Oh man, I am so embarassed. I was talking with my parents about Fun Dips and I accidentally said "dick" instead of "stick." And they didn't just ignore it either! My mom was like "Your daughter is so rude!" and so on.
Freudian slip ^_-
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The 2009 Rant, Vent, and Share thread
I have to miss my next doctor's appointment because of a family emergency- which I've been puttin' off leaving town to deal with on account of needing to get up with the doc first. So I really need to talk to her, 'cause I've been having a really hard time lately and… I dunno "relapsing"? And I don't want to wait another two months to see her. So she's supposed to call me (well, she was last week, and didn't). I don't know if she will before she leaves town (I swear that woman is always out of town!).
So I'm thinking of upping my meds myself. I have enough extra pills that I can do that without it costing me anything more. The worst that could happen is that it triggers a manic episode (which, I would actually frickin' love, despite the negative consequences, since I might actually feel happy for once, and actually change my clothes and shower again, and hang out with friends and have a social life again, and be able to obsessively focus on work and not have to eat or sleep at all). Hell, scratch that. It'd be the best that could happen. I don't care if I'm an asshole and yell at people and empty my bank account and binge drink and go back to the eating disorder crap and get into fights with strangers. I'd feel good doing it, and that's all that matters to me at this point.
I got most of Essay 2 done. I have a new game i want to play but I won't even install it til' i've finished this damn thing, I actually used lba's article link at the end, mainly #7 to explain the characters newfound happiness in a poor place.
I'm done with color and only have one more project in art class which is good, but it's also i hard one i've been avoiding. Ah well time to get back to work
Oh man, I posted that forever ago. I would have thought it that it got wiped off the archives by now.
I've spent the last two days sleeping, spending time with the girlfriend and packing all my stuff into boxes for the move. School ended on Thursday for me an I haven't been productive since Friday afternoon. And for the first time in a long time, I have to say it's a really good feeling to be lazy.
Think of it in terms of Barbie dolls:
Now they have Indian, dark skinned, and east Asian Barbies, but they're still just a sideline. Blonde blue eyed Barbie is the standard, she IS the Barbie.
For this to change you don't look to the stupid Barbie novelty dolls, you look for a whole new Chinese looking doll line from a different manufacturer to displace the Barbie doll line altogether. ;)
-That's just an analogy. I'm not being literal.
It doesn't help things that Barbie is made in China. lol!
So I'm thinking of upping my meds myself. I have enough extra pills that I can do that without it costing me anything more.
Medication dosage can be checked via the internet. Just type in the name of your med and see what kicks up and you will discover what the upper range of safe dosage is for your particular med based on your age, gender, and body weight.
I take it from the nature of your statement that it's mood altering medication of some sort. Usually they start you off on the lowest possible dosage and then gradually step you up month by month until – if it seems necessary – you are using the highest recommended dose. If you are careful and hardheaded enough to be honest in regards to any possible side effects you are experiencing then you CAN safely increase the dosages yourself.
Be aware though that the side effects are real and can slam into you like a bat upside the head. So do a bit of research, get it straight in your mind what to look out for, and only THEN increase your own dosage.
I speak on this, by the way, via the voice of experience.
Ahem! Most of this stuff also requires you to step DOWN the medication dosage in the same way if you intend to stop taking it. If you go cold turkey then you ARE risking severe problems with some of this stuff. Just a word or two to the wise.
Be well.
So, last night my best friend who lives in another city and I hung out at my place. We had fun. We got to catch up and pretty much joked around with one another the whole night.
Didn't get a lot of drawing done, but that's fine with me. I also got to finish XIII while he was browsing the internet. XIII was a great game, except the ending sucked. I liked the comic-book style though.
But anyway, I was pretty exhausted after he left. So I started eating some cheese (sharp cheddar. yum), and browsed through the old Rant/vent/share thread. I lol'ed at all the old rants I did.
Thought I did more than that…but whatevs. It's hilarious to see what I ranted about a little over a year ago.
Did I mention I was exhausted? Oh yeah. Well, I had homework to do, so I sat down, and got to it. After that, I finally got motivated enough to go out for a run. I just came back, and I could actually have done more than I usually do. Which means I'm getting stronger. I'm so happy.
Also, gonna try to pencil some pages here. :P
11 pages written today… and yay, got to page 103 with the script. Now I just need to figure out how to wrap one chase scene, deliver a good fight sequence, then some wrap up for the chapter, write the "interlude" and then do the short chapter 4 (which is supposed to be really short). I should fit in the 140 pages I set as my maximum.
If only I could write this much every day, I'd be already done writing volume 3 or perhaps even 4 :P
med stuffThanks, man! I've been on this stuff for about a year, and on and off the meds for about ten, so I feel pretty confident in bein' safe about it. I'd still be within the "average" dosage by increasing it 50mg; anything over that I wouldn't do without the doc.
But I'm going to first try switching back to name-brand from generics for as long as my leftover pills will last. See if that makes the difference.
Ugghh i feel bad, one of the oldest male cats is getting into fights tonight. It's crazy he's so damn sweet and doctile normally and then whenever it's night and i'm not looking after them all the other cats are cowering against the wall(even the fixed females) -__- I thought if we got the females fixed he'd not start anymore fights here but i guess that was wrong.
He's in the carrier now til' sun up, bah i'm sorry sweetie ;-;
I guess if i think about it he does look pretty evil, huge bulging muscles, lean stance, scratches everywhere, really serious face. But then when you pet him he turns into an '^w^' blob and all his muscles untighten and turn into goo lol
So we celebrated an early mother's day today, went to this place that has awesome food. You know what I gave my mom? A promise not to cut off her hair while she sleeps(what she said she would do to me). I'm a wonderful daughter. :)
I can't imagine why they only wanted to spend a hundred bucks on your birthday. :]
JoeL: What's 'vanishing point tool' - we wants it, precious
Skullbie: Have you heard of Feliway? You plug it in the wall like an air freshener and it makes your cats all chill dude
I'm trying to keep myself in a better mood today by thinking about the impending move home. Things to look forward to:
I'll be back in New Orleans in time for football season! I can get season tickets again, and won't have to watch all the games in a crappy sports bar!
I'll be back in time for "Mid-summer Mardi Gras", our neighborhood parade/ pub crawl!
I'll be back in time for horse racing season! Talkin' about the ponies with sleazy old men! Drunkenly hollerin' at horses that always come in fourth! Man, it'll be good to be in a place where "going to the races" does not mean "NASCAR"!
I'll be back in time for the mayorial elections next year! Hurray, perpetual disappointment and inevitable corruption!
I can sell my car! I can eat boudin and gumbo and red beans and rice! Beingets and Chickory coffee at 4 in the morning! The French Quarter on foggy nights! Heckling tourists on "ghost tours"! Drinkin' in Jackson Square with the gutter punks and bums! No "last call"! No open container laws! Bars that never close! Parks to walk the dogs in! Azaleas in February! Being able to step out my front door to see the Mardi Gras parades, instead of driving 15 hours! Not hating every waking moment of my life!
And most importantly: The fact that I am a scumbag, a drunk, a weirdo, and a f**k-up is not only accepted, but encouraged. lol!
Okay, I'm in a good mood now. Time to draw!
So we celebrated an early mother's day today, went to this place that has awesome food. You know what I gave my mom? A promise not to cut off her hair while she sleeps(what she said she would do to me). I'm a wonderful daughter. :)
I can't imagine why they only wanted to spend a hundred bucks on your birthday. :]
Haha, that was my dad with the birthday thing. It's just my mom who I don't get along with. >:(
My little sister tripped on the way to the bus stop this morning, apparently hurt her knee so badly that she could not walk and had to stay home from school…and miracle of all miracles, she's fine now! …After ruining my nice late morning by being around and yelling and whatnot. I mean, I'm not a horrible person, I would feel bad if she had actually hurt herself, but it was pretty obvious from the beginning that she was faking. And I need my alone time! :(
That'd be some conflict with another program or something I'd say.
-Like my stupid work computer that's been shutting down my e-mail programs, Firefox, Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer… everything as soon as it opens.
I could normally work around that, like when I had to start using using Outlook Express instead of Microsoft Outlook for my e-mails, and Internet Explorer instead of Firefox, and waiting for Windows Explorer shut down the first time because after that it'd be ok.
But the stupid thing got worse and I had to move to Safe mode with networking to get any e-mail at all…
They finally got the computer tech in today and it turns out it was a combination of a corrupt antivirus program and a badly designed printer driver. They were both working together to use up all the comps resources and kill off those specific programs. Weird because i didn't have any trouble with Photoshop or Illustrator apart from some minor slow downs.
-this is XP on a fairly old but reasonably powerful computer. Not Vista.
If it was my own machine and not a work comp I'd have probably had it fixed myself months ago, but there's only so much you can do when it's not your own… Still, I had no idea those two programs were the evil ones. >_<
curses, my evil plan of blaming it on vista is foiled again!
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I've been rewatching old Dir en grey videos on youtube (from the days before they signed on a major label), then I drifted onto other random visual kei stuff… and I think I'd like to do some VK inspired comics at some point :D
I actually got the basic elements…. a bunch of titles that remain unused (since they popped into my brain at some point), some appropriate character designs and some very loose ideas for plot. Except I'll probably end up being 40 before I get to tell this particular story :P
Except I'll probably end up being 40 before I get to tell this particular story :PHeh. I feel ya. It took me 7 years to tell this one, and it'll be another 7 years before I finish it and get to move on to "The Next Big Comic Project". Unless I somehow develop the ability to work 18 hours a day, nonstop, on comics. ;)
curses, my evil plan of blaming it on vista is foiled again!Yeah, that's the thing. Often you think your OS is to blame for something when really it's some other crappy program screwing up. -_-
I just finally worked out an obvious fix to stop Illustrator CS crashing whatever program is trying the view it's stupid file types.- changed the default program that opens AI files. duh…
That saves me a HEAP of trouble. It's not like I open AI files from a folder anyway, so it doesn't matter what the default is really as long as it indicates the right file type somehow. -PS does that nicely :)
Except I'll probably end up being 40 before I get to tell this particular story :PHeh. I feel ya. It took me 7 years to tell this one, and it'll be another 7 years before I finish it and get to move on to "The Next Big Comic Project". Unless I somehow develop the ability to work 18 hours a day, nonstop, on comics. ;)
18 hour workday. Now there's a thought! Let me think…
buy a treadmill so I can read "research material" while walking/exercising, have someone bring you meals… nah, wouldn't work, you'd still need to go to the toilet, dress up, sleep and take breaks :P
But hey, 10 hours should be doable :D
I've definitely had spans of time where I was pullin' 14-16 hours of studio/comic/art workin' a day… well, if you minus coffee breaks, smoke breaks, and beer breaks. I'd sleep 4 hours a night… man, I wish I could do that all the time. Just keep the "manic" and toss out the "depressive". >:)Except I'll probably end up being 40 before I get to tell this particular story :PHeh. I feel ya. It took me 7 years to tell this one, and it'll be another 7 years before I finish it and get to move on to "The Next Big Comic Project". Unless I somehow develop the ability to work 18 hours a day, nonstop, on comics. ;)
18 hour workday. Now there's a thought! Let me think…
buy a treadmill so I can read "research material" while walking/exercising, have someone bring you meals… nah, wouldn't work, you'd still need to go to the toilet, dress up, sleep and take breaks :P
But hey, 10 hours should be doable :D
Vanishing point tool is awesome i didn't know older photoshops had it though.
I fricken love hard boiled eggs. I love them scrambled, omelets, and eggs Benedict too, but hard boiled is so easy to make. I'm like a master of peeling off shells- i tap the ends on the counter- make a vertical line with my finger nail to connect the cracks-then slide off the shell without hurting the delicious chicken gift inside. I used to crack them all around but that took forever to peel and often ruined the egg.
I like when the yolk is orange though, i have no clue if that's undercooked or overcooked but the taste is richer and the texture is nicer than yellow. I also—
okee this essay is driving me insane
inb4 u already are ^_^
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