Watching the Days Go By

So it's been a bit of a dreary life since I last updated.  Champs for my swim team have come and gone (I took nineth in freestyle, finally), school has started up again, and I did a bit of art, which can be viewed at the link below:

http://miscellaneousthought.deviantart.com/art/Sun-99348621

Whitestorm as Ra, the sun-god, over at my dA.  And in glorious technicolour, too!

In other news, my sister started guitar lessons two months ago.  She's actually really talented, and can proficiently play "Blackbird". 

She just turns the volume up too loud.

If America had any common sense, we would of seen it coming long ago. Russia was reluctant to let go of Georgia in 1992 after the fall of the Soviet Union. Russian troops have been acting as peacekeepers for the past decade, keeping tensions high and making NATO uneasy about admitting Georgia into the treaty. The members of the treaty feared that Georgia would engage in a war and that they would be forced to help them.
Even if a peace treaty hadn't been signed, the rest of NATO would be unwilling to come to Georgia's aid unlike the US. Russia supplies a large majority of fuel (namely natural gas) to nations belonging to NATO. Germany alone receives 40% of its natural gas from Russia.
Smart move by the Russians, really, to occupy Georgia now. The White House has been calling for Georgia to join NATO, a cry echoed by Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili. This would have been one of Saakashvili's last chance to join NATO for what would be the next few years if Obama wins the presidency.
I have the feeling that it was Putin, not Medvedev, who was behind the occupation and subsequent peace treaty. Correspondents at the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation say that many obstacles stand in the way of the Russian withdrawal of troops from Georgia, and Russians still occupy the border city of Gori. Medvedev doesn't strike me to be in control of Moscow. Putin seems, as always, to be in control of the situation. If you recall back to the picture on the cover of The New York Times on the day of Medvedev's inauguration, it was Putin, not Medvedev, who was center stage.
Does America face another Cold-War-esque era with Russia following this conflict? Probably not. Relations are strained, but election day in America is coming up, and the Putin-Medvedev might warm up to a new president- so long as he does not conflict with the interests of Russia. If Bush were to stay in office for another year, relations would probably become more tense than before.

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Jiggedy jig.  Just got back from a rather relaxing vacation in the mountains.  Kayaking, fishing, hiking.... I climbed a mountain with my family and another.  We tried last year, but we kinda got lost looking for the trail...  Kudos to us.

Not much to say otherwise.  Happy summer, everyone.

Since I'm real busy for the last two days of school, I decided to celebrate early:

this

is

the

end

of

school

but

the

beginning

of

an

awesome

summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So glad I got that out of my system.  Happy summer, everybody!

Last week, I read The Angel Experiment at the reccomendation of a friend, as well as Rayne over at ff.net.  Let me just say this:

All that I have wanted to read this past week was School's Out- Forever and Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports.  Am sooo going to write fics once I've read those two.

Ugh, was today ever drab.  Nothing exciting happened.  I mean yeah, something obviously had to happen today, yet it was either too insignificant or I was too wrapped up in my boredom to notice.  I'll post a fic here eventually.

Over on ff.net, I admin a forum under the Warriors tab, known as Warrior's Miscellany.  It's currently #11 on the post count.  *sob*  I'M SO PROUD!!

But yeah.  I started a community here, called the_misc, and if anybody reads this, just seeing if you'd like to stop by! 

Today, I had plenty of free time, so I decided to read every fic on the first page of the Warriors fanfic archive.  

Bad idea.

Not one was even remotely good or interesting.  

One in particular, about a she-cat Thornpaw's struggle to fit in, was particularly rancid in awfulness. So if anyone whose fic was up there sees this, I would advise writing courses.  And therepy for the unfortunates who read those stories. 

 As I was carousing Amazon.com one day to check release dates for the latest Warriors books, I stumbled on this:

http://www.amazon.com/Quest-Begins-Seekers-Book/dp/0060871229/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212014826&sr=8-4

The Erins are really pushing it this time.  

Questing bears of different species?  I'm sorry, but that just makes me want to cry.

 I gots a fic I want to share!

Link:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4220249/1/Starry_Night

ThornclawxLeafpool... 'Nuff said.