An upddate of sorts:

1. Nano is coming along quite well. I'm currently at 16441 words and I'm happy with the progress that I've made so far. I hope to be able to get to 20000 words by the end of the weekend.

2. In terms of the Melbourne Cup I ended up betting on Zipping, which came fourth. Normally I go for number 3, which is my favourite number but I decided to do something different and I went for number 9 (Zipping). I got Purple Moon (number 12) in the sweeps at mum's work so I did end up getting some money from the Melbourne Cup though. What was funny though was that mum got the winning horse (Efficent) and my brother Stephen ended up getting the horse that got placed third. So out of the $1 sweeps our family (with the exception of dad who didn't do so good in the cup this year, dad got Zipping in the same draw that the rest of us won out of and his horse ended up getting scrapped before the race started) ended up getting 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

3. I went to the comic book shop in town yesterday (it's been open for a couple of months since it opened but I hadn't had the chance to have a look in it) and I got a couple of comics. I ended up buying two comics (X-Factor 13 and Runaways 23) I was going to get a third one but it turned out that I only had enough money to buy two comics. I also got a third comic (Justice League of America) that was leftover from Free Comic Book Day and the guy who was working there was trying to get rid of the ones that was leftover.

I had wanted to get more issues of New Mutants, vol 2 since I got the 1st issue of the newest series but that was in 2004 and I hadn't picked up any more copies of the series. It turns out the series aren't in print anymore, which sucks so I'm now probably going to have buy them online when I actually have enough money in my bank account.

I finally got my seminar presentation out of the road. I'm just glad that I've now finished. I was the second last person to go today (there were only about five of us in class and there are still two more people to go who weren't here today) and it had gotten to the point where I just wanted to go and get it done because I hate the nervous feeling of waiting before I have to get up and speak in front of a group of people.

I feel pretty good about how the seminar went, it wasn't the absolute best that I've done but it also wasn't the absolute worst that I've done either. Regardless I'm just happy to have it done and apart from fixing up my annotated bibliography that I've got to do as well as the seminar, now I can focus on all the things that are due in my other subjects by the end of term.

Nano has also started and currently my word count total is 2310 words out of 50000. So I think that's a pretty good start. I'm going to try and get the word count up further before I go to bed (hopefully at least 2500) but I'm happy with what I've done so far.

So I thought that I'd actually update my journal for once :)

Not a great deal has been happening lately since I'm on holidays from TAFE. I'm supposed to be working on some essays for Multicultural Australia but I haven't actually started writing those yet (like that surprises anyone), I have to do at least some of them this week so I don't have to do them all at the last minute because they're all due at the end of November. I'm also planning to work on my Power Point presentation for Multicultural Australia this weekend, I basically have all the information for it so I just have to prepare it in the power point.

I've also gotten the flu in the past few days, which has not been so great. I managed to go all winter without getting the flu and then in the beginning of October I get sick and it's in the holidays as well. Hopefully it's going to go away soon.

In other random news I also signed up for Nano Wrimo again, this year I'm actually going to complete it and win it.

An update of sorts ...

Nano so totally didn't end up happening this year. It wasn't entirely my fault *looks innocent*

I don't normally mention a lot about politics in here but I'm so glad Kevin Rudd is the new opposition leader. As much as I felt sorry about Kim Beazley for the way that he went out, I wasn't very fond of him as a leader. Actually I'm not fond of most politicians but I don't want to get into a political rant, I'll save that for the elections next year.

And I also don't mention a lot about sports in here either but ... wow! Australia made a complete comeback in the second Ashes cricket test. I seriously thought England was going to win, or at least draw, which is what everyone else apparently thought but the Aussies won so yay!

And finally I went completely crazy (more so than usual) and I applied to role play a new student and a new teacher at Fandom High. If they're both accepted, along with the character that I've already got in play, it's going to be an insane semester.