so last night, I had a series of bizarre dreams, wherein the first of which someone drew me a doujin involving kinky bowties.; The second dream involved spiders hanging down from the ceiling onto my head ;_;

Anyway today was like. Wow.
So SCAD came first block and I found out they have a sequential art major which utterly secured/re-inforced my faith in them. Apparently I made an amusing noise when I first learned of this XD;

Also! Pretty happy about our computer animation project, though we certainly need to upstage Jen and co's dancing Hitler... is it bad that instead of "upstage" my fingers automatically typed "update"? XD; Lora's top 5 most used words.

But the biggest load off of my mind is, Tarver is writing me a rec letter and now I only need to prey upon two other unsuspecting teachers ;_;!! *frolic* Extra motivation to join GSA so Freeland will remember me XD *thwacked*

And in the way of clubs, Chiggy and I went to Chess Club today! (well, she skipped over to Go Club after a while, fehh XD) I know this pretty much re-affirms any lingering doubts as to whether or not I am a nerd, but I DON'T CARE, I LIKE CHESS DAMMIT ._.!! *EPIPHANY OF TRUTH!!!* I did lose both games I played but they were close matches with people I could tell were pretty good. XD

So, I guess my yearly objective is to stay consistent with Chess Club, GSA, and Skills USA. If I can manage to keep up with all those meetings. Uh. BUT IT SHOULD BE OK.

I swore to myself I'd go to bed early today, which I still plan to follow through with, but I have an annoying craving to continue playing Metroid Prime 3. XD I, uh, think I might have murdered the nunchuk yesterday though by thrusting my arm out repeatedly for grabble beam action; I have reached a really annoying part of the game;

tags: dreams, schoolbabble

cleaned out the skeletons in my closet today (replace skeletons with "old coloring books")

well gee! it's incriminating convo time ' o'a ( ya ya, ya know? )

tags: chiggy, convos

dressin like your sister, livin like a tart
they don't know what you're doin, babe it must be art!

Some people get productive ideas. Mine are, conversely, counterproductive. (Bet you didn't see that one coming.)

EXAMPLE

imagine me at my computer chair
"I really like the idea of this pairing!"

but wait!

Do they have any motivation whatsoever for ever liking each other?

"well no"

Point made?

"SHUT UP SUBCONSCIOUS. NO ONE LIKES YOU"

scizo aside, it's a bit hilarious.
But since these urges never manifest themselves, I must have an amazing amount of self control. (they really are just impulses)

OH GODS HELP. What if I become a slasher with no basis for slashing?? (or a hetter with no basis for hetting. This is also a pretty bad problem)

actually, it's probably more appropriate to label the urges as part OF my subconscious. On the outside, I'm a canon nazi.

In the immortal words from deviantART somewhere: "it doesn't need to make sense, as long as it's hot."

tags: rant

Egads, the prospect of the akatsuki cosplay is really exciting. Especially with the way graduation is being put off a bit (or so I heard at the senior meeting today) we might actually be able to make a-kon! *_*

*sigh* I wish I had a natural skill for sewing and that kind of thing. Must I re-voice my strong desire to make an arsenal of FINGER PUPPETS? XD gods yes.

Anyway. I really wish I hadn't missed school Monday; I feel like I must be leagues behind now, since my white days are usually packed.

Today was fun though. During the offblock, after waiting outside on the benches in wonderfully cool overcast weather for Tina's mom to pick her up, Ajay and Becca and I went to H-E-B where I discovered rather to my own surprise that I had money enough to buy myself a box of ritz bitz cheese sandwich crackers (which I did!) Afterwards we walked across the street to Starbucks to eat. I have a feeling I'll be seeing a lot more of Starbucks in the future of my 4th block offperiod; (however, I am the worst possible customer, cos I order only water and then take up the comfy chairs)

more on the senior meeting though, we got transcripts and mine was abysmal. I never thought my classrank could seriously be THAT pathetic; then I got some inspirational discourse from Chiggy about how I could do oh so much better if I could only focus.

Letters of recommendation arrgh. I asked Mme Dutarte for one after much internal deliberation, but as I suspected, she said it was too hard for her to do outside of her native language. But, that's ok. Next I guess I'll ask Tarver, and see if I can weasel something out of Dowdle. After that, I seriously have no idea. Evans-Miller doesn't actually hate me but I can't honestly imagine her writing spiels of positive goodness about me or... anyone. But she is my official art teacher so it does make sense at least for me to be asking.

music: NIN - Closer tags: ajay, becca, cons, cosplay, schoolbabble, starbucks, tina

nothing terribly exciting to report here. Sick (in case you didn't know) and probably (actually probably most definitely, since I lacked the willpower to finish the crazy loads of homework) going to stay home tomorrow. I reeeally didn't want to, but around 4 oclock today I resigned myself to the fact that I probably wasn't going to get better between then and tomorrow.

I scribbled TONS of weird crap today that I'm not sure that I still like. I drew a Madde that I liked and that Chiggy judged the epitome of Crap. So, my perception is probably in the bucket today.

Being sick isn't too hot. If I hadn't just taken a shower I'd probably be the most unattractive human being in the world right now. Now I'm a few steps above, say, the clinically obese. (I kid, I kid)

on the other hand, Chiggy and I have had a long interesting chat about all the things she'd do if she were allowed to run wild with my plot lines. XD We make a good albeit bizarre team?? (although right now the only thing she has influence over is TCC)


Dralora (11:54:47 PM): shit you really do have interesting ideas XD
Dralora (11:54:54 PM): I should have consulted you first I guess
Dralora (11:54:55 PM): OH WELL
strawberryD00M (11:55:46 PM): XD haha I'm so coming up with this as I go
Dralora (11:55:55 PM): well I was too and apparently my storylines are simple as pie
Dralora (11:56:00 PM): which makes me sad
strawberryD00M (11:56:13 PM): XDDDD they're not THAT simple
strawberryD00M (11:56:18 PM): I can't really follow them too well
strawberryD00M (11:56:21 PM): so they can't be THAT simple
Dralora (11:56:15 PM): thwack
strawberryD00M (11:56:28 PM): XDDD

tags: chiggy, convos

I AM ANXIOUS AND LAZY I did 46+ terms from my gov homework but I really don't want to go back to working on them... I'm tired, but I'm too stressed about homework to take a nap XD;

a note about my rant the other day... I think I'm still bitter about Moichi. NOO WHY DID HE DIE. granted he wasn't a love interest DAMMIT YES HE WAS A PSEUDO LOVE INTEREST AT LEAST -no one- cuddles hugs their best friend that cutely >_<;;;

anyway.
yeah, that show did suck a lot. XD
but he was the one redeeming quality;

I lost a lot of my old drawings, including one that I want to (redraw and then) put on a shirt, so in order to achieve that I have to get people (Chiggy) to send them back to me. HAHA I was so disorganized back then

hopefully soon Tina will bring Impossible Creatures to school so I can borrow it *_*

tags: impossible creatures, rant, schoolbabble, tina, yay for gay

Today whilest on a mad search for my graphing calculator, with which to do my AP Stat homework (which I later realized I did not need, but anyway) I stumbled across many old doodles mostly from last year which were just rotting away in my cabinet. And I think my scanner needs to get off its arse once in a while and make a TEAM EFFORT. So here we are

( SHE BLINDED ME... WITH SCIENCE )

tags: art

Gmmm. You know a word I don't use much anymore? Cliché. (yes, I pride myself on being able to quickly produce an e-accent aigu via number pad)

Something being cliché really does not have the final say in whether or not it is bad. The thing is, the "clichéd" plots are usually the ones that are done over and over again, BADLY.

And sometimes, people try so hard to deviate from the "cliché" that the final result is a big confusing goo.

A GOO!!

This string of thoughts came from another rant that sprung upon me today. It went along the lines of this: "GODS! IS THERE NO END? I AM TIRED OF THE LOVE INTEREST DYING IN A TERRIBLE TRAGIC ANGSTY WAY. OH MY GOD HE OR SHE WAS HIT BY A TRUCK AND DIED TERRIBLY AND TRAGICALLY" or "THEY DIED SACRIFICING THEMSELVES FOR THEIR ONE TRUE LOVE" or "THEY WERE GANGRAPED THEN TURNED EMO THEN COMMITTED SUICIDE"

But I realized after thinking this that just because this happens in a lot of ridiculous stories, you really can't categorize it as a story damning element. Love interests are allowed to die in terrible tragic angsty ways, and when you least expect it.

Being cliché is a-OK!

It's like on Neopets! (rewind 5 years) I constantly ran into Grarrls that claimed to be timid, girly, reformed, intellectual etc

My Grarrl was an unrefined brute who liked to eat Tonus :)

And the Metroid Prime series is great, despite being about Light and Dark worlds (who can seriously call that innovative? The reviews amaze me)

At the same time, I can only endure so many main characters sobbing their eyes out for their lost love. Who, more often than not, will come back to life somehow anyway.

On a side note, I think I should stop focusing so much on the minute details of TCC and just expect people to trust me that "yes, this otherworldly science makes sense somehow" Yeah, not every little thing makes sense in the crap I read, but I don't stress it. I'm all "yeah, well, you know what you doing mr. author man"

music: Suede - Everything Will Flow tags: rant

Wow. I guess Bessy has every right to call me a dork, then. XD

tags: meme

Today after a downright rowdy C-lunch Tina and I went to see Transformers. There was a really cute middle eastern boy (who didn't die omg) *__* I wanted to gobble him up he was so cute XDD *is hence avoided*

and... let's see, that is seriously all I have to say about the movie

wait. I hate how the important/smart female characters in movies (all love interests) are all played by like, model actresses. ; seriously, it bugs me something nutty. People are scarcely ever pretty AND smart, especially to such outrageous degrees. For the male characters, it doesn't usually matter what they look like, so we girls (and gays?) don't even get the same eye candy for our viewing pleasure.

It's also amazing how action movies always seem to put me to sleep. XD I mean, yea, initially it's like OMFG HIS ARM HAS A RETRACTABLE ROBOT KNIFE but a solid 20 minutes of indeterminate crashing and burning gets kinda tiring on the eyes;

SO. More for the rant department - while waiting outside for my mom to arrive, we saw these KIDS. I say kids to mean 10, 12, that kind of age - all tossing around "YEA THAT IS CRAZY SHIT"s and wearing emo clothing. Their peers probably think they're cool but we think they look like dumbasses. Hahaha. ; The "cool" age gets lower every year...

We also played Impossible Creatures, which I STILL NEED TO OWN. My cheetah-shark army got pwned by coyote-whales.

tags: movies, rant, tina

life is unfair!
when you know it would be inappropriate to laugh at something, something that's not even really that funny to begin with
it makes it 300x funnier.

That happened to me in Aqua Sci today while watching a video.
The herring were mating. The narration was awkward.

anyway I will share now... ( CHOMP CHOMP )

tags: art, chiggy, convos, satty

I AM DYING UGGHGHGGH. I cannot STAND being in this state of pseudo-house arrest. My mom works until 8:30 every day and my dad, who stays home randomly from time to time from work without telling anyone why, does everything in his power to avoid having to drive me anywhere. I need a sketchbook for computer animation, which I originally thought would be no problem, since we have lots of spares. Buuut as you would have it, my sister has since unintelligibly scribbled in all of them. And the handle of my computer cabinet door just came off as I pulled on it. ;;

the one place I had left to look;

*knuckle to face repeatedly*

I haaaate not being prepared for class. It's this lasting discomfort that doesn't let me sleeeep.

whine whine whine