I am reminded why I usually listen to my own body instead of other people. I pulled an all-nighter thinking I could get more work done that way, (because it's finals week and all the cool kids are doing it) but now I'm shaking so badly I can't really hold a pencil or stylus, let alone draw straight lines with it. I got about as much work done as I would have if I had slept for 6 or 8 hours anyway. Great job, self.

I need to stop being so ashamed of actually needing sleep. In the meantime, I have two final crits today. fml.

( relationship tl;dr )

Hng, it's probably the stress getting to me. I'm going to go sleep till my next final and hope I can stop shaking.

If he wasn't already.

He and Aki came up to visit for the weekend <3 I showed them around campus. But Saturday night Aki started feeling crappy and came down with a really high fever. He got a speeding ticket getting her home the next morning...what's usually a 7 hour drive took him 5 and a half hours.


...So now Aki and I both have the flu...lol. Back to bed for me, I guess.

Got my wig today, tho I need to figure out how to make it stay without slipping back. x.x (ponytail is too heavy)

( I looked at myself in the mirror and thought, 'hey, I look like I'm from the eighties.' Then I realized... )

THE ENTIRE ABYSS CAST IN SAFETY HELMETS.

my life is made.

Umineko episode 16: now with ten times more ridiculous!

Turns out Rudolf is Battler's dad, but his mother's name was Asuma, and she was Rudolf's mistress or something? So Kyrie is his stepmother. I feel less dumb since they didn't actually explain that until now.

Looks like while Kyrie had a grudge against his mother for stealing her man, she doesn't hold it against Battler as far as I can tell. She was pretty awesome in this episode, too. I hope Klauss doesn't have a badass scene anytime soon, I want to be able to dislike SOMEONE. XD

Bad cold finally going away. Probably because I've been sleeping abnormal amounts. Now I have to do extra work.

Pumpkin spice milk is the most amazing thing EVER. Next to mint milk. It's like drinking pie.

New Brotherhood ep cheered me up, even if it was filler. New OP is pretty sweet (Olivier!!!) And fuck people complaining about all the Winry in the ED. Winry is awesome.

WHY AM I STILL WATCHING UMINEKO I don't know. morbid curiosity. I kinda wanna see Beato get bitchslapped more.

Actually last night I was having a hard time falling asleep because I couldn't remember which pair of adults are Battler's parents. TOO. MANY. CHARACTERS AT ONCE. Ok, so Natsumi and Klauss are Jessica's parents, Eva and Hideyoshi are George's? Rosa is Maria's mom and I don't remember anymore names. Which would make the silver-haired woman Battler's mother but I thought she was his aunt! Who taught him the chessboard thing...

I could go look this up on Wikipedia but I'm lazy.

Not looking forward to my drawing project. Bleahhhh.

I GOT EUGENE IN TALES OF VS YEAHHHHHHHH

The Dhaos Party battle made me want to shoot myself in the face. Then next I owned Barbatos with Stan and everything was better.

My Mao is SSS rank :p I'm excited to find out what max battle rank is...

Honestly, as crazy as I'm feeling right now, I'm happy to be back here. Even missing a certain someone. (okay, okay, I miss everyone, except my parents, who seem to not be able to survive without a phonecall a week from me. And these are the people that wanted me to move on with my life?) But man, even with the crappy weather and having to drag my portfolio and art box to every class and the food and...wtf. I freaking love this school. I'm happy to be back. Now I need a job...

Still trying to settle in with my schedule, though...being stuck in a hotel room for two weeks before they gave me a dorm didn't help. There's no space to work...then again, there's no real space in a dorm room, either, but....anyway, my roommate's pretty nice, she helped rearrange to make room for my stuff. Hmng. This is my hour break between classes, but tonight I should really get working. Must smack self if I don't. Got two projects to do. Screwing up my med dosage didn't help. I always feel crappy for a few days before my system resets itself.

Something really bizarre is...I'm never popular among people the same age as me, but younger people follow me around like puppies. It's weird. Am I easy to look up to or something? Anyway, I've got another gaggle of freshman groupies this year...

(I don't mean to insult my friends that are younger than me at all. I'm talking about the tendency to get literal groups of people I don't really know following me, wanting to eat lunch, hang out, etc. Not as creepy as it sounds, just odd.)

Class rundown: 2D Design, 3D Design, Drawing, Foundations, Creative Sources, Raster Imaging. 2D is fun, 3D is hands on and messy, Drawing...my first time working with a live nude model. (my mom asked me awkward questions about it.) Foundations is pretty similar to 2D actually, but more focused on developing skills than design. CS is just an hour lecture, and Raster I yawn my way through because I know more about Photoshop than the professor does.

Enough school stuff...I'm not getting back from class till 9 tonight.

On the games front! I cleared all the story modes in Dissidia and Tales of VS. So my PSP's been getting some mileage...and I beat the first Professor Layton (DS) yesterday. If only homework were that fun. :| Of course I'm sorta low on cash right now, but I'm really looking forward to Scribblenauts and the the KH DS game...also been playing some D&D online with my friends. I'm a lvl3 Cleric, which is surprisingly fun. Smashing things with a mace? Awesome. (who said healers can't fight, pshhh) It's also easier to solo in than MapleStory or Asda...especially Asda...x.x...also the community is a refreshing change from MS; significantly lower percentage of stupid people. (probably because they're not all 10 years old) Also the voiced narration standing in for the DM makes me really happy. I never got to play more than one decent D&D game before, so it's pretty nostalgic.

In squealy fangirly news, THE VESPERIA MOVIEEEEEEEEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv6F2ASmqIQ

s-so awesome....

At school. Well, a hotel till they decide to give me housing. :|

Have internet but it's SLOWWWW like molasses.

I made a ToVS comm because there weren't any...but I'm a little nervous about where to advertise...


talesofvs

The only community I actually run is terrafying...that doesn't count. I'M NERVOUS.

TALES OF VS shit it's awesome. I just beat Yuri and Farah's story, and working on Mao and Caius.

....All I have to say about Dhaos is this, though:



>:[

SUCH AN ANNOYING BOSS. AUGHSALASL:KAS:KLASKLAS. With Yuri and Farah you have to fight him FOUR TIMES. I finally figured out a good way to dodge his shoop da whoop without jumping straight into the stage laser. Block and backstep around him, and it misses...I'm sort of dreading going back and playing Phantasia now. ._. PFFF.

Since I preordered it came with a special DVD with a full size version on the game opening, trailers for Vesperia PS3 and Graces, and a special skit commentary with, of all people...Raven from Vesperia, Alice from Symphonia 2, Saleh from Rebirth (wtf? XD), Regret/Legretta from Abyss and Magnius from Symphonia. Fairly hysterical, at least the bits I could understand. XD

Oh, Maple Story. The only place where a pasty white girl like me can get called a nigga.

Seriously? It was sort of surreal. For reference, this is my main, Armelius:



There are plenty of other people who play black charas in MS. I dunno what the big deal was, but I got it from two different people in the span of a few hours. And I've been playing for at least a month now. ._.

Now I can chalk that down on my list of life experiences no one really needs.

On the other hand, I chatted with another player on a ship ride that was really nice, and we ended up doing Monster Carnival together. I joined her guild. :>

TALES OF VS COME IN THE MAIL NOW AHHHH.

hanae0711 IS GOING TO SCHOOL WITH ME THIS YEAR. <3



On an unrelated note, TINY COSPLAYERS. <3

Connecticon pics: http://www.cosplay.com/gallery/158808/p1

*sleeps*

So Connecticon was awesome and now my throat hurts from all the talking/yelling I did. XD I lost a glove, tho... :/ one of my nice leather ones...and the Eyes Have It pin Rue made me T_T fell off my bag.

BUUUUUTTTT I got to see Kay and made some new friends, and got an Anise figure and a Busou Renkin doujin and D20 EARRINGS. <3 (I am a nerd.)

Pics tomorrow~

Off to Connecticon!

+ passed my driving test!


- went up a bra size. :|

Making this post so I can link it from other places, but if anyone's interested in some of this stuff, just comment.


( the list )

Will put up pics + payment information soon, just wanted to get this all down somewhere.

I'm not used to hair bleach working. It always turns my hair this weird orange color and I have to mess around with different colors to cancel it out. So I bleached my hair again and left it in for half an hour or so, since I usually have to leave it longer...maybe it was because it was a lighter brown this time from previous dyeings, but now I'm...blonde. Like...really blonde. I did my eyebrows too and now you can hardly see them. ._. I think I'll get used to it, but it's sort of funny. XD My mom's gonna scream when she gets home today...

I wish I could use the colored hair dye that I got in Boston a while ago, but my work doesn't allow weird colored hair. :/ I kind of want Estelle pink now...

So, I've noticed a bunch of people have been friending me--which is perfectly fine, I'm just not always sure where you're from--people from DA?? Do we share interests? Just here for the fandom stuff? Well, I never felt the need to make my journal friends-only...but the truth is, my parents read it sometimes. :| And there's some RL stuff I'd just rather they didn't know. So fandom posts will still be unlocked, but if I don't know you rl/for a long time online, you won't be in the cut. So...if you have a burning desire to get to know me, I guess, and you can't see this post here, COMMENT NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE. XD

I don't bite, promise. Honestly I don't know what's so interesting about myself that a complete stranger would friend me...so, do enlighten me!