fly into the coldest winter sun in this frozen town

Scott called me today! He apologized for ditching my party and explained his life is crazy because (and I've known this but haven't been allowed to talk about it) he's having a baby! :O

I suppose it's a congratulations sort of situation, though personally I'd be freaking out. They're very excited- she's 7 months along already. Oi. But they're happy- and that's what's important.

We're supposed to have lunch on Thursday, which is going to be interesting... I was thinking just the other day how my life has changed since this summer- people have both disappeared from and re-appered in my life depending on the way they match my frequencies, for lack of a better word. I'd thought Scott was gone because, let's face it, he hasn't been a stable guy for years. So maybe this means the baby is a good thing for him? Unless I'm getting unstable.

No.

I prefer to think he's meeting me. Not to toot my own horn, but whether or not I've gotten published or have a job, I consider myself right now to be the most prosperous and successful I've ever been. I have been happy, except for one day- a few hours, really- in October, since July. Not just happy, most of the time, but insanely grateful and ridiculously in love with life. Last night I actually fell asleep smiling because I'd laughed myself to sleep.

So, yeah. I've been pretty awesome these past few months. I hope that means he is now, too :)

Did you know there is a legend about you?

(The subject is a line of dialogue from my NaNo: Tristan to Zelda. :D)

I didn't write yesterday, but that's okay because I wrote over 10k on Saturday. And I am going to write like a demon tonight! Zelda's perspective is coming to an end I think, and I'd like to start Tristan's by the end of the night. Yay for avoiding writing awkward sex scenes!

I have a few ideas for short videos I want to make now that I have my camera back in working order. It's a decent camera, not the best, but it will do for what I have in mind: some pixelation; maybe an object animation or two; possibly a "holiday" short. I'm gonna get my hands on the student version of iStopmotion express and have a ball this winter on my almost 2 month break (Brookes doesn't start till January 29! Though, I hope the group flight leaves at the beginning of that week so we have time to settle in... in OXFORD XD). A new computer is in negotiations with my parents and my next three or four birthdays, so that means I'll actually be able to run Final Cut and iStopmotion- huzzah!

Um, what else. Oh, I submitted a short story to the Writer's Digest SS contest this morning, for the hell of it. It's not technically fiction, it's about the moment I realized my cat was dead forever. 401 words. Yay?

That's all for today.

Oh, yeah, if there is anyone who is good with dreamweaver, I can't for the life of me remember how to upload things to servers or whatever... help?

For those of us who don't think "dazzling" makes up for "stalking"

An excerpt from my NaNo:

“Did you sleep at all?” I wondered. [...]

“No,” he admitted in a low whisper.

“Aren’t you tired?”

“I wanted to watch you sleep.”

“Hmm. That’s kind of creepy.”

He kissed my forehead. “I’m kind of a creep.”

“Oh. That’s right. I almost forgot.”

;D