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the title 'circus of nero' was taken from a circus built in ancient rome, near where st. peter's basilica is. it was supposedly a really neat place. there was a big obelisk in the middle, which is central to the point in the story, and later, old st. peter's basilica was built over the circus, by constantine. but the major selling point is the obelisk, which, when cap and salwa reconstruct the circus of nero, serves as one of the most important locations spanning over all three arcs of the story. i could say why, but that would be a spoiler.

tomorrow night at midnight is the beginning! i hope i can get in like 3000 on that first night alone. obama is speaking at the csn campus on thursday, i have tickets to go see him but i'm not sure if i want to. maybe i should just go home and write like a mofo.

boopity doo

i figure i'll pop in here, since there's only a week before nanowrimo starts and my life is horribly busy. i have an accelerated 6 week online course underway all throughout november, and a lot of japanese to study. i also have work, we're still trying to get the big computer running but the laptop works. there have been some cool spots- a lawyer place, a gun range that looks really nice, and today we shot for freddie's nutrition at bret's pool. it was really neat, i felt bad that i couldn't help out very much. but i think the commercial will come out really cool looking. our house got sprayed in a bug scare because some people in out building moved out, and their apartment was infested with german roaches. luckily, there are very few to none in our own house. i'm going to see hamlet this weekend, and next weekend is the lvac fall sales meeting, the weekend after that is anime vegas.

but uh. yep. things have basically been steadily increasing in terms of how busy i am for a while, and i know november will be absolutely awful, aside from my 3-year anniversary with james, and my mom's birthday where we all prank her. it'll just be really hellishly busy and rushed, i know i won't have time for the internet.

i wanted to introduce the fantastic cast of circus of nero over the course of october, but i didn't. it's the story i'm writing in november, after putting it off for nearly ten years. april 2 of 2013 will be cappy's 10th birthday, so yeeeeep. i am pretty far behind on writing the actual story. but hey, i have the characters and plot down to a t. if i can crap out 50,000 more words this year, i'll be extremely satisfied.

i don't know how to summarize circus of nero. 88% of it is based on yuki's live performances of 66db. i wrote this huge long post, then deleted it, because it's literally been a thing for me since i was twelve or so, so i can't really describe everything that's happened, or the plot, or really anything. the best thing i've come up with is a vague paragraph of plot points and my favorite things about it. it encompasses circus (the first part) along with II (black carousel) and III (white carnival) which are the three separate parts of the circus of nero as a whole, over the three generations of supa sugoi characters. i'm not even going to get into the names of the actual characters. the most you need to know is that the protagonist is named capital mercury vorobyova, who is a russian-american nomadic pilot thief who gets struck by lightning within the first 15 minutes of the story, and half of her soul is the deuteragonist, salwa ajah al wajid, and she's a demigod from saudi arabia who really enjoys pancakes and sausage on a stick.

if this isn't a nanowrimo plot, i don't know what is.

polygots, vetiligo, jet noise, two-headed white elephants and the robot antichrist, broken theremins, maple syrup engines, underwater canadian trains, crossdressing russian mail-order bride-grooms, eternal life via rainbow squares, god killers, traitor priests, muslim angels, four-handed lolis and one-winged piano duets, back alley brain surgeons, talking t-34s, soul mate death machines, twins from svalbard, the siberian robot maker, the dreadnought, the alien guy next door, alternate realities within chernobyl, ancient alchemic baby rituals, little girls with motion blindness, red strings of fate and red scarves of fate and red eyes and red blood and red children.

words of advice from this story: don't fly jets while pregnant. don't make sentient b-2 bombers angry at you. don't assume that your winged girlfriend will kill you if you have a lovers spat. don't fly during thunderstorms. don't travel between universes to alternate realities of ukraine. don't get on trains with dying pole dancers.

and don't let your daughter leave the circus of nero.

bahhhh

i'm very sick. :c

before i start explaining why, i'm just gonna mention that i'm not going to capitalize anything on this blog anymore, because i hate capitalizing outside of school papers and i think it's one of the things that stops me from posting here a lot. i type way faster without caps.

so anyway. last friday night, (yeah we took too many shots think we kissed but i forgot LAST FRIDAY NIIIGHT) kaela came over to hang out. she and bri were playing world of warcraft when mari called and said she was nearby and wanted to know if she could come hang out too. so me, bri, kaela, james, and mari all chilled at the house for a while until kaela had to leave, then the rest of us chilled until about 10:30 when we decided it sounded like a great idea to go see if we could find an in 'n out that was open, becuase we all wanted burgers. mike came back form helping his mom with her school papers and we all left to go to the in 'n out by sunset station.

it wasn't closed, but it was PACKED. like half of green valley high schol was there, i'm guessing it was because they won a football game or something. there were people in high black overalls that i'm guessing were part of band or color guard or something. they were everywhere, taking up all the tables inside and a huge mob outside too. we got our food and sat at the furthest table outside and laughed and observed as weird crap happened. someone's car got dented. two cars with crazy subwoofers came to the parking lot and had some sort of rap bass showdown. there were people doing doughnuts in the wal-mart parking lot across the street. it was just way too crazy and hilarious, we all talked about how it kinda reminded us of eka and watched stuff of bri's phone.

so we went back to the house and i played more points matches until i finally got tired and went to sleep. on saturday morning, mari said that hayden and xoli were coming to pick her up for renn faire, and bri said that she was going to go with cody, cassandra, and sherandra. james wanted to go but he couldn't afford it, so i ended up getting ready at the last second and going in cody and cassandra's truck with brina after mari got picked up.

renn faire was really fun and entertaining. i don't get to see sherandra and cassandra much, and i haven't seen cody probably since he graduated from eka, so it was neat to get to hang out with them. we walked around and looked at shops, i found out that camels don't have hooves (srsly wat) and we discussed terrifying homestuck cosplayers. for a while we lost cody and sherandra and just sat in front of the camels for a while. i got a delicious banana-colada snow cone, and we watched the jousting tournament. we were in "sir william's" side, and he won. it was pretty dang sweet. the dust and smoke in the air made me all asthma-ey so i had to use my inhaler, but i felt basically fine.

james picked us up at like 9-ish and as soon as i got in the car, my nose started running and i started coughing a lot. even after we got home i was still in a coughing fit and i used my inhaler twice again that night before i went to bed. the next morning, same thing. stuffed up nose, coughing. inhaler again. my mom told me that i shouldn't use the inhaler that much, so she went and borrowed a breathing machine from a pediatrician she knows because i just couldn't breathe. after using this breathing machine for 10 minutes, i felt really weak and light-headed, so i took a nap. i felt even worse when i woke up, and just kinda of dragged myself around for the rest of the day until the evening, when i got really bad. i broke into a cold sweat and just sat on my bed in front of a fan for a while feeling like i was about to pass out. i have no idea what it was. it passed after about half an hour, and i flopped around a bit more on the computer before taking a shower and then going to bed. this morning i feel a bit better, my nose isn't as stuffed up, but my joints still ache horribly, i'm still coughing seemingly for no reason, and i have an awful headache. i have no idea if a caught something at renn faire or what.

anyway that's been the weekend. last week at work we started building the new computer, it's gigantic and beautiful. i even got to help put the motherboard together, and we're setting up the cool new alienware laptop too. i feel really bad about not going today, because i wanted to help with the yogurtland spot, but i'm just too sick. if i still feel terrible tomorrow, i don't know what i'll do. i have to turn in my second japanese portfolio, my make up quiz vocab, and my katakana papers, and we're doing an interesting class activity that'll help with vocabulary for the midterm. i can't miss that, i don't want to miss any of that class, it's too much fun...

i'd go play some more points matches in gg2 but i don't feel like slamming the buttons and yelling at the tv right now. i'll catch up with vocab from chapter 3 in japansese. bye bye~ :3