writing? yeah, i do that sometimes...

Got the Quidditch scene for Secrets chapter 7 roughed out. It sucks ass, and for some reason I switched into present tense about halfway through... but at least it's down on paper.

Well, screen. Or disk.

Whatever. It now exists, and therefore is ready for revision until it works properly. Revision's easy. It's the initial writing that's hard.

In other news, my oboe has mysteriously repaired itself. The repairman at Elefante said he couldn't find anything wrong with it, but I know the C# key wasn't working. I even demonstrated this to my parents. Yet now it works.

I have a self-healing oboe. This is unsettling. Nice, but still unsettling.

summer classes

Am now admitted to CCM for the summer, but not registered. It appears that the courses I want have prerequisites, so I will need to bring in my TC3 transcript to prove I took Psych 101, and either give in and take boring English Composition or try to convince the CCM people that a 5 on the English Lit. AP and one freshman writing seminar at Cornell constitute basic college English classes. I know I could test out of any basic English skills class they have, but proving it with course records? I dunno. Mostly I've taken German and chemistry classes.

Bugger bureaucracy anyway.

more CCM shenanigans

So I dug around my room -- desk drawers, random folders in my stacking milk crates, my box of academic-and-other award thingies -- and found all of my transcript type things except for my AP test results. Which, of course, were the relevant things for proving that I can write proper English.

Then, when I drove back to CCM (it's a half hour drive -- that's two hours today I've spent driving to and from this place, damnit), they refused to believe that my Freshman Writing Seminar counted as a basic composition course, and insisted on putting me into English Composition I. Which didn't fit my schedule. So I'm taking Child Psychology, which is useful for teachers, and Maladaptive/Aberrant Psychology (can't remember the exact title), which is not so useful. But it may be more interesting. And it's surely useful for a writer, particularly one who has Tom Riddle as a main character in her current fanfiction novel!

Anyway. I is registered, yo.

Plus, I bought a set of floppy disks so I can finally back up my stories in case my computer bites the dust for real next time. :-D