Fragments of thought

Got hit again, courtesy of ow200 :P

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it.

( Seven things about myself )

I tag: cascadingiris, brianamj, mrsmosley, ksarasara, ladymirth, un_sedentary and kalinalea.

See ya,
Anna.

Tragically enough, I know no Chemistry.

And yes, I realize that coming from me, this sounds as, at best, a blatant lie. But I'm currently studying Organic Chemistry I (which I failed in June) and I'm like "+R -R +I -I SN1 SN2 WTF".

Never mind the heaps and heaps of chemical reactions I'm supposed to remember by heart.

Organic Chemistry was actually my favourite part of Chemistry in school, but that was because I sat down and did exercises throughout the year, so it was a matter of (very little) time until I could complete reaction chains like an easy puzzle. This year, however, I let it pile up. As a result (or rather, as two results):

a) The "general" part, with the reaction mechanisms, R and I etc. phenomena and the like, sounded easy when the professor explained it, I understood it... and then time passed, I forgot it all and now no notes or books seem helpful enough. Ole1, as Mufasa would say. (Or ole2, as I would say to him.)

b) The "special" part, with the aforementioned heaps and heaps of reactions, is too huge to learn in the three days I've left out of the eight I had (procrastination 4ever). At least knowing the mechanisms and stuff would have been a step forward, but since I don't know them, ole2 again. Joy of joys.

The worst part is, I have Organic Chemistry II next semester! Which complicates things more than I have the courage to explain. But my dear f-list is smart enough to realize that.

There's only one solution: STUDY, ANNA, STUDY! OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES.

And I just managed to terrorize myself. Go me. I'm obviously in need of therapy.

Reluctantly heading to bed now, because it's 4:33 am. Yes, my sleep schedule remains (something I won't say because I'm polite, or at least I pretend to be).

Hugs,
Anna.

Currently working on Statistics exercises. It's one of my worst subjects ever but I think I'm slowly getting the hang of it. Let's hope so, because the exam is tomorrow morning.

And Wednesday morning is the Inorganic Chemistry I exam.

Wish me luck, folks.

See ya,
Anna.

CRAPPY TELEDOME.

Since we switched to them for Internet access, our DSL constantly has problems. Now we can't get the Ministry of Education site to work, whereas my cousins (who are on OTENET) can AND MY PARENTS ARE BLAMING ME FOR THAT WTF. YOU GET IT TO WORK IF YOU CAN.

Anyways. So our cousins gave us my brother Christos's results. He made it to the Department of Informatics in University of Central Greece (in Lamia), from where he can tranfer to the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications in University of Athens. (That's the university where I am, too. ^_^)

I'm kinda concerned because he wanted Polytechnical school, and I know for sure he'd enjoy a field in engineering whereas he's never been a computer nerd like me. But he's happy with his results - says he might not know much about it but it seems like an interesting field of study. I really hope he'll end up enjoying his studies.

Although I shouldn't worry about it. He's such a good-natured boy and so easy to please, I'm certain he'll end up enjoying his studies more than I enjoy mine :p

So that's all for now. I wish I could go back to sleep (my father woke me up two hours ago so I could look up Christos's results and I'm running on 5 hours of sleep) but between the phone calls from pretty much everyone and my grandma having come over, it's not so easy.

Off to keep trying to access the Ministry site, ttyl.

Anna.

_phoebe_!!!

Thank you!!!

See ya,
Anna. :)

I was basically miserable all day yesterday, because of stuff that had happened with some people from IRC. I wanted to go home and talk to a friend - except I don't think I have any friends left in Athens. Athanasia is in Salonica (I called her in the morning but it wasn't the same), Thodora is still on vacation, and the list of my few friends goes on. (May I clarify that Meropi, whom I was with, is part of the IRC crew and had her own part of the story to be miserable about.)

I left with the 18.25 ship as had been scheduled a long time before that. I tried to get online from the ship but their network was down. Besides, I had gotten a little queasy. Travelling on an empty stomach and a bad mood does that to you.

Then we got to Piraeus and my dad was waiting at the port to pick me up. We quickly got home, where I found Mom and Christos (past his bedtime), waiting for me.

And that's when I forgot all that had happened.

Still want it fixed, but sometimes knowing that there are people who love you is enough to make you feel better, whether you can talk about your problem with them or not.

See ya,
Anna.

P.S.: After 10 days with minimum Internet access, catching up with my f-list will be almost impossible. So I apologize in advance for anything I've missed, because I'm not sure I can devote that much time to catching up right now.

It occurs to me that I haven't talked at all about how I did in the 2nd semester exams.

In short: passed 4 exams, failed 3, got a total of 6 left for the September exam period. My parents aren't pleased.

I'm leaving tomorrow morning on vacation at a friend's country house. Will be away for 10 days, little or no Internet in the meantime. I'll miss you guys :-/

Hugs,
Anna.

Seen at un_sedentary, christn7, kalinalea and possibly others.

When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

I really, really hope it will. The want to write has returned lately, but it didn't bring the Muse back. Sigh.

Tekken fandom:

( Attempted sequel to A Night In The City, meant to be a quite long Julia/Hwoarang story. )
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Lois & Clark fandom:

( 1. Tell Me - the second story in a mini-series I was planning but never really got far. I think I've posted the first story on the boards but it's not Archived and I can't be bothered to find the link to it. )
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( 2. Cuando Limpiar No Es El Único Problema - The third story in the aforementioned series. I was trying to practice Spanish at the time. )
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( 3. Enigma - a fic that was supposed to be a long and angsty time-travel piece, but I got lost very early in :p )
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( 4. E-mail Me Soon - Clark is away from Metropolis on assignment, and he can only contact Lois via e-mail. Finished, but has a big plot-hole nene2811 pointed out and I didn't have the courage to fix. )
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( 5. What A Fish Observes - the sequel to What A Fish Knows and What A Fish Sees. I enjoy writing in this universe but unfortunately ran out of ideas for this one too. )
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( 6. Based on an ancient challenge - L&C come to work undercover as English teachers in my high school. Was supposed to be a pretty long piece, A-plot and everything.  )
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( 7. Also based on an ancient challenge - L&C's daughter has severe health problems. Was meant to be a disability but the challenger's requirements made it too difficult to work as a disability. )
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( 8. A recent challenge fic, for a change. Pointless weirdness for a scavenger hunt with 100 requirements. )
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( 9. Based on a quite old challenge too. Lois tries a number of silly diets. )
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Harry Potter fandom:

( 1. The obligatory Through Times Of War extract. From a chapter that hasn't been posted yet. )
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( 2. Beauty - A short piece on the Delacours, meant to be a parallel to chapter 7 of Through Times Of War. )
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( 3. A fanfic based on Remus's line “That was only once, I barely knew you, and you had just Transfigured my slippers into bunnies. It doesn’t count.” from Through Times Of War. )
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( 4. The Marauder's Map - a fic about its confiscation from the Marauders and its retrieval from the Weasley twins. )
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( 5. The Heroes Of The Second War - a story on a book written by Harry and Remus, recollecting the lives of those who fought Voldemort as an alt-Book 7. )
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( 6. Tonks Tells Her Tale - a story on how Tonks got involved in the Order and met Remus. )
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( 7. My first Remus/Tonks fic - Remus as a wolf under Wolfsbane Potion influence rescues Tonks. This one's actually finished, but I haven't posted it because I'm not sure the idea works that well. )
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( 8. Remus's landlady ponders his situation. Based on a line from The Journey Of The Phoenix, where she's mentioned as one of the people who have been willing to give him a chance. )
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( 9. I think this one was meant to be a Prisoner of Azkaban spin-off where Harry learns of the relationship between his father and Remus much earlier. But I don't remember the idea that well anymore. )
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( 10. A James-gets-jealous-because-Lily-is-friends-with-Snape fic I started for a challenge but didn't know how to continue. )
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( 11. If Remus had been hired as a DADA eacher during Tonks's 7th year. (Not exactly a teacher-student romance.) )
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( 12. I had forgotten about this one! A fic where Lily isn't interested in anyone and her best friend has a crush on James. One I started shortly before my Muse left me completely because I started paying more attention to IRC than her. )
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( 13. A scrapbook where the MWPP crowd answers a bunch of pointless questions. I've always loved scrapbooks ^__^ Kind of a trite idea, but there you go. )
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( 14. My first attempt at Lily/James fic... typical long how-they-got-together story, featuring Lily's best friend as an original character interested in Sirius. Though I can't help but think it could have been quite better than the multitude of other similar fics. )
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( 15. And here's the first piece of HP fanfiction I ever tried to write, an alt-Book 6 before the release of HBP. It was actually good (if I say so myself), save for the fact that it contained a quite Mary Sue-ish original character. )
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Original pieces

( My NaNoWriMo story, a romance story with a background heavily based on an older personal experience. )
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I have a couple more original pieces on the works but they're all in Greek. I would paste a piece from my favourite one but I can't find where I've saved it (please don't tell me I've deleted it!). Then I thought I'd paste a piece from a soap-opera story but I can't find that one either (did I delete both??). So maybe you're not meant to see anything original in Greek. Such a terrible loss.

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In any case, thanks for reading that far, if you did.

And, wow, I'm very pleased with some of these pieces - basically, with all the HP ones. I must get back to writing!!

(But not right now, because I had to stay up ridiculously late to do this. Look at how many WIPs I have!)

See ya,
Anna.

Tagged by disorientedly:

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it.

(Gee, that one is smart, huh?)

( My answers )

I tag: noneedofcrepe, capefetish, laramoon, theblackshadow, capcha, the_indigo_blue and incoherent_me.

See ya,
Anna.

Tagged by schnuffichen. Previously did this over a year ago.

List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

( My list, plus comments )

See ya,
Anna.