viernes...

        hmmm. i hope no one was offended with the last. it wasn't meant to offend. my family immigrated just like everyone else, but i thought it was amusing given recent events. and i hate math. i'm sometimes the cashier who will give you a blank look at first, but i'll eventually figure it out. so it's friday (yay!) and although i have a lot of work to do over the next couple weeks, i'm really looking forward to it. finals is my absolute favorite time of the semester. and in a weird way i'm looking forward to the dull summer ahead. i really, really, really want to write, and i've spent my writing moments (what few i've taken) mostly in planning. it's getting good, let me tell you. i may also ask my aunt (incredible artist) to illustrate a few things for me to keep me motivated (also for the published book, but we haven't gone quite that far yet). i'm getting excited about it, though.

        so i think it's going to be a good weekend. off to the gym.

       ::edit:: i was running around the indoor track this morning and a little brown sparrow flew down out of the rafters and said hello. he landed on one of the supports and watched the basketball game in progress underneath us and he chirped in reply to the squeekings of a bunch of shoes on the polished hardwood. made my day.

       then this afternoon i was in the library writing a little and i discovered that my main protagonist bears a striking resemblance to a lesser character out of greek mythology. i'd never heard of this character before, but she shares a name with my character (i had chosen the name because it is the latin word that perfectly describes this character) as well as a few eerie character traits. so now i'm trying to decide whether to exploit the coincidence or avoid it. what do you think? she's a huge character and i already have a lot of her part written. and she's not very well known in mythology (i seriously had never heard of her, but brandon had). and people borrow from mythology all the time, so...