BOOYAKASHA!! Having taken a long break from writing, society and thinking beyond the moment, I feel enlivened and refreshed. Have spent the last month travelling West Australia with my sensei, and I'm running further and further towards my niidan :) Be happy for me. Part of my training included a leaf from Gai-sensei's book, running laps around the block on my hands, which also helped my speed, balance and conditioned my palms while strengthening my body. That's what they tell me, anyway. I feel like my mind's clear enough to finally make some progress on these stumpy beginnings of stories I have sitting around, too :) Let's get things in order here...
I am now 20, as of early June. Don't feel old, but I feel much more grown up than I used to =^_^= Someone asked me in a review whether I was male or female because they couldnt tel by either my profile or my writing... um, I don't want to shatter any illusions so I'll remain Charm. :) It's beter not to put a face to a storyteller anyway, isn't it? My life's pretty damn funky at the moment... nothing really scintillating though, but I have big plans...
Oh, and on my body modification project. Not sure where it was up to last time.. but I have two earrings in my left lobe, one in the cartilage, two eyebrow rings in my right eyebrow, an earring in my right conch (the curved cartilage inside and at the back) and my beloved kanji tattoo. Which Tomoko tells me is in really old-fashioned kanji that have since been simplified. Oh, well, at least its readable. Since I couldn't read Japanese at that point, I was more worried that someone had written a bad Japanese pun on my back ^_^
One last thing... someone told me that 'User Friendly' (Marilyn Manson) should be my themesong. I am somewhat confused. It opens with 'Use me, when you want to come...' and swings into the chorus, 'I'm not in love... but, I'm gonna f*** you till/ somebody better comes along'. I ask you. What kind of thing is that to say?? :| I'm not happy. Nor do I think its true.
Current Projects: (The section where I talk about what I've written beginnings for, and where they may go)
Wow. In looking at my fictionpress.com account, I realise that my last update was when i was 18, and I haven't submitted stories for almost as long. Partly this is because I haven't finished many of them, there's a lot of trailing-off going on from interesting openings. For anyone reading this, most of the originals below are NOT really worth reading, I'll be taking them down as I see fit in order to provide what I hope is quality work here. If the mood strikes me to revamp and/or rewrite things, they may well reappear. Cutting out the deadwood, getting rid of nostalgia :)
Have some fascinating openings... a story about the Bitch Queen, millenium-year-old little girl who is humanity's enemy... something resembling a cross between the 'Menagerie' and the 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...' My writing's improved so much and become so different to what I can now see are the childish workds I have here that it's incredible. I promise I'll be worth reading soon :)
UPCOMING: (The section where I talk about what I'd like to write when Inspiration attacks.)
My Naruto MST project can get pimped here, seeing as how the characters are mostly originals.
CURRENT MOOD- Mostly pretty damn happy. Have spent two weeks in my hometown kicking around, de-stressing, training, dance practise... etc... feeling pretty happy and motivated to get back to uni :)
CURRENT MUSIC: mp3's on my puter in Perth. Miss my computer. Sad. Also no notes until I get back to Perth on the weekend, so despite my determination, can't write much till then.
CURRENTLY PLAYING (Where I stretch 'playing' to its limits of vocabularic ability)
Um. Not really anything at all... a little wushu, after discovering my new dance teacher is more versatile than I gave him credit for... but he was only here a few days. Arf. Pity. Hope I see him again ^_^
CURRENT QUOTES (Where you cry about seeing the EAP quote here again, and I write what's moving me just now)
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. (Edgar Allen Poe, 'A Dream Within a Dream') (Isn't it strange that you can pick stuff like this up from imported hentai games your friends pirate at college ^_^?)
(Not reading a lot at the moment. Not a lots sticking here. Hmm. Well, I'll update it later.)
CURRENT SENSE OF HUMOUR: Why do people think I'm cool? I never have been :S I'm screwing up my nose in disgust at myself for being cool :S People want to be seen with me. When I was a kid I would have killed for this but now it just seems like such a liability... the same people that used to pick on me are now telling me that those exact qualities they hated are the ones that make me desirable.. what the hell? I don't want this. I have my friends, and I'm happy with myself. I'm growing more confident and comfortable every day, and I think my lifestyle reflects that. I DON'T do it for anyone's approval (other than maybe my parents, my sensei, and definitely my beloved dog Daniel.)
CURRENT ACCESSORY- A friend who shall remain nameless but won my heart because of my bleeding-heart love of cancer patients and willingness to believe the best of them gave me a ring to wear on the chain Jayme gave me a while back.. I wear it every day now. I wish it was a little shorter tho, when I do a handstand it catches just over my chin, so I have to take it off to train :S
CURRENT LOVE INTEREST- Girls are evil. EVIL!! I came back to Geraldton to catch up with my friends, subsequently got JUMPED ON... all my old gal pals who were happily socially outcast with me are now openly gay... dude... homosexuals are SO GAY! hehe I love them :)
CURRENT ACTIVITY- I'm getting stronger through my training. It was two weeks before my body started to harden to what I was doing... seriously, I couldn't WALK for a week but sensei stomped on my back until I could stand up albeit in a lot of stiffness and jerky motions.... and gradually the pain went away, and I could do it :) only wish I had time to keep up this training regime when uni resumes... :(
Long profile update. I'll update my fanfiction.net one with pretty much the same information. I'm gonna resubmit my 'dark' songfics and my baby from English 113 last year, my BDSM-cabaret-rave short 'Every Angel.' Till I get my updates up, and revamp a couple of older fics, stay funky. Thanks for the reviews, as always, and thanks for making me feel like people read my profile all the way to the last full stop. :)
~Charm
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