"I can't believe you said that! Apologize to the entire continent of England!"

Long time no talk, LJ! That's what happens when you break your damn laptop screen, I suppose. But now I have time (read: hours upon hours) to kill at an airport, so I shall blog!

I'll be trying JulNoWriMo again this year, but I can't decide what to write. I could work on one of my fanfics - they allow previously started stories. But I once again feel the urge to write something original and possibly publishable. BUT I HAVE TOO MANY IDEAS!

1. iFiles - the FBI's squad that investigates the far reaches of the Internet (read: there's an Agent 4chan). I have a full cast list and vague plot for this, but I honestly think it would work better as a comic than a story.

2. This dream I had the other night - sort of a Harry Potter/Animorphs/Obernewtyn fusion. There's an 'information night' for a new academy of the best and brightest (it would be set in a slightly dystopic future), and after all the children and teens arrive, the "teachers" essentially either seduce them to the dark side, or imprison them. A small group, in their panic, activate previously unknown abilities, and shift into an animal form. From there, they go on the run as the academy enslaves the entire island (think more England size than Hawaii size). They can only do one animal - there's four girls, who shift into a bear, a snake, an owl, and an eagle - bear!girl is immediately captured due to the size of her animal, and eagle!girl learns to shift into other bird forms eventually. There's three boys - a mouse, some sort of weasel-type creature that's bigger than a ferret but smaller than a badger (I'm currently thinking meercat), and... I'm not sure what the last boy is. Monkey, maybe.

3. Dmitri Jones, Henchman - I recently rediscovered what I've written for this series, and realized it's kindof awesome, so I'm thinking about picking it back up.

4. A Gallowsverse story, set between the two prequel short stories and Gallow's Humor, in which Ryan is set on the trail of an escaped Death Row inmate and hilarity ensues.

5. The Secret School - fantasy story set in a world similar to Dmitri, but a little less slapstick. Centering on the goings-on of a school for the 'darker' side of things - assassins, thieves, spies, bodyguards, etc.

...having typed all that out, I gotta say that I'm leaning towards #5.

Thanks to my wacky hijinx with the personal blender, Julia and I have come up with a new reality show idea: OJ Simpson and Vanilla Ice, roommates.

So I totally broke one of the legs off of my glasses this morning. Yeah, I'm wandering about with my glasses half dangling from my face. It's pretty hilarious, I won't lie. Though it's also a bit annoying to have them fall off of my head every time I lean over - I'm thinking that if I'm in a toddler room tomorrow morning, I'm gonna have to tape them to my head. (I was in an upper preschool room today, so it didn't matter too much.)

Aaaanywho, I may or may not be developing a shiny new idea of magical North America for the HP world. Blame my history class, because I've decided that there's no reason why wizarding governments in the "New World" should follow current political country lines. So instead, Florida is actually a colony under command of the Spanish version of the Ministry; Louisiana is a department of France's Ministry; the territory east of the Mississippi that was ceded after the French & Indian War, plus the 13 original colonies, are under command of the United States Wizarding Congress; southern reaches of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas thru Mexico, Central America, and northern parts of South America are part of the Independent Wizard Council of Mesoamerica.

The rest of the USA, and all of Canada? The Free Republic of Magic! Most of the international wizarding world regards the FRM as little more than... well, like we thought of Jonestown. Yeah, it's considered a cross of a cult and no man's land. The government of the FRM is located in Montana (no expects it to be there!), and the school (known as Central Academy) is in Yukon Territory. Because of their constantly contested status, the Central Academy of the FRM is mostly for finding future soldiers and scientists, who will go to either the Central Defense Institute (located in the Hudson Bay), or the Central Research Institute (on one of the Aleutian islands).

...on that note, I will not inform you of how I'm planning on having Auror!Harry and Auror!Ron and mebbe some others try and infiltrate the FRM, because of threats made against Hogwarts. Yeah... Instead, I'll go to bed.