Willow Kitteh

Hmm, I've been updating fairly often. Does that mean I should change the name? Nah, I think I'll leave it as a precaution against later inevitable non-posting.

Today, I was in a relationship for four hours, but I'm not going to post about that here, so instead I'll talk about my kitten Willow. I'm trying to leash train her, which is going pretty well; she comes to my writing group every Thursday and gets passed around and loved, which since she loves being the center of attention, she's fine with. She doesn't like the car as much, because she feels secure while on my shoulders and she can't sit there very easily if I sit in the front seat, but if I sit in the back she can perch on the back of the seat and balance against the back of my neck. She's very cute like that, and she likes to watch the cars around us. I have to wonder what the people in the other cars think when they see her. You just don't see cats on leashes very often.

Hmm, that was not very interesting. Maybe some pictures of her would improve this post:

Poetry Goal

So for the past two years, I've written around 200 poems per year. I think it was actually 240 each, coincidentally enough. But this year, I've only written about 40 poems the whole year, so I'm setting myself a new goal: there's 127 days left in the year; times by two, that's 254. So if I make the goal to write two poems per day, I can make it, leaving room for my inevitable laziness/forgetfulness. Random thoughts were poking me in the brain last night when I was trying to go to sleep, so I already have ideas for today's poems, and yesterday's that I wrote right before going to bed only need to be polished.

127 days from now, I hope not to look back upon this and go, "oh yeah, whatever happened to that goal?"; I want to look back and be happy I completed something I set myself to do for once! So, present self that will become past self, don't make future self curse you once again! :)

I hope to get them all up on Allpoetry too, but that goal is far secondary to my first goal: to just get them written! Warning, may contain copious amounts of German! :D

Du bist ein guter Lehrer, Meister Frollo. . . .

I am bounce off the walls happy right now, besides being lactose intolerant and filled with way too much mac and cheese. Not only am I finally taking German (though getting money worked out to buy my textbooks is still in the works), but I also finally found the complete score for Der Glöckner von Notre Dame!! So I now have all the proper spelling and (somewhat) translations for all those parts in the songs that I've memorized by ear! I am so so so very happy about this. I want to learn most of the songs in German, because not only will that probably help my pronunciation/comprehension for my class, it'll also be completely awesome to be able to burst into "Das Feuer der Hölle" at random times throughout the day.

I will only quote you if I can punctuation you as I please!

I figure since I took the time to make this blog all pretty, I should actually make a new post. I haven't been sticking anything up here A: because my life is boring, and B: because I have a separate journal on here just for me, which is where I've been doing most of my journaling. But I actually thought of something to write about just now, so here it goes: I've been noticing lately that I actually have more things weird about me than I thought. I won't say "wrong with me", because they aren't flaws; they're just more weird parts of what makes me me. But anyway: