My dad called me at work because Mapquest wasn't working :/ I think his computer has a virus or something.

Yesterday I over-reacted to my haircut >>;;

I think it was something I did to my hair that made the top part poof out like whoa (which I'm trying to figure out if it was the new shampoo or the blowdrier). Otherwise, my hair doesn't resemble her hair too much unless I use some gel/hairspray.


... But I still think my hair could use some work :/

The hairdresser screwed up my hair. ALOT.

My mom fixed it up as best as she could so it looked passable for the time being. I took a shower and just let my hair air dry for the rest of the day.

Next time I looked in the mirror, I had Rukia hair.

I'm not kidding. I used to think my hair looked vaguely like Rukia's, but this is ridiculous. And no, I'm not gonna post up photos. Rukia hair does not look good on me. I need to grow out my hair again D:

ARGH. NEVER GOING TO THAT PLACE AGAIN.



Maybe I should buy a bathrobe to cosplay as prisoner!Rukia. Just to humor myself as I weep tears of BLOOD (TOOK ME TWO YEARS TO GROW OUT MY HAIR FROM EMO BOY CUT TO ACTUAL LONG HAIR).

...I miss my hair TT^TT

I'M ICHIGO'S DEAD DOPPELGANGER D: D:

At first I was really confused. And then I read the description, and yeah... that sounds alot like me. I really do smack teenagers on the head and I'm a terribly messy eater.

... But why do I have to be the only character that has a mullet? :<


I'M SO STOKED FOR COMIC CON WHAAA

NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK!!

I NEED TO PRINT OUT A BLEACH POSTER FOR KUBO-SAN AND BUY ANOTHER ARTBOOK FOR SIGNING PURPOSES AND GET HIM MY PRINTS AND LEARN HOW TO PLAY ALL THE OPENINGS AND ENDINGS ON THE PIANO AND LEARN THE LYRICS AND GET SOME DOODLES AND... and

Dear Body,

I think two weeks of bleeding is enough :<

Plz stop D:

Much love,
Soul

Every summer, my church goes to a park after service and practice volleyball for a church-wide volleyball tournament. In the past, I would go somewhere away from the din and talk with my friend, or go home early with my brother to work on homework. But this time my friend wasn't around, and I really had nothing to do at home.

So I hung out with kids 6+ years younger than me (between 10-16 years old. Do the math yourself).

I skinned my elbows on the playground, played touch-football (I tackled someone in the beginning of the game D: SORRY DRAGON). I made flower rings and threw grass at the kids. Then we went to Taco Bell and binged on soft drinks.

It was really fun.

For some reason, my friends or people I have around my age don't really like to run around like a maniac with no regard for age. I like running through sprinklers in the city park. I flail my arms and do a victory cry after a successful play/game. I would run into the ocean without a change of clothes.

A few of the older people said that if I just sit down and don't talk, I could get any guy I want (I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing).

I'll acknowledge that I'm a bit strange (just a few days ago I looked at a stranger's head-an Asian guy with semi-short hair sticking up naturally-and I wanted to pet it @_@;;), but sometimes I wonder if that's why I have trouble making friends.

... A housefly just died in my lamp. I'm kinda happy about it :3

I met a guy I graduated with on the train yesterday. I heard my name and when I turned around, I freaked out a little. Both of us had no idea we were obsessed with Bleach, but that's what a school does to you when people make it look like you will never get a job if you draw anime =_= But yah. I made a new friend. Though I wish I had someone to talk to at work =_=;;; Rock Lee!Kaien is AWESOME. I do not acknowledge the existence of any other opinion.

Also, a sketch I whipped up after chatting with jaina  Spurred by jaina  giving me a summary of how Aishido said "OMG WOMAN" and took Rukia to his cave. Like a Neanderthal. Not that I've watched the episode, but it's for my own safety that I don't. Last time I watched a Bleach filler, I accidentally rammed my head into the window. It hurt :<

BTW, I sorta don't understand all the hype that's coming from the ichi_ruki community over the recent chapter :< Though the gratuitous two-way "I STARE AT j00" panels might have something to do with it....

My stylus for my tablet has gone missing, and I just recently found out that Wacom has discontinued the kind of tablet I have D:

But it gives me a good reason to buy a newer, better tablet :3

Only downside is I can't pretend that I'm working if I'm drawing on paper :(

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It was in my third or fourth quarter in college when my acting teacher gave us an assignment and said we all have to bring a prop. It could be anything, but he would kick out anyone with a dildo.

I raised my hand and asked him what a dildo was.

He told me to ask someone else.

The reason why I find the fish and romance analogies bitterly ironic:

"There's plenty of other fish in the sea."

"But you're not one of them."


OK STOP ANGSTY TIEM I DRAW FLUFF NAO


I started what I hoped would be a pointless fluff IchiRuki doujin. I even gave Rukia cat ears just so it can be that much pointless.

Then I developed a whole backstory of how Urahara wanted to Rukia to taste test some candy since she was a little short of her bill.

I know there's probably a bazillion people who can make an NC-17 plotline from this premise, but I CAN'T.

By the time I drew Ichigo having a fascination for poking Rukia's ears to make them twitch while she monologues to herself, it looked like a good idea to stop. Not that I had any direction for the story AT ALL, so while I got pointless, I never managed to get to fluff =_=;;

THIS IS WHY I DON'T WRITE FANFICTION ANYMORE.

(BTW, the second line of dialog is mine ^^;)

I thought I should get get myself a boyfriend, but I always thought that things like dating and having a boyfriend was a hobby. Other than the fact that you're tinkering around with relationships rather than paper and pencil. It seemed really callous, especially how people would use the excuse "they're not my type" for almost every break-up.

When I was a kid, I wanted a guy who was a childhood friend. That didn't work out since my family kept of moving almost every five years with an average of 1,000 miles between wherever we previously lived.

Then I wanted a guy who would come up to me when I was sitting by myself during lunch just to talk when I changed middle/high schools in the middle of the school year.

But I guess people don't do that anymore.

Then I wanted someone who I had fallen in love with. Which happened, but the timing was all wrong, and the other person never thought of me in romantic terms anyways.

So... right now I have a list of what I'm looking for in a man, but I don't know what I want. Usually I stop myself from thinking about this because it's something I only have so much control over.

I don't know. I'm confused.

I was not doing my work and slacking off going through Livejournal and adding schools, when I remembered that I never graduated elementary school.

:\ Oh well.

Oh, I have a tegaki account :3

.... I need to make icons for myself soon :(

I went to a wedding today.

It wasn't very grand, but it reminded me of my cousin's wedding to went to right before the last week of my final quarter in college.

Now THAT... was an emotional wedding.

It's pretty normal for parents to cry in a wedding (usually the bride's parents), but in my cousin's... There was so much crap going on that he didn't deserve, that I was pretty close to not being able to watch the wedding because of the tears.

( Read more... )

Oh yeah.

I graduated. On Saturday. It was the first time I've seen my school president.



On Thursday, I went to my school's portfolio show and in the Alumni/Faculty room, there was food and beer, but they didn't have soda :/

And a bunch of Career Services people were really enthusiastic about greeting me. I would've felt the same way if I knew who exactly they were =_=;; I guess word got around that I got a job...

My company's not hiring, but I want to find jobs for people D: My portfolio wasn't even the best there, and I was the first to get a job. It doesn't really sound fair ;^;

So I was thinking.

While reading the recent chapters of Bleach where the timeline goes back 100 years ago, I mentally calculated the physical development of souls in Soul Society.

Let's assume that 100 years = 10 years in terms of physical development. So one year would be a little over one month in terms of development.

So if you got pregnant in Soul Society, does that mean you'd be pregnant for eight years? ._o;;;



Some food for thought.

My Biology final is an art piece. Most liberal arts classes are rather easy in my school, probably because the teachers are always prepared to be underwhelmed =_=;; I puked this up in 30 minutes. I don't know what to do with it. Maybe I'll finish it, but I really don't know if I want to. The human face turned out rather well, so I think I'll keep it around. But I think I'll just make a nice sketch and slap some colors on it tomorrow or something. I... I'm almost to the end! I just need to find a place to print my business cards and portfolio pages and buy my portfolio book and finish writing two papers and get signed off by twelve people tomorrow. ... So close, yet still so, so far TT^TT

( And some other art I've uploaded but have not posted on this journal... )

I have quite a bit of church doodles too. I should scan those some time.

My friend brought up a point about those Mac vs. PC commercials how Macs were represented by a younger man when Macs are actually older than PCs.

Macs were older, visually cool and were rather impervious to viruses, so we casted Sean Connery to be a Mac.

And since PCs are younger and and can (theoretically) do everything, we casted Chuck Norris.



This last quarter is really taking a lot out of me.
I haven't had any all-nighters yet, but I've had a headache for several days from sitting in front of the computer. On days I don't have school, I sleep at 3 AM and wake up at 11, and the first thing I do is turn on the computer and work on my portfolio.

Several times I wanted to give up and spend $700 for next quarter with my Portfolio class as my only class; an amount I can earn if I whore myself out at Fanime. So it would be possible to do it on my own, but I still can't drive which makes things a lot more complicated :/

In between the times I wanted to give up, I would sit on my bed before sleeping for a few minutes and want to cry in frustration. Sometimes I would work hours on an animation and it doesn't look any better. When I would finish blocking out one scene, I realize that it was staged completely wrong and needed to be completely redrawn. It was only when I forced myself to pick up the BIble and read through a few chapters when I felt like I could breathe again.

As of this moment, I can finish all my stuff on time :3 (started this post yesterday morning and wasn't sure then, but I'm good right now)


I'm scared of graduation because I don't know if anyone's gonna hire me.
I have absolutely no job experience, and unlike quite a bit of people at school, my family has no artists in the field.

My art is average. My animation isn't industry standard. I don't think I have any teachers who would say anything good about me. I don't know Actionscripting. I've seen people who've graduated with a degree but have had a hard time finding a job for an entire year. I'm just a nobody with a portfolio trying to squeeze their way into the Big Wide World.

 I also want to support my family rather than burdening them with unemployment. We're already scraping the bottom of the barrel as is, which is why I'll go anywhere in the world, as long as I can get paid. It would also be my first job, so I can't be picky either =w=;;

I make it sound like I'm doing art because it pays well, but seriously, that's not the case (I'm pretty good at math and Excel, so I'm sure I can be an accountant). This is what I want to do, and for me it's worth losing sleep over.


And speaking of sleep, I must retire to get my whooping four hours of sleep :D

Vespas doing wheelies actually look funnier than I thought :3

This is what I did last Sunday:
I drew a cube. Then I drew lines dividing it into fours.

Thinking back to my Bridgman book, I started blocking in shadows of a face and draw up to his shoulders.

Then I thought "he sorta reminds me of Tousen," so I gave him that Star Trek visor thing he wears lately.

I kept drawing and shading his shoulders, and I decided his build was a lot like Tessai's, so I have him and apron.

I was about to draw Tousen's hair, but it seemed like sort of a pain. So I gave him a flower on his head.

Since Tessai struck me as a gardener, I decided to give him a plant to raise :3 I tried drawing it to look like Kishimoto's first plant friend in Tokyo, but I ended up putting a flower in anyways.

The guy looked like he was just staring at the plant, so I felt like he needed to do something.

But I had already drawn his hands on the table, and I couldn't find my eraser. So going back to my generic understanding of gag gadgets, I made the flower squirt water.

Middle-school!Ichigo's there just... because I wanted him to be shocked.

And for the finishing touch, Tessai/Tousen loves his flower, so I drew a heart :3

...I gotta hurry up and finish my ninja cop D:

Group projects are ______.
I've been cranky and tired for the last few days.

My whole group got together for editing, but I was the only one actually doing anything.

In fact, I would've been able to edit the whole thing by myself at home. The only reason I stayed until Saturday was to push the rest of the editing onto the other guy since I had already done half of it and I had a demo reel to finish.

Our self-appointed group leader knew nothing of the editing program, so I wondered why she was there at all. There was another girl in my group, and though she made one suggestion that was helpful, I think she would've preferred staying home like the rest of us.

But if they wanted to waste gas money so badly, I really have no right to stop them.

On the train...
...There was also this guy in the train who laughed like Zoidberg horking down lasagna. He was having a one-way conversation using made-up "Japanese" words that sounded more Native American.

I think he was trying to get my attention or piss me off. I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and assumed he was high or smashed.


I got a weird IM a few days ago.
It read like this:


So it kind of explains the call I got from the supposedly drunken man/boy who called me in one of my previous posts (funny how I give so much leeway to drunken people).

Ever the literalist, I replied back:


... I post these because I think someone might think it's funny. Personally, I think it's normal, but I tell these things to people because I'm not sure if it is...