Author: Olavia Kite

The lights. The stars. The jingles. Red and green. Everywhere.

It’s been hardly a couple of days since a feeble attempt to recreate Halloween took place, and Christmas is already in the air. Already—! In November!!!

Maybe it’s because we don’t have falling leaves nor pumpkins nor apple cider that we get Christmas so soon. We have nothing to entertain our minds with while the green/red hullabaloo arrives. We ignore what it feels to have the cold breeze blowing out the candles of summer, rain being replaced by thousands of feather-like vegetable flames. Days are endless, identical twins succeeding each other, an infinite army of time.

We need Christmas to get out of our routine, to see old faces which seem new every year, to change the appearance of our houses in order to start anew in January… The same old routine with a brand new face— or is it a new routine there where we’ve always been?

All I know is, it’s too early for the firs to be chopped down. If only we had little squirrels to chase those non-existent winter blues out of our minds…

Double major? Single major? Master’s degree? Dropout?

Literature? Languages?

Two years? Four years? Six years?

English? Japanese? Chinese?

A translator? A writer? A teacher? A housewife?

Colombia? United States? Japan?

Oh, time, what have you hidden under your sleeve?

Olavia Kite is the worst writer alive.

She used to think she really had talent, thus deciding to major in Literature. However, she missed a tiny detail… She would not like her major! She would lose her horizon and think about becoming a globetrotter/language teacher instead of gaining worldwide fame with her amazing art, which would not amaze the most curious passerby.

But lo, behold! She has not lost her hopes! She has decided to write a novel in thirty days… just because. She found out there was an opportunity to do it and show everybody how sucky she is, and she will not lose that opportunity!

Join her in her sorry attempt to justify herself as a starving anonymous writer. Beginning November 1, 2004, don’t forget to check this blog and lend her your support.