God this is boring…Listen to the Quackcast! We have a new one up!!!
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Would have if I could get online. Just thad the reply page open. Ill listen later. Have to go pay the rent now.
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Good lord. Last year when I realised it was too late to apply for art college, I had two choices. 1) I get a job for a year, or 2) I go to some part time courses for a bunch of stuff.
I obviously took the slackers way and went with 2, but gordon bennet what a horrible mistake. Okay so I figure Photoshop will be a nice course, not to mention easy. Didn't wanna start off too hard so take the beginner course. Breezed through that, did the stuff in about 30 minutes, then stared at the wall for 1 hour 30 minutes in boredom. Okay so that was only once a week course, I figure when that was over I'd go to Photoshop intermediate, that must be harder, I'd bet.
I do the stuff in the 10 minutes the teacher takes to explain the work, then it's 1 hour 50 minutes of staring at the wall. GOOD. LORD.
IF IT IS REALLY POSSIBLE TO DIE OF BOREDOM MY LIFE IS IN SERIOUS DANGER.
That course is nearly over, but I can only imagine what the Photoshop advanced course is like…
I think the only course of action left is to get my portfolio ready, then make another portfolio to mash with my first one, that way I will get in to art college and I will not have to go through these god damn courses again ever in my life. GOD.
Learned something nice today. Butter is better than vegetable oil for frying eggs. The eggs don't stick to the pan so easily and the yolks don't break before I want them to. Now I can look forward to making my 12 fried egg sub for breakfast (with lots of fried bacon, sliced ham, and stir fried shredded potatoes). I can feel my arteries getting hard and my heart pumping more forcefully just thinking about it…
mmmmmm… :)
I am just shocked at how well my bunny and my siamese are getting along. They've been playing together since I got home and just now I caught Annie grooming the bunny.
Or maybe she was just tasting her. Hard to say. : P
I figure that your cat is well fed and that it considers the bunny to be part of her "family". Now if that cat was starving, she'd really be tasting that lagomorph and waiting for the perfect opportunity to let out those hunting instincts…
I got home and just now I caught Annie grooming the bunny.
Or maybe she was just tasting her. Hard to say. : P
*gulp*
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My god - horrible eighties came back sooner than we thought: apparently British eighties reggae star Smiley Culture just died in his home from "self inflicted stab wounds" while being arrested. Back then, black folks regularly stabbed, shot, strangled, kicked and otherwise murdered themselves while being arrested. R.I.P. Smiley.
Sometimes I walk to places and I wonder to myself:
"Maybe they're somebody from the duck!"
And then I tell myself that not everyone from the duck has to be the freaky.
But in other news I still could care less about Japan and its issues, just save the Nintendo/Kingdom Hearts stuff (LAME), and…yeah…
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Comments on my blue hair have been priceless.
EDITS WITHOUT THE REAL EDITNESS OF IT:
Three new Things to go with this rant:
1. I posted this rant on the wrong forum at first.
2. I am about to listen to oz's accent.
3. Africa has a hell of a lot of people with AIDS on it.
Learned something nice today. Butter is better than vegetable oil for frying eggs. The eggs don't stick to the pan so easily and the yolks don't break before I want them to. Now I can look forward to making my 12 fried egg sub for breakfast (with lots of fried bacon, sliced ham, and stir fried shredded potatoes). I can feel my arteries getting hard and my heart pumping more forcefully just thinking about it…
mmmmmm… :)
that's better for you thank you think it is.
Just go light on the butter :)
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I'm 11-1/2 stones already. It's been many a year since i've seen that number on the scale. that brings the total to almost half a stone….i'm hoping to drop to just above 10-11 stone.
the aliens are still watching.
Today was the first day in the past two weeks where I told my best friend "Imma gonna draw instead of being emotionally available." It was hard, because he texted me with some interesting updates and I see some potential for danger that no one would see without having heard all of the involved parties talk separately. But after awhile of feeling like your social life is a game of Sims and yer in god mode, it gets a little cumbersome ._.
Instead I finally sat down and started scripting book 2 of FAIL, with the working title of Natural Disasters. Only scripted about 20 pages, but it's taken an interesting angle already. The first page that I've finished is the main character wading through a New Orleans street during Hurricane Katrina.
It's amazing how finishing a page can sometimes be enough to get you enthusiastic about something again.
Just finished watching The Pacific Some of those episodes are so intense you can't watch them back-to-back. You could really see the efforts they took to get it right and not skip in making it feel and look real.
And it's about two hometown boys. Robert Leckie and John Basilone were both from New Jersey. You see stuff all over named for him just like it's said at the end of the series.
Another personal connection. John Basilone was a machine gunner and killed on Iwo Jima like my great uncle Vladimir.
ugh… I've been trying to motivate myself back into drawing, but soon as I lift up my stylus I end up dropping it and I wake up minutes later. What in the heck…?
It doesn't help that I've got a large water bill to deal with thanks to a leak in my main water pipe that I can't block because it's buried under a ton of dirt. Oh, well… spending $200 will put a crimp in my lifestyle for a few weeks, but at least I managed to get enough pipe to reach from the meter to my house. Now if only the water company would respond to my request for them to come over and tell me which water meter belongs to me (there are three of them in one spot) so I can get to work on hooking up the new PVC pipe… It really sucks when you use less than 5k gallons a month and that suddenly goes up to 32k gallons a month thanks to a leak you can't see…
Damn, I'm like two of you.
I'd pry be much larger if i hadn't wrestled in highschool. My freshman year i was 160 pounds, and i dropped to 130. The state said i could go to 118.7 and still be safe at 10% body fat. coach didn't want me to tho. and i ended up staying in that range for most of high school. 130-140-145-135. i was 150 when i entered the military, and the first year i jumped to 160. then sometime my wife left me, and i was over 21, so i jumped up to near 200 pounds. but for most of that to come off all i had to do was stop drinking. (i posted drunk a lot on DD back then). the last couple years of exercise have made me average 167, with small variations here and there.
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Water pipe busted
That's the one thing that has always made me glad that i rent. I don't have to fix, or pay to fix nearly anything that goes wrong. but it does suck when your landlord is crap. but i have yet to run into that.
the downside is you can't really customize your living space. you can arrange funiture, but you can't paint the walls, and you're only allowed to put x amount of holes in the walls, and can only have y sized holes.
Loads of temp agencies are for warehouse jobs. I apparently can't interview for those, presumably due to education. I mean they don't even ask, they're just like "Ah, sorry, we deal with warehouses!" I must commute to places where they'll hopefully give me clerical work, for which I'm often also overqualified.
I'm pretty frustrated about this, and a little sad that my long-held dream of being a long-haul trucker if all else fails is beyond me now. Now if all else fails, I legitimately can't do anything!
Only a short epilogue and I'll have all my pre-research notes done. Then it'll be only researching 300 different things, haha. Looks like a month or two fo browsing the web and saving images.
And then I'll have to design something like 500 different characters (including random bystanders and different clothing for the main ones… after all, the storyline's spread across several weeks if not months and they're the kind of people who do change clothing)
"Fun" times ahead, heh.
Redacted some of the pages I scripted yesterday and plotted out about 90 pages today, getting ready to script as many of them as I can before work in a few hours. Ha- I hate announcing things until they're finished, but I'm feeling the burn on this one. Hopefully it'll unleash the powerhouse in me like the last book did. Last one was about 100 decent quality pages in six weeks (almost five weeks, but I stretched the last part into an extra week to have some cool down). Now the real challenge: remembering to eat, exercise, and socialize enough to avoid my body triggering depressive episodes.
Just like with Book One, it's something in the news that's really started to get to me. That passion fuels a certain degree of mania on my part, but it gets results. And it'd be phenomenal if I could capitalize on it enough to do a small amount of fundraising.
So am almost done with yet another stupid essay… and my mom came over to my apartment. Apparently she still loves that slob/couch potato as a son, and baked me and my roomate some waffles B)
And I just added about a gigabyte of some random music I bought at a fleamarket, so far it's sounding all right but I've yet to listen to the mens choir album… it's supposed to be manly and and happy, not sure how that's going to sound <_<
Wednesday and I'm already tired as hell. :[ It's been a busy couple of weeks, and I have another week to go. Sorry I haven't been very visible lately other than newsposts. (It's also why I have missed 2 comic updates now… I am going to put in extra effort this weekend though. Caffeine-fueled if I have to!)
We've got a couple more submissions for the quackcasts! Two or maybe three recordings, and at least oen script! so there's room for a couple more things, last call! (Before you go to bed tonight!)
Why does the rest of the world celebrate ST Patricks day? This has always confused the hell out of me.State-side, it is the national day to eat corned beef and cabbage and to drink green beer, neither of which would probably curry favor with St P.
Personally, I should call it E.C.B.A.C.A.D.G.B. day
Well this blows. I left a bid for an item at 3$, and by the time all the fees were calculated it's going to be around 8-10$. I have enough to squeeeze it in… but i don't really want it for that much. I'm still trying to decide if i shouldn't pay(the seller was sort of a dick so that makes it easier too) or pay and avoid negative reference.
To be a douche or not to be a douche…
Why does the rest of the world celebrate ST Patricks day? This has always confused the hell out of me.State-side, it is the national day to eat corned beef and cabbage and to drink green beer, neither of which would probably curry favor with St P.
Personally, I should call it E.C.B.A.C.A.D.G.B. day
Ill ask what this means since thats the reason it was unabbreviated.
I call it Plastic Paddy's day. Also cabbage is horrible and green beer? Fortunately im colourblind. That would put me off drinking it. By the way. We drink stout apparently. Which I hate. Tastes like iron. Only Irish stout I can think of is Guinness.
And to 72.
I think you want to be German. Minus the potatoes.
And finally.
Skullbie.
I think you may have an Eddiction.
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