there's no business like show business!

play audition tonight. It went okay, a little better than okay, I guess, but not perfectly. I was pretty happy though.

I really want to get a big part this year; I don't want to be either of the leads but I do want to be their mother. I actually have a chance, for once. XD Being a senior and all.

Callbacks are tomorrow, so I'm crossing my fingers.

In other news, I finally finished the oneshot! YES! So now, I'm editing, and then I'll post it here, and then I'll edit some more, and then it goes to FFN.

I deleted "One Taco Short of a Combination Plate" because it was a piece of crap. It was a TON of fun to write, but, like the Finding NemoRK crossover (In which Kenshin, a single dad, has a fight with his son, who then promptly gets kidnapped, and so to find him he teams up with an amnesiac shihandai who's been kicked out of her dojo, a bunch of nomad rebels (two with spiky hair), and a chain-smoking policeman and his two sidekicks who refuse to use a sword to save him), and the three thousand words of nothing but Kamatari and Misao talking, it doesn't deserve to be online.

It was fun, though.

Swimming was okay tonight, but yesterday it was BRUTAL. My thighs are unbleievably sore. *sigh* Moving, let alone walking, kicking, or getting out of the pool, is a huge effort. As soon as I post I'm going to a hot shower, which I may never come out of.

And yes, I ended a sentence with a preposition. I'm in too much pain to care.
nebulia out.

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Last night I had this odd dream, that I really want to write down before I forget the rest of it. It was this interesting, mildly dark RK AU. Here's what happenened:

Kaoru is taken/captured/offered as a hostage replacement/something-or-other by/to a tribe of Native-American-like people. For a while she's their kind-of servant thing, because she keeps trying to escape, but then she becomes kind of a hostage in name only. She gets to take college courses at a local college--it was a little bit like Sitka, Juneau or Ketchikan in Alaska, although it could have been even more secluded. There was a town, and then several tribes around it. Anyway, Kaoru never got to finish college and so she gets to take college courses.

It was around this point that I realized that Kaoru was older. Later, I found out she was 33.

And so it turns out Kaoru's closest to Megumi/Sano/Yahiko/Misao/etc., but they don't get along entirely well. Kaoru's not part of their tribe-thingy, and that bothers them. She eventually befriends one of the elders, Kenshin, and they have a kind of awkward friendship/relationship thing going on. Kenshin kind of wants more, and Kaoru's a little confused, and stuff.

It's about this point that I find out Kenshin's 53. Yeah, random, I know. He didn't look that old, but then, either did Kaoru.

anyway, there was some issues with a couple other tribes--I mean, there was a plot, but I don't remember it--and there was a scene with Kaoru in a college class and another where Kaoru and Kenshin and maybe some others were standing near a big river/fjord with brown/reddish dirt and mulch on the ground and big fir trees all around.

It was an odd dream, but if I remembered the plot, if had a sort of promising plot. I thought it did, at least.

nebulia out.

Fic

Title: progression: the art of contentment
Summary: they are perfectly at ease with each other, but sometimes you have to move on to make life worth living.
Warnings: A distinctly odd Kenshin mindset, Jinchuu spoilers, KK, some rather strange sap, general verbosity and word vomit
Rating: Would you say PG-13 or PG? I mean, Moonstruck's just rated PG, and they actually say they have sex...I'm not sure. (Shut up, nebulia, and stop citing old Cher movies...)
Notes: Still mostly unedited; I've kinda gone through it once, but not seriously.

Overall, what do you think? Does the present tense work? I love writing in present tense, but I don't do it a lot, because then it's ruined. I think there's a lot of awkward sentence structure and the like; is this true? Does it work? I'm planning on fixing most of it, but should I leave it alone?

What about a title? I'm not sure about that, either.

( progression: the art of contentment )

It's a big thunderstorm outside! I love the sound of the rain! And the thunder!