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deviantART: by:CommanderD http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:CommanderD&section=today deviantART RSS for by:CommanderD en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:06:02 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png Livin' on a prayer http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/28093174/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/28093174/ Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:41:55 PST [link] Good thing, too, because I still have no time, and now no desire, to write at the moment.

I got an email a few days ago asking me to set up a time to interview for a job as a library aide at one of the Omaha public libraries.

I've had to find someone to cover my work schedule for me at the grocery store, but I'm going to get interviewed for it tomorrow. Please pray for me/wish me luck/send me good karma/whatever! It would be AMAZING if I could get this job, seeing as I'm actually going to school to be a librarian and having some actual experience working in a library would help me out in my classes immensely. Plus, two jobs equals more money, which is always good. (It would be part-time, and so is my current job, so I could manage it. Maybe. It'll probably mean I'll be working around fifty to sixty hours a week, though. GOODBYE FREE TIME!)

So, again, no, I probably won't be posting any artwork for the foreseeable future. Not only do I have no time, but every time I try to draw, I look at what other people here on DA are drawing, and they're often so amazing that they just discourage me, rather than inspire me. I can never draw as good as so many other people here, so why bother trying? (A similar thing happens to me when I go to play the piano but my brother plays completely amazingly beforehand, and then berates himself for how much it sucks. YOU WANT SUCKY, LISTEN TO ME, LITTLE BROTHER!)

(cough)

Have a great November, and happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans. See you in a month!

]]> ~CommanderD I have no life http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/27518150/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/27518150/ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:17:41 PDT

Holy crap, October already. Monthly DA update time! I really have no interesting news to share, though. As I said above, my time's mainly been occupied by working and doing my homework for class. In addition to online discussions, right now we're also making websites, doing the HTML coding from scratch. I'm about finished with mine (I'm doing it on my Argentina trip) and it's not half-bad looking, considering I'm pretty much an HTML noob.

But yeah, other than that... my social life has come to pretty much a dead-halt again, and to my surprise I really don't mind so much. I always knew I was a lone wolf.

I have been seeing my friends and family a little bit, though, especially last weekend, when my friend Pam and I went to the Husker football game. It was the 300th consecutive sellout (a record for college football), so it was pretty awesome. And I got my Valentino's pizza fix, too.

I might be going to another game this month, on the 24th. Mom has a wedding to go to so I might go with my dad.

The 24th is also my birthday, so what better way to ring in my twenty-third year of life?

TWENTY-THREE OMGWTFBBQ

I'm old.

I haven't drawn anything lately and have no real desire to, so my DA gallery will probably remain update-less for awhile. Plus, you know, I also have no free time anymore. Okay, so actually I do have a little free time, and during that time I've been writing in my Hey Arnold fic. Truthfully, I've kind of lost my inspiration for it, but I'm literally almost finished with it and I kind of miss posting fanfic on FF.net, so I'd like to get it finishd and have something to post.

Hopefully by the end of this month it'll be done. Then maybe I can go back to the Licky/Gos story? (Oh, who am I kidding, that thing's over two years old, I'LL NEVER GET IT FINISHED.

)

Have a great October everyone, and happy Halloween thirty-one days in advance and all that jazz.

(I can't change my mood icon wtf. Oh well, I don't really know what mood I'm in right now anyway.)

]]> ~CommanderD My busy month of August http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/26952135/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/26952135/ Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:08:55 PDT

So in July I was living in the apartment by myself for a few weeks until my roommate got back, right? Like me, she was looking for a job, and she actually got one that she went to college for--a teaching job! However, she's teaching three grades with a total of about eight students, in a tiny little town in Nebraska called Basset, which is about a four hour drive away from Omaha. Needless to say, she moved out, took all her furniture, and I was left with a bed, computer (which I finally got hooked up to the internet, YAY), desk, small TV perched on Rubbermaid containers, and college moon chair. I didn't have any real chairs or couches, or end tables (I did have a small coffee table), or even a dining table and chairs. Nor did I have a job.

However, right when I got back from the Booe family reunion in Madison, Wisconsin (which was actually a lot of fun), I got two calls for job interviews. One was at Barnes and Noble (although it was for working in the cafÃ© rather than actually with the books), and the other was for Bag 'N Save, a grocery store. I thought the interview for the B&N job went better than the BNS one, although I would have preferred the BNS job because it had better hours. (Thirty five--not quite full time, so no benefits, but still a decent amount.)

To my surprise, though, I got offered the Bag 'N Save job.

So now I have a job--as a grocery store cashier! Oh, thank you, four years of college!

No, in all seriousness, I know the economy's in the toilet and I'm grateful that I have a job at all. And I'm actually getting okay at ringing up the purchases and counting out change. I'm not much of a math person (English major and all, you know), but I can add up change faster than I would have thought.

Then, about a week and a half ago, my parents came up to visit me, brought me more furniture (including a recliner and a dining table/chairs), and then after Dad had to go back to Columbus because he had to work, Mom took me shopping and bought me, well, just about everything I'll need.

Dishes, cooking utensils, cleaning supplies, a vacuum, and perhaps most importantly, she even took me to Nebraska Furniture Mart and got me a COUCH. A very cheap yet quite comfy couch. And a DVD cabinet.

For the first time in over two years, I can actually keep my DVDs in their cases now! And when I went home last weekend, Mom let me take a bunch of wall hangings she had, too, including her portrait of Thomas Jefferson...

So now my apartment actually looks like someone lives in it.

And you know, not that sharing living space with Pam was bad, because it wasn't... but God, do I love living by myself. If I ever seriously contemplate marriage, somebody smack me upside the head, will ya?

So everything's going pretty well! I haven't been paid yet, but I should be getting paid on Friday... I hope. I need money.

But I have a job now, and my apartment is furnished, so I'm quite happy.

On Saturday I had my first graduate school classes! In the morning I had Leadership and Management in Libraries and Information Agencies (what a mouthful), and in the afternoon I had Introduction to Information Technology. I think the classes should be doable for me. The bulk of the work is online--we only actually meet in class around five times the semester. And those are always on Saturdays, and when I got my job I specifically said I can't work Saturdays, so that won't conflict. So yay for being a student again.

I do have a lot of work to do for those classes, though, plus my work schedule and actually taking care of my apartment, sooooo... not that they were ever really officially open (or closed), but requests are now clo... ]]> ~CommanderD Growing up sucks http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/26314205/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/26314205/ Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:46:05 PDT

I moved in here a month ago, on July 1st. In my last entry I mentioned that my laptop was kind of dying, but that day it actually DID turn on. However, it constantly believed the battery was at 0%, even when I had it plugged in and it should have been charging. I was also getting the blue screen of death pretty often, so my dad offered to buy me a desktop. (Well, I paid him back for about a third of it.) I'm really liking it, especially since I bought the Sims 3 for it. But there is a problem--it doesn't want to connect to the internet. We have DSL here, and it seems to want a username and password, and Pam doesn't know what that could be. Besides, before Pam got here I had my laptop on her desk and was getting online on that just fine without any password. Anyway, we're probably going to stop being lazy and call the internet provider on Monday and see if they can't help me get online on my computer and I don't have to leach off Pam's laptop to go online anymore.

My younger brother was at the apartment last week too. He got a job as the drumline coach at Benson High School (our old band director works there now, which is how he got the job), but since he lives in Lincoln and he didn't want to make the hour drive every day during the drumline band camp, I let him stay at the apartment here. He might be here again this coming week, too, for the actual band camp... I need to get in touch with him and find out for sure.

In addition to fruitlessly looking for jobs (although I did apply for one at Dana College--I'll laugh my butt off if I get it, but it's about the only job that I'm halfway experienced in), I've been writing. Without internet on my computer, I have nothing to distract me while doing so, which means... in the time span of about two weeks I've written close to 30,000 words in three different stories. The majority of that being in a new Hey Arnold story with no current plot. Blah, I suck. But I'm still chugging away on that one, and at the rate I'm going I'll probably be finished with it in another two weeks or so. I've also been working on the Licky/Gos that'll never get finished I'm sure, and I also started the sequel to Refugee. Yeah, you read that right. The sequel to Refugee.

Hopefully I'll get more frequent internet soon, but in the even I don't... and even if I do, since I'm not on DA much anymore... if you want to contact me and have Facebook, that's the way to do it. [link] I get Facebook on my phone--actually, I get the internet in general on my phone, but the screen's small and it takes ages to load and usually it's just not worth it, especially with DA and LJ. But the Facebook application is easy to use and alerts me of updates. If you do add me, make sure you add a note telling me your DA name so I know that I actually (kind of) know who you are.

I'll... ]]> ~CommanderD Family, and MOVING! http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/25655050/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/25655050/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:41:21 PDT

This month's been really busy for me. I haven't really had time to look for a job, which I'm sure is going to bite me in the butt later. But really, it was pretty much not feasible for me to look for jobs, with what all I've been doing. Like I mentioned in my last journal, I spent about two weeks in North Carolina/South Carolina/Virginia at two of my cousins' high school graduations, and a family reunion at a beach house in Myrtle Beach. And yes, that was glorious. When we got back, about a week and a half ago, I was then kept busy by my mom to help prepare for my aunt Monica's wedding. She lives in Wisconsin, but she wanted to get married at the nursing home where my grandma is so that she could be there (not that Grandma really recognized the significance of what was going on, but she did constantly remark things like "Aren't they pretty?" throughout the ceremony). The nursing home that she's at is about half an hour away from Columbus, and since we have a big house, we of course had the reception here. And Mom went ballistic getting it cleaned. Although not as ballistic as Aunt Monica went getting the food ready the day before. And I was the only one in the house at that time to witness it and try to pull her out of it. My mom's side of the family are all so tightly wound. I still sometimes wonder if I'm adopted, because I look and act absolutely nothing like them... well, okay, I inherited the oddball-ness from them, so I take it back. The wedding went really nice, though. Mom and I played flute at it. And during the entire month of June, I've seen pretty much everyone on the planet that I'm related to. (Making up for June of last year, during which I saw no one I was related to. (I was in Argentina.))

Tomorrow I'll finally be moving in to the apartment in Omaha. I've actually wanted to postpone my job searching until I'm actually in Omaha, because applying online doesn't seem to have the same zing as applying in person. I had thought that I'd probably be able to find time to update my journal, but when packing my stuff today, I found that my laptop was almost dead, because some how it got unplugged during the wedding madness. Oh well, plug it in and charge it, right? Wrong. It's totally unresponsive. (sigh) The thing is over four years old and a total piece of crap, so maybe it's time for a new one... Mom and Dad will be going with me to help me move in tomorrow, and Dad suggested we go to Sam's Club and see if there's a decent yet reasonably-priced computer I can get. I've been wanting to get a desktop for awhile now, and I guess now I've gotten a nudge to just get one sooner. (Dad seemed to indicate that he'd help me pay for it, which is definitely a plus.) I have most of my writing that I am hoping to continue (ie... the Licky/Gos story, and that's about it) on a disk, along with a lot of (but not all) of my Petz. There's also a lot of started fics that I always thought I may or may not get back to... I don't like losing that kind of stuff, but the Licky/Gos is safe, and most of my most important Petz are safe, and the rest I can handle losing.

I'll update next month--I have another wedding I'm playing flute at, along with getting used to living in an apartment and such, and trying to find a job. I'd appreciate prayers--I'm nervous, but not so totally scared that I can't function (at least not right now). And will artwork finally come? Maybe. My printer/scanner still works fine, after all.

]]> ~CommanderD Haircut, music video, vacation, fewer journals http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/25179845/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/25179845/ Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:13:11 PDT do look better with long hair, but I really don't care what I look like, I just want something manageable, and this style definitely is.

I finished that music video I was working on: [link] GO WATCH IT AND GIVE IT MORE VIEWS PLZ AND THANK YOU! (Yeah, it's Hey Arnold again. I guess I can say I'm officially in the fandom? Not like I'm working on any other fanworks for it, though... right now I'm in the fandom of nothing.)

Since very few people read these journals, and since I have a LiveJournal anyway, I've decided to cut down my updates to monthly. It's just as well I decide that now, anyway, because I'm leaving for vacation on Tuesday. I'll be in North Carolina/South Carolina/Virginia for a week and a half. I'll have internet access, but I probably won't be going online much. Anyway, it's not like I'm on DA that much anyway even more. It's probably for the best--when I get a full-time job and a place of my own, I won't have time for all my hobbies, and, well, drawing isn't my most important hobby. I'd like to spend my free time writing. Not that I'll stop drawing altogether, or leave DA altogether. There are often times I feel more like drawing than writing, so I'm not giving anything up completely, don't worry. This page will probably just be less frequently updated than it used to be, that's all.

One bit of news to share--I've filled out paperwork to move in to my friend's apartment with her. They've still got to do the background checks, but not like I have a criminal record or anything. So I've got an apartment now! Now all I need is a job.

I'll update again on July 1st, barring any catastrophes, and will probably keep the "first of the month" schedule after that. So I'll see you around, eventually. And you all keep being awesome.

]]> ~CommanderD Weekly update http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/25046251/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/25046251/ Sun, 31 May 2009 07:33:38 PDT
The most exciting thing that's happened this week is that my aunt got in touch with her biological son's family. For thirty-four years she's been wondering where he is, and now his thirteen-year-old daughter made contact with her. My aunt's a grandma--three times over, in fact. Now my mom thinks it's a competition--"You have more grandkids than I do!" Anyway, it's extremely awesome that this has happened. My aunt hasn't actually talked to her son yet--he wants to have contact, but is nervous about what he'll say--as is my aunt, and understandably so for both of them. But anyhoo... yay, I have a new cousin and three new first cousins once removed.

This week I plan to go to Omaha sometime and look for a few more places to put in an application, plus hopefully get the spare key to my friend's apartment that I'll be staying in this summer. And use my Barnes and Noble gift card. Hopefully on some Charlie Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy DVDs... yeah, I'm a dork, I know. Oh, and I still need to get a haircut, because I'm dumb and keep on forgetting to call and make an appointment. (Why doesn't the place I've always gone to take walk-ins?)

Until next week!

]]> ~CommanderD Graduation http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24919663/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24919663/ Sun, 24 May 2009 07:13:50 PDT

These past few weeks, as you can tell by reading my past journal entries, have been chaos, and only last night was I able to finally relax a little bit. This week was finals, which compared to all my essays and presentations really weren't that bad, but they were still something I had to prepare for. Also, I was still putting the finishing touches on my criticism paper. All twelve of us in that class finished that paper no more than twenty-four hours before it was due. Most of us didn't get it done until the very day, actually.

In addition to that, my parents came both Thursday and Friday to take my stuff out of my dorm for the last time. I still had check-outs to take care of, getting everyone's key and such, and I also had to get ready for graduation, obviously. On Friday there was a senior recognition dinner and ceremony that my parents wanted to go to, so I went--but I had no clue I was going to get recognized for something there, too. But the residence life people gave me flowers for being the longest serving RA (three years). Needless to say, I was completely embarrassed and not expecting that at all. But very grateful too, of course.

Yesterday was the ceremony. I had lots of "bling bling", as my brother Davy referred to it--three different cords and my Morton scholar's medallion. I graduated summa cum laude, which is the highest (GPA of 3.9 and above), so that was awesomesauce. I wasn't a valedictorian (sorry if I spelled that wrong, Mom and Dad's internet doesn't have a spell check) thanks to a few classes with Doc in which I was lucky enough to pull a B, but that was fine with me, I didn't have to get up on stage and be recognized individually.

I don't have my diploma yet... you know how graduation ceremonies are. I'll be getting it mailed to me. That is, unless I somehow failed all my finals and I didn't actually graduate, but that seems rather unlikely.

I have to admit, it still hasn't quite sunk in yet that I'm done with college. I mean, I'm not really done quite yet--graduate school and all. But I'm done at Dana, and I'm done with the "traditional" college student life--for grad school I'll have class just once a month, in between (hopefully) a full-time job (that I really need to get cracking on and look for). But right now, all I can do is relax and finally breathe again. My goals right now, along with finding a job, are smaller--practice flute music for a few weddings I'm playing for this summer, get a haircut, that kind of stuff.

In fandom related news, in between all the craziness of this week I actually managed to get a new fanfic written: [link] Hey Arnold fanfic! That's the nineteenth fandom I've written for, or at least posted to FF.net. Too many fandoms and too little time, I tell you.

I shall see you all next week! Maybe during this week I'll find some time to draw my long-overdue prizes and requests.

]]> ~CommanderD Getting closer and closer to chaos http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24803782/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24803782/ Sun, 17 May 2009 11:34:43 PDT I wish I knew what I was doing after that. Oh sure, yeah, grad school and all... but I don't know where I'll be staying (either Blair or Omaha, or maybe even back to Columbus if it gets down to that) or where I'll be working. And I CAN'T worry about that at this moment, either, because I've got finals and a paper to worry about still.

I was going to room with a friend of mine, but we found out that I can't, because it's a single person lease and I guess it just isn't allowed. This kind of sucks, because the apartment was nice and cheap and with both of us splitting the cost of rent it would have been very manageable. But no, now I've got to find another place. Luckily another friend will be in New Hampshire this summer and will let me stay in her apartment--actually, she wants me to--and I'll just have to pay utilities during that time, she'll still handle the rent. Her apartment's in Omaha, and while I don't reeeeeaaally want to live in a big city, I'll also be far more likely to find a decent job there. So we'll see. At least I've got options available.

My computer went to the blue screen of death today... the things been acting screwy for a long time now. I've been saying I need to get a desktop, and I would still like to, but I don't think spending that kind of money will be an option for me for awhile yet.

Meh. This journal's way too depressing and focusing on the fact that I'm an adult. SO GUESS WHAT GUYS?! I started another fanfic (a Hey Arnold one--my weird-ass muse is unpredictable, to say the least) the other night--and got 4,000 words in it! I was planning for it to be a one-shot, but seeing as I'm not even halfway done yet, it'll more than likely end up being a two-shot. (I have a feeling this is going to be happening a lot every time I try to write a one-shot. I'm too wordy for my own good.) But I still have that stupid paper to write... dammit. And finals to study for... double dammit.

Um... I hope you all have a good week and all. If my life continues in this direction (which is probably will, since that seems to be the goal), I might cut down my weekly updates to bi-weekly or monthly. Like anyone cares.

]]> ~CommanderD *dead* http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24687143/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24687143/ Sun, 10 May 2009 13:21:49 PDT

I've finished my honors paper, but I still need to figure out how I'm going to give a presentation on it (and then actually GIVE the presentation on Wednesday--and if you never hear from me after that day, it's because I've died of embarrassment). I also finished my Shakespeare paper, and I hate Romeo and Juliet even more than I used to (and that's a lot). Today I need to write my contemporary lit paper--it's due Wednesday, but I'll be too busy worrying over my presentation to even consider putting that one off. Then all I'll have left is my criticism project (sure to be full of BS) and then finals, and then I'M DONE.

I've made it more tolerable on myself (either that or I've just found a new outlet of procrastination) by getting into a new fandom. Yay for Hey Arnold. Hopefully I'll have time and inspiration (inspiration I currently have, time I do not) sometime next week to write/draw/make a music video (seriously. I have an idea for one). Oh, and draw my owed gifts and requests, too. I still haven't forgotten them.

That is, if I survive this week. This week's going to be the killer, folks. I MUST BE STRONG.

Oh, and one more thing: [link]

I CANNOT FRIGGIN' WAIT TIL DECEMBER OMG OMG OMG

]]> ~CommanderD Anniversary celebrations! http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24564658/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24564658/ Sun, 03 May 2009 11:29:27 PDT Thursday, and I got my two psychology papers done this weekend. Surprising even when you don't take into account that I had my dance recital yesterday and two of my aunts (one from Texas, one from Maryland) here to distract me!

To those of you surprised about the dance thing... I took dance lessons from Lynette here in Columbus for fourteen years, from 1991 to 2005. I probably don't seem like much of a dancer to you, and if you know me in real life, you'd probably be doubly surprised at my dance training. (To put it mildly, I'm not at all graceful.) But if you meet a girl who grew up in Columbus, Nebraska and DIDN'T take dance lessons (either from Lynette or Barb), well, she's in the definite minority. It's just something that most girls in this town do. And so did I. I was never all that good (I was best at tap dancing, because you only really had to focus on your legs and not your arms too), but I did enjoy it and I'm sure it's about the only thing that kept me even halfway in shape back then.

The reason I was in the dance recital this year was because it was Lynette's twenty-fifth recital. (Which I find pretty much impossible to believe, because this woman just DOESN'T AGE. And yet she's at the very least forty-five years old, probably older. ) She invited back the alumni (about three hundred of us) to come back and dance, and ninety or so actually did. I was actually one of the youngest in that dance. We got the DVD with Lynette showing us the dance a few months ago, and have had a couple of rehearsals at Lynette's place. I gotta tell you... this was probably the most fun I've ever had at a dance recital. It was fairly low-key for me, especially compared to my high school days of having like five costume changes. And I didn't feel nearly as self-conscious up there on stage as I used to. It was a lot of fun. And even better--this year was my nieces' very first dance recital, so I got to dance in the same recital with them! They were SO CUTE up there, I gotta say. (Even though I was in the recital, since I was only in the one dance I got to watch the rest of it.)

Another anniversary this weekend was today--my church is apparently one hundred and fifty years old this year. So church today was at the New World Inn with singing and a lunch served afterwards (New World Inn is a hotel/conference center that's ideal for these sorts of things). So it's been a kind of monumental weekend, and very busy for me. I'm still surprised I got even some of my homework done.

I still have tons left to do before graduation, though. I'm feeling better about my actual ability to get stuff done in a decent manner, though. Hopefully this confidence will continue this week and the next. Tomorrow Faye and I are going to UNO to officially register for our library science graduate study classes. It looks like we're probably going to room together right in Blair, which will be nice. The classes at UNO only meet like once a month, so there's really no real reason to live in Omaha... which is fine with me. I like living close to a big city, but I'm not sure I'd actually like living IN it.

See you all next week! Hope you're all doing well, and again, I'm sorry for not drawing and commenting as much. Maybe by June I'll have time for art again.

]]> ~CommanderD argh http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24441376/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24441376/ Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:14:00 PDT
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Craaaap! I have so much to do, and I actually am getting stuff done, but I should be getting MORE done! I just have no drive or attention span or anything. It doesn't help that I've been sleeping way more than usual, too. I have no clue why. I've also more or less lost my appetite. It's like it was back two years ago when I was sick and lost twenty-four pounds because I was barely eating and puking up what little I DID eat. I haven't been nauseous yet, and I'm still eating, but I think the last time I felt even slightly hungry was on Tuesday or something. It's probably stress, and I could stand to lose a few pounds. I bought most of my current jeans right at the end of my sickness--ie, when I actually weighed 144 pounds. That might seem kind of heavy to some of you, but for me (I'm rather tall and big-boned), it was actually lower than I wanted to be. Anyway, I have to suck in my gut to put on my jeans in the morning, which sucks majorly. I'd like to get back down to 150 or so. Anyway. Again, it's probably stress, and at least I don't have thoughts of food to distract me.

My subscription runs out in a few days. Farewell, subscription. I shall miss you. Time to update the stamps journal again... [link]

See you next week, assuming that I don't pass out/jump out an open window/gouge my eyes out/anything else that is seeming more and more likely.

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]]> ~CommanderD The attack of the Senioritis http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24322653/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24322653/ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:34:00 PDT
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Well, I'd go on about how I've still been busy and scrambling to get things done, but firstly, I realize I've been singing the same tune for most of my entries for the past month, and also... honestly, I'm not really scrambling. I should be, but I'm not. I've become kind of apathetic about my work. I mean, what's the point? I'm graduating in a month, I've already been accepted to grad school, and I'd probably have to get negative grades on things to actually fail by now. So really, who cares anymore?

Senioritis. Yay.

I have nothing interesting to say this week, again. Sorry I'm so boring.

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]]> ~CommanderD Easter http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24199440/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24199440/ Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:10:55 PDT
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Well, once again I have too much homework and no time to do it... and I'm crazy for thinking I can get anything done when I go home for the weekend. Actually, I DID get over three pages of my contemporary lit paper written this weekend, and I would have finished it, but I accidentally left one of the stories I needed in my dorm. So when I go back to college tonight (I have to stay for supper--Mom's making turkey because there's actually people here to eat it) I'll have to finish that--AND do my criticism homework that I don't understand, AND do my psychology homework. I didn't get any work done at all in my thesis or my criticism project, and I'm going to have to present my thesis, at the lastest, around May 11th. AAARRGH. Jumping out a window sounds really great right now. No, I'm joking... mostly. I'll just be glad when all this is over... and then I can worry about finding an apartment and grad school and a job and

ENOUGH OF THAT! ON TO HAPPY THINGS!

Besides writing my essay, I've spent my time at home watching movies with my parents, practicing dance, seeing a movie with my friend Liz, hanging out with my Aunt Monica who was here, and babysitting my nieces. I saw this old movie staring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope with my parents, and Mom and I both agreed that it's not fair that Bing always gets the girl at the end, especially considering Bob's funnier. Liz and I saw Monsters Vs. Aliens, which was really good, and I totally ship Susan/Dr. Cockroach and I hope I'm not alone in that. Last night I watched Bolt with my nieces, and that was also very good. In fact, I nearly cried. I'm getting too emotional lately. Yesterday we had a birthday party for my dad (his birthday was yesterday) and my sister-in-law (her birthday is tomorrow), and Mom made German chocolate cake. My dad and older brother kind of went crazy over it... my nieces say that Mom should make a different cake next time, though.

Easter was good. We didn't really have any kind of big dinner or anything, though, besides that turkey tonight, but I think that'll just be my parents, my brothers, my sister-in-law, my nieces, and me. Maybe Grandpa will be here too, I don't know. But we did go to church. I love the Easter service because we sing two of my favorite hymns, "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today" (Aaaaaaaaaalleluia!) and "Up from the Grave He Aros... ]]> ~CommanderD I THOUGHT IT WAS SPRING?! http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24072155/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/24072155/ Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:10:51 PDT
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IT IS FRIGGING SNOWING.

IT IS APRIL 5TH AND IT IS SNOWING.

Okay, now that I've gotten that out of my system... my week!

I filled out an application for scholarships from Missouri today, but I don't have an envelope big enough for them (yeah, there wasn't an online application--weird) and the campus bookstore is closed on weekends, so I'll have to mail them tomorrow. The application says they're due March 1st, but considering 1. I didn't get my acceptance (or pseudo-acceptance) letter from them until March 19th, and 2. the application seems to be a couple of years old (how many credit hours are you signed up for in fall 2006? Spring 2007?)... I don't know. Missouri is seeming so sloppy and confusing with everything. Indiana hasn't told me "THEY ARE DUE ON THIS DATE TWO YEARS AGO" or anything like that... and I'm really starting to feel, if they give me a decent scholarship, I might just end up going there instead.

Meh, whatever. I'll see what Missouri does first. At least I've figured out where I go to register for classes.

...until next week? Writing these weekly journals is seeming more and more pointless to me. Maybe I should just stop.

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]]> ~CommanderD My inspiration has bad timing http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/23948826/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/23948826/ Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:23:40 PDT
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(laughs) Of all the times my inspiration decides to return--not only my inspiration to write, but to draw, to read, even to play the Sims 2--all things I hadn't felt any desire to do these past few weeks. Now I have had the desire, and acted upon it--I uploaded a drawing, as you can see; I played The Sims 2 the last two nights (the fact that I found a very realistic looking Groucho Marx Sim online doesn't help keep me away, I might add); and I even wrote--and it was even in my long in-limbo PPG story! (I actually scrapped what little I had written for chapter three and just started it over again, which seems to have made a difference.)

But I really need to cut back on all of that for the next month. Not only do I have my senior thesis project to work on (twenty pages approximately, plus a half-hour presentation), I've also got a ten to fifteen page paper for my criticism class about the discourse of pleasure. I still don't know how I'm going to go about it, but I actually have started at least taking down some notes and ideas for it. Anyway, those are just in addition to the papers and tests I'm sure I'll have for my other classes, so I don't want to put these two off, even though they're due in May. So I'm going to try to work at least a little on them each day BEFORE writing, drawing, playing the Sims, whatever.

I got a package from the University of Missouri this week... a very odd one, I might add. It says, and I quote, "We are pleased to inform you that we have recommended your application for admission to our Master's Degree Program in Information Science and Learning Technologies with an emphasis in Library Science be approved for the Fall 2009 semester. This decision is pending final evaluation and admission by the Graduate School." So I've been recommended, but not officially admitted yet. So... I got a "maybe" response. Why did they even bother sending it?

Actually, I am glad to have gotten what is at least a positive response from them. But that's another thing I need to do--look online for financial aid, and also apply for classes at both Missouri and Indiana before I know for sure which one I'll be going to. Indiana sent me another nice package too, and not nearly as confusing as the Missouri one. And they sent me a POSTCARD! It's as if someone told them about my collection. I'm really liking the sound of Indiana, even though it's farther away. But... I'm still going to wait and see. If Indiana doesn't give me a scholarship, it seems more practical to take the Missouri classes through Omaha, which is decidedly closer.

I hope you're all doing well. I haven't been reading journals/looking at art as much as I have in the past (...well, not like that was ever all that much either), but I'm looking and reading much more than I'm commenting! Please understand why I can't be here constantly, though.

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I'm back in the dorm room once again. My last spring break has come and gone. (Well, not last... graduate students get spring break too, I assume.) I really didn't do that much. I was planning on working on my thesis project, but my hometown library was shockingly bare on any books about animation. Oh well, screw 'em. I think I have enough books on WB animation as it is, and if I don't, maybe the Omaha library will help me.

Speaking of libraries, I got a rejection notice from Illinois. I don't care too much, especially since Indiana has already accepted me. They're both my fallbacks, although I've heard Indiana's one of the best library science schools in the country... so maybe it isn't a fallback? Well, I'll wait until I hear from Missouri before I make up my mind one way or the other. I did email the person from Indiana like my acceptance letter told me to do so, even though I'm not sure I'm going there. If Missouri does reject me, though, I guess I'll have no choice! Again, though, Indiana seems like a nice place. It's just kind of far away. A day's drive from Nebraska. It could be farther. But it could be closer, too.

(cough) Enough of that. I'll cross that bridge when I have to. I actually did get a few lines typed up in one of my stories, though, so I was a little productive there, at least. Other than that, though, my spring break's been kind of boring. My mom and brother went on my church's youth group ski trip and mom got a concussion and had to go to the emergency room, but she's fine now (for the most part). She made cookies yesterday and gave me like half of them (that's like two dozen cookies) to take back to the dorm with me. Uh, Mom, please stop encouraging me to get fat! I kid. Mah mom's cookies are the greatest.

That's all for this week. I'll be back with a new journal entry next week, that will probably be as boring as this one! (Oh, and I'm going to try drawing this week, if I can. I doubt I'll have the time, but IF I DO... I will. Maybe.)

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]]> ~CommanderD Spring break, COMMENCE! http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/23710485/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/23710485/ Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:29:52 PDT
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I finished up my midterms this week. I actually got a 124 out of 127 on that psychology test I said I bombed. I guessed on probably about half the questions, and they were even short answer, not multiple choice, so I have NO CLUE how I pulled that one off. On the other hand, I and apparently everyone else in my criticism class missed the point so completely on that test that the professor isn't even grading them.

Yesterday I went to Lincoln to help my younger brother move into the house that he and three of his friends are renting. It's odd that he's officially moving out the the house before I am. Oh well, six months from now I'll (hopefully) be in my own place too. Where that will be, I don't know. And Davy took the desk I wanted too... pooh on him. Oh well. Mom told me I could take my bed, which I was happy to hear. Anyway, enough of that. We went shopping while we were there and I got Pinocchio on DVD.

Anyway, I'm home for spring break now... I'll be here until next Sunday. As usual, my time at home will mostly be spent doing laundry, watching movies with my parents, watching my nieces (I get to do that all by myself tomorrow, actually), the usual. However, I'm also going to start working on my senior thesis project. And on that note, I need to go to the library today. Good thing it's a nice day and the library isn't too far from my house... I'll just walk there!

I probably won't be around much this week, but I'll try to get online at least once a day and reply to comments and such.

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]]> ~CommanderD Weekly update http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/23591862/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/23591862/ Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:54:01 PDT
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I hate coming up with journal entry titles.

Especially when I have nothing to say. I've been busy with school, mostly. I can't exactly say that I haven't had any time to work on artwork or fanfic--yesterday I had a lot of time, actually, but I chose to spend my time doing absolutely nothing. It was grand. I haven't really been in a very artistic state of mind. I'm sure that'll change soon enough, but for now... well, for now, I'll just be a lazy bum.

...yeah, I really have nothing to say for this week. I'll be going home on Saturday for spring break, and I'll start really working on my senior thesis project then. Until then, more tests to bomb! (Yeah, I bombed a psychology test Friday. I guess that's something, right?)

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]]> ~CommanderD OH THANK GOD http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/23469226/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/23469226/ Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:58:19 PST
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From Indiana University:

I am pleased to inform you of your admission to the School of Library and Information Science to work toward the Master of Library Science degree.

I'm still wanting to go to Missouri, but if they don't take me at least now I have a definite fall-back who WILL take me.

Other than that, not much to report this week. I've had a lot of homework, I was on duty this weekend (and had a Music and More gig this morning, meaning I only got about four hours of sleep--that's the way it always seems to go), and I still have homework to do... mainly an essay on Henry V. At least I've finally actually read the play. It only has to be four pages, too, so it shouldn't be too difficult. I also actually went to the Y this week (I've gained a little bit of weight--not much, but enough to give me difficulties in putting on my jeans), and have been busy writing things for the school newspaper too. You know, same old, same old.

I haven't had any time to write or draw... well, that's a lie. In my free time I've been watching my new DVDs. But I'll hopefully be able to get some things drawn, too... here's my list of requests/gifts that I'm hoping to get done... before graduation, maybe.

-A gift for ~silverwizardmon
-~bethhigdon's contest prize
-*Mad-Hatter-LCarol's contest prize
-~babysoniclover's request
-~PtV's request

The contest prizes I will definitely try to get done as soon as possible. Maybe this week, as long as I spend time on that darn Henry V essay.

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]]> ~CommanderD Stress, stress, go away... http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/23346800/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/23346800/ Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:41:41 PST
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I went home for the weekend... I'm still there, actually. In some ways it's been a good trip and in others it's been bad. The reasons for the bad center around my grandparents' physical problems, brought on by both of them trying to act younger than they really are, apparently. (By "both of them" I mean my grandparents who aren't in a nursing home. My grandma who is in a nursing home is as mentally shot and physically sound as ever. And my other grandpa died seventeen years ago--and sometimes I think he might have gotten the best deal out of the four of them.) My grandma's still doing okay besides the pain, but my grandpa's not in good shape. He's been pretty depressed for a long time, and this week his brother died, which obviously didn't help matters. Anyway, I'm worried about them and also about my parents, who have to spend their time worrying about and caring for their own parents.

As for me, I know stress will come and go like it always does. I know I might have another mental breakdown again, I know I might dip into an insanely deep depression that I always seem to be on the verge of anyway, and I know I have a lot to worry about just in my own life--and most of them are not trivial matters, either--I'm talking grades, grad school, eventually an apartment and a job, all that. But I can't burden my parents with my worry anymore. They've got enough on their plates. I've usually gotten through stressful periods on my own, and I know that that's just going to have to continue. I don't want them worrying about me, too.

But enough of that. This weekend was also fun in some ways, such as my nieces' birthday party and our trip to Grand Island today. My parents get a Sam's Club check every year with a percentage of how much they've spent on their Discover credit card, so I went with them. THEY HAD YOU BET YOUR LIFE: THE LOST EPISODES. I have more Groucho Marx goodness! We also went to Best Buy, and I finally got The Chronological Donald Volume 3. I wrote in my LJ about how I couldn't find that one anywhere in Omaha, and when I looked for it online the absolute cheapest I found it was $50--for only two DVDs, I don't think so! But I actually found it at Best Buy for only $30, so I'm happy now--finally my Chronological Donald collection is complete.

As for the rest of my week... I'm just getting through day by day, trying not to think of grad school. But with each passing day I more and more believe I'm not going to get in. What I'll do then, well... I don't know. I do know that by May I'll have a bachelor's degree in both English and Spanish, so hopefully that's gotta count for something in this job market. But. I'm going to worry about that when I have to.

For now, though, Donald Duck and Groucho Marx can distract me and make me happy.

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I had a pretty damn awesome week... and not only because I got five packages in the mail (seriously, WHAT). There was a lot of other awesomeness that came about, too.

Firstly, I talked to my adviser about my senior thesis project. Since this has to be related to my major somehow, I figured I was going to get stuck with writing about literature. Not that I mind that so much, mind you, but I've done that for four years now--even more, actually, since I had to do it all through high school too. And I'm kind of tired of it. I wanted to do something fun for my project, and I thought... wouldn't it be great to do a senior thesis project on Looney Tunes? I thought I was going to be completely shot down, and I kind of apprehensively brought it up to him as it was, but to my surprise, he was enthusiastic about the idea and told me to "go for it".

This is going to be the most fun project EVER. And I actually get to watch cartoons for it!

I also went to the campus activities board-sponsored bingo and, along with the rest of the people at my table, won a $100 Best Buy gift card. We plan on going to Best Buy sometime and splitting it evenly... so I've got to think of what I want from there that's $25.

Not much else to say right now--in my spare time I've been slowly working on fanfic, and I hope to find some time to work on art too (I owe some people some pics)... but that probably won't be this week, I'm afraid. Or this weekend. I'm going home this weekend for my nieces' birthday party. (They're going to be five years old on Wednesday OMGWTFBBQ)

Also, I'm reading Lafayette's memoirs, which are awesome by definition.

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]]> ~CommanderD Why you'll hear even LESS from me http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/23071550/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/23071550/ Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:20:45 PST
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Okay, folks, here's the dealio.

This semester is going to be INSANELY busy for me. I'm taking five classes, all that involve a lot of reading (even grammar, surprisingly) and studying. I'm also writing articles for the college newspaper (you should check it out (don't worry the link's safe)), which we're aiming for a weekly update, which means I'll be writing at least one new article every week for it. Also, I'm going to have to start work on my senior thesis, which I'm guessing will end up being a fifteen- to twenty-page paper on... something. I don't know the details yet, but there you go. I'm also still involved in band, will still probably be working at that restaurant every once in awhile, and actually have something of a social life too, believe it or not.

tl;dr: I have very, very little free time, and it's not likely I'll have more anytime soon. It sucks being an adult.

So. I probably won't be commenting on art much (heh, as if I ever did anyway...). I probably won't be reading much fanfic (again, this is really nothing new...). I probably won't be submitting any new artwork for the foreseeable future. Now, writing wise, yes, hopefully you'll be seeing some new things from me. (I'm working on a one-shot right now and am probably two-thirds of the way done with it, yay.) But not much.

This doesn't mean I'm going to completely disappear from DA--where else can I procrastinate? (Okay, lots of places, but still.) But please understand if I don't comment on anything, or if I'm insanely slow on a request. Even when I do have free time, sometimes I like to spend it just watching DVDs, or reading a book, or whatever. I love writing, and drawing too, but they can be work for me. And sometimes I just need to relax.

That's been pretty much my week, actually--just keeping busy with schoolwork and trying not to fall behind. So far I'm keeping on top of everything fairly well, I'd say. I've also been getting writing done in fanfics and in a new ship manifesto, so it's not like everything in my life that isn't school-related has come to a screeching halt, either. (Hm, maybe I could write a ship manifesto for my senior thesis? (is shot)) But the process on these is very, very slow, and I'm FAR more focused on writing than drawing right now (which is as it should be for me, since that's more equal to how my artistic talent is distributed).

With all these things to do, also, I may possibly have another mental breakdown this semester. I wouldn't be surprised if I did. I actually came close a few days ago, but I managed to avoid it by getting things done, rather than moan about not knowing how to get things done. Wow, what a concept! Anyway, with that in mind, it's probably better for all of you that I DON'T spend much time here so you're not subjected to my emo-fest.

Also, on a completely different note, regarding the DA hacking... ]]> ~CommanderD Subscription, school, home, etc http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/22945914/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/22945914/ Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:47:02 PST
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Well, obviously, I got my subscription back! To my surprise, I actually won the contest at *DonaldDuck-fans. Thanks again for the subscription, =CrystalMask!

Second semester classes started on Thursday. On Tuesday/Thursday I have only one class, Shakespeare. I seem to be one of those rare English majors who doesn't think Shakespeare is God on earth. Granted, I think he's an okay playwright, but I don't see what the big deal about him is... and I don't see why I have to take a class devoted entirely to him. Oh well, at least we aren't reading Romeo and Juliet. I would have had to stab my eyes out.

Monday/Wednesday/Friday I'm taking four classes, though. Contemporary literature, criticism, English grammar, and abnormal psychology. Abnormal psych is the one class that isn't a part of my major, and it's also the one I'm looking forward to the most. Anyway, those days I'll be fairly busy, obviously. I'll have lots of reading assignments for all of those classes, too. Will I have any free time at all? Probably some. But I think I'll spend most of it writing, not commenting on deviations or reading fanfic. I'm sorry, I know I suck.

I went home this weekend to do my laundry, deposit checks, and pay my credit card bill. Damn it, I have frighteningly little money right now. And my dad keeps giving me the greatest "pep" talk in the world, how I'm probably not going to get a job because the economy sucks and the fact that I'll be a college graduate and eventually have a Master's degree (hopefully) doesn't mean squat. Gee, thanks Dad, you certainly inspire your children to be positive and go-getters. Even Mom asked me what my backup plan was if I don't get into grad school. I honestly don't have one, mainly because I can't imagine for the life of me working anywhere other than a library, museum, or archive. I think I'd rather shoot myself first. But she has a point--I'm not too sure I'll even get in grad school at all, and if I do, how will I pay for it? My parents will probably help a little, but how can THEY pay for it with all the money they've lost?

Ahem. (cough) Despite my worry and my parents being totally Debbie Downers, I did have fun at home. First of all, Dad's been being a rock of frugality with the economic crises and buying TONS of DVDs and BluRays. (I guess I should be fair, though--he buys them all online and told me that he never pays more than $15 for a BluRay, and I assume far less than that for a regular DVD.) Now, when I went hom... ]]> ~CommanderD New DA layout, tagged, other crap http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/22799311/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/22799311/ Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:27:42 PST
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Aw, crap, I hate the new DA layout! I tried it out for about five seconds when they had it in beta and decided it was too ugly and confusing to use, BUT NOW I HAVE NO CHOICE. GAH. And I can't figure out how to add modules to my page, because for some reason my desktop screenshot isn't showing up and I have NO CLUE how to get it to show up again. And when I click "restore", NOTHING HAPPENS. Damn you, DA. Now I have an ugly layout AND I can't get my page to look the way I wanted it to. Oh well... I guess there is one thing I like... the fact that I can show up to ten of my deviations and favorites at the same time. That is, I can until my subscription expires, which is in a few days. RARGH. That means it's time to update the stamps journal! [link]

Actually, I entered the contest at , and if I win, I get a three-month subscription. See, my useless Donald Duck knowledge can be put to good use!

Anyway, as for this week... I survived. I just need to finish my final homework assignment today and I'll be done with my last interim class. Second semester starts... Thursday. WTF. I don't understand it either. Anyway, I'll have to go buy my books tomorrow.

I got an email from one of the grad schools I applied to:

Your application file is now complete and ready for consideration by the Admissions Committee. Notification of their decisions will be sent out, via email, approximately mid-March to early April.

Well gee, thanks for being so prompt.

In happier news, yesterday I saw Jesus Christ Superstar. It was really good... good music and all. I've also gotten quite a bit of writing done this week... mostly in my still unfinished Licky/Gos story (in which I've hit a point that I really don't know where to go from here, even though I have the entire story and its three sequels pretty much all planned out in my head), another ship manifesto, and editing one of my other stories on FF.net. Still, though, I've felt productive, for a change.

Finally, ~silverwizardmon tagged me... and I've done this thing before so I'm going to try to come up with eight new things this time. Gah.

1. Post these rules.
2. Each tagged person must post 8 things about their self on their journal.
~~3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people and post their icons on the s... ]]>~~ ~~~CommanderD~~ Dead from grad school apps and stress http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/22650035/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/22650035/ Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:15:31 PST
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I swear, I have never been this busy during J-term before. Usually just having the one class a day has been very fun and liberating, but not this time. All that writing is starting to get to me.

I sent in my grad school applications Tuesday... and am down about $160 dollars too (damn application fees!). And I've spent the rest of the week being stressed out of my mind about it. When I applied to various colleges four years ago, I wasn't all that worried because there was never really any doubt in my mind that I'd be accepted... but this time I'm worried. Worried as hell.

I unwound last night by playing The Sims 2, but I'm not going to let myself play that again until I've finished my writing assignment AND have at least gotten started on my final project. The bad news about that is that I present Friday. The good news is that I present Friday, which means I'll be completely finished and free this weekend and next week until second semester starts up.

So yeah... sorry I haven't been around that much. I'm so busy and stressed I'm going a little crazy here. I hope I don't have another emotional breakdown, although I can certainly tell that I'm headed in the direction for one. BUT. All I need to do is survive this week, and be fine. And I need to STOP WORRYING ABOUT GRAD SCHOOL ARGH.

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]]> ~CommanderD Busy busy busy http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/22523062/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/22523062/ Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:01:01 PST
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Well... so much for getting tons of stuff done on the weekday afternoons. I'm still only taking the one class, mind you, but... we have to write a three-page paper every day. It actually wouldn't be so bad if I could just sit down, focus 100% on writing the paper, and get it written. But unfortunately, when I write papers, I tend to kill time when trying to come up with the next sentence by mindlessly web-surfing, making what should be a simple task that takes maybe an hour drag on throughout the entire day.

However. I managed to get the paper written on Friday's film Friday afternoon/evening, and so yesterday I typed up my resume AND my three personal essays for the three grad schools I'm applying to. (Granted, all three are more or less the same, just tweaked a bit for each school's different requirements regarding length and so on.) I sent my resume to my mom for suggestions, and tomorrow I plan on going into career services to get their opinion on it (and to see if there's something different I should do with it as a resume for grad school, rather than a resume to get a job), but other than that... I'm pretty much ready to apply to grad school, which I'll do this week.

I'll be keeping my fingers crossed. I am a little nervous and stressed about it, if I'll even get in one of them, yadda yadda yadda...

Anyway. That's been my week, pretty much. Even with all that homework, though, I managed to get almost everything done that I wanted to... even a haircut! I just got about in inch or two cut off, but I needed it... I had pretty much a full head of split ends.

One more thing... I want to give a big shout-out to both ~silverwizardmon and ~Band8PGeek. These two separate people are each doing two separate fan comics based on two completely different fan characters of mine. I was thinking about it last night, and realized how amazing that was--I'd be plenty honored if even just ONE of my OC's inspired someone else to write their own story, but it's TWO! Inspiring TWO different people! XDDDDD So to the both of you, I say again how pleased, honored, and touched I am that you love my characters so much. To the rest of you, go check them out once they get off the ground.

See you next week.

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]]> ~CommanderD Gator Bowl, WTF internet, 10 featured deviants http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/22397726/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/22397726/ Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:44:53 PST
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I'm back at college... and the internet on my laptop still isn't working. (headdesk) Someone else told me that they couldn't get online on their computer either, so it might be a campus problem. Anyway, so I'm on one of the school computers in the campus center, so I'll make this entry quick--I still have decorations to put up in my hall and I need to clean my room, and also I just don't like typing much in a public place.

I was gone Tuesday through Friday, as I mentioned last week, in Jacksonville, Florida. We stayed at a spa hotel, and my mom insisted that I get a facial and manicure. They were both alright, but I honestly don't see what the big deal is. Sorry, Mom, but I'm not "converted". I'd rather spend my vacation time touring an old house or museum, or going hiking, or going shopping, or something like that.

We didn't go down there just for the spa, though. The Gator Bowl was there on New Year's Day, Nebraska vs. Clemson. So my parents and I all got garbed in red and went to a bowl game! It was my first bowl game (obviously, I hadn't even been to a big college football game at all until last year), and also my mom's. The first half was boring/disappointing, because no one was scoring at all at first, and then suddenly Clemson started intercepting and making touchdowns, so the score at halftime was 14-3. But the halftime show was basically why we went there anyway (the entire Husker Marching Band was also there and did a field show, and my brother's still in the band, so yayz), and after halftime the Huskers started playing better and won the game by five points. (Field goals do make a difference, I suppose!) So that was exciting.

My class (Latin American history through film) starts Tuesday, but it's just a morning class, and so I'll have afternoons free for the rest of the month, pretty much. I was hoping to get some drawing and writing done, and still am, I guess, but it might not see the light of internet day for awhile if I don't get the internet on my laptop fixed. But anyway, I'll put my drawing to-do list here, in order, to both push me to get it done faster AND to let you all know that I haven't forgotten these:

1. ~Teela-B's request
2. ~lambcaey's request
3. A thank-you gift/very late birthday gift for *dracori
4. A thank-you gift for ~silverwizardmon

If I'm forgetting anything, please let me know.

And, finally, this thing's been going around as long as I've been on DA, it seems, but I only just now broke down and commented on journals, meaning I have to repost it... http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/22240385/ Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:06:22 PST
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I had a very good Christmas--my list of received presents may seem lame compared to what some of you have been getting, but I got almost everything I wanted. I got:

-pajamas
-a Gator Bowl T-shirt
-an "English major: You do the math" sweatshirt ()
-a Monty Python "I fart in your general direction!" tin
-a travel Scattergories game
-a Horton Hears a Who ornament
-"toxic waste" leftovers containers
-teeth whitening strips (gee... thanks, Mom)
-two bracelets and a dog-tag necklace
-pots and pans and measuring cups (yay for my younger brother getting me something practical!)
-iPod slip case covers
-TWO pairs of slippers!
-SOCKS!!
-UNDERWEAR!!
-SHOES FROM ~silverwizardmon!!!! [link]
-$50 in giftcards
-$180 in cash (I love Christmas with my dad's side of the family!)

The only things of that I explictily asked for were slippers, socks, underwear, and the iPod slip case covers, but my family did well with the other things, too. I went to Omaha and Council Bluffs yesterday and spent my gift cards and a small chunk of that money, getting me the one other thing I wanted--that Marvin the Martian watch. It was one being sold at the charms store, so I was able to buy some Marvin charms to put on the band, too. Yayz.

You noticed the Gator Bowl T-shirt, right? Mom and Dad got tickets for it, and they got me a ticket too! So I'll be flying out to Jacksonville, Florida very early Tuesday morning and will be back in town Friday... so don't expect to see too much of me this week. Happy New Year to everyone in advance, and GO BIG RED!

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]]> ~CommanderD Christmas and crack meme http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/22100761/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/22100761/ Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:54:37 PST
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I went to Madison, Wisconsin on Monday with my mom to visit my aunt. I got all of my Christmas shopping done while I was there, along with some things for me! There's this awesome music store there and Mom and I bought a ton of flute and piano music, and I also bought at Waldenbooks something for my postcard collection--a book of postcards called "Grandma's Dead: Breaking the Bad News with Baby Animals". My favorite one is "The meteor can't be stopped"--the little bunny on that one is so cute!

I can't believe it's only three days until Christmas! (My niece Hailey reminded me of that fact today.) I got all my wrapping done yesterday, though, and Mom, Davy, and I also decorated cookies. Today we'll be going to my grandpa's apartment (he lives in town) to give him his present--a TV and DVD player. And on Thursday, we'll be driving to Lincoln to spend Christmas with my dad's side of the family. I always love being there, with all the family, the food... and all the relatives give me, my brothers, and my cousins money, so I usually walk out of there about $100 richer.

In other news, here's a crack meme written by *TheShekinah... I'll do the actual drawing meme when I get back to college.

The Shekinah's Crack Pairing Meme - Text Edition!

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~~Your Favorite Crack Pairing~~

-Who's the lucky couple? Oh God, how can I choose? I'll go with Liquidator/Gosalyn, since they're the ones I'm writing a fanfic for currently.

-What fandom are they from? Darkwing Duck

-What species are they? Dog/Duck (both anthromorphic)

-How did you get into the pairing: what or who made you first think of them as a couple? When I first saw the episode "Dry Hard", when Licky called Gos "a girl after my own heart!" And dude, then he randomly tried to kidnap her and bring her back to t... ]]> ~CommanderD blarg http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21979059/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21979059/ Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:16:08 PST
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I swear, every week I have less and less idea of what to write in my DA journal.

Finals were this week. I only really had two--modern drama on Tuesday and world civilizations on Friday. For writing for the media, we just had to write four articles and email them to the professor, so I didn't have to go in for that final, and I had already given my senior seminar presentation. My last final was at the very last scheduled time, Friday at 3:15, and then right after that I had to go into work. The restaurant was VERY busy... mostly with drunk guys who were there the entire four hours I was.

Yesterday I drove back home--it was actually really nice out, but I came home to a house I kind of couldn't live in. My parents hosted the X-ray department's Christmas party at our house last night. I helped out by watching my nieces, because they were at our house because both my brother and sister-in-law were working. They kept saying they weren't tired, even at like 10:30, after I'd read them about five stories and brushed their teeth and all that. DARN KIDS. (headdesk)

Mom didn't let me bring any of my stuff into the house, because she needed the whole house, yes the whole house, to be spotless for the party. (That's because people always want to see every square inch of our house when they come over... it's nearly one hundred years old and rather big, but still... STAY OUT OF MY ROOM, STRANGE PEOPLE!!!) So I brought in my laptop today... and it won't connect to my parents' wireless connection. (headdesk x's 1,000,000,000) I have the right password and everything, but my laptop is a piece of crap. Which we all knew. (sigh) So I'll be going online on my mom's laptop for the next few weeks, because, as I can conclude after all the problems my laptop's given me just in the past year, my laptop HATES MY GUTS.

Once I have my own place (ie, not a dorm), I'll hopefully be able to get a desktop computer. I've been wanting a desktop for awhile now anyway.

I'm going to be going to Wisconsin tomorrow to see my aunt, and will be gone until Thursday, so... toodle-pip and all, chums. See you next week.

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]]> ~CommanderD IT'S STILL SUNDAY http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21872223/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21872223/ Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:47:42 PST
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I've been in this "update on Sundays" rut for nearly two years now (I think) and normally it works out alright because I'm usually not that busy on Sundays, but I was today! This whole week's been kind of busy, actually. I had a presentation due for senior sem (but now I'm completely done with that class, THANK GOD), I worked Friday, and on Saturday I went to Lincoln to see a brass quintet. (Okay, so that was actually a nice break, but it still meant I was away from the computer and didn't get anything done.)

Today was the annual Sights and Sounds of Christmas festivities that my college always puts on every first weekend of December. My parents came up for the smorgasbord (but ONLY the smorgasbord... Mom's band concert was today, so she couldn't stay for mine, but she did still feel the need to come up here and spend SEVENTEEN FREAKING DOLLARS on a ticket to eat Swedish meatballs), and then I had a band concert this afternoon. And then my friend and I watched those Librarian movies on TNT.

I'm going to be even more busy this week--finals start Tuesday, I'm on duty both Wednesday and Thursday, I work Friday, Saturday morning I'll be going through check-out procedures before I can head on home, only to help my mom with the Christmas party she's throwing at our house that night. (She told me today I'll mostly be watching my nieces, which isn't so bad, but still. It's more stuff to do.)

While I'm on duty, though, and taking breaks from studying, I might work on some artwork. Actually, I just started one today, so maybe I'll work on and off on that this week. Also, the Licky/Gos story I started more than a year ago is slowly but surely getting pounded out. I just don't have the time I'd like to devote to that thing to type more than a few paragraphs each time I sit down to it, but... I am making very, very slow progress. (And to think I wrote "Refugee" in under two months, and "Better Left to Chance" in under four. I don't understand myself sometimes.)

See you next week, if I survive this one.

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]]> ~CommanderD *%&@ing snow http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21752930/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21752930/ Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:52:45 PST
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I had a really great Thanksgiving break. I got to spend time with my parents, brothers, and nieces, eat good food, and watch Blue Ray DVDs on my parents' new TV. Since the economy's so terrible and my parents lost so much money, they did what all sensible people do in their situation and bought a 67 inch high definition flat screen. O______________o I don't understand my parents. My younger brother calls the thing obscene, but I personally think he's just jealous. The picture quality is AMAZING. Also, since Dad's now buying Blue Rays (before he bought the HD DVDs, but of course he picked the wrong one... ) he has regular DVDs that he doesn't have any need for anymore. So yay, I got Spider-Man 3 and Iron Man from him!

The Huskers managed to win the football game on Friday in the last two minutes or so of the game, so we'll get to go to a bowl game, and Mom and Dad are going to buy a ticket for me too. So around New Year's, I'll be somewhere fairly warm. Go Big Red!

Now that Thanksgiving's over, I'm finally ready for Christmas (bite me, stores--stop setting up your Christmas stuff BEFORE HALLOWEEN. The Christmas season is better when it's not drug out for two months!). I've actually got almost all of my Christmas shopping done already, and I finally got around to adding Christmas music to my iTunes! Let's face it, it's just not Christmas without Mannheim Steamroller or Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Or "Feliz Navidad", which is pretty much my favorite Christmas song EVER. There's a new Looney Tunes Christmas CD out with Speedy Gonzales singing it, and I kind of need it FOR MY LIFE.

I'm back in the dorm right now, but the semester's almost over. We have classes this week and then finals, and then Saturday the 13th I'll be back home for a few weeks. Yaaaaaay! I love Christmas. I just hate snow. It was snowing this morning, and the drive back here was a bit of a pain. It could have been worse, but DAMN YOU SNOW. It had to snow today, and not, say, tomorrow when I don't have to drive anywhere. (headdesk)

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]]> ~CommanderD Yay Thanksgiving! http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21627329/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21627329/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:41:28 PST
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I think I finally found what I want for Christmas this year...

A MARVIN THE MARTIAN WATCH.

Ha ha, anyway, my week...

I've been pretty busy. I had a test Wednesday (that I don't think I did very well on), a paper due Friday (that I think I did pretty good on, if I do say so myself), and a paper due tomorrow that I've only just started. It's on Beowulf, though, which not only did I read two years ago, but I also wrote a paper on it two years ago. It was for a totally different class, but I'm hoping I can reuse some of the stuff I wrote in my new paper.

In my spare time, I haven't been writing or drawing at all... instead, I've picked up my Petz again. Mainly, I've made a "my Petz" website to go along with my main website... take a look! And yes, I know I have way too many. But they're a terrible addiction... I always need more.

I get to go home for Thanksgiving break tomorrow! My only class on Tuesday isn't meeting, and the RAs actually don't have to check people out of their dorms this year. So tomorrow I'll be heading home! And it's a about time, too. I haven't been home for more than a month now, and my laundry is piling up.

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]]> ~CommanderD Week of FAIL http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21516351/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21516351/ Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:45:17 PST
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My week's been crummy. Nothing really bad about it, I've just been in constant moron stage.

I mean, it started even BEFORE I wrote last week's entry. At the time I was writing it, I still hadn't remembered that I had had Music and More that morning. I only remembered when my friend came down to get me for lunch and said, "You're back early!" "From what?" I asked stupidly. Then I remembered that I was supposed to meet at 7:30 that morning for it. I hit myself in the head with a book. Hard.

On Monday my other friend and I took the GRE. Two of the sections were written, so I won't know how I did on those for awhile. The other two were multiple choice, verbal (English) and quantitative (math), and since we took them on a computer we got our scores for those instantly. I got a 490 on the English, and a 580 on the math. O_____________________o I'm a friggin' ENGLISH major! I haven't taken a real math class since high school! WHAT THE CRAP JUST HAPPENED THERE?!

So, I'm all set to be a math teacher, apparently. I'm wanting to go to graduate school for library science, and I'm hoping the rather paltry score of 490 on the verbal will get me in alright. If not, those two written sections still need to be graded, which should hopefully bring my score up. And, failing all else, I can always take the damn test again. $140 a shot, but it's for my future career. (sigh)

I was on duty Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (last night). Not fun at all. Especially since I rather stupidly bought a bunch of snack food the other day. And when you have to stay up until 3:00 AM, you kind of gravitate towards it all. I've already eaten more than half of what I bought. I've probably gained back all that weight I lost about two years ago, and maybe then some.

But. That was the last weekend I'm on duty for this semester. And I had Music and More today (and this time I actually remembered it), and that was our last Music and More for the semester too. Now I can work on all those essays I have due!... Dammit.

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]]> ~CommanderD Same old, same old... http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21400845/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21400845/ Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:14:39 PST
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Well, what can I say about my week that I haven't said about previous weeks? Things are chugging along as usual. I have actually gotten some more artwork up (OMGWTF) and I've been writing, both fanfic and for class. I'm not sure if I've mentioned this yet, but I was shanghaied into writing for the college newspaper, and by newspaper I mean blog. We're going to get an actual online paper set up really soon, though, and not just a blogger account. That might keep me a bit busier than usual.

Tomorrow I'm taking the GRE. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's the standardized test that you need to take to get accepted into grad school... pretty much the grad school equivalent of the ACT or SAT. A friend of mine is taking it too, and we've been studying this weekend. It shouldn't be too hard, except we're both a little worried over the math section. We're English majors, after all. Anyhoo. Wish us luck!

And now, for a meme from *Creative-Soul:

Put your music player on shuffle
Post the first forty songs that come up. You can repeat artists if you want. If you have any repeats, skip to the next track.

1. I Want to Break Free -Queen
2. Burning Heart -Survivor
3. Cool Change -Little River Band
4. Bring Me to Life -Evanescence (yeah, I admit it, I've got some Evanescence on my iTunes...)
5. Heaven Is a Place on Earth -Belinda Carlisle
6. Es Por Ti -Juanes
7. Carry On Wayward Son -Kansas
8. It's All Coming Back to Me Now -Meat Loaf
9. A Final Dream -Trans-Siberian Orchestra
10. Running on Empty -Jackson Browne
11. We Got the Beat -The Go-Go's
12. Babe -Styx
13. American Girl -Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
14. A Dream Within a Dream -The Alan Parsons Project
15. I'll Never Break Your Heart -Backstreet Boys (shut up)
16. Dream On -Aerosmith
17. There's a Lot I Want to Know -Fraggle Rock
18. Animaniacs theme song
19. Reach for Me Now -Cirque du Soleil
20. SOS -Abba
21. Luna -Juanes
22. Beauty and the Beast -Angela Lansbury
23. Venus -Bananarama
24. Because of You -98 Degrees (my iTunes is betraying my emotional attachment to music from my middle school d... ]]> ~CommanderD Subscription! Huzzah! http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21278174/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21278174/ Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:09:52 PST
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Hey look, you guys, I got my subscription back for the third time! Thanks to *dracori for that! I'll make sure to draw you something as a thank-you gift/late birthday present, when my mind's in it.

Because this week, all my mind's been in is writing yet another fanfic. Too bad it's not one of the, like, five that I've started and are now sitting around on my hard drive, collecting dust. This one won't go that route, though, because I've already got like ten pages in it and I'm not even done yet. It's going to be a (long) one-shot... either that or I might make it a two-shot. I've never had a two-shot before. Once I'm finished with it I'll see if it divides well in two chapters. And do other such things to avoid posting it out of fear of being murdered by people who don't think Disney characters should have sex lives.

I had my second day of work last night. I'll be working two more Saturdays this month, along with Friday, December 12. Like I said, not a full-time job at all, but that's just perfect for me... still gives me time to be on duty as an RA/do homework/theoretically draw/write more Disney smut. (Okay. It's not smut. It's fade-to-black. ANYWAY MOVING ON.) Since my friend Pam who got me roped into the job in the first place probably won't be able to work much come January (she'll be moving to Omaha to student teach), they're thinking they'll want me to move up to waitress. Ha, fat chance of that. I'd be terrible.

I did get my first paycheck from last week, though. So, yay for money! I won't be going home until Thanksgiving, though, so it might not get deposited for awhile... although I'm more worried that I might not have enough socks and jeans to last me until then. I might have to... gasp... do laundry in the dorm.

That's all for this week. See you next week!

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So... last week I said I was going to work on requests this weekend. I honestly was going to, too. But my weekend turned out far busier than I thought it would be, both for preplanned stuff that I forgot about until maybe Friday, and also for circumstances that kind of jumped out at me.

Friday, weirdly enough, I did get something done... a new fanfic. I had been working on it the past few days and managed to get the finishing touches on it Friday and post it. I say this was a surprising thing because Friday also happened to be my birthday, and so after class I had only a few hours before my friends took me out to eat in Omaha. We went to Carlos O'Kelley's, which is pretty much the best place to go out for your birthday, I've decided, because they DON'T sing to you. But they DO give you free desert. Yay sopapillas. Then we went back to my dorm room and played Apples to Apples and watched my new Liberty's Kids DVDs. Since there was only three of us and Apples to Apples is a game for 4-10 people, we had my Donald Duck plushie be the fourth player, and would just randomly draw his cards that he played, which made for a very interesting game. Sometimes the cards Donald picked were scarily fitting. Like for "sensual" he played the card "whips". Oh, Donald, you kinky devil!

Yesterday, Saturday, I had to go to the Dana football game and play in the pep band. That was kind of embarrassing, because we played Hastings, and Hastings brought their pep band. And Hastings is the college my mom wanted me to go to, because they have an awesome music program and we were both kind of thinking I might end up majoring in music. (That obviously wasn't the case, but up until freshman year of college I was still trying to figure out exactly what I wanted to major in, let alone eventually have for a career.) They were far bigger than us, had uniforms, and actually marched on the field during halftime. They were pretty good, too. Anyway, we got to leave after halftime, which was at a little before 3:00 in the afternoon. So I figured I had all day and evening to at least try to work on my requests.

So I was trying to come up with ideas, getting myself mentally prepared to draw something, when my friend Pam came to my room and told me that the restaurant she works at was understaffed that night and that they needed someone to fill water jugs and give out menus and stuff like that, and could I do it? Now, remember, I have no experience in working in restaurants, at least for pay (I have volunteered at VFW functions when I was in Job's Daughters, and the experience was actually a huge help), but since they obviously couldn't find anyone else, I said sure. I have problems saying "no", especially when the reasons for the "no" are just my own selfish reasons, and besides, I could always use a little extra cash.

It was craziness. I always swore I'd never get a job in the food industry, because I always knew how stressful it is, but I was running around all night refilling water, seating people and handing out menus, bringing out salads, taking plates when they were finished eating, washing dishes, and basically anything I was told to do. It was ra... ]]> ~CommanderD You oughta know by now http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21061051/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/21061051/ Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:21:30 PDT Didn't know what to title this, so I just pulled lines from the song I'm listening to now.

I've been rather busy this week with tests and studying for class. In the meantime, I went to Omaha on Tuesday and didn't buy anything other than a bacon cheeseburger and a 99 cent margarita. (I was looking for the Liberty's Kids DVDs, but couldn't find them anywhere! So I ordered them online, along with something else, which brings me to my next paragraph...)

Friday, though, was a great day. I was already happy knowing that it was the last day before fall break, but I was pleasantly surprised to see the book I ordered off of Amazon.com came in that day. And it's just up my nerdy alley... a historical romance novel about John and Abigail Adams... yeah, shut up, I'm a loser, but I LOVE IT. I got my essay back that I wrote a few weeks ago and that I thought I did terribly on, but somehow I managed to get a 90%. Then I went home and completely forgot that Mom and Dad had tickets to see a piano/violin/cello trio in Lincoln. We went out to eat at this new restaurant, and my brother Davy met us there. This is the second year in a row he's actually gotten me something for my birthday--and it's actually something really nice. He got me an alpaca wool jacket! Apparently they were selling them at the UNL campus. He's very sweet. (Now I'll actually have to get him something nice for his birthday.) The trio was awesome, too. And the cello player was very cute.

It's been a pretty good week, all in all. I'm at home right now, and since tomorrow and Tuesday are fall break, I won't be going back to campus until Tuesday evening. As for tonight, we're having an actual turkey dinner in the dining room! (We normally always eat in the kitchen.) Since Davy and I are both home from college this weekend, Mom figured she'd make this turkey while there's lots of people here to eat it. It'll also be my birthday dinner, since my birthday's this Friday. Not that I'm really looking forward to it. I'll be turning twenty-two. What's so exciting about that? I have no birthdays to look forward to anymore.

Also, with all this work I've been doing I've been falling behind on reading fanfiction--~Wormtail96 and *dracori, I will hopefully read your new chapters sometime this week. I haven't forgotten about you, even if it seems like I have. ALSO I haven't forgotten about all those requests I took, like, two months ago either, even though I haven't started on any of them. But I'm hoping this weekend to get to work on those, too. I haven't forgotten them and still intend on at least trying to get them done. Sorry I'm so slow.

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]]> ~CommanderD My week of nothing http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20950502/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20950502/ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:31:54 PDT The only interesting things I really have to report on are today's happenings--I had to get up at 6:20 this morning to play for Music and More at an area church. And in about an hour and a half, I'll be heading off to play for the Iowa Western community band, of which I have been to one rehearsal. I don't know why I let Bruce (the band director both here and there) talk me into these sorts of things... they have plenty of flutes, after all. They don't really need me. But, it is fun to play in a real band with somewhat challenging music for a change.

But other than that, nothing has really happened this week. But hopefully next week I'll have more interesting things to say. The complete Liberty's Kids DVD collection will be out Tuesday, and I plan on buying it (even though I'm broke and I shouldn't) because I'm currently severely geeking over the American Revolution. (points to "reading" and "watching" above) SOMEBODY HELP ME!

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]]> ~CommanderD GROUCHO and other things of awesome http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20845001/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20845001/ Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:42:03 PDT Felt like crap that day, but I'm feeling better now.

I've been on duty all weekend, literally. And it was both Homecoming and Discover Dana day yesterday, so I was involved with various things involving those. Various things that required me to get up at 7:30 yesterday and 8:00 today. And I had to stay up until 3:00 AM this weekend, being on duty... and since I apparently can't take naps during the day, I've had pretty much about ten hours of sleep total since Friday morning. I'm not feeling all that tired right now, though. But I bet it'll hit me like a ton of bricks any time now. (And I'm on duty again tonight, too. Oh joy.)

I could have used all that spare time writing and/or drawing, but instead all I have to show for my time is this: [link] I AM A DORK. (But I love it.)

Speaking of dorkiness... today was amazing. The Omaha Community Playhouse has been putting on The Cocoanuts for the past month, and for those of you who don't know, The Cocoanuts was the Marx Brothers' first movie. I saw that they were doing that show and kind of flipped out, knowing that I was going to buy a ticket even if I couldn't find anyone to come with me... but a few days later, my mom called me and told me about it! I informed her that I already knew. Then she asked me if I wanted to go. Once again, this was one of those times where I had to say, "Mom, why are you even ASKING me this?"

It was GREAT. The guys who played Chico and Harpo were wandering the audience before the play started and providing us with in-character shenanigans. They were great at their roles, and so was the guy who played Groucho--heck, they were all amazing! I think I liked seeing it live even more than seeing the movie--these weren't the real Marx Brothers, obviously, but still seeing it in a live setting was just fantastic. It was a hilarious show. And my love for Groucho has been rekindled.

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]]> ~CommanderD I forgot to title this http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20721636/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20721636/ Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:56:27 PDT I know I'll get a bad grade on it--and I know I'll deserve that bad grade, but still. Blegh. That was a tough paper to write. I had a test in World Civ on Friday, though, on ancient India and China, and I think I did pretty well on that. I actually remembered all eight components of the Eight-Fold Path of Buddhism. Yaaaay!

On Friday night my friend Pam and I went to Iowa to have a movie night at our friend Jess's house. It's kind of a weird thing, having a friend who lives in her own house with her husband, son, and dog. I mean, she's only a few months older than me. We had a lot of fun. We made a fruit pizza and watched Hercules and Hairspray. Isaac was really well-behaved. He didn't fuss too much and seemed to actually enjoy watching the movies with us.

Yesterday I drove home. I'll have to be back on campus tonight, so I'm really not going to be here for long, but I did need to do my laundry, and it's free here. Mom and Dad went to Lincoln for the football game, of course, so I had the house to myself most of the night (well, Amos was there too--the dog tolerates me again, I'm happy to say, but he's also just a grumpy old man/dog and so I avoid petting him unless he wants it). I got all my laundry done while finishing the John Adams miniseries (I VERY VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS SERIES), and then watched some of the football game on TV. I think I saw my brother right before halftime, because when interviewing a coach you could see the pit getting set up for the halftime show. Anyway, after that the Huskers kind of got creamed, so then I stopped watching.

And today Mom and I went to church. Mom had to usher, and she also had to pick up my nieces from Sunday school, which meant I had to watch them. They were both drawing during the church service. Hailey's drawing apparently looks just like the drawings my younger brother drew when he was a kid. Becca's are actually really good for a four-year-old. Her drawings of herself and her sister had hair and five fingers on each hand.

...And next time I update this journal, it will be October. Where the hell has this year gone?

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]]> ~CommanderD Subject http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20600285/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20600285/ Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:02:16 PDT

Yesterday was Parents' Day, and my mom came to see the football game. I'm in the pep band and we played during the first half, so she got to hear the amazing around-twenty-member Dana College Pep Band! She brought me lunch from McDonald's and homemade cookies (only six, though... what the crap, Mom?! They'll be gone before the day is out, lemme tell you) and an endtable. (Yes, another one.) She again got on my case about applying for graduate school--or more specifically, financial aid for grad school. The stock market situation this past week apparently lost my parents a butt-ton of money. Craaaaaaaap.

As for school, I have papers to write, tests to take, etc, etc. Same old, same old. As far as writing and artwork go, writing... haven't done any this week. I suck. I've been sketching a lot of Whos, but they're not turning out great... actually, I take that back, the sketches are turning out awesome, but they're kind of small and I don't think I'll be able to color them well. I'm just not really in any sort of fandom-y mood right now anyway.

...the end.

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]]> ~CommanderD Because I'm a perv, that's why http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20487362/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20487362/ Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:53:30 PDT
I'm such a perv and a voyeur... of my freaking sims. I suck.

Anyway, that's about all for this week, I guess. My paper has to be five to six pages long, and hopefully I'll get at least two pages done today. Then I can play Sims some more. Wink wink, nudge nudge.

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]]> ~CommanderD I am a dork, but what's new? http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20372569/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20372569/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:17:13 PDT
Pam and I were getting bored by the end of the third quarter of the game--the score had been at 14-9 since first quarter, so we left and went to the campus bookstore. Of course, the Huskers went on to score three touchdowns in the fourth. So we missed the best quarter of the game, but it was worth it, because in the bookstore, I found the John Adams biography by David McCullough. I've only just started reading it, but so far it's fantastic! I'm SUCH a dork, I know. (Added to the fact that I bought a kiddy book on presidents there too...)

With nothing else to say, I'll do this here meme for the halibut.

Dear (the last person who left a comment on your journal):

I don't really know how to tell you this, but ___1___. I think I realized it ___2___ ___3___ and I saw you ___4___ ___5___. I'm sure you're ___6___ enough to understand ___7___. I'm returning ___8___ to you, but I'll keep ___9___ as a memory. You should also know that I ___10___ ___11___ .

___12___,
-Your name-

1. What's the color of your shirt?
Blue - Our romance is over
Red - Our affair is over
White - I'll join the monastery
Black - I dislike you
Green - Our horoscope doesn't match
Grey - You're a pervert
Yellow - I'm selling myself
Pink - Your nostrils are insulting
Brown - The mafia wants you
No shirt - You're a loser
Other - I'm in love with your sister

2. Which is your birth month?
January - That night
February - Last year
March - When your dwarf bit me
April - When I tripped on sesame seeds
May - First of May
June - When you put cuffs on me
July - When I threw up
August - When I saw the shrunken head
September - When we skinny dipped
October - When I quoted Santa
November - When your dog ran amok
December - When I changed tennis shoes

3. Which food do you prefer?
Tacos - In your apartment
Pizza - In your camping car
Pasta - Outside of Chicago
Hamburgers - Under the bus
Salad - As you ate enchilada
Chicken - In your closet
Kabob - With Paris Hilton
Fish - In women's clothing
Sandwiches - At the Hare Krishna graduation
Lasagna - At the mental hospital
Hot dog - Under a state of trance
None of the above - With George Bush and his wife

4. What's the color of your socks?
Yellow - Hit on
Red - Insult
Black - Ignore
Blue - Knock out
Purple - Pour syrup on
White - Carve your initials into
Grey - Pull the clothes off
Brown - Put leeches on
Orange - Castrate
Pink - Pull the toupee off
Barefoot - Sit on
Other - Drive out

5. What's the color of your underwear?
Black - My best friend
White - My father
Grey - Bill Clinton
Brown - My fart balloon
Purple - My mustard soufflÃ©
Red - Donald Duck
Blue - My avocado plant
Yellow - My penpal in Ghana
Orange - My Kid Rock-collection
Pink - Manchester United's goalkeeper
None - My John F. Kennedy-statue
Other - The crazy monk

6. What do you prefer to watch on TV?
Scrubs - Man
O.C. - Emotional
One Tree Hill - Open
Heroes - Frostbitten
Lost - High
House - Scarred
Simpsons - Cowardly
The news - Mongolic
Idol - Masochistic
Family Guy - Senile
Top Model - Middle-class
None of the above - Ashamed

7. Your mood right now?
Happy - How awful I've felt
Sad - How boring you are
Bored - That Santa doesn't exist
Angry - That your pimples are at the last stage
Depressed - That we're cousins
Excited - That there is no solution to this.
Nervous - The middle-east
Worried - That your Honda sucks
Apathetic - That I did a sex-change
Ashamed - That I'm allergic to your hamster
Cuddly - That I get turned on by garbage men
Overjoyous - Tha... ]]> ~CommanderD The future looks bright! http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20250514/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20250514/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:11:32 PDT Go to hell, IE. Firefox would never do that to me.

Anywho, I actually had a really great week, and it'll take me awhile to retype this all, but I need to record this all for my own benefit, if no one else's.

Classes started on Monday--my senior year of college. I'm twenty-one years old--I'll be twenty-two in October number two. I really need to stop fooling around and get cracking on my future career, but until recently I never really did, because... every time I thought of my life post-college, I'd get panicky.

But. My friend Faye and I went to the University of Nebraska-Omaha on Wednesday to talk to professors with the library science program there (although it's actually through the University of Missouri, but we Nebraskans can actually take the classes at UNO and not have to pay out-of-state fees--which is good, very good). They had detailed information about the program, what it would entail, how to apply, the job outlook for library science students (very good, I'm happy to report--there's a shortage both locally and nationally)... and in short, Faye and I are feeling much more optimistic about our futures. I'm going to have to take the GRE sometime soon and start working on applying and asking my professors to send in letters of recommendation, but... it's not making me go into seizures thinking about the future anymore. Hell yes.

There's only been one week of classes so far, but I went home on Friday for Labor Day weekend... I'd been on campus for three weeks, after all, and my laundry was piling up. And yesterday, I went with my parents and grandma to the first Husker game of the season! I'm still indifferent to football in general, mind you, but that was my third Husker game, and... I'm finding that I'm slowly getting into the spirit of the whole thing. Of course, the main reason I went, however, remains the Husker marching band, better than the football team by leaps and bounds. My brother's still in the pit, too, so it was fun to see him go crazy on the "rack". And the band, as usual, is AMAAAAAZING. And their theme this week? The Who. It was amazing. The band actually formed the word "Who" on the field and I about died. XDDDDDD

One more thing of fangirlish-ness I need to get out of my system--my mom and I have been watching more of the John Adams HBO miniseries starring Paul Giamatti, and will you allow me to gush out about how awesome the series is, John Adams was, and the whole colonial/American Revolution period was in general? I know, I'm a huge nerd, but I HIGHLY recommend this series, because Mr. Giamatti portrays Mr. Adams pretty damn near perfect. Oh, and also, John Adams/Abigail Adams is pretty much my favorite pairing EVER (yes, even beating out Mojo/Blossom), because they actually existed. And oh God, the way the miniseries portrays them... SO FLIPPIN' ROMANTIC AND PASSIONATE AND OMG JOHN/ABIGAIL OTP FOREVER

Okay, I'm done now, I promise. See you next week! http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20126958/ Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:07:49 PDT I didn't think I'd get that many. Don't worry, I'll try to get all of them done sometime within the next month or three. I'm still on that artistic kick, but I finally sat down and wrote something last night... coughcoughIstartedanotherHortonHearsaWhofanficlastnightcoughcough. SOMEBODY STOP ME.

Class starts tomorrow. I'm actually kind of looking forward to it, because it'll give me something to do. I'm only taking four classes this semester, so hopefully I won't be too overworked.

tagged me... curses. I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME, GADGET... NEXT TIME...

Choose a singer/band/group.
Answer using ONLY titles of songs by that singer/band/group.
Tag 6 more people to do so and let them know they've been tagged, of course.

I'm going with The Alan Parsons Project.

Describe yourself.
"Separate Lives"

What do people feel when they're around you?
"Psychobabble"

How would you describe your previous relationship?
"You Won't Be There"

Describe your current relationship.
"Silence and I"

Where would you want to be now?
"In the Real World"

What's your life like?
"A Dream Within a Dream"

What would you ask for if you had only one wish?
"Light of the World"

Say something wise.
"Days are Numbers (The Traveler)"

I tag no one, because I'm anti-establishment that way. (brick'd)

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]]> ~CommanderD Training and request policy http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20005956/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/20005956/ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:17:10 PDT Also, we did this ropes course on... Wednesday, I think it was, and it was a blast. Somehow I got stuck being the one who had to climb over this 10-15 foot wall without touching the wall (and there were no ladders or stairs or anything)--and I actually managed it, with all the other RAs hoisting me up--but let me tell you, I was on the verge of panicking before I finally got over the ledge, and I was shaking for a few minutes afterwards.

Surprisingly, I've actually had a few requests this past week. I just posted ~shanejensen's, and I plan to work on ~Wormtail96's soon as well. I think it's been a long time since I've spelled out my request policy--mainly because people rarely ask for requests from me. But sensing a trend here, I thought I might as well spell it out.

-Yes, I DO take requests... but think more of them as suggestions for me. I can't guarantee I'll have the time/inspiration/talent to actually finish them, however. I WILL try, however. That I can promise.
-However, I DON'T take art trades (usually). I know that sounds kind of backwards, but let me explain--in an art trade, I'm getting something back for it, and that puts more pressure on me to actually finish the drawing and make it look spotless and perfect--and let's face it, I'm not a good enough artist to be a perfectionist. Seriously, if you want something from me, just ask. You don't need to draw me something in return.
-Commissions... Good lord, I couldn't pay people to take my drawings from me. No one's asked, of course, and I would feel terrible demanding money from someone for my half-assed work. So no commissions. Keep your money for better things. (No one's commissioned me and I don't see anyone asking, but to make this checklist complete, I threw it in.)

I'm on a big artistic kick right now, though. After I finish the other request, I've got another HHAW drawing (Gawd, I can't stop) that I've started, and I still want to draw both Inspector Gadget and Three Caballeros fanart. (Not both together--although wow, what a cracky crossover!) So if you request something from me now, you might not see it for awhile--other projects, training, and the Sims 2 take up lots of my time as it is.

Oh, and I saw Mamma Mia today. Not as good as the actual show (I saw it in Vegas four years ago), but still entertaining. Especially Pierce Brosnan singing.

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]]> ~CommanderD No time to rest http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/19875273/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/19875273/ Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:37:57 PDT
But on Tuesday afternoon, my grandpa had some sort of episode and had to go to the hospital. They actually sent him to Omaha and he spent two nights there. And the thing is, no one really knows what happened. He was with my older brother and suddenly started having balance problems and getting confused (thank God Tim was there), but there wasn't a hemorrhage or brain bleeding or anything like that. Who knows what happened? He's alright now, though. He came by the house Friday morning and had donuts for us.

Anyway, because of that, Mom had to go to Omaha too (and she also firmly insisted that everyone else continue with their travel plans). Luckily, my younger brother Davy didn't have to work until Friday. VERY good for me, because Mom was in Omaha almost all day. And she had to go back to Omaha Thursday to pick Grandpa up and take him back home. I can handle my nieces by myself for an hour or two... but not much longer than that.

On Friday, Davy had to work until 3:00... Mom had to work until 4:30... and I had to be back at college between 10:00 and 2:00. Yeah, fat chance of THAT happening. When Davy got back from work, we jumped in my car, with my nieces in the back, and drove to college with some of my boxes (what all would fit between four people already in the car). Mom came by later with my Aunt Sheila (one good thing about my grandpa getting hospitalized... I got to see Aunt Monica and Aunt Sheila again!) and my bigger stuff, like my futon and fridge and stuff. With six people loading stuff in (my nieces did help with the littler items), it didn't take very long to get my stuff up to my room.

Or should I say, ROOMS. I'm ridiculously giddy about my rooming situation, because this year, I'm in Mickelsen, and I basically have what amounts to two separate rooms. My sophomore year they redid this building and turned it into sort of suite style arrangements. People room here in groups of four, and their "suits" have a main gathering room and a bedroom on each side. The RA room has the gathering room and one bedroom--two rooms for just one person! I managed to fit all my stuff in my tiny Holling room last year, so now--and this seems like a ridiculous thing for a college student to say--but now I have no clue what to do with all this extra space. I'm completely unpacked (except for my TV, which somehow got left back at home--Mom's bringing it tomorrow) and both my rooms feel ridiculously empty.

RA training only just started, but it's already boring me, because this is the third time I've done it. (headdesk) Oh well. I like having the campus almost to myself for a few weeks, at least. I have one girl on my floor right now, and tomorrow I'll get three athletes. My floor's mostly upperclassmen this year, which is nice. I don't think I can deal with freshman another year.

In between looking and graduate schools, which I NEED to do preferably this week (OMGWTF I'M A SENIOR IN COLLEGE I'M FREAKING OLD I DON'T WANNA GROW UP), I'll probably be drawing a lot. And maybe writing a bit too. I really want to get that Licky/Gos story officially started up again. Also, the last chapter of my HHAW fanfic will probably be posted tomorrow.

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So. Even though I should NOT be spending money right now (I don't have very much and didn't have a summer job, obviously) I bought an 8 gig Nano. It's very nice, heck yes.

Other than that, I've been playing The Sims 2 and watching YouTube videos. I think I'm in the process of fandom jumping again... to Inspector Gadget, of all the stupid shows to decide I like. I would blame it on nostalgia (IG was one of my favorite cartoons when I was a wee lass), but to be perfectly honest, and I'm almost ashamed to admit this, but... the show's funny. Remarkably stupid, but funny. Anyway, I'd like to try drawing Inspector Gadget sometime, and maybe when I get back to college I will.

Because I'll be moving back on Friday! It'll be interesting. My dad will be out of town for a sci-fi convention, my mom and (probably) my brother will be working... and my older brother and sister-in-law will be on vacation, meaning that we'll be watching my nieces, meaning that I'm going to have to take them with me when I move back. Then Mom will come with my stuff once she's off work and take the girls back with her. Yikes.

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]]> ~CommanderD My laptop. Hates. Me. EDIT http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/19619622/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/19619622/ Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:13:27 PDT My parents, younger brother, and I went to Colorado on Wednesday for a quick weekend hiking trip. We went to Rocky Mountain National Park and did to trails, one on Thursday and one on Friday. The one on Thursday was 5.8 miles round trip, and the one on Friday was 8.8 miles round trip, up to the top of a mountain. I think that's the longest hike I've ever done, and it was straight up the mountain on the way there, and straight down on the way back (which just KILLS your feet and knees, let me tell you). I'm still a little sore from it.

I brought my laptop with me, but Friday night something totally wrong happened. My laptop won't work. The keyboard is totally shot. (I'm typing from the main computer at home right now.) Also, when I turn it on, it goes into this "diagnostic boot" thing that I can't get out of without hitting the escape key... BUT THE DAMN KEYBOARD DOESN'T WORK. The number lock is stuck on, and I can't turn it off.

I'm going to try fixing it myself, and if not I might have one of my brother's friends who's tech savvy... but failing those, I might have to bring it in to get fixed again. And we all remember what a huge help they were last time.

So. I'm kind of pissed right now. I can't play The Sims 2, I can't update my HHAW story... in fact, if my computer really IS shot, then I've lost the rest of it. I did save what I had to my Gmail account right before I left for Argentina... but all the rest I have left to post was written WHILE I was in Argentina, and didn't have computer access so I couldn't save it. Damn it all anyway. (headdesk)

See you next week, I HOPE from my computer. I hope the help Para pointed me to will work. (keeps fingers crossed)

EDIT

I have success! I went to Wal-Mart and bought a keyboard that has a USB cord, and I was able to use that to bypass the diagnostic boot menu and get on my computer again. I'm not using they keyboard ON my computer, but at least I'm using it! It might just be a temporary solution, but it's something, and my writing's safe and to a disk now, and I'm happy. ~~And I bought two bottles of Ned shampoo too.~~

MUCH better! I'm in a far better mood now, yayz.

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]]> ~CommanderD Home, and the dog hates me http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/19497128/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/19497128/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:33:57 PDT On Tuesday and Wednesday we went to the mall that's fairly close to Agustina's apartment, although I still didn't feel too safe walking around the city.

The flight here sucked. It was about eleven hours long and I slept for maybe one hour of it. I can't really sleep on planes (or cars) anyway, but it didn't help that I had a headache, and that the kid next to me was throwing up, or that another kid was screaming. Customs in Chicago didn't take very long, though, although it turned out it would have been alright if they had, because our flight to Omaha was about forty-five minutes late taking off.

Mom and Dad didn't even notice the highlights in my hair, although when we went home and went to the supermarket where my brother works, that was the first thing he noticed. Also, Amos, you know, my mom's dog? He hates me now. This is the dog that would probably cuddle with a robber should one try to break in, so I'm rather befuddled, and yes, a little hurt too. I mean, the dog tried to bite me yesterday. He might be jealous of all the attention I'm getting from my mom (he's kind of attached to her by the hip), or maybe it's just because I smell like Argentina. Today he's been a little better, at least. He wags his tail when he sees me, but he growls when I try to pet him. I might just keep my distance for awhile.

And yes, it's very nice to be home. I'm going to be going to Wal-Mart today to catch up on DVDs (if Wal-Mart even has a decent selection... I hate Wal-Mart so much, but we don't have a Target in town) and then I'll probably play some Sims.

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]]> ~CommanderD The home stretch http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/19366857/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/19366857/ Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:11:23 PDT I do like how I can see the thumbnails of deviations even though I'm not subscribed.

Anyway, this week sucked majorly, because of tests and nasty weather and homesickness and all that. But we're totally done now, yesterday was absolutely gorgeous and Kate and I took a nice two-and-a-half hour walk... oh yeah, and we leave for Buenos Aires tomorrow and we fly back to Chicago on Friday night and we'll be in America early Saturday morning! Which means NEXT TIME I UPDATE THIS JOURNAL I WILL BE HOOOOOOOME!!!111!ELEVEN

I'm getting excited about that, obviously. Those of you who read my LJ will know that I made a list of things I'm going to do when I get home... just a few more days!

Have a great week, everyone!

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]]> ~CommanderD Tests?! It's like I'm in school or something! http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/19231800/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/19231800/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:33:46 PDT
Anyway, this week's been pretty crummy with classes and yucky weather and my cold and the fact that I was stuck going to class and freezing my tush off on the Fourth of July because I was about 5,000 miles away from anyone who gave a damn that it even WAS the Fourth. But as of right now I have less than two weeks left in Argentina, and since I made it through this weekend... I can make it. We went partying again last night and I actually somewhat enjoyed it. Got totally drunk, too. Still slightly hungover right now.

I got blonde highlights in my hair yesterday (when I was still sober, don't worry). Kate had been wanting to and I thought, hell, why not? I've never been this light before. It looks nice.

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]]> ~CommanderD Sea lions and calamari http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/19104816/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/19104816/ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:52:38 PDT
As I mentioned last week, this Friday we went to Mar del Plata. Just for the one day, though. It was a blast! Although it's winter here and the ocean's freezing, Kate and I took off our shoes and walked in the water. I found a lot of pretty seashells too. OH, and at the restaurant we ate at they served us these weird seafood things that I don't know what they were... but I'm willing to try anything once, so I did. And Kate got it on video. So when I get back home I might possibly post the video of me trying a squid testicle or whatever it was I ate.

We also saw sea lions. A TON of sea lions. The first one we saw was literally right in the middle of the road. Never been that close to one before! They smell nasty.

And we got a lot of shopping in, too. Actually, I'm completely finished with gift shopping--and I FINALLY found postcards for my collection, too! You would not believe how hard it is to find postcards here. But I finally found some, so it's all good.

We only have two weeks left of class, and then on Monday the 14th we'll go to Buenos Aires again, spend the week there, and fly out on Friday, arriving in Chicago early Saturday morning... and then it's just an hour flight to Omaha. I think we're about to enter the home stretch!

Hasta luego, chicos.

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]]> ~CommanderD ...homesick http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/18981721/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/18981721/ Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:08:14 PDT But... oh well. I have a feeling this last month will fly by really fast. And I'll probably never be in Argentina again, so I need to make the most of my time here.

I wish I could write... I'd really like to pick up my Licky/Gos story again, but it seems like every time I finish I big fanfic project, my inspiration just takes a vacation for a month or two. So I've just been playing Petz and Jeopardy on my laptop in my spare time. That is, between going out partying... which I really hate, by the way. I'm trying to be better about it because I know Kate likes it... but I'm just not a social person, what can I say? Oh well. Oh well. I won't ever have to go to parties again once I get back to the US, so I can deal with it.

See you next week, if I'm able. We're going to the beach resort, Mar del Plata, next weekend. Should be fun.

Oh, and I can't change my mood icon. If I could, it would be homesick.

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]]> ~CommanderD Argentina, week 4 http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/18857613/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/18857613/ Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:38:12 PDT
Oh, and I've started posting my Horton fanfic: [link] READ IT OR DIE (not really)

Uh... yeah, I really don't have much to say right now. It's still going alright here... and I've been here nearly a month, holy crap. It's getting easier to understand every day, too... although I don't think I'll ever get truely fluent in espaÃ±ol. Oh well. I am improving, and that's all that I was hoping for.

Hasta el proximo domingo, amigos.

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]]> ~CommanderD So I went to a strip club XDD http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/18727418/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/18727418/ Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:05:40 PDT

But on to more interesting matters. Friday Agustina took a huge group of us to the strip club. The strip club for the ladies. Needless to say, it was great. Those guys were SOOOOOO hot. And how they were able to, ahem, get it up so fast, I have no idea... Okay, I'll shut up now. After the show the guys all mingled in the crowd and I GOT MY PICTURE WITH MY FAVORITE ONE OMG HE WAS SO HOT. (He was clothed at that time, unfortunately...)

Agustina's taken us to see other sights here in the city. We've had a few kind of crappy experiences here, but this is really a beautiful city. It's very European inspired... it reminds me a lot like London. That is, if everyone in London drove on the right side of the road and spoke Spanish.

Anyway, we've been here nearly three weeks, and it totally doesn't seem like that long at all. I only spent three weeks in England each time, and it definitely doesn't seem like I've spent the same amount of time! Despite the fact that I'm not sleeping well and I get frustrated at not fully understanding everything (and not being fully understood) I really am having fun here. I just miss my nieces. And my bed. And my shower. And salty foods. (They're big on sweets here... about the only snack they have salt-wise is Lay's.)

Oh, and guess what? Even though I can't get internet on my laptop, I've definitely been putting it to use. I FINISHED MY HORTON HEARS A WHO FANFIC. It's nearly 60,000 words long too, making it the longest story I've ever written! And Kate (the other girl with me) brought flash drives, so once I divide my story into chapters and come up with a good title, I can transfer the files to the main computer at my host family's house and actually start posting it to FF.net! I is excited.

Vamos a comer ahora (Â¡tengo mucho, MUCHO hambre!) so I shall wrap this up. See you next week!

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]]> ~CommanderD ¿Me entiendes? ¡Muy bien! http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/18607589/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/18607589/ Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:01:45 PDT Suprisingly, Kate and I are able to go shopping in town and buy stuff like perfume and ice cream and other fun stuff, and the employees tell us that our Spanish is good and they can understand us. It's obvious, of course, that we're not from around here (I'm 5'9 and Kate is 5'10, and we're taller than every woman here, and most of the men, too) but the fact that we're actually able to speak somewhat coherently with the people here is kind of shocking. And a relief, of course.

Agustina (the daughter of the woman we're staying with, who speaks English almost as well as she speaks Spanish and is just about the coolest person I've ever met) is taking us to Buenos Aires next weekend. I'm sure she'll show us the historical sights and such... but to be honest, what I'm most looking forward to is that strip club she made reservations for. It's para las mujeres--for the ladies. Agustina says that the men are totally naked, and really, REALLY nice. Having never been to anything like this before, I don't know what to expect... but I can tell you that I'm certainly looking forward to it. Anyway, I don't know when we'll be getting back to Tandil, and I'm so stuck in my "update on Sundays" rut that if I'm not near a computer until Monday morning, I'll wait until next Sunday to update. So if I don't update this journal next week, that's why.

Gotta go. I told my mom I'd call her today at 2:00... and it is 2:00. Whee.

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]]> ~CommanderD Culture SHOOOOOOOOOCK http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/18493926/ http://CommanderD.deviantart.com/journal/18493926/ Sun, 25 May 2008 11:50:14 PDT
The other student I went with, Kate, and I are understanding more than we thought we would--although we're still nowhere near fluent in our espaÃ±ol. Our teachers are really nice and make a point to speak slow enough for us to understand. The students are awesome too. A group of them invited us to their house to hang out Friday night. The food here is really good. Oh, and... I kind of have a boyfriend now. Who I just met yesterday. Okay, not a boyfriend... more of an Argentine fling. Yeah, I wouldn't believe it myself if it hadn't happened, but when you're in a club and hanging out with really cute foreign guys who think you're cute... Holy crap, I feel like the biggest slut in the world typing this, even though we didn't do anything more than PG-13 rated. I have no intentions of leaving my virginity behind when I go home, thank you very much. Apparently people here like their romantic fun with as many people as possible, though, so... I'm taking in the culture. Okay, I'm getting embarrassed just typing this so I'm going to shut up now.

I brought my laptop, but I can't figure out how to get wireless on it, so I'm using my host family's computer right now. I feel bad being on it for so long, so I only get online and check my email et. al only about once a day for only about fifteen minutes. So my updates here will likely be short, and I won't be commenting as much on your deviations either (it's not like I did much anyway--I know, I suck). If there's something you really, REALLY want me to see, you'd probably better note me the link and I promise I'll get to it eventually.

That's all for now, I guess. I have class tomorrow and feel the need to study my verbs so I can communicate better. So, hasta la proxima semana!

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