Goodness does time fly. It doesn’t seem like it, but its already been a whole week since my last post. Things have really, really picked up. And so much has happened!!

Band camp has officially started. The freshmen did amazing on freshmen day, I’m really excited about it. But we’ve been super busy in band because we have an early Friday game, before school has even started. So instead of having three full weeks to practice and learn the show, we only have two weeks. Less actually. So they’re really pushing us to learn things and I kinda feel bad about the freshmen. I mean, they are pushing us. Normally, we learn the drill to one song in two days, maybe three depending on the song/drill. But no, not this year. We got the charts for two drills yesterday and finished the show today! An entire show in two days! Thats… thats unheard of! Everyone is dying though, it’s all really ridiculous. Plus there is a lot of drama which no one needs so… yeah.

Writing wise… nada. I haven’t written a single thing. Nope. None. However, other than our band car wash on Saturday, I am totally free this weekend. I wanted to sit and relax, so I’m planning on just writing/typing all weekend. I’ll only stop to eat and pee. That’s the goal at least.

So the 2008 Beijing Olympics are happening!! I watched the Mens Gymnastics Team Finals the other day. It was so amazing and I am so proud that they got bronze! Everyone thought they were going to fail and they did so well on their own for the first time. And I have a new hero, Alexander Artemev. He was the US team member who did an AMAZING Pummel horse routine (look it up on YouTube, it is truly amazing. If I remember later, I might add it to this post) that gave the USA team the points they needed to beat Germany for the bronze. He’s become my new inspiration, along with the other members of the Mens Gymnastics Team.

This is the actual Olympics footage the other night, but just the amazing end of his routine.

This is Artemev doing the same routine, but I’m not sure where.

The Womens Gymnastics Team were amazing to watch as well, and I felt so bad for the girl who fell! I liked her, although I’d never seen her perform before. I just felt so bad! I don’t remember her name, but I hope she does really well in her individual gymnastics events. I’ll be watching at least.

So… the plan to clean my room and then write all day… yeah, that didn’t happen. At all. I ended up waking up at like, three PM. Yes, three in the afternoon. That’s what happens when you stay up till three AM doing nothing. Grrr. So I really didn’t get much done, because I had to shower and get cleaned up because we had a senior band party. Because tomorrow is the first day of band camp – freshmen day. And being the senior that I am, I have to go to instruct. And since once again it is already into the wee hours of the morning, I will only get a few hours of sleep before I have to wake up later… later today.

But the band party was fun and it’s going to be hectic at freshmen day. None of us seniors really consider ourselves seniors, the power hasn’t really set in yet.

But it will. I’m sure.

So hopefully if I get the chance I can write tomorrow. I have a lot of Rescue Me chapter 2 written, I just have to finish it. Band camp is until three I believe, but that’s okay. I actually just finished my summer Honors Physics homework, so I have to turn that in. But other than that, I will be free tomorrow… today. Hopefully my next post will be something more positive as in “Yeah! I did it! I wrote shit!!”

But don’t get your hopes up. Mine aren’t.

Argh… so I was going to actually do some work tonight. I headed upstairs at… 11:30ish? I pulled out my notebook, got my papers together, grabbed a pen. I did manage to get four lines written on my one fanfiction, Rescue Me, down. Until I got distracted…

By this evil computer/evil blog/why is my computer even on? Did I really need to plug the laptop in and start doing… randomness? No, most definitely not. Grr.

Luckily, I have all day tomorrow… oh wait, make that later today since it is 2:30 in the morning, to work. I have to clean my room, but hopefully I can at least get some fanfiction worked on. The goal is to get Rescue Me chapter 2 written, typed, edited, and posted.

Ha.

I currently have four fanfictions published under the same name, PrincessxShawn. You can visit them and read them at: http://www.fanfiction.net/~princessxshawn. I hope that you do, and I hope that you enjoy them.

I’ve written on Fanfiction.Net for about six years now, since I was in the sixth grade. I won’t list my past usernames, the writing is much too badly written. I love to write fanfiction, and the people on the site are amazing. Not just the writers, but amazing readers who fill you up with confidence and joy as you read their reviews. Of course that’s not always the case but still… even the criticisms, or “flames” as they’re called, can be worthwhile.

Along with my fanfiction, two of them being currently written and two being completed, I have two novels in the works. The first one, which I started in eighth grade, is halfway finished on paper. But most of it hasn’t been typed and most of it hasn’t been edited, while other chapters I have probably put too much red ink too(I’ve edited the first chapter at least fifteen times with major adjustments each time). The other novel is about 80 pages long and probably not even close to finishing. I decided to try a different approach to this novel, and have not edited any of it. Not until it is completely written. So we shall see.

And then there is the idea that keeps attacking and attacking me in my head. I know I will write it, eventually. But it is calling and calling. While I am at work I plan in my head: character names, pets, the lines when the characters meet, the opening scenes, title names. A whole series, formulating in my head. Hopefully I will write it… maybe it shall turn into something.

So I guess one could call this the beginning of something. Something. But now the question just is, what shall the something be? Something expected? Something new? Something timeless, or maybe even endless. Goodness knows, what could this be?

I”m a writer, or at least, that is what I hope the something will be for me. Something I shall be. Hopefully. A hopeful something. In a sense I’m working on it. I write my own stories, for fun, on fanfiction.net. I am trying to write a book of my own, but this other idea that I have keeps attacking and attacking. I need something to clear my mind, to get it all out. Someplace where I can write where no one is judging and no one cares about plot or character development. So I can yell at myself for not sitting down and writing what’s important. So I can start again. Start that something again.

So this is the beginning. The beginning of something. Hopefully.