Nano- CELEBRATE RIGHT NOW COME ON!
Tuesday. 11.20.07 12:58 am
Yeah!!!!!!

*Dashes with joy across the finish line. Breaks the ribbon. Dances in a circling. Jumps up and down. Cheers with joy.*

Yeah!!!!! I made 50K! Yeah!!!!

*Dances some more*

And I've still got some more book to go!

*whistles*

Okay... so I'll try and stop... try... really hard... to stop! BAAAA!!! It's really exciting though. It's like that feeling you get at the end of a marathon, you know? You are all like "W007! Yeah! Let's do that again! Hell yeah!" except you don't have that crushing feeling of your organs popping out of your stomach or anything. Though... I do have a really sore back right now... and my head hurt from my hair being up in a pony tail so long... bah, all in a days work.

Well, I guess that this means I can relax (write my nano) over break (write my nano) I might actually (write my nano) hang out with my family and (write my nano) reminisce about old (nano) times! Lol. We'll see. Zanzi and I are planning to go adventuring! So that is definitely coming before the neurotic nanoing.

Well, for now, this is the end of my nano tale! There are only ten days left in nano, so if you haven't started yet... well there's still a chance, but definitely keep it in mind for next year. As for myself? Well... I like my story, so we'll see where I go with it. ^_-

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Shrek 3 - a review
Monday. 11.19.07 2:56 pm
I FINALLY saw Shrek 3 yesterday.

It is a lot better than the previews make it out to be. I didn't see it when it came out in theatres because I thought it was a movie about their first years after having a kid, which... I didn't exactly want to watch a whole movie about. Then, one day I was walking through hastings and I saw it on the TV. I stopped, I watched it for about fifteen minutes and I decided that I really ought to rent it and see it properly.

The movie is ACTUALLY about an adventure to find the next king of far far away! It is a sort of spin off from the Once and Future King or the early Arthur story. Arthur or Artie is voiced by Justin Timberlake (who does a really good job at it, actually), Prince Charming and the other Disney baddies take over Far Far away, there are chases, escape, reaffirmation of true love, jokes, and a general feel-good environment to the whole thing.

It's funny, because it seems like the preview people want to play up it's satirical and gross elements as opposed to what actually make it good! What they do well is taking the old fairy tales we are used to and ask "Why does it have to be that way?" If you notice,the Shreks still pick up on the timeless themes that made those stories what they were, but it alters it in order to parse out those essential elements: true love, the good triumphing over evil, reflection of human experience... It's all there!

So, if you haven't seen it, like I had, go ahead and give it a shot: it's not just another "3" movie. If you have seen it and didn't like it, maybe you can post why? My hypothesis is that you are the sufferer of unmet expectations given by the previews, but I'd like to hear what you really thought.

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My characters lives are far more interesting than my own...
Monday. 11.19.07 2:40 am
Nick got drunk tonight... very drunk. He was depressed, so he sloshed down most of a bottle of whiskey by himself. Heck, though, he's a 200lb werewolf for goodness sakes, he can take it! Also, he needed an excuse to spill his guts to Zion about how he mauled his old girlfriend so badly that she had to get so much reconstructive surgery that Nick barely recognized her when he saw her again! And THEN because of the trauma that the experience caused, he fears both his wolf nature and getting close to someone like that again! Oh the drama! So, yeah, naturally I had to have an excuse to put it in! That's a slow day for them... Most of the time they are being attacked by unseen demons and chased by vampires.

Me? Hrm... I went to breakfast... saw Shrek 3... wrote my book... listened to some music... yeah...

I guess that's something to be thankful for this thanksgiving week: My life isn't half as exciting as my character's lives.

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Nano update OMGGGGG!!!!
Friday. 11.16.07 12:26 pm
So, yesterday was halway day and I now have 36k words! This means that in half a month I have written more on one single manuscript than any other manuscript I have written in my life! The novel that I wrote in the summer, Ocean Pacific, the one that I wrote on every day for the entire summer, THAT ONE only has 32.5K! Now, I still have to write a lot more to get a book out of it. To give you a picture, the industry standard for words/page is about 250. That means, currently I have enough stuff in my book to make a 144 page novel, which isn't bad, by any means! But you figure a story like mine with 5 major characters and a million and 1 subplots would probably look more like a 350 page novel which is about 87.5K :(. Never fear though, I am going to do a lot of writing this weekend to make it up to the Nano goal (50k) and then I might have to extend my nanoing into December.

It is very exciting though! Here's teaser I wrote in 3D the other day:

Vampires, ghosts and werewolves oh my! Get ready for this face-paced adventure filled with action, romance, and so much more. The vampire family called the Andrews has always been knwon as a force to be reckoned with, but when one of their 'subjects' escapes the curtain of mystery that surrounds them begins to fall away to reveal something even more sinister than anyone expected.

Hopefully that pitch will be up to snuff by time I start writing my query letter >.> AHHH! May the nano madness continue!

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