Skipping class!! I'm such a rebel

As I write this, Public Speaking class has come and gone... and I've been at home.

Before you panic, I asked my teacher if I could skip class! I got permission! See, all they were doing today was watching a movie that I watched on Sunday. I did not want to go sit and watch it again. ^^;

It's SUPER RELIEVING to not have to spend an hour driving into austin, and then a bit of time waiting around, and then go to class, and then wait around for another two hours and then spend another hour getting home. So I dawdled and took naps and it didn't give me a ton of free time, but I cooked tortillas (seriously, thank God for the Spanish who started making this brilliant native South American corn pancake out of wheat, they are the best) for my brothers and I, was able to spend my history time more leisurely -cough surfing the internet i hate it when i do that cough-

I love not having my computer at school. I don't even connect my iPod to the wifi. I'm way more productive on campus, even though it's not so relaxing and I don't have standing desk space. It's just so much easier to stay focused without the internet.

If I wanted to get on the web, I would have to use a school computer... so I'd have to REALLY want or need to. It makes it so much easier to not say "well, I'll just check facebook..."

This also kind of ties into the fact that IT'S OCTOBER!

why is that important well

Because it's the month before NOVEMBER!

why is that importa- DO YOU EVEN KNOW ME?!

National Novel Writing Month is in November, and it's something I anticipate as soon as the leaves start turning and the concrete is cool to the touch in the shade. NaNoWriMo IS November.

On top of that, the high school youth group that I still go to has a retreat in November.

My plan is to really buckle down on English and History. I'll write all the rest of my English essays minus the A paper (which isn't due until December) in October. It won't be hard as long as I don't let myself use my English Comp time to browse the Internet like I have been. I'll also write my A paper for History. It's a research paper but only ~2000 words so it won't be too bad. (College papers have never seemed intimidating to me since I've been doing NaNoWriMo since 2009.)

So with all that writing done up in advance, I'll only have a bit of writing for school in November (revisions for those papers I mentioned already, and the english departmental exam).

Now the second part of my plan is also scary. I'm going to write my 50,000 word novel by hand.

Yeah, you heard me. What? Yeah. Sounds crazy, no? Well, to be honest, I know I'll get distracted if I write with the computer. A journal is one purpose, and a lot more portable than a laptop. Yes, the computer is faster, yes, it's easier, but you can't exactly type up your novel on the sly in math class on a laptop. >D All the stuff I have to do this time around is actually requiring me to do NaNo the hard way... and it's exciting.

This also means that if you want to read this year's novel, you'll have to borrow the journals from me~
I have one journal now. If I write eight words per line, it will fit half of my novel. I'll need to get another one before November.

I also need a plan of what it will be about. I don't want to go by the seat of my pants and maybe fizzle out. I won't be working on THE STORY (the un named superhero story I've had forever) so it shouldn't be something I really want to work on editing right away. But I might get some brilliant nuggets in there, so who knows?

Anyway, due to my free time I shall now proceed to watch a movie from the 50s. 
I hope it's great. The 50s seem pretty cool.