Wheat Germ's Medicine Bag

Working on my zombie story. I truly regret my inability to just be say "AND SUDDENLY, ZOMBIES! MILLIONS OF THEM!" and be happy with that. Nooooooo, I gotta complicate shit and make it part of a larger plot about the apocalypse and elder-gods and stuff. Man, I suck. XD Well, it's not like anybody's ever gonna read it anyway. But still, I like to work hard. It distracts me nicely.

I haven't even gotten to the part on Earth yet. This first bit is just rambling on about the decay-god and what it looks like and how it functions. (It's a unicellular organism, sort of similar to a virus, except not. It actually has something resembling a tiny nervous system and brain, but it's still a mindless little beast with only one instinct and one function.)

It can never just be simple with me. Le sigh!

One of the things I like best about writing stories is doing research. For the past few days, I've been studying astronomy and microbiology on the intarnetz, because it's relevant to a particular story. XD Of course I try not to make my stories sound too smart, like I've just been C+Ping stuff from Wikipedia. But I do like to strive for some sort of scientific realism here and there.

So here I am, studying stuff about bacteria and viruses and how they move and reproduce and infect people, just so I can try to get a tiny bit of realism in there (discounting the fact that it's about a tiny elder-god of decay in the form of a virus and, by all means, I wouldn't have to write about it being like a regular supervirus, because elder-gods don't roll with the same laws of physics and biology that humans and other earthly critters perceive). I like to try, anyway.

I'm also studying stuff about meteor showers, asteroids, black holes, and planetary nebulae, because you know me. I have to write about the damn elder-god waking up and deciding it's incredibly and eternally hungry instead of just doing the simple thing and going "WHEN SUDDENLY, ZOMBIES! MILLIONS OF THEM!"

I had a dream that I was a Pokemon trainer and I was on this three-person team meant to rescue a bunch of rare, mistreated Pokemon from this creepy, mean old woman in a big house. I had a Pokemon that resembled a badger the size of a wolfhound and one of the other dudes on my team had a Bulbasaur.

So we went to this woman's house and promptly got lost in there looking for the critters. The other two people on my team went into a bedroom and started brushing each other's hair and giggling at stuff. I sat down and braided a guy's hair. XD

Then we all went to a mall and had lunch near a fountain and argued about our Pokemanz.

In other news: I'm working on my zombie story. Hooray! :D

Hideously guilty pleasures:

Imagination Movers.

I can't help it! It's cute! It's actually kind of funny! The guys don't overact quite as much as some children's television actors! The music is decent! It encourages kids to think and imagine things instead of just rattling off numbers and letters, and developing imagination, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills is very, very important and sometimes neglected by children's television media! Also, the guy with the glasses and straw cowboy hat is a rather good-looking fellow. *coughs*

Yeah. It's a kids' show, but it's actually not that bad. It's kind of cute, and you know how I like cute things.

In other news: EFSIOFHEIOSIFJEWOIRJWORJOWE ZOMG Keith David is voicing the evil witch doctor in The Princess and the Frog. I MUST SEE THIS MOVIE. He's the coolest villain ever by default now. XD Because ZOMG Keith David. He's got such a lovely voice. ♥

I went outside today and both of the trashcans had fallen over. That was kind of a bitch. I had to try to push them back up myself and put trash from the torn bag back into it. But I left some fallen turkey giblets and stuff on the pavement. I didn't want to scrape it up myself. D: I haven't got gloves to do that.

I thought maybe someone backed over them in the car, but Dad says it was probably the wind, because it was really high last night.

Also, I heard the raccoons out back last night. D: They were scrabbling about on the roof while I was out looking for Teddy (you know he's blind--he gets lost sometimes at night). I had to put on my big slippery raincoat and put my boots on and carry my prop cane with me just in case. XD I was afraid they'd jump off the roof and eat my face or something. (I'm paranoid. Yeah.)

Earlier today, I heard some other thumping, scrabbling noise from inside my house, and it woke me up. It terrified me 'cos I thought someone was trying to break in. D: So I picked up my prop cane and a can of mosquito spray, just in case, but it was only Buckeye jumping into the bathtub in my bathroom and knocking over the shampoo and bodywash bottles.

I've slept maybe about two or three hours today. XD

I've always wanted to write a Mons story of my own. I've been scribbling down a couple of ideas that most likely won't ever go anywhere. I'll be right back to Void and the zombie story soon enough, though. Probably, like, this afternoon.

I've also always wanted to do a "stranded in another world" sort of story. I started on one once, but it was basically "Fushigi Yuugi except with magic gates instead of gods" and pretty terrible.

That's my problem. XD Story-related-ADD. I have too many things I want to do and too many ideas. I lose focus sometimes.

But I'm trying to break that habit and force myself to write only about two things at a time--only focusing on carrying through with actual stories--instead of going all over the place and scribbling a million different ideas down and never making the time to actually go through with writing it. If that made sense. IDK. I'm sleepy and it's late. XD

I just organized all my favorites. I feel accomplished n' stuff.

In other news, today's gonna be terrible. I don't know why, but I get the distinct feeling that it will be. D: Urgh.

In other other news, I STILL HATE THE ELITE FOUR. >:( Bitch and her stupid Cloyster and Lapras. *fistshake*

Top Gear~ X3 ♥!

I'm multitasking. Watching Top Gear and working on both the zombie story and a bit of Void. Hooray for being busy!

Over in Void, Fairchild and Sigma have a date on a dying planet. Moffat and Morgan eat pancakes for breakfast. Later in their morning, Moffat and Morgan have an appointment with the police department's human resources, and Morgan is, of course, panicking for various reasons--being self-conscious enough to know how insane the things that they do are, and how they would sound to someone out of their little loop, and worrying that they might fire Moffat thinking he's dangerously nuts.

I had a dream that I got to hang out with Batman and Catwoman in this big abandoned house in a big town somewhere. There were zombies milling about outside. So Batman rang up the Justice League, including Power Girl in that ridiculous 90s outfit from the JLI period (I laughed at her costume and she punched me in the shoulder, so that's why I remember). We all beat up some zombies, then I went to an aquarium that had trapped Cthulhu and kept tapping the glass.

Yeah.

In other news, like I said, I'm back on track with writing Void. :D I got about three or four pages done in a few hours last night/early this morning.

I'm loving the Blackadder Christmas Carol. XD I didn't even know there WAS one, but it's pretty awesome. ♥ Oh, you crazy British folk. Why must your humor be so superior to ours here across the pond?

In other news, I STILL HATE THE ELITE FOUR. >:( At the very least, they shouldn't steal your goddamn money off of you when you lose. I want to go back and buy some healing stuff so I can futilely attempt to fight these cheating mcwhorefaces again! Grargh.

Hooray! We're back on track with Void. :D I had neglected it for awhile, but now I'm back at it. I suppose I should actually finish Void and Dystopia before getting over to Starchildren and the zombie story.

Of course I won't rush the endings of those two stories, but I think I should finish half of the stories I've got running right now. XD It'd probably be a good idea.

In other news, I absolutely hate this episode of Family Guy. Family Guy was so much better when it didn't consist entirely of "LIKE THAT TIME I..." and strawmen and soapboxing. Urgh. D:< If you must make your work into an author tract, at least be clever about it. When Monty Python did its political jokes, at least they were kind enough to make them funny, even if they're dated now.

In other news, fuck the Elite Four. >:( They should allow you to heal between stages. Or at least they shouldn't steal all your goddamn money from you when you lose, so you can't afford any healing shit for future fights with other trainers when you try to level up your stupid Pokemanz.

Writing up some character sheets for the folks in my zombie story. This cast is getting quite large. I wonder how the hell Stephen King managed it in The Stand.

Some come and go, some of them stick around and travel in a group, some of them just aren't gonna leave their hometowns behind. That's how I'm managing it. XD I almost never write stories with casts bigger than about six people. I'm just not very good at it. Still, this will be a worthwhile exercise, I think, if nothing else.

ZOMG, the original Land Before Time is on. :D I haven't seen that movie in years. Of course the sequels all sucked hardcore, but I absolutely adore the original. It really was a good movie. I've always thought dinosaurs were frickin' awesome, and I consider The Land Before Time to be the coolest dinosaur movie ever. If Fantasia's Rite of Spring sequence had been longer and covered ALL of the Rite of Spring, it would win out, but it wasn't, so that's why. XD

I had a dream that I was in South Africa with a group of people trying to track down some psycho murderer. We were in a boat chase and I kept flinging magic spells at the guy we were chasing. But then we wound up in the woods and got lost. This lovely African woman told us to sit down while she built us a lean-to, then she kept shooting at these evil giant spiders.

Then this Australian dude showed up to help the African woman shoot the spiders.

And then the three of us wound up in this school build on Bizzarchitecture. I kept getting lost, but got flung out of the lunchroom after finally giving up and sitting down for food. >:( Bastards. After a few minutes, the other two showed up, too.

Then we sat down and watched a horrible movie adaptation of Bokurano that was just wrong all over, and I kept ranting about how utterly stupid and wrong and horrible it was. So the African lady and the Australian guy abandoned me and left me to sit around on a hammock by myself in the middle of this big big big forest. D:

But then some guy with an ice cream cart came and gave me a ride out, so that was fine, too.

I'm sleepy. I'm probably gonna go to bed soon, after I'm done with scribbling a few more character notes for my zombie story. It's gonna be some epic shit, should I ever start actually writing it. I've got big plans. *nodnod*

Ditto Starchildren. It's gonna be the coolness, whenever I get on with writing it. XD

In other news, I look forward to Monday. I hate weekends. Holiday weekends doubly so.

I helped Gram decorate her house. She has far more Christmas stuff than any one human being living on their own should have, so it was quite a lot of work. Six hours' worth, in fact. Oh well. I needed the exercise. XP

So now I'm back home and just killing time until Top Gear comes on. Scribbling a bit more of the characters in the zombie story (Shelby Kaplan, a well-meaning cat-lady who refuses to leave her houseful of rescued critters behind; Nate Andros, fancies himself a modern-day beat poet, takes over a farm when the people who owned it were killed in a zombie attack; Larissa Baker, an Army medic in charge of a small survivors' colony at Womack). That's just so far, though. There'll be more, and more people with rather nastier dispositions.

I'm having fun with the zombie story. X3

I went to bed earlyish and now I can't get back to sleep. BLAH. D: So I'm playing Pokemanz to eat up the time and try to make myself sleepy.

Stupid turkey coma, throwin' off my sleep schedule.

I had a dream that I was wandering around a deserted Sedona, and some gunslinger-type dude (reminded me of Roland Deschain, in fact) in a silver SUV came up and gave me a ride. He told me to drive while he was shooting these big creepy elder-god-ish things. So I drove, but crashed into a wall, and we had to walk. So he loaned me one of his guns, but it turned out I had a couple of Pokemon that we could use. I remember one was a bird-type, but I don't remember what it was.

So we went to this little fenced-in yard and sat in lounge chairs for awhile, watching my Pokemon running around, until the big creepy elder-god-ish things started trying to climb over the fence. But they got held up by the barbwire, so we were okay.

In other news, I'm going to Gram's in a couple of hours. Hooray! :D It's gonna be fun.~

I'm going to stay over at Gram's tonight. It's gonna be cool. I have to help her put her Christmas stuff up. :D I should bring my Christmas DVDs and CDs.

In other news, I'm still working on the characters from the zombie story. I may start in on actually writing it later (since Gram hasn't got the intarnetz). I may start to write little bits of both the Starchildren story and the zombie story, in fact.