Projects and things

I'm more or less writing this post as a sort of motivation for myself and to actually keep track of what I'm doing with my life and things. I finished NaNoWriMo, and despite how truly awful a literary piece my novel was, I'm still really proud of myself. The thing is, I realised had been channelling everything- all my crappy moods, 'cause it's not really a great time for me right now- into my NaNoWriMo, and then without that to channel everything into, things got pretty bad. But, I do actually have quite a lot of things to be doing, and so I do have more creative outlets.

1) Public Speaking - Ohmydearsweetjesuschrist asdfghjkl. The first round of the public speaking competition- which is for Mental Health Ireland- takes place on Wednesday, and my speech still isn't finished, because Ms. Corr comes up with something new every-single-day. It is fairly effing difficult to learn a speech off by heart if it never stays the same! Honestly, I know I should be glad for a creative outlet and the opportunity to work on speaking in front of people and all, but jesus christ, it's just annoying.

2) Kildare Youth Theatre Writing- Now this, I am super excited about. It's a chance for me to write a play. Really and actually write a play and then have people perform it.  I want to dance just considering it. I am a bit nervous about it, but I'm getting much better at disregarding that. I have to have an application in for this by the 31st of December, so I'm starting to work on it after Public Speaking on Wednesday.

3) Junk Kouture- I think this has to be finished by 31st of January- which suddenly seems all too soon. I decided to do it by myself this year, and actually think I've done more work because of it, but I'm kinda nervous about making and modelling the dress by myself, and to be honest, I feel a bit pretentious. Making it to fit me is just much easier than measuring someone else and all that, but I feel a bit silly. I've really only started work on this, and I can't work on the top part until after Christmas, but I'm sure it will be fiiine. Pictures to come soon :)

4) Less Than Three- This is not a definite, but it's something I would love to do. Two youtubers, Kristina Horner and Hayley Hoover, are writing a book of short stories about people meeting through the Internet, and it's a really lovely idea. As well as their own work, they are also going to take in some short stories from other people who can just write them and submit them by January 31st... so yeah, I'm going to see if I can come up with something adequate. I'm not really sure if I could come up with a good story, but it would a really great opportunity if I was to get into the book.

5) School Journalist- I'm so happy that I got to be school journalist, but now that I am, I have no idea what to do with it. Nothing happens except sport, and I'm leaving that to the other guy. Honestly, I'll probably end up doing a report on Public Speaking -.- I'm on the lookout for relevant news and stuff, but there's just nothing. I might do a feature on people's Mini Companies, as a bit of promotion, and then maybe I'll do a report on eating disorders or a good charity or something. I feel quite guilty for having not done anything yet, but I'm really stuck for opportunity- although, maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.

I also have Mini Company -which I despise- regular school stuff, Gaisce, which means homework club on a Tuesday, Kickboxing on a Monday, and drums on a Saturday, some Tuesdays or Thursdays, and then whatever I do on my own obviously. I would like to do Project for Awesome, but I really haven't a notion of where to start. I'll be starting to learn ukulele when I get mine for Christmas, I have a lot of books I want to read and I really, really need to do my Christmas shopping. All in all, I'm pretty busy, and I'm still writing random scraps of literary rubbish in my diary/journal/notebook/thing-with-everything-in-it that give me some time to vent my thoughts about shitty things so that I can channel all my energy into creative things.

I shall be posting again soooon, because I am having a college-plan crisis, two and a bit years early, and I'd like to spread my thoughts out on the internets. Hope you've enjoyed reading what is essentially a to-do list with detail ^^

Peace and love,
Cíara xo