ninja mode

Hi! I know how to use Flash!

dance dance dance!

it’s…somethin’!

WHOOOOOA

Last Conservative did a concert at the high school I went to.

AND MY AMAZING BROTHER GOT ME

AN AUTOGRAPHED CD

:O

I DO NOT WANT TO REMOVE IT FROM THE CASE

Jack Thompson. Also, very yes.

I got a new hard drive for Papaya. Now I have three times as much space as I used to have. This is nice.

I am, however, afraid to put it back on the network. D:

I was a skipper of school yesterday. I woke up and felt like I’d eaten a box of rocks, and that said rocks wanted out. Which is not a good feeling. So I went back to bed thinking I’d skip my first class, sleep a little bit, and go to the second one. Well. I woke up and I was actually somehow MORE TIRED than when I first went to sleep. Which is not really a fun thing at all. So I skipped my second class, too, thinking it would be better just to miss a day than to drive all the way over and either throw up all over whatever it was we had to draw or fall asleep and end up in a ditch or tree or something.

I wanted to go back to sleep again, but apparently the amount of tired that I am increases exponentially after sleeping, so as tired as I was I thought I had better do homework before going to sleep and waking up completely dead.

I had to read part of and write a paper on A BOOK OF PURE INSANITY. There are just no other words for it. In this book they try to state that the world became less religious and more scientific/mathematical because of the development of perspective in art. The entire world. Because some people learned to draw with depth. I disagree. Also at some point the author(s?) went off on some kind of feminist tirade about how photos of women are NO MATTER WHAT objectifying and therefore degrading. (And therefore, bad!) And how as a result of this cameras are bad by proxy. MAKES LOTS OF SENSE, YES? Yes, indeed. I went with Cliff to school and worked on said paper on the laptop while he was in class figuring that the place was so boring there’d be no possible distractions for me. There weren’t many. The internet blipped on and off the radar a little, but apparently was only fast enough to allow little bits and pieces and not the entire internet. Which is probably good, because I got my ridiculously boring paper done. As soon as I did finish, the internet vanished completely, and I had nothing to do. So I watched the end of the definitely not bootlegged copy of the Battlestar Galactica miniseries thing I snagged from Scott (whose brand new domain IS STRANGELY VERY EMPTY AHEM) which was really really really good. The ending was totally definitely not what I expected. Just wow. There really are no words for it.

We went to Target after Cliff got done with his class and walked around. I got caramel apple pop! And it actually does taste like caramel apple and not like sugary death in a can!! We also found a small shelf entirely of Harry Potter candies like chocolate frogs and every flavor beans, and fizzing whizbees, which I didn’t know existed. Well, I knew the beans existed, but I think it’s neat that they are doing the other candies too. Cliff bought a bag of every flavor beans WHICH IS TERRIFYING AND I WILL ABSOLUTELY NOT EAT ANY EVER because in with the normal happy flavors like strawberry and other fruity things there are flavors like: soap, bacon, dirt, etc. The colors of the nasty flavors and the happy flavors are just a bit too close for me to be comfortable sticking them in my mouth. Cliff says he is going to take them to work and dump the whole thing into a bowl of jelly bellys they have. Note to self: never take jelly bellys from Cliff EVER AGAIN.

Went to Cliff’s hockey game (which they won, by the way, 11-4) and we ended up there an hour early. We sat in the car for a while because going inside and sitting is usually a cold and boring experience when you’re there that early, so I broke out the laptop again and we started watching my definitely not copied copy of Galactica which is somehow possibly EVEN BETTER the second time around. Yes. However, seeing as it’s about four hours long we’re saving it for Friday or the weekend possibly when we can sit and watch the entire thing at once. :B Yay.

Now I am killing time before school. Today I have biology and visual theory. Neither of them are very fun or in any way interesting. I’ve tried getting out the laptop and using it in class, but apparently the walls of lecture halls are made of LEAD and no signal can get through. Which, you know, I understand not wanting people to access the internet in class because it’s distracting, but there have legitimately been times where I would have liked to google a particular artist in visual theory so I have some idea of who or what he is talking about, and since there’s no internet, I was completely unable to and the meaning was lost. THANKS, UB. D:

I need a new sketchbook. I wish the ones in the bookstore weren’t so expensive, because it’s convenient. Well, it’s funny, because the ones that you’d assume would be expensive aren’t. And the ones more like the semi-cheap ones I usually buy are twice as much. So I’m going to have to go elsewhere for my artsupply needs. Which is somewhat annoying.

I tossed a bunch of sleeved shirts into the dryer about an hour ago. I am hoping they will be dry by the time I have to leave in a half hour. With my luck they won’t.

A dilemma!

After discussing with Cliff, we decided it would be cool to VGL in Toronto because somehow I totally missed the fact that there was a show there. BUT. After further investigation, the only seats that come up as available (in a group) are the gallery seats, which I am gathering are not that great due to the price and location on the little map dealie. “Front Gallery Center” which is ABOVE the balcony. It’s cheaper. But is it worth it??

Who CARES how bad the seats are. I bought tickets anyway.

This is really cool and I wish I could justify buying it so I could carry around the tiniest 1GB of music EVER.

Also the “j” key on the laptop seems to be going. Much like the left ctrl key. This is worrisome.

I want to go to this.

Very.

Very.

Badly.

Today I managed to leave the house on time, get a good 5 minutes away from home, then realize I forgot to grab my parking tag (I borrowed it for when Cliff and I went to get my book and John’s shirt from the bookstore Saturday…shh!!) and after a minute of debating “what’s worse? Being late or getting a ticket or possibly towed? Ticket or lateness? Lateness or no car?!” I turned around and headed back home. Got the parking tag. Left again. An even greater feat was discovering I was speeding and then passing two troopers and the entire Akron police force (yep, all two of ‘em) AND NOT GETTING A TICKET OR EVEN PULLED OVER. HA. Of course, “speeding” to me is anything above the actual limit, so I was probably doing like 47 in a 45 which no one in their right mind would care about.

So I managed to get close to UB with about twelve minutes till class. More debate. Take the bus and know you have a parking spot or try to find the lot close to the CFA and then try to find a spot. I took my chances in finding the closer lot, managed a not-so-close-but-close-enough spot, and ran inside. AND I WAS EARLY. HA! At this point I was quite glad I risked being late and turned around for my parking tag.

Also, apparently, I am not the only one the crazy drawing teacher bugs for “disliking” drawing. He kept pestering two of my classmates about it as well and they had expressions equally as confused as I felt. So it’s good to know I’m not the only one. Then, after that of course, it was all tear down the art of the students he doesn’t like and kiss up to the ones he admires (for no apparent reason – there’s not a drop of individuality in their work) for the rest of class, which was tiresome, but tolerable, since I didn’t really have to do anything.

Now I’m waiting till next class, which I’m hoping I did the right homework for, but who knows since the assignment sheet was oh-so-very well organized. Mostly I just want to go home and sleep. Sleeeeep.