It's summer again and I'm caught between that feeling of "Yessss, no more school!" and "Dear god, get me back in a class." Not that I miss the work, but it's the organization. My mind needs to have structured schedules, or else, it's alllll over the place. I can actually get more creative/personal work done if I have a schedule for work or school in front of me haha. It's a pain, but at least I can enjoy the company of my friends more now. That's always a plus.

My friends, Bill, Dawn and Kelly, are all serious about getting a place together after we graduate and I'm super happy they're still interested. If I had the finances, I would leave right now, but that's not really pheasible. I hope when I graduate and (HA) get a job in my career field, it'll be easier. The four of us renting together would be best, financially speaking, so I have high hopes for it. Bill wants to literally buy a house, but I don't think that's a good idea (is it even legal for four people to do that?) I don't mind renting. I've been dreaming of moving out of my house forever, but we still have a two-three year wait ahead of us. Poor Kelly's still going to be getting her PhD or Masters, so she'll still be in school at the time too. D: Hopefully that'll work for her, somehow.

Speaking of my own education... I did go through with it and changed my major to communications. :) It's a broad field, but I can do a lot of things with it. I'm still hoping I can get involved with book publishing (I will be getting a minor in English whooo), but if that's too tricky, public relations and media planning is actually looking quite appealing. If I survive the job market for a few years, I'm considering going back for my MBA as well, so that'll help tremendously. Right now I'm just looking for a job, so when I apply to Internships, I'll have a better chance of getting one. I hate job hunting, because it seems like a constant circle of F-You. Seriously! I've worked for family members and under-the-table type of situations, but never a real pay-cheque situation, so I have no "work experience" and thus, less of a chance to get hired. But how can I get work experience if no one will hire me? XD Goddamnit.

I feel I might have no other choice but to apply to Dollar Tree, where my sister worked for seven months. Apparently it's a horrible place to work due to the customers ("How much does this cost?" "Ma'am, it's the Dollar Tree. Everything's one dollar." "...But how much does it cost?") but if it's the only place hiring... yeah. My main concern is getting there for work, but we'll see. :/

Also: Sherlock from the BBC? HAS STOLEN MY SOUL. Just saying. I love Sherlock Holmes stuff, but damn. That is an awesome show. :3 I cannot wait for Series 2 coming out in the fall! So excite~

<3Becca

Thinking about changing my major (not a big surprise) to Communications. The reasons are pretty simple, even if the process won't be: I want to go into the literary publishing business. I'm not sure if I'll settle for magazines/newspapers, or try to branch out into books, but I really feel comfortable with that industry for some reason. English is the obvious first choice of a degree, but damn it, I hate the curriculum at my university. It's geared for people aiming to teach literature, not edit/manage it. I hate it. I considered Linguistics (which is utterly fascinating to me), but that's a bit too far a stretch for this job market I think. So... communications came up. I'm interested. I'll be seeing a counselor on Wednesday so hopefully I can clear up the last dregs of doubt and get my asssss moving on this. Christ. I shouldn't have been switching majors as often as I do anyway. Bleh.

In other news~ I've been writing a lot! That's always a good thing. Mostly fan fiction, which isn't so good I guess, but I did write like... ten paragraphs of my novel, The Manigoldo. That's a decent amount compared to the NOTHING I've done for it recently. Fallout has been coming along smashingly, though I might not make my deadline in July. Ah well. At least I'm writing!

Ed and Vickie also got me into Supernatural. I'm not sure if I'm mad at them for doing that. I mean, I hate TV and watching episodes is always a pain (idk why, I just dislike it), but the show is pretty interesting. Anything to do with spirituality/paranormal stuff intrigues me. :) It also helps the cast on the show are attractive as hell. My only complaint, in the end, is well... GABRIEL. D: F*ckers always kill off my favorites! It's true! Every damn story/movie/book I have ever liked, my favorite dies. Generally a horrible death too. I mean, really? REALLY? I hope you have a good contract, Castiel, because if my luck continues, you're next on the cast list. They already got Crowley, so... FFFFF.

I'm trying to get into using Twitter more. Not sure why I should, but I guess it might be good for networking? Vick swears by Tumblr, but I have yet to find a reason to use it myself, aside from finding funny pictures. (They have amazing collections of those, I must admit.) I barely use this blog enough! At least I've used these things more consistently than a real diary/journal, but... meh. It's nice to get my thoughts on "paper" regardless.

I have so much school work due next week, it's unbelievable. Here's to hoping to survive until spring break in two weeks...

It appears that on the 20th of December, the Westboro Baptist Church is visiting my alma mater. By visiting, I mean they are going to be shouting and holding up signs saying obscene and offensive things like, "God hates fags" and "Priests rape children." Learn more about their insanity here: http://godhatesfags.com

I went to a Catholic school, to put this into context. If you don't already know, I am not Catholic. I depise the Catholic Church for various personal reasons, but as a faith, I respect it as any other faith. It's not my business to judge either way, including if WBC doesn't like the Catholic church. The fact that they're are going to my high school is what is really irking.

They are going after my alma mater? The place that helped me to grow into the person I am today, where I met my best friends and found the career I fell in love with for my future? The place I learned hey, its okay to be me, and so many other life lessons that raised me out of the weak shell I had been bullied into in grade school? They're targeting my school?

OH. No, you didn't, Mr. Phelps.

I have watched his insanity and his family's idiocy play out online for a couple years. I never had the chance to go to one of the counter-protests before, because they always visited locations I couldn't travel to. Monday the 20th, however, I will be ready.

They are insane and I will thoroughly enjoy counter-protesting there with the 500+ alumni and students who are already planning it on facebook. I already made a sign. This shall be glorious.

I know the whole concept of "Don't feed the trolls!" but these people really wouldn't give a crap if no one was there. Passerbys will react just the same, unfortunately. I don't want WBC to think we don't care, being the "demon-possessed brats" that we are. Idiots.

I just can't believe they bring their children to these things. Shirley Phelps deserves "Worst Mother of the Year" award... every year. Christonabike, they are horrible people.

Here's what they said about my school and, in effect, me:

"WBC to come to [school name] to show the children at this school some truth for probably the only time in their lives. They have been taught a steady diet of lies their whole lives with a side of pride and rebellion. You raise these demon-possessed brats to have no knowledge of the Bible, much less a true understanding of their God. Now there is an entire generation that has no idea what it means to be obedient to their God. Instead, they worship their feeeeeeeeeeeelings. How shameful. They have NO moral compass! They grope around in darkness day and night, believing the twin lies (God loves everybody and It's OK to be gay) that they have been taught their whole lives. The parents, preachers, teachers, and leaders - all the way up to Antichrist Obama - are to blame. You have all neglected your Deutoronomy 6 duty. Shame on you!! Your destruction is imminent! Deut 6:6-9 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, an when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates."

Fuck yeah, bitches, I worship my feelings. My feelings do more for me than your everything-hating God has done for anyone. And for reference, you may want to look at that bible quotation (do they only ever quote the Old Testament? What are they, Jewish? LAWL.) I do believe you, Phelps family, have failed at this teaching by not raising your children to be good Christians/faithful/whatever. All they know is hate. Then again, you don't give two shits about your kids, so I guess that doesn't bother you either.

Sighhhh. This is why I hate organized religion. It screws up everyone's day. The 20th will be an interesting day regardless of what happens. I'll be waiting~

<3Becca

PS: On a totally random note, I sold my first sale online yesterday! :D I made a whole $1.50. lol!

Figures my last post was about going back to school and now my current one is about it ending? I am so bad at consistency...

So many changes! :) First and foremost, I have a boyfriend! Josh is like the sweetest kid you will EVER meet, I swear. We met through mutual friends (though I guess officially we met in high school but it was for about ten seconds ahaha.) He's a Freshman at my college now so we got closer there. I'm terrible at showing emotion, however, so I hope I don't screw this up. XD I can be overemotional ANYTIME ELSE but not with intimacy. What? I blame my stoic father entirely for the social-awkwardness I have. LOL.

I'm working on a writing experiment, too. I'm going to be attempting one chapter a week for a novel of mine (read it here) and posting it online for anyone to read, just for fun. It's a really, really silly story, but it's been loads of fun coming up with it. It's actually based on another story of mine (The Andromidite Federation) so I guess it could be seen as a prologue? LOL. A really, really dumb one.

I finally found the damn malware iframe on my website. >_< It was scary people away from my webcomic Wt2F, so that was irritating. I hope it never comes back. Augh.

I've also begun to work more on Smiley, a future webcomic that I swear to God I will complete one day. It's quickly spiralled out of control, plot wise, of course, so it's like a hundred times more complicated than it was, but I think in a good way. My goal is to have Smiley creep people the hell out. Best story ever, amirite?

Exams are next week. Not good. I have an essay due Friday that I have nothing done on so far. At least I know, somewhat, what I'm going to be writing. Ugh. I can't wait for winter break. Our Christmas party is now on the 21st of December, so I have very little time between the end of school til then to get ready. So much pressure!

We are also going to be working on a webseries known as Bullmoose. It's about Teddy Roosevelt and the zombie apocalypse. You know you're excited for this. >D Filming will hopefully take place this December/January. We shall see. More to come on this later, I suspect.

I have writing to get done, so until next~

<3Becca

Well, almost three weeks into school now. It's strange, not having a regular film class. I'm used to having to do a lot of physical projects, but the only class I have now with film studies is a writing course, so all we have are essays haha. There's so much reading to do for my two English courses (Myth, British Lit) and my Environment class is kind of a joke (though what do you want to bet the tests are going to be crazy hard?).

Had an amazing (and well needed) get together at Bill and Dawn's last night. My friends are ridiculous. <3

Me and Vick are finally playing Halo: Reach. D: I will cry like a baby at the probably. It looks so sad! The graphics and world maps are BEAUTIFUL however. Well done, Bungie.

Speaking of Halo... that last episode of Red vs. Blue. Chrissst. Poor Episilon-Church. They had been get back to another season soon. There are still so many unanswered questions. The brightside to this season, though? My favorite characters didn't die for once! :D Yay, Doc and Washington! I thought Wash was gonna die so bad. Thank goodness he didn't. Now if they only brought O'Malley back...

I've made a lot of executive decisions concerning my own web series, The Philadelphia Experiment. It will probably be 90% drawn now, in a mock-comic book style. It's difficult to explain, but I hope it will be appealing to people. Live action only would have been possible had I more time to spare and professional actors haha. I have neither. We are planning on a live-action viral video campaign to get attention for the series prior to its release. :3 I think that's going to look really cool. We'll see.

Off to finish the next chapter of a story and then school work! Bleh. Can it be winter break yet...?

<3Becca