So, at 8:08 PM today, my first-ever NaNoWriMo came to a close. At 55370 words, I’m officially a NaNo winner. It’s a complete crap story, as far as I can tell not even worth salvaging later. I’m going to give it a cursory edit in the next few weeks and then leave it.

But I did it. I wrote a novel (or as my Mandarin classmate made me say, a novel-length story). How many people can say that? (Answer: quite a few, and that’s just this year and excluding real authors.) The book’s title is “Soar Away”, formerly “That…

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I have a penchant for ambiguous phrases, which is why I call myself Chigaijin and why this post is so oddly titled. Even if the presence or absence of the slash sorta indicates which side of the ambiguity the meaning falls on.

This weekend was my second visit back at CHS. (I’ve been home but haven’t interacted with my old high school and friends until now.) I should spare a few thoughts for last week’s choir concert (the day of the earthquake, no less). Mr. Aron commented that he didn’t realize Cantos (Adv. Women) was “earth-shatteringly good.” (I think he meant “earth-shaking” but whatever.) But the real stars of the show, as always (sorry, other choirs!) was Cappella, the Advanced Mixed Choir I was in during the last two years. They were amazing, performing (as usual) more songs than any other group, and with the addition of a music shell I think they were actually better than the UC Men’s Chorale.

And really, that’s not an insult to us but a testament to the amazingness of Mr. Aron, who I owe a lot of my current singingness to.

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In other news, Cal Band played an awesome video game medley today, including Tetris, Pokémon, and Zelda. Cal Band Great!

Word count: 5500. Yeah NaNo!

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