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SO, if you've ever wanted to see me sketch something, now is the time to ask!

1. ~Tsume-Yamagata : dragonfly : DONE!
2. ~Yoda-the-Kindawise : Jabberwocky
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In other news, school is back in session. Here goes for my last year at Uni!

That's right. May 1, 2010 is my graduation date. Be afraid, world; I'm coming after you next.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/24827953/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/24827953/ Mon, 18 May 2009 18:19:46 PDT
As much as I would still absolutely love to do Alice I believe that there were a number of compelling arguments against that choice. Therefore, I am currently studying some Oz stories.

Now, before some of you guys get a little stuck on copyright, let me point out an excellent resource: Gutenberg.org. On that wonderful site there are plenty of books that have lost their copyright and are open to butchering. Among these books are pieces by Dickens and Thackeray which certainly made finding some of my textbooks this last year a little easier.

I told a friend of mine what my goals with this project were, and he got extremely excited about the idea. He has asked if he could partner with me on this project, as he was interested in doing the illustrations. I'm not one to refuse a fellow art major an opportunity to expand their portfolio, not to mention one who is a coworker who makes the drudgery of the call floor go by more pleasantly, so we are currently plotting out a project that will hopefully reach its full culmination (as in, completely finished) before Spring semester starts rolling. Optimally that means December or January.

If you know much about Oz, or want to take a fresh look at this delightfully childish series and give your two cents about what you'd like to see designed and illustrated, please tell me. It's certainly not my regular style, and I think it will prove a refreshing challenge. I could use all the help I can get.

If you are interested in owning a copy of the final product please let me know; if we can generate enough interest we are hoping to do a real professional print job with a large run. I'm hoping to get price quotes in about two months. This is a non-profit project, so we'll be sure to keep the prices as cheap as possible, but a large portion of the price will depend on how many people are interested (the more copies then the cheaper per unit it will be).

This project will hopefully go well and give me the experience needed in order to spearhead a project encompassing the entire Oz series. If you're interested in being an illustrator then keep your ears open. I just might need you in the future.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/24102576/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/24102576/ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:18:04 PDT
So, as a student who has one year left in school before I graduate with a BFA in Graphic Design, I bared my portfolio and waited for the brutal tides to destroy what pitiful shreds are left of my ego.

To begin, this year's review was four times larger and twenty times higher in quality than last year's (I attended as an observer last year, and it was pretty shoddy business). The point of these reviews is to expose students (either graduating or nearly graduating) to a professional audience, where they can get feedback (or possibly a job) as they emerge as designers. I went in order to prepare for next year, and it was a tough thing. I showed only pieces that were done from the beginning of last semester up to projects that are still being worked on. I got some amazing feedback, which I hope to remember (I did write it down, but I cannot read my handwriting) long enough to implement and better my work.

A few things that I can summarize for the benefit of others:

a) People like small, brightly colored objects.
I had an accordion-fold book that was designed like a children's book which briefly outlined a history of Offset Printing. Despite this not being my strongest piece (in my opinion), people seemed to gravitate toward it. That was almost always the first thing that was picked up.

b) Typography is quintessential.
I already knew this, but it was pounded even deeper during the review. A large portion of the professionals who reviewed commented (either good or bad) about my handling of type. It is in the handling of type that style can and will be defined. Color is important, as are other elements, but typography is the strongest factor of all. Figure out the type, and make sure it is working. If it's not working, nothing is going to work.

c) Size affects impact.
There is something about a large work of art. The same thing goes for the size of a portfolio. When showing a piece make sure it is large enough to be seen, but don't make it so large that it becomes cumbersome. Some people like heft and size; I took a smaller, almost pamphlet-like summary piece to substitute for a portfolio in order to facilitate a more personal experience (and a clear in-progress mood) with my work. This, however, was far too small for the taste of many. Now, I don't like the huge portfolios that take up three feet of space when they're open, but I believe a nice medium can be (and indeed, should be) achieved. Your work should make an impact, and size will help to convey that message.

d) Presence.
This kind of goes along with c. Part one of this is the presence of the actual projects. Give them some sort of context to work with; bring a few of the actual pieces along with you so that they can be handled and experienced. This will allow them to see things in context. Part two is the presenter's presence. Dress nicely; show that you have a professional attitude toward your work. Don't make excuses. Smile and graciously accept what they say. You don't have to agree with it, or implement their advice, just make them feel like what they're saying is being listened to. Validate them. Now, there is invariably the type of person who just wants to talk to you in order to impress you with their own awesomeness. Don't be intimidated. Just smile, because, amazingly, smiling helps all input to go down easier. (You can always laugh at the people who are full of themselves later. They make for great stories.)

If you come to a dull moment in the review, perhaps no one is standing around your portfolio or talking to you, don't stop smiling. Greet everyone who looks at you with a cheerful face, and they might become intrigued enough to talk to you. Your attitude will sell you and your work, so make sure it's a pleasant one.

Well, that's all I'm going to say for now.

Happy April, Ya'll!

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/23024852/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/23024852/ Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:07:41 PST had this in her journal, and I rather like being given the opportunity to shamelessly flaunt the work of others. So, if you comment on this journal I will feature three of your works. I'll only feature 10 people, though! So be selfish and claim a spot quickly.

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Dreamseller - Preview [link]
Lolly Witch, page 35 [link]
Sangria - Haiku Exercise [link]

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Colorblind [link]
Queen of Hearts [link]
Flight [link]

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Sun [link]
6 of 6 [link]
My Invisible Friend [link] (I couldn't help it! This piece makes me chuckle every time!)

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]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/22593770/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/22593770/ Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:52:15 PST
It's been a while. I apologize for being so curt with you so far; I'm afraid I didn't want to admit how much time has elapsed. It all goes so quickly, and one introduction is followed by another, and everything fades into the obscurity of memory.

Things are going alright so far, I'm sure. A positive attitude would make it all look so much more amazing, but none of us are perfect, even if some of us are perfectionists.

I'll admit some excitement regarding the inspiration I'm sure you'll surprise me with. You know, I got a scanner from a friend, so hopefully I'll be able to ask the world for their opinion on my execution of that inspiration.

Indeed, the more I think about it, life is amazing. I've just got to look at it right. Opportunities are springing up, despite the shadows of missed chances. Sometimes, after hard things are done or thought about, it's difficult to allow that light to creep in to show what has popped up in its absence. It's almost tempting to turn a back to the shadows completely, and to forsake failure and potential alike. Trying to escape darkness, though, makes it more difficult to find the way out of it.

So, good morning, January. Let's take this time together, with what time and material we're given.

Sincerely yours,



]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/20782223/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/20782223/ Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:13:28 PDT [link]

Dear Kame-Kami,

I don't really know how to tell you this, but our horoscope doesn't match. I think I realized it when I tripped on sesame seeds in your closet and I saw you carve your initials into my best friend. I'm sure you're ashamed enough to understand the middle-east. I'm returning your ring to you, but I'll keep the oil stocks as a memory. You should also know that I told my psychiatrist about our friendship.

Greetings to your freaky family,
Hakidasu

(I blame Tsume for this.)

Tag: ~Kame-Kami, ~raoaks, ~Gilbyfish, ~Gemina-Vael, ~ChiVatha.

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((In other news, the US economy is... oh, well, let's keep politics out of this, shall we?))

I took some major employment cuts these last few weeks, many thanks to the economy for that, but I'm still trundling along on one stunted leg of a job. I can only hope that, when I graduate with my degree, I'll be able to support myself in the tenuous future.

As far as school goes, well, I guess I can't blame my professors for scheduling project due dates in the same week (THEY DO IT ON PURPOSE!), but I can blame ~Gemina-Vael for introducing me to the dubious glory that is Doctor Who.

As for everything else, I can sum that up in the Morals I Have Learned in the Month of September. Which are:

1) Attend as many department field trips as possible.
-While this is an old moral, it is well deserving some extra practice. So far I have gone to Vegas to make a font, and we went hiking in a nearby National Park to 'gain inspiration.'

2) Never let a roommate near your hair at 10:30 at night, especially if that roommate is in possession of scissors.
-It's a good thing hair grows back. Not that she did a particularly bad job, but, well, it was 10:30 at night, and she's a lot shorter than I am... and now my bangs are shorter than I'd like them to be.

3) If a classmate wants to talk about his dreams with you, let him.
-If nothing else they're entertaining, and quite an insight into a fellow's psychology.

I'll leave you with those for now.

Happy October, ya'll! I'm looking forward to another great month on dA.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/19907781/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/19907781/ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:10:36 PDT Aperture science. We do what we must because we can.
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead,
But there's no sense crying over every mistake, you just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake." (Still Alive, Portal Soundtrack.)

(Gah, and I've never even played portal, and already I'm addicted to it.)

I realized the other day that I have just a week and a half (little less) left until I move back to school. I haven't even finished unpacking yet from when I moved home. O.o Where has my summer gone...? Oh, yes, that's right, it went directly into the Tech Support call floor and only poked its head out occasionally to look at the weather.

Between being asked to mentor a coworker in his artistic endeavors (I still wonder why), working my arsenic off at work, and the infrequent stints with KH I and II, it's a wonder that I haven't gotten anything meaningful done.

I've almost lost perspective. In fact, I just may have dropped it sometime during the summer, and picked it up recently only to look at it from the other end, or maybe even from the side. Wow, talk about a different way of looking at things. Unfortunately it does junk for trying to plan ahead.

Avalon is still moldering in my sketchbook, waiting to be scanned and updated.

As for every other good intention, well, my studying remains only somewhat completed. I've nearly finished my Dickens homework. I'm on the last book, but I only have it in digital format, so I'm not allowed to read it at work. (Not allowed to have PDAs on the call floor and all that.) As for working on my design improvement, well... I have purchased some design books, but I haven't been practicing with my Adobe programs. Whee, going back to being a Mac Lab Asst is going to be very interesting... not to mention Web II and all my other design classes. No small qualms about that. It didn't help that the only semi-art program on the computers at work was Microsoft PAINT. Whoo... that was fun. As for German, well, it still needs a lot more spit and polish. Psychology? Oh, don't even bother asking about that.

Looks like another squeaky semester is looming ahead of me.

Yosh!

Let's get going. I'm ready for this.

On that note, if you actually read all that folderol (or perhaps are only tuning in for this sentence), it would be much appreciated if you could give me three random (unrelated) words that pop into your mind.

Ready? Break!

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/18430800/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/18430800/ Wed, 21 May 2008 12:55:43 PDT
I've been home from school for a few weeks now (still trying to get the scanner to work; standby on that one) so I've been feeling a little nervous as far as a job goes. The University art museum manager I've been talking to has been unable to determine yet if he's allowed to hire a student from a different Uni, and I've been leaning on him for that job for probably a month now. So, feeling quite jittery for work, I got a lead to apply as an incoming call assistant at some alarm company. Not what I really wanted, as it's not related to art in any way shape or form, but it pays, to my understanding, $10 an hour and I really need someplace that'll take me for just the summer. So on Monday I applied, and I got a call for an interview this morning, and an appointment for said interview at 11. I went in a bit early, was redirected to third floor, met the interviewer, she sat me down, we talked, and I was back down in my car by, according to my phone, 11:05. Yes, I was hired, full-time, starting training next week on Tuesday (I get Memorial Day off) all in less than ten minutes. I have a structured, regular schedule; Sunday-Thursday from 3pm-midnight. I didn't want to work on Sunday, but the interviewer needed someone for that day, so, following the mantra I've been told my entire life--I have no problems, I create no problems, and I will solve all your problems--I accepted the conditions. After all, from what I understand, they really don't care what you do so long as you answer the phone, help the customer, and basically get work done when it's required, but when there are dead points I can sit there and read, do artwork, or crochet mittens for orphans in Alabama.

It all feels a little weird that things, after falling apart for the past few weeks, are finally falling into place.

So, my apologies for not updating KoA for the past little while. Updates should start up again soon, dependent on when (or whether) I can get a new procedure going (stupid scanner).

Oh, in other news, on Monday my brother loaned me his PS2. Guess who's playing Kingdom Hearts (finally)? ...yeah. I admit to nothing.

Plus I'm going to "high school" again on Thursday. My friend wants me to come to his school with him, pretend that I'm from England, and get me to sign the yearbooks of all his friends. It's nice to have people who appreciate having you around, right?

Thanks ya'll, and have a very merry May and June!

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/18059807/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/18059807/ Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:04:52 PDT finals week, my friend somehow convinced me to drive 3-4 hours to go to a Japanese festival (oh, and to see family, too). It was a really small festival, but I had the opportunity of attending a traditional tea ceremony, and of seeing a pretty amazing drum performance. I was happy (but I wasn't flushed from happiness; that red on my face and neck is in reality an aggravating sunburn). It was so much fun, though! I guess it was worth blowing off studying for. (We'll see how I feel after finals.)

While still up in the city that hosted the festival, my group walked to an art store. It was AMAZING! Coming from a school located in a small Western town that rolls up its sidewalks at six and that has only a handful of quarter decent bookstores and a craft store, this place was huge and amazing. I found some incredible pen nibs, and an Oblique nib holder that really fascinated me. Once I found out that the store offers a twenty percent discount to students with an ID, I naturally was thrown into an artistic mood. They had so many unique and fun things! I very nearly bought some Prismacolor markers, but the price was still a little choking, despite the fact that they had a twenty-five percent discount on those at that particular time.

Well, we headed back down to where we live, and decided to pay a visit to the arts and crafts (mostly crafts) stores in our neighborhood. One didn't carry Prismacolor markers, so we grabbed their promotional fifty-percent-off-any-one-item coupon and headed to the other one to see if they did, and, whattayaknow! they did, and, not only that, but they accepted the coupon from the other place and sold me a set of 48 markers for just a little over a hundred dollars (regularly priced, with tax, it would have been over two hundred; quite a hefty price). So, thus fortified, I'm in a rather artistic mood.

Too bad it's finals week.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/17730785/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/17730785/ Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:09:14 PDT 1. Put Your iTunes, Windows Media Player, ETC on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Put any comments in parentheses after the song name.
5. Put this on your journal.


1. If someone says, "Is this okay?", you say?
"When I'm Gone" 3 Doors Down
(Don't do it until I leave, okay?)

2. How would you describe yourself?
"A Happy Ending" Mark Knopfler and Guy Fletcher -Princess Bride
(I wish.)

3. What do you like in a guy (or girl)?
"Blaues Blut" Die Prinzen
(Being royal is always a plus.)

4. How do you feel today?
"Beyond The Sad Past" -Slayers Try
(I'm getting over it.)

5. What is your life's purpose?
"You Told Me" The Monkees
(I told you. I really did.)

6. What is your motto?
"Situations" Jack Johnson

7. What do your friends think of you?
"Any Time At All" The Beatles
(That's right, anytime. One o'clock in the morning is great. Even if you didn't call me because your boy/girlfriend broke up with you.)

8. What do you think of your parents?
"Potiphar" Andrew Lloyd Webber -Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
(...I don't even know what to think of this.)

9. What do you think about very often?
"Randy Scouse Git" The Monkees
("Why don't you cut your hair? Why don't you live up there? Why don't you do what I do see what I do if you care?" Well? Why don't you?)

10. What is 2 + 2?
"Sarah Yellin'" 3 Doors Down
(Poor girl. She can't even solve simple math problems without throwing a hissy fit.)

11. What do you think of your best friend?
"The Piano Duet" Danny Elfman -Corpse Bride
("Heheh, pardon my enthusiasm." "I like your enthusiasm.")

12. What do you think of the person you like?
"The Wizard and I" Wicked

13. What is your life story?
"Once Upon a Time... Storybook Love" Mark Knopfler and Guy Fletcher -Princess Bride

14. What do you want to be when you grow up?
"Casting a Spell" Danny Elfman -Corpse Bride
(That's right. Witchcraft! Booyah!)

15. What do you think of when you see the person you like?
"Saturday's Child" The Monkees
("I'm in love with Saturday's Child!")

16. What will you dance to at your wedding?
"Escape From Snyder" Newsies
(Either I'm running away from my new spouse or somebody else. Yikes.)

17. What will they play at your funeral?
"Through the Looking Glass" The Monkees
("You've been lookin' at your life through a mirror, it's time you started seeing things a little bit clearer.")

18. What is your hobby/interest?
"Staple it Together" Jack Johnson
(Apparently not an inventive crafty person if all I use are staples.)

19. What is your biggest fear?
"Strawberry Fields Forever" The Beatles
(Yum. Er, I mean, yikes.)

20. What is your biggest secret?
"Someday, Lasting, Serenade" Haibane Renmei

21. What do you think of your friends?
"Once Upon a December" Anastasia
(I guess I'll have a traumatic blow to the head and forget all ya'll, and barely remember.)

22. What will you name this journal?
"Poor, Poor Pharoah" Andrew Lloyd Webber -Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

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I tag everyone who actually read this!!! (That means YOU.)
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Well, with that out of the way, let's get to general news.

I did not get the internship with the Smithsonian. (Or, more correctly, the male version of me didn't get it. They addressed it to "Mr. _____," so I'm just a wee bit miffed. XD)

I did, however, get accepted into the BFA program for Graphic Design. (Dance, dance, trip, fall, fail... recover. None of you saw that, right?)

So now my plans for the summer have just refocused on the neighborhood where I grew up. (I'm glad I won't miss a very important friend's wedding, and maybe I can do a bit of freelance work during my *cough* free time.)

Happy April!

(Oh yeah, that's right, it's April. Heh.)

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/17135831/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/17135831/ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:23:29 PST
Uni is going great. It's hard, and extremely time-consuming, yet somehow I'm getting by. I've noticed that ever since I chose to become an 'art' major (not fine arts, thank goodness, despite the prefix of BFA that I'm striving for) with my emphasis on Graphic Design (what did I know! But I feel it's the right choice) I've felt my cognitive processes change. Given that one of my minors is in Psychology, I've managed to conclude the reason why my thinking feels different. Not only is my attention riveted toward composition and typography (a side effect of my major that is inexorable), but I literally have changed the way I see and experience everything. This is a rather hard thing to explain to one who has never experienced this shift, so I guess all I can say is that I am a vastly different person than I was nearly four years ago. Not a sufficient explanation, but it will have to do.

To bring myself to the true point of this journal, I'd like to admit my small amount of pride in having nearly attained 3,000 pageviews. I know that, in the grand scheme, this is not a remarkable sum, but it's a thrill to know that I'm nearing this marker. In the name of pageview tradition, then, I'd like to propose that the first to notify me of having reached this number can request what they will of me. In other words, you don't have to be the 3,000th visitor, though that would be a plus if you were, you merely have to be the first to inform me, in this journal if you'd like or by personal note, that I have reached that number, and then tell what you would like me to do that can be posted here on dA. I won't put any other parameters on it than that, other than I will reserve the right to refuse any unreasonable request (for example, asking me to do a spray painting on the side of a building, an act that is prohibited in the city where I live, or something that I cannot possibly afford to do as a Uni student, such as a gold sculpture).

I'd like to thank all of you for your support. I am very much improved, thanks to you.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/16514093/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/16514093/ Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:51:59 PST , oh, and too.)

The first ten people to respond to this journal will be featured here, along with links to my three favorite deviations of theirs.
In turn, put this in your journal and do the same.

(I doubt ten people even look at my journals. Much less respond to them. O.o)

1-
Alexander I have such fond memories of this fellow!
Mia Kitty!
Cherries Lovely saturation of hues! I love the way the reds all through the image pop and tie it together.
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73. Random It really should have been published. ^.^ Fond memories!
Desk Inspiration The glories of a Uni student's desk!
APB: Flight This captures your essential self. Fly, little fellow! Fly!
3-
Sangria - Haiku Exercise
The Butterfly Keeper - Elegy
Chondrosarcoma - free form
I love your unique voice in your poetry. You also capture the loveliest little images with your word choice. I love all your work, including that which isn't poetry or even writing, but for some odd reason I was drawn back into your poetry every time I looked for something to feature.
4-
Gateway Lovely composition, and good sandcastle building skills.
Pixie Dust Amazing action capture, and the wings just complete the image.
Sleepyhead Good balance and composition. Cookie is a lovely puppy.
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In other news, I just got back from a brief break in Vegas. No, I did not gamble, booze, or get married. (Though we teased a lot about it.) However, I have finally had an In-N-Out Burger. I have accomplished a great step in life. (So everyone tells me, anyway.)

Plus, I bought some more classics at the local Barnes and Noble... David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, The Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, and Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I dunno when I'll have time to read them, but I'm tremendously excited to have them anyhow. (Hmm-- David Copperfish? Fishatorio? Les Fisherables? Ah, the possibilities for slaughtering literature in the name of fish and art are endless!)

Oh, and Huzzah Civil Rights!

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/16458995/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/16458995/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:16:32 PST first round was such a resounding success. Kame, Tsume, Gilby: I'm still waiting.)

I specifically challenge , , and (though anyone is welcome to do it).

Poetry is such a deeply visual form of writing, yet often it is very difficult to express visually. That's your challenge. Take the poem presented and illustrate it!

Rules:

Illustrate the poem presented. You can do a literal illustration, or spin off on whatever you thought of while you were reading the poem. you may have to explain, though, so try to keep it so some relation can be found. However, the more creative your idea, the more fun it is to find how it relates!

Use whatever visual medium you want. You can use digital painting, photomanipulation, photography, pastel, paint, crayon, pencil... whatever strikes your fancy and could best convey the message of your image.

When you're done, challenge three or more of your own friends with a different poem! (I know you want to share the agony of this challenge, you sadists. Watch other people suffer what you have suffered.)

With that said, here is your poem:

Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale

I am thinking of a fairy tale,
Cinder Elephant,
Sleeping Tubby,
Snow Weight,
where the princess is not
anorexic, wasp-waisted;
flinging herself down the stairs.

I am thinking of a fairy tale,
Hansel and Great,
Repoundsel,
Bounty and the Beast,
where the beauty
has a pillowed breast,
and fingers plump as sausage.

I am thinking of a fairy tale
that is not yet written,
for a teller not yet born,
for a listener not yet conceived,
for a world not yet won,
where everything round is good:
the sun, wheels, cookies, and the princess.

--Jane Yolen

Good luck, and get to!

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In other news:

Two weeks into the semester! Whew, I'm still alive!

I love my new job. I'm at a Mac computer, for at least three hours at a time, installed with all the great Adobe programs, a nice scanner, 'they' (the Art Department) don't care if I do my homework (so long as students have first priority), and, the topper, I'm getting paid. (Maybe not as much as I was making at the Service Deli, but, considering they don't take out taxes--because the government doesn't tax itself, I guess, and I know they don't take out Social Security-- I don't have to drive to work, and they'll let me do what I want, I think it's a decent exchange.) I've also found a site that has TV shows for free, legally, so I can sit there and watch the original Star Trek if I want to. Of course, I'm planning on utilizing this time to get schoolwork done and maybe, just maybe, some higher quality Knights of Avalon work.

We'll see.

Happy January 2008, ya'll!

(PS, you know you've been using a Mac too much when you navigate your mouse to the upper left corner to close the window.)

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/16224728/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/16224728/ Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:27:42 PST
At least, I'd like to believe that I've matured significantly over the years.

Which is true in most respects, but sometimes, I still indulge in childish tendencies.

I haven't made 'New Year's Resolutions' in years. In fact, I think the last time I did it was in elementary school because it counted on our grade.

With that said, I'm going to make some goals as they relate to my dA activity.

1) Finish the Grimm -Murder of Ginger Breadman- series. Since it's almost done, I think I'll set an earlier deadline for this. How about May 30th.
2) Restart work on the Fishlit series. Most significantly, restart/complete Beofish. I think I'll give this one the deadline of May 30th as well.
3) Design a regular updating schedule for Knights of Avalon and stick to it for at least a month and a half. This one should be implemented as soon as I move back to my apartment next week.
4) Oh, and finish my Poetry Illustration Challenges before... well, since I was supposed to finish them a while ago... February 14th sounds good.

They're short-term goals, but that should help frighten my lazy rump into gear to get things done.

Some other goals include:

5) Research and apply for (and hopefully receive at least one) internship or job offer for the summer with a corporation that will allow me to work in a design-team environment and glean experience that will ease the transition between Uni and the 'working world.'
6) Figure out everything required for graduation next year, including each semester's schedule as well as Study Abroad, etcetera.
7) Polish my German. It's so rusty I'm afraid to use it. O.o
8) A's in school would be nice to have too.

In other news, my three-week break from school and work is coming to an end. Classes start again on the 7th of this month. I'm not sure if I'm ready to return to the drudgery of the jobs and responsibilities that await me down there, but I am decently excited for classes and to find out who's replacing my roomies who moved out. (Oh, boy, am I glad they moved out. I might actually feel safe in my apartment now that they're gone.) Sadly, though, my parents have taken the little red Ford Ranger away and have asked me to drive the silver Saturn station wagon for a while. Granted, it has more comfortable back seats, but it's just not quite as fun to drive; it's an automatic.

This upcoming semester is going to be a beast to conquer, I'm sure. I'm taking 18.5 credits, as well as having two jobs, the responsibility of being the president of a social club that meets every second and fourth Wednesday at 5, and I'm taking an extra, non-credit class every Wednesday night at 7. I feel really bad for my evening job manager... that makes two evening classes a week for me, and some days I don't get out of class until nearly 5 o'clock!

Oh, but I got the Adobe CS3 Master Edition a couple of weeks ago. So now I don't have to depend on the school's Mac labs to do my classwork; I can now work on my own computer, at 5 o'clock in the morning if I want to.

2008 is going to be a great year. I hope I can enjoy the continued support of my friends and fellows, on dA and otherwise.

Welcome to a new year!

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/15300973/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/15300973/ Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:00:06 PDT
Every once in a while I'll complete a project, step back, and realize that, despite the agony of finishing the project, I really liked the underlying concept and would like to extend it into a theme. One of the strongest examples of this would be Don Fishote ([link] sorry for the poor photo quality) who has inspired the Beofish project (under progress and revision at the moment). The theme there being, obviously, fish and famous literature.

With the completion of Vanity ([link]) I realized that doing high-contrast illustrations of destructive character traits would be quite an interesting challenge, not to mention more easily portable than the FishLit projects (the FishLits being 20"x30" and the Chars being approx 9"x6", allowing them to be done in my everyday sketchbook).

So, I guess what I want from you guys are suggestions as to what I should do in these series.

FishLit:

Don Fishote :: Completed
Beofish :: In Progress
Frankenfish :: ???
The Hobbit (Hobfish) :: ??? (Most likely the riddle scene)
+ by Gilbyfish:
Infishno :: ???
Count of Monte Fishto :: ???
Fahrenfish 451 :: ???


Char Traits:

VICES
Vanity :: Completed
Deceit :: Completed
Naïveté :: Completed
Gluttony :: In Progress
Lust :: ???
Curiosity :: ???
+ by Tsume-Yamagata:
Obsession :: ???
Hubris :: ???
+ by Gilbyfish:
Anger :: ???

VIRTUES
Confidence :: ???

--Sub-set, Freud's Psychology:

The Id
The Ego
The Superego

+ by Kame-Kami:
Id (Lancelot) Ego (Gawain) and Superego (Galahad). That idea tickled, Kame. Thanks. (I'll probably post it on the other account. I need to do more over there...)

Have any I should add? Do any strike your fancy in particular? Do you have any theme/series you think I should do? I'd really like your opinions on this.

*These lists are subject to change at any time, for any reason, and I reserve the right to not complete any of them as I see fit.*

Well, in other news...

Yesterday my art professor gave me a compliment on my work. We were drawing plaster models from Michaelangelo's David, and the piece facing me was the mouth. When I took it back to ask my professor's opinion he looked it over and said that I had the best structure of any he had seen so far from the class. His only criticism was that I was a little bit off on my value on the upper lip, but everything else was great. Coming from an artist who is someone I greatly admire and look up to (even before I had met him, as he is of no little reputation in the illustration world), that compliment made me quite happy for a majority of the afternoon. I had drawn a thumbnail at the bottom of the page of Deceit, and he joked that, while the mouth was great, he wasn't so sure about that thumbnail. That started a conversation about my planned series, and he seemed interested and encouraging about it. (BTW, this is the same professor who drove the Jackass Mobile [link] .)

So I'm pretty happy at the moment, despite the fact that I have to work nearly 30 hours this week due to having two jobs, plus regular school duties. Life goes on.

A happy Samhain to ya'll!

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/15271694/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/15271694/ Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:09:28 PDT
I specifically challenge , , and (though anyone is welcome to do it).

Poetry is such a deeply visual form of writing, yet often it is very difficult to express visually. That's your challenge; take the poem presented and illustrate it!

Rules:

Illustrate the poem presented. You can do a literal illustration, or spin off on whatever you thought of while you were reading the poem. YOU MAY HAVE TO EXPLAIN, though, so try to keep it so some relation can be found. However, the more creative your idea, the more fun it is to find how it relates!

Use whatever visual medium you want. You can use digital painting, photomanipulation, photography, pastel, paint, crayon, pencil... whatever strikes your fancy and could best convey the message of your image.

When you're done, challenge three or more of your own friends with a different poem! (I know you want to share the agony of this challenge, you sadists. Watch other people suffer what you have suffered.)

With that said, here is your poem:

I dreaded that first Robin, so,
But He is mastered, now,
I'm accustomed to Him grown,
He hurts a little, though --

I thought If I could only live
Till that first Shout got by --
Not all Pianos in the Woods
Had power to mangle me --

I dared not meet the Daffodils --
For fear their Yellow Gown
Would pierce me with a fashion
So foreign to my own --

I wished the Grass would hurry --
So -- when 'twas time to see --
He'd be too tall, the tallest one
Could stretch -- to look at me --

I could not bear the Bees should come,
I wished they'd stay away
In those dim countries where they go,
What word had they, for me?

They're here, though; not a creature failed --
No Blossom stayed away
In gentle deference to me --
The Queen of Calvary --

Each one salutes me, as he goes,
And I, my childish Plumes,
Lift, in bereaved acknowledgment
Of their unthinking Drums --

--Emily Dickinson

Good luck, and get to!

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/15144248/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/15144248/ Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:28:37 PDT
That's right. This semester has a SUBTITLE. That's because it seems like everything has been proving the premises of my life wrong.

For one, this year I've moved out of the room I've lived in for 10 years and into the "Dungeon" room downstairs (aka the Storage Room). My sister is currently in the process of moving into my room. My parents have moved closer to where they work (about half an hour away from where I grew up, leaving the house under the management of my sister).

Not to mention I've declared my major and minor this semester (and I'm considering a second minor, despite the fact that I'm a BFA and don't have to get any minor in the first place-- sometimes I don't think that I'm being very intelligent about these things). Then there was the awesome field trip, and, basically, I'm doing everything that my High School self never had an opportunity to do. For crying out loud I'm developing a rather active social life! I'm the PRESIDENT of a social club (Waffle Night)! My inner anti-social self is cringing (but slowly dying).

Let's take, for example, my dating life, as fascinating as it isn't.

In High School there was never any guy that showed any interest in me. I was fine with that; I wasn't particularly interested myself. To skip over my sad lack of a social life during and shortly after High School (wow, that seems so long ago) let's speed ahead to this semester. First there was that Bakery guy; yeah, he came as quite an abrupt shock. Well, more recently, I've begun to associate with a new friend; and, this past Sunday, he basically asked me out (though not quite as bluntly as the Bakery guy). We went to dinner at a Mexican restaurant last night, watched a play (The Mousetrap; a murder mystery), then sat around talking until nearly midnight, at which time called to invite me to a midnight movie party at her brother's house. The movie was Transformers (most certainly a guy movie, as it had poor characterization but plenty of explosions).

Details? What, some of you want DETAILS? Well, we're of the same religion (that's a plus), he's two years and one month (precisely) older than me, maybe 3/4" shorter than I am (we're not sure, but he insists that he's short), likes the outdoors and foreign cultures. When I got into his car yesterday the music that came on was The Beatles. XD Is there anything else ya'll need to know?

I'm mostly in shock that, for someone who was never asked out for most of my life, I've just been asked out twice in one semester.

Oh, and for those of you wondering about whatever happened to the Bakery guy, he's mostly faded out of the picture. Apparently he's been looking at my schedule and telling my coworker that he has 'made a mistake,' but, frankly, he deserves someone else.

Life certainly is unexpected sometimes. Happy October ya'll.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/15072677/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/15072677/ Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:25:26 PDT
My professor surveyed the school van, a humorous disapproval in his voice. Plastered on the side of the vehicle facing us was a hideous face, capped with a red helmet from which sprung the ears of, and I quote, a jackass. The person also had large, rather unattractive teeth obtruding from his gaping mouth. In curved, almost ethereal lettering beside this picture was the title, "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

We, the chosen art students, surveyed our chariot with mute indecision. There was another van parked behind the Jackass-Mobile (as my professor had dubbed it) which had no such hideous decoration.

"Hey, I'm only driving. Its you guys who have to be seen in the thing."

Bless tinted windows.

That was how the trip began this Wednesday past. We were heading to another University up north to attend some guest lectures by Tony Ryder (www.tonyryder.com), a phenomenal fine artist. I must say, though, riding in the Jackass-Mobile had its perks; for instance, we got to see the greatest flabbergasted looks from those who drove by us. When we got off the freeway in a town where we were going to visit a local art museum we ran into construction, and the gentleman manning the stop/slow sign watched us as we drove by, took off his hat and scratched his head in a bemused fashion.

The trip, overall, was amazing. We attended two lectures and one demonstration by Tony Ryder during our two-day one-night field trip, visited several art exhibits (and met artists and other people in charge of them) and had lunch with a darn fine local artist (who also writes tutorial books for computer art programs). Turns out this local artist lives in my home neighborhood; what a surprise when he showed up and I already knew him!

I've posted too many long journals lately, though, so I won't go into too much detail. Still, ya'll should go check out Tony Ryder's work; he is amazing!

Happy October, ya'll!

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/14779130/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/14779130/ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:52:27 PDT
Hoo, boy.

They talked, and laughed... and I busily mopped and wiped and washed. I look over and... he's getting a piece of receipt paper... oh, no he isn't.

He's exchanging numbers with my friend.

I actually got off work at a reasonable time, and we stood around for at least a half an hour. I knew why he had showed up that night; my coworker mentioned, accidentally I guess, that he was going to ask me out that night. He had even called the store in order to talk to me earlier that evening and when I asked him what he needed, he responded with "you." Well, with my friend there, he didn't say anything. We talked, we laughed, we parted.

I ask my friend what she thinks, and she mentions that she realized, as he was smiling at her and slipping her number into his pocket, that she probably made a mistake.

Well, today he showed up and said, "we need to talk... it's not you, it's me."

He then told me that he really likes my friend. Congratulations! I have just experienced being dumped for my best friend. Apparently they had gone to a movie, and dinner, and up the canyon last night and didn't get home until TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING. Claiming, of course, that nothing really happened.

Do I have a right to be worried about her?

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/14721680/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/14721680/ Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:35:58 PDT
Ah, a continuation of the saga! (And hopefully the end as well.)

So, on Monday, while I'm at the street fair, I receive a phone call from the now dubbed "Catholic Boyfriend." With dread quickly filling my innermost self, I answer and hear an almost nasal voice on the other end...

"I miss you. I melt when I look in your eyes. Okay, I literally melt..."

That's... nice? (Please don't melt. I may have to get a mop and bucket. That would be unpleasant.) I had just met this guy the Saturday before and already he's saying things like:

"Next time I'll have a gift for you." I so terribly wanted to retort with the meaning of the word "Gift" in German (meaning "poison"), but I withheld. "Something like a rose, or some jewelery..."

Or a signed certificate from your loony-bin doctor stating all the reasons why I should RUN BAMBI, RUN.

This guy was becoming very attached, very swiftly. I was detecting a number of early stalker/freak-o signs that filled me with absolute anxiety.

Earlier in the evening I had visited my coworkers at the Deli, and after the call I visited them again. Megan encouraged me to call him back and invite him to do something TONIGHT; a thing which I had carefully avoided in the conversation with him. Sure, I gave a tentative invitation to the street fair, but I made sure he knew that I was with other friends and I didn't press that he should come. So I ignored Megan's advice.

To proceed to a diversion later that evening, after the street fair began packing up and heading home, I was sitting on a side street with a very good friend and some of her new friends. One, two, three of them, bringing the total to five; barely enough to fit into one car. (So you see, we didn't have room for the Catholic Boyfriend.) We began to devise some plans of either going Las Vegas or some other larger town than the one we were in, or even going to an ice cream parlor. My friend, with a fit of giggles, suggested that we go to an ice cream parlor in Las Vegas. We all laugh appreciatively and then decide to stop by a local, old-fashioned ice cream parlor in town. By the time we got there, however, they were just closing up. So we head off to find some other trouble to get into. (It was a little after 10:00 by this time, and we were five bored Uni kids who were ignoring the fact that we had classes in the morning.) The driver said that she had to go to her mother's house, so we began to head to the other side of town. We stopped by the local DQ for our ice cream fix first.

During all this time we had been debating going up the canyon to see the "Blair Witch Road." Apparently there's a disused old road that goes over the mountain, and it looks quite freakish at night.

At the driver's mother's house (that's a lot of possessives!) we switched drivers. (I feel reduntant.) We all laughed as we realized we were trusting the safety of our canyon trip to a guy with an injured (and wrapped) right hand, but we proceeded with the plan anyway.

We drove first along quite a normal, paved road, then turned off onto a side road about a mile and a half up the canyon. This road continued paved for a while until, quite suddenly, we broke onto gravel. We were quite a ways up by now, and both sides of the road were lined with a dense collection of Quaking Aspen; one of, actually, I think it is the largest living organism on this earth, because one Quaking Aspen "colony" could stretch for miles, all sharing the same root system. This was the Blair Witch road. The driver dimmed his lights as we drove along, and the poor owner of the car (who now sat in the passenger seat) was freaking out for fear of the dark. Off to the side every once in a while we would see a strange glint, or even a stray deer or two. Suddenly, on our left side we saw a mass of small blue lights, for which we could think of no explanation.

We continued to follow the road, all the time wondering where it could possibly lead, but we finally decided to head back. The time was now somewhere after 11:00. We slowed and turned around, and were suddenly facing a fog of dust that we had disturbed just moments before.

We sat in solemn silence, staring at the dust in the headlights. The driver slowly picked up speed and we were going back the way we came, shrouded in the oppression of a thousand flecks of earth.

There went the blue lights again, this time on the right side of us. The dirt had settled for the most part now, and the driver rolled down his window. We were suddenly overcome by the piercing chill of high-altitude mountain air. Too bad none of us had a jacket.

Something I didn't mention earlier, but the road followed a gentle cliff before it had reached the aspens. As we left the woods we could once again see the layout of the valley, outlined by the gla... ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/14652166/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/14652166/ Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:27:11 PDT
I'm thinking, "Holy scrud, what did I do wrong... did I upset the Bakery people somehow? Do they need me to slice some meat or cheese for them? Am I being transferred?"

Well, I put down the rag I was holding (I was wiping down the slicers) and I turned to face him. He leaned a bit against the fryer and said, "Would you consider going out with me sometime?"

?!?!?

Wasn't expecting that one.

"Uh..." Let's see. Guy I did not know. Guy I had never seen before this day in my life. Guy just asked me out. "...sure?" I figured I could trust him a bit... after all, he worked in the department next to mine, and during his 'wandering around' my Deli coworkers seemed to have a good association with him.

"Hey, Megan," I turned to talk to my coworker after Guy (turns out his name is Robert) and I had exchanged phone numbers. "Is he a good guy?"

"Rob?" She laughs. "Why?"

"He just asked me out."

"Ooh," she grinned. "Lots of girls have tried to catch him; looks like you've caught his eye. He must think you're cute. Yeah, he's a great guy. Goes to church (Catholic), is a hard worker, he makes everyone laugh (always cracking jokes). Yeah, he's a good guy."

The news quickly circulated around the Deli, and everyone rushed to give me their assurance that he was a great guy, a fun person to work with, and that... well, in general, that I should date him.

I foresaw a slight problem in the fact that he's Catholic; seeing as how I am NOT Catholic. Christian, yes. Catholic, no.

Well, I'll go on a date with him anyway.

At 9:00 (pm), the time when my shift was supposed to end, he was sitting in the eating area of the Deli. I only noticed he was there when the manager, who had come in for a bit of off-the-clock business with the order and stocking, said hello to him. Apparently he used to work in the Deli.

Scrud, this guy was serious.

Well, I get off work at about 9:30, wander around the store for a bit (he was talking to my manager), found someone to talk to, he shows up, then he leaves. Turns out he went to wait outside for me to finish.

At about a quarter to 10 we discuss going out TONIGHT. (Man, he moves fast!) He walked me to my truck, I learned a bit about him, he spazzed out when I saw that I drove a Ford Ranger (stick). Seemed very... interested. Told me that the first thing he noticed about me was my hair. "Is that your natural color?" "Yes." Overall, he was a spaz. ADD. ADHD. I told him that I'd meet him in fifteen minutes at Winger's. I'd need a few minutes to go home and get out of my Deli duds. Apparently he saw nothing wrong with my going out to eat in my Deli clothes. O.o

SO, I met him at Winger's at 10:00. We went in, and sat there talking rather than investigating the menu. I was waiting for his cue to open it... he apparently already knew what he was going to order. He recommended the Chicken Alfredo, and so we both ordered it.

To sum up a very long conversation, he's 21, from California, he finds my smile, hair and eyes attractive, drank a Red Bull before he asked me out because he was so nervous, thinks I look like Jennifer Garner, is a TOTAL SPAZ, and I had no idea how to handle him. One moment we'd be talking about one thing and the next we'd be... I'm not even sure where, because I had lost track of where he had made the mental jump in subjects. Oh, and he has premonitions. Apparently he had received a premonition five years ago that he would meet one of my coworkers, Megan... and he had a premonition that he would meet me. O.O Didn't know when he would meet me, until, like, today. I got the impression that he was very nervous about asking me out, because he kept pulling the topic back to that every so often and mentioning how nervous he was, and he wanted to know my reaction, my coworkers' reaction, and emphasized that my coworkers would want to know EVERY DETAIL OF THE DATE LATER. Like what details? I had Chicken Alfredo and tried to keep my feet in a spazzy conversation. What else would I tell them.

He seemed disappointed that I wasn't working on Monday, which is when he works next. Basically, he asked me to go out with him again sometime. I get the feeling that he means next week. x.x I'm kind of glad that I was driving my own vehicle tonight.

It's a hard thing to go from being shunned by the male gender to being overly adored. Do all guys do this? Because, seriously, the last date I went on the guy seemed overly obsessed with telling me what he found attractive about me. Granted, the man wa... ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/14519648/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/14519648/ Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:32:56 PDT
I'm still working at the Service Deli. *Dies.* I'm going to be putting in 5 applications tomorrow for various on-campus jobs... if all else fails, I'll become a graveyard shift donut fryer. I pray that doesn't have to happen.

There will soon be a Waffle Night Club at my Uni (hopefully)! We (Nariko-Kaede and I) asked one of our art professors today if he'd be the club advisor. He said he'd think about it. Maybe that means yes.

I'm finally getting over being sick! Yeah, a little less than two weeks ago I caught something... dunno what... it wasn't particularly nasty, but it sapped my emotional energy pretty bad. So, as I was moving in, I just didn't put anything away... my room was a wretched mess. I've worked a little bit on it today, but between work fatigue, filling out job applications and getting over that bug I didn't get too much done. I think I'm feeling some stress.

Last Friday I declared my major and minor. I am now, officially, aiming for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design with a minor in Psychology. Good thing fine art skills aren't needed in Graphic Design, right? Ya'll know how that would work out.

Well, I'll be posting some of my recent work soon, as well as the next segment of the Grimm story (just as soon as I get it out of my brain-pan and into the writer).

Have a joyous September.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/14126156/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/14126156/ Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:36:53 PDT
I have three more shifts left this upcoming week in the Service Deli--Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday--then I'm done with that job! With Kettlecorn, however... well, that's a different story. That's alright, though, because I love my KC groupies. (I love my Deli groupies too, but, hey, I'm haulin' out of there and they can't stop me.) I'm so ready for this summer to finish up so I can move back down to Uni, meet my new roomies (I've been emailing them; they seem pretty interesting) and get on with getting a higher education. Not to mention Waffle Night. (Yeah, I'm pretty stoked for Wednesdays, even if they aren't as magical as Thursdays. Dunno what it is about Thursday. I don't think anything really amazing has ever happened to me on a Thursday. I was born on a Friday, so that can't be it. My school schedule for Thursday isn't even that great. There's just something about Thursday that has always sounded good to me. Wow. Try typing Thursday over and over again. It's a weird word.)

I have updates for Avalon, for those of you who follow it. I won't be able to post them for a few more days, however; work is crowding my schedule. I also have a few comics about my various jobs that I should be posting soon. I've drawn out some Deli ones, and I've been meaning to get to the Custodial ones all year. I also have a sketch of my Kettlecorn '4th of July Anniversary Nightmare' but it needs to be upgraded to a better quality strip before I'll let it show its panels on this site.

In other news, my niece turned 9 yesterday. I couldn't attend the party, though, thanks to having to work BOTH JOBS. >.< That's okay. Next year she won't even remember what I gave her. Besides that my sister never invited me to go. I'm sure she assumed that the invitation was implicit.

Oh, when I move out my sister will be taking over my room; the room I was guaranteed would be the 'guest room' so I could keep my nice looking junk in it (granted, that was last year's guarantee). Instead, before I move, I have to move out of my room and into the 'Dungeon' room downstairs. (So named because it is the smallest room in the house, and it is currently being used as storage for extra clothes and such. Yeah. Dunno where my junk is going to go. There's hardly room for the bed that's in there. My poor books! I pray they don't get packed into oblivion.) And I'm down to less than two weeks to the DAY OF DEATH. I can hardly wait for work to get over so I can get to work on moving my stuff downstairs. x.x

Well, I think I should go catch up on my sleep. I actually left my Deli job two hours early today because I felt like junk (I've never left before, no matter how sick I felt, but today I could barely stand it). I wanted to get out earlier, but it was a busy day... we had tons of orders and SOMEHOW I was stuck out front by my lonesome AGAIN. On a Saturday. One of the busiest days of the week. They keep doing that to me, the turdheads. They couldn't find anyone to cover me for fear of giving someone overtime, and heaven forbid someone in the back room should switch me duties, so they just called in an afternoon girl to come in early. Funny thing is I still went to my Kettlecorn job in the afternoon. Yeah, ya'll know where my loyalties lie... I figure KC appreciates me more anyway.

Okay, I'm done ranting this time... promise. ^_^ Tomorrow is Sunday; my one guaranteed day off a week! (Yeah, that was a lucky strike. Neither of my jobs work me on Sunday. Ever. It is one of the most wonderful things in the world.)

Peace out, yo. Happy August. And a very happy month of Sundays to ya'll.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/13845460/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/13845460/ Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:18:02 PDT
Both my sister and one of my brothers have totalled their cars in the last month. My brother walked away a bit sore, my sister broke her hand, toes, and fractured just about everything else, so she only hobbled away. Luckily they're both alive and relatively well for the circumstances.

Other than that nothing much has been happening.

I'm ready for this summer to end so I can go back to school. Just one more month!

---

Alright, Tsume, I'll amuse your whim.

1) Spell your name:
-With one finger: hakidasu
-With your chin: hgaKJIDASSUJ (Whoops, I hit the caps button...)
-With one finger and eyes closed: hakodasu
-With your elbow: hakidasu
-With your nose: hakidasu
-With your palm: hakidasu

2) List four fandoms you have:
1. Lord of the Rings
2. Don Quixote
3. Babylon
4. Watership Down

3) Have you ever slept in the back of a car?
Yes, on road trips. Dirty sleeping? NO.

4) Have you recently dyed your hair/cut it?
It has been a few months.

5) List four people you look up to the most:
-- Robert Clary (Artist, Performer, and survivor of the Holocaust... he even acted in a TV series about WWII after having lost 12 or so members of his immediate family to the Nazis!)
-- My Mother (She's amazing. Incredible. And one of my absolute best friends in the world; we've gotten past the typical mother/daughter relationship.)
-- Kori Crampton (My HS Mythology teacher. I admire her brazenness, integrity, and personality.)
-- My friends (Okay, so that brings the total to more than four, but I look up to each and every one of my friends for one reason or another.)

6) How many pets do you own as of now?
My Lakeland Terrier Athena, my three Bettas (Narcissus, Hermie and Fritz), and my goldfish Professor Fate.

7) Which do you prefer, white or black?
Black. For sure. I wear a black shirt underneath my white work shirt all the time; I've told a coworker from a different department that I wear black under my clothes because of my religion. The funny thing was he couldn't tell if I was joking or not.

8) Who is your most played character?
As in video games? I don't really play video games. I have played Golden Sun. So, I guess that would be Isaac, but I change his name often.

9) Choose one or the other, not both:
[x] Being stuck on an island with your best friend. (I have 5 best friends... I wonder which one it would be...)
[] Being stuck on an island with five acquaintances.

10) Name three aspects that tell who you are:
Passive aggressive, analytical, abstract.

11) If you could have a power what would it be?
The ability to control the Force. I could be the next Matilda.

12) Who was the last person you talked to?
My sister's friend, because she came by to kidnap my sister and take her to see the doctor again.

13) Who was the last person you said "I love you" to?
My sister (I think). I don't tell her often enough.

14) Write down the first five words that pop into your head:
Without
Popcorn
Chocolate
Click
Whirr

15) What's the one thing you wish you could do better:
Art. All forms of it.

16) Do you like the way you are?
Every so often I don't. Overall though, I'd like to believe I have a healthy self-confidence level.

17 ) Choose: summer or winter:
Winter. This summer has been dreadful because of work and various other sundry things. Once I get to school hopefully it will lighten up a bit...

18) Choose: rain or snow:
Rain. We need rain because of all these recent fires. Snow isn't too much fun when there is well over three feet burying the truck and the parking lot. Rain for sure.

19) Water or ice?
Water. Water is amazing. Besides, can you imagine all the lakes and oceans being ice? That wouldn't be fun. That would kill countless ecosystems, and, consequently, us.

20) List two odd things about yourself:
-- My fingers, thumbs, and toes are all double-jointed... I have a 90 degree hitchhiker's thumb on... ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/13530392/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/13530392/ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:03:15 PDT
I finally get a moment to sit down and update things, and... G'DAY! The scanner is broken. Yeah. The scanner that took me FOREVER to find and install a driver so I could run it on my computer over the network. I'm just barely off the first real vacation I've had since... what, last summer? Technically it was only one true day off... I left after work on Tuesday from the deli and got back today to work for Kettlecorn. One of my best friends is leaving for Japan in precisely one week and won't be back for quite some time (at least two years). I'm proud of him and his skills, but I will miss bothering him. At least his elder brother has promised to write me.

So you see, sitting down to update Avalon is a big deal.

I can't stand all this negativity, though, so we'll switch to some more positive subjects.

Everyone who stops by the deli feels compelled to ask where I'm from; apparently they're quite convinced that I'm foreign. German, Irish, or British, depending on my mood for the day. If I'm feeling really confident I'll tackle a Bronx or Southern dialect. Most of the time I do urban Western. That's an easy one to do.

This past Sunday the aforementioned friend's elder brother wrote me a program. No one has ever done that for me before. I don't care what anyone else says, it makes me happy that someone would spend an hour and a half to write a nearly pointless program. It's called the ListMaker 1.5 and 1/2. Maybe I'll post a screenshot of it for ya'll.

Yesterday was AMAZING. Lounging about for an entire afternoon, having the day practically to myself... well, my cousin was there and was a little demanding of my time (has been since Monday, but now she's out of my hair, bless her heart), but other than that it was an incredibly restorative day. We were vacationing in Northern Utah, and we went to see Promontory Point (the place where rails united the nation, with the Central Pacific and Union Pacific finally ended their contest to see who could lay the most rail, where the 119 and the Jupiter came nose to nose and the Golden Spike was driven... way back in the 1860s if I remember right). I'll have to post some of the photos I took.

Yeah, life isn't bad at all. I'm a fair way toward affording housing in the fall, and since tuition is already taken care of, that makes me fairly lucky, right? I've had a lion's share of happiness, I suppose.

Take care ya'll. Remember, July is an eventful month! That means plenty of work (and money) for me, and plenty of opportunity for ya'll to go out and have fun! (For example, for those in my neck of the woods, there's a Scottish festival next Saturday, July 7th. That should be exciting. Yup. I'm asking for that afternoon off.)


(Whoo! That was a long one.)

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/13094732/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/13094732/ Fri, 25 May 2007 22:46:18 PDT
I ordered the thing last Thursday. It arrived today (Friday). I'm elated. I got it right after my morning job finished up; came home and there it was! Unfortunately, I only got a half hour with the thing until I had to rush off to my other job.

Yup. Two jobs.

I would ramble on for longer, but I really should go to bed. Gotta go to work early tomorrow morning!

Happy end of May, ya'll!

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/12827995/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/12827995/ Thu, 03 May 2007 13:18:29 PDT
The end of this semester has been insane.

Tuesday I talked to my art professor and resubmitted some formerly unfinished works. He gave an A to one that was still unfinished (THAT HORRIBLE STIPPLE PROJECT, which in the end I did some cross-hatching on). Then, because my final grade was still below what I wanted, I took the extra credit exam (a definition of vocabulary in the writer's own words). 20 questions. If I got ten right then my grade would go up a half, and if I got all 20 then it would go up a full letter. No points awarded for in-between numbers (because he is absolutely wretched at mathematics). He told me that, since the Uni doesn't recognize an A+, he would owe me five bucks if I got all 20 correct. Well, I took the test and gave it to him. He began to correct it, and: "Somebody studied. Oh, my young padowan, you have studied well." (Truth is I barely read over the study sheet.) He told me to catch him next year if I want the five bucks. Too bad I didn't get it in writing.

At around 1:20ish today I retrieved my final essay from my English professor; the one I'm convinced doesn't like me too much. The grade I got for the class wasn't hot (it was less than an A), but the grade on my essay was PERFECT. As in it was the highest he gives. ^__^ He said he disagrees with my point, but that it was well written; so he requested a copy. O.O Of course I comply. It's difficult to think that a guy with a PhD in English could find any undergraduate's work good enough to keep, especially if he disagrees with it. So I'm feeling a wee bit elated.

I still have one final to go sit down and take for History of Languages; that's at 3 o'clock. Then I have to finish up my take-home Psychology final, then I'm free. I leave the school somewhere around 11-12 tomorrow morning and it's a three hour drive to home, where free food and housing awaits! Oh, and a job with my old employer who pays so much better than almost any job around my stinkin' Uni's town.

Life is grand. (Even if I'm moving away from all my new friends.)

It was fun while it lasted; next year will be a whole new adventure.

Happy May, ya'll.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/12544203/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/12544203/ Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:48:56 PDT

So whoever gets pageview 1,988 gets to request something. Almost anything.

Oh, and we might as well throw 2,000 in there as well. That year was fun, and I actually remember it. Oh, the Y2K disaster! Did you know that we're all dead, and only think that we're still alive? The world has ended, people. We're just stuck in some sort of freakish limbo until we realize that everything is some sort of freakish hallucination, or until the next world destruction happens... probably due to an ice age that occurs because of global warming, or because of another polarity switch, or something.

So, what would you do if North suddenly became South? Would South America become North America? Would we even survive such a calamity?

Oh, and, by the way, December 24, 2015 marks the end of the known calendar. After that we really are in limbo.

I love History of Languages.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/12469176/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/12469176/ Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:03:47 PDT
I asked his opinion about what classes I should take next semester, especially ones that will help if I do decide to declare myself as a Graphic Design major. He was shocked that I would say such a thing.

'Oh, my young padowan... you will never become a Jedi Master... Graphic Design is the Dark Side. The allure of the money is strong, but you must resist the forces of the Sith. Fine Arts is like the Jedi; and the Jedi are strong."

This, of course, conjured conversations about the powers and merits of both sides.

To cut a narrative short, I'll leave you with some of our more memorable statements.

'The powers of the Dark Side are strong; we are not inhibited by petty scruples.'

'Graphic Designers are the prostitutes of the art world.'

(This statement turned into an argument about Vader.) 'The Sith don't get to become glowy-ghosty figures at the end of the movie.'

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/12118934/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/12118934/ Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:48:31 PST
I have a lot of research to do this upcoming week. I'll be spending a lot of time at the Universities up north, looking through their libraries and compiling references. (Le sigh.)

My mother wants me to do a painting for her, to give to her on our birthday. I still have very little clue about what precisely to do. She has requested for an illustration of the Bible story of Jonah; the moment when he's sitting under his pavilion (and random bean plant) watching and waiting for Ninevah to BURN, which it never does. I have a few ideas, but nothing in the composition really suggests that it's Jonah except for maybe the ocean in the background and a really big fish swimming in it. He just isn't like a Greek god or goddess; no distinguishing symbols.

Any suggestions?

(She doesn't want/like abstract, so it has to be semi realistic; that makes life difficult.)

I still have to go pack and finish up cleaning the apartment before I leave for home tonight. Huzzah for procrastination.

...what else to say?

Oh! Haha. I haven't told ya'll about my current 2D project.

STIPPLE.

Oh, the agony; 15" x 20" of stipple.

A week or so ago we began studying a fruit or vegetable. I chose to do an onion (I don't even like onions). We then did 8 (or more; I did 11) value studies of the inside, the outside, and the many different angles and characteristics of our subject. (Some of them turned out almost decent-- I should post them). Then we took some characteristics and 'abstracted' them even more by putting them into a composition (by this time the vegetable or fruit was well rotten and gone). Now we are using stipple and a personal mark (I chose the @ sign) to express value in the piece. I'm only about three and a half hours into it-- and I'm already finding excuses to not work on it.

It should turn out quite interesting.

...anything else to complain of? Not really. I actually have life really easy. I'm going to school, learning, and the worst I really can complain about is... well, nothing.

Have a wonderful March, Ya'll.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/11926195/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/11926195/ Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:43:42 PST
I turned in an application today to become a 'Resident Assistant' at my University's housing complex(es). That job, if I get it, doesn't begin until August... wow, time sure is flighty. It's 2007, and I still feel as if I belong in three years ago.

Yesterday my roommate did a crazy thing. She won an iPod Shuffle at some meeting or the other that she went to, and she was telling me about how she now has two-- an iPod Mini (which is huge) and now a tiny, 250 songs Shuffle. She offered one, with the option of both, to me, and I told her to make a decision, if she really wanted to get rid of one. HWTH~! She gave me the Mini, which has a larger capacity, and easier navigation system-- not to mention a screen! I think she's insane. Seriously insane. Needs professional help. Of course, I knew all this before she gave me the iPod... I've tried to barter her into taking it back, because I feel guilty, but she won't have it. >.< Her reasoning for picking the Shuffle? "It's newer." It's one inch square! Grahr. I'm perplexed.

People are strange creatures.

Hey, YTK-- you still up for becoming a hermit? Because I sure am right now.

In other news, I got my exam back (I took one on Tuesday) for Cognitive Psychology. I missed two questions. The funny thing is, on both the previous exam and this one, the answer to the questions I've missed have all been B... perhaps it's some cosmic sign? I dont know. But it sure is bizarre! ...like almost everything else in my life is at the moment...

...hey, look, a horsefish!!!

Have a Cheery February. ^.^


UPDATE 02/23/2007

I had my RA interview today, with two ladies from the housing office and all three resident hall directors. I believe it went well. It helps one's standing when they 1) live with an RA, 2) live in the show apartment and so at least one of the head ladies in the office knows and loves you, and 3) you don't have anxiety attacks until AFTER an event.

Sadly, after the event, I do have anxiety attacks. O.O And they can last for-ever.

I feel fairly good about how it went, though. I avoided saying negative things, and I got a hug from Beverly (the head office lady) at the end of the interview. That means something good, right?

I rewarded myself with a mid-afternoon supper at a local restaurant. I even bought myself a milkshake. (It's a good thing that payday is on Monday.) ^.^

Oh, and, on an unrelated note, I received my truck's vehicle registration in the mail. It's legal for another year! <(^.^)>

Huzzah and hallelujah.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/11567874/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/11567874/ Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:38:35 PST
I know it's coming.

I, unwittingly, got into the wrong line at this park. I thought I was going for control, with that sense of danger; excitement, with that intentional twist that makes it all the more comforting and relieving.

The stressors build. The tension increases. Lack of sleep, poor eating habits... those are the little factors that drag me toward the top of this coaster that I never meant to ride in the first place.

I'm stuck now. Soon the peak will be reached, the catalyst activated...

To put in plain terms, I'm on the verge of being sick. This semester is proving to be more difficult than the last, and I'm feeling [DOOM]ed. (Intentionally bracketed.) One of my roommates has been convinced for the past few months that I will be the next to visit the hospital, and is conspiring to see that I eat something I am deathly allergic to in order to have her prediction come true. (She ignores the fact that her prediction has already been proven false... but she'll only see what she wants to see.)

On a happier note, I was able to pick up my new harmonica from the school Post Office on Monday. I received some vital textbooks on Tuesday, I had a Waffle Night last night and was given the opportunity during the course of the evening to feel a little better about my social status. Also, as soon as my professor returns my non-objective pieces I will have somthing to post here.

I really want to ride a real roller coaster now.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/11461961/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/11461961/ Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:26:15 PST
#1. My parents have ALWAYS been adverse to video games.
#2. I have never owned a gaming console that could be hooked to the T.V. (The Atari doesn't count-- I've never been allowed to play it.)
#3. My brother, when he lived out of the house, purchased some gaming consoles.
#4. My brother currently lives at home, with my parents.
#5. I am currently living 200 miles away and attending Uni.
#6. Christmas vacation is fun. ^.^

It was during Winter Holiday of 2006. After a visit to Costco, the store where everything comes in bigger packages, my brother and I, who were shopping with my mother (for lack of anything better to do with ourselves), began to have a conversation about Kingdom Hearts.

This is the game that is all the rage at the moment, and I have had many of my dear friends yak my ear off about it. Having witnessed it on several occasions, and knowing the story second-hand, I began to piece the experience together with my brother filling in the holes of my knowledge.

Then my brother decided that I needed the 'true' KH experience.

To skip ahead a few hours later, after we had somehow, MIRACULOUSLY, convinced my parents to allow us to hook up the PlayStation (since it was their house and their telly), my brother began to teach me how to play.

We had barely passed the opening sequence (which I have seen before) when my mother decided to send me to the local grocery to buy some onions for the clam chowder. My brother, five seconds after I had left the house (I hadn't even started the truck yet), called to ask whether I wanted to scrap defense or magic.

Yes, my brother was having my experience without me.

I bought the onions and came home to find him nearly completed with finding the logs for the raft. He wanted to continue looking for the last log, but I took the controller away and proceeded to beat upon the local Final Fantasy characters.

(At this point we were required to turn the music down/off because it was driving my mother nuts.)

The game proceeded, and by the time we made it to Traverse Town my mother had begun to watch the activity. She seemed to find everything about it wrong.

"Solve your problems by taking up a weapon and destroying things! What a great thing to teach our children; violence solves everything!"

"We're saving the worlds, mother."
"Besides, it's with a giant key."

"Oh, that makes it all better."
...
"Don't you find this boring? How many of those things have you killed already?"

"They're shadow-creatures, mom. We're eradicating them and gaining levels so we can become strong enough to save everyone!"

"What's that they're dropping?"

"Well, the green stuff heals you."

"Drugs?"

"What?!"

"Well, do you feel better?"

"Yeah, sure... our health gets replenished when..."

"You're beating up the bad guys and taking their cash and their drugs."





It all goes to show how hard it is to convert a staunch disapprover.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/11363081/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/11363081/ Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:54:37 PST
The new semester has trundled off, leaving me feeling very 'arted out' before I even have attended Two Dimensional Design; a three hour class. Between Voice and Diction, Arts Retrospective, and Writing About Art, my creative innards are eking from my pores in a less than enthusiastic manner.

Add to that the fact that I have been feeling less than emotionally optimistic for the past little while, and there is quite a concoction brewing.

However, on the sunny side of the apple orchard, I will be making waffles. If you happen to know where I currently live AND if you happen to, randomly and quite illogically, be in town, then you can stop by and join the party. ^.^

I also have purchased (an excessive amount of) books, mostly classics. I now own The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (I love that queer fruit loop for some odd reason), Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes (it's nearly 400 years old as a story, and it is the source of that famous tale concerning 'tilting at windmills'), Idylls of a King by Alfred Lord Tennyson, and a number of other mildly amusing books (which I am not naming because my brain just quit on me).

As for the pig-- yes, I did buy a little over six pounds of it today. Why? Because the store didn't have ham hocks, and I wanted to make ham and bean soup, which requires a ham bone of some kind. So I bought six pounds of roast. Quite excessive for one person, but... it was $0.98 a pound, and the nice man behind the butcher counter obliged me by sawing it into smaller, more manageable chunks. ^.^ (If you don't like pig, I'm sorry-- you had better not read what I have just written. At least now you are informed that I like meat.)

I did buy fruit, an onion and a few carrots too, just to stay on the balanced side.

Yup. It will be a party.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/11074118/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/11074118/ Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:53:52 PST
Gone are the days of procrastinating studying.

Gone are the hours where I wish I already knew what was on the test.

Gone!

Now all that's left is the depressing hole where purpose used to be. Oh, and it is aided in its size by the feeling of personal failure.

I mean, come on! .002 points away from an A? That's ridiculous!


May the season be joyful for all ya'll. ^.^

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/10912952/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/10912952/ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:26:13 PST
Two weeks until finals have begun and finished.

Two weeks until we can leave for the duration of the year 2006.

Two weeks.

It is difficult to believe that the semester is almost over. Life has been rather fun with my classes, even though some of them don't cooperate with my learning style. Well, that's education. It isn't entirely about learning facts, it is about how well you learn them. Recitation. Adaptation. Alliteration. No, wait, scratch that last one. It snuck on there.

I am hoping to load up some of the projects I have been doing since I moved... and I still have to add pieces from last year's portfolio. Hopefully I will get around to that before too long.

Have a very joyful December, ya'll, and drink TOO much egg nog. Leave some for me. ^.^

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/10724968/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/10724968/ Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:51:09 PST
There are a lot of rotten peelings down there, at the bottom of this heap.

Looking back, I see my rather naive and one-dimensional tendencies.

Then I look around at the people who have more skill than I do.

Then sometimes I wonder why, for all the sacred cudgels, I bother.

Then yet another then later (please don't analyze my English), I realize it is because I am addicted. My fingers don't know what to do with themselves without a pencil or camera or keyboard touching them.

This is the worst drug of all, and the sad thing is that they say it leads to improvement.

Improvement? Toward what condition? Does this condition even have a proper Latin name? Whether dealing with it in a negative or positive sense, does that proper name change?

Then my head begins to hurt, and I realize that this is probably all inspired by a prelude of sleep and an overture of stress.

Isn't this addiction grand?



Happy November, ya'll.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/10501287/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/10501287/ Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:38:12 PDT
Knights of Avalon is a story I've been working on for the last little while. Due to some recent advice from a friend, and to the fact that my other friend hasn't gotten a site together yet, I'm thinking about posting the comic here until a more permanent residence can be found.

THE STORY: It's the Arthurian Legend, but with a sci-fi twist to the fantasy aspects. The setting is a London quite unlike the one we know and- well, appreciate at any rate.
I've taken many of the Arthurian characters and given them modern quirks.
The 'Knights' are members of an organization called Avalon, which specializes in exterminating everything inherently evil. The basic hierarchy is the same as the original, but the enemies are not...

I won't say too much. ^.^ I'm hoping the story can introduce itself, whether or not the reader is a Legend-holic.

]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/9988236/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/9988236/ Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:19:27 PDT
Before anyone asks, NO, I have NOT decided on my major yet. I'm having difficulty deciding what I'd like to do BEST. There's the linguistics possibility, the English possibility, art, psychology, and the myriad of other subjects that I love but can't decide between. It's like choosing a favorite child. You have to be political about it! Can't offend English by choosing art... and so on and so forth.
(Any suggestions will by duly noted then promptly ignored. ^.^)

I'm still going to be in school ten years from now. (Hopefully that will only happen if I'm working on my PhD. However, even then I hope it won't take that long. ) ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/9069942/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/9069942/ Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:52:49 PDT
Including DA.

Sorry if it seems like I've been neglecting you all- it hasn't been on purpose.

Oh, and I noticed- I have 1,230 pageviews! Thanks. If you hit my 1,234th pageview, tell me about it--- and I'll do something special. Like fan art. Or a fan poem. Almost anything you request--- so long as it's somewhat simple. ^.^

Have a wonderful June, and, while I'm at it, July. I'll see you around, ei? ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/8153865/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/8153865/ Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:51:15 PST
I believe I've become a recluse of sorts, neglecting my pseudo social life for plate of pork and a mug of hot chocolate. The phone lies silent, the computer does not hum its typical, droning tune, and my artwork goes half-completed along with four drafts or so of the once current story obsession. My life, as a result, is also half-lived. In an almost somnambulate state I wander these pathways of choice, only partially paying attention as I'm ushered from one decision to the next.

This gives me reason to believe that I have mentally shut down... yet again.

Deadlines sneak up, jump out, and receive next to no reaction from me. I acknowledge their presence, but have not the presence of mind to acknowledge their effect on my current state.

I think, while the feeling persists, I should write poetry. ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/7983899/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/7983899/ Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:32:57 PST
But, it is with great sorrow yet release, that I have deleted -most- of them. Meaning- any comments or deviations I have not responded to yet will most likely go unanswered.

If you have something that you desperately want *or would just like* me to see, then please post a link here and I'll get to it.

Thanks. ^.^ I hope this remains an official return. ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/6705998/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/6705998/ Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:15:05 PDT
Well, sorry for slacking off these last few months. I'll try to catch up on all the journals, comments, and deviations I missed. Until then, your patience is very much appreciated! ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5979717/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5979717/ Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:33:33 PDT I am SO FAR BEHIND on DA! I have 58 messages that need tending and several deviations that are behind schedule. So, sorry to say, I am leaving tomorrow- everything is being postponed once again. I'm going to CT (and the surrounding states) and won't be back for approximately two weeks. I apologize for not keeping up with myself, and hope that I can return back to normal after my vacation.
Toodle-pip! ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5864262/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5864262/ Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:56:40 PDT However, as I was just exiting the shower my left foot slipped back- and jammed itself unkindly into the permanent plug, which, also quite unkindly, sliced and smashed my big toe in an effective manner. Luckily, I examined the wound and it's just a cut underneath the now slightly delapidated toenail- so it shouldn't require a visit to the hospital unless it decides to get an infection.
But, yeah. I am in excruciating pain, and my dog happens to think that the bandage is a new sort of game that I invented just for her. To make matters even more uncomfortable I have to watch my niece and nephew today- won't that be an adventure.
Sorry for venting like this- you can now get back to your regular programming. ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5851337/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5851337/ Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:04:50 PDT I have to sort through my two-hundred and some-odd photos to decide which to post, so I apologize ahead of time for any inconveniences involved.
I am on the verge of some poetry, so expect that too.
As for the moment- I am flitting along the edges of my sanity, wondering where, in all the emptiness inside, I should stick my nose first. It doesn't do much good for my nose, but it does wonders for the imagination sometimes.
Until then, don't eat the stickle-buns. ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5646044/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5646044/ Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:54:26 PDT Um, I'm sick of my niece and nephew already. For those of you who have not been informed yet- I'm watching my niece for the week, and today my nephew has been added to my migraine. Happily, however, I only have to watch him today- tomorrow it's back to just my niece. And next week I only have to see them on Tuesdays and Thursdays!
Oh! And I'm getting better at driving clutch, for anyone who cares. I only killed it once- right after starting it. After that it was home-free easy! ...except for the fact that I'm still not good enough with feathering to do uphill stops without rolling back a considerable amount. *insert dejected sigh here* I want my silver Saturn station wagon back... ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5577816/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5577816/ Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:26:13 PDT I'm leaving in about two hours for camp, and I have to walk to where we're meeting because all vehicles are gone. That wouldn't be too bad, seeming as I managed to find an earlier ride for most of my luggage- but, the fact is, it's raining- HARD- outside and I have no clue what I'm eating for lunch because, once again, all vehicles are gone and I doubt the bus would care to or even be able to fit through the drive-thru of a fast food place. I don't like fast food much anyway...
Well, so this is goodbye, I guess, to my week's subscription, and a quick 'see-ya-later' to the rest of you. Since I don't get home until Saturday I probably won't be able to be back on until Monday.
I'll probably have some photos, though- my mother is allowing me to take her old digital camera because I don't want to take my SLR- too much dirt, too many irresponsible campers, and no money with which to process film.

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Mood: EARGH!

So confuzzled right now- suddenly get a free, 1 week subscription thingy- and- it's cool, but- it might take a while to get used to.
Freakzards, this is WEIRD...
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Dang, I won't be here most of next week anyway- so I only have it for, what, four or five days? It's cool anyway...
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Um, right- about my 'normal' life- my sister graduated from the Police Academy last night. That's another weird thing. My sister, law enforcer... *shudder.* She'll make a good one, but- that's just too strange. Bragging rights, though, I guess- but who'd want to brag about going to a Police Graduation?
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I'm still weirded out by this whole subscription thing... gimme a few days to adjust...

YIKES! ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5509969/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5509969/ Tue, 31 May 2005 09:13:56 PDT On Friday my parents and I ran off to go on vacation. We went down to see the Coral Pink Sand Dunes (4-wheeling), Pipe Springs, North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and the Big Rock Candy Mountain all in less than four days. There were a few other side notes, but not enough to mention. We got home yesterday at a little before 9 pm.
I had 63 messages today, 46 of which are deviations. I don't think I'll get to them any time soon. I've kind of fallen out of sync with my internet schedule because of AP tests, and I have yet to get back into gear. So you all have my apologies for not getting to your deviations or journals.

Anywho, if you read the above garbage please ignore any punctuation errors. I don't feel like thinking.

Have a nice day in DA! ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5321646/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5321646/ Tue, 10 May 2005 15:14:30 PDT Last Tuesday I bought my teacher's book ('cuz he feels special and all that and I had just paid for my tests and had enough left over). Thursday morning I did the Art test, and it had to be one of the most enjoyable of them all. We could talk *cheat * and just be crazy loonies.
Because both of my tests were on the same day (BRILLIANT idea, if you don't ask me), I had a note to excuse me from class at 11:30. Well, the first test supposedly didn't end until 12- but we kinda finished WAY early, so I had to go to my German class- I probably wouldn't have had they not all seen me walking around the halls 2 minutes before class started. So anyway, to continue with this random story, I left class at 11:30 and got lunch. Then I go and test, and our mid-test snack (for two people- I swear that guy needs to learn how to count) we had a HUGE platter of melon and cheese with funny (almost stale) crackers. Then came the TAPE RECORDING. Last time I do a foreign language test.
So I get home and I had told my friend that I would help out at the local elementary school carnival. I spend the rest of the afternoon there, come home and my neighbor needs help with her children's book assignment- the very one that I had not worked on yet. So I assist her for the rest of the night.
The weekend was spent illustrating another friend's children's book, and on Saturday I returned it to her so she could color it. For the remainder of the weekend and all afternoon yesterday I worked on mine. After coloring the second page I got lazy and pulled out my old crayola markers- thank goodness they lasted because they were half-dead to begin with. I gave the little kid his book today, yatta yatta, sing and dance in the streets and all that jazz.
Anywho, I have to read Lord of the Flies by Thursday (well, first I have to procure the book) for my English class. (WHY? I was RAISED in that stupid language!)
So, once again in summary, I haven't been on very often. I don't know what anyone could possibly have gained from the above rambling, but it made me feel good. =:3

Maybe I shall announce more at a future date. ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5222965/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5222965/ Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:54:10 PDT
ARGH! I AM STRESSED!
Of course, staying for about four hours after school yesterday didn't help either... we got kinda hyper, but it sure doesn't ease my mind any. Poor Kame- she insists on finishing it by herself.
Anywho- stress. Oh how I want to BURN all the work I've done this year...

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I shall now compose a quick haiku-

For some strange reason
I find a great contentment
In seven-oh-oh.

Consider yourself informed. ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5091101/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/5091101/ Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:22:17 PDT While, I guess that isn't specifically bad, it kinda caused me to neglect my homework for a few hours...
Bastian Balthazar Bux- what an interesting name. Michael Ende was a genius. I'm currently reading MOMO, but the sad thing is that I only have a copy of it in German, , but at least I can read it and call it 'studying for my test...'
I wonder- she hasn't asked me about it yet (course, I sit in the back of the room)- but I wonder if she'd buy it... ah, she typically doesn't care. That's what happens when you're an advanced student in a very amateurish class.
*Sigh.* Testing. I'm so stressed about it that I'm not doing anything. Not a good strategy...
Ah, well, what happens happens- Falkor aid me.
Ne, I shall go to bed now. Maybe I'll talk to ya'll when I'm coherent again... ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/4946762/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/4946762/ Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:51:10 PST Happy birthday to mom on Friday!
Happy birthday to grandma, Nathan and Derrick on Saturday!
Happy birthday to Chandi on Sunday!
Happy birthday to everyone else- I'm too lazy to look you all up!

Oh, yeah- and happy birthday to myself this Friday- you may all have cake!

*And a very merry un-birthday to everyone else who's feeling left out. * ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/4853860/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/4853860/ Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:48:46 PST
Yesterday my parents and I went 4-wheeling. We decided not to stay overnight, so instead I get to sit here in front of the computer and...... actually, that's about all I get to do besides chores.
I took some photos yesterday. We found this old car in the weeds and my mom handed me her digital camera and told me to shoot it. So I did. I pretty much had control the entire time, so I'm happy.
On the subject of cameras, I was talking to my mom and she suddenly remembered that she has her dad's camera (actually, there are two in the suitcase). They were sitting around and gathering dust, so she told me I could have them. The things are REALLY old- EVERYTHING is manual. The flash, focus, f-stop, film winding- everything. It comes with more gadgets and buttons than I'll ever know what to do with, and it also has a tele. lens that's about a foot long. It also takes mercury batteries- which are hard to get and are really expensive.
But I'm still pretty excited.
She says that I have to take a whole roll of photographs today, just to see if the camera actually works anymore. That shouldn't be too hard. The difficult part will be figuring out which button goes to which function and how to use the separate flash and the separate light meter. Maybe I'll take it in to Mrs. Thomas next week and have her look at it...

Well, until the goats come home, tchuss. ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/4823234/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/4823234/ Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:19:53 PST Two more days until end of term... ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/4797830/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/4797830/ Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:05:02 PST My brother bought me an early (EARLY) birthday present today- a Kirara plushie. :3
So happy.

Anywho, I don't have time to reply to the many comments I have received. So sorry. I'll try to get to that on Monday.

Blech. I have to get a job soon to pay for my AP tests. (They're so expensive. I have two this year- German and 2D.)

Other than that, I have a happy hippopotamus dancing on my shoulder.

Um, yeah. Random life report... ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/4621422/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/4621422/ Sat, 19 Feb 2005 10:46:20 PST My parents just left for Hawaii, and I'm sitting here in front of my computer inside of an empty house- well, almost empty. I have my dog...
So, yeah. Great fun, ne?

Last night I bought a new bag for whatevers. It cost $30, but I really like it. It's red with black edges and gold stitching patterns. There are phoenix and dragons and fish on it. Gold on red- it's cool.
There was another bag there that was black with red stitching, but it only had dragons on it. Let's see- dragons or dragons with fish...

Gah. Have I told you yet how lonely it is over here?
My brother has invited me over to his condo to hang out every once in a while, and at two I've been invited to my friend's house to participate in writing chaos... but other than that I have an empty schedule.
I guess I could do my homework... but the only assignment I have right now is to write a top ten list for my creative writing class and it's not due until Wednesday.
No, wait, I lie... I have to read a folder for my Media Writing class. It's all student writing... really depressing and BAD. Most of it. There is a good piece in there once in a while...

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...oh, hi. Spaced out. Sorry.
Listening to happy music right now, but it's not really helping.

Hm. Oh well. Maybe I'll go scrounge for something to eat...

That was your update for the day! Tune in next time for the dull continuation...
Have a good day, ne? ]]> ~Hakidasu http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/4497333/ http://Hakidasu.deviantart.com/journal/4497333/ Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:21:30 PST My dog is sick today. She made a mess on my carpet at four o'clock this morning and I had to spend a half an hour trying to get brown out of the carpet. (It's white- so it stains WAY easy.)
I'm really tired. So glad it's a Friday... I can sleep in tomorrow.
Heh- bet none of what I'm saying is making sense. Ah, well- just updating ya'll about my life. Hm. Yeah. Right.
G'night! ]]> ~Hakidasu