Holli's Sweet Vibes

Holy crap, I post!

2008-01-11T06:15:45Z

I'm posting for no reason! Now to go frequent some doujinshi livejournal communities! HA HA!!!!

Almost a year since my last post

2007-05-12T09:23:21Z

Boo!

I never post. I sleep now. :D

Post-teeth-pulling

2006-08-15T08:09:23Z

It's been pretty uneventful. Most of you already know my condition after getting surgery on Wednesday to have my wisdom teeth extracted (most of my pals here I know in person). But some don't, so here's everything. :D

I only had 2 wisdom teeth; lower left and upper right. I had them pulled Wednesday around 9:30ish and was back home pretty quickly. As usual, the doctor couldn't find a vein to put the i.v. in. I have a wonderful resulting bruise in the crook of my right arm as result; there's only a little prick in my lower left arm where they eventually got an i.v. in.

I was starving, but threw up after eating Wednesday. I felt a lot better. Heh. After that it's been pretty ho-hum. I stayed with my parents until Friday and drove back to Kville late afternoon. I've already been back to work since Saturday even though even know I still have facial swelling and stitches in my mouth that still haven't dissolved.

My upper right has been fine. I only have a slight tinge of something that is hardly pain remaining. And the stitch. I do have a bruise on my face on the lower right from the duration of my teeth being pulled, but it's almost gone already too. My left side is a different story.

My lower left wisdom tooth had to be extracted as soon as possible b/c it was threatening to sever the nerves off in my jaw. So, after it got removed, even now my lower half of the left side of my face has a half-asleep tingling; half of my lower lip and chin are still completely devoid of feeling and numb; the skin and flesh at least. I can feel the pressure of my hand on the area if I push. Hopefully this will clear up soon; the swelling isn't gone yet all the way.

This lower left tooth was impacted, pushing in on my other teeth on my lower left, so all my lower left teeth are now moving and expanding into the new space. It's a dull pain-but-not-pain sensation; no all that different from when I had braces. So, that's nothing new for me.

Well, I don't actually work again until Thursday, so I plan to clean, draw, watch anime, read manga, organize and plan for the next few days. Next week is Freshman week for Truman, and I need to get an advertising poster for our anime club designed and poste before the week starts. Yay. :D

btw, I'm just pissed right now b/c I had to completely rewrite this entry after it didn't post at deviantART, where I was initially writing it. Damn them and their 3 o'clock maintence ambushing me. :S

Homeward

2006-08-08T17:31:33Z

I won't be on here for the next few days; in fact, I won't even be in my house. I'm going back to my parents' house tonight b/c of oral surgery I'm having carried out tomorrow. I still have to get my stuff together and get chores done before I leave, but as long as I'm back at my parents' by 8, I think that's fine, so I'll have to leave only as late as 6.

I'm going to miss my kitty. :( That and my parents have a horrible interent dial-up connection and an old '98 computer, so I don't expect I'll be on here much until I get back to my house. Hopefully I'll be well enough to leave my parents by Friday, since I need to be well enough to work by Saturday *fingers crossed*.

I guess I'll draw like I haven't been able to while back at my parents, but who knows. So, see you guys later. :D

(entry copied from deviantART account)

Over a year

2006-07-26T23:21:50Z

After more than a year (a year and a couple months) I decided to randomly post on here again. HUH. My most current rubbish and mayhem will still be noted on my deviantART account, but I'll try to be good and post here too. :D

Looks like I'll watch some Aqua Teen Hunger Force before I study for my next Trig test tomorrow. Yay....

Star Wars III

2005-05-19T08:27:11Z

I'll say just one thing.

VAST improvement from previous 2 movies. Ha ha.

So, yep. If you didn't want to really see the 3rd one b/c you were disappointed with the first 2, you might give this one a chance.

Been awhile...some randomness

2005-04-10T08:04:28Z

Yep, I'm working on some JINS stuff, but I'll go to sleep soon. But before that, this little entry is a break. So, for some randomness!

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I don't know what to think of Loveless, having read a bit of the manga before hand (about 2 volumes) and know watching the anime.

At this point I just have morbid curiousity to see what else happens. I still can't get over the stupid cat ears...but...it's very very pretty as mentioned by friends of mine in anime club. I'll give it that. I am a shounen-ai/yaoi fan, and if anything though, I will continue to watch for the pretiness.

So, We Suck Fansubs decided to fansub Loveless. Generally they don't do shounen-ai; or rather they don't specialize in it. They've been getting some interesting feedback, including some hilarious glimpses of homophobia.

I think I read the best quote of the evening in a post in their blog (http://we-suck.blogspot.com/2005/04/back-from-period-without-projects.html) b/c of some of the responses they've been getting:

"To those of you making immature OMG!Yaoi!Sux0r!comments: I give you each a nice, warm cup of STFU."

Hee hee, that just struck me really really funny.

Other than that, I've been doing homework and getting scared by the prettiness that is Shoutarou Morikubo, the voice actor of Shikamaru in Naruto. O.o Wow. Take a look: http://www.jeddy.org/koe/say/raphael/vox0007_009_nanaban.jpg

That caused another great laugh for me. Oh, well. Laterz.

This little dribble of stuff is also on the journal section of my DeviantART site. It's where I spend a lot of time online anymore if I have ANY time. I plan to have a lot of fun with it this summer. :D http://holligenet.deviantart.com

Samurai Champloo

2005-03-22T05:40:19Z

The ending...huh.

Okay, back to my JINS research paper outline...or shower. Yes, shower first. Avoid outline longer....

Mid-term stress

2005-03-09T21:53:53Z

School Fun
Mid-term week is coming to a close. Blah. I haven't performed nearly as well as I wanted to in my classes so far this semester, so to say the least, mid-terms haven't been very fun for me. But geez...I try to balance classes and work as well as I can--Friday nights with anime club are the only time I'm social anymore....

Well, I have lots of cleaning and studies to do over break. I was thinking about asking for more work over break from ol' Wally World, but I think I'll do without...I have my hands full enough the way it is; I'll be lucky if I get to re-assume any of my hobbies over break (my own drawing, website maintaining and writing fanfiction). The only hobby I have been able to still do at this point is DJ-ing, b/c I have to show up and do that, since it is one of my responsibilities, hobby or not.

The week is starting to finally slow down, but tonight I work from 5 to 10 and I have to revise an essy and have 10 layout sketches for VisCom I, fill out a mandatory survey for my JINS course and study my ass off for the Hirigana quiz.... It's going to be a longer night than I want it to be. By Friday I have to have a mat cut and a sketch done on a litho plate in litho pencil for Printmaking too...and at this point I have no idea what I want to illustrate (nevermind the 10 sketches I have to pull out my ass tonight...).

Highlights of the Week
My highlight for the week was getting Saiyuki manga #7, as well as new episodes of Samurai Champloo, Monster, Bleach, Tactics and Sukisyo (which I've only been able to watch Monster and Sukisyo so far). That and finally getting the entire D.N.Angel anime to download (even though this anime kinda sucks and the manga is far better).

Other than that, probably making people laugh when I snorted while laughing too hard or accidently cursing or screaming too loud from aggravation in the Printmaking studio yesterday and today. When I do that, everyone in the class kinda turns around and stares at me...oops. That last one is a pretty sad highlight, LOL.

Anime that isn't really good but I keep watching
Tactics is one. It is an episodic series with a continuity plot flying around somewhere in the background...a standard exorcist kind of story with a monster to fight an episode. Ha ha, well entertaining enough (and I hear the manga is good). Yay, Haruka praised me!

The other one is Sukisyo...the episodes are so disconjointed, and seriously this anime is hard to really like unless you like severly cute characters and antics...that and you're curious enough to keep watching to wonder what the hell is the big plot that is going on that hopefully tie the series together by the end.... Since I last posted, I did actually find some Sukisho manga...really different to say the least, and it seems to be only shounen-ai, unlike the anime that seems to be turning up the yaoi implications as far up as it can for a tv show's restrictions.... HEE HEE

Well, I like 'em, b/c I'm a dork. Heh heh.

I'm either going to do my homework like I'm suppose to or I'm going to nap or just take a breather before I go to work. I guess I should be doing my homework...not doing things like watching Sukisyo or Samurai Champloo, or posting on this journal. LOL, oh well. I need a break.

Mmm...juice boxes are good.

CREDITS :P

2005-03-01T18:42:03Z

Carberry, Edward. Glassblowing: an introduction to artisitic and scientific flameworking.

Clark, Willene B. The Stained Glass Art of William Jay Bolton. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992.

Gurzadian, G.G. Handbook of nonlinear optical crystals. Berlin; New York: Springer, 1999.

Hourihane, Colum. ed. Objects, images, and the word: art in the service of the liturgy. Princeton: Princton University Press, 2003.

Husband, Timothy B. Stained glass before 1700 in American collections. Washington D.C.: University Press of New England, 1991.

Gill Sans was a font developed specifically to simplify the current lettering in the 1920s. The font was developed by Eric Gill, a man known for self-contradictions and all around oddity. If Gill Sans as well as Gill's other popular font Perpetua had not been so beautifully designed and dinstictive, his contributions to typography may have gone unnoticed.

Eric Gill was a narutal talent for design who grew up loving to draw. Even though he disliked advancing technology and thought of it as taking away from true artistic notions, he often foun himself pressured to design type fonts. Always a fan of contradition, he may have despised technology, but still loved trains and illustrating them as a child.

At age 17, he was employed for the first time at a London architect's office, and attended Edward Johnston's lettering class. Gill's enrollment in the class and contact with Johnston is wat often pressured him to design letter faces. He did become a skilled calligrapher and lettering artist which would help him in masonary work, which was the only logical path for his career, considering his abilities. He had few commissions at first, but then was soon in high demand...however, he was picky abou his jobs and the end result was that he was often on the edge of poverty.

Gill was a converted Catholic, but was far from being "holy." He prided himself on being a very devout Catholic, but constantly contradicted himself with his activities outside of work. Known for adventurous and bizarre sexual endeavors, amazingly his wife remained faithful to him (who he had 3 daughters with) until his death at Pigotts in 1961. His perversity in attitude towards his sexual activities made his views on religion seem impossible for himself. Gill had been quoted as saying "Without philosophy man can not know what he makes; without religion he can not know why."

Gill was a late bloomer in typography

HOLLY GOES CRAZY!!!

...yep that was random. :D

Anyhoo, I think I'll talk about Sukisyo next time I update my journal. HEE HEE HEEEEE....

Heh heh

2005-02-27T10:42:30Z

I should be sleeping...heh heh heeeeeeh....

Work and VisCom stuff tomorrow and I'm still up...doing...stuff...*laughs evilly* Well, I hadn't seen Tiff in months and she was here in K-ville, so I had to chat and chat...and watch Fujimi Orchestra with her :P. And talk about...weird stuff. :D *EVIL GRIN* So, I'm still up, stupid stupid me.

UGH. I just want to do some YnM fanstuff. Well, I did a little at my YnM site. :P

Blah blah blah

2005-02-02T07:08:16Z

Well, I'm going to go to sleep and get up early to work on my VisCom I and Printmaking stuff before I go to Printmaking class tomorrow. UGH.

My critique for VisCom I is Thursday, and I'm not looking forward to it. I may have something done and ready, but Daryl never tends to like my work, and I'm really worried that my huge efforts to get anything done the past 2 weeks has been a wasted effort. Well...it's a critique. I have the weekend to work on it again...but still. Tomorrow I only have an hour and a half after class for when I can go into the VisCom lab to work on stuff before I have to go to work at 4...urgh. Well, at least somehow I was lucky enough that I wasn't scheduled to work today.

I hate being this busy again already. And I know it's only going to get worse. I wish I had more of a knack for the field of area I am in...most of the time my work is so subpar, and that's after a lot of genuine effort on my part. However, if I wasn't a VisCommie, I don't know what I'd be studying for in college.

Well, Bleach and Fruits Basket are the 2 new anime series our Anime Club will be showing. Yay! Two of my favorites! ^_^ The only problem we may have is that there IS a possiblity that we wil run out of Bleach episodes since fansubbers don't crank the episodes out very consistently. Right now there are 16 episodes out; more than an average 13 episode series yes, but still it could be a problem later.

So since I know Fruits Basket will be shown on Fridays, I know now what I can show for Shoujo Night. Yep, come to find out I did have the day off work anyway, so Shoujo Night will be happening Feb. 12th.

UGH. I wish I could get back to my hobbies and fandoms! I may just force myself to do so during a brief break in my work I may get sometime (probably not until a Spring Break or something). URGH.

Hmph, my throat feels funny. A lot of colds and flu have been going around, so I pray to God I'm not getting really ill. I really can't afford to have that happen...I could really care less about missing work (even though I used up all my sick days last semester), but my schoolwork is another matter. Dammit. That's what I get for drinking too much Mountain Dew to stay awake...it's made my throat raw and my body weak to contract sickness. Yay. That and I haven't been taking my vitamins lately. Oops.

Tiff, sorry I didn't call when you left a message Monday...I haven't exactly had time to really call and have enough time and peace of mind to give you a good conversation. I'll try to give you a holler soon.

Well, that's that. Laterz.

Ludwig Hohlwein, famous German Illustrator

2005-01-25T18:40:26Z

That's the name I've been staring at since 10:30, and up until 2:00 am last night (well, this morning). He is a reknowned illustrator, and I picked him to do my VisCom design on, but it's hard to make a picture about him and his life when there is no info about him at all! Online you can find all kinds of sites featuring his famous posters, but no biographies (unless you read German).

Unfortunately this famous designer and his contributions have been tarnished by his affiliation with the Nazi party (he created war propaganda for them). So, I'd like to do my project without necessarily including Nazis if I can, just because that's how Hohlwein is usually remembered anyway.

It's weird...everything in my life recently has Germany involved, either briefly or a lot...this project, watching Monster or Fullmetal Alchemist...huh.

Well, whatever. Back to it. I get out of here (VisCom I) at 1:20...hopefully Daryl will come by here soon to give me some feedback. Then to my JINS course...yay.

Well, crap

2005-01-21T18:01:43Z

I was planning on having a Shoujo Night on Feb. 12th, but I know a new schedule came out at Wal-Mart today, and chances are I'll be working that day, which isn't bad in itself since Shoujo Night is at night, but I probably will be working in the evening (a combination of forgetfulness and being busy made me forget to request the day off in time). I'll have to see...Shoujo night might have to wait until the next Saturday. That's not such a bad thing either though; we'll probably have plenty of romance stuff the 11th at the regular meeting to celebrate Valentine's Day, so we might need a break from all the girliness, lol.

Well, time for me to go to Printmaking...I hope I did what I was suppose to for this board...that and I hope I picked up the right gloves I needed.

Anime Club tonight! Woo! It's been a long week already....

Been forever

2005-01-19T06:18:28Z

It's a new year and new fun and hell. Yay!

Everyday things: Class and Work
Well, my work schedule is adjusted and I had my first day of classes. I'm just back from work right now actually. Any hoo, it looks like it will be some work in the classes, but with fewer hours at work, hopefully it won't be a problem.

I'm really looking forward to anime club resuming this Friday. Hee hee, I hope everyone isn't as dead tired as they were during the administrative meeting when everyone just got back on Sunday. I, of course, was still in Kirksville for most of Winter Break, so I was okay, even though I am a bit brain-dead from lack of any good stimuli over break; Wal-Mart is trying to kill my brain! That's the main reason I didn't really get to really have fun with my drawing and writing hobbies over break; I was either at work or too dead tired to do little more than watch new anime or tv.

My new schedule is at Wal-Mart, but now they're scheduling me when they're not suppose to; I am slightly pissed. Fortunately it looks like it will be okay for now, but they better not screw up the next schedule like they did for me today.

Watching the dirtiest Yaoi anime ever and classical music
I went out of my way to watch the smutiest yaoi/shounen-ai anime out there over break, via BitTorrent. Why? Heh, why not?

Well, there are two main reasons: I write reviews for Boys on Boys on Film.com (even if it has been awhile since my last review). Second reason is just so I can be proud and say I've seen these things. LOL.

I've now watched Boku no Sexual Harrassment, Zetsuai, Enzai, Fujimi Orchestra, Kaze to Ki no Uta: Sanctus, Legend of Four Horsemen (Blue Wolves), Level C, and the Mirage of Blaze OVA. I'll be watching Lesson XX after I shower and find something to eat, and of course after I finish this entry. LOL.

Honestly, most of these anime were horrible. In my opinion, none were either really good porn or a really good plot. If you can't have both, at least have one! LOL.

Well, I did like Kaze to Ki no Uta for the retro-ness it embodies and artistic touch, as well as Fujimi Orchestra's disturbing plot set to classical Wagner music, giving it a very interesting atmosphere and feel that highly disturbs but intrigues the viewer. That makes me angry that I can't get more of the Fujimi Orchestra story, since the anime is actually based off novels, like Mirage of Blaze, and those books will never be translated (or at least not for a very, very long time!), and just forget about any Fujimi manga being translated too! Plus, I like stories like this; depressing, melancholy, but still a happy sad.

The moral of Fujimi Orchestra: If you are a straight man who is a violinest and music master of a local orchestra and don't even kiss your girlfriend in the 3 years you've been together, she can't but help think you're gay and assume so...and the one guy she likes and you hate the most (the conductor of your orchestra) can't help but think the same thing and fall in love with you and then sexually assult you. O.o So don't be shy, the youthful men of today! :P

The Mirage of Blaze OVA was good to my liking, continuing the plot of the original tv series I have on dvd. Still very much the gay soap opera. I liked Fujimi Orchestra and Kaze to Ki no Uta for being very artistic. Mirage of Blaze was also artistic, but was a good anime because it was a little more tasteful than all the other anime I watched besides Fujimi Orchestra and Kaze to Ki no Uta. Yes, my yaoi can have tasteful, sensual moments. Nyeh!

Watching Fujimi Orchestra and Kaze to Ki no Uta, as well as the ending of Fullmetal Alchemist awhile back has revived my taste for classical music. I'm enjoying Chopin right now actually; I plan to get some Wagner very soon on cd.

Well, that's that. I'll talk about the more normal anime I watched over break later. I'm going to shower, eat, watch Lesson XX and sleep. It's nice that tomorrow I only have one class at 12:30 and that I don't even work tomorrow. Yay!

Sometimes I feel like such a dork

2004-12-22T00:14:19Z

Over break I've been watching the anime BECK Mongolian Chop Squad, Meine Liebe and the 2 special series of Black Jack. Ah, amusing.

BECK Mongolian Chop Squad: Tanaka Yukio, better known by his nickname Koyuki is a 14 year old who feels disconnected from life in general. Through the act of saving a mismatched dog, he meets guitarist Minami Ryuusuke, and becomes involved in Ryuusuke's new band BECK. Koyuki's life starts to change as the band struggles towards fame.

BECK is great for the fact that nearly half the cast is suppose to be fluent in English, and sometimes what they say is hardly clear English. That and apparently English speaking people (specifically Americans) can't have a conversation without saying 'fuck'. Ha ha, that may be the case for me, but not most Americans. Ah, tis to laugh. Not the best series by any stretch of the imagination, but it amuses me.

Meine Liebe: In the Germanic country Kuchen, a group of 5 young men (with one actually being Japanese...of course) attend Rosenstolz (Rose's Pride) Academy. They struggle with the inner politics of their country and the tensions between them that stem from their different ideals. All have the potential to be accepted into Strahl (Ray of the Sun), the decision making group that advise the king. Who has the right ideas, motivation and popularity will determine who will make it into Strahl.

Meine Liebe (Which translates to "My Love", yay German) is a series that amuses me for all the wrong reasons. Supposedly a shounen (boys) series, the characters are too pretty and the tensions between them too odd, that it suggests to me that it is more of a shounen-ai series, but never crosses that fine line...like so many series before it that have the same kind of characters and themes, for example Weiß Kreuz (also a German title that translates to 'Knight Hunters' supposedly) and Saiyuki and all their sequel series. In fact, the lead character Orpherus looks so much like Aya from Weiß Kreuz, it's quite disturbing...even though their eye color and hair color differ.

This show has character designs by the notorious Kaori Yuki (known for her gothic manga Ludwig Kakumei, Angel Sanctuary, Kaine and Boys Next Door) which is a definite "yay!"

It's also full of voice actors known for doing series like this (or in Toshihiko Seki's case, he's in everything) it's been fun for me.

The not quite as well known Takahiro Sakurai voices Orpherus.

Toshihiko Seki as Ludwig (Count D in PetShop of Horrors, Legato in Trigun, Takuya in Mirage of Blaze, Genjo Sanzo in Saiyuki, Duo in Gundam Wing, Iruka in Naruto).

Akira Ishida as Naoji (Kaworu in Eva, Satoshi in D.N.Angel, Cho Hakkai in Saiyuki, Gaara in Naruto).

Souichiro Hoshi as Camus (Son Goku in Saiyuki, Yuki in Infinite Ryvius).

Tomokazu Seki as Eduard (Kyo in Fruits Basket, Dee in FAKE, Van in Escaflowne, Shuichi from Gravitation, Ken in Weiß Kreuz).

I spend my entire time laughing at this series, but unlike Weiß Kreuz, the animation isn't so bad that I get tired of it and have to stop watching. Speaking of Weiß Kreuz, I do plan on watching the better animated sequel series of that show over break titled Weiß Kreuz Glühen (or Knight Hunters Eternity, which ever title you prefer).

As for Black Jack, it's another Osamu Tezuka classic series brought to life in animation in recent years since his death in 1989. Creator of Kimba the White Lion, Astro Boy and Unico, Black Jack is another one of Tezuka's series that I have always enjoyed and try to get ahold of (i.e. the movie I have for example that was made in 1996).

Black Jack: A unlicensed doctor who goes by the name Black Jack, supposedly has the hands of God when it comes to surgery, but he charges outrageous amounts of money for his services. A medical miracle himself (a survivor of an explosion in an abandoned land mine field), he does his best to do what is right and humane when helping his patients.

I have always thought that Black Jack was a great character because even though he's a very good person, he often comes across as a jerk when he makes people fight on their own to stay alive. Hee hee, so mean.

Anyway, the reason why I feel like a dork is because while watching the 2 series specials for Black Jack, I have caught every single reference to other Tezuka characters and stories.

The End. That's why I feel like a dork! LOL

Well enough of that. I got to get ready for work. Bye-bye.

Yatta!

2004-12-18T04:38:47Z

Well everyone, Finals Week is finally over! Yay!

By some miracle I have Christmas Eve and Christmas off at work...New Years Eve too! (But don't know about New Years Day yet).

Time to get back to my muses! Poor neglected hobbies. Tsk, tsk, tsk. I'm praying with my hours reduced at work, next school semester I won't be nearly as busy *prays some more*.

If I was suppose to do anything online-wise for anyone and I haven't done it yet, remind me! I'll do it now...yeesh! Between school, work, the anime club business, crazy roommates, my computer either shattering cds or crashing altogether (3 times), and my older sister getting married, I've been pretty busy!

Hopefully I'll have more interesting things to post about next time during my winter break. Laterz!

Fullmetal Alchemist: Holy crap, dude!

2004-11-22T06:11:01Z

Well the series made sense but what a MIND FUCK. Holy shit. I really loved it, and I'm of the opinion that it was so good, I know hate it. LOL, in a good way. I'm really pissed off because it was so great, I can't freakin' wait until the movie comes out next year. UGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In case you're wondering what I've been up to, I watched all of Fullmetal Alchemist (fansubbed) from episode 21 (where my anime club is currently at) to the very end with episode 51, in a span of a weekend. Did I really have time to do so? Well, I made time, I've seen it all, loved it and now I am pissed that I have to wait until next year for more of the story of this series. I won't say much more about the series (specifically the end), but I am pissed that I now have to wait for more of this series in the movie (which I hope is a continuation of the story and not a rehash of the tv series...that would be really stupid if it was).

Well...I knew this series was going to be a favorite of mine from the get-go, but it definitely is now. Here's hoping the movie meets my expectations.

Can't wait to talk to people in my club about FMA (those who have seen it all). I want to know what they thought! I thought the world of FMA (considering its time era and that it suppose to look European...but has quirks) looked a bit off and weird!

Anyway...more stuff about my actual life later, LOL, but I had to spew out my divine anger (or rather frustration, but it's a good kind). Thanksgiving break is coming up, and my older sis is getting married two days after that (I'm the maid of honor), and I have all my schoolwork to do for the end of semester too at the same time! So, I'm going to be busy! Later!

So you know I'm alive

2004-11-10T05:51:38Z

I wish I could write and bitch longer, but life is busy busy stuff with my current classes and work.

I have two speeches to write and perform for a class I'm otherwise failing at the moment (even though I'm passing all my other classes). Fun fun fun.

My major requires I take a class this next semester that will interfer with me taking my second section of Japanese. AGAIN. Double fun. Hopefully the university will let me do independent study if my teacher can get through to them....

My computer has basically died twice now. That's why I don't update or frequent this journal or my websites hardly anymore. I barely have enough computer time access to do my schoolwork (i.e. my speeches, and I can't stand working in the library).

My job doesn't take up all the hours of my weekday evenings, but just enough that I can't get research and writing done by the time I can get to the library. And my weekends I spend all day working a lot of times.

My sister's wedding is coming up and I'm the maid of honor. My first speech is two days after that.

So...yeah. Fun. And even though I have an A in Japanese, it's starting to get a little difficult now. Hooray, just in time for the end of semester. On a brighter note, I got a B on my essay rewrite in WACT class, and I got a A- on my last essay. Unfortunately, I also found out I don't need this class...I already have credit for it in high school. URGH. Tell you about that one later too.

Well, that's just part of it. Lots of stuff has happened and there's a lot of anime, manga and music I'd like to rant about for fun right now, but can't. I just need to relax right now and look at my homework. I'll indulge you into my life later, probably during my month long winter break. Right about then I should hopefully have my computer permenantly fixed, and I won't be enrolled in class taking up all my time. Then I can get back to my fandoms! YAAAAAYYYY!!! (namely fanart and fanfiction fun, among other things).

I'm hanging in there (if by a thread!). Unlike many, I'm not letting anxiety and/or depression get to me at this point (which can be good and bad). Hopefully I won't pop a vein because of that. Ha ha ha ha.

Laterz.

Briefly a tale about death cds

2004-10-22T07:42:33Z

So, after fixing my computer so I could access internet again, I asked my sister if I could bring my computer by her place again to help me go through the files and get rid of programs I didn't need or weren't suppose to be there. So, through some mishap after trying to get rid of an expired anti-virus program, my computer lost an important Windows XP file. As my sister tried to re-install it from her XP cd in my burner drive (my rom drive doesn't work; I just use my burner), the burner spun the cd so frickin' fast, it actually shattered the cd. I was laying on the floor next to my hard drive when I saw pieces of cd fly across the room and hit the wall. Man, did I ever sit up bolt right! Colin, Ang and I all went "what the hell?!" and we all went straight for my hard drive to disconnect the power and other connetions at the same time. It sucked, but admittedly that weird incident was pretty funny and we were snickering about it as Colin cleaned out shattered cd from my hard drive.

So, I got my sister's burner so I can still access cds and until I get a new burner. Samsung burners break cds, lol. My new burner should be a Phillips. :D

But, at least the important repairs are done after I told Colin and Ang to fix up everything on my comp at once. So, I can access the internet again. My comp isn't as nearly as slow. I can watch anime I download now b/c my video card is so much better. And I think I have another stick of memory.

My sister wanted to write a check today, but had nothing she needed to get, so she got me a burner and a new black ink cartridge I needed. She was going to get me a new hard drive (so I have even more memory), but Wal-Mart was currently out. Blah. I'll get that myself next paycheck unless I have enough money after I pay Ang for the cartridge and burner this time around (but I doubt that).

I just want to rant about Naruto right now. Or giggle about it and Yami no Matsuei. I don't know which. Or maybe I want to do both. Dunno. Actually if I have any spare time, I should finish up my readings, visit my professors, work on my entry for the anime club t-shirt design, and especially...sleep. I really don't sleep enough. No wonder I can't get up early when I want to. I haven't missed a single class yet this semester, but I haven't been able to get up early to get stuff done either.

UGH. I still need to email those cosplayers about where they got their huge fans for the costumes of Temari like Kira told me to do. I'll do it soon...ugh. But life is stressin' me. I'll tell ya even more about it next time.

Any hoo, I want to yell and scream about my latest Typography project, but Dean already got to hear about it, and I should sleep instead of writing more in this entry. Good-night.

I hate WAC

2004-10-19T04:05:41Z

I hate Writing as Critical Thinking with every fiber of my being. I love the critical thinking and discussions, hell even the readings, but I can't write essays worth half a crap! ARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!

So, yeah, I'm in the midst of rewriting my essay, due on Wednesday. Hopefully I can get a good chunk done tonight and talk to Kuhlman about it tomorrow during her office hour *grumble grumble*

Just wait until I tell you about how my computer blew up again. It'll be fun. I'm posting from my roommate's computer again.

*cries* All I want to do is fan stuff again (yammer about Yami no Matsuei and Naruto), work on my own art stuff, and lay back and relax...ARGH!

Essays and Hunger

2004-10-12T19:11:43Z

Just got done with my radio show and I'm sitting at a station computer...hmmm...I feel rather brain dead today. And I'm hungry. Hmmmm.... Hopefully I'll perk up; I have a midterm test to study for in Public Speaking (shouldn't be hard, but I have to actually read the chapters of our text now) and a couple brief things to write for that class tomorrow too. And I have a WAC conference. Interesting.

Kuhlman couldn't figure out where I was coming from on my formal essay in WAC, so I received no grade for it on Monday. I have to go to a conference to talk to her anyway for midterm, but she made sure I was at a time where she could talk to me longer than the 15 minute slots she has for everyone else. I have a feeling this is another example of how I'm too random; it reared its ugly head in my essay. Fun. Hopefully I can get away with a C on this paper. Blah.

Well, I have class at 2:30 and I still want to get some food. I'd better go and get with it. If I don't, I won't get anything done before I have to go to work tonight either. Laterz.

Right now :P

2004-10-11T19:14:02Z

From my main website:

10/11/04, 2:10 PM: Hey, just letting you know I'm alive; unfortunately my computer died...so yep. And I'm freakingly busy...well, somewhat busy with midterms this week. So...when my computer is fixed, I'll get back to making more artwork (yay!). And hopefully I'll write a new Sparks of Interest before the month is out. Later!

BLAH.

Maybe I'll talk again later. But I have a Japanese midterm today at 2:30 and I'm currently stuck in a computer lab for Speech. Yay.

La, la, laaaaaaaaaa

2004-10-08T05:38:51Z

Wooooo...back from work...better go see what homework I have...or at least go to sleep, if anything.

But then again, I have new manga (The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok #1, Bleach #3 and Peace Maker Kurogane #1) and I'm hungry....

*wanders off to be mischevious*

It's been forever

2004-10-04T15:41:09Z

But for good reason. I had to pass Proficiency (sp?) so I could remain a VisCom major in my university. I almost didn't get through that; had a low pass. But, it's still a pass and I don't have to do it again...I can remain a VisCom major. Huzzah.

The Anime Club is keeping me pretty busy. LOL, yep. :P At this point I'm just happy I'm keeping most everyone happy, considering everyone's different tastes in anime and also their different opinions on what's appropriate content in our anime.

My new reduction of hours at Wal-Mart from 20 to 25 hours a week to 17 to 22 finally went into effect Saturday. About time. Oddly enough though, I only have 15 hours scheduled for me next week and then 25 or 26 the next week; that's hit both ends of the spectrum of what I didn't want on hours. Grrrrr....

My sister's bridal shower is Saturday. That'll be a hoot and a half. :D LOL

Well anyway, I'm in Typography class right now, and suppose to be working on my 3rd project. That's what the text in my last entry was from; the random text I picked up to put in my last project I handed in what...last week? I dunno anymore. Blah. Er. Well, I felt like slightly venting so I can organize my thoughts.

So in my hassles and perpetual status of always being busy these past few weeks, I've missed some pretty crucial things as I barely scrape by.

My computer has no internet and I'm attempting to fix it; it's made getting homework done much more difficult and now I can't keep up with the manga I read online (my fun shounen-ai ones and Naruto; speaking of which, I have some ranting to do about Naruto some time in a future post). I

n a post at my anime club's forum, I don't even have the decency to post correctly what I wanted from a friend who is currently in Japan (maybe not a big deal, but it's irritating me and may be a big deal to him).

I always feel like I'm keeping peace in anime club; I know I'm imagining things, but sometimes I think things feel hostile in meetings; that may just be remnants of feelings I expect to sense in these meetings from past years...in other words, right now I'm probably being paranoid. As usual. :P Having to shout every two minutes when announcing things is getting old-hat and right now I'm trying not to become a bitch or come across as one. Yes, I am president, but geezes. It shouldn't be this hard to relay information, especially in our administrative meetings. Then having to be fake friendly in Wal-Mart is irritating me also I think. And I'm becoming everyone's emotional dumpster. My sister's venting (which is okay and I'm use to), but also Randi's morningstar_hel which I try hard to not be insensitive about when she's concerned for Rocky. I'm not trying to be a bitch, I keep trying. *sighs* Chris needed advice the other day which caused me to be up until 4 talking to him. And then people just constantly are in need of my company. Zach hasn't been able to hang out with me all year until yesterday, and that's not his fault; but I had a speech to work on for today, and I have yet to finish that up and get decent looking in the hour I have before it. Dean and Chris stopping by has never been a problem and it's not all the time, but lately just a few visits are becoming time contraints to me...and it's not like I want them to stop coming by! And my other housemate Jessica is great to talk to, but proves way too distracting at times. Urgh.

I had so many things to get done after Proficiency, but they've not happened yet. The outside of my car has been cleaned, but not the inside (it's filthy and smelly). I managed to bathe my cat yesterday, but still have not cleaned the bathroom like I said I would this past week. I need to take recyclables by the Recycling center AGAIN (we have far more recyclables to get rid of; our regular trash is only half in amount of our recyclables). But between housecleaning, schoolwork, work, and the club, I'm going batty. If anything, I shouldn't be so fussy about the house, but if I'm not, no one will be; the bathroom is absolutely gross right now, at least in my opinion.

Basically at this point, I need some me time and the reassurance again that I'm not pissing off anyone (sigh, again as usual). I'm so friggin' paranoid, it makes me annoying. BLAH. Well, things will be cleared up after Matt gives me a reply on the forum (whether he'll still get things for me in Japan or not after I didn't post what I wanted correctly) and after my speech...maybe before my sister's bridal shower this Saturday, I can find time to relax, but also work ahead in my classes. Blah. But, I have class, meetings and tutoring before I can relax today. Bye!