Hi. Just wanted to let you guys know the results of our musical auditions. None of us got what we wanted. Nicole's one of Ariel's sisters and so is Renee. Michaela is one of the eels. And once again, for the third time in three years, I'm a member of the gosh darn chorus. And that's probably only because we don't have enough people to kick anyone out.

So I had a terrible day. I found out that I, a freshman (grade 9) in highschool, was beat for an actually important role by multiple seventh and either graders. So I totally love that! And yes while I agree that I can't really sing that well, it's not so bad that I have to be chorus! And not to be a brat or anything, but I can act pretty dang well! But since she doesn't know me that well, our director doesn't know that! So that's fantastically depressing!

And don't expect any new parts of The Revenant anytime soon! I tried to resubmit it to the Open Novella Contest but the links didn't work for me. And when I finally got them to work, the submissions were closed. So I contacted them and they sent me to like 3 different people who all said "Sorry but we aren't accepting any more late entries!" So what I'm planning on doing is taking it down, finishing it, and cleaning it up before putting it back on. But I totally love that fact that I'm not able to be in the contest anymore because of an error with their link.

And of course my D+ I'm Math isn't helping with my stress levels, but it's slowly improving.

Anyway, I've had a nice cry about my life's problems, cuddled with my mom, and talked about just stuff in general with her, so I'm feeling a lot better. I really just needed to rant/her my feelings out and I thought you guys deserved to know why my writing has sucked as of lately, why I haven't updated in a while, and honestly just what's going on in my life.

I love you guys so much! Like for reals. And I know that you'll all help me through this rough and stressful time. 😍

America's Favorite Fighting Freshman,
~Dara