http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:ARC-K-80&section=today deviantART RSS for by:ARC-K-80 en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:29:09 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://ARC-K-80.deviantart.com/journal/28323166/ http://ARC-K-80.deviantart.com/journal/28323166/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:30:45 PST
He's 94, a WWII vet (Colonel), and his wife passed several years ago. I'm worried less about him, because I've already accepted that he's not going to be around too much longer, and more about my mother, who I feel is going to take this especially hard.

So please, throw up a prayer or three (or sacrifice, if that's how you worship) to the deity of your choice for my grandfather and my family.

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Go look. It's awesome.

Also, I have a kilt. I'll post a picture of it when I get around to posting a picture of it.

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She promptly starts to yell at me for having too many "wants" and not knowing what I actually NEED. Um, I'm sorry, but painkillers that WON'T kill me by the time I'm 50, low-sodium foods that will help me lower my blood pressure so I'm not dead by the time I'm 30, and ink for my printer so that I don't fail my classes all falls into the NEED category in pretty much any book I've seen.

And then she starts yelling at me for wanting to add foglights and a new belt to my car so that it'll stop squealing and charge the alternator properly and so that I can drive during the fog that covers my area of the state pretty much constantly during this time of year. But no, I don't NEED either of those, either. I just WANT them, they won't actually DO anything for me.

Then the issue of the fact that I bought a $20 adjustable stainless steel cane instead of a cheap non-adjustable $10 one for my knee that I screwed up when I hit it in the shower the other day. Apparently, having one that works properly and might actually LAST is less important than saving money.

And finally, she attacked my papercrafting. Which I do to save money while still getting the props and costume parts that I want, since I know they can't afford to support full-blown castings of helmets and armor and such. Apparently, it doesn't matter that I'm saving 90% of what I'd be spending if I just bought the damn helmet, I'm still spending WAY too much on it.

This isn't counting the multiple times she's basically told me that she doesn't give a damn about what school I go to or if I go to school at all as long as I don't keep costing HER money. I'm currently using my own inheritance to pay for my classes because she figures "it's my money either way, so when I don't get an A in the class it won't matter". I was hoping to be able to use the money in my inheritance from my grandparents to take a trip to see some of my friends who live all over the country and to go to where my grandmother is buried and my grandfather will be. Nah, looks like I get to spend it on teachers who can't teach the damn subject and then test us on information that they never gave us instead, and if I HAPPEN to pass the course, I MIGHT get it back... if she decides not to automatically apply it towards the loan they gave me for D*Con after three different sources of funding backed out.... two of those three being them promising me they'd help me get there as a gift, because they know how big of a deal it is for me.

Why the hell do I even bother? I'm a failure for her no matter what because I'm costing her her precious fucking money, while my brother who stays at home, doesn't have any goals beyond get good at music and play guitar and sing in the worship band down the street from their house, is apparently a MUCH better child than I am, because he doesn't cost them as much.

I call my dad to talk to him about it, since he's usually much more rational and level-headed... and he told me, very insincerely, that he's sorry, and shrugged. As in "Quit whining, I'm not gonna do anything".

I can sell my helmet right now, make $400 easy, buy myself a job somewhere, and get the car transferred into my own name so that as soon as I have enough to move across the country, I can get as far away as I need to from them and don't have to rely on them for anything. When I'm only using my own money, they'd probably actually start to focus on the whole "I'm their damn son" thing and less on the whole "I'm costing them money" part.

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Now on to the main topic of this journal: Girls. And how they can eternally frustrate men without actually doing anything.
(Imagine the following conversation read in British accents. It somehow makes it WAY funnier)
Girl: "Well, I would date you, but you live halfway across the country"
Guy: "What good does that do me? Now I'm stuck wondering what might have been with you in ADDITION to these other women."
Girl: "Other women? I'm not the only one you think about?"
Guy: "What does it matter? It's not like we can date anyway, since you don't want to do anything long-distance and I can't just move up to live with you."
Girl: "It's the IDEA of things. You're not supposed to like more than one woman at a time."
Guy: "The whole lot of you are bloody mad! Where in the six bloody hells and three not-so-bloody-but-equally-unpleasant hells is that written?"
Girl: "It's not written, you're just supposed to KNOW it instinctively."
Guy: "All I know about women instinctively is that my wahoo goes in your hoo-ha and together we go whoopie and then we get a baby. Everything else I have to figure out, and you do NOT make it easy."
Girl: "You don't have to be so damn vulgar."
Guy: "Congrats on the oxymoron there, by the way. Now please excuse me while I use this jigsaw to cut the top of my head off, I'm sure it'll be less painful than trying to figure out what exactly you mean."

That conversation is a bit of a composite of several that I've had with various females recently. With a bit of added sarcasm and humor, but just a bit. Women seriously are that dang complicated. Currently, there's seven different women who have been bothering me to some extent, and why I can't date them right now.

And sadly for them, I'm calling the ones I can out (in other words, if you're on dA, you're getting called out on here)

Jessica (Era): Ex-fiance. She's dating someone else and is more of a friend than anything else, but there's always just a bit of a spark there, and I don't know if there ever WON'T be.

Jessica : Informed me not too long ago that the only reason she's not interested in a relationship with me is because I live too far away. Granted, I DID ask, so I can't really whine about her telling me that.

Stephanie : Oog. This is one of those complicated ones, where her family doesn't really like her and I talking because I'm FROM TEH INTERNETZ OMGZ LOCK TEH DOORS!, but she and I sorta still talk anyway, and there's definitely a "click" there, but neither of us is sure if it's enough of a "click" to try to do things anyway. Plus she lives across the country from me (in a north-south version of across, not east-west).

Kara : Ex-girlfriend, lives COMPLETELY across the country from me (in both a north-south AND east-west variety), and I'm still not sure if she's sane enough to be safe yet. But there's definitely some chemistry there.

Remi (no link, no alternate names): Met at Dragon*Con. There's "click" and there's "CLICK" and then there's "wanting to kiss as soon as we met". The inclusion of the third should explain most of it. But she lives 7 hours away and is sorta dating someone else and neither of us can really figure out if it'd actually go anywhere long-term or not.

Larissa: : This one's honestly one of the most frustrating ones on the list: She's batting for the other team right now. Not really any other r... ]]> ~ARC-K-80 http://ARC-K-80.deviantart.com/journal/25712779/ http://ARC-K-80.deviantart.com/journal/25712779/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:53:45 PDT Inhaled a crouton (really)
Dislocated and relocated my pinky finger
Gotten sicker than I was after four days of steady improvement
Thrown up because of my anti-nausea medication
Been confined to my room
Discovered that student clinics are all closed today
Discovered that there's a five-hour wait at the only remaining walk-in clinic in town
Eaten an entire pizza
Broken my right pinky toe
Jammed my shoulder

I need a padded room and a straightjacket, I think.

]]> ~ARC-K-80 http://ARC-K-80.deviantart.com/journal/24472716/ http://ARC-K-80.deviantart.com/journal/24472716/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:44:11 PDT Second... PACKING SUCKS THE GENITALIA OF A CRYOGENICALLY FROZEN MONKEY FROM THE 11TH CENTURY THAT HAD HERPES. Yeah. Rough day. And I'm not even a quarter of the way done.
Third... I finally decided on one of my two "Year projects". First a bit of background. I've decided that every summer, I'm going to start on three projects, one crafty (building or repairing something big and difficult), one self-improving (cooking class, language lessons, flying lessons, etc. Something that I learn something valuable from), and one other (writing, filming, etc.). Each project will take place starting in the summer and continue for a full year, or until I've gone as far as I possibly can with it. So far, I have the "other" project: I'm going to chronicle my life for a year, starting May 1. If you're interested, you can follow along at [link] And yes, I do have ads on there. That's because I'm not only going to be writing, but also filming whenever I can. And I don't have a fancy digital video camera, and so I need to be able to pay for film and/or a fancy digital video camera. Full details are in the very first post on the blog.

In other news, playing games with people is ridiculously fun. Just waiting now to see how many people catch on.

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And an AC that works.

Hell fucking yeah.



You see, our AC at my current apartment has been running a bit wonky. It will just shut off if you run it below 78. This being Florida, it's usually closer to 82 inside with the AC running constantly. Maintenance people don't care, so I've been forced to stay in my room most of the time so that I can be naked. And I'm still sweating just sitting around.

Needless to say, trying to pack everything into boxes has NOT been fun. Especially when you consider that I don't have anywhere for most of the boxes to go. So I have to move them from the bathroom to my bed every time I want to get a shower.

Add to this muscle and/or nerve problems, occasionally feeling nauseous, and sleep deprivation due to doctor's appointments too early in the day... This is not going to be a fun week.

On the bright side, I've got *someone* to cheer me up during each day, and I couldn't be more thankful.

Once I finish moving, I'll probably be updating more often, as well as posting pics of my new 1-year project. (I'm going to take on one large crafty-sort project with the intent to finish it within one year). Not completely sure what it'll be yet, but I've got a couple of very solid ideas already.

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Oops.

I swear, I'm on here daily! I just haven't gotten anything done recently to post.

Only interesting things are lots of bad decisions I wn't talk about, a couple that I probably won't, and... yeah, I won't talk about those either.

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Oh. I will actually get something updated in my gallery soon, I swear.

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At least in our view of things.

Oh, and I'm taking commissions now, I'll have details up soon.

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I'm gonna try and keep this thing a bit more updated. Let's see, where to start...

Okay. Relationships stuff first. My previous relationship ended a week short of three months. I was all fraked up and stuff. Found a girl named Era. Something clicked, not quite sure what. I proposed after two weeks, she said yes. We're at just over a month now.

School's started again. Um... Yay? Oh well. I can't complain too much, it's how I met my fiance.

Even if I hate my classes.

But I'm enjoying my Animation class. You'll see some good stuff come of of there this year.

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Anyway, I've been in a happy relationship for a month and a half now. WOOT for me! lol
I've got my driver's license, another WOOT. and a couple of screams, but they're not as important.
I <3 my Wacom Tablet.
I also <3 the armor that I'm working on.
But I <3 my girlfriend the most.

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UPDATE: Okay, while I was writing this, I decided to post something new. About time, huh?

Oh, and if anyone is able to give really good relationship advice, or read minds, please let me know. I'm comfuzzled as heck right now.

]]> ~ARC-K-80 http://ARC-K-80.deviantart.com/journal/6845752/ http://ARC-K-80.deviantart.com/journal/6845752/ Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:16:06 PDT I like Star Wars. Although that's pretty much a given, if you look at the art that I've posted so far. Anyways, I'm going to deatch from the norm of journals and blogs and the like, and not use a single vulgar word in it. I will be using the emoticon instead. It will be quite interesting.
Kill the!
What is up with this guy?--> ]]> ~ARC-K-80