I didn't mean to go for a while without updating but I kind of got hit hard with studying and all that.

I got an A- on my Art History exam, and since there's only three grades out of the entire class, that's a big deal for me. It goes to show that if you DO study, you do get good results.
Which is why the Biology test got a weaker grade (. I thought I didn't need to study on it as much because I figured that I got mitosis a lot more than the differences between Brunelleschi's cathedrals and Alberti's cathedrals. (Although I'm pretty sure the mitosis might be more useful in real life than knowing which early Rennaissance cathedral is which. A-durr. )

I'm kind of mad that I couldn't finish my other Halloween picture in time, but oh well.

Also, against my better judgement, I joined the National Novel Writing Month this year after years of finding the concept interesting but never having an actual solid story to build anything off of. I have no intention of beating the goal; I just want to do it to see how many words I can actually put into a written piece if I casually work on it.
I'm not posting my user profile just yet, but I will say this. I'm just entering it so I can give myself a decent excuse to actually start writing out my original story.

Plus I'm working on a paper for Art History (which I can crank out in about two-three days so I'm not worried) and a fanfiction called "Monster". Definitely not intending to hitting the 50k total. Why am I doing this again? 8D
Actually, just by writing out 1000 words, I managed to figure out a major plotpoint for my story. It's helping me iron out the kinks.

...I'm now really tempted to take a summer semester just so I can take a couple creative writing courses...

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Stuff I'm Working On
Art Trades
1-5. OPEN!
Collabs
1-5. OPEN!
Other Art:
-Evil Neal
-Villains Week sketch-o-thon (will I do it? Unsure)
-References for original storyline including revamps for Sidney Athari, Catherine Gaines, Regina O'Malley, and Susan Winthrop. (will work on as soon as she feels like it)
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Buddy List/Club List
List of all my Characters
FAQ
Stamp Collection
Rants and Reviews
My Fanart50/My Fanart100
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I'm Sideshow Bob in the DeviantArt's The Simpsons-crew
I'm Talim in the DeviantArt's Soul Calibur/Soul Edge crew

Title says it all really.

Charlie is feeling a lot better and doesn't look near death now, so hopefully this is a sign that she's making a speedy recovery. Now she's eating and moving around, which is very good.

Buuuut unfortunately I'm not going to be updating much. I'm cramming for a very important midterm on Monday. (only reason I'm on is because half the test is a take-home "write an essay" exam. Wheee, FUN) The midterm is worth 33% of my grade, which means a lot of pressure.

Plus my two art teachers decided to make two important art pieces due on the same day. X_x Both of them involving ink, which means I have to be precise with everything.

I MIGHT do the whole "Sketch a Villain a day for a week" thing for the week of Halloween, but judging by my current schedule, I wouldn't be able to put together coherent sketches. Whee, it feels like my junior year of high school only the classes are shorter due to budget cuts, making deadlines even more constrained...

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Stuff I'm Working On
Art Trades
1-5. OPEN!
Collabs
1-5. OPEN!
Other Art:
-Villains Week sketch-o-thon (will I do it? Unsure)
-Blizzcon Comic (sketch finished)
-References for original storyline including revamps for Sidney Athari, Catherine Gaines, Regina O'Malley, and Susan Winthrop. (will work on as soon as she feels like it)
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Buddy List/Club List
List of all my Characters
FAQ
Stamp Collection
Rants, Raves, and Reviews
My Fanart50/My Fanart100
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I'm Sideshow Bob in the DeviantArt's The Simpsons-crew
I'm Talim in the DeviantArt's Soul Calibur/Soul Edge crew

I've got bad news and even worse news.
The bad news is that the RENT tickets sold out while I was in class, so now I can't go see the musicial I was looking forward to. An unfortunate loss but I can live through it.
The even worse news is that one of my family's pets is seriously ill and the doctors only gave her a 50% chance of living through it.

Charlie, a cat my family's had for eight years, has been diagnosed with liver failure and a severe bladder infection. We first thought it was just stress from us adopting two kittens, but no, it was something internal. She has about a 50% chance of living, and right now from what I've heard she looks like utter hell. Apparently she's lost a lot of weight and has stopped grooming herself.

I can't help but feel bad because I can literally do nothing to help this. It's essentially just a giant waiting game in terms of whether or not Charlie's going to pull through. It's not fair for the cat to die like this.

Oh, and on top of that, I found out that a lot of my Typeography projects need Adobe Illustrator, a program I don't own and would cost 600 dollars to own.
Considering that I don't have the money, I have to do all of my upcoming Typeography homework from the designated school centers, and they close early and on weekends due to budget cuts. This means that my windows for doing any sort of Typeography homework are very tiny. Craaaap.

It's been a real downer week.

I'm mostly worried about Charlie, personally. RENT's nothing compared to a family pet. Geez...

Okay, so I might go see RENT at the end of this month. (Still debating it considering that I don't have much money to spend, but students get a pretty big discount.) I LOVE musicals so I'm leaning more towards getting a ticket.

Again, not much happened last week. School, school, and more school.

But in the middle of last week, I went to Disneyland.

They added some new stuff to the place in honor of Halloween, but the best newest change is the Ghost Galaxy Space Mountain. The effects are really cool and I kind of wish they'd keep it in the ride all year. (Red energy ghost chasing you throughout the ride? Keep it in, please)

My one gripe? PIRATES WAS CLOSED. Both that ride, Casey Jr., and Storybook Land are going through some major revamps. I don't really care for the last two rides, but PIRATES SHOULD NOT BE CLOSED.

Look at Monstro the Whale here. It's just sad. XD
And the last time I rode on this, my grandmother was still alive. No big loss.

I kind of wish they'd change the parade though. The dancing parade isn't that much fun and is very lacking in pretty floats.

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Random but I'm changing Ben's species. pointed out these lizards to me and they look so much like Ben that I figure that he's now one of these in addition to being a skink (currently his status as an Otago Skink mix is called into question on account he seriously didn't resemble one that much, but I'm still keeping him a skink just cause): [link] [link]

I seriously did not know there was a lizard with those kind of ear things. I just made those up and apparently Nature actually has a matching lizard to go with them. XD As an added bonus, now Ben can run on water!

So going to doodle something akin to that. For now, just look at the pretty lizard!

Hey guys, remember when I would actually update? XD Sorry, my classes this year require a bit more busywork so I'm trying to get more artwork done in the meantime. I just feel kind of bad in terms of lacking any real artwork.

In terms of my life, not much has happened these past two weeks. Just schoolwork, schoolwork, and more schoolwork. Been doing the usual "worrying whether I should take one branch of major or another branch of major or whether I should take a minor" kind of song and dance. Been also checking out the libraries both on campus and around town.
Managed to read the legendary "Bambi". Let's just say the book is a LOT gorier than the movie. There's a hunter who accidentally shot himself in the face, for crying out loud, and tons of fun death for everyone.
And "Moving Pictures" by Terry Pratchett was a fun, hilarious read. Now I'm rereading Valiant and I'm starting to raid the young adult section. (Young Adult books and Adult books are mainly separated due to theme. There's actually some pretty good YA novels.)

Plus my Rendering teacher is the pickiest art teacher I've encountered in my life. She's the first person that told me to do a project over just because the shading was a bit too dark. Apparently quite a few of the students fear having a class with her. Too bad she's the only teacher that teaches Rendering now thanks to the layoffs in the art department.

Also, my iPod was left on all night one time. I hate it when that happens. Luckily it only played about half of my Top Rated list but that's still about 350 songs...


I am starting to get my original storyline organized so I'm kind of pleased with that. Only about one person is going to care about this but oh well. I've decided to axe the whole travelling thing and just have the whole story set in the city. The story starts in the city and ends in the city. (Which is still unnamed. I'm thinking of naming it Progress City as a placeholder until I think of something better) I figure that's good enough simply because cities are pretty huge and I'm really going for some sort of cyberpunk thing.
Plus it'll be fun designing the different districts. (So far I have an old ruins-like district, a business district, middle class residence district, the dreaded research facility located on an island in the middle of a lake...)
One thing that bugs me is designing the cast of heroes and villains. So far I have several characters that are definitely going to be in it (Sidney, Susan, Catherine for the heroes, Regina, Claudio, Willow, and Assassin for the villains), several characters I'm unsure about (Ben and Neal could be conveniently replaced with different characters, I'm not sure if I'm keeping the magic users...), and some characters that are merely ideas rather than fleshed out characters.
It's really fun building my own world though. Too bad I barely got a plot (I have a premise which isn't enough)

I need to start drawing for my original world some more. Catherine went through a rehaul for the story (Sidney and Susan basically stayed the same because I love their character dynamic. Susan's just getting weaponry including a "light bomb" called Heaven's Light.) and plus I want to show off some more of the cast of characters. (Plus I need to draw Willow more competently. X_x)

Anyways, enough of my rambling!

MEME!

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Instructions: Open up your iTunes (or WinAmp, or whatever, though iTunes is easiest for this I think) and fill out this survey, no matter how embarrassing the responses might be.

How many songs total: 974
How many hours or days of music: 2.2 Days, 3.55 GB.

Most recently played: "Move Your Dead Bones" by Dr. Re-Animator

Most played: "Sun" by Tomohito Nishiura

Most recently added: "Be Prepared" from The Lion King.

Sort by song title.
First Song: Absolutely (Story Of A Girl) by Nine Days
Last Song: 99 Red Balloons (English) by Nena

Sort by time.
Shortest Song: "Futurama Start Theme" (0:28)
Longest Song: "Ghost Love Score" by Nightwish (10:02) [This song is pretty epic. I suggest everyone to listen to the entire song at least once.]

Sort by album.
First album: The Abba Generation by A*Teens [Don't laugh, I like their covers.]
Last album: The 8th Sin by Nocturnal Rites

First song that comes up on Shuffle: "Heaven's Light/Hellfire" by Tom Hulce & Tony Jay (from the Hunchback of Notre Dame).

Search the following and state how many songs come up:
Death - 3 (Adagio of Life and Death, Chasing Death, and Death Mountain)
Life - 16 (Most played is 18 and Life)
Love - 27 (Most played? The Power of Love. I'm sensing a trend.)
Hate - 1 (Who I Am Hates Who I've Been)
You - 65 (Most Played is Move Your Dead Bones. The Most Played with "You" actually in the title is "Run To You")
Sex - 0

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