Weekend Update...

It has been a while since I've been around here. My family got here on Saturday, and are going to stay here until Oct. 27th. It's always great to have them here, especially since I don't get to spend so much time with them. This is the first time I'm going to spend a long period of time with them (40+ days) since I was probably 10. Which means, it was 15 years ago. Maybe even longer.

Then, I got a new story. Yep, I finished writing that story I told you about over two months ago. It's called, Waiting on an Angel. If you have time to check it out, I would really like to hear what you have to say about it.

Something that was kind of sad was, a couple of weeks ago I applied to this Trainee program in Brazil. Iris was very supportive about it when I told her. Sadly, when I passed to the second phase of the election process, I failed the exams. That sucked!!! They had a spanish, an english, and a general knowledge section; you had to score over 50% in each category to pass. But if you didn't pass one of them over 50%, you also failed. I failed on the general knowledge. Some facts you might want to know (and I learned the hard way), that where asked to me in this "general knowledge" section, were:

• Next year (2005) is going to be "Physics Year" since it's the centennary for Einsteins publication of the theory of relativity.
• May 31st, is "Non-smoking Day" and apparently (because of this) there is some law in Brazil that doesn't allow tobacco manufacturers to publicize their product on a massive-reach media.
• The Genoma Project, is a project that allows people to work with DNA.

Or something along those lines. I've never felt more stupid than I did at the end of this test. The worst part? I Aced both of the other sections. You can be the judge of the sucking part of this.

Cinn, who you might know as the author of Thoughts, and I were talking the other day and, being the great Trory that she is, persuade me into writing a new story I was telling her about. So I started that already. I honestly don't know when will that be up, though.

I got a few new books over the weekend. They were (and excuse me for not linking them) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, Pilars of the Earth by Ken Follet, Tobacco by Iain Gately and Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. Also a few NR books, Cordina's Crown Jewels, Remember When and Private Scandals. But I'll tell you why so many on another ocasion.