There was a power outage yesterday at about 10:30pm when my parents told me to go to bed and get off of my laptop. Instead I added another 2k words to my word count but couldn’t update it since no power means no internet. But this morning we (collectively in my household) woke up at about 10:30am. It was nice having more than 8 hours of sleep for the first time a long while. I did my chemistry report even though it’s not due until November 27th. I also did my physics assignment today (in total it was 5 problems that involves me actually understanding the concepts) and I also did two of my biology assignments as they were online. It was nice to actually get something done after not getting any homework done on Saturday or Sunday. I also didn’t get very much writing done on either of those days either. But today alone, I wrote around 7k words which brought my total word count to just over 40k! I am quite pleased with that was I was aiming to get my word count to 50k before the 15th and it should happen.

I was reading the newspaper today and it mentioned this monument that had been built for remembering the fallen soldiers and it was called Menin Gate Memorial. It is in Ypres, Belgium and the citizens of the town wanted it built to remember all the British and Commonwealth soldiers that had died to help secure Belgium’s freedom. From Wikipedia, I learned that every evening at 8:00pm, they have a daily ceremony where they block off the road and play Last Post. Whenever one of the soldiers’ bodies are found, and identified, they are given a proper burial and their names are taken off of the gate where a large majority of the names of the missing soldiers had been engraved. I also learned that the Menin Gate was too small for the total amount of names for the fallen and missing soldiers and the remainder of the names were engraved at the Tyne Cot Memorial. Just a little bit of history I felt that I should share.

Connections Are More Dangerous Than Lies is the subject of the latest (and last, for at least a while) fanlisting that I have made. It is song by the band The Ataris. I decided to name the fanlisting Not In Love as it is a prominent part of the chorus. For those who are unfamiliar, CAMDTL comes from the latest (and long awaited) 2007 album ‘Welcome the Night’. The band does have a Myspace page where they also feature some songs from their previous albums.

I applied for a few other fanlistings, but I’m still waiting to hear back from the Staffers to see if I got them or not. I hope I did. -fingers crossed-

[caution: shameless plugging ahead]

I got another fanlisting done (yes and on my birthday too). This time it’s a song fanlisting (the song is called ‘Song For A Mix Tape’, the band is The Ataris). The name of the fanlisting, Words & Melody, comes from the lyrics of the song and it is one of my all-time favourite songs by this band which keeps on changing.

Words & Melody: the fanlisting for ‘Song For A Mix Tape’ by The Ataris.

All in all, it was a pretty good day?