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                <title>Obligatory ramblings!</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:24:41 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I've been a very very bad person lately and not updated much.  I blame my current art class, which, while it's been both eating my life and teaching me a lot, does not yield the most interesting (or scan-able) homework assignments.  I expect I'll be uploading a crapload of stuff over winter break, in all its month-long glory.  But for now I'm just glad to be back on campus with my friends and my boyfriend and my dorm and my pet plant, and yes, even finals!  whee.  So...yeah.  I just felt obligated to update although I have nothing important to say.  And now I feel guilty for updating with nothing important to say, and now I feel guilty for making you read longer so I could apologize about writing a big long entry abut nothing that no one will probably read anyway! So If you're still reading, I apologize and dub you my new best friend because you are either very devoted to me or spectacularly bored, both of which deserve my undying adoration in return.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>an update with nothing particularly important.</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:50:37 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Guysguysguys I'm a legal adult! And I feel NO different! hooray for anticlimax.  I also had an apocalypse dream last night and it was DAMN SCARY and I'm just kind of glad to be alive right now.  <br /><br />I've been kind of terrible about uploading stuff...but then again there isn't much to upload except diary entries and lecture doodles.  Dammit, real life!  2D art is crushing my soul- right now I'm just holding out for drawing next semester...<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>I'm here...</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:52:27 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ ...at school! And I'm totally in love with it, but it's busy.  So yep!  I'll try to upload as much as possible.  I guess...that's...all? yep.  My best to all of you!<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>O the splendor!</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 20:32:47 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I'mBackI'mBackI'mBackI'mBackI'mBackI'mBackI'mBackI'mBack.<br /><br />For the verano, at least.  School is outz0rz. Which is a good thing because I had started using internet-speak in real life, treating "om-guh" and "wuh-tuh-fuh" as a legitimate interjections and telling people I'd b-r-b.<br /><br />Graduation was nice, except it was long and uncomfortable and I should have figured in the toll of the mass graduation party foods when buying my dress >>  The gifties were nice, I got enough money to get me pretty far towards a MacBook and my aunt gave me a set of matroyska dolls she'd painted herself and they were like WOW.  Anyway I'm SO glad to be out of school.  Two weeks of glorious nothing and then we flee to Costa Rica with the abuelos.<br /><br />But now, having absolutely no homework hounding me (first time since eigth grade 8D ) I can draw, nap, even just read without a highlighter in my hand. I started on an old childhood staple-- and The Hobbit is somehow WAY more cuddly and loveable than I found it when I was seven.  Go figure.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Devious Journal Entry</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:24:27 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Are you in for a light-hearted romp with a veeeery vehement host?<br /><br /><<a href="http://www.storyofstuff.com/index.html>">[link]</a><br /><br />Disclaimer: You should know by now that if you don't recycle everything within your power to recycle, I will somehow sense it and come to your house and stick your head up a plastic bottle with a big old *thhplunk!* thereby making your face all bottle-shaped like that one time in Tom and Jerry.  And if you live in Europe or that half-country-half-continent shenanigan, don't think for one second you can't hide across that conveniently-located pond.  And if I don't know where you live I will FIND YOU because I SEE WHAT YOU DID THAR >O<br /><br />Seriously, that thing made me almost as crazy as that world clock website ;_;<br /><br />In other news, I failed my driver's test, got a B on my term paper, introduced my parents to LOLcats (try it sometime, it's hilarious to watch their faces as they try to read it aloud), I like 3 Musketeers bars, and only quedan 20-some days until graduation.  << I think I might do all my journals like that from now on.  But that kind of defeats the point, though, dunnit?  It *was* awfully boring, looking back xD<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Term paper's invading my personal bubble</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:32:57 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Kay, so this whole research paper thing? Do not want.  It's sucking my life force and soon I'll just collapse and they'll find me all raisin-ified like the aliens from Cocoon.<br /><br />On the other hand, it was an awrsome April Fool's day-- outside of the real world, that is.  Someone set off a lovely dungbomb in the lobby at school and it was like the lovechild of a massive fart and a rotten egg.  Idiots.  Couldn't they have done something a *little* more creative, at least?  But the LOLcats and the Levitra thing were pretty great *tips hat*<br /><br />Oh and Sweeney Fricking Todd finally decided to come out on DVD today, after five-and-a-half months of listening to my sister's stoopid soundtrack, longing for the kickass visuals but forced to settle for memorizing every little blip of music and getting all of it stuck continuously in my head in one big slurred track like that weird scary tornado-ey song on the White Album.  So, yeah, I want DVD plz.<br /><br />But more importantly, I've got less than a week to write this thing and I'm STILL putting it off.  I've got it all planned and quoted and ready to go, but when it comes to connecting the dots, something I'm usually quite good at, I'm absolutely horribly undeniably irrevocably stumped.  Talk to the mood emoticon.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Sickful.</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:40:34 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Gargh.  I think all that partying last night (i.e. listening to the White Album while switching back and forth between my term paper, Makani's Fanart100, and that dumb tigger picture) really took it out of me.  I'm all kersnuffley and pukey and totally grumpy *points to emoticon*<br /><br />But no one wants to hear about that.<br /><br />We are --at least by Cincinnati wimp!standards-- snowed the hell in! It's so cool.  People are actually walking places-- what a novel concept.  It would be the best weekend ever, except unfortunately my senior term paper is snowed in with me, and so is the annoying little voice that keeps telling me to work on it ;(<br /><br />I'm trying to gather the nerve to take the driver's test and FINALLY get my liscense, it's just that we've got two feet of snow and I'm really busy and the stars haven't aligned and *mumblemumbleotherlameexcuses*  Ok, truth is I'm terrified about maneuverability.  I must've tried it seventy times the other day, and I got through *maybe* five.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>It does go happy for me, yes!</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:35:13 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Yep.  Happy!  Happy things:<br /><br />1.) Exams over >D<br /><br />2.) term paper excitement! (the honeymoon phase'll wear off soon, but whatever)<br /><br />3.) My hands have decided they don't hate watercolor anymore and now I'm painting away like a little old grandma with a flower magazine<br /><br />4.) Everyone loves a good bowl of oatmeal<br /><br />5.) I got kind of a big scholarship to a school I freaking love <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/l/love.gif" width="23" height="16" alt=":love:" title="Love" /> Yep.  Enough to use the emoticon =O I won't go into specifics about it, but I will say it's...uh...*giggle* sizeable enough that my parents actually want to go out and buy me things XD<br /><br />6.) Almost  a year after I started them, my driving courses are OVER at last.  So gladdd.  Now I can get my license...provided I can screw up the nerve to take the test.<br /><br />7.)  My incredible grandparents are taking the sister and me to freaking COSTARICA whut. I'm so excited (though Matt's Most Horrible Bug page did make me want to live in a hamster ball while there.)<br /><br />So yeah-- I'm a skippy little freak over here despite the unbelievably depessing weather.  Good Januaries to all, and if at any point I neglected to answer your comment or acknowledge a favorite/watch, thank you and I love you very, very much <3<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Dec 27, 2007</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:03:34 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I'm happy today <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" />  It's a weird feeling, really.  My Christmas was...nice.  I got a dreamcatcher and a grow-your-own tree kit.  (Oh, and a big scholarship.  Ok, well, three. eeeee. :3)  We're all kind of ecstatic over here.  <br />
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I'm still a little irked that my parents refuse to let us celebrate Kwanzaa, though.  I want the fifth Harry Potter movie so badly it hurts! And I physically NEED to see Sweeney Todd <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/c/crazy.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":crazy:" title="Crazy" /><br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Please excuse my optimism...</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:55:01 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ My head is like a beehive of OMGs.  I'm so excited about everything right now <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/excited.gif" width="23" height="19" alt=":excited:" title="OMG! I can't contain my excitement!" />I'm like this hyper bundle of insanely happy nerves and I just can't help being HAPPY.  I know I'll be whiny and pathetic again very soon, but right now I'm living in the moment and just so full of YAY.<br />
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Here are the reasons:<br />
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~Illustration project with <a href="http://zahava.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/z/a/zahava.png" width="50" height="50" alt=":iconzahava:" title="zahava"/></a><br />
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~TGC. nuff said.<br />
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~Macbeth.  I absolutely love this play.<br />
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~Colleges! Nearer deadlines mean nearer freedom!<br />
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~We--the band--get CHARTER BUSES for the football championship. (which is five hours away, but still I have to recind my *absolute* hatred of football.)<br />
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~ PBS put Wishbone reruns on the air and I have a DVR <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br />
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~I love every single person who has ever watched, favorited, commented, viewed, or even thought "what a funny username" towards me.  The support I've gotten from my beloved internet has really been invaluable [/sappy]<br />
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So...to keep this journal from being *completely* useless, how 'bout let's all list something good going on/happening soon/happening somtime in the future.  *is totally NOT stealing this idea from anywhere*<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Feel free to ignore XD</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:11:19 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ It is 4:12 in the morning and I am awake.  WHY. <br />
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That is all.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>You guyyyys...</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:40:58 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I miss you all BAD. D= <br />
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And I miss dA, the whole thing.  I just have so much STUFFFF to do!  Maybe next week sometime?  I haven't forgotten my e-life, so don't worry.  I love you all and I miss you.  Bye *sad eyes*<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>urf.</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:35:31 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Disclaimer: This is not particularly interesting, just me venting about college stuff X_X<br />
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I feel like I just gave birth.  Which I kind of did. To a pretty damn good essay, if I do say so meself.  (After nine and a half hours of labor, it'd better be a keeper.)  College applications are driving me berserk.  I'm scrabbling around trying to get my stuff in for Miami's AAAAHHHH Scholarship, as we so fondly call it, which has like six different components, four of which I just discovered yesterday, and is due on the first.<br />
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On a more awesome note, STATE COMPETITION WILL BE EATING MY TOMORROW! Mweeee! And what's even better?  That's NOT the end of band! I was so worried I'd actually get an hour of free time somewhere in there, then what would I do?! *phew*<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Outta the "cupboard"!</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:50:10 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ OK so apparently JK Rowling admitted in a recent Q&A that Dumbledore's gay.<br />
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AAAEEEE 8D<br />
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I don't know WHY I'm so excited, I think it's because it makes me feel like the old codger's still causing trouble.  And Grindlewald was apparenly his lover, which makes everything make SO much more sense.  Plus those who've opposed the series on the basis of witchcraft for a decade are going to absolutely explode and it's going to be VERY amusing to watch.  This seriously made my month.<br />
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I want to go glomp him, but I've just realized he's still dead.  Oh-- and still fictional.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>correction...</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:47:56 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I should specify that I'm not eighteen , but rather in my eigteenth year on the planet.  I'm seventeen, alas.  BUT HOMIGOD GUESS WHAT I GOT I GOT A WACOM INTUOS AND IT'S SO AMAZING AND I SERIOUSLY CRIED WHEN I GOT IT.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Hey, I'm... not 16!!</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:56:12 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Sooo...today is my first day of my eighteenth year on this desolate little planet, yaay.  And it's a Tuesday at that.  But hey, we're getting Mexican tonight 8D<br />
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Why the llama? You tell me.<br />
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What cologes is everyone applying to/has applied to?   I need to start that...<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Devious Journal Entry</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:49:28 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Heehee, I'm watching BibleTV.  Yeah, that was random.<br />
Sooo, yesterday was teh Homecomings!1!!!!1  It was so fun.  David and I danced like complete idiots all night and even though I ate like 17 lbs of Italian food that were threatening to explode me out of my dress, and when David stepped on my foot (leaving me with half a toenail D= ) it was the best time I've ever had at a dance.<br />
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Yesterday was also portfolio day at the Art Academy (yeeey).  In spite of the horribly itchy sweater I was wearing and the Aeschylus play I'm *supposed* to be reading, it was pretty awesome.  I talked to the people from the CIA and Miami U. The former gave me some good advice about the logistics of portfolio submission, but the Miami professor was very encouraging.  My parents were beaming all day XD <br />
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On a kind-of-related note: Driving=NO.  I do not like it, it is scary and bad.  Tell me I've got less than a week to write my NMSC essay, fine; stick me in a deathful number theory class, yeah ok.  But put me behind the wheel of a several ton pollutant-spewing vehicle and send me hurtling into a merge onto whatever scary highway/road downtown that was.... uh-uh.  At the Mercantile Library award lecture thing, the speaker Anne Haggedorn (who's from NYC) kept talking about how much she truly hated driving, and I must agree.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Oh, look, a poem!</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:33:32 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ "CaffeinatedRice Tries in Vain to Kick Herself in the Ass"<br />
a short poem by caffeinatedrice and her alter-ego<br />
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Stress eating stress eating<br />
My soul needs some feeding!<br />
<<Your essay is messy>><br />
But sweat drops are beading.<br />
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<<Hon, while the other girls all are cheerleading,<br />
YouÂre writing your future<br />
And I am agreeing<br />
So shove on, for crapÂs sake stop taking this beating!>><br />
   <br />
   Âjust a few minutes, my tacoÂs reheating.<br />
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This is my attempt at poetry! Yay.  I thought it might serve the purpose better than a page-long rant about how much everything sucks right now *pokes piles and piles of crap to do before tomorrow* *pokes tummy,betrayed*<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>September Bleh</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:59:52 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Wow I'm an absolute mess right now XD  And I have to go babysit in an hour and I'm so tired and I'm just waaahhhh.  Even myself is getting sick of me whining, so I'll shut up.  If you want further details about the precise nature of my angst, just look in my scraps gallery.<br />
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Ooh, also I'm thinking about changing my portfolio concentration this year to "defiance".  It fits with my work better than "sleep" did, ironically, plus it's a helluva lot more interesting.  <br />
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I miss the lovely world of the internet and my lovely friends/aquaintances who dwell therein, and I hate to say that, due to marching band, college search, AP classes, essay extravaganza, and recycling mania I'll be dropping in very little for the next few months.  *tearful wave*<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Devious Journal Entry</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:16:36 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Hullo everyone.  I'm stuck awkwardly in the middle of Deathly Hallows and it's like being in limbo-- I'm afraid to bring anything up for fear of someone assuming I've read it *all* and throwing spoilers at me O_O<br />
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So I'm up in Minnesota, with no wireless, and cousins and grandparents and mothers constantly reading over my shoulder D: If I don't get to just nip on and check my PMs, I shall die.  We went to Mall of America today and saw Fred Savage signing autographs to promote the Daddy Day Camp movie he directed.  I mean, I love the Wonder Years, but ouch.  What a hig, high fall >_< The *preview* doesn't even look funny.  Other than that, It was a veritable cornucopia (sp?) of Americana.  I wish I'd counted how many ice cream shops there were, it was insane! <br />
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It's weird because I remember sitting here exactly a year ago and getting my first watch on dA.  It was absolute ecstatic with gratitude ^_^  And I still am.  I look at my list of watchers, and I give you all virtual hugs, especially the ones for whom it's just obligatory XD So...HUGS!  <br />
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No scanner, no photoshop, no T...t...toasted oats o_<  Oh well.  It's beautiful and peaceful here and they have the most amazing pool. And a relentlessly shrieking cockatiel, but that's another story.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Things you should know this July</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:33:09 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ ~I finally see why people are so enamored with oil paints <3<br />
~ Return of the Native doesn't suck as much as I originally thought it would.<br />
~ I love work.<br />
~ I also love hummus.<br />
~ I saw 1408 last night and it melted my brain.<br />
~Hugh Laurie.  'nuff said. :3<br />
~I want Phillip and Noel to come back D:<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Baby's Back</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:36:00 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ My little laptop Imelda's alive and whirring away happily, after the ardor of the computer shop.  Plus she's pimped out with virus protection, which SOMEBODY conveniently left off the hard drive when they sold her to us.  Grr. But whatever.  You can't put a price on the life of a loved one.<br />
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Work is freaking hard!  We're on this mural crew and haven't even started painting yet, but I never knew it was possible to get so exausted from just sitting in a room all day.  The boss is...difficult, at best.  We call him Krabby O'Mondays. (Kudos to anyone who catches the reference, btw) Ah well. It's for a community center in a really bad part of town, so it's a good cause and I'm really excited about actually starting next week (though a certain part of me is getting a little hysterical about climbing up on the scaffolds.)<br />
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Last night I saw a show on Food Network about these people making a German shepherd cake.  Fondant's amazingly pretty, isn't it?<br />
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Today's Envy Points go out to <a href="http://mage118.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/m/a/mage118.jpg" width="50" height="50" alt=":iconmage118:" title="mage118"/></a> and <a href="http://zahava.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/z/a/zahava.png" width="50" height="50" alt=":iconzahava:" title="zahava"/></a> who are in Europe.  Everyone shoot mental death rays at them.  maybe the bad vibes'll make them forget to order their water uncarbonated. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/m/mwahaha.gif" width="29" height="15" alt=":mwahaha:" title="Mwahahahahahahaha!" /><br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~CaffeinatedRice</author>
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                <title>Obituary</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:46:13 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ The victim of porno popups and those INFERNAL little dialogue boxes accusing me of preforming an illegal operation, my poor baby darling laptop Imelda was officially pronounced comatose yesterday at 4:30 pm.<br />
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This means that, as I'm house-sitting for the next few weeks, I will be almost completely shut off from the internet D= I miss you all sooo much and I'm going through brutal withdrawal.<br />
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On a brighter note, I'm going to PKI today and <a href="http://zahava.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/z/a/zahava.png" width="50" height="50" alt=":iconzahava:" title="zahava"/></a> is in SPAIN!!<br />
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At least I find comfort knowing that every time Bill Gates closes a Windows, he.... makes a lot of money for no apparent reason.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Sighhhh</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 15:04:33 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Oh joy and happiness! Fwee! I love having nothing to do.  I doodle, I forum, I read, I music, I watch Lost, I watch House, I eat carbs, I loiter in the band room.  Life is goood.  I wish I could take this week and bottle it up for later-- it seems almost cruel to be allowed to take in it all at once.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>*insert jumble of disstressed consonants here*</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 15:09:15 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Gnehh.  SO scared about this stupid exam tomorrow.  For the last week I've been oscillating between confidence and panic, exhaustion and agitiation, elation and depression, snarling/whining/pacing and total lassitude, self-assurance and self-loathing; what it all comes down to is I want the AP exam to be OVER.  I feel like tomorrow will be this release of all this furious pent-up screaming grinding anxiety and the sun will break through the clouds and I will actually be able to NOT think of how it reminds me of the 17-century principle of divine right >_<<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>whee</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 13:09:34 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Updating on my dad's cell phone after Whittenberg visit.  Such a pretty school!  Very nice people.  Lovely architecture.<br />
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Ever tried lipton bottled tea? it's aMAZIng.  I've been so busy lately I haven't drawn anything in weeks X.X <br />
I miss having a life.  Or lack there of...<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>*hum*</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:07:36 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ After a grueling week of campus tours, things are finally looking up.  We talked to the admissions lady at Otterbien College in...West o_O er...(I want to say Westphalia but that's kind of in Europe) well West-something, OH.  Aaand it looks like I could get in there with more than 2/3 tuition paid for all four years AND work in a study abroad program <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/excited.gif" width="23" height="19" alt=":excited:" title="OMG! I can't contain my excitement!" />  They have a fantabulous art ed program there, even if it is awfully...Ohio.<br />
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I watched Spirited Away last night for the first time <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /> It was beautiful, especially the animation, but it kind of sucked b/c people kept walking into the room and going "Why's her head so big" "Why does he have such stupid hair" and inevitably "IT'S BARFIIING"<br />
<br />
To nearly all of which I answered with a firm "it's *symbolic* you closed-minded pig-headed WalMart-shopping NASCAR-worshipping Idol-watching Precious Moments-figurine-buying cultural defect. -_-"<br />
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That usually scared them off.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Memoirs of the Snowbitch</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:59:54 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Ok, all you Cincinnati cats.  Shuddup.  Cleveland's got 7 inches and hasn't stopped snowing since we got here.  It's currently twenty degrees AND I'm locked in a small house with quilts, SCARY dolls, a reeeally loud TV, dial-up, and Windows 97.<br />
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We visited Case Western R.U. and despite it being one of the most horrible experiences of my life, we fell in love with it.  It basically seems like a nerd mecca.  Half the students are out-of-state, and the facilities are incredible, and it's like six inches away from the art institute, art muesum, and concert hall, and they have exactly my major and exactly my minor in one convenient little box of work-your-arse-off happiness.<br />
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I expect the campus is beautiful, but I was too busy ploughing through the sludge to look up.  I think part of my brain froze, honestly, because I came *this* close to blacking out (started slurring my speech and running into things...ok it was actually kind of funny).  But they had really good tea, too.  And they're like 61% male science nerds <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":yum:" title="Yummy" /><br />
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I miss you guys...and my photoshop which was invented so long after my abuelo's computer it doesn't know what it is and crashes whenever I attempt an installation...but mostly you guys.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Devious Journal Entry</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:26:07 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Well.  Figured I'd better update since my Christmas post. Ok important things in my little life:<br />
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1.)  LOOK I'm CAPITALIZING!<br />
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2.)  I *finally* got my driver's temps and have been tearing around suburbia in my mom's hippie van.<br />
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3.)  Our orchestra got second place in the country! So proud of teh orch buddies.  Although it sucks cause all my friends ran off to New York <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/c/cry.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":cry:" title="Crying" /><br />
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4.)  I am in the most horrendous art slump and it's terrifying O_O<br />
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5.)  Getting sick? Maybe possibly? <Don't sound so hopeful :rolleyes:><br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>ex-muss!</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:41:03 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ technically it's not ex-muss anymore. but whaaaatever. here's what i got, b/c everyone cares so damn much!!<br />
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~socks<br />
~manikins! a hand and a...like a little cat thing?<br />
~generic ipod knock-off! gyee!<br />
~pop rocks<br />
~two books on nude figure drawing from my abuelita o_O<br />
~no clothes!<br />
~gift cards from random relatives who don't know which stores are even remotely near here<br />
~lots of inspiration<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>ex-muss break</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:54:36 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ whooooooooo it's happy break time. this is fantastic. i'm not being a scrooge this year for some strange reason, maybe it's the 18-FLIPPIN-DAY-BREAK they decided to randomly give us. gnee! i'm thoroughly enjoying my r&r, sleeping till (omg) 8:30 and eating nothing but cereal all day. ALL DAY.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>ahhhhh</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:22:59 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ i...i don't recognize this feeling--it's almost like...h--happy? yes, i think i'm happy! i just got a lovely new manikin and i'm facing a solid week of happy nothingness garnished by new music, pumpkin pie and my mom's b-day cake. t'won't last longer than thanksgiving break but i'm going to enjoy it for four days dammit!!<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>artdump cominggg</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:04:23 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ i feel like i'm on the brink of getting a break. and of death. but more interestingly, getting a break. second quarter just set in, term paper season's in full swing (and therefore on its way out), and band is finally, FINALLY drawing to a close. interesting how i said that, when anyone bothering to read my journal is definitely in marching band. wow. ok point is, i may soon have enough free time to draw something of my own free will that ISN'T in the margin of something, or just maybe upload the 27-plus art projects i've vomited out since band camp.<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Devious Journal Entry</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:51:46 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ waHOOT!! aaaaaaaaagh we are so incredibly amazingggggggg<br />
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if anybody wants to rant about how awesome that competition was, do it here!!!  phillip and melinda and jamie did you know we got STRAIGHT ONES right? STRAIGHTTTT!!!! it sucks my dad wouldn't let me go to kristen's party *GNAR* but STILL! and how amazing is that new emoticon^^^?<br />
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i'm trying to upload my latest art hw, seeing as it's finally in the same room as me, but it's too big to scannnn and i hate taking pics. ohhhh well. waheeeeeee!<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>1000!!!! (7!)</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:19:36 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ wheee. after six months, i finally hit the 1000 mark <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/d/dance.gif" width="29" height="21" alt=":dance:" title="Dance!" /> and to the seven random people who pageviewed me last... EFF YOU I COULD'VE HAD A PERFECT CUBE YOU SCUM SUCKING BAGS OF COTTAGE CHEESE<br />
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just kidding. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /> yaaay this made my day ^_^<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Devious Journal Entry</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:09:25 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ wooow school has absolutely EATEN MY LIFE. i'm so busy, and when i'm not i'm sleeping b/c i'm so exhausted. once band season's over, i think i'll be able to slip back into some semblance of a normal life. i should be able to update in giant gushes once i get motivated enough to drag my summer hw portfolio home. the good news: w/ ap art i'm cranking out like 2 drawings a week-- they're just all at school right now...<br /><br /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Devious Journal Entry</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2006 05:29:07 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ mwaha...leaving for my lakehouse in Nowhere, OH. if my sister would get in the car. i'm excited to see my canoe again, and to start that *gasp* commission <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/excited.gif" width="23" height="19" alt=":excited:" title="OMG! I can't contain my excitement!" /> i'll be back mon. afternoon. and btw nobody is aloud to have ANY fun w/out me at mike's party with the amazing food and the best people in the whole world and large amounts of caffeine and a giant cardboard statue of legolas... ]]></description>
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                <title>home</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:28:23 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ ahhhhh home from band camp. i'm very glad to be back this year *not mentioning the word 'homesick'* i got home yesterday, slept for eleven hours and now must spend my remaining four...no, three days of freedom scribbling down summer h/w. ]]></description>
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                <title>...more midwest</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:20:43 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ it's not ohio...it's minnesota!!! ok shaddup ms cynicism. it is so beautiful here i'm not going to lie. my cousins have this amazing house on a half acre with a lake <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/l/love.gif" width="23" height="16" alt=":love:" title="Love" /> i'm actually going to extra lengths to stay awake for as much of the day as possible. and the food-- gaaah. i'm just getting used to not always having to ask if there's meat in stuff. and they have an entire pantry full of cereal and a smoothie machine and caroline, they got a freaking BUSHEL of panera bagels this morning.<br />
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oh so since minnesota is the land of a thousand lakes or w/e, my concentration shall be lakes! (we *do* need a concentration subject for summer h/w, right?) i hope so b/c somehow i wound up with about a katrillion square inches of water color paper (which i preceded to massacre this morning with a REALLY. BAD. STILL LIFE. it took me 2 hrs to draw out and i completely ruined it the second i put it under the doom of my paintbrush.)<br />
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omg i forgot. woow sorry this is so long but ok i'm really not. this guy was here last night, this enormous, really really big huge 7-foot scary guy with gray hair and he's a website designer or summat and had to stay at my uncle's house b/c his flight got cancelled. so i walk in from the pool (which is in teh backyard!!) and he's sitting at the computer and i start up the stairs with all intent of being as quiet as possible because he's a freaking giant from nowhere just sitting there looking at the computer and it seemed in my best interest not to let him know i exist. <br />
<br />
so i'm halfway up and he whips around brandishing (i love that word) my wacom tablet and the conversation goes as follows:<br />
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guy: you the artist?<br />
me:  eh?<br />
guy: the one with the drawing thing? (<<i can only assume he meant the tablet) <br />
me: i suppose... <br />
guy: *says something involving the word 'commission'*<br />
me: <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/o/omg.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":omg:" title="OMG" /> um. <br />
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so this morning (i can't believe i'm going to say these words together in the same sentence without my little in-the-head-writing-voice snorting with sarcasm) my father gave my email address to the random enormous man with gray dredlocks. ]]></description>
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                <title>julyyy</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:51:49 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ omg pirates. must see it again. omg. but summer health sucks. omg does it suck. i'll be standing there with all these incredibly terrifying people sauntering around b/c they failed like general music or something and need the credit to get into vocational school, and they ask me what i'm in for and i say "well i'm taking six honors classes next year and i need the flexibility in my schedule so i can be in the marching band and i'm gonna go hide in the bathroom now bye!" <br />
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buuuut on the bright side since i ate nothing but french bread in spain and i just found out my avg heart rate is 36, my doctor is actually ordering me to eat hideously wonderfully fatty and-or sugary things so i can kind of stop weighing 98 pounds <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/hungry.gif" width="33" height="21" alt=":hungry:" title="I am famished!" /> ]]></description>
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                <title>jetlag!!</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2006 02:53:59 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ whee i'm back from spain!! it was so ridiculously amazing and i miss it so much, altho i must admit i'm glad to see my computer and my food--all seven-and-half members of the spanish population who even know what soy is seem to get offended if you mention it... <br />
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oh well. i'm going to miss the landscapes and the giant churches and the street vendors and those little stale loaves of french bread they give you with salads. and most of all i'll miss the endless barrage of charming bidet-themed jokes phillip. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/t/toilet.gif" width="15" height="19" alt=":toilet:" title="I need to pee!!!" /> ooh. 6 am time for lunch. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/hungry.gif" width="33" height="21" alt=":hungry:" title="I am famished!" /> ]]></description>
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                <title>Devious Journal Entry</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 13:31:36 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/excited.gif" width="23" height="19" alt=":excited:" title="OMG! I can't contain my excitement!" /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/excited.gif" width="23" height="19" alt=":excited:" title="OMG! I can't contain my excitement!" /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/excited.gif" width="23" height="19" alt=":excited:" title="OMG! I can't contain my excitement!" /><br />
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aiiiiieeeeeeee! i got my tablet today <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/boogie.gif" width="25" height="25" alt=":boogie:" title="Boogie!" /> her name is otylia and we're going to be BEST FRIENDS. ]]></description>
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