DAY 43: i almost nailed it

Today, I was supposed to go and get many, many things done. But I woke up late, the 8:45am kind of late, and Mom already went ahead without me. Me being the everything-has-to-start-perfect OC person, I decided to cancel all my plans and stay home all day. Which actually proved to be a blessing, coz I got some things done.

1. I read my ebook of The Little Prince (by Antoine de Saint-Exupery) AT LAST. I've been wanting to read this since high school, and only now was I finally able to understand why it is considered a classic. I learned so much from 64 pages! And I swore to never, ever be a grown-up who couldn't understand a drawing of an elephant inside a boa constrictor.

2. I made some progress with my French 101 in LiveMocha. My French Week, however, is going to be put on hold indefinitely, thanks to unforeseen circumstances. I have trips (workshops, conventions, vacations) coming up, all on this month and all at least two days in length. I mean, how am I going to have a French Week when I won't have access to a laptop for three of my four May weekends? Bummer.

3. I painted my nails a hideous shade of blue. Actually, the original plan was to paint them blue, then do a newspaper print nail art on them, and then finish off with a top coat. It looked pretty simple. Unfortunately, due to either the newspaper cuttings' lack of cooperation or my general ineptitude with nail art, the second part didn't work out so well. I kept pulling the paint along with the newspaper cutting, which meant...well, it looked sorta grungy, but hideous all the same. So I resigned myself to just the first part.

I'll try the newspaper print part again tomorrow. Or maybe I'll go for zebra prints. Let's hope it works out, either way. I can't live on this shade of blue without any adornment. It's gonna make me puke. It's too... blank.

4. I thought out some new story plot, which just came into my head with no warning whatsoever. I think this has better chance of working out than my current story. And by that I meant the summer novel that just won't be happening anytime before summer ends. I barely wrote a chapter, and every time I try resuming it, another story comes to mind. I probably have more word count for my random plots than for the story itself. What on earth is this disease of the mind??

So, anyhow, I have to sleep now so I can at least get up a little earlier than 8:45 tomorrow morning. Over the past two weeks, I've gotten used to waking up at 6:30 with the birds, and I'm confused why I broke the habit earlier. Hope it'll come back tomorrow, otherwise I'm dead.

Au revoir!

P.S. I'm back from the dead, as you can see. Let's hope this continues to tomorrow. One way or another, though, I'll make up for the days when I didn't post. Let's hope I do it soon. :)