deviantART: by:AmbientSounds http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:AmbientSounds&section=today deviantART RSS for by:AmbientSounds en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:19:11 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png Oh Em Gee, Happy http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/27041219/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/27041219/ Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:48:00 PDT

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((this is going to be long, because it feels like a lot has happened since the last journal... and it will probably be awhile before my next update anyways since I'm about to be ridiculously busy :) )).

haHA, hurHUR HUR

I need this feeling that I have had over the past week to last, I really really do. I know that my schedule it going to be killer, and the work will be hard, but I am so looking forward to throwing myself into this thing body, mind, and soul. Not being depressed for no reason will be a big helper there.



So I had my first clarinet lesson on Wednesday, and really like Dr. Spece, he seems cool. He sent me an email that I only just read, asking me if I had room in my schedule to join the Clarinet Choir (Master Class I think is it's formal name?) and said that he thought that I could be a "huge help" to the group. A help??? *upon reading this mentally flails around giggling like a maniac...only in my head lol but still* I've been practicing the new books he had me buy, and I am REALLY excited because I'm picking things up better and sounding better than I think I ever did in high school. And being invited to join the ensemble makes me really happy because I always loved hearing pieces with multiple instruments come together, it's so fun. :excited: :faint:



My other classes also seem like they are going to be interesting and fun. For once in my life, I think taking a 16 credit hour semester is going to be more than doable. I already met two other girls in my math class who I conversed with about the teachers and school I just transferred from (and whose math department I still work in part-time), and who share the same math enthusiasm that I have. We were all surprised that our Dif Eqns class actually has SIXTY PEOPLE in it, but I think we'll be okay. The only other class I've been in that's larger is a class that comes earlier in the day and has nearly 200 Freshmen. I think I'd be overwhelmed except for that fact that they all look cute and tiny and nervous lol.

Both of my jobs are going extremely well. I leave directly from classes and go to one job or the other, depending on what day it is. The Math Computer Lab has been buzzing, but not overwhelming in the least (and I'm allowed to work on homework in there when no one needs assistance), and it's comforting that I can still visit my old school and talk with the profs and the secretary and some other students who I've come to know. My other job is at a local art store called Art Things, and some of the employees I have known nearly as long as I've lived in this state. Not to mention that my liddle :iconrobinlee: works there now too. When I worked there yesterday from 12-6, I realized that even though I very much value my alone time, that at least a lot of the not-alone time I have is spent surrounded by people who I am quite comfortable with and who are very supportive. I even spent an hour helping some random customer yesterday, and even though he hadn't bought anything when he left (though I'm positive that he'll be back to get the things we talked about), I felt really good getting to talk and help with some of the things I really love. Having people ask me for advice on things (we had 3 people come in this week for gilding supplies! o.o) is really kinda cool, I feel like things I may have stumbled through and mistakes I might have made could make things smoother for someone else.



And finally, migraines suck. Somehow, despite the large number of migraines I've had lately, I'm still managing to keep things together. I'm not sure exactly why I am suddenly having a rush of them over the past couple of weeks (I'm going to read the thingses you sent Amber XD) but I know without the prescription I'm on they'd be unbearable. I can really tell when they're coming because I just feel like th... ]]> *AmbientSounds August of Dewm and Yay School Prospects http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/26813161/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/26813161/ Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:10:01 PDT

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The New Semester is Almost Here!


I'm so jealous lol, though I know that in a couple of months I will be dog tired and ready for change. Last night was my first night back at the Mathlab because AACC started back to classes yesterday (and I don't til next week). My friend Nick came in and was working on homework and looking through papers etc. so yeah I was jealous lol. We still have two classes that are the same, despite taking them at different schools, so I look forward to us still getting to argue over math until we figure out the answer. I helped about 20 people figure out that the classroom they were looking for was not in fact in the building and had to describe how to get all over campus. It was fun. :P HaHA, I laugh at you children and your getting-lost-ways. (Like I still don't get lost at UMBC lol)

While all that was going on, I surfed my school site and I ended up thinking that I might just want to add a Minor in Music to my list of school endeavors (along with my math minor, my original Mechanical Engineering Major, and an Art Major I'm making a portfolio for). I wrote back and forth with one of the clarinet profs there and ended up getting permission to add to my schedule a weekly hour long practice session. I had thought I might audition for the Wind Ensemble next week, but I came to learn that their meeting time was not so convenient for my work schedule. Besides which I will be bending over backwards as it is. For now I'll stick with the private hour sessions and we'll see where to go from there. A music Minor is not difficult judging by their criteria on the website, and it will be yet another welcome way to blow off some steam from MUCH harder classes. I practiced for an hour today and my face HURTS lol, but I find the audition piece I printed out to be easy and likable. :P

So that leaves me signed up for 16 credits for this Fall semester. Music, more math, two engineering classes, and German. It's going to be fun, I'm hoping it won't kick my ass to the curb lol. And somewhere in there, I'm going to have to find time to keep my art up. :faint:

CHOW: This week is my last week to finish my two pieces for a team endeavor that I'm doing over at ConceptArt.org, so I plan on having those to submit soon as well. Down to tha wire.



Mah Buddies

:iconamberpalette: :iconrobinlee: :iconmusicrocksgbv: :iconlegalien:


]]> *AmbientSounds August, Go Away. http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/26707297/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/26707297/ Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:49:34 PDT

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RAWR...

So when somebody with major chronic health problems tells you that they are striving towards a goal, like you are... Do you tell them that basically the stress is too much for them to handle, they should go live on a shelf somewhere and be coddled and not live the way they want to live and decide that they're not allowed to dream as big as everybody else because it might be harder for them? What a fucking crock of shit.

Whoever the hell you are who said that to my friend, I would not think twice about decking you over the GD head at this moment. Who the fuck do you think you are??

It's no wonder I want absolutely nothing to do with people when I leave the house lately. People just feed on being shitty to each other anymore. What a pack of assholes.


[Aug 20] It's Just Too Damn Hot and Sticky...

...Though I DO enjoy the thunderstorms we've been getting. I locked myself out of the apartment at 8:30 two mornings ago. After 8 hours of sleep, I was still too groggy and stupid to remember to bring my keys with me LOL. By the time my boyfriend came home to let me in, I was sweating and hot, even sitting in the shade. I hate you August.

Anyways, still trying to cram some art into the time I've got left before school takes over my life again. I need to get my oils out again today while the light's good and work on the self portrait some more. I also have finally gotten to the sculpting part of my first sculpture. It's a velociraptor, which I plan on adding feathers and a sweet paint job to when I've got it baked.. maybe some flames along the sides. No? We'll see. :P

I spent last night looking up Sleep Clinics in my area, checking out costs and whatnot (sleep studies are NOT cheap o.o;). I'd say in the last 24 hours, at least 16 of those hours I spent asleep, I'm thinking more like 18 even. That would be more than 2/3 of my day spent unconscious, and I still spend a lot of my time feeling like a nap would be nice. My average this week remains about 12 hours a day. That's still too much.

I've always had trouble getting up and being tired throughout the day. Even when mania strikes and I sleep so much less than usual, it's still like five or six hours... Which is like half of what I'd be doing otherwise. I figure I should get it looked at, if nothing else. I know that I do a lot of jerking and moving around, that's probably all it is. :eye:_:eye:


Mah Buddies

:iconamberpalette: :iconrobinlee: :iconmusicrocksgbv: :iconlegalien:


]]> *AmbientSounds Streamin' http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/26526425/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/26526425/ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:39:40 PDT

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Livestream time again, I'll prolly be off and on there for the next couple of hours. Just chillin'. Like a villain. Ha, that wasn't old.
( [link] Aug 15 9:40)


Need a couple hours of distraction?

LOL this is totally me ... ... Which means in a horror movie, I'd be one of the first to die. And it would involve me falling (I'm clumsy) and either somebody running by and crushing my glasses, or me scrabbling around on the ground trying to find them and crawling right into the arms of DOOM. :rofl:

LOL

Yeah, so 8000 pageviews came and went. =) Thanks for watching, lurking, commenting, faving, etc.! :heart:


Not Gonna Lie...

Man I'm tired, LOL. Not that there's any reason for it, but I'm tired just the same. :P :iconfacepalmplz:

BUT, I am excited because I splurged some of my small amount of money away to get some armature wire and SculpeyIII because I've been having brain waves in the form of sculpture lately. :iconrobinlee: sweetly offered to let me borrow some of her tools... I have a few, and need to locate them.

My thoughts on a sculpt are in the form of either a velociraptor or archeopteryx (spelling questionable), either of which would have primitive feathers that I am really looking forward to doing. But aside all of that, I'm getting ahead of myself... Need to do some research and sketches first, though I don't plan on that taking too long. So I guess long story short, I'll have more sketches and things coming up soon, not to mention will have some of my WIPs done. Now that our AC is fixed, I plan on finishing the self-portrait in oil (which I have some initial shots of, just haven't posted yet.)

I guess that's about it. I'm really missing school right now, my brain keeps making me think that I have loads of homework that I'm missing out on, and I have to keep telling it to shut up and relax while there's still time [briefly]. I know by the time Christmas comes, I'll be a wreck wishing that math never existed lol, but for now... WAAAAAAAH XP

Mah Buddies

:iconamberpalette: :iconrobinlee: :iconmusicrocksgbv: :iconlegalien:


]]> *AmbientSounds Portfolio, Job, Classes http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/26233281/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/26233281/ Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:22:22 PDT

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Gonna bust out some Livestream action for about an hour here, if anyone wants to yak: [link] (7/30 2:21 E.S.T)

BLUH...

Still working on portfolio stuff, and I'm happy to say that it's made me pull out my oil paints for the first time in forever. I purchased some fiber-board last week and have since started a self portrait in oil, and am pleased with the current likeness from working through a hand held mirror... It's just been too damn hot in the apartment to make me want to finish it yet. Once we get the AC working and it's not literally 90 degrees at my art desk anymore, I'll have less of a problem sitting still for myself LOL. I'm also planning on using some of the old mat boards and such that I gleaned from my job at the framing place, along with my prisma markers and pencils, to come up with something. Still trying to decide what exactly though.

Art Things (a local art store where I've worked before, and where I'm friendly with the staff and owners) called me earlier today and it's looking like I'll have a couple days out of the week to work there for the coming up semester, which is a huge relief to me. Not only do I already know that I love everybody there, but it's nice to know that I'll be able to pay for things like gas, and write checks for the rent to help out my boyfriend. AND it won't collide in any way with my evening hours working at the Mathlab (methlab LOL) at the community college, so I can keep doing that if they'll have me YAY.

Finally, despite the LARGE stressout I had within the last month about classes and majors and feeling that I didn't have enough time to sign up for things before they were all taken... school is working out. I've spoken to the director of the Engineering department and gotten some things clarified and talked through that were causing me angst, and it turns out that all of the classes that I needed/wanted I have been able to get into, and to make work with my schej. WHEW. :faint: People tell me I'm laid back but DAMMIT I just need to calm down sometimes LOL ^^;. Seriously.

Friends

On another note, I have friends that need hugs and good thoughts (tell me if you want added to the list):
:iconrobinlee: whose grandfather passed, who she was close to. :hug: :heart:
:iconamberpalette: who is having stresstastic hell working toward her PhD and needs to be told how awesome she really is every once and a while (and whose Col-Erases I still need to mail to her...but I DO HAVE now ^^; ) :hug: :D :heart:
:iconlegalien: who has gallbladder issues and, from what I've heard so far, is still working on when exactly they are going to be fixed :heart:


Stamps


http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/26032503/ Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:37:59 PDT

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OY- I'm hopping on Livestream to work on more portfolio stuff, if anybody is on and has time to stop for a chat, I'll be around for a bit! =) (7/21 at 7:36 EST) The link is in yellow below ;)

SO...

I just dropped the class I was taking, due to a few reasons that I won't go into, and being stupidly behind by three essays. With another due the next day. e_e I could have kept up with that class if I was still somewhat manic, but shit not so much how I've been now. Anyways, I suddenly find myself with a little bit of breathing room and I'm filling it with art so that I can have a good portfolio to present in late October. That means I might actually update regularly, holy shit, when did that ever happen?

[link] Is my new Livestream channel, and I've got two hour long sessions in the On Demand section already. I'm having an issue with the camera feed being zoomed in way too far on my desktop, and it makes figuring out what I'm doing a pain in the ass I'm sure. If anybody knows how to fix that, either through Adobe's Screen Capture program or in Livestream's Studio itself, I will pay you in gold bricks to help me. The gold bricks will of course be digitally painted, but you can pet them much as you could actual bricks.

EDIT: Actually got the feed fixed, thanks to the friend (dwardo at CA) who initially pointed me toward the site in the first place. So things will be more watchable now I think. XD

Friends

On another note, I have friends that need hugs and good thoughts (tell me if you want added to the list):
:iconrobinlee: whose grandfather just passed last weekend, who she was close to. :hug: :heart:
:iconamberpalette: who is having stresstastic hell working toward her PhD and needs to be told how awesome she really is every once and a while (and whose Col-Erases I still need to mail to her ^^; ) :hug: :D :heart:
:iconlegalien: who, last time I talked to her, had a gallbladder infection and stones, and is going to have to get it fixed at some point. I need to go seek an update. :heart:


Stamps


*AmbientSounds Best Mousetrap Ev4r http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/25813437/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/25813437/ Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:51:02 PDT

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...just wow. I know some people who will be very touched by this, I know I was.


SO...

As Chris and I were watching television last night and lying in bed, my little black cat comes dashing into the room (which we ignored, because she does that a lot) and there is this really loud squeak. We both look over like WTF and she is playing with a mouse, which she drops, and it dashes back out into the other room. After she corners it, I manage to get it to run into a tea tin that Chris brought home from his job at Barnes and Noble, and I let it loose outside. It was tiny, and cute, and definitely not going to live long. :(

Thinking it was strange, and feeling sad for the badly damaged little mouse, we finally went to bed and slept most of the night away until 4:00 am when Chris sat bolt upright after hearing weird banging around out in the living room/kitchen area. When I went out there in the dark, my cat was crouching outside the kitchen door, all hunched over, and was growling low and constantly. I thought she was foaming at the mouth, and I was terrified that she had gotten sick from the mouse or something, but when I turned on the lights I could see another little grey mouse hanging from her mouth. ((This whole time, the orange cat is running back and forth like "OMG are you going to feed me now? You're up and in the kitchen?? Food? Food? What's going on??? LMAO he's adorably clueless...))

After a lot of prodding, I got her to let go of the mouse which I thought was dead, but obviously wasn't as it streaked into the kitchen with her hot on its tail. I managed to catch this one in the same tin as before, after finally getting her to move away from where she'd cornered it but couldn't quite get to it. I let this one go out in the trees too, and apart from some blood on its foot, I think it was okay. I know its probably stupid to feel bad for them, but I used to have little rodents as pets and I've always liked mice and rats and these were SO small. :( I should have killed the first one because of how badly it was hurt but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Chris said maybe we should get an aquarium and keep all the mice she catches in there, a sort of "mouse rehab" LOL. :P

My cat spent the rest of the night camped out next to the garbage can in the kitchen, staring at the bottom of the stove and dishwasher where they seem to be coming from. Pretty much I think that they run out of there and head for the cat food which is like 3 feet away, and some of it is always spilled on the floor for one reason or another, and she waits for them to go for it and then pounces. Out of all the apartments in this building, the mice come into ours, with our two cats. WTF?? I've heard them in the walls before, but was always confident that they would stay there, or invade other people's space and not ours. I mean... I thought mice would be a little smarter than that?? Maybe our building has all the "challenged" mice...? Who knows.

Friends

On another note, I have friends that need hugs and good thoughts (tell me if you want added to the list):
:iconrobinlee: whose grandfather just passed last weekend, who she was close to. :hug: :heart:
:iconamberpalette: who is having stresstastic hell working toward her PhD and needs to be told how a... ]]> *AmbientSounds AAAAAAAAAAH THUNDERSTORM YAY http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/25219205/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/25219205/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:00:40 PDT
I knew there was a storm coming, but I thought it was hours away (I'm working at the math lab tonight). But HOLY CRAP it blasted in like... like. I don't even know, I just feel so excited that my head might explode.

These clouds raced in over the campus and the sky was green and lightening kept striking to the ground in the near-distance... I just get so excited that all my hairs stand on end and my eyes start to water, I almost wanted to cry. (yes it's weird, I know). So I sat down at the edge of the grass next to the volleyball field and watch these madly rotating green clouds sink and bubble downwards as they start to pass over... Suddenly the wind started blowing so hard that I thought a jet plane was taking off, the trees got hit by this massive microburst and you could see them straining like they were bending over to tie their shoes. Sand from the volleyball court kept blasting me in the face, but I didn't want to get up, it just makes me want to sit there and laugh like an idiot.

It's dark outside now, like PITCH dark, and green, and this light across the sidewalk outside my window is illuminating these buckets of rain coming down and the lights in here keep flashing. All my computers had turned off when I ran back upstairs because the power had gone out for a minute despite there being a backup here.

..... WEEEEEEEEEEEE :dance: :boogie:

]]> *AmbientSounds YAY, and Question to Anybody... http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/24958721/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/24958721/ Tue, 26 May 2009 10:43:51 PDT
I also stumbled across an AWESOME little print place right next to the school bookstore... For very cheap, starving-student-artist prices, you can have them print your work exactly how you want it, they even bind books and make business cards.. I drooled over their little pamphlet for a while as I waited for the rain to stop so I could get back to my car. I might not be an art student anymore but who says I can't still utilize some of the school's artsy fartsy resources? XD :w00t: And I mean to. >:F

I'm also considering starting to take commissions for things... Cash has been tight but my drawing arm has been anything but. And somehow, with the practicing I've been doing lately, and the experimenting, I feel like I've gotten better. I haven't been posting at dA a great deal, but I'll finish some things up soon and change that. In the meantime, here is my question: Does anybody know a good resource, journal, or other link that talks about commissions and pricing and so on? (And in that same line of questioning, am I wasting my time looking?)

]]> *AmbientSounds New Sketchbook and Good Things http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/24219620/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/24219620/ Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:20:33 PDT
I've also made an account at a new site (new to me I mean) called ConceptArt.org, and there is some badass art and Critique forums up. I'm AmbientSounds there, like I am here. If you have an account, holla. I hope to be putting up a lot of sketches, as I've been doing some offhand doodling lately.

[link] - sketchbook on Conceptart.org !

[link] - a WIP that I have put up for critique on conceptart.org , if you are able to comment on this please do, I hope to get this to a professional quality when I'm finished. If you are unable to post on CA but have something to say, I'll gladly take notes on it here at DA. =)

That's all for now, back to the grind! =)

]]> *AmbientSounds YAY I got in! http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/23384178/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/23384178/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:39:12 PST :boogie: :dance:

I sent my application off within the week after my birthday (late January), so the fact that I've already heard back from them less than a month later was a huge surprise, but a most welcome one. And it honestly couldn't have arrived at my house on a better day... it was a good pick-me-up. With any luck I will be taking classes there as early as the summer semester!

Physical Therapy continues, though only twice a week now. My ankle's range of motion is almost totally back to normal and I'm almost completely limp-free. Let's see how long I can go without hurting myself all over again. :P

Aside from all that, been pretty damned depressed lately. Thanks to that, I majorly screwed up a test earlier today (physics 2) and a test yesterday (Dynamics). So now I guess I just have to make sure my grades don't plummet off the map, making UMBC reject me right after they'd accepted me LOL. How great of a summer would that be? :P ...it's not like I can't do it, I got an A on my first math test this semester, so I just have to keep reminding my stupid brain that it's possible.



Just FYI it will be awhile until I'm able to do any art due to school =\

Things that have been suggested, requested, or that I've started and not finished for various reasons (in no particular order):

:bulletblue: Einstein portrait- (in the works and for my own shameful personal gratification :P )

:bulletblue: Sesshomaru- for :iconamberpalette: >:F

:bulletblue: KRONK baking Christmas cookies omfg cute- lolol for :iconrobinlee: XD

:bulletblue: Yzma kissing an equally aged man under Mistletoe LOL- at request of :iconrathunta: and LOL I'm picturing Kronk seeing it and being like.... yeeeeeeeech

:bulletblue: Crow Totem- XD personal gratification and suggestion of Amber

:bulletblue: Meyers-Briggs personalities in abstract- personal gratification and suggestion of Amber

:bulletblue: RobinLee prancing, because she's cute and she does that LOL

:bulletblue: for :iconmisscassidy: a political cartoon involving the Elephant and Donkey that represent the two major American political parties

:bulletblue: RDOX for :icondbx-1138:

]]> *AmbientSounds Physical Therapy and a New Job http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/22926972/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/22926972/ Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:34:47 PST
Unfortunately, my job at the framing shop is pretty much on hiatus right now, since they haven't been getting enough business in since before Christmas to actually provide me with any hours. I'm starting to get irritated about it, but I'll live. There's a possibility that the school bookstore might need some temp help between classes some days... I'm just feeling incredibly guilty that the little income that I had coming in that I was putting in for my portion of the rent has been drastically reduced (like down to zero) since my ankle injury back before Christmas. My only releif has been in the form of money that I received for Christmas, and then money that I received for my birthday a little less than a month later.

On the subject of my foot, I am finally starting physical therapy next week after my follow-up visit with the doc yesterday. I'm still limping around and having to wear a brace (and the ice and snow that's still on the ground makes me nervous as hell). Most of my problem now is that in the time since sustaining the injury, my achilles tendon has shrunk and my right foot no longer bends back as far as the left foot. Neither of my feet bent back very far to begin with, so now my right foot won't even make a complete ninety-degree angle when I flex it, no matter how hard I try. I can't even pull just my toes back very far. So hopefully the PT will get that back for me, and will strengthen my ankles so I won't hurt myself like this again.

AAaaaaaand I almost forgot, my application for UMBC was received and paid for back on the 26th, and I've arranged for my FAFSA and former transcripts to be sent in, so now I'm just playing the waiting game until they get back to me. I'm really excited and kinda impatient, but I'll get over it soon enough. I ought to know by March, latest, what the decision is. And now I have to get back to my Dynamics homework, because it is frustrating and kicking my ass and it's due on Monday. :salute:






Things that have been suggested, requested, or that I've started and not finished for various reasons (in no particular order):

:bulletblue: Einstein portrait- (in the works and for my own shameful personal gratification :P )

:bulletblue: Sesshomaru- for :iconamberpalette: >:F

:bulletblue: KRONK baking Christmas cookies omfg cute- lolol for :iconrobinlee: XD

:bulletblue: Yzma kissing an equally aged man under Mistletoe LOL- at request of :iconrathunta: and LOL I'm picturing Kronk seeing it and being like.... yeeeeeeeech

:bulletblue: Crow Totem- XD personal gratification and suggestion of Amber

:bulletblue: Meyers-... ]]> *AmbientSounds Birthday and School and new Pres http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/22702510/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/22702510/ Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:42:49 PST I won't be doing anything special on the actual day except starting my new semester BUT:

I thought today was a good birthday present in and of itself, even though I had migraine involved yuckiness all day and still do the night before my new classes, and even though I'm still limping around from my ankle injury. We have a new president, and for the first time in my life I witnessed such public enthusiasm that I actually cried a little. Yes, I understand that Obama is -still- essentially a politician, and yes, I understand that things aren't going to magically get better without work (for you continued cynics out there, including my roommate)... I was just blown away for reasons that I find difficult to describe. I suck at emotions, but I can tell when something is just -right-.

ALSO, lmao, we were in DC on Sunday to go to the American History Museum and got to witness some of the setup for today's ceremonies, and the horde of people already in the city to see the concert. We didn't make it down to the Lincoln Memorial where it was held because we had children with us and I'm still not walking all that great... BUT I did manage to get myself locked into a Porta-Potty in the freezing ass weather and had to have Chris come and help me literally break out. (The blue water in the toilet was frozen solid LOL ew) We did some waving at MSNBC cameras on our way back to the Metro and then went home and watched the concert from where we could actually see what was going on: on tv.

I'm also excited about classes starting tomorrow, I have... pathetically... missed doing math homework. I'm sure that means that there is something wrong with me LOL but hey at least it's not like I hate it deep down to my core. I'm going to be taking math classes until the day I finish in all likelihood (which might be in my mid-to-late thirties the way I keep adding onto my plans lol). I'm looking forward to my new engineering electives, and getting out of the house, and having new and stimulating things to think about again. I've been doing a lot of looking into much future and it just makes me more and more impatient. I'm sure that will wear off mid-semester when I'm struggling not to drown in homework.




Things that have been suggested, requested, or that I've started and not finished for various reasons (in no particular order):

:bulletblue: Einstein portrait- (in the works and for my own shameful personal gratification :P )

:bulletblue: Sesshomaru- for :iconamberpalette: >:F

:bulletblue: KRONK baking Christmas cookies omfg cute- lolol for :iconrobinlee: XD

:bulletblue: Yzma kissing an equally aged man under Mistletoe LOL- at request of :iconrathunta: and LOL I'm picturing Kronk seeing it and being like.... yeeeeeeeech

:bulletblue: Crow Totem- XD personal gratification and suggestion of Amber

:bulletblue: Meyers-Briggs personalities in abstract- personal gratification and suggestion of Amber

:bulletblue: RobinLee prancing, because she's cute and she does that LOL

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Christmas for me kinda sucked in some ways but I'm trying to keep things in perspective. I broke my ankle on the way to the airport, but did in fact get a flight down to Texas to see my family later that day after all the E.R. hullabulloo. I got sick on Xmas Eve, throwing up, fever, etc., so I didn't get to see anyone, didn't get to see my dad the next day, have pretty much been stuck on the couch until today. Honestly it wasn't a total bust, I've had worse, and I somehow maintained a good mood. I had to go to a hair salon to have them shampoo my hair today before I went anywhere, because I'm afraid to get into the shower to do it myself (can't get my leg wet and can't put weight on it, so getting in and out and balancing one legged all that time is... bleh? ). Anyways we got out today and it was nice, but I'm wiped out from it. Rest is good. :P Pain Pills.... also good


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Now that I have no school to worry about and all the free time in the world to draw... WHY CANT I THINK OF ANYTHING TO DRAW?? lol :rofl:

I need motivation in pill form. :nod: Yes, that's what I want for Christmas. :P


K, so far I've got:

:bulletblue: Einstein portrait- (in the works and for my own shameful personal gratification :P )

:bulletblue: Sesshomaru- for :iconamberpalette: >:F

:bulletblue: KRONK baking Christmas cookies omfg cute- lolol for :iconrobinlee: XD

:bulletblue: Yzma kissing an equally aged man under Mistletoe LOL- at request of :iconrathunta: and LOL I'm picturing Kronk seeing it and being like.... yeeeeeeeech

:bulletblue: Crow Totem- XD personal gratification and suggestion of Amber

:bulletblue: Meyers-Briggs personalities in abstract- personal gratification and suggestion of Amber

:bulletblue: RobinLee prancing, because she's cute and she does that LOL

]]> *AmbientSounds me oh my http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/21921061/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/21921061/ Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:10:29 PST My last final is tomorrow afternoon and I can't seem to make myself care LOL. It might be the impending migraine at work, but mostly I think the end of this semester is LONG overdue. Thank you Thursday, hurry up and come and be gone LOL.

I'm in a crazy art mood, I haven't been able to indulge myself artwise in months... Now that the light at the end of the tunnel is rushing in, I can't think about anything aside from what I want to draw first. (It's been really showing on my statics homework, I've spent waaaaay too much time duplicating diagrams and machines by hand when I should have just scanned them and printed them out, LOL! too bad there's no extra credit for that :P )

First stop, Xmas Presents for my family (already did a very small painting of a black-capped chickadee for my boyfriend's mom, which I will probably get back from being framed sometime soon so I can post a copy). But for now, bed time, so I can be at school as soon as they unlock the doors, that I might get some last minute touch-up studying done. :D

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Have a good weekend <3

]]> *AmbientSounds GET PAST IT PEOPLE. http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/21308903/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/21308903/ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:04:09 PST [link]

This is not something to lose your dearest friends to!!!

This is not something that is going to bring about the end of civilization, or World War Three, or SPACE MEN and their ANAL PROBES!!!

I have a SINGLE FRIEND who agrees with me that election night was stirring, tear-jerking, and honestly a fucking revelation that this country has some sense still. I haven't, nor do I intend to any time in the future, plan to rub people's faces in this. I have commiserated with everyone I fucking know that yes they are disappointed, or scared, or WHATEVER, and have done my level best to be thoughtful in my replies, and to try and comfort...

But to those of you who seem hellbent on prophesizing destruction or blowing off people who love you... you know WHAT? GET PAST IT. The world is not over. We survived TWO TERMS of Bush, when she and I both despaired frequently about the way things we were going. But we didn't drag our friends into it and make them feel like SHIT about it, got that?? I RESPECT that if you are Republican, it is your RIGHT to BE SO, and I respect that you have put thought into it, and research, and that it is what YOU want, not anyone else. I still love you even if our views are different.

I just can't fucking take it anymore right now, how divisive people ARE STILL BEING when this should be over and done with. I DONT WANT TO HEAR IT if it is political and not EXTREMELY well thought-out before it is posted, because I've seen enough bullshit for one lifetime.

Tuesday night, my heart felt so light. I thought Hey, maybe after this, people will finally stop being shitty to each other again, an overwhelming number of people voted for this man. Since then my newfound hopes have dropped right out of my chest and kept on falling. People, PLEASE, just stop with the fearmongering and the grousing. Dis-ease I can UNDERSTAND. Complete and public loss of your senses, full of arm-flailing, gnashing of teeth, and dire prophetic proclamations.. just... COME ON.

]]> *AmbientSounds Oh well http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/20780372/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/20780372/ Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:31:39 PDT Deviant *AmbientSounds | YAHAR



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Blessed Frick... ]]> *AmbientSounds Almost OVER http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/19397355/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/19397355/ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:27:06 PDT
It might be the only way to escape my Chem II final with any grace. lol.

In other news I might actually have a chance at a life again in the near future, after Wednesday night, when the damn test is finally over. I might even draw.

Until that unimagineably happy moment arrives, I will float around on dA looking at stamps for no apparent reason other than that I can't think at all. And stamp surfing is ...easily done with no brain attached.

:salute:



]]> *AmbientSounds Hellooooo Nurse http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/19151077/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/19151077/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:55:19 PDT
The heat lightening was spectacular and we luckily didn't get rained on. Poor Chris, being the mosquito magnet that he is, recieved the brunt of the insect bombardment.

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That's me with my hand over the closest ear and the other hand cupped over the farther ear. It is apparently more damaging to cover them both and have your mouth shut, so we tell everyone cover the closer ear and open your mouth to equalize the pressure from the sound. Unfortunately I was getting a nasty bounce-back from a nearby building which is why I cupped the other ear. When that happens it's almost like getting kicked in the head. And yes, I'm that red because I'm pasty-white lol and it was a sunny weekend.

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From left to right, Chris (my boyfriend, who is yelling to have the cartridge brought forward I think), me (the pants are supposed to be all baggy in the butt like that, I didn't actually take a dump in my pants lolol), Joey (our friend who just moved back from missouri with his wife and two-year-old), and Warren (who we'd just met for the first time, he usually plays on someone else's gun, Rex, who was our officer for the weekend). The two guys who fielded with us, Rex and Warren, were quite awesome and I look forward to seeing them in the field again.

Anyways. My head hurts so I can't remember what else I was going to say, and the cat just climbed up on my chest so I can'treally type anymore now lol. XP <3 PEACE :salute:

PS: GAHHHHHH, this f---ng thing is STILL not letting me change my mood icon, is anyone else having that same dumbass problem????

Sorry, just to add that Jerry Stillwell [link] took those pictures ]]> *AmbientSounds Going to Virginia and HOLY COW http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/19063380/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/19063380/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:13:39 PDT .>;;; 11,000-something views which is like. ......ridiculous lmao. Too bad I like... haven't signed into that account since... I dunno like a year ago? And probably won't ever again lol. But I still appreciate the views. ^^;

Anywhoodle. Aint got much else to say. My "art-groove" is getting back in swing off and on, so of course I've been neglecting my studies thanks to that lol. ^^; crap. Art, why can't you come and visit me at more opportune times??? I still love you but DAMN.

Happy Summer, people, may you all have icy lemonade and working AC! :heart:

OH, almost forgot. Going to be in Williamsburg, VA this weekend for the annual British Occupation of the colonial part of town. ((Just in case anyone is in that area, it's a pretty kickass event and I recommend you check it out!)) Part of our Artillery crew is going to be camped out with the rest of the army and we'll be giving some cannon demos among the rest of the activities like interrogating colonials until we find the local spy. Look for the only three swanky Brits in blue coats. Or don't. I mean. Who am I to tell you what to do? :evillaugh:

Oh yeah... and even though my mood says "not impressed", I am in fact, quite impressed. I guess. ...I just can't seem to get the icon to change. *KICKS DA*

]]> *AmbientSounds Really Sorry http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/18665445/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/18665445/ Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:28:34 PDT

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If at any time during this week or last, you think I'm being short with you, or just in general seem snippy... I am. It's not you. It's the fact that my F------!!! air conditioner doesn't work and that we are having Texas weather in Maryland, with sea level humidity.

We slept in a hotel last night because it was quite literally a hundred degrees in our apartment last night even at midnight. I feel sick, I feel sticky, I am sorry in advance.


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I had just finished cleaning up all my chemicals in lab today and we had about an hour left for calculations when this siren outside started wailing away. Despite living in Texas and having been in close proximity to tornadoes before, I had never heard that sound in an actual emergency and it was oddly elating.

A funnel passed right near the school, maybe over it ( I haven't gotten a clear answer yet :P ) and we all had to hurry downstairs and take shelter in a hall with no windows. About halfway there all the power went out, and for a minute I thought that we were actually going to be hit, the noise outside was so amazingly loud.

We ended up holing up in a classroom with our prof trying to get us to finish our lab stuff until the power went out again and didn't come back on. XP She couldn't keep us there after that, mwahahaha, and they eventually closed the school.

....I'm going to submit this I guess before we lose power here at home, it's starting up really strongly outside again. XD XD XD Just thought I'd make note of the fun today lolol

OH YEAH and as we were driving home, there were these kids completely covered from head to foot in mud. ...I dunno why but it kinda looked like fun lol XDDD



Requests:

1. :icondbx-1138: - Rdox, preliminary doodling so far!
2. :iconeiceartinbheladarna: - We will both be surprised! lol :P
3. :iconmouseavenger: - Something GMD..Actually started a couple sketches

No longer have time to offer any requests, though I will finish the ones that I started! X) :heart:



Some Cool Thumbs












http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/18402850/ Mon, 19 May 2008 16:50:39 PDT

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Finals are OVER XD


(( I just made a new Facebook and it's...addictive. ))

So my semester is finally over and I have an entire week to prepare myself for an intense school-packed summer semester lol. My calculus class went swimmingly, so here's hoping I can keep up the motivation for summer chem and comp.

Excuse me for sounding like the nerd that I completely am, but I am so freaking excited about the upcoming Fall semester. I registered for classes the day the new catalog came out and my friend Nick is going to be in all the same classes, so we should keep each other motivated. I signed up for Calc II, Physics and physics Lab, a gym class, and my first Engineering Elective... Statics. :bounce: XDDDDDDD let's see if I can juggle 14 credits and a job and stay sane lol!




Requests (in no particular order): ((I'm going to try and knock these out over the week I've got before Chem2 starts up, keeping my fingers crossed XD))

1. :icondbx-1138: - Rdox, preliminary doodling so far!
2. :iconeiceartinbheladarna: - We will both be surprised! lol :P
3. :iconmouseavenger: - Something GMD..Actually started a couple sketches
4. :iconicy-blue-rae: - lemme know
5.

:iconrobinlee: 's Bo finished <3

As I have been waaaay to busy lately to bop around dA, I have no new findings to offer in the thumbs department.


Some Cool Thumbs







*AmbientSounds Left or Right noggin'. http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/17909541/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/17909541/ Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:07:57 PDT

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Nothing special, just updating


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When you look at the dancer in this gif, do you see her spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise? I start out seeing counter-clockwise, and then off and on have a weird blip where she seems to switch direction for a little bit. If you're trying to visualize her spinning the other direction, scroll down where all you can see are her feet for a moment. That's the only way I can do it consciously so far. Yay brains, brains are fun. Yay distractions, distractions keep us sane! :P



Requests (in no particular order): Yes, I'm slow but getting there. Sorry <3 Two down. Trying to keep on top of things and hopefully not sucking too bad. <3

1. :icondbx-1138: - Rdox, preliminary doodling so far!
2. :iconeiceartinbheladarna: - We will both be surprised! lol :P
3. :iconmouseavenger: - Something GMD..Actually started a couple sketches
4. :iconicy-blue-rae: - lemme know
5.

:iconrobinlee: 's Bo finished <3




Some Cool Thumbs












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http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/17513632/ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:52:27 PDT

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Surviving XP


OH OH OH, I almost forgot, and I'm adding my addendum to the ...beginning... for some reason. But anyways. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SEASON FOUR WHOOOHOOOO. okay I'm done. But it had to be said. :salute:

Wish me luck, calculus test Next Wednesday and my teacher is a rough grader. ^^;


LOOKIT! IT'S ME! XD by :iconamberpalette: 8D :glomp:





AGAIN, thanks :icondbx-1138: for 'scribing me!

Requests: (I'm only keeping five up at a time to try and keep in mind that I suck at multitasking and that I am still wrestling a calculus class <3. It doesn't mean I won't do it, it just means that my mind only lets me think of so many things at once lol. )

1. :icondbx-1138: - Rdox, preliminary doodling so far!
2. :iconrobinlee: - BO! An almost finished Lineart that I need to color...
3. :iconeiceartinbheladarna: - We will both be surprised! lol :P
4. :iconmouseavenger: - Something GMD..Actually started a couple sketches
5. :iconicy-blue-rae: - lemme know X)

Rotae's Buffy- completed. :faint: I finished something, wow.




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http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/17283469/ Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:52:22 PDT
And on that note :icondbx-1138: just reminded me of how much I missed my subscription. I'm going to make you an entire bowl of virtual noodles, seriously.

Off of :eiceartInbheladarna: 's page.

1. Each tagged person should post 8 facts of themselves
2. Tagged people should write a journal\blog about these facts
3. In the end tag and name 8 people
4. Go to their dA pages and comment saying that they are tagged and hugged...(( I don't hug, I chew, sorry ))

so da duhduh DA in rambling-no-particular-orderness:

1. I am very uncomfortable saying people's names to them directly unless it was a name I gave them, like a nickname. My orange cat, I came up with the name Xavier (because he is a mutant) and so I call him Xavier. My black cat who is like my freaking baby, I kept her name when I adopted her, and thus call her everything under the sun EXCEPT her name. I didn't get to name my boyfriend of seven years, so even he has to fall under this rule.

2. I love math (*high five Noelle XP* ). In fact, I am not studying my calculus as we speak. I might get to have SO MUCH FUN taking it over again if I don't get my butt in gear lol.

3. On that note, odd numbers are my favorites, especially the small primes. They are so smooth and refined feeling, where even numbers seem a bit "rough around the edges" and maybe too extroverted for me.

4. The only insect/small creature/pest that I am afraid of is the scorpion. Those f***ing things will have me up on a chair sweating. Snakes I like, spiders I catch and set free, I even caught a mouse in my drinking cup at work once and took it out to the bushes. noooooooo scorpions, DAI muthaf----s dai.

5. Purple is my favorite hair color, on me I mean.

6. I miss all the really bad thunderstorms I grew up with. We just have little wimpyass storms here, and plenty of wind. The occasional snow sometimes can make up for it but I'm tired of winter now.

7. I need a haircut in a serious way, I probably look like a hobo, but can't seem to make myself go get one because it isn't part of my normal routine. Things out of my normal routine are hard to get done, and I usually only get a haircut about every eight or nine months, if even then, lol.

8. I love bean and cheese burritos, and I'm going to go make one now and eat it messily in front of you.


I TAG: ....your pet. Go get them so they can type up their response.

]]> *AmbientSounds Please.... http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/17094567/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/17094567/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:05:52 PST
That being the most recent and surprising twist, I'd also like to add:

:iconamberpalette: :iconrobinlee: :iconlegalien: :iconmusicrocksgbv: cuz I love em and they can always use more! Dammit Lucinda I can never spell your username right lol

Also I would like to add, it wasn't me, it was Colonel Mustard in the Library with your mom- er. the wrench I mean. Just to add a superficial comment to an otherwise DUMBASS of a day lol. Because days can be stupid too.

]]> *AmbientSounds Guess I should update again, hahar http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/16214713/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/16214713/ Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:17:06 PST .> Guess it is, '06 was my dog year. Gah, freaking time needs to slow down.

Simpson's comic book guy: "Worst Journal Update, Ever."

]]> *AmbientSounds Ho Ho Ho http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/16074970/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/16074970/ Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:40:06 PST
And thanks to everyone who responded to my frantic finals post, I really appreciate the support I just never got the chance to individually respond. :love: Passed the classes with grades that meet the minimum for my transfer program, and now I know more of what's going to be needed from me study-wise in the future. :crazy: lol

:hug: :hug: :hug:

Hope everybody has a good holiday, and if you don't celebrate it then at least get some time off work to cool your heels after the mad overly-consumerist driven mania. :heart:

]]> *AmbientSounds THIS is me freaking out. http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/15887028/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/15887028/ Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:58:00 PST :crazy: :crazy: :faint: :faint:
AGJAKLHJA HKa

ATJAEE@#%*@$^*!!!!!!!

shit shit shit

:sprint: :dead:

:crazy: <------I seriously keep making this face, it's like all I can do not to bust out laughing hysterically. ...you know, the kind of laughter that makes the men in white come... :crazy:

...I'm off to my finals. After a night of like no sleep and random twitching. If I plea insanity and lunge at the professor with a plastic knife, do you think I'll get some kind of extension??????

]]> *AmbientSounds Subcultures and Conformity http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/15784605/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/15784605/ Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:12:10 PST
Minorities all have their own subculture, and within some of these subcultures is an almost rabid need for everyone within to be the same kind of "weird". And this is something I don't understand. They will preach, oh yes we are all different from the main culture, and we should embrace it and not be ashamed. But then in a fit of hypocracy will engage in labeling and stigma and just general name-calling based on prejudice.

I have read about this countless times in the gay community just to name a prevalent one (to the distress of some that I know), and am witnessing it firsthand in the Asperger's community. In places where people should all embrace that they are different but in similar ways, they instead feel the need to institute some kind of heirarchy instead of supporting each other. People who try to "pass" as normal are spat upon because obviously they must be cowards. People who don't express at least a certain level of resentment at the "norm" have no backbone. NTs (neurotypicals) are an object of derision, which sometimes seems to me like the new "N" word the way it is used.

Anyways, I just think it is bizarre. :shrug:


Good Thoughts, or Prayers, or Waving of Magical Sticks in the General Direction of is all very much appreciated for:

:iconamberpalette: :iconrobinlee: :iconlegalien:

:hug: :heart:

]]> *AmbientSounds Ahh, delicious stress... http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/15703888/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/15703888/ Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:07:06 PST So finals are in ... dun dun DUN, two weeks. Well sorta less than that but whatever. Three class meetings left, two weeks to cram, and an evil professor in a pear treeeee. :sing:

Of the estimated thirty-odd students from the beginning of the semester, there are now SIX remaining in my chemistry class and TEN remaining in my precalc class. .....Is there something WRONG with this picture?? I think my chemistry prof revels in making people squirm and finally duck for cover, and I don't see how that is classified as "teaching". Eh whatever.

I finally got a new job at a Custom Framer's shop in downtown Annapolis. Cute place, nice people, boss doesn't care that my hair is purple, and contact with the holiday rush will be much more limited than I had previously anticipated. this is a very very good thing lol.

Also got a couple art things in the works but I have to at least -TRY- and study before I do fun stuff. e_e

......I'M READY FOR SNOWWWWWWWWW

]]> *AmbientSounds I'm alive I swear http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/15456215/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/15456215/ Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:45:18 PST

Since I missed Halloween here, just wanna say hope everyone had a good one. XD And also check out the Halloween song (from Nightmare Before Xmas) that Marilyn Manson did a cover of. It's on Youtube, and I thought very well done. XD I mean, a song like that, it should be Manson and not ...Jennifer Lopez or something.

Also to say, my halloween was amusing in that I had a pair of horns on and a little face paint... and when I got home after having it on for hours..... one of the horns left this giant, perfectly circular bruise above my left eyebrow. :rofl: My Precalc prof said ... OOOOOH so basically it's like a giant hickey! lolol. Which, I heard many times after that unfortunately. It looked like I had a tragic vacuuming accident. :dance:

Anyways. Hopefully After my last Chemistry test before the final (Tuesday) I will get a chance to hop on here and really look at some people's artwork and catchup comments etc.

peace out :salute:

]]> *AmbientSounds so stupid http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/14891048/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/14891048/ Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:55:08 PDT
Leaving for a weeklong vacation this Friday. My dad has postponed his visit until sometime next month, our roommate is not coming ( :w00t: ) , so it's just me and my boyfriend and the mountains and the ocean and our tent out in the pine trees. Once again, this vacation couldn't be coming at a better time, it's between exams and I am about to lose my marbles.

...that's basically it, I hope everybody is well and productive. :salute:

]]> *AmbientSounds 2000 hits and a new semester http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/14579171/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/14579171/ Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:33:11 PDT :hug: :heart: X)


oooooooooooooooooooKAY. I have been in a ridiculously chipper and productive art mood lately, but what have I been doing? Writing up lab reports, pre-lab reports, post-lab reports, working at the sweatshop, memorizing elements and their charges and their atomic numbers, memorizing this, memorizing that, cussing at my precalc homework, working at the sweatshop some more, studying while I'm sleeping, studying while I'm reenacting. ...Notice that I do not list drawing, sketching, painting, or otherwise pretending that I know how to weild a pencil lolol. =\ oh well.

I woke up laughing from a dream about chemistry, I kid you not. :rofl: That's so sad isn't it? lolol :bucktooth:

Anyways, I've decided that everybody has to aim for something, and my aim has become that after I finish my two standardized years of engineering, I'm going to finish off my Bachelor's (and hopefully afterwards at least a master's) at Johns Hopkins University... which is like.... one of the hardest schools in the world to get into. Stretch? Maybe a little. But hey if I don't stretch like I mean it then I'm just wasting my own time, and I've had enough of that for one lifetime. So I will stretch until I'm seven feet tall and feel like my legs are miles away. ((then I will have to bend over double to pat noelle on the head- ...har, sorry, I will buy you remote-control escalator boots :iconeiceartinbheladarna: ))

....wow I totally spaced out that I was writing this, but here I am again, thirty minutes later. :paranoid: o.o hydrogen, -1 +1 ---.... >.>

oh right but anyways, I'm going to try from now on to stay more on top of my messages and faves and comments etc. (but then again don't I always say that, and then don't I always space off for like a week and a half? :paranoid: I will wipe your memory, stop thinking about it. Just stare into the light.... )


Some people who are needing support (prayers if ya dig that) and just general love:

:iconamberpalette: :iconlegalien: :iconrobinlee:

]]> *AmbientSounds wedding bells XD http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/14161351/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/14161351/ Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:48:07 PDT .> They can all deal, hehehe. :evillaugh: and be jealous that I'm the one not sweating.

But on to the point, i'm outta here from tomorrow in the early am until next Tuesday night sometime. :salute:

ALSO : HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ROVE IS RESIGNING. goodbye, bitch. (until after the elections, when he will latch onto somebody else like the alien anal probe that he is and scheme and plot to fuck us all over from behind the scenes once more. yay I'm not cynical :P :dance:)

Hokay but seriously, I'm going, so once more I'll list some dear friendlies who definitely need some support right now:

:iconamberpalette: :iconlegalien: :iconrobinlee: :icondbx-1138:

:salute: PEAce

]]> *AmbientSounds BUH?????? http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/14078715/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/14078715/ Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:03:08 PDT
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It's eight o'clock right now and the heat index is STILL 101 degrees.

I didn't realize how hot it was today while I was pressing shirts (I work at a dry cleaner's) until I decided a break would be good, walked outside, and thought it was a breath of fresh air. Then noticed that like buildings were melting, car-puddles dotted the parking lot, and squirrels were falling from tree branches and twitching on the ground. I nearly got sick when I walked into the air-conditioned gas station, lol, it was like this arctic death-blast.

Anyways. ....crap I forgot where I was going with this. I'm finally regaining some form of like mental clarity and not-shitty-angryness and I can't for the life of me remember where I'm going halfway through a sentence.

Oh right. That list of coming art, that I had put up in my last journal. haha. ha. yeah I shouldn't have even bothered, and I KNEW it. Yes, some of them are started, yes, some of them I might even consider finishing... when? i will probably be cursing that the pages of my sketchbook keep singeing while I'm trying to draw during the apocalyptic rain of fiery.. death-things-and-fireballs. It will be annoying, but at least those unfinished things will be off my mind before the locusts arrive. When they block out all the light with their swarm, that's when I just get pissed and throw the pencil down.

So, needless to say to some of you that my mood and mind have been absolute shit!anger lately, and I'd like to say that it will be changed fairly soon, but who really knows. In the meantime, let me just write AGH IM SORRY times infinity and hope that it's enough. I'm currently in this weird "ha, nothing matters and that's really funny somehow until I crash again mode" so I figured. hey. journal time.

I'm going to go shower now. because I smell. and I know that you wanted to know that, which is why I typed it out. you're welcome.



EDIT: apologies, i nearly forgot in my brain-fried state to add that these people very much need thoughts, prayers, love, what have you:

:iconamberpalette: :iconlegalien: :iconrobinlee:

]]> *AmbientSounds NEW and shiny http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/13998096/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/13998096/ Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:09:50 PDT
I undoubtedly got an A on my sociology final yesterday, breezed through 50 multiple choice questions in less than twelve minutes. I am so glad that class is over lol, it was entertaining but basically just filler for me and a kind of gloss over the material quickly class for the prof, which I kinda get annoyed at lol. I mean not that I blame him, it was a six week summer course, I'd just rather learn something more in depth usually. oh well.

COMING ART :

:bulletblue: Snape, looking all emo lol

:bulletblue: my boyfriend as a grizzly bear animagus, distrupting a birthday party.

:bulletblue: godzilla v. lunesta

:bulletblue: hopefully other things that will be low on the suckage meter. XP


ALSO: good thoughts, prayers, hugs, love, and general positive mojo or what have you for :iconamberpalette: :iconlegalien: :iconrobinlee:

In closing, I'd like to say ^^; HA, sorry, about the bitchy rant journal i posted before, but like I said, I needed some non-damaging vent-space.

]]> *AmbientSounds a wedding, an A, and a question... http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/13926892/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/13926892/ Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:12:17 PDT
My dad is turning fifty at the end of Aug and I'll be damned if I can think of what to do for him. I'd promise myself to paint him a picture but I haven't touched my oils in months and months and I don't trust myself to ever finish the thing. >.o gah.

My LITTLE BROTHER ;; ;; is getting married on Aug 19th *SOB* lol. I'm going to be flying down to Texas on the 15-21st to be around for all the fun and gewdness, and funny enough I'm kinda nervous. From what I can gather, he isn't. :rofl: oh well. I'm probably going to bawl like the overprotective big sister. >.o waterproof makeup, here we come

WOO I got an A on my oral presentation for Sociology. .....I HATE FUCKING ORALS and if I can have my way I will never have to speak to another room full of people EVER again. -_- He said I flopped kinda at the end and I confessed being so nervous I was going to fall over, but I think nobody beleived me because usually when I start to angst I get this over-complacent ladeeda tone. -_- had I pissed my pants they might have gotten the picture lol. hm, an idea for next time maybe.

OMFG I hate insurance companies down to the depths of my very GD soul. (( I want to see Michael Moore's new "Sicko" but I'm sure I'll leave it so pissed that I'll make myself sick)) I won't go into painful hate-inducing details, but let me just bitch that when you say something activates THREE MONTHS AGO, that most people expect it to be actually activated, especially my mom who cancelled me on her plan because it cost way too damn much. So here I am, have been going to a LOT!!!! of fucking doctor's appointments since then that probably I will have to pay for out of pocket though I have'nt been notified yet. And I am unable to get a prescription I need to just every day FUNCTION because I don't have 600 dollars a month just laying around. I hardly even MAKE that much money in a month. And god help me if I get a migraine because I don't have that prescription either.

:shakefist:

:shakefist:

:pissed:

ah well. Maybe I will make angsty and hateful art about it before my will to exist/create melts away again, lol. e_e The next person who lectures to me that they think Socializing health care is evil, I will personally take their head off with a plastic butter knife. NOT TO MENTION that a very very dear person to me :iconamberpalette: can rant a thousand more things about this than I can at this point.

On that note, send her lots of little :love: :heart: and :hug: icons because she definitely needs them.



OH YEAH AND OMFG DEATHLY HALLOWS, I GOT, DEVOURED, AND MAY REDEVOUR IT.

um. guess that's all :rofl: ;; ;; omg BLANK is dead, BLANK is dead, CENSORED IS DEAD. *wails for all of the dead* ..but not *DONKEY NOISE* XDDDD

:salute: (((sorry, I typed like a million more things than I meant to, I had like half a pot of coffee this morning ^^; )))

]]> *AmbientSounds ha, july. http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/13746165/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/13746165/ Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:48:55 PDT
nono wait I'm not done, there was also this hysterical Anti-Drug commercial before the movie started. This girl walks into the kitchen and is digging through the refrigerator, and someone says... Hey Lindsay. ((on the screen, not to me lol)) And she looks up all befuddled, and her little rat terrier dog appears above the counter, sitting on this stool and watching her, and he looks all sad.... "Lindsay, I miss my friend. blah blah blah, you've changed, yada yada" all the while, Lindsay has got this growing WTF!?! look on her face and obviously is hearing none of it except to look like she wants to shriek and run because her dog is talking. And finally they CGI this HILARIOUS fucking expression onto the dog and he goes ._. "I wish you'd stop smoking pot" and I just LOST it like I'm losing it now just thinking about it, I mean out right howling laughter at the top of my lungs right there in the theater.

:rofl: :lmao: HAAAAW HAW HAW- hoo, ok. sorry, you'd prolly have to see it to think it was funny, but I was all like.... um, ok, maybe kids would think it was COOL if their dog talked to them, in which case they'll skip right over the pot and do LSD instead lol. e_e anyways. At least it was memorable? ....BHAW HAW HAW HAW

Um, and I got a B in a really easy class I just found out, which I'm fairly well pissed over, but I imagine I'll live. e_e

As for the art dept., trying, and have some things sort of started, but I'm sure by now I've proved so slow in getting anything out there that I shouldn't have to restate that it might take a while.

And like I said before, requesting an unrealistically large number of hugs and thoughts for :iconamberpalette: and :iconlegalien:

and. I guess that's all she wrote. :salute:

]]> *AmbientSounds @#%&@#%*!!!!!!!!!!!! http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/13553715/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/13553715/ Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:57:44 PDT

Ways to piss me off right now:

:bulletblue: Proceed to tell me that you think that everyone in this country should not just be granted general health care. See if I don't crush your skull with my foot. ((WHICH, just fyi, would not be a problem were I able to have my prescriptions for less than six hundred F@*$%*@# dollars a month, so take that into consideration. :flirty: )) This is NOT SOMETHING THAT I AM WILLING TO EVEN CONSIDER DEBATING AT THIS POINT, SO DON'T EVEN TRY. OR, if you do, all I can say is don't be surprised when my response isn't even slightly civil.

:bulletblue: Insinuate to me that the mentally ill, the chronically ill, and the elderly are a complete drain on our society, worthless, and all together unprofitable. First off, fuck you and your profits. secondly- wait, there is no secondly. :finger: The next time I go to the doctor and am over-patiently "listened" to and then whisked out the door without having heard I word I said during my quest for somebody who can help to give a fuck, I am going to have a mental breakdown right there in the waiting room. There will be SCREAMING, and broken furniture, I swear to god.

:bulletblue: Be my roommate, completely oblivious to anybody except yourself, and when I want nothing more than to be off living on some mountaintop by myself where no human soul has been before, go ahead and get on the phone and talk loudly and circle the fucking apartment continuously. And snap your fingers inexplicably as you circle.

:bulletblue: Be within three hundred feet of me and going about your daily life. Try driving as though you are blindfolded. I really enjoy that.


I will apologize later for being a complete bitch, but for now all I can say is that I warned you in the first sentence and didn't glue your eyes to the screen. Once I am able to afford that medicine that stops my ulcers from ripping me in half and my emotions from laying complete nuclear waste to my life, I will seem fairly human again. I realize that pretty much I'm "screaming" in this journal about a lot of misperceived things, but I'd rather let it all blow up here than face to face with some unsuspecting mostly innocent bystander.

:salute:



ALSO:

HUGS and love and general good mojo for :iconamberpalette:, :iconlegalien: and :iconrobinlee: ....all seriously need it. ciao.

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]]> *AmbientSounds mad girl's love song http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/13301137/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/13301137/ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:25:38 PDT Mad Girl's Love Song
a villanelle

by Sylvia Plath (1954)

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite
insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back
again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

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And now for something completely different...

:bulletblue: :icondbx-1138: has a summer art project going on, so for those feeling that they are lacking in inspiration but not motivation, I say check out his page.

:bulletblue: :iconamberpalette: if you could please offer her your prayers and support (like so many of you have already been doing anyways) in continuing trying times. <3 <3

:bulletblue: :iconlegalien: Also the same goes for her

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Dunno when, if ever, that I'm going to be able to draw again, but thanks for the new watches and the pageviews. I miss art, but at the same time all the colors and feelings and images that used to inhabit my brain have been boiled away and I think all that remains inside the shell of my skull is some salty water and pasty pulpy remains. mmmm, like brain-lobster. delicious.

]]> *AmbientSounds Kiriban, Advert for a Summer project... AND WHERES http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/13077843/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/13077843/ Thu, 24 May 2007 15:27:31 PDT .> So I'll just lose all my pencils in the process while I'm drawing on the bed... I'll find them when I wake up having rolled over them and stabbed myself in the ribs. yay lol >:F then when I drink coke, my sides will emit fun, fizzy streams.

Speaking of drawing, a giftart for :icondbx-1138: is underway as we speak, he notified me that I hit...and passed 1000 pageviews and I finally like... checked my page six days later, ha. -_-;; back up off me, I was on vacation for... a couple of those days. >.>;

So thanks for the views 8D :glomp:

Also, :icondbx-1138: has a summer project about to get underway for anyone who is interested. There is a list of themes in his most recent journal I believe, and ...very probably likely, he's posted rules somewhere. He's organized like that. I'd be like... <:B hey kids, come play my game *forgets to tell anyone what it is or how to play it while staring at shiny objects so hard that I burn holes in my retinas*

]]> *AmbientSounds Summery Summarizing http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12932649/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12932649/ Sat, 12 May 2007 18:02:58 PDT
how's that for keeping things short and sweet? Aside from some deep, growing issues, there are some good things happening still that I'm determined to see through.

Dude, P.S.:
DONT I repeat don't chew Big Red gum like its going out of style. I learned the hard way that full-mouth chemical burns are a fun new way to stop compulsive snacking. I'm like a caveman with a fireplace. oooooh pretty- OW, OW Me hurt HAND OWOW- ....oooh pretty- OWOWOWOW ME MELT OFF FACE. ....I hope my jewels of wisdom further your quest for lifelong knowledge and well-being. -the end




oh right P.S.S. :
:iconamberpalette: 's f---ing profs have lent me new acrimonious insight into the world of- of.... STUPID. or something, I don't know. I hate them. She needs encouraging words, they are completely rocking her already jazzed out world right now, and I would kick them all in the balls at this moment if I could. (that would include proverbial balls, for I think, a couple of them.) RAH. e_e

]]> *AmbientSounds WEE http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12842992/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12842992/ Tue, 08 May 2007 19:07:41 PDT





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Thanks mah peeps. Just feeling a moment of weakness last night but golden now, but again thanks. :hug: to all. XD Tryna get some updates soon, gah I miss drawing

]]> *AmbientSounds Needin' some lovin'. http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12832371/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12832371/ Thu, 03 May 2007 19:25:19 PDT

Aint been around lately, and there's good reason, just not a reason i really care to go into an extreme amount of detail over. I don't mean to neglect anybody, I honestly, deeply, truly do not, that's just one more aspect of all of this that I've always had to deal with and am starting to have to deal with all over again.

Every day, the extent of all of this crap is becoming clearer and clearer as I realize more and more things about myself that I just.. never noticed before because while most people might be like... ^^; hehe okay that's WEIRD... it was normal for me. Every single fricken day I think of one more thing I can add to my list, and after a while I'm starting to wonder if I've ever had a thought that made any sense lol. :P I know I have, its just getting to the point where I'm like.. astonished or something lol.

That being completely beside the point but also somehow necessary for me to say lol, I shall move on to the actual point in all it's pointyness. I have finals coming up next week. I want A's. I am an A student, I pick shit up quickly, and I want it to be reflected in -everything- come the time that I am to transfer to a four year university to finish up my engineering degree. I want those people to not have a single doubt that I belong in that school, in that program, and that I will finish, and possibly go on to get a Master's.

The problem is, that whether the doc is correct in the name she gave my heap of troubles or not, I am still having a grand old time with something known as "avolition". I am not lazy. I am not stupid. I am NOT destined to spend the rest of my damn life making minimum wage and wishing I felt like doing something, anything at all, but never getting around to it. That or being unemployed on top of it. Unfortunately, that is all I feel right now, a heap of nothing, motivation back to zero. My boyfriend has to force me to stop and deposit my check at the bank. Who the hell has issues with giving themselves money every single time they get paid lol? gah e_e

Any spare thoughts or good juju or whatever from you guys that I can get this semester just PASSED at this point, I will appreciate v much. I've already spoken to my programming prof since I have two projects way overdue and the final is next time class meets, and he was very accomodating and surprisingly had some very very nice things to say. I would like very much not to let him down, yet here I sit, having done not a fricken thing including eat since I got home like almost three hours ago. XD fun fun fun lol.

ALSO:
is very much in need of some hugs and cheer (and prayers are definitely her thing :) ...all of the people I'm listing are actually) and understanding.
is in need of the same, v much.
could use some good old fashioned snugglin' too, I'm positive. X)

wow.. that is longest journal I've written in forever heh. ^^; anyways. uh. peace. or something. :heart: hehe. BE FREE now :salute: OH YEAH, and see Grindhouse in all its gory splendor!! Jason Isaacs has a brief role beleive it or not >:F meow

]]> *AmbientSounds Busted 700 http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12716615/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12716615/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:20:33 PDT

And thus Lindsay wins the award for shortest journal entry ever. :salute:

]]> *AmbientSounds VA Tech and gun laws http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12630201/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12630201/ Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:40:11 PDT [link] -- news link for yesterday's tragedy.

For one thing, I'm glad my co-worker's boyfriend is safe. She was starting to freak out at work yesterday because he had taken a daytrip down there to go visit some colleges and she couldn't get him to answer the phone. Luckily it was just on silent.

As I was watching the story on Olbermann last night, I not only felt this intense sadness for those students and their families (wanted to just bawl actually but somehow couldn't), I started to feel scared. Many of my friends and I go through the same routine that those students go through, every day, every week, every semester. Go to class, eat crappy vending machine lunches, cram your brain, study study study, test, and repeat. And not once had it ever crossed my mind that I might walk into a classroom, or one of my friends, or my classmates, and any one of us find ourselves getting shot. Its that same fear that Columbine had put into us in high school. Back in the days when I knew a guy who came to school with his shotguns and hunting rifles on a rack in his truck and nobody ever said anything or even cared much, when I lived in a place (probably very not unlike virginia) where it was "normal" to know that a good number of the people around you owned guns and possibly kept them close to hand. But even back then getting shot had never crossed my mind until Columbine.

And yet as I sit down and turn on MSNBC this morning, that detestable little nit Fucker (Tucker) Carlson was already into his routine of "@-@ oh, what can be done, is there anything that can be? Beef up security, metal detectors- blah blah blah" .... but something as obvious as maybe BEEF UP GUNS LAWS never crosses his tongue, and that irritates the shit out of me. Virginia's "gun laws" are about as hefty as the ones in Texas, which is almost laughable. Anybody in this area who can't get what they want need only skip the state line down to Virginia. ...I also find it ironic that only last weekend I made some joke at the expense of that law in Texas where you can openly shoot a trespasser, and innit funny how so much in Texas has a "no trespassing" sign pasted on it.

Time and again, the words "Owning guns is a God-Given right" have not only irritated the shit out of me, but have left me likewise bewildered (and with that faint hint of vomit-taste in the back of my throat). I'm not a Christian, but somehow these words seem a little backwards to me. Seems like if we were all meant to have them, we'd just be born with them in hand. This isn't a movie, or the wild lawless West, you're not Billy the Kid, and it seems to me that a good number of times that those who pull out their "protection" are the ones that introduce the gun to the conflict, and are the ones who sadly end up shot for it. Not all the times, granted, but probably a good number of them.

Don't get me wrong now, there are guns and black powder in my apartment, I'm a revwar reenactor. And I grew up going hunting, but NOT with a damn AK! (and I know people who own one). Just... registering and safety precautions and background checks and waiting periods etc. etc. etc... Sure they might be a pain in the ass, but get over it.

So now I'm back to the part before, where I said this shit had me scared all over again. Nobody likes to be made to live in fear, but am I going to go out and buy a gd handgun because I'll be safer that way? ha. When every last man woman and child owns one, then we'll ALL be safe. That's about as backwards as saying that God wants me to have a gun so I can blast the shit out of them "that I judge as fittin' of bein' shot".




I could turn this into a pageslong rant about politics in general, but I'm going to stop now I think. If you've read this far... >.> I offer you my congratulations, and a cookie as payment for your time. :cookie: If you only skipped ahead to the point that you saw the pretty cookie emote.... -_-;;; ... well. You can have one too. XD :yoda:

To put some happier thoughts into my journals to prove to you that I don't sit around worrying and dwelling on gloom all the time:

I'm still very excited about school and it looks like I will pull off A's (so far lol) for this semester. I might actually have time for ART again soon, go fig, though this summer will be just as busy with classes. >.o I want that damn engineering degree and I want it NOW lol. And I'm ready to transfer to U of MD NOW... except that I'm not actually "ReadY" classwise hehe. *AmbientSounds Update v.3 http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12487303/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12487303/ Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:32:13 PDT
Amber () got halfway through her tests and had to go back to the hospital. I'm not exactly sure of the why, but I have a few legit guesses and none of them do I particularly like. So her last bit of testing has been bumped back again, and I have no idea if she went home tonight or not. =\ :( Just thought you guys would like an update, you've been so supportive so far, thanks.
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Update...of the update... >.> - okay, so talked to amber's grandma this morning, and she's still in the hosp and they are doing some mondo tests. I txted her when I got off work but no response yet, which I imagine she's wiped out and or busy, so. will update the update when I know something.

As for , some frightening news has come up over her mom, who's been very sick. Same goes for her in whatever support you can offer, I know they both will appreciate it.

thanks guys, you've been really great :heart: :heart:
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Apr 9---

Okay, check Amber's journal for the next update. She's home, and testing I believe. Lots more doc appointments in the near future, but at least she's out of the hospital, yeah?

]]> *AmbientSounds urgent request http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12403769/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12403769/ Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:47:52 PDT spent last night in the ER. Last night, the night before her Master's comps were supposed to start. I don't understand what the hell exactly is wrong with this world, I just know its really pissing me off right now. Please, if you guys could keep up what you were doing, its appreciated. :heart: thanks so much for your comments and support everybody.

that said, if you could spare some for its also muchly needed.

Thanks



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please, for ... requesting prayers/good thoughts on her behalf. -she has been very sick this year, enough to keep her away from classes, but she has been plugging on in studying for her comps for her Masters which are NEXT WEEK. Family sickness, scary stuff, and inhibiting meds have been plaguing her, so PLEASE, she needs it, she deserves it. =\

thx.

]]> *AmbientSounds A new Major http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12141127/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/12141127/ Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:50:55 PDT
I changed majors, and am now taking the first two years of my Engineering Degree at the community college and then transfering to U of Maryland in Baltimore. XD ^^; if they'll take me lmao. I'm not too worried about it yet, I'm good at keeping my grades up. ANYWAYS, excited about that.

[link] --this is a short short video of my reenacting group when we were in Charlottesville, VA a while back. That's me who moves in to the front of the cannon to hook it out after it fires, my roommate ken is on the other side of the front, and my boyfriend is back there somewhere commanding..actually now that I watch again, he is also covering the vent. I don't remember who the infantry unit was, but check out the cool smoke ring coming out of the venthole of some guy's musket when they fire. This event is pretty neat, we camp out right in the middle of town by the courthouse instead of being out on a site somewhere, and it usually draws a pretty nice crowd. >.> kinda sucks when there are shootings at night like a block away, but otherwise its cool. X)
EDIT: oh yeah, and we're british too, in case you were wondering why we were in line with the red coats. Artillery on both sides wore almost identical uniforms- lol agh I typed unicorns- except for very minor differences.

And now, as always, I'd like y'all to keep in your thoughts (prayers if that's your thing):
who is in the homestretch for her Masters and has also been very sick lately, and though she's doing better than she was, I still worry, she's still got a lot to stress about, and her mom's gotten sick now too. X(

is having a hard time as well. She is taking a lot on her shoulders with her younger siblings right now as they all go through some tough times with her mom's health. =\ really tough times.

is like me, waiting for some spring break action so she can get away and off to disneyland in one piece. Stress and deadlines suck. X(

]]> *AmbientSounds Reenacting Pics http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/11892945/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/11892945/ Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:34:19 PST
I did have fun "sledding" without a sled several times down the icy slopes with the two kids of one of our artillerists, and while my butt got really wet from this, it was my feet that were constantly so cold I thought I HAD to have frostbite. Maybe next time I won't be so stupid as to not snow-seal my new shoes before I actually take them out into the snow, eh? XP

[link] ---a horrible pic of me next to the canon, contemplating life or something. Or probably wishing that I had electric socks.

[link] ---a great shot of my butt being exposed by the DeadlyIceWinds of the MidAtlantic lol, and then ahead of me the rest of the crew breaking their backs lugging the cannon through ice while I get to carry the bucket. :P

[link] ---Preparing for the blast... The hand closest to the shot is -not- over my ear, just blocking the sound and pressing my warm glove against it. Its actually dangerous to cover both ears with your hands with something so loud.

[link] ---After the blast... I'm jumping in to cover the venthole with my thumb (the reason I don't have a glove on one hand, and also because it makes it hard to prime the rounds) so that the two men in front can worm out the residual bits of the round and sponge the bore.

[link] ---And these guys had nothing to do with me this weekend but as always, I love their hats and thought it was a great pic of them all in step. YAY HATS


And for an update, is home, home, home again and let's hope she gets to stay that way, gah. @_@ :cuddle:

And prayer requests/thought requests still stand for her, and for , thanks X)

]]> *AmbientSounds ALERT http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/11883815/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/11883815/ Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:21:56 PST has had a relapse and is back in the hospital, please think of or pray for her. @-@ :heart: :heart: :heart:

And on another note, the same goes for as well, whose mother is very sick. She is being very strong for her family, but just the same obviously needs some support.

thanks folks

]]> *AmbientSounds OMG ABOUT time lol http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/11839781/ http://AmbientSounds.deviantart.com/journal/11839781/ Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:24:08 PST

Luckily, only one day this week was I without electricity. While I don't really miss the absence of the television one bit, its surely nice to have heat and hot water. AND its nice to have my cable back so I can get online. e_e gah. Now I can do my schoolwork and check my messages and ogle people's artwork again. XD

Thanks all, for enduring the changeover and the watches :hug: :hug: :love: ah lub joo

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