School and scribbling

School starts next week.  Daily routine, more or less, will be thus:

Mon - Fri. 
Morning.  Wake up, pretend to be a morning person.  Attend English, music theory, and Russian history lectures.  
Noon and onwards.  Homework.  Blogging, if my brain permits and if there's anything interesting to say.
Weekends.  Real life, homework. 
Rinse and repeat.

I'm muchly looking forward to Russian history.  Music theory should be interesting, too.  English...well, it should be ok, though I don't care for essay-writing.  The splendid thing is, history is my last class; so by the time I'm fully awake, I'll be in (presumably) my favorite class.  ;)

Not alone in Spring's armorial bearing,
  And in Summer's green-emblazoned field,
But in arms of brave old Autumn's wearing,
  In the centre of his brazen shield;
{Longfellow}

Hopefully, I'll find time to work on my steampunk novel, too.  Writing it has been as slow as molasses circumnavigating the globe, but I like how it's turning out, so far.  I'm kind of regretting not writing it in first person, though.  Instinctively, I write books in third person; but first is, in some ways, easier.

Which do you think is easier to write, and which do you tend to use?