As of Sept. 10, this account won't be updated and comments won't be replied to (not that they were anyway-- I'm so bad at getting back to people >_< )


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Dammit, it deleted all my bookmarks! My computer was acting up, so I rebooted it and it froze and when I got it working again, all my bookmarkes had disappeared. >_< Why?! I had them all organized, too, and there must have been several hundred... I had all these tutorials, stuff on legal issues, art galleries, publishing information, links to all these artists on dA I meant to watch, more tutorials... _coughpr0n....

Myeh... so what I ask of you is to give me some links that you like, anything, but I prefer stuff related to what I said I lost (except the last one; I had those memorizedXD).

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Speaking of ~iduck (this plea for help was inspired by a time when her computer broke, and I sent her back all the links she'd sent me^^), does anyone know where she is? I thought she was supposed to be back by now...

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In movies, I really want to see 'Shaun of the Dead'... because that whole concept is too great not to see it. XD And Taegukgi, that Korean film about the war that looks really good but won't get any coverage because it's got subtitles.

And anyways... two of my close friends' birthdays are coming up (they're two days apart), but I don't know what to get them >_<. J and I have this scrapbook thing we give each other back and forth (but my additions are kind of... sad..) and there's always books (the three of us are complete geeks^^). ::sigh:: I wish I had artist friends so we could trade pictures and stuff... I think it's more meaningful than a gift card or something, but a lot of non-artisty people think it's cheap. Oh well...

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Oh, has anyone read Death Note yet? I know there's a lot of people on dA who are into it, and when I first flipped through it I didn't get why, but after I read some of it, I think I'm hooked.

Although, if it were me, I'd write something cool, like 'spontaneous combustion' instead of letting it be heart attacks each time.

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And don't forget about those links!

You know that movie by Yimou, 'Hero'? Well, I'm in love with it. I need to find someone who'll go with me to see it again. If you haven't already, you should. It's worth it just for the leaves. Mmmm... leaves.

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I'm not sure whay I'm eating right now, but it tastes like two small sugarless pancakes with sweet bean paste in the middle. It is surprisingly good; I will have to hunt down more someday.

...I'm talking about food. I think I've been reading too many of ~ Hey-Poo-Guy's journals. =_=

Anyway, I originally set out with the intention of complaining about school, but dA went into read only and ate it. =_= I hope it tasted good! Ma, I didn't write that much anyway.

Oh, but I have one semi-amusing annecdote about school, so if you, like me, are procrastinating on homework, gather 'round: my Japanese class is a 3-4 combo because there weren't enough level 4s for their own period. I'm in level 5 (although technically I should be in level six because I did first and second year at the same time), but since there's no normal way to get to that high a level, they threw me in with the 3-4s. So when I went to get the textbook, the lady looked at my schedule, looked at me, back at my schedule and said, 'well... this is interesting.' So she gave me a textbook a level higher than normal and told me to ask the teacher what to do from there. The thing is, I can read this textbook. All the passages in the back, aside from some vocab I don't know, are fine. I can't imagine what a level lower is like, romaji maybe. I guess it doesn't help that my teacher last year used a college text. O_o We thought it would never happen, but I think I'm finally overqualified for a class. (it evens out when you think of how horribly underqualified I am for English. Diction what?)

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And why did no one tell me that there are radio stations available online? Why was I never made aware of this in all my years of living symbiotically with my computer and DSL? Why do I feel like such an idiot for not understanding this sooner?

=_= Oh well, Coltraine makes all things good again. ^_^

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Everyone, go set your critique preferences now!!! I love this feature-- as I was browsing I was thinking it would be great to know if the people I'm critiquing actually want my opinion and then this shows up! Yay!!!

So excited...

Go, now, and if any of you set it to 'critique discouraged' you will make me cry.

I can't wait until everyone knows about it and I don't have to second guess.

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In non-dA news, there was a sale of Prisma markers today so I got a set of 24- it was 50% off, so it was almost a waste not to. Of course, now I'm realising I have no idea how to use them, but after an hour of scribbling nonsense, I've determined that they are fun anyway. I also ended up going to a photo shoot with blue ink smeared across my face. Whenever I use real media, I will inevitably get it all over myself. I don't have that problem with digital... but at least this way when I walk around people know I'm an artist (or trying to be one, at least^^).

Bah, school's starting and I don't want it to. >_< Summer, where did you go?

...mother gave me another speech about how I'm wasting my life. The sad part is, I agree with her that I've accomplished nothing of value and probably never will, but I don't agree that I'm not trying to... I mean, my art is something, right? I didn't think it was a complete waste, but...

On top of that, the music instructor for LCC called and said he doesn't want any flutes in the jazz band. Reminds me of eighth grade all over again. I was the first jazz flutist in the district and I've been playing longer than almost anyone at these schools (although, classical-- a little different). I may not be very good, but still, I wish I had a chance to prove myself. LCC has the worst (in my opinion) of all the school affiliated jazz bands, and I think it would be a little embarrasing to get rejected from that one. And besides, it's not like they're going to win any awards and this may be my last chance to be part of a band-- I love the music and I love the mentality, but I don't have an ear good enough to continue playing music with other people.

(And I refuse to join the concert band-- I promised myself I would never play Sousa again.)

I know I'm watching too many people when I go to browse and clicking on random thumbnails gets me stuff by someone I watch. And this happens more than it should.

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In other news, I spent today doing one of those free lace designs. Those are those things where you sew ribbons to a piece of paper in a design and then soak the whole thing in water so the paper dissolves and you get a really cool pattern (I'll have pictures tomorrow when it dries). The thing I realized afterwords, though, was that I didn't overlap all of the criscrossing strands enough, so some aren't attached at the end^^. Now I know, at least.

My mom said we should go into business with those, since now that I know how to do them, I could do a simple scarf/stole thing in half an hour-- the only problem is that we'd have to sell them for $70 just because the materials are so expensive. And for jackets and shawl kind of things, it'd be even more because the larger paper is so expensive. >_< It was a cute idea, though.

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