i tried to be like grace kelly

October is lurking closer, which means that November is lurking even more close, which means that NaNoWriMo will soon be upon us. As those of you who've been following me for a while know, I'm almost unable to resist the call of NaNo, and in the past I've won in odd-numbered years, so naturally, I am trying it again.

The problem? I have three plot ideas and no idea which one I want to greenlight as my story.

So that is where you all come in. I'll present the plot ideas, and you can pick the one that you think I should go with the most.

PLOT ONE: Kind of like Love Actually in suburban Virginia. At a school, the students who are part of the staff for the yearbook, newspaper, and literary magazine do a Secret Santa exchange. Eight students (four boys, four girls) are involved, and each has their own little story: there's the dreamboat boy who was once a socially awkward geek who still is socially awkward, this cynical newspaper dude who has a thing for the snarly aspiring singer/songwriter, a girl who works at an Aerie/Victoria's Secret type store who has a crush on one of her coworkers, who is the sister of another student, and so on. And, of course, there are romantic entanglements and goofiness and Christmas/holiday-related hijinks.

PLOT TWO: Our main character goes to a school with a strong performing arts department, including offering a class once every two years that focuses on writing a musical. She applies to get into the class, and is rejected. She's upset, and during the summer, when she's volunteering at a theater camp, she gets an idea: she's going to write and direct her own musical during the school year. She ends up getting some of her friends, enemies, and a preacher's kid to help her, and along with the mysterious owner of the camp she volunteered at, goes on her way to write her musical.

PLOT THREE: This is the only idea with a title. Once upon a time there were two little girls who wanted to be superheroes. They created their own secret identities and costumes, and wrote and illustrated their own comic books. The girls grew up, developed non-superhero interests, but still remained friends. Then comes their sophomore year of high school, and suddenly they find that characteristics in the villains from their childhood are showing up in their classmates. And it's up to them to take on their childhood superhero personas to save the day.

So, there you are.

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A belated thank you to everyone who sent me cards this year! (I hope you all got yours safely, even if they were late.)

So while I am a big fan of this current layout, I feel the need to change it. And I've narrowed my options down to these eight, and out of them I've only used one before (and I used that one for a long time), and... yeah. So check this out.

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Coming later today: the list of things that I want to do before I'm 25. I mentioned my list the other day, and here is a smaller version of it. I just have to find the book I wrote it in and post it. Also coming: the pictures from the Maroon 5 concert, just because.

So, hey, this utterly ridiculous poll is in need of votes. It is also evil. How am I supposed to pick JDM over RDJ or vice versa? That's just wrong.

(Though the PICTURES, omg.)

Man, this reminds me: I wanted to do a bracket-type thing for fiction_lust. Heck, I might just do it later because I like polls.

Earlier I was drawing with some felt-tipped colored pens I have, and this question came to me.

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I never really can decide. I was a Crayola junkie, and I remember one year I asked for the box that had 96 crayons for Christmas, and I was so psyched when I got them that once I was done checking out all the other gifts, I pulled out paper and started marking all the colors down so I could see what they looked like. On the other hand, I like colored pencils lots too, as you can erase them. Markers are great because you get those bold lines and colors. Plus, scented markers > scented crayons.

You know how sometimes you feel inclined to change something? I've been wanting a new screen name for quite a while, and I can't decide on one.

Yeah, this is indecisiveness to the max, but whatever.

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Explanations for each one:
way out west is part of a line from Duran Duran's "Rio". boo you hor is a take on a line from Mean Girls. met halfway is part of a line from Kelly Clarkson's "Be Still". And disarmed charm has no real meaning; I just think it looks cool.

( American Idol and Gossip Girl. )

FINALS ARE OVER FOR ME! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

I am, semi-currently, making icons of Mean Girls (explaining where my super-cool "boo, you whore" icon comes from) so that I can make my first ever post at itsapolarbear (HAI). And something dawned on me when I started making that set:

1. I haven't iconned Lost in forever. Not because I dislike the show or anything. I don't know why.
2. There are a lot of things I want to icon but haven't gotten around to because I'm lacking in inspiration or what have you. Like, I've wanted to do Supernatural icons since I did my first set last summer. I've wanted to icon Heroes since the show started. I made 10 Things icons when I first started making icons, and... they are horrible. Well, not horrible, but oversharpened and overly yellow and just bleh. Okay, they are horrible.
3. I have never made a batch of Prison Break icons, yet I have made many of Wentworth Miller. Including this one:



It was made after I something I said at my GJ:

Wentworth Miller with a full head of hair = one of the sexiest things ever. Just... God. I'm looking at pictures of him from right before Prison Break started shooting and he has gorgeous hair. All wavy and like you'd just love to put your fingers through it. He works the shaved head like no one's business, but gah! Hair! ANDTHOSEBLINDINGLYBLUEEYESUNH. Bitch won in the genetic lottery.

And: poll. Because it's almost summer (summer summertime), and I'll have more time.

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I have been thinking about this off and on for the past couple of days, so I decided that it had to be made into a poll to get an answer.

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See, the Petrellis have superpowers. Michael is scary smart and Lincoln is the brute force of the two. And Sam and Dean, well... they have guns with rock salt.

I don't know. I watch too much TV.

I am totally thinking of scraping the NaNo plot I have and abandoning it for something else.

I mean, it's all working in my head, but I've A.) got less than 5000 words and B.) right now, for some reason, my heart's not as into it as I thought it'd be. What made me be all obsessive-complusive last year was the fact that I kind of fell stupidly in love with my characters, all of them, and right now, I feel like I have only the faintest clue as to what to do with these characters. I like them, but I haven't gotten a complete feel for them yet.

Errrrrgh.

To solve this: POLL!

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I seriously think I should've went to church yesterday. I might've been spared from the crap parts of the day if so. Good grief.

To cheer me up: poll!

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I've given the occasional thought of buying a rename token for this journal, although I do quite like it. It's more of a passing thought; rarely serious, mostly because A.) I like that I have a matching GMail accout name, and B.) I've used this name a lot in other places and I've tended to go along with it in other places.

I've also frequently used the names in this poll elsewhere, so that's why they are included. [g]

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I am watching this show on the Sci-Fi Channel and they had a feature on stigmata--AUUUUGH NO MAKE IT STOP. That terrifies me. But then, I've had a slightly macabre (I don't know if I should say macabre for this situation, but it beats saying "hella disturbing") morning of TV watching, as I caught Infamous Murders on the History Channel and City Confidential. If I end up watching Unsolved Mysteries, I'll round it all out.

I should probably do a poll on creepy TV shows next, if I decide to do so.

I really really want it to be next Friday, so that I can go and see Dead Man's Chest. I'm debating on whether or not I want to try to get tickets to the midnight show--I've never gone to a midnight showing of any movie, and someone I work with is going (dressed in pirate gear, no less) to the midnight show. I wonder if Tiffany will be able to do that...