Ok, here we are again. It's my first day of a new semester, and it's going to be a busy one. I've been wanting to start blogging again, and I can't let my perennial "I don't know what to write" problem keep me from it. So here we go.

I'm taking three classes this semester. I might be crazy. But I think it was the right choice. I've reduced my hours at work so that I have Fridays off, and that will give me a day to help stay caught up with schoolwork, as well as with chores and errands that I won't have time for because I have to spend two of my evenings in class. Also, next semester I'll only have to take two classes and I'll be able to graduate. If I stuck with two classes this time, I'd have to either take three next semester or one next summer. The summer course offering is limited, so I don't want to roll the dice, and this semester there were actually three classes I am interested in, so I think it'll be a good semester.

Digital Libraries and Virtual Reference Environments are the two classes I'm most looking forward to. They're both areas I'm interested in working in once I graduate, especially virtual reference. My other class is a research methods class, which is less exciting, but I think it'll still be interesting and useful, especially if I get into a Ph.D program one day.

I still need to get everything for the semester into Things. The more organized I can be, the more I'll be able to relax, because I'll know that I'm keeping up with my work. I want to still have time for playing World of Warcraft, reading, or just doing nothing much at all.

Lately I've been getting up early most mornings to write. This has been really nice. I'm only writing between 3-400 words a day, but it's a lot more than none. My focus is on my gaming setting. I had been writing mostly background info about the world. I've also started writing a short story about an NPC, but that's at a standstill because I can't figure out who the antagonist is, or whether the conflict I came up with makes sense. My main focus right now is on an adventure, and that's been really fun to work on.

I also submitted a query to a magazine for an article I want to write. I've got my fingers crossed about that.

I don't want to ramble, and I don't want to use up everything in my head. I'm not going to try to post every day, but I've got a few things that I've been wanting to write about, and I've also started writing about the books I've read recently.

So we'll see how it goes.