SO! You guys have noticed my seeming absence and my 'ghostly' abilities to poof at random intervals have you? Some of you miss me huh? Well, here's the update:

Starting the twenty-fourth (that's 24'th for those of you who hate reading typed out numbers :P), I will be starting my second semester of college. As some of you may not know, this isn't regular college. I am involved in an early-enrollment program called Running Starts at my local community college - what it is is a way to complete my senior year of high school as a freshman in college instead of taking my courses at my high school (I still graduate this year and walk across the stage and all that). As you can imagine, that means I am very, very in tune with my school work and studying, as this is not only important for my success in college next year when I apply to a university as a freshman and go for my Bachelor's degrees, but it is also crucial to my graduating from high school. Here's my schedule :


Pretty exciting right? Well, the catch is it was a hard enough program to get into - had to have excellent grades and a flawless 'criminal' background. And aside from that it does cost money - lots of money; that being said, I have been in cahoots with my parents about affording my books and the tuition rates, thus another reason for my absence.

But Soul, you said you start the twenty fourth, what's you excuse?!

Well! Aside from preparing for school, I have also recently started up a new charity that has gone statewide in Rhode Island. As you can imagine, running a non-profit charity organization is not easy and it requires a lot of time and work. So there's another excuse for you.

In addition to that, a novel I have been planning and working on for about a year and a half I have finally kicked up some motivation and inspiration for, and so that takes up much of my time too, as ideas are like balloons - if you let them go, they float away from you and you never get them back. For those who may be wondering and those who are familiar, Somewhere Over There (the roleplay I created here on the forums) is actually the base idea for what my novel is. The role-play was created solely for the purpose of getting new ideas and inspirations as well as being able to play out some tricky scenarios that I expect to come up in the novel.
I am not in any way shape or form using your characters or specific details that you use in your profiles and posts, so don't yell at me about plagiarizing my novel.  As a side note, yes, the name of the novel is indeed Somewhere Over There (I already have the copyright for it, so don't let me catch any you no-gooders trying to steal it *shifty eyes*).

Lastly, but certainly not least! I am working on getting a job. Why on earth would anyone want a job you ask? Well, to make money! But why would I get a job when I have my parents to support me? Well, I need a car to get home from school before five o'clock at night on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and I really don't want to have to wait a half an hour after my classes end on Mondays for my mother to pick me up - the community college in the pitch black at seven o'clock at night is quite unnerving. Why else do I need money? Well, I need to be able to eat while in school - I am a diabetic after all. And the last reason I need money, you ask? Well, as some may already know, Kris, a.k.a. kris0the0girl is my absolute best friend - in real life. We unfortunately live some eighteen hundred (that's one thousand, eight hundred for those who are not familiar with short hand numbers) miles apart. Kris unquestionably means the absolute world to me, and so taking a trip to see her this summer is detrimental to my mental well-being. :P

And, speaking of Kris, that brings about my final explanation for my absences and continuing absences. Kris and I often write collaborative novels together and submit our chapters to each other through e-mail. It is something we do to relax and wind down from stressful things in our lives. And aside from that, our relationship is something I value far more than a membership on some internet forum. Now, it's no offence of course, but I know none of you personally, nor have I known you even remotely as long as I have known Kris (three years). Our friendship has been highly strained lately, and so I have been absent from the site and many other places I used to frequent, and will continue to be absent, until our relationship is back on stable ground. And, for you immature little nut-cases who purposely seek innuendos, I do not mean relationship in a romantic way - furthermore, for all intensive purposes, Kris is in fact family to me, as I am to her - and that's not just limited to us either, our parents and siblings consider us (respectively) family as well.

SO!

That's my explanation. If you made it this far, I commend you. <3

-Soul

=| Sorry to hear that...