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Back to monotony.

So the wonderful Thanksgiving holidays are over and the count down to Christmas holidays begins. I want Christmas to be here quite badly because the thought of working all day right now makes me want to gouge out my eyes; however, I also don’t want Christmas to be here yet because I’m in no mood to go Christmas shopping. Just ugh.

Anyway, Thanksgiving was fun; I went to Dallas/Fort Worth to visit my parents, and spent most of the time there reading Harry Potter. Obsessed much? Oh yes. I’m now almost halfway through the last book, and I’m still pissed about what happened to Sirius in the fifth book. The only other thing I really did over the break was go to a Tori Amos concert! The weather was cold and rainy and we had to pay $15 to park and then walk in the miserable weather, but Tori was nothing short of completely awesome. And she performed Cornflake Girl. Which completely made my night right there.

This was my second time seeing her in concert, and I think I liked this time a bit better because one, our seats were a bit closer, and two, she played with her band, which I think makes it more interesting for some songs. She still did a solo section with just her and the piano, but it was nice hearing her with the band as well this time.

Moving on, I just want to say THANK YOU again to those of you who read the new chapters of I Woke Up LA. I’m happy that it was well-received and your comments make me excited to start the next part. Though, however excited I may be, I do think it will be quite some time before the next chapters are released. I do not know if I will have much time to even start working on it before Christmas. Of course, you never know, maybe me saying that will make the opposite happen.

I will say this about what to expect in the future chapters:

• There is a lot more to tell of Charlotte and Geoffrey; in fact, we haven’t quite reached the point in that story where Jill finds it so interesting he wants to make a movie out of it yet. Expect a strange twist. I hope I can pull it off without making it seem ridiculous.
• The story isn’t going to end with Jill and Charlotte alone in that motel. And they’re not romantically involved. Luckily, there were fewer people to jump to this conclusion than I anticipated, because I know how much everyone thought the mystery woman would be involved with Jill. But, I just want to nix any Jill and Charlotte love thoughts right now. Haha, that just doesn’t sound appealing.
• There is a certain parallel between Charlotte and Geoffrey’s tale and what’s going on in LA. A difficult part for me to figure out in the upcoming chapters is tying those together with the right timing.
• I think there’s a good deal left to the story. Meaning, it’s not going to end in the next chapter. This one summed up a few big plots that had been carrying on for many chapters now; but I think the ending of 8 is more of a calm before the end. And the end could take a while to come out. I never anticipated this story being more than 7 or 8 chapters, but then I managed to take a lot longer to tell the story. I don’t know how many chapters it will end up being, but I would guess at least 10. With the way I’ve been lately, it could be 12 or even 14 (good lord, I’ll be 30 by that time). More than likely, 9 and 10 will be released simultaneously because I find it difficult to find a stopping point at only 120 slides, which is (approximately, at the moment) the limit on Sims2.com.