WHY DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF

I have my favorite class on Mondays, and it starts at 4:30! Today I figured, hey, I'd get there early--it takes 20-30 minutes from my house to school. I was at the stop at 3:40; the schedule said there'd be buses at 3:41, 3:54, and 4:05, and it's pretty on-the-mark during weekdays. OBVIOUSLY NOTHING COULD GO WRONG--

--except of course life replied with a big ol' HA HA SCREW YOU, FOOLISH ONE. None of the scheduled buses arrived! Neither did the 4:21, at which point I gave up and just trudged my ass right back home.

WHAT IS GOING ON, PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM!? I AM DISAPPOINT.

So at this time of night, it apparently saves me an entire hour just to walk home from the bus stop rather than waiting for the bus.

Fffff. I did freak out a little, because I have had twenty years of 'lone female + walking home alone + late at night = possibility of bad things' beaten into me. But there is a certain point at which I stop really caring and start believing myself capable of stabbing a would-be attacker in the eye with my pencil.

Since I can't write like a normal person, I went for self-bribery and wrote one quick fic for every page of assignment I did tonight. A short key moment for every character I currently roleplay in CFUD; I would have done CM and drops too, but eight pages of play is the minimum, thank god.

Albert Silverberg, Seth Nightlord, Honlon, Mithos, Nyanko-sensei, Ashton Anchors, Presea Combatir, and Iskierka. Lots of headcanon here, and large spoilers. Maybe 2000 words total.

( doo dee doo. )

RE: Bleach 377

I have officially decided that Kubo Tite just plain hates the womenfolk. Wow.

Third week of class, giving myself a week's leeway for assignments, and I am still going to bed at 4:30 AM with work left undone.

Augh.

EDIT: make that 5:30, and I need to get up at 7:00, so I'm starting to consider just skipping sleep altogether ololol.

Also, one class assignment should not require a) almost a hundred sheets of paper, even if I print on the backs, b) an entire (new) cartridge of ink and then some, and c) an hour to print out fully. Ugh. There should be a smarter way to do this--turning them in online or something--that does not require everyone to feel like they killed an entire rainforest to do their homework.

...I just got woken up by a sound like someone was trying to force open my door. You know that noise when a locked knob is twisted? Yeah, exactly like that.

Except my door doesn't have a lock! And also it was precisely one minute before my alarm clock would have woken me, anyway.

W-what the hell. Whether that was a ghost or my own subconscious being funny or whatever, I would have appreciated the extra minute of sleep more. :(

I have a short fiction story due in about a week, and last night I am pretty sure I woke up and jotted down some notes for it in a Word document.

Today I opened that document and found that there were in fact, no notes, and all I had typed, in bold glaring red font, was 'MIMI THE YANDERE.'

I have no idea what that means. Am so boned.

( EDIT: OH RIGHT ART )

THAT ICON MEME.

THE RULES
01; Comment to this entry saying 'ICONS!' and I will pick 6 of your icons.
02; Make an entry in your own journal and talk about the icons I picked!

( hoooo! )

THINGS OF NOTE ABOUT OUT-OF-DORM LIFE:

1. There are hummingbirds here! So cute. There's also a flock of little brown birds--maybe sparrows?--that like to fly up to roost just above my window. When they fly up, the sun backlights through their wings and tails and it generally looks amazing. I should see if I can catch a photo one morning.

2. My schedule is retarded. I just dropped a class and turned my Monday into 'class, eat, go home, cook, eat, go back to university, class, go home, eat.'

3. YOU OFFICIALLY DO NOT WANT ME IN YOUR KITCHEN, GUYS. I can cook and follow instructions but I do awful things in the preparing of food. Like just now. I am very glad my landlady and housemate are out, and did not have to watch me go up against a slab of meat.

I won, though.

4. ART AND FIC SHOULD PROBABLY GO HERE BUT I'M HUNGRY, MAYBE LATER. I did draw harukami and mackzazzle a sheet for their epic CFUW game, though. Everything else is either sketchy, or pixels for DC. God, that folder's huge now.

5. Overall I am liking this arrangement much, much more than dorms. There are no drunks! I CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT and I am generally more inclined to do useful stuff and not be a floptard on weekdays. Yaaaaay.

1. I AM MOVING BACK TO VICTORIA TOMORROW, THIS IS EXCITING

2. APPARENTLY PACKING SUCKS MORE WHEN YOU ARE DOING IT FOR NON-DORM HOUSING. I DO NOT CARE.

3. PLAYING DRAGONS ON THE INTERNET IS MY THING AND I WILL NEVER REGRET IT

( ARTDUMP RELATED TO #3 -- ISKIERKA'S ICON FODDER )

1. I have a place to live for the schoolyear and a tiny rice cooker. EXCELLENT. I'm all set.

2. SIGNS/SYMPTOMS OF A FRACTURE: Crepitus - a grating sensation or sound that can often be felt or heard when the broken ends of bone rub together (don't test for this.)

OH GOD WHY DID I LAUGH

I am poppin' over to Victoria again tomorrow to look at places! I have made more phone calls and talked to more total strangers than I have at, I don't know, any other time this year. There are only so many ways to go 'hello, I am a student who will not trash your place; may I live there?' BAWWWW HOUSEHUNTING IS DRIVING ME NUTS.

I have a room at this one nice quiet place pretty much guaranteed for a few more days, but I had to be dumb and stubborn and try to find somewhere a) closer to university and b) where I can be mostly alone to blush over my domesticfail. We'll see.

...orz.

This week has been equal parts fulfilling and frustrating! I came out the other side still wanting to work with kids, though, so I guess it is very much counted under Good Experiences.

( but really, this entry is to post some art. )

I had a long whiny post written up, but my last few entries have been kind of depressing and I realized I only have to live through another month and half before school starts again. Plus there is first aid in August, and also househunting and memorizing roads to improve my godawful sense of direction and also the long quest to learn to talk to strangers without tripping over my own tongue, so I do not need to feel like a completely useless human being yet.

...plus if I think about it, I don't actually have a huge amount of crap to be righteously angry and fuming about, and being angry and fuming all the time makes me into a very unpleasant person. I don't want to be that person! So it is time to think positive, etc. etc.

( while I work on that, here is some art! IMAGE HEAVY AS USUAL. )

Now I am going to go clean some more.

--ALSO tinaeu IF THERE IS A GOOD TIME TO CALL YOU PLEASE TELL ME. I keep wanting to, but I never know when you are at work or sleeping or something. :|a

I just got a call telling me I can't start working next week, because my record check hasn't come back yet.

There is probably a way to sum this week up other than 'arrrrgh,' but I can't think of it right now.

RE: BLEACH 364

AHHHHHHH

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

KT I LOVE YOU AGAIN

NOW PLEASE KEEP IT UP I HAVE FAITH IN YOU TO CONTINUE THIS NEW STREAK OF AWESOME

AS OF YESTERDAY I AM OFFICIALLY HOME. The family trip turned out not to be two weeks in New York! Instead it was one week in New York, a train to Montreal and a night's stopover, a drive to Quebec City for four days, and then back home to sweet, sweet Vancouver.

We saw stripping hippies, ate rabbit while thinking vengefully of the UVic bunnies, and visited lots of museums! The Museum of Natural History and the Met were incredible, and gave me a case of art rage. The 'I AM NOT NEARLY GOOD ENOUGH AND MUST BE BETTER' kind, not the 'I AM ANGRY AT ART AND ARTISTS' kind, which is reserved solely for the fifth floor of the Museum of Modern Art.

In short, it was an experience! Some high points, some low points--but it happened, we enjoyed ourselves very much, and I have good memories of it overall.

I've also put up--very belatedly--the few pictures I took at AE 2009. More than half of them are of Gwen, Haru and Zazzle dicking around, but I did get a few other cosplayers too. :Db ... I'm not entirely sure where the last two photos are from anymore, though.

And I should. Also upload some of the photos from the trip, but there are 500+ of them to sort through, so I'll do that later. Also I should contact people for volunteering. And start to look for a place. I AM FIGHTING FOR YOU AND YOUR CAT, GWEN.

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In internets news, added madameaxeman to my CFUD lineup! She is pink and terrifying and adorable and I love her, I do. B-b-back to seven characters, with no plans to drop and another camper looming on the horizon. WILL I FINALLY MAKE IT TO EIGHT? PERHAPS.

I also remembered I had a Dreamwidth account today, and the site looks mighty shiny. DO FRIEND ME IF YOU HAVEN'T YET, I have mostly settled on using it as a comic planning journal. It has an appropriate name and everything!

TONIGHT WE ALMOST WALKED INTO A STRIP CLUB INSTEAD OF THE THEATRE

GOOD TIMES.