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I’m looking forward to Tuesday. Presumably on that day UPS is supposed to deliver a box contain my new trading cards. I’m glad it’s only about two more days until Tuesday and that time is drawing closer by the second.

To get back to the main subject, apparently I’ve had my calculations wrong but I might still be more closer to right than I thought. I’ve often thought about “Royalties” ever since I really thought I might possibly get something published one day. I’ve usually thought that maybe one would get royalties of a dollar a book and then if five thousand people bought the book that would be five thousand dollars for me! Though it would be more like four thousand by the time tithes and taxes were deducted providing the taxes were the same as the tithes. And that amount would be nice with the hopes of more eventually. But… today Daniel said that royalties from books were FIVE CENTS!!! That is only TWO HUNDRED AND FIFITY dollars for five thousand readers. And I haven’t even deducted tithes and taxes which makes it two hundred dollars and taxes might just be more than ten percent. Considering the speed I write at and that it would probably take me at least two months to write a book that’s long enough and the chances of it being published it would be months and perhaps years before I could buy a Video Ipod… Oh, incidentally I saw one today and the little thing was soooo cute. I’d love to be able to play videos on a handheld device that’s very, very small.

But to return to the subject of writing… I’m now in a “depressed” state of mind concerning writing and publishing. I still want to see something of mine published and be able to walk into a store and see it there but I wish… Well, I suppose I could continue hoping that I’ll get more royalties than Daniel thinks I will. I can pretty stubborn at times, if stubborn is the word for it. I think “Pig Headed” or “Intentionally Stupid” might be closer to the mark. Occasionally, despite a great deal of evidence on the contrary, I will still go on foolishly believing something. For instance despite my Mother’s and my Hair Beautician’s united opinion that my hair is not going to grow any longer I still cling to the hope that it will get longer. And despite a lot of circumstances I still hope to get a book published and earn enough money from my writing to build a castle and make a movie which I hope will be a hit and will allow me to make even more movies and the movie studio of Elizabeth Unlimited will be established. Though really, I usually only dream about Elizabeth Unlimited when i’ve been watching too many behind the scenes on movies and then I start pretending interviews in which I’m talking about movies that haven’t even been thought of yet.

However I kind of don’t really think Elizabeth Unlimited will show up. A successful writing career for me is a lot more likely and me living in a castle is a lot more likely than either of the previous statements though it’s not that likely. However as the saying is, “Every man’s home is his castle” therefore I’m sort of living in a castle now because my Dad lives here and it’s his home therefore it ought to be his castle and I never thought of that before but it’s really a nice idea and I’ve been living in the castle I was born in for over seventeen years now and didn’t know it!

However I’ve already designed the general concept for the house I’d like to live in when I have a house of more or less my own. And it’s definitely a castle. It’s square(though it could be rectangular) and at the four corners there will be towers rising and though, for reasons of economy, it probably won’t have a moat I’ll probably still try to have a reusable portcullis over the entrance to the main courtyard.

You know, I think I dream rather big… And just about all of the plans and hopes I’ve mentioned in this post are rather softened and toned down versions of what sometimes I think… Except that my hair going down to my waist is about all I ever ask for but when it comes to Elizabeth Unlimited I’ve dreamed up oscars and awards and millions in profits and me as the star, director, script writer, and so forth(usually at the same time) and I would like to write something that would go into the class of Tolkien, C.S.Lewis and Jane Austin and yet would have a special spot unto itself. Um, I suppose I’d better stop writing now. Though I think I’ll add this. If my hair never gets any longer it will be alright, I won’t be seriously unhappy. If I never make a movie that is shown in movie theaters or on television, that also will be alright, it would be nice if it happened but there would be a lot of bother with making a movie and I don’t mind not having it. If I never get anything published… Well, I still hope I do but I’ve got a lot of readers on this website and lots of people enjoy reading my writing so I’ll still have a few fans and I can earn money in other ways that royalties. However, if my new trading cards don’t come on Tuesday… Well, maybe there might not be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth but something just a few notches beneath it might happen…

So in conclusion… I’m Seventeen years old and I think I may need to adjust my priorities at some point in the near future. THE END(And I wrote THE END more to say to myself STOP TYPING NOW than for any other reason. Apparently it didn’t work because I’m still typing. However I am now going to STOP)