Hey kids. I'm moving! This journal, _starkiss, which I believe I've had for like four or five years now, will no longer be updated.

You will be able to find me at katreads, or at the good old book blog. My new journal is a reading journal only, where I'll be posting about what I read. I basically created it so that I can still participate on Livejournal in some book-related communities. I've grown tired of journaling about my life because a) not much happens, and b) I find it more interesting to think about something other than my daily routine. With me putting more energy into the blog, this place has been kind of neglected anyway.

I've been friends with some people on LJ for a long time and I'll be sad to leave that behind. Please feel free to add my new username, and I will of course add you back (the journal won't be locked anyway), but not everyone is as obsessed with reading as I am, so I'll understand if you don't follow me. It's been fun, anyway, and I hope to see everyone around.

Yeah. I haven't been posting much here because... I don't have much to say. I was looking for a job for a while, and then I got three at once, so now I have to quit two, or possibly one and a half. In any event, the lit blog I write is more active, but that's only if you can stomach my musings on Jane Eyre and the New York Times book blog. In any event, I'll be around this summer, probably more there than here. Such as.

I'm feeling the urge to write. I'm not working on anything in particular right now - I edited a bit of what I started for NaNo back in November, but I haven't had the energy to actually heed my own comments and make some changes. I want to start something new. This is what I do - start something and get totally into it, then let it sit for a while, lose interest and move on. The difference is that I haven't really wanted to start anything new in a while, and now I do. This is good.

I'm feeling the urge to write, to start something new and see where it takes me.

I am done exams! And at home in Toronto! Yee-haw! Although I still have a paper to finish and hand in by e-mail. I am working on that right now. Yes, I am not actually typing this, but am in fact making glorious insights into the poetry of Thomas Hardy. In case anyone asks.

OK, so I had the most stressful week of my life last week, and somehow got through it with a crippling migraine (the reason the essay isn't yet done) as the only side effect. Success! I've already started gorging myself on fiction for fun, which is wonderful because I haven't been able to do that in a long while. I bring you.... the whopping 8 books I've managed to read since January. What a pathetic number, and TWO of them were for school. Sheesh.

( Bookish rambling this way! )

Yeah, so probably no one cares about that, but I like to keep track.

It's crunch time! (I am so lame.) So basically I have not had a full night's sleep in three days and I STILL have three final papers to write and I also have five exams in one week and why am I still awake right now?

The next two weeks will be hell. I still don't have a summer job either. Added to a suddenly sketchy apartment Internet connection and I will probably be absent from this place for some time. Unless someone wants to proofread my papers on Herbert, Hardy, and Wordsworth.

I've been watching Oz while taking breaks and HOLY CRAP it is so amazing. Violent and weird, but great. Recommended!