So I'm trying to lose enough weight by August so I can cosplay as Lum Invader from Urusei Yatsura, or Nadia from Nadia: Secret of Blue Water (so I'm going old school, sue me! :P), and it's hard.  Especially so since I'm in college right now, and most of the time the dining options are less than healthy.

Right now, I weigh in around 132 pounds.  Earlier, perhaps from late January to early February, I weighed about 138, so I have lost some weight by changing my diet and working out at the gym.  However, I did skip a few weeks due to getting sick and getting caught up with homework (and it's hard getting back in the habit of going back..).  

I've replaced all that I drink with water and tea, and I also don't eat as many sweets and fried foods as I used to.  The results have shown.  Internally, I feel a lot cleaner, and I can't stomach hoardes and hoardes of fattening stuff anymore.  Earlier this week, I saw a picture of a doughnut and I had a sick feeling in my stomach.  I eat a lot of more veggies now, but it's really hard to restrict my intake of carbs.  I LIKE eating breads, probably moreso than I like eating meat.  And if I follow the advice of my dad, I have to eat carbs only ONCE a day.  He may of well just said to kill myself. >.<

But I really want to lose weight.  I don't like the tire sitting around my stomach, and the fat under my chin could disappear, too.  And yet as I type this, a pint of B&J Chunky Monkey sits right next to my laptop.  Argh!

I just have to remind myself that do I really want all of Baltimore and Otakon attendies to see my pudgy stomach while I prance about in a two-piece tiger-striped bikini?  I think not.

Tomorrow, I'm headed to the gym, right after dinner.  Lunch will probably consist of a salad and a sandwich (without condiments! They put too much on it, anyway), while dinner will probably be fruit, salad, and whatever veggie that hasn't been drenched in fatty oils and butters (good luck on that).  Maybe cereal, I dunno.  Like I said, eating healthy at MBC is difficult.  You'd think that since we spend over $32 grand on tuition alone they'd at least do something about the food.  Breakfast will be fruit, and maybe an egg, if they have the omlette station open.  I'll just scramble it instead of being all fancy.  Saves time.  I'll also head to the gym on Thursday and Friday morning too, before I head out for my train ride back home.  I didn't get a chance to go work out today becuase of homework.  Hopefully by the end of Spring Break I'll have caught up with everything.

Hopefully.

Alrighty!

I started writing around 12am and went past my wordcount sometime around 7:45 pm (mind that I wrote in spurts, not one long session!).  Even though I'm aware that the prose has some heavy cleaning up to do, I'm pretty surprised with myself that I actually committed to doing this.  Now if there is only one way I can be like this on my English papers...

Furthermore, I found out that my wonderful roommate is also participating!  Yay!

On another note, Lucius, one of my characters, was unusually quiet today... hmm, I guess he's done angsting.  For now.

 Alright.  It's clearly obvious that I haven't posted to my LJ since "last Thursday."  RL and college have seemed to get in the way of things...

Anyway, this November I am going to particpate in NANOWRIMO.  Again.  And this time I'm serious about it.  I hate that every year when I say I'm going to do it, I make a half-assed attempt and never finish.  I don't like leaving things unfinished because they make me look unaccomplished and afraid of commiment, which I am neither.  This year, I am going to write AND finish an entire 50,000 word novel, and nothing's going to stop me from doing it.

And so, I'm going to regularly update my LJ with entries concerning my progress, musings, rantings (probably), and whatnot.  Perhaps the venting will be therapeutic...

Wish me luck, internets!

My day, that is (for the most part).

Last week I officially graduated from high school.  I didn't think it would have much impact on me, but at the graduation ceremony my legs grew weak when my class entered the stadium and my heart felt like it was going to burst from all the emotion.  They were playing Pomp and Circumstance for me, and it felt really special.  Unfortunately, one of my classmates died a little less than three hours after the ceremony.  His car lost control on a curve and he crashed into a tree.  Even though I didn't know him, I felt angry because I didn't (and still don't) think it was fair.  He didn't even start living yet...

At work today, my time card wasn't in the office for the first time.  I was so happy that I did a little dance in the middle of the store, right in front of customers.  Yeah, I earned a lot of weird looks then.  But my register decided to be a prick today, and kept eating all of my reciept paper.  I think I ended up losing a few debit and credit reciepts that way, so I'm pretty sure that my card's going back in the office again next week.  I fail.

Months ago I made my decision to attend Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, VA.  I had actually got into all three colleges I applied for (MB, University of MD College Park, St. John's University), but MB offered the best deal.  I recieved a scholarship of $11,000 per year, and a few grants along with a work study program.  College Park only offered two loans and told me that I would have to find my own work study program on campus (which pretty much meant that I wasn't getting one since there are so few jobs available on campus and everyone scrambles for them).  St. John's University offered $10,000 each year in scholarships.  I'm still having a little trouble getting used to the idea of an all-female school, but I think I can handle it.

I hope I can handle it.