Oh, nice. I'm not really big on research either, but I just suck it up, pick up the shattered pieces of my life, & move on. Besides, right now, I'm just concentrating on getting the heck out of my math courses this year. I lost my calculator because I let someone borrow it, and... well, I'm never going to see that thing again. >_> Worst part is that I'll have to pay for it, & in order for my mom not to know, I'd have to save the money myself.
Nightmare & Destiny are still around? I haven't really talked to anyone from there in the longest time. Well, bar a few people like you, Bill Gates, & Katy. That's really it though. After Pokelight closed, I kinda gave up in general on them. I wasn't even around on Pokelight for very long before they closed; after Solstice & Lavender went down, I just kinda went on my own separate direction.
I've just finished NaNoWriMo 2010, & I'm honestly sick of writing in general right now. Fanfiction, essays, the lot of it all. Even if I didn't get 50,000 words in NaNoWriMo, I feel like all of my inspiration has been sucked away by it. Sadly, I start a research paper in English soon, & I'm not really looking forward to it. But good luck with your fanfic!