School papers are cumbersome to write. So I shall write my end-of-the-month post.
November was great. There were the big things, like NaNoWriMo and SOME cold days (But seriously, though, back to the eighties again?!).
A lot has happened. The end of the semester is slipping tastes of its impending sweet victory.
1. Worst metaphor: extension cord
2. Spray painted; also blanket fort
3. Delicious pasta~
4. Wrote a little extra; lots of random bread
5. Word warring with Shadow; walmart made me almost late
6. Efficient with school; pasta
7. Was able to write without distraction
8. No history; pasta; leaves
9. Pasta and start of retreat
10. Beach! And lots of cookies.
11. Big bag of pasta; nice weather; good ride home
12. It was a good day at speech class and before and after.
13. Short sleeves in cold weather; 25k
14. Feeling better about the novel
15. A guy was playing guitar informally outside
16. A really happy day in general
17. Too much cookie, yum~
18. Pride and Prejudice; great weather; ate outside
19. Cake and comic and success
20. Vanellope bag!
21. Made a great thing!
22. Too much sugar but green bean casserole!!
23. Japanese food and art and writing (little to no school!)
24. Slept way in.
25. Took photos; nice weather; almost won NaNoWriMo
26. Lightning lit up the whole sky/horizon; also pasta; won NaNoWriMo
27. Cold and no jacket; did a lot of brainstorming
28. Got skirts
29. Great weather
30. Named my comic idea!
I like knee socks. This blog has nothing to do with knee socks, except when it does. This was mangapasta from 2009-2013. It's been archived now... sorta?
Friday, November 30, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
I am a winnah!
They contain the story of a girl who really I don't even know.
It's not my favorite that I've written, but I'm proud of myself for writing so much by hand.
Here is what I submitted to the validator:
Now I have to go take my last history test of the semester and be DONE with that class, and go to Speech class, too.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
The unsurprising Thanksgiving post.
In addition, I am thankful that electric outlets look like little faces and I am thankful that I have talents. c:
Here are some pictures of things I am thankful for:
Well, there are other things like manga and a whole host of TV shows and the season of Autumn and stripes of all sorts and hoodies and well, too much to list.
I thank God for all these things. Soooooo much.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Yesterday
Yesterday was a really happy day. I was happy about having a new fandom with multiple characters, I was happy that I was inspired to work on my own characters, I was happy that my quiet time was actually really fun, I was happy I got to sleep in, I was happy that I have a curtain to my bed and found a nice way to make my bed that's different-ish from how I've been making it for years, I was happy about the fact that I have a drawing desk even if I don't use it often and papers usually don't like to stay up on it, I was happy that I have a Loki toy who sits around the drawing area to be a muse or something (haha, well, it's just where he ended up), I was happy about a lot of things.
Life was just great. I like being positive.
Today I re-affirmed my love for baggy clothes. I keep having mood swings of a sort with fashion... sometimes I am just fine with close fitting shirts and stuff (which used to be never), and I really do love my grey skinny jeans. But hoodies and stripes are my element or something. I always draw them by default, and I love them. I wore my huge longhorns hoodie for the first time in a while. I don't care about sports, but it's orange and cozy and I've had it since middle school (when I wore it all the time).
Jacket weather is great. I like being positive. I also have been talking to myself quite a bit recently, but don't worry. It's the thinking aloud type, not the conversations with yourself type. Though if I ever do really go crazy, nobody ought to be too surprised. XDDD
Life was just great. I like being positive.
Today I re-affirmed my love for baggy clothes. I keep having mood swings of a sort with fashion... sometimes I am just fine with close fitting shirts and stuff (which used to be never), and I really do love my grey skinny jeans. But hoodies and stripes are my element or something. I always draw them by default, and I love them. I wore my huge longhorns hoodie for the first time in a while. I don't care about sports, but it's orange and cozy and I've had it since middle school (when I wore it all the time).
Jacket weather is great. I like being positive. I also have been talking to myself quite a bit recently, but don't worry. It's the thinking aloud type, not the conversations with yourself type. Though if I ever do really go crazy, nobody ought to be too surprised. XDDD
Friday, November 16, 2012
The journal switch was a miracle. I filled the first one minus a page or so at 25k, so I got out the new one. A convenient time-skip had just happened, so the character had changed in her attitudes a bit and is markedly less mentally ill and is now more like I originally envisioned her. Maybe it's not completely consistent, but I am loving the writing of it so much more now!
I had to put off cleaning my room for almost a week, which stunk because I like cleaning my room, but school keeps me so busy. I looked back through my portfolio while I was cleaning. I ought to update it.
I am less than a unit away from being done with history, which is great, and I'm working (or supposed to be working) on my English II B paper. I just need to write it! I have the skeleton of all the paragraphs.
It doesn't help that I've started reading Homestuck. I don't recommend it for kids (there's quite a bit of strong language and some references to stuff), but the story structure is actually pretty cool and it looks like it has potential to be a big pot of character soup. I guess for ages sixteen and up, be really careful? I have no idea how it gets later on, so.
Today in my Bible study, I was actually taking a list of attributes that Paul said people should have to strengthen their walk with God, and assigned one each to my characters in the project that I always have on the brain somewhere. It was actually a lot of fun and got me to ponder the deeper meaning of some of the qualities rather than just reading the list. Best quiet time I've had in a while, honestly.
Anyway, I've procrastinated quite enough and it's now time to pound out that first draft of that B paper.
I had to put off cleaning my room for almost a week, which stunk because I like cleaning my room, but school keeps me so busy. I looked back through my portfolio while I was cleaning. I ought to update it.
I am less than a unit away from being done with history, which is great, and I'm working (or supposed to be working) on my English II B paper. I just need to write it! I have the skeleton of all the paragraphs.
It doesn't help that I've started reading Homestuck. I don't recommend it for kids (there's quite a bit of strong language and some references to stuff), but the story structure is actually pretty cool and it looks like it has potential to be a big pot of character soup. I guess for ages sixteen and up, be really careful? I have no idea how it gets later on, so.
Today in my Bible study, I was actually taking a list of attributes that Paul said people should have to strengthen their walk with God, and assigned one each to my characters in the project that I always have on the brain somewhere. It was actually a lot of fun and got me to ponder the deeper meaning of some of the qualities rather than just reading the list. Best quiet time I've had in a while, honestly.
Anyway, I've procrastinated quite enough and it's now time to pound out that first draft of that B paper.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Please, oh please, stay this way.
Today, it was chilly. It was great to be alive.
Everyone magically grew long sleeves, and it was pretty desolate outside at school. I can't imagine how crazy the library must have been.
In a sort of rebellion, an act of defiance to the norm, I took off my jacket so that at least someone would have short sleeves. It really would have been more comfortable to put it back on, but it had become a matter of pride and I would not conform.
Today I took the Departmental Exam for English which is basically sitting down and writing a paper in a couple of hours and you can't bring anything into the testing center so I went two hours without water and I was parched.
What, do they think someone will encode the answers in Braille on the rim of their water bottle and cheat by reading it with their tongue? (That would actually be pretty clever.)
I'm only doing 1000 words for NaNoWriMo today since it will get me to 25k exactly and I shall be half done and can start the next journal fresh tomorrow. I'll use that vacant page and a half in the first one for illustrations or something.
Everyone magically grew long sleeves, and it was pretty desolate outside at school. I can't imagine how crazy the library must have been.
In a sort of rebellion, an act of defiance to the norm, I took off my jacket so that at least someone would have short sleeves. It really would have been more comfortable to put it back on, but it had become a matter of pride and I would not conform.
Today I took the Departmental Exam for English which is basically sitting down and writing a paper in a couple of hours and you can't bring anything into the testing center so I went two hours without water and I was parched.
What, do they think someone will encode the answers in Braille on the rim of their water bottle and cheat by reading it with their tongue? (That would actually be pretty clever.)
I'm only doing 1000 words for NaNoWriMo today since it will get me to 25k exactly and I shall be half done and can start the next journal fresh tomorrow. I'll use that vacant page and a half in the first one for illustrations or something.
Monday, November 12, 2012
Coloring Comparison
A coloring comparison.
The digital coloring took about an hour. Pros are limitless colors and easy fixes for mistakes. Cons are my lack of experience and lack of “real” digital art software. (Also, please excuse the sloppy removal of white around her, pretend it’s a magical background.)
The Prismacolor pencils are the medium with which I have the most experience. I enjoy using them most. They’re fun to blend, but they don’t erase. It’s harder to clean up for computer use later.
I think I would like using markers a lot more if I had some better ones. Those streaks are difficult to put up with. Thankfully, it can pass as texture half the time. And I have a couple prismacolor art markers for smooth skin. But the colors I have are super limited. Only one grey, which ought to explain the extra brown.
So that’s that. Which one looks best?
The digital coloring took about an hour. Pros are limitless colors and easy fixes for mistakes. Cons are my lack of experience and lack of “real” digital art software. (Also, please excuse the sloppy removal of white around her, pretend it’s a magical background.)
The Prismacolor pencils are the medium with which I have the most experience. I enjoy using them most. They’re fun to blend, but they don’t erase. It’s harder to clean up for computer use later.
I think I would like using markers a lot more if I had some better ones. Those streaks are difficult to put up with. Thankfully, it can pass as texture half the time. And I have a couple prismacolor art markers for smooth skin. But the colors I have are super limited. Only one grey, which ought to explain the extra brown.
So that’s that. Which one looks best?
Sunday, November 11, 2012
The Youth Group Retreat
Also beach=cool.
Friday, November 9, 2012
General updatedydo
NaNoWriMo has been going okay, though it really is difficult to write so much by hand! I wonder if I'd still be meeting my word goals if I was typing at more limited times, though. Oh well, this way I can keep all these rather-worthless-words to myself with an excuse not to easily share!
Yep, that's right. This is my first pessimistic NaNoWriMo. My story is jumbled and not really a story, and while it was originally intended to be an excuse to develop TONS of characters, it has turned into the (at times) psychologically compromised main character trying to figure out who the heck her therapist really is, because she can "see" everyone else clearly at a glance, but he's a mystery.
However, I'm impressed with myself for actually writing so much. Maybe one day as a famous author I will read an exerpt from it and everyone will admire how far I have come...
I've been on tumblr a lot more lately. However, I am not abandoning this blog, because I actually consider it a blog. Tumblr is supposedly blogging, but honestly it's mostly reblogging and a place to keep up with my interests. Also, this blog is much safer. I had to install some filters and add-ons to make tumblr more okay, but I STILL have to be really careful.
Besides, there, if I express my views, I'd probably be trash-talked, but here I feel safer because it's less accessible. I can pour out my heart to you guys. ;~;
So on Monday, I was in the halloween aisle and you know what's great? 75 percent off COSTUME SUPPLIES! There wasn't really anything I could use for a specific costume, but I was going to get this glow in the dark white wig and an orange clip-in streak.
My mom got through the lines no problem and texted me that it was time to leave, so I took a few more minutes then went to check out. And EVERY REGISTER had a line. I paced up and down. My class was starting in fifteen minutes and we were ten minutes away. I found a register with no one in line behind a guy who had one case of soda. It was a miracle!
But then he was having trouble with his credit card or something and I just knew I was going to be late and then I decided that this wig stuff was not worth the frustration and the lateness so I was a bad customer and left the stuff in the wrong place of the store before going out.
I made it to class right on time, and two minutes before the teacher. WHEEEEEEE it was exhausting.
Yesterday I found great leaves:
I also had pasta pretty much every day this week.
In Japanese we had to switch seats which is a bummer cuz I was just warming up to my seatmates and had found ones who caught on quick enough for practice to go smoothly.
I'm next to the guy I used to be behind, and the person who used to be diagonal from me is diagonal the other way, but I'm in a confusing spot where my partner is not either of the people beside me but the person in front of me. I'm wondering if we're stuck this way for the rest of the semester.
My math test score was a 91. I made too many +/- mistakes. It wasn't the best, but it was the only A anyone got. >__>
WELL I AM GOING TO TURN OFF MY COMPUTER CUZ I'M GOING ON A RETREAT FOR THE WEEKEND!
sayonara~
Yep, that's right. This is my first pessimistic NaNoWriMo. My story is jumbled and not really a story, and while it was originally intended to be an excuse to develop TONS of characters, it has turned into the (at times) psychologically compromised main character trying to figure out who the heck her therapist really is, because she can "see" everyone else clearly at a glance, but he's a mystery.
However, I'm impressed with myself for actually writing so much. Maybe one day as a famous author I will read an exerpt from it and everyone will admire how far I have come...
I've been on tumblr a lot more lately. However, I am not abandoning this blog, because I actually consider it a blog. Tumblr is supposedly blogging, but honestly it's mostly reblogging and a place to keep up with my interests. Also, this blog is much safer. I had to install some filters and add-ons to make tumblr more okay, but I STILL have to be really careful.
Besides, there, if I express my views, I'd probably be trash-talked, but here I feel safer because it's less accessible. I can pour out my heart to you guys. ;~;
So on Monday, I was in the halloween aisle and you know what's great? 75 percent off COSTUME SUPPLIES! There wasn't really anything I could use for a specific costume, but I was going to get this glow in the dark white wig and an orange clip-in streak.
My mom got through the lines no problem and texted me that it was time to leave, so I took a few more minutes then went to check out. And EVERY REGISTER had a line. I paced up and down. My class was starting in fifteen minutes and we were ten minutes away. I found a register with no one in line behind a guy who had one case of soda. It was a miracle!
But then he was having trouble with his credit card or something and I just knew I was going to be late and then I decided that this wig stuff was not worth the frustration and the lateness so I was a bad customer and left the stuff in the wrong place of the store before going out.
I made it to class right on time, and two minutes before the teacher. WHEEEEEEE it was exhausting.
Yesterday I found great leaves:
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| wow, the webcam shot option is very convenient |
In Japanese we had to switch seats which is a bummer cuz I was just warming up to my seatmates and had found ones who caught on quick enough for practice to go smoothly.
I'm next to the guy I used to be behind, and the person who used to be diagonal from me is diagonal the other way, but I'm in a confusing spot where my partner is not either of the people beside me but the person in front of me. I'm wondering if we're stuck this way for the rest of the semester.
My math test score was a 91. I made too many +/- mistakes. It wasn't the best, but it was the only A anyone got. >__>
WELL I AM GOING TO TURN OFF MY COMPUTER CUZ I'M GOING ON A RETREAT FOR THE WEEKEND!
sayonara~
Friday, November 2, 2012
I realized I needed to blog really badly because I have NOTHING ELSE to do, not at all
Here I sit,
browsing the internit
wondering if i should git
up and find my journal and go writ
every line of this poem is longer isn't it
I STILL HAVE A BLANKET FORT AND NANOWRIMO TO DO
I WAS PROCRASTINATING
OKAY BYE
browsing the internit
wondering if i should git
up and find my journal and go writ
every line of this poem is longer isn't it
I STILL HAVE A BLANKET FORT AND NANOWRIMO TO DO
I WAS PROCRASTINATING
OKAY BYE
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