small, small world

So there's a girl in my school -- band member, sophomore, Creative Writing Club, basically a mini-me -- who, as I just found out, is also in fandom. HP fandom. Well, everyone is in HP at some point, you all know how that goes. We're babbling happily on about fandom, this and that, you know -- we got in about two years apart, but when we were more or less the same age -- and she asks The Question: "Are you into slash?" Wary pause. You know how these things go. "I'm a slasher, yeah." "So am I! My sister's into femslash, but I prefer slash. What's your favorite pairing?"

GUYS. REAL LIFE SLASHER AND FANDOM MEMBER. I told her I was on LJ, but I have as yet refused to give out my username. Not that I've put anything really weird up lately, so I may eventually.

She's Remus/Sirius and Snape/Lupin -- argh, argh -- but when I said I'm James/Sirius OTP, she stopped, thought about it, and went, "Oh, yeah, I get it, that makes sense too." AND she's Harry/Draco hardcore, too.

Small, small world.

high school and me: up for round four, god help us both

School starts tomorrow, joy of joys. *rolls eyes* At least it's my last year of high school, then I start college. Somewhere. Preferably far far away.

Anyway, my classes for this semester are:

Jazz Band (zero hour)
AP American Government
Advanced Lifetime Fitness
Foods
AP Senior English (which I think is technically AP Lit. and Comp., but I could be wrong)
Advanced Chemistry (arranged study)
Wind Ensemble

Because I'm applying for the QuestBridge National College Match program, I restructured my college list to fit the QuestBridge schools, of which I'll probably be applying to (through QuestBridge):

Stanford University
Williams College
Wellesley College
Bowdoin College
Yale University
Emory University
Columbia University
University of Chicago OR Wheaton College OR Swarthmore College

If that falls through, I'll send those apps on through to regular admission and also apply to my regular college list:

Stanford University
Williams College
Wellesley College
Brown University
University of Washington-Seattle
Davidson College
Dickinson College
Washington and Lee University

I may also be applying to the University of Portland and Tulane University, since they've offered me fee waivers. At worst case scenario, I'd be applying to fifteen colleges (which, you know, my list of eight is already a lot compared to most of my friends, who are looking at two or three, mostly in-state). We'll see how this plays out.

I added about 1300 words to one of SW fics last night -- the as yet untitled one that resides on my hard drive as the "Star Wars Clone Wars rampage fic" -- and typed up the 1220 words I've got of the AotC Qui-Gon lives AU, tentatively titled "What Is and What Should Never Be," although that title may, as many of my titles are wont to do, jump over to the crossover time travel story.

I'm almost certain the concept writing for "A Long Time Gone" is almsot done, which means I get to hop over into straight writing. I know more or less what happens through all of it. Well, except for that pesky middle section, but I know the beginning and I know the end and I know mostly how to set up for the third story. Which is going to have a happy ending! From a certain point of view, that is. *cough* I mean, I knew the ending already, but I just figured out how to make it happy.

The soundtrack thing for the 'verse? Working well. I need to take "Drought" off because it's totally Will Turner's song, but other than that -- need to go through the music on my other computer, which I now hate because I'm on my laptop all the time, but all my music is on my desktop -- and a little restructuring to slip things into certain positions, All Is Well. Well, except for "Samson", I go back and forth on whether or not it fits the Lostverse and canon or just the Lostverse. It may have to go. I have to think about it.

Okay, less rambling right now.