It's time for me to go

well, pretty much... i have to get up in about 7 hours, which is 4am, for a 6:30am flight... we fly out at 6:30, make a stop in Calgary, change planes in Edmonton, then land in Hamilton at about 4:30 in the afternoon... i'm going to be so tired on the plane

and i can only hope that the planes don't crap out on us like the last time we tried to fly somewhere... imagine June 2005... we were going to leave Abbottsford and land in Toronto... the plane did not take off at it's said time... 90 minutes later, we were told that a part on another plane would be coming in in an hour... and that didn't work... we ended up being shuttled to Vancouver on a large tour bus at 2 in the afternoon, and was given seats on a flight leaving at 4:30, which really left closer to 5

this meant we were late getting in, missed seeing my cousin and meeting her fiance, missed getting my hands and feet all henna-ed up, and got to the hotel at about midnight after being screwed over all day... at least the flight home was better... and the flights were free... hopefully tomorrow goes off without a hitch, and lots of coffee

that's it for now, peoples... if i get a change while i'm gone i'll update where i am and what i'm doing... if i can't get online, i'll post when i get back... one day i'd love to do a travel blog, me wandering around the place and posting where i am and what i'm doing... one day... have a happy April, peoples

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Vacation countdown: 3 days until i'm gone

3 days?!? whoa... it's hard to believe that sometimes, cause there's part of me that doesn't want to go and spend the next 3 weeks recovering and doing nothing, when really i'd be spending those 3 weeks working and cleaning my room

well, at least the suitcases are out of our crawl space in the basement... and this time i get my very own suitcase... yay!... it's the little things in life that are the best

hopefully it'll be nice and sunny while we're away, but not too hot... or too cold... that'd suck

when i'm gone, i will update here when i get a chance, just to update what's been going on... if i don't get a chance, i'll just do a huge review post of what i did when i'm back on the 2nd

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The time of relaxing has come at last

my exams are over, so i can stay up as late as i want tonight... which sounds like i'm 10 years old instead of 20... which is just so odd, cause i always thought i sounded like i'm 11 or 12 :D... kidding... i swear to everything i hold dear, which is my laptop, my green iPod, and my huge library of romance novels (don't joke, i love them), that i'm an adult... plus, it's legal for me to drink up here... boo-hoo to all you 20-year old Americans, head for Canada, we've got the good beer

i've set up a little chart thing for how much i've written for my books, the first being my book from NaNoWriMo, then second being the one that comes after it... i know, i'm not even done the first one and i've started another... but i swear, it's only a couple of vague prologue sentences

i guess that's it for now, i'll probably post something before i go away on vacation on the 18th... i'm taking my laptop with me, but who knows when i'll get wireless access... i still want to take it with me so i can do some writing, and finish this darn book... but of course, once i'm done comes editing and revising, and i hate that... i'm of the opinion that what first comes out of your fingers is the best thing you can say... except research papers and thesises and school-related papers, those need many drafts

hugs to everyone... enjoy your week-end

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song: "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)" by Lostprophets (cause i love their music)
book: "Sex as a Second Language" by Jamie Sobrato (this is a plug for her new Harlequin Blaze book, cause earlier i commented on her blog, but this book is so good she deserves it)

Studying away

ewww... it's that time of year, when spring semester exams start... and students bury their faces in textbooks and notecards... i really hate this time of year... it's when migraines happen... i've got an english exam on Wednesday, and a physics exam on Friday night... after that, I'm going to sleep in on Saturday and relax until we go away

english exams suck, you have to remember themes and terms and be able to remember what the books were about... physics exams suck, you have to remember rates and equations and improbably theories and other scientific data

if only exams had one or two questions, or they were all multiple choice, then everything would be so much easier

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Writing update

wow, my second update in 3 days... i must be doing new things a lot more often

since i was bored tonight... i started playing with my new 4GB flash drive... and i realized that i could put all my music on my iPod and everything else on the flash drive memory stick... but that's not important... i was bored tonight, and backed up a bunch of files, including my novel-in-progress files... after that, and being a little more bored, i opened up the file and started writing, and wrote a whole freaking page

the last time i actually wrote something was like a month ago, so i was feeling good... then i had a Twix and felt reeeeally good... now i'm watching Futurama and i feel great

so, i'm going to do some more watching, and some more writing... then maybe some sleep

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(and maybe after my exams the Rylie podcast will become a reality and not just a freaky dream i had on Sunday)

Possible podcast update

well, i looked into it a little more last night, and found out i have to upload the files onto a site set up for it or something, which is a little bit of a hassle, but it's not that bad... so i went to a site i've heard of that does that kind of thing (i'm not naming the site, because i want to look around a little at others), and saw that i'll have to pay anywhere from 5 to 30 bucks a month to be able to do it... OMG... i was so surprised... and i was like, well, how am i going to do that? i'm just a student

then i went through it this morning to see how the whole process works, and found out i can pay for the darn thing using PayPal (bless you PayPal people, you're the best)... and in Feb i tried to set up an account (and almost thought i was out a chunk of change for a little while)... well, i noticed that it was all verified and everything, so i've now sort of solved one of my problems

now, if only i could create a genuis clone of myself that'll take my exams for me, i'll be set for the next couple of weeks

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(sidebar: are people even reading this thing? am i just hoping for loyal readers? would you come here if you could actually listen to me talk instead? post your answers in the comments dealie)

Thinking hard... talking more

for the past little while, i've been thinking of putting together a podcast... just so i don't have to remember to write in this darn thing some of the times... sometimes saying stuff out loud makes so much more sense, because then you can hear the emotion and not just have to imagine it... i mean, i'm not a robot or anything

so, i'll be testing making audio files and seeing it i can post it straight to this site, then have it go through iTunes (cause i love my iTunes, and my green iPod)... when it works, i will have a huge celebration post, plus a celebration podcast

and no, this is no April Fool's joke

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song: "Sweet Sacrifice" by Evanescence
book: "A Hunger Like No Other" by Kresley Cole