I have two things to confess today.

1. I am addicted to cereal bars!

No seriously, it's true, I really am! It all started when I decided I should probably start watching what I eat... I know a while back I said, "Okay, every day I'm going to read, write, blog, and exercise..." but I really haven't been doing that, to be honest! There isn't a day that goes by where I think, "Okay, maybe I'll get on the treadmill today..." and I never do. Never. So I've been trying to watch what I eat instead. Whenever Dad went out grocery shopping, he'd ask what I'd want to snack on, and, not able to think of any other healthy snack, I told him I wanted cereal bars. ... Now I can't stop eating them! On weekends I eat like four a day (but to be fair I only eat two square meals on weekends because I wake up around twelve... I'm not sure how this helps) and I eat one or two on weekdays. That means I eat around eighteen cereal bars per week! If each Nutrigrain bar is around 120 calories, and if I eat around eighteen cereal bars per week, I consume around 2,160 calories just from cereal bars alone during the week! ... That can't be good for you, can it? I'm typing this while eating a cereal bar, too... (It's strawberry flavor, my weakness...)

I am a connoisseur of cereal bars! Apple cinnamon, strawberry, blueberry... the kind with mixed berries, or even the kind with yogurt, or the kind with icing on top... I'll eat them all! God, this is not good, I've never loved a snack as much as I love cereal bars. My mind keeps telling me that because they're supposedly healthy, it's totally okay for me to munch them down! On every Nutrigrain bar is this little yellow box that says, "MORE of the WHOLE GRAINS your body needs!" and another box that says, "GOOD SOURCE OF FIBER" as if it's trying to assure me that yes, go ahead, munch away on them, you fat whale! Ehhh, I need to find a way to limit the bars to just one a day. Just one! Do you think there's a such thing as Cereal Bars Anonymous?

Hello, my name is Kiri, and I'm addicted to cereal bars...

2. I can't stand most poetry.

It is everywhere on deviantART. This isn't really a problem in the Dreamwidth writing community, but it's a huge issue for me on DeviantArt. I'm a member of around ten or so writing groups on dA and maybe 85% of the crap submitted to groups (even so called "elite" groups like The Written Revolution and Scribblers Anonymous) are loaded with crappy poetry! Does no one write prose anymore?

And that's another thing - if you find writers on devART, writers who write prose, they'll write short snippets of "musings" that seem like excerpts from their emo diary. No one wants to hear you whine (says the Kiri who just whined in her blog yesterday about her parents) and if you do have to vent, take it to a goddamn journal, go talk to your friends, I'm tired of reading poetry and "prose" on devART that goes like "And I cut myself / and my arms bled / like a crimson river / lonely and red." Screw you and screw your unoriginal bullshit.

I am actually pretty good friends with poets on devART and kudos to them, but really, I'm going to just stop subscribing to groups and search for prose through group folders. I love commenting on people's work and making new writer friends, but I can't stand poetry. I can't do it. Most poetry I've read is so unoriginal, and it's not like I can claim to understand how to write good poetry - but I know what sounds good and what sounds like shit. And most deviant poets are shit.

Okay, glad I got that off my chest!

But that's just the majority, I'm sure there are other brilliant writers out there (that I've yet to discover...)

And even though dA annoys me sometimes, I would totally pay for a premium account...!

Hell, I'd shell out the thirty bucks if I could! Too bad there's no way to do it surreptitiously - you've either got to use a credit card (don't have one, and Dad won't do it; can't get a credit card of my own until I start bringing in income somehow), Paypal (I don't have a bank account to set up a Paypal. However, this is probably my best bet - I can ask for a bank account for my birthday and just shove all my allowance in there. However, bank account transfers are not immediate and that sounds shady), or use Points, and that just goes back to the credit card or Paypal deal.

Oh, oh, and speaking of DA, I've taken on another writing challenge!
(God, again Kiri...? You haven't touched your storycubes and you haven't done anything for bingo...)

Shush, this is a good challenge! Basically, I'm a participant over at Always Motivated on devART, where you're challenged to post up a piece of art (or lit, whatever) every week. (But Kiri, you barely every post up anything at all...) I know, I know, but I think, with this community forcing me to write, I can actually start working on my goal to write every day! Apparently, for every piece you send in weekly, they give you exactly one point. If you send in a piece every week for 50 weeks (a year?) you'll get 750 points!

So, if a devART premium account costs 2,396 points...

There are 52 weeks in a year, so every year you'd get 52+750 points, which equals 802 points in a year.
Then, the second year you'd get another 802 points, which would equal a total of 1,604 points...
In the third year, you'd get another 802 points, which would total 2,406 points! Which leaves you 100+ points leftover!

IN THREE YEARS, I COULD GET A DA PREMIUM ACCOUNT...!
... By then, I would almost be out of college, anyway.

Blargh. I'll just end up doing this Paypal style anyhow, when I turn eighteen maybe... Or maybe when I actually get active on devART. I mean, lurking around there all day really isn't the same as being active there.

And while I'm wishing, I would totally get a paid account at Dreamwidth, too!

I'm still debating on starting that community on DW I was musing about back in late October, and I find that I still really want to do it. I'll be honest, DW's a quiet little place, but it's not gonna grow unless people chip in to help! Maybe that's what I love so much about this place, the fact that your voice can really speak volumes if you let it! Hah, and back in the beginning of October, I was worried whether or not this blog would ever feel like my home. It does, it feels a lot more homey back then my blog back at LJ ever did. Maybe it's because I make an effort to post here daily (although that doesn't always work) whether I have good news or bad? Who knows. Anyway, I can't make any communities until senior project's over, so that project's being put on hold...

Speaking of senior project, I finally finished writing my Marc Dorcean article today! I emailed it to the freelancer and he told me that it was an excellent piece of writing, which made me glee! Hah, this weekend may have been rocky as all hell, but some good things have come out of it!

I should really type something now, but I feel so sleepy and lazy... It's only around nine, but maybe I'll go to bed? A little extra sleep never hurt anyone...