June 23rd, 2008

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June 13th, 2008

03:39 pm - back again! hi lj! i have returned. to write stuff. kinda. anyhoo, brief update on my life: last semester was crazy hard. I got two Bs and two Cs, no As. Eh. The world kept turning, so I figure it wasn't that big a deal. I submitted my manuscript to the Borders employee publishing contest and lost. Then I submitted it to a literary agent who has yet to get back to me. Then I submitted it to a publisher who got back to me within a week and wanted to give me a contract to publish my book, but they turned out to be a Publisher On Demand (which means they would do zero marketing on my behalf and would give me a joke of an advance - a whole ONE DOLLAR!!! haha. yeah right.) instead of a regular publisher, so that was a no-go. Then I submitted it to another literary agent and am still waiting for them to get back to me. I think the next step after this is to fork over the $50 on the writers/publishers guide thing they sell at bookstores and submit to people out of that one. So, now that that's been taken care of, I have a present for you all! ( Chapter One of a story I am working on for fun ) And that's all I got for now. So everybody have a great day!!!! Current Mood: content

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January 20th, 2008

11:40 pm - hello LJ...it's been a while Hi. Last semester sucked. a lot. but it's over now. the winter was good. I went to a leadership workshop with my church youth group and that was really good. it helped me get my spirit back a little after last semester's consistent sledgehammering. ^_~ This semester looks to be good as well, but I've kind of hit this weird floaty point where I'm kind of apathetic. It's like senioritis, but I'm not even a senior yet (junioritis? I'm more than halfway done at this point, so maybe that's why...). I hope this doesn't bite in the butt later...this semester is going to require a LOT of work. Granted it's only been a week, but still, shouldn't I have felt forced to do more work than like an hour or two a day? Maybe things will pick up once I'm working at Borders again next week. Current Mood: junioritis-apathetic?

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November 1st, 2007

10:19 pm - done. Crimson-Eyed Shadow is done. (again) but this time, it's good. all the way through good. i love the ending. everything got totally cleaned up. the Dracones are freaking awesome. i cut out a bunch of stuff that was unecessary and just not written well. and it's still longer than it was before. ^_^ i love this book, from the first page to the last, and that's what really matters. now i'm going to take a little break, get some fun reading done tonight to celebrate, and then tomorrow i'm going to get my homework done. Next week, I'll start going through it backwards, to make sure everything makes sense. after that, people get to read it, and tell me what they think, and then i might make a couple of last-minute changes before i send it off to the publishers. But, other than that, Crimson-Eyed Shadow is done. <3 Current Mood: so happy i'm numb

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October 11th, 2007

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October 4th, 2007

06:40 pm - life is good 1. My car was acting up again (I've been having problems with the brake lights), so I took it back to the shop and they fixed it for free, even though it wasn't even that they botched it last time. It was just that the piece broke. 2. My drive to practicum is GORGEOUS! It's all hay bales and trees trees trees!!! sooo pretty this time of year and going to get prettier. *sigh* 3. I just finished reading the most awesome trilogy EVER!!!! It's called the Bartimaeus Trilogy and it's by Jonathan Stroud, and I recommend it to ALL fantasy lovers! 4. I have started working on CES again. Version 3.0 now. After I finish adding and subtracting bits and pieces here and there I'll probably take a break and then go back to it and start on version 3.5, where I must force myself to edit the parts that have not been changed since version 1.5. My writing MUST have improved since then, so there should be something to change. But, as Anna said when I read her bits of it, "it's not just shiny. it's glowing!" it's soo good now. I actually want to read it even though I know all of it because I'm writing it. squeeee. 5. SURV is moving forward! We heard back from Hope House, and everyone has ideas about what to do for them. I just need to call them and check to see what we can do for them with what we have. It's really exciting. 6. I am almost 100% healthy again! (I was sick for several days there...not a fun experience, especially because my managers at Borders wouldn't let me stay home and sleep to get better.) um. there's more good things, i think, but nothing comes to mind right now. in short, life is looking up, whereas just a week ago, it was looking very down. and this makes me happy. *EDIT* 7. UMW Financial Aid sent me a letter today. It starts like this: "Dear Ms. Phillips; It is a pleasure to inform you that you have been selected to receive a Higher Education Teacher Assistant Grant, in the amount of $2,000.00, for the 2007-2008 academic year." I feel numb. Happy. But numb. God is good. And He answers EVERY SINGLE PRAYER. ^____________^ *END EDIT* Current Mood: happy

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August 28th, 2007

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August 21st, 2007

10:06 am - good ol' Fredericksburg I am now moved in with a family we know from church that live about 20 minutes from the Borders in Fredericksburg's Central Park (which, ironically, is made entirely out of concrete and other building materials - I think there might be one tree hidden in the back somewhere), and will be staying here until Sunday, when they allow returning students to move back on campus. I am expecting madness and mayhem, since they're giving all upperclassmen a grand total of 8 hours to move in where we usually have two days or so to stagger ourselves across. Oh well. I guess it can't be helped. Anyhoo, I still enjoy working at Borders. Working at Borders while wearing 2-inch heels, not so much, but working at Borders, yes. *note to self - stick with sneakers and flats* I guess that's all for now. Today is my day off and I intend to make the most of it in the most relaxed fashion possible. ^_^ <3 Current Location: Fredericksburg Current Mood: tired

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July 6th, 2007

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May 14th, 2007

11:03 pm - aaand the grades are in!!!! Advanced Latin Grammer and Prose Composition: B- Linguistics: B- Greek: B Teaching of Foreign Language: A- Someone up there likes me. That's all I have to say. <3 Current Mood: grateful

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April 12th, 2007

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March 29th, 2007

08:57 am - classes for next year some of you guys would probably like to have an update on my life. Here's the short version: It's good. I have time to sleep, which is healthy. Greek is annoying, but I'm slowly getting better with it, so it's okay. I am going to the Eta Sigma Phi convention this weekend and I get to stay with some family of mine in the area, so it's going to be an awesome time, even though I somehow managed to be the only UMW delegate going. Anyhoo, here's what I'm taking next semester: Here's my schedule: MWF (Practicum) 12pm - Greek 201 1pm - French 101 TR 9:30 - Latin (Cicero) 11am - Educ (Constructivism in Education - should be interesting) 12:30 - Germanic Epic Tradition (this should be fun) Both days, I'll be up around 8am and done by 2pm. This leaves a lot of time in the afternoon for homework and clubs and life in general. It should be a good semester. I am really excited about French. If it turns out that this schedule is too much, that's going to be the first thing I drop (because Germanic Epic Tradition fulfills a requirement French doesn't), but I'm still really excited about it. French was the first foreign language I took and I chose to study Latin in high school because I liked the teacher better. Now, it's just a matter of when I learn the rest of the modern languages. I will learn them all someday. Kind of like pokemon. lol. I wanted to take German, but it conflicted with Practicum time, and then I looked at Italian, but it conflicted with Germanic Epic Tradition, and then I thought about Arabic, but they meet at 2pm on MWF and I like the idea of eating lunch before 3pm, and it's going to be a completely new system that would require a lot more time and attention that I'm not sure I could give. I'll still be talking myself out of Arabic next semester. I'll probably go and sit in on the first few classes to see what it's like and if I'd rather do that than French. I think if I have to choose between the two (which I do) French will most likely win. But, someday I'll learn Arabic too. Someday... Current Mood: not quite awake yet

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February 26th, 2007

11:34 pm - hmmmm... Happy + Mountain Dew Code Red + Tired + Bethany = Drunk Bethany? Current Mood: drunk?

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February 21st, 2007

11:30 pm - PRACTICUM TOMORROW!!!! I'm excited. I don't have to get up before the sun does for practicum!!!!! ^____^ yeah, I know I should be getting up before the sun does anyway, but I happen to live on a college campus with currently three roommates (so, that's four people...sleeping in the same room - except one of them tends to spend the night at her boyfriend's pretty often, so it's mostly just three people sleeping in the same room), and I think that preserving harmony and friendship with the people I happen to live with is important - as is getting enough sleep at night so that I can be healthy and mostly cheerful throughout most of the day and not be crabby. Anyway, that we me justifying not reading HDH (morning internal guidance study thingy) at 5am...I read it at 8am instead (for like 30 minutes, instead of 90 minutes, but at least I read it!) Anyway, enough justification... I'm excited. I get to go to a local high school and shadow a Latin Teacher (Mark Keith) who happens to remember me from two years ago when I won a CAVish scholarship type thing AND I get to spend almost FOUR HOURS STRAIGHT! It's only going to be once a week, but I'm really excited about the huge block of time. It's going to be a much more full experience than just going for an hour or an hour and a half twice a week. Um yeah...that wasn't really profound or deep or angsty or anything like my other posts have been lately, but I'm excited and I wanted to share that with everyone. Also, I drew a really awesome picture with markers today that I'm going to take a picture of and post here or on facebook or both or something because I'm really proud of it and I want to share it with the world because I think it's awesome. I could just be kind of full of myself or something, but whatever. I think it's kool, so I'm going to post it here and you don't have to like it if you don't want to, so :P. I'm also REALLY excited, because I called home to get some advice about one of my friends and for the first time in recent memory (like we're talking the last four or five years, here) I asked my Dad for advice...and it was GOOD advice (not that I was expecting bad advice, but it was just better than I had expected)...and that makes me indescribably happy, because my dad is indescribably awesome. It's true! You should talk to the people that met him when he was leading teams for Church mission stuff. Every time I meet one of the people he used to lead, they always tell me he's the most awesome person in the world or something like that. I agree. But I could be biased...you know...being his daughter and all... ^_~ Anyway, I'm done. I'm only procrastinating Latin at this point, so I should go and take care of that... ^_^ Current Mood: excited (could you guess? lol)

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February 20th, 2007

02:11 pm So the only class I had today got canceled and I just cleaned out my school email box which hadn't been cleaned since last semester. It's amazing how productive I feel after deleting a bunch of stuff instead of creating a lot of stuff. Although, I guess you could say that I just created a lot of "virtual trash"...or something...I dunno...I'm going to go be productive in other ways now. ^_~ Current Mood: productive

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February 2nd, 2007

11:29 pm - unconditional ( unconditional ) And that's kinda it. It's long. And deep. Read it if you like. But at least I'm not clogging up your friends page! ^_^ <3 Current Mood: tired

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January 14th, 2007

07:12 pm - break and back So, before Christmas, I fundraised for a church workshop that was coming up in January, and then Christmas came and it was all family all day every day until the end of December and then I went to the workshop and then I came back to campus.  you may ask if I slept.  The answer is yes.  I do remember sleeping.  Vaguely.  And reading.  I did read a couple of books.  Not as many as i had hoped I would get through, but still.  I read books.  yeah.  and none of you should be surprised...you all know who is writing this entry.  ^_~ ( What I learned at the Church Workshop ) In other news...I'm back on campus...and I would say that the fun begins again tomorrow, but I really don't feel like the "fun" ever ended, so it can't really BEGIN again.  It's just going to kind of continue.  I am looking forward to being able to breathe this semester (fingers crossed).  There are already so many things to do, and already not enough time.  Sheesh.  You'd think life would give you a little bit of breathing room to let you get settled before it dumps sanity in your lap again.  geeze.  what is this sanity thing anyway?  *shrug*  whatever. HAPPY SPRING SEMESTER AND 2007 EVERYONE!!!!! <3 Current Location: campus Current Mood: tired Current Music: Mariah Carey Tags: break, workshop

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December 30th, 2006

06:54 pm - Whatever happened to breaks being lazy? This past week has been really nice: At church on Sunday the elementary students came in at the end and sang some christmas songs as a surprise for the congregation, and they were freaking adorable.  That evening, my family went to my Aunt's house where we spent Christmas Eve with some family and some friends, though with not as many people as are normally there.  We stayed up until midnight that night, watching Sound of Music as a family and then we opened our presents once it was officially Christmas Day. We spent the afternoon of the 25th at my Grandparent's place in Maryland with a couple other family members, and opened more presents.  There was a lot of food at both these places, too.  And there are still a lot of leftovers.  ^_^ On the 26th, I made cookies and visited the Johnson's with Richard.  It was really nice to see them all and just spend some time with them.  I tried to spell out "SPQR" and "ROMA" with some cookies in the shapes of letters, but I'm not sure they made it to the Johnson's house properly arranged to spell anything.  I think they'll like the cookies.  I love putting them in the microwave for about ten or fifteen seconds so they get all soft and warm. On Thursday and Friday I spent some quality time with the PS2 and Kingdom Hearts.  I haven't beaten it yet, but I guess you have to leave something for you to do when you come back from school on breaks.  ^_~ Last night, I found out that I never sent in the Classics Club audit form to the Finance Committee, which they had due the week before exams or something equally as stupid.  So, today I contacted the Classics Club President and got all the paperwork in order, and there's one more piece of information I need in order to complete the form, but even if I don't get that information, the form is going to be turned in anyway.  We can still fix things after that.  What I'm trying to avoid right now is the freezing of the classics club account.  ugh.  the one stupid mistake you make is the one that could result in the freezing of the account.  I couldn't sleep very well because of that last night and I even had difficulty getting myself to focus on a Terry Prachet so that I could get my mind clear so that I could sleep at all.  Up until then I had been having an absolutely wonderful break.  Oh well.  Nothing in life can be perfect, now, can it?  Especially not when you set yourself up like that.  ugh. Anyway, today I made phone calls and sent emails about the NY workshop, and hopefully everyone is going to be able to go.  People had heard about it, but no one had gotten all the details, so I fixed a lot of that. Tonight I will be packing and cleaning and getting ready to go to NY.  Tomorrow is going to be Church in the morning and then the afternoon should be free (I'm hoping for some more time with the PS2, but I'm not holding my breath...it's in Toby's room and he has a paper to write...the trick, of course, would be convincing people to let me either move the PS2 to a different TV somewhere else in the house, or move Toby to a different computer somewhere else in the house.  The former is more likely than the latter, but neither one is really plausible.).  Sunday night rings in the new year and Monday is going to be full.  My family is going to the earliest mattine showing of Night at the Museum, and then out to lunch, and then to a church-sponsored party in DC, and then I'll be heading off to the MD CARP Center to ride up with them to the workshop in NY. Overall, this break has been pretty well balanced with family, food, fun, and rest.  The only thing I could have done without was that stupid audit thing for classics club, but even so, it's working itself out smoothly, which is quite the relief. I hope that all of you are have absolutely wonderful vacations!  I may be posting again with some reflections on the past year, but then again, I may not.  Either way, Happy New Year!  May you make all your dreams come true! <3 Current Location: home Current Mood: okay Tags: christmas!

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December 25th, 2006

03:59 am MERRY CHRISTMAS! stay safe and keep warm and have the happiest holiday ever ^_^ <3 Current Location: home Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: actually not quite christmas music... Tags: christmas!

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