Moot

Kishimoto really has us eating out of his hands. Week after week, we just lap up his crap willingly because no one can bring themselves to look away from the fascinating train wreck that is Naruto. Heck, even if he drew stick figures for three weeks running, we'd still click on the link to find out what's next.

I just felt I should quote my own statement because I thought it was a scathing indictment of this accursed series. But anyway.

There was some deeply meaningful prophetic statement that I was planning to write here, but I can't remember what is was anymore. Darn it.

Things left to do for USA trip:

1. Book Airplane Ticket

2. Send in Health Form

3. Get various insurance items covered

4. Course matching

People come and go in our lives. Sometimes the exit is quiet, other times messy and explosive, full of your faults, their faults, the faults of the universe... But when all fault has been assigned and all fault lines have been drawn, the one thing that never changes throughout is that precious people have come and gone in our lives. It's a truth that a few wise people learn vicariously. Many others learn it by exchanging something dear to them. And when we receive of that truth, the only thing we can do with it is try to talk slower, listen more, and be slower to anger the next time around.

5000 word stories are a pain. I can safely say that I've learned a lesson about planning and perspective from Ms. Crawford, a lesson branded onto my heart by the unending shame of creating one of the worst middle parts in a story that I've ever seen in my life. ARGH. Suffering. That said, a skill learnt isn't a skill mastered. Luckily Kader lent me a book of 5000 word short stories several months back. Unluckily my head feels like lead every day. Can't relax with all these potentially world-ending?/cataclysmic?/life-changing? deadlines hanging over my head. Especially my FYP. Ugh. It's still crap. I'm still in the desert but I couldn't bear to face that fact.