So today was officially the first day of Tornado season (in my mind) as we had our first couple of tornadoes last night. Honestly, I had my music on so loud that I didn't even know it was storming. I was talking to Ty, Chris, and Xyle so I was distracted from the weather. I was also playing a GAME! A game that I got back the other day. An amazing game that I've been playing for the last couple of days. I was near the end and I remember I overcame a cool part and went "omg I can't believe I caught that minion!" And then all the stuff goes "djooooo" and the computer turned off. devastated, I went into the living room and looked at the TV. I was in there long enough to see a giant storm cell BLACK AND PURPLE headed my way and a tornado symbol just north of us. and then the power went out. Yeah. So I went to sleep. And that was my yesterday. I don't think the power came on until early in the morning. Also, if those links up there are wrong, I'll fix them later because I only have like 30 more seconds to finish this journal. Why I'm typing the first paragraph last is beyond me.

So it seems that I fallen off the face of the earth not only on LiveJournal, but also on DA for once! Go me :E Lately I’ve just been so busy that I haven’t even uploaded pictures I finished last week. Even though I’ve finished them I. . . just haven’t uploaded them. I also know that I promised to upload sketches onto LJ but I haven’t been able to do many of those either lately. As for an update on my life, I suppose I have time enough to tell you during this long, incredibly boring class period in which we do absolutely nothing except stare at our computer monitors. I’m writing this in a word document so it looks less conspicuous; I’ll paste it into LiveJournal. I’m so witty! Aha.</p>

Maybe I’ll have enough to talk about to occupy another hour and fifteen minutes of my time until the bell rings and I can go to my next long, incredibly boring class. School is one of the things that have been taking up a lot of my time. We’re reading The Kite Runner in English which, even though reading is something that is physically hard for me to do, I’ve really been enjoying it. If you haven’t read it already (because I know it came out quit a while ago) you should do so. It’s kind of dark but it’s still a good read. I’m really behind in all the work that I have to do for English and, two days ago, the teacher added a project on top of the pile. Thanks miss Price.

Another thing that has been occupying my time is learning Mandarin Chinese~ I've always really loved the sound of Asian languages and, a long time ago, this school used to teach Japanese. It's a shame it doesn't anymore, or I would have taken it. I wasted many years of my life in Spanish class or French class but not only were the languages not interesting to me, but they were difficult to learn since I didn't care too much to remember them. Recently I was talking to a friend and asked him if Shin meant anything in Chinese. XD He said it doesn't mean anything in particular but, somehow, this lead to him teaching me the language (how did that happen again, Jaantong? XD) Anyway, I'm having a lot of fun and I kinda wish I had a Chinese keyboard so I could type to him. I suppose I'll have to stick to the handwrite tool in MSN `_` He's gone right now, but I'm learning the characters he taught me before he left so, when he gets back, I can implode his brain with my terribly written Chinese. Yay!

Yesterday, mom wrecked her car. For those of you who live around me, she was in that one area on W. Vickery around the RailHead. :c That's a bad place to get hit. I don't really remember what happened and it was her fault but. . not on purpose. Accidentally her fault, does that make any sense? She was T-Boned in the passenger side by a little illegal Mexican lady who couldn't speak English was driving an SUV. In other words, she was all freaked out but it only scratched the front end of her bumper while, on the other hand, totally beat in the side of mom's car and busted her windows. Which means mom's car is going to be at the dealership for a while being fixed and, in the mean time, she's driving mine. I don't want to sound as selfish and inconsiderate as I really am and I really love my mom and feel sorry for what happened to her because I know that probably hurt her already terribly smashed up spine. But I will be an ass for a moment and say that if my car smells like smoke when I get it back, I will be less than pleased because I certainly will not be a happy camper if she causes me to have asthma attacks while driving my own car. She knows my asthma is really bad and she knows that she shouldn't even be smoking around me, let alone in my car.

I just hope her car gets fixed so she can get out of mine.
I also hope her neck is okay.

Lets see, I have 25 more minutes. What can I talk about.
Well, I've been thinking about resigning as admin of BDC because I can't even keep up with my own club, let alone that one. I feel really bad because I don't think they have anyone else who is willing to run the club and I was supposed to be leader of the team who is trying to promote the club. But do you see how much I have been submiting to DA? Yeah, nothing. This is completely eating up my time. I simply can't do it anymore. That and I'm a high-school senior about to go to college. I have other things to worry about. I'll have to resign. :c I'm really upset about it.

Changes are being made to the Xchange for this very same reason. With over 100 members this last month, there is absolutely no way I can even think of submitting every single one of those pictures. While they're all beautiful, I can't give everyone the password to the account and the watermark to put on their image. Because not only do I not like people on one of my accounts, but I simply can't trust that many people. This makes me wish that DA was somewhat like LJ in the way that, if you're in a community, you can post something. I dunno. The way it will have to change is: I favourite everyone's arts and put them in the journal so you can see who did what for whom, bu the ones I'll submit will have to be either the ones who finished first or the ones that I likes the most. I can submit on a day, I'm thinking. I'll make a poll about it. I hope people will still be willing to join in the xchange even if I can't submit everyone's art.
I have also made some BLACKLIST POLICE! That way I can handle submissions and I have a Police to warn people about the deadlines and upkeep the blacklist for me. c: I think it's a cool idea, courtesy of JMonster on DA, who is currently my only police. I don't think I'd need many more unless I got a lot more participants.

I wonder how many people will have to go up for adoption this month. Do I even want to think about it? I don't think I'll think about it.
When I get home, I'll submit that commission for Jaantong I finished last Friday.
Speaking of Friday, I didn't even know that today was Friday until someone told me it was like ten minutes ago! :D Is that amazing or what! That just made my day SO MUCH BETTER.
I can't believe it's Friday!

END JOURNAL

[LJ-cut is being a bastard right now, hang tight]. A JOURNAL. ]: Gosh I really wish I would update this. No matter how many freaking times I say I'll start updating it, I always fall off the side of the Earth. Hell I haven't even updated my DA journal, and that's just scary since I used to update it sometimes more than once a day. Things have gotten so hectic, busy, and stressful around here that I even allowed my desktop to have more than six icons on it *GASP* D: I just cleaned like forty-billion icons off my desktop. There's a lot that happened that I would like to talk about, however It happened more than one day ago so I already forgot it, unfortunately. I'm on spring break! :3 My birthday was on the 14th, and I ate a carrot cake. Justin treated me to Saltgrass SteakHouse and I had a lovely meal and some cheesecake. And then we played around in the hot tub at Christina's house. We had a really good time doing flips and stuff in there. XD And breathing under water through the air jets, lol. Anyway so I had a good time, is what I'm trying to say. Other than that, I've been watching Juuni Kokki with Chris, so we're anime watching buddies now. At the same time Ive been doodling pictures of my characters since they never get drawn. Which is the main reason I'm updating this here journal. XD I just happen to ramble on forever about nothing that no one cares about. ;; I guess I could get straight to the pictures. I apologize beforehand for the quality, so make sure to put on your protective goggles. And lord bless you if you have dialup. ANYWAAAYYU So I doodled me some uh. Headshot type things. Some of these really suck. I'm going to put them all under cut so it doesn't do funky things to my journal's front page. Thankyewwww

Soooo then I drew fullbodies because these headshots weren't killing my ego enough already.

And so that's what I've been doing while I should have been doing other things. :D It took me like three days to draw all those, though I was watching Juuni Kokki while I was drawing them, so I don't feel too incredibly slow. I didn't wanna cover my characters with clothes because not only was I far too lazy but some of them have markings. That and I just really like to draw curtains on my characters. Wewt.
Anyway, maybe I'll do more of these and write a new entry later. It's time to update the DA Journal plz :E.

So I think I had food poisoning the other day? Which is totally unusual because I have never gotten sick from food before. All I know is I ate some donuts the teacher gave us and had cramps the next period, and nausia after that. I then spent the next nine or so hours of my day violently vomiting my brains out every 20 minutes or so. Yeaah. . .

I dont feel like writing anymore. Today's assignment in film making/animating class is to think of two cheesy lines I would think of to try and get a girl to. . give me some. Gee. this is relevant.

Gosh I love that show. I watched it all in the same day and now I wish it had more episodes. ]: I can't really remember if I've already written a journal about it though. I'm sitting here in technology bored out of my mind and it's really frustrating not being able to find anywhere to watch Legion of Superheroeeess that isn't blocked by the school! D| In any case, I did find one of the new tv-links websites that was put up after tv-links was shut down. It's not as good though, it just wishes it was tv-links.

I should download all of Legion of Superheroes and bring my external HD to school. XD bah! Joking.
Or am I? |:

Though I did occupy myself for about 45 minutes trying to find it. I guess I'll find something else to do now. I got some new icons for my LJ. . . yay.

I feel so terrible for the lack of art lately. Lately, I've only sketched, like, one thing and lined a little on my Shinerai reference. I dunno why I'm not really drawing. Maybe it's an art block or something. Though I did manage to waste nine and a half hours on Sunday watching both seasons of Legion of Superheroes. No idea how I did that. And that's the first time I've marathoned a tv show like that, rather than an anime. XD I feel so dorky. Braniac5 is my favorite. . .

Anyway I'm obviously in Technology (film making) class right now wasting space because the teacher gave us something sitting on his desk and told us to make a commercial for it. We have five groups, two cameras, and 30 minutes. Joy. I have Interior Design next period. I HATE miss Aycock. It's a new level of sad when your student utterly wishes they could be put back into their calculus class to get out of an interior design class. Bah

At least this time, I remembered to bring music so I'm not dying inside. Yesterday I spent all day processing notes for the ShinXChange and Caskin and Mekolai had a good time in my chat yelling out numbers to help me match everyone up. I didn't get to send but 60 notes before DA banned me from the note system so I'll have to send the other 15 today and tell everyone from last month that they're late for the exchange.

You know, after staring at my keyboard, which has really tiny letters on the keys, these letters here look freaking huge and awkward even though they're normal sized letters. >> Anyway so Justin is absent today and so I'm already bored. I wonder if he's ok though. We were supposed to have field testing today and they kept saying that seniors weren't supposed to come until 11:15 but yesterday they suddenly decided "ohlol wechangedourminds!". Lots of people are absent, haha. However, I'm sure Justin knew about the change so there must be some other reason, hmm.

In any case, I brought my tablet today because we never do anything but sit here in technology and waste space (I'm a good space waster, mind you, but it does get boring sometimes) and I was under the impression that, today, I could come in and occupy myself with drawing. However this account here isn't an admin account so I can't install my tablet driver and thus, can't draw! D8< Hmm now I have to think of more insidious plots. I'm typing really loud and everyone is looking at me.

So I'm pretty excited for the Shinerai exchange this month. Roll call will be opened tonight and I made some really cheap looking CSS for the ShinXChange journal though I didn't finish writing it last night. Hopefully I'll be able to do roll call early enough where I'll only need to days to gather entries. and hopefully, a gazillion people won't send me entries late, augh!

I also keep forgetting to tell the people at DA that I'm not on messengers anymore. I suddenly started hating those things without reason a week or two ago. I can't stand being on them anymore. I'm getting mad now that I can't think of what to type without it being all jumbled up so I'm going to go draw something now, hyuu.

Airu told me to post more often so I'm really going to try, though warning now: my journal is a bunch of jumbled up crap because I can't really think in a straight line, sorry! So I kinda stuck my foot in my mouth when Arfy asked last time if my school has laptops. XD I kinda blew her off (love ya, beb) only to find today that, woah, we have laptops! Technology teacher is using us to set them up because students aren't good for anything but manual labour. I'm waiting for the installation CD's to be passed over here and, in the meantime, writing and entry. XD The person who had this laptop before me is amazing. windows classic theme and a dark skin on firefox. I love you, whoever you are ♥ Though, at the same time, this scares the hell out of me: to see the school spending all this money on things that the students don't deserve. These will all be broken or stolen: it's only a matter of time. I'll enjoy them while I can.

I really wish I could share some sketches or whatever things with you. I need to get into using this as a sketch blog or something so. . . I'll be interesting for once. XD I'll post again when I get home, I think.
You know, the most amazing thing about using a laptop is this little foot thing in the middle. XD That's what I call it. That little circle that I move the cursor with? Yeah, it's super amazing, no matter what any of you say. I want a laptop just so I can have one of these, screw the touchpad.

Gosh, the first time I tried to submit this journal, the internet died on me! I thought surely it was over! I copypasta'd it though. As much as I love you, LJ, for autosaving drafts, you didn't save it far enough along! XD Oooh I can't wait to get home! I've been skinning my DeviantART chat type window and it's looking quite hawt, if I do say so myself. Can't wait to use it, can't wait~ I'll have to edit it more when I get home and finish it. I hope people I owe art to aren't going to get mad at me. Lately I've been working on a reference sheet for Shinerai so I haven't gotten much done otherwise. ;; It's going to be super cool though, yes.

Actually, I think I'll make an entirely new paragraph to talk about the Shineerai reference sheet! I am so excited about this that I'll be lining it a third time just to make sure it's alright. XD So far there will be four different sheets that are set in stone. Ones after that are kinda floating around as ideas and I'll have to get to them when I can. This hilarious "Shin as your original species" thing is absolutely amazing and it's going to be very fun to customize everyone's ideas and try to make a true Shinerai version of their character, not just drawing his markings onto their design. I'm going to have a great time. This is what I've got so far:

True Sheet: Contrary to popular belief, Shin's normal form isn't a dragon but, rather, a humanoiod. So the "Tue Sheet" will be of his KyaRaian form. I don't know how all this is going to work out because I haven't sketched ideas out for the sheet yet. It'll definitely need to include a turnaround, outfits, Shin's scars, a minibio, wings and anatomies, and a couple other things I can't pull out of my ass like everything else I just added to the list right now. to be completely honest, I haven't even thought about the sheet layout yet, so I'll get to that when I work on it. XD
Given Form: This'll be the Shinerai that everyone knows and loves. his given dragon form. XD So far I have a lateral view (but I have to reline it with a fair amount of changes, face detail, and an anterior view of both. lateral and anterior view of skeleton and a lateral/anterior view of the muscles. I also have a breakdown of the muscles in the chest and back, both superficial and deep but, in actuality, I really have no idea how muscles work so if you crit me on anatomy, I'll kick you in the face >3XM forms:</b> XD This goes with the awesome "Shinerai as your Original Character!" thing which is seeming like a project now. Me and Kilara were talking about his Avian form or something and got to talking about the other races. I'm going to see if I can have Shin as a(n): Avian, Odroth, Undrais, Flytt, Amsk and maybe a Sydrin or Lars. Maybe Shin/Ty lovechiildren, Pietc and Etcpi can be on there lomfaoinsidejoke. Ok uh. . .
Other: I don't know how I'm going to organize the others but the set forms that I can remember off the top of my head (trust me, I looked through so many original species I can't even fathomm having to remember all the names) are MoonBeast, Relk, Xon, Psychoraptor, Lasarian, LoveDragon, and Silenced Lung
Alias: So, Shinerai is more of a character than he is. . . me. However my nickname is still Shin so my persona guy would be a Shin too, right? I got to just calling him Alias. I need to figure out what to do about that. Ryu calls him Shigighann so. . . anyway he's like ME. I think I'll be make a sheet for him in the Shinerai sheet series anyway. The artist! He's a loser (epitome of me) and I usually draw him wearing a swim cap and goggles with a giant fuzzy parca of terror tied around his waist. He's a gamer, likes to eat, and has the yellow pages paper mache'd to his wall. Yep.

Can you tell I'm just rambling on and on to try and take up the whole class period so I won't have to sit here boredly after I finish writing this journal? That's precisely what I'm doing. And I'm sorry you have to suffer through it! Let me think of something else to talk about to help me occupy more idle time. Oh! My ShinXchange thing really was cool. I plan to do it monthly and even made a club account on deviantART for it but not a traditional club in which you have to join; it's free for everyone at the leisure. VenomEye on DeviantART bought a year subscription for the club and I am completely taken aback! This is so amazing it's just. . . . I can't wait to get home so I can skin the journal! >> Haha. Roll call is in two days and there are still plenty of people on the blacklist. I hope they get off of it or they won't be able to participate anymore. This kind of thing sorta makes me nervous now. Like, I really hope that there is enough participation go keep the club running and make it worth Venom's money. Eek.

Anyway, so I guess I'm done talking now. Were about to put the laptops up so I have successfully wasted all of your time! xD I'll make sure and upload some of these pictures to my scrapbook on LJ so I can show you next time! Or I can just post a new entry at home, who knows.

Moro, this is to you. Sorry I didn't see you last night, dove. I was in a foul mood most of the time and, later, I ended up not even really being on the computer anyway. I did get up and I cooked dinner. It made me think of you and how much you love to cook. I was smiling the whole time. I had to go to bed at 11:00 last night but you were in my heart. c: I hope to see you today or maybe I'll call you on Thursday when dad goes back to work if I don't see you by then. I love you so much!



P.S. I need to make more userpics, lol.

Holy crap, I haven't pdated this thing in a while. Truth is, I was edting my layout one day to change the colors and make it match my DA journal when something happened and I changed it on accident to the skin I have now and when I found it wasn't editable, I got mad and left it alone. XD Anyway, I'm soooo terribly bored right now and this is one of the only websites I can get on from the school computers so I'm writing an entry. Unfortunately, after writing the long journal about me skinning a cat on DA, I don't have much to write about, sorry! All I know is that I am losing my MIND. Why?

Well, the school got all these cool new computers with flat panel monitors (coughfrom2001couhg) and so they're having to redo all the system stuff and install all the software on them. Which means I can't log into my account. Which means I cant listen to my music! D: I can't LIVE without listening to music! How am I supposed to sit at a computer andnotlistentomusic! *hypervenilate*

Okay, I'm GOING TO BE ALRIGHT. Since all my music sites are blocked by the school network and I don't listen to mainstream music, I've been listening to this 20 second clip from one of Susumu Hirasawa's songs on repeat. Woo. I'm kinda bored. I'd show you something I drew yesterday but can't get on photobucket. Woe. I told Justin to say hi but didn't. |:

It's been a while since I updated this thing, Lol. I need to change the layout or something too. Well the colors, I mean. Maybe I can do that after posting this entry, to further waste my time. Anyway, how are you guys? Though I know only, like, three people read this journal so whatever. I feel like today is a Monday since I skipped didn't go to school yesterday. It's a pretty weird feeling. . . I was pretty excited about tomorrow being Friday. Until Justin reminded me that we have a meet tomorrow. A hard one that I'm barely fast enough to qualify for. Whoop. I can't wait until Saturday. Like seriously.

Internet makes me so mad. D| Why do I sit on it all the time then? I'm making a journal entry really only because DA is being retarded right now and wont accept my avatar. So how was y'all's thanksgiving? Mine was pretty good, I guess. We had our actual Thanksgiving dinner on Wednesday and then went to my gramma's on Thursday. I don't like going over to her house for thanksgiving because she always has her husband's family over (who's only related to us by marriage) and so I feel really out of place. Either way, I drew Shinerai and tolerated everyone's screams at the Cowboys game. How bout' them Cowboys.

Then I came home and talked to Kilara and Moro! Yay, that made me happy. Also found that wine and orange juice tastes pretty good together. Sad that FA is down. . . Nothing else for me to write about. D| Should be doing commissions. I deleted a bunch of my LJ avatars, leaving only 6, because my subscription to LJ will run out soon and I know it'll delete them anyway. I'm doing a commission for vtforpedro and I was going to get an LJ sub in return for it, but I think Shinta needed it more so I gave it to her instead. She's trying to build up money through commissions to help her friend who is having monetary problems. Ah, well.

Anyway, see you guys later.