Hi Roomie!

You will be happy to know that I now know who my viewer is. Henceforth I shall no longer consider you inexistent, as I think of it now that seems kind of rude. To accuse you of not being real when you are sitting there reading this. That is very sweet of you, by the way, for taking time out of your busy day to read this. I do acknowledge the point that if you are reading this you are either very creepy and a stalker, planning on killing me, planning on recruiting me for a top secret mission and analyzing me, or very deep in the depths of procrastination.
With that note I will now only address you as you and nevermore shall I accuse you of not existing.

P.S. The reason I haven't been writing here is because it's November, Folk, and that means that I am working on my novel. Alright, gotta get back to it, thought I would just drop by.

Mid Morning

I will only work on this post for a bit because I really do have stuff to get done. But I did want to just drop by and say hey. When I started this post I had an intention of how to finish it, maybe with a story? Actually I even had an intention of their being a middle to it. I have yet to identify what either of these parts of the post were so I think that I will let this post slide on by. I will tell you this though, my wand in potter more is 13" cedar with a dragon core and reasonably supple. I think that it's a pretty good wand.
Ok, I feel a little bit childish talking about Harry Potter and wands so much but I think I have mentioned this earlier. I am still off reading the news and doing research in the real world, I'm looking for something that I am impassioned about. So, I'll keep you updated on how that's going. So far it's not going at a breakneck pace.

Identity Crisis

This can only be a quick post because I have a ton of stuff to do. But this is what I am going through. My entire literate life I have believed myself to be a Ravenclaw, and when I told people that they would nod their head and say, "yeah that makes sense."
But then I came to college and people started asking me what house I was in, I would say Ravenclaw and they would say their house and then ask if I had taken the test on pottermoore. I said no and they said I had to.
I finally took the test today and it turns out I'm a SLYTHERIN! I don't want to go insulting any of my housemates but, man! This is something that I am having trouble wrapping my head around. It's like a total shift, it makes me want to re-read the books so I can see what the slytherins are all about a little more.
Ok, now I have to get back to homework!
have a nice evening!

Saturday!

Today was Saturday. It was a good day. I slept in until ten and then showered and had brunch, which was yummy. I spent the first half of the day "doing homework" I wrote a thing for environmental science and then read some of my text book. Around three I went down stairs and worked on my essay and a friends essay then the greatest thing happened, the people at the table next to us started playing Settlers of Catan, I immediately got in on that action, and was promptly surrounded by the other players and crushed. Then it was time for dinner, dinner was pretty good, I sat with friends.
After dinner we played Settlers of Catan again. That second game was much better. We had an iron curtain and everything, trade embargo's, and the whole thing.
If you don't know what Settler's of Catan is you've gotta fix that. Basically you need to collect resources based on where you build your settlements and how the dice rolls. It get's really intense and enemies become friends and friends become enemies.
Ok, So I didn't finish this last night, people didn't leave my room until like 1 and at that point I just went to sleep. My roommate had a sleepover in North last night. She just got back and told me we could get cereal from the dining hall. So I think that I am going to do that.
I was hoping this post would be more interesting, but I guess not.
Ok, I have to get like this whole week of homework done because November 1st is speeding in at a breakneck pace.

sitting in the room with one light on

It's almost one in the morning and I am realizing tha tI haven't posted today yet. I know all my non-existent readers are worried so I thought I would set your minds at rest.
Basically today wasn't awesome, but that's ok that's how days work.
Right now I am sitting in my room with three other people. I keep making typing mistakes because I feel like I am being watched but I am pretty sure that is the spotlight effect at work. (Psychology is pervasive.)
Speaking of school, this really shouldn't be a journal about school. I just don't have anything else in my life going on to talk about that I know about. There's a shooter on the loose a few towns away from where I used to live, four police officers have been injured from gun-shot stuff. Some scary shit. I hope the shooter doesn't get it into his head to go and hang out in my home town. I am just assuming the gunman is a man. Because bad guys are all male. That's an assumption that society has almost universally.
I don't really have a lot to say, as I type this, the people in my room are becoming more zombie like. They are talking about music though and I don't know anything about music so I am kinda left out by virtue of ignorance.
It's kinda gotten to the point in the evening that no one is talking any more. We're talking about whether or not we would be freaked out by our face being covered by butterflies.
I don't know why but that made me think of how while I was watching Tangled with some friends, we were analyzing the economic impacts the damn breaking would have.
This transitions poorly to another thing that I have noticed in college. People use a lot of big words wrong. I actually like it, because sometimes it feels like everyone around here is more intelligent that me. So when I notice that they made a mistake, it makes me feel a little better. I think that is a normal thing. It's not like I am reveling in their failure, it's just that their mistake reassures me that they don't have a such a higher intelligence.
We have now talked about pets and guns since the last time I updated you on the current conversation. And now we have added fastidiousness to our repertoire along with blinds.
I think that my shoulder may actually be injured. It was hurting while I was knitting and it is hurting again after extended typing, it also just generally aches. I really hope that it isn't injured because that would mean that I injured it by doing an exercise wrong. Although my kettle bell trainer did tell me today while I was telling her about my shoulder hurting and before I was almost fainting, that my shoulders are uneven. Not because of some spinal misalignment but because my muscles are actually different from generally favoring my right arm as well carrying my messenger bag on one shoulder. Ok, I think that we are all going to sleep now.
Good night blogosphere that I am only on the edge of.

Ok, here's the thing

So, I am about ready to go to sleep and right now my roommate is having a very intense conversation with one of her good friends, and interupting them wouldn't really be emotionally healthy for either of them. It's like their unload time and I respect that. But I can't do anymore homework tonight even though there is stuff I should do.
I'll tell you about my day, in case any of you care.
I had two tests today, one of them was in psych, I don't think I did very well on it. I studied pretty well for it but it was multiple choice so I just had the vocabulary a little wrong which all adds up to not doing very well because there were only ten questions. And getting one wrong bumps the grade down to 90%, so even getting three wrong makes it a 70%. So, following that test was a damnit moment for me.
I also had a stats test today, and I think that I did pretty well, it was also only ten questions but they were essay response questions so I was able to explain myself and that gives me more lee-way for half credit. I would have had to completely miss the point of the question to lose all credit for it.
Environmental Science is going to be an intense class, I have a lab brief due next week I should really start working on it. I also have a response to my Outdoor Education Hike due, and I also need to read the text book, and those chapters are really long.
Ok, if any of you people reading are from waldorf. Every class is a mainlesson. The classes even take as long as mainlessons, and since my school is on a quarter system they are all like really involved mainlessons. I think that having mainlessons is making all the work and the intensity easier to deal with, but man, it's a lot. What I really want to do is read a book just for fun but I feel guilty doing that, so I don't.
I mentioned this in my post yesterday, but I really want to study in the writing institute, I feel a little unwelcome there because, as far as I know, I don't need help with my writing, they are just really comfortable couches.
I wish I could include a picture in this post to kinda break it up a bit but I don't really know how and I don't have the picture I would want to post on my computer, it's on my phone and I don't want to deal with the transferring.
Ok, this is how I will be doing the nanowrimo, staying up late into the night, typing typing typing. I hope that I don't get sick. If I get sick I will need to stop nanoing, and focus on school because school has to be my top priority right now.
Ok, it's almost midnight I am going to start getting ready for bed.

Just a sec

I'm sitting in my room. I finished writing the first draft of an essay by 9:30 =me super awesome, right? Wrong! Because guess what? I have another Journal to write. this one for governance. I am supposed to be comparing the government structure of the village I am living in to the situation going down in Detroit. I didn't have to chose Detroit but I did because it said manager in the text and my village has a manager working in cahoots with a council.
In Detroit, from this one article, what I can tell is that there is a mayor who was in "power" when the debt bubble popped and everything went to shit in 2008. Either that or he was in power soon after. Anyway, during his reign, so to speak, the city went to shit and everything fell apart. In his effort to pay some of the bills he told the people that the city couldn't really afford to pay their pensions and help out with healthcare and all the stuff that a city is supposed to do. So instead of talking with the unions and the people who would be directly affected he just declared that their pensions were getting cut. This made people mad. Meanwhile Mr. Mayor has hired Mr. Emergency Manager and the two of them are planning on filing for bankruptcy with something called a chapter 9 filing. Which I haven't looked into and don't understand. But anyway, because they were doing that is during their "negotiations" with the people which weren't really negotiations but more like proclamations, they were already planning on filing for bankruptcy which proves that they hadn't tried all the options before filing.
Now there is this huge court case going down of whether or not Detroit could actually be considered bankrupt because even though they are out of cash the mayor and emergency planner didn't go about it in a nice fashion and the people of Detroit and the law, so far, is saying that they aren't eligible.
Now, I have to compare all that nonsense to my village that can't even hang on to a manager, they have had four in the last ten years. I think the reason is because the council has been treating all their managers more like really knowledgeable servants and less like an equal or adviser. The purpose of the manager is to help the council enact their goals in a responsible and legal way.
The council has to acknowledge that the manager does have a huge knowledge base on how to deal with it. What the council needs to realize is that they are the common variable, not the managers. The managers keep changing, the village stays it's usual same and dynamic self. My conclusion is that the village needs to get off its high-horse and deal with harsh realities, like not everything can be ideal. Which I think they know intellectually but have a hard time coming to terms with in reality.
My issue is combining these two nonsense issues into one cohesive 300 word document that a teacher would feel like they didn't waste two minutes reading. I also feel like I have to be careful because the people round here are very involved in the village and since this is going toward a grade I don't want to go and insult any one.
Ok, I need to go back to organizing my thoughts in a more academic manner. Have a nice night!