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I've stagnated a lot, art-wise. I need to start prioritizing it more.

School's great this fall- I'm taking animal anatomy & physiology, genetics, human-animal interactions, an honors climate change course, TAing for teaching credit in a low-level genetics, and doing equitation. (Yay, horsies... except I've never ridden with an english saddle, and the last time I was on a horse I was 12. Yikes.)

I'm around wajas and neopets a lot more, recently. (1455 and Draconyst, respectively.) I start at my school-year job in two days. It's amazing, I'm working with people whom I am friends with and enjoy. Taco Bell still eats my time while I'm at home.

I'm very... antsy, once again. I feel like being busy and having everything to do at once. I don't think I'm ever going to be a person completely content. haha.


"And soon it will be all said and done.
And we will all be back together as one...
If we will continue at all."

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/22865827/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/22865827/ Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:36:39 PST [link]

By the way... organic chemistry is eating my brain. Won't be seen much.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/21964892/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/21964892/ Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:05:46 PST
So it's hours and hours of staring at derivatives and integrals, this weekend. That's okay. It's worth it. And I have nice ambient music to listen to, so I'm just relaxing and sorting everything out as I go along.

I feel very happy. I feel as though I am really succeeding, and that is rare. It's nice.

I'm going to go home... visit my high school... stop at Possumwoods... work at Taco Bell a bit. Disney World with my grandparents over break. Scholarship applications to finish, essays to write- going to have to get moving!

Yeah. Really nice, actually.

My schedule next semester is pitifully easy looking, but I'm using it to test the waters a bit- I tossed a 300-level course in that I know has a 'Big Paper.' I haven't taken English here, yet. I want to see how I can do, and whether it would actually be necessary or if I should try and test out.

Planning a lot, as usual. Thinking a lot. I'm enjoying life.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/21692731/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/21692731/ Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:43:23 PST
So I'm hiding out in my room and working on homework. I'm at Taco Bell Friday/Saturday, so I should get a heads up on my actual schoolwork, I guess.

I have a lot of pet projects that I want to evaluate, write down and solidify. I have some research to do into the cost of them, the feasibility... I need to find somebody here to bounce my ideas off of. I have quizzes I need to finish, online. A biology quiz to complete. A speech to write that NEEDS to be good, or I will drop from an A to A- in the course, and fuck my chances of getting into the program I want. Chemistry notes to compress into a legible format. Essays to write for scholarships... I have finals coming up I need to begin studying for.

I'm busy. I just wish I was busy in an environment of my own terms- being busy here, constrained, constricted; I feel very trapped and, thus, unmotivated.

On a brighter note: [link] This website is brilliant.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/21539510/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/21539510/ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:55:52 PST
I have, however, been wonderfully involved in college. I've finally culled down my club involvements to Undergraduate Journal Club, Pre-Vet MA, and Genetics Club. I also joined a society I never expected to; Inter-Residence Council, or IRC. It's a wonderful association- basically the student representation of the housing. I am the representative for my dorm, and a member of the publicity committee... which is what the majority of my photoshop time is going towards, now. I enjoy it.

Excluding calculus, where I have something around a C+/B- my grades are doing very well. I have over a 100 in Biology, a solid B+ in Chem that I am working on pulling up, a comfortable A in Public Speaking (I would have to completely not do my last speech to fail this course,) and solid grades in my 3 other 1 credit courses.

Next semester looks like it will be fun. Bio II, Genetics in Human Affairs, Intro to Computers (this is a joke,) Intro to Economy, and I need another course to have the load I want to carry. I'm waiting to hear back on whether I have received a job offer or not; I might be working as a Counselor at the New Student Orientation, and if so, there's a two credit course associated with it that I must take.

As of now, my schedule is fucking amazing. I wake up at 9am on MWF, but I am out of class at 11 on friday, and at around 3pm on MW. I don't even start class until 3pm on Tues and Thursday. Big, big blocks of time where I don't have to be in class. It's great. I'm going to begin stalking the nearby vet clinics again, along with potentially ramping up my time spent at the Museum of Natural Sciences.

I am also in a relationship. It is a very mentally intimate, physically intimate, wonderful thing. I have never found someone who seems so similar to myself. The downside is there is a very significant (4 year) age difference between us, and my partner is a soon to be graduating senior. Ah. Take it while it lasts, I suppose.

I have a Chemistry exam on Thursday, and I need to get studying for it. Expect an update in a couple months, again.

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"A sharply divided Connecticut Supreme Court struck down the state’s civil union law on Friday and ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. Connecticut thus joins Massachusetts and California as the only states to have legalized gay marriages.

The ruling, which cannot be appealed and is to take effect on Oct. 28, held that a state law limiting marriage to heterosexual couples, and a civil union law intended to provide all the rights and privileges of marriage to same-sex couples, violated the constitutional guarantees of equal protection under the law."

A federal mandate would be much easier, don't you think? Sadly, neither Barack nor McCain are helpful there. Oh well. Someone vote for Barack for me.

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Fun. o-o

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/20191008/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/20191008/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:26:15 PDT
You tell me if that is fucking right.
Fifty. Five. Years.


And people still want to take this away.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/19886916/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/19886916/ Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:31:45 PDT
"Do not fight the will of God," the Rev. Vu Thanh said. "(People must) live in faith of God."

From: [link]

Don't worry. Your husband dying? Wife dead? God's will.
Your sons, daughters dead? Fine. It's God's will.

IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FUCKING BUS DRIVER WITH THE DUI RECORD? Did your God think that it was necessary to murder these people with an alcoholic bastard who shouldn't be operating vehicles?

Nothing is your fault; nothing is anybody else's. It's God's will. Don't bother trying to succeed in life... or if you do try, and fail, that's fine. God's will.

TAKE CONTROL.
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY!

YOU are responsible for YOUR life. Don't idly pass it off to some unprovable omniscient being. You're deluding yourself.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/19526851/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/19526851/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:21:42 PDT
Chemistry.

We know intimacy.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/19448903/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/19448903/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:27:45 PDT
I had my freshman orientation for NC state on the 14th/15th. I'm not a big socializing/networking person, but I still enjoyed myself. There was a lot of free time to just do whatever you want; a lot of people complained, but I spent a lot of the time walking around the campus with two other zoology students. I have a pretty good feel for the main campus, though I didn't have a print out of my schedule, so I couldn't figure out where all my classes are. In addition, I sort of came home and promptly rescheduled half of them, so it wouldn't have mattered anyway.

I had Wednesdays from hell originally, but I messed with everything so it's a little kinder, though earlier in the morning than I would have liked. Still a walk in the park from my 5:30 mornings for the last three years. xD

Mon: Chem lab 09:10-11:00, Calculus 11:20-12:10
Tues: Sociology 08:30-09:45, Chemistry 11:45-01:00P, Biology 03:00P-04:15P
Wed: Biology Lab 08:05-10:50, Calculus 11:20-12:10P
Introductory Topics in Agriculture and Life Sciences (or something like that) 01:30P-02:20P
Thur: Sociology 08:30-09:45, Chemistry 11:45-01:00P, Biology 03:00P-04:15P
Fri: Calculus 11:20-12:10 (Awesome day.)

I also have what has to be the best located dorm on campus. No joke. It's right next to the theaatre, music center, general hang out area, about five minutes from food, and about five minutes from the main brickyard and N. campus where all my classes are. Awesome. Not to mention I'm going to have a dorm full of foreign exchange students. Awesomeawesomeawesome.

I also dropped by a few of the veterinary clinics within biking distance while in Raleigh. Unlike the bastards (I know, I'm being cruel. Butreally. I've tried -seven- clinics, none of them will take me. FREE LABOR, come on. x_X) around here, I actually had two of the three give me additional contact information for volunteering/had me fill out an application. I saw a mastiff and great dane within five minutes at one of them... my kind of clinic. >3

Taco Bell is interesting. The people who work there are very much different from what I'm used to. Though the work is beyond tedious sometimes, I know I'm not going to be there forever and I kind of enjoy it for that reason. It's new. I'd rather work in a lab or something, but at least this job give me some new perspective on people. I'll take it as a learning experience that also pays. xD

(Side note: I have 850 dollars in my bank right now. 850 / 9 months of school = 95ish dollars a month. I need to work some more. xD;

Anyway. Food time. I might edit this later.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/19015532/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/19015532/ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:45:02 PDT
My tablet pen got washed on accident... I'm going to try and get a new one asap, but there are no stores in the area, so I'm going to have to wait for intertube shipping.

Taco Bell isn't bad at all. I usually work at drive-thru, so I just have to smile, be able to add up change decently, and ask if they want any hot sauce. That said, I'm also learning the front desk (which is a pain in the ass) and how to be the person who you talk to at the drive thru (which is even more of a pain in the ass.)

The people there are nice enough, though there are quite a few of them in and out all the time.

Anyway, I expected this to be a longer journal entry, but I have to go toss my clothing on and leave. Apparently I get babysitting duty in the car while my Mother gets her eyebrows waxed.

x.x

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18901450/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18901450/ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:27:11 PDT
So I got a call back from the pet store; no go. D: That said, they do want a permanent employee and I was only going to be there for three months, so I was screwed from the get-go.

Yesterday I got a call from Taco Bell. I have an innate aversion to working in fast food, but of the places I applied to, I've gotten calls back from my two top choices... this is the second best. It's a quiet little TB, and the chick who always manages the front register isn't half-bad looking.

So I went in today for an interview. Waited for about five minutes. Sat down with the manager-person. (A five-foot late-twenties/early thirties woman with cropped hair named Billy Joe. No joke.) She scans my application, asks if I'd graduated yet, what were my plans, blah blah blah.

Then a light goes off in her eyes.

"Oh, Jane is one of your references? You know Cody?"
Yes. I've watched him for his mother multiple times. (Nice little boy, about three years old. Quiet. Mom/Dad are one of our neighbors.)
"My son goes to daycare with him. He's such a sweetie."
Cue mental ka-ching! in my brain.
"Well, we need someone for morning shift. You have transportation, right?"
Yep.
"Okay, well let me get your clothing sizes for the (ugh) uniform. I'm going to hire you."

...I probably spoke with her for five minutes, at most. And now I'll have a lovely just barely-over-minimum-wage paying job that I know I'm going to get sick of insanely quickly. Woot.

And I have to go in for training for the next few days while Puppet's here. ...D: I'll make up for the hours difference by sleeping less.
Caffeine!

Gone through Halo 3 on standard and almost all of heroic. Bioshock time, now. Shame it's not multiplayer.

Sorry about the emo picture.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18751118/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18751118/ Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:08:09 PDT [link]
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Look, you have selection. Click one of those wonderful links and vote, please. C:

....(I got 49/50 on the free-response part of my exam. Man I rock.


Thanks you. c:

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18725394/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18725394/ Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:05:39 PDT
School "ended" Wednesday, but the guy who was presenting the laptop to me decided to schedule that for Thursday at my school. So of course I decided just to go on Thursday and take that exam (got a 94, which raised my grade.... .1,) then I got my laptop. C: It's actually not a bad laptop at all. o_o; Dell, but hey. Now I just need to figure out if I can set up wireless at my house, and life will be good.

Then, yesterday, I got my package from *Zhon. One of the things I received in the package is a coyote skin... my father tied a string around the neck while I was brushing it out, handed the string to my year and a half old brother, and said "Walk the puppy!"

I suddenly understand why I'm so messed up. xD

I also had an interview at a nearby petstore on Sat. I'm not a huge petstore person, but this one is probably the best I've ever seen; it's extremely clean, bright, and the staff have information books on every animal there. That's not to say they use them, but I know that I would have lots of reading material, rofl. I hope I get the job, but the stack of people he had left to interview was rather imposing. Went well, though. How can you resist someone who is going to study zoology in the fall, has already worked at a wildlife rehab and learned, yes, animals poop a lot, and various other activities?

My grandmother also arrived yesterday, and she'll be here for my graduation Thursday. Leaves Sunday, and we pick up a good friend who's visiting from TX from the Raleigh airport about four hours later... He's staying for a week. I'm probably not going to be online much. C:

(And what time I am online, I'll be Altador Cupping away. Go maraqua!)

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18601678/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18601678/ Sat, 31 May 2008 22:57:27 PDT
That said, I got a new one. And guess what? Now I can't find my gba anywhere. >_>; It has to be somewhere in my room, I was on a big Fire Emblem streak a couple weeks back... so time for me to do a nice deep clean of my room.

Soyes. You may not see me for awhile if I do find it... man that game is horribly addicting. To give you some perspective here, I had the game for... maybe three-four months before I lost it. A two hundred and fifty hour save file is almost eleven days of straight playing. I'll allow you to do the math there.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18469566/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18469566/ Fri, 23 May 2008 20:03:46 PDT
So I have to take one final my senior year. I was looking forward to none. >> That means I have Tues-Fri, Mon-Wed, then Monday for the final, and I'm absolutely done! with high school. I'm so ready to be out.


I got my roommate assignment for next semester... a little dissapointed. I applied for NC state's Alexander Global Village ([link]) which is where all the exchange students stay, so you get paired up with people from all over the world... and I got in, but my person's from Illinois. xD Not too exotic, there. (Of course, the first thing I look up is the political activity in the person's hometown. Heavily Democratic. This might work out. xD Not that I'd have a problem with anything else, but I doubt they'd appreciate my LGBT associations. xD)

Hmm. Drawing has been hard lately. Not sure why, think my mind's just on other things.

Make my write my ten-page paper on imagery in Hamlet, please... it's due Friday and I have ten notecards (out of forty) done. X_X

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18367659/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18367659/ Sat, 17 May 2008 13:23:20 PDT Me: -crack up-
Friend: "A&M! I mean A&M!"

Oh man, I think I almost died there.
(It's UT's fault for having evil transfer requirements. Boohiss.)

State is much nicer, he should come here. >> <<


...that's all.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18289371/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18289371/ Mon, 12 May 2008 13:09:17 PDT Have you ever walked out of a test and thought, "Wow, I could have sworn I've taken that class?"
Yeah.

...it was that bad. And I swear to you whoever made that test had a plant fixation. I had !four! questions on plant life cycles. It's a 100 questions. 1/25 of the test was on one small part of one small chapter on plants. wtfhfdjkhfdkjh. In addition to that, DNA doesn't exist on the exam. Nothing. No translation, transcription, replication. Nada. There were two Hardy-Weinberg problems and a simple pedigree, but nothing genetics beside that. Way to -not- cater to my strengths, test. xDDD

....AP US History and English were good, though. Besides some evil essay questions on the former, I'm feeling a 4-5 in English and a 3-4 in US History. (The scoring is out of 5)

I feel... done. Those are the last big tests I'm going to have to take in high school. Just keep measuring away at my soap dispenser project in Engineering, floorplanning away in Drafting, and I'm good for the year. Got a paper to write on imagery in Hamlet still, though. e.e

I'll draw something in the next day or two, hopefully.

(I want the Ghosts songs from NIN... somebody with paypal should pay for it for me. $5 gets you a full picture from me? xD)

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18209710/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18209710/ Wed, 07 May 2008 10:23:43 PDT
I've been making chainmail stuff. o.o Made earrings/necklace/bracelet (byzantine weave) for my mother. Working on a bracelet for myself. They look cool. owo If I had a cam I'd take pictures.

I'm in class right now... don't feel like CADing out a nearby business. So I'm watching my teacher show off his cars. Wtf. xD

I think senioritis is actually setting in on me a bit, and I'm fighting in. I almost missed turning in two assignments in the last two days, and that's... unheard of recently.

AP exams soon. X_X My brain has been taken over by US History. Save me.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18158995/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18158995/ Sun, 04 May 2008 04:33:29 PDT
I DO NOT feel an obligation to attend your FUCKING church because I happen to live with you.

WHAT PART OF ATHEIST DO YOU NOT FUCKING UNDERSTAND?!

I DON'T WANT YOUR SAINTS, I don't want your communion, I don't want to support your church that FUCKING DAMNED AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD TO HELL. ("...O that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter...")

FUCK you. fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou!?

Don't you see the HYPOCRISY? You claim to be a feminist, yet attend a church that does it's best to withhold age-old traditions. You pick and choose, you stretch and interpret... THE BIBLE HAS NO ELASTIC CLAUSE, goddamit! I KNOW you use birth control. I KNOW you had gay friends in college. I KNOW you have promptly ignored all of the Old Testament, because somehow that divinely inspired writing... isn't divinely inspired anymore, because it isn't convenient.

WHY DO YOU SUPPORT THIS institute, these overblown, over-powerful, over-praised ideals? WHY do you need to blame someone, something for your temptation? YOU ARE HUMAN. YOU HAVE EMOTIONS. WHY is your life driven by the idea of a divine, omniscient being?

LIVE FOR YOURSELF.
don't live to get into your rough charcoal sketch of heaven

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18132956/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18132956/ Fri, 02 May 2008 12:57:22 PDT

Scholarship responses have been rolling in for the last week or so, and... well, my self esteem is inflating painfully. xD

I've gotten two military ones: EOD and Marine Corps. Seven thousand dollars. Plus my SAT scholarship, which I got for spending a painful amount of time chasing after small children last summer. And today? I managed to win myself a laptop (no idea on the specs, just that it's a new Dell... not the brand I would have chosen, but hell, free! xD) and another thousand dollars.

Add that in with the 4k school scholarship (which I'm probably going to lose because of the other scholarships. >>; ) and I have thirteen thousand dollars. Even minus the four grand, that's nine thousand. A part time job during the year and I would be able to pay for everything myself. I'm not going to. But the idea that I probably could is insanely liberating.

And this is all with a 3.6 WEIGHTED gpa. I've been in four school clubs in my life; anime club at my old school, GSA (which I didn't have on my military applications,) Art club (went to two meetings,) and the debate club, which I helped form. I've never played a sport. Either I write really well, they like my name?, or I'm just... I don't know. My extracurrics actually look pretty good, but school sections are basically empty. xD

kjdfhdkjhfdkjhfkjdhkjh!!JK!hkjhedkjhdkjfhkjh!!1
Euphoria hasn't worn off yet. I never in my life thought I would get this laptop/1k one. It's -statewide-! Only 4-5 people win. I'm going to do die now, happy.



Give me references, your's or a friend's. I want to draw somebody else's chars.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18045302/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/18045302/ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:15:09 PDT
Highlights of the last week? I brought up my Bio grade, and I have an average of 93.2, .6 more than I need for my bribe, a laptop. Mother never expected I'd actually get all As with my workload this semester. >3 Go me. 95 in AP English, too, and that's without my extra ACR points and a dropped lowest quiz. (a 90. >> ) It'll probably be a 98 when that's all in there.

I woke up at 6am this morning. Why? My Bio teacher and one other student made a merry hour trip to an AP review session in a (relatively) nearby city. Kind of interesting, actually, though the first speaker went over plant botany, so when Mother and I stopped at a nursery (plant one, not human. o_O) on the way home I sat there eyeing up the flower's stamens. >> For some reason she thought I was joking when I told her that was what I was doing...

I actually got a scholarship I applied for! Almost five thousand dollars worth, too. C: Gotta love being paid because my father's in the military.

Friday was the Day of Silence. ([link]) I... it was good. I haven't participated in one since I was still in TX in my rather liberal school, so I definitely got some looks here. However, I passed on the little slip of paper to my Drafting teacher when he asked and got it back a couple minutes later.

"Way to go! Support your silence!! FJ"

Things like that make you just realize that what you're fighting for is worth it.
(And wow, did I really just jump from military scholarship > gay rights? khkjhkjh hypocrisy!)

That said... something interesting that doesn't have to do with school... hmm.

I really must be a boring person.


Oh. I need a job. I'm staring at the Barnes & Noble in the big(gish) city nearby that is about to open... however, lack of experience makes me fail at life. I tend to interview really well, though, and I'm pretty well read... which has to help in a bookstore. xD; I'd hope. I think I might have a chance if I can actually get my foot in the door. (-browses website-)

...time to rewrite circulation notes! And start/finish a powerpoint for engineering!

I love weekends.
I like school.
I'm such a nerd.

The McDonalds in j-ville entertained me... and shows why I never want to work in fast food.
"Now hiring for evenning shifts!"

And the BK near my home...
"Cheesy bacon wrapped a smokin good breakfast"
(And the "N" in 'smokin' is backwards.)

...Oi.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17784644/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17784644/ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:11:09 PDT
happy!happy!happy!happy!happy!happy!happy!happy!

No word on financial aid yet, since what they're offering me right now is based on them thinking I need to pay about double for tuition... but I got a pretty decent package for OOS, I hope it'll just scale down. xD Wishful thinking. (No work study currently, which I'm a tad bummed about... they've got some really cool opportunities, and they pay well for a very part time job.)

...do I have something significant to write about in this post? No? So you get more ramblings about college because my two good friends are A) dropped out or B) going to a community college, so they don't understand my elation well. >> <<

I should be studying digestion. I was studying digestion. I got distracted by the wonderful computer and I'm no longer studying digestion. This is why I'm not letting myself get a laptop with wireless connection once I go to college. xD If I really want on the computer, I'll limit myself to the library/media centers.

Nothing has happened lately. Getting sick of calling the equine rehab... I want to volunteer for you! Free labor! Take me! xD Trying to find a vet clinic in driving distance that'll take me on for the workdays during spring break, which is coming up. I don't want a break, damn it. I want to just finish up school and get to summer so I can -do- something. I've been skipping lunch and working on inventor, too. Sorestless!

Clinton's coming to the biggish city near my home soon. I'm tempted to go. I won't, my father would fucking -disown- me, but the temptation's there. xD


Suggest books for me! I need to read! I'm sick of sitting in English and doodling for half an hour everyday because people are lazyasses and can't read a 400 page book in 5 weeks!

I'm energetic.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17574205/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17574205/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:39:32 PDT
On the way, I swear to you, I almost gone run over three times. My town doesn't know what sidewalks are, so I'm biking on the shoulder of the road ([link])
or grass if it's packed down a bit. My bike's gears are messed up, so I can't put them lower for rougher terrain. Grass is a pain. Anyway, I had three cars pass me literally -inches- away from my left hand, so please, if you drive, be nicer to the bikers out there. ;____; It's traumatizing to have a huge SUV roar past you so closely.

Life is strange sometimes. I got to the horse rehab (the horses are extremely! friendly. There were about ten or so, and as soon as they spotted me they made a straight beeline my way. I like horses.) and there was nobody around. That's fine, I didn't really expect there to be anybody, I just wanted to get an idea of how far it was from my house and if it would be reasonable for me to bike there on a daily/weekly basis. Just on a whim, though, I asked an elderly man who happened to be walking by if he knew the owner of the place. He was the owner. o_o He leases it to the person who owns the rehab, but seriously... what are the chances of that happening? So I got her contact info from him and I'm about to email her. That's all.

Oh, the three legged dog. I was barking- wait, what the hell Nochi?-*biking back from the place and there was a border collie mutt of some sort (pretty dog, very light blue eyes) lying on somebody's property, right next to the road. I didn't really give him any thought. But when I biked past, he stood up on his three legs (missing his front right) and started chasing after me! What's pretty entertaining is that he was really quite fast and decently graceful. o_o He was right beside me for about twenty feet, then reached the end of his property and stopped running. Well-behaved dog there, and hell, it's an entertaining story to tell when you don't know the details.

I got crapped on by a duckling earlier today, too. Life is good when you have a direction and goal and the time to get to it.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17513916/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17513916/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:33:38 PDT
Through some mismatch of papers, I was classified as a non-resident. I can see this mistake happening, seeing as I'm from a military family (so my father's technically a resident of Texas, mother NC) and I'm a Canadian citizen. Hell, my residency confuses -me-. xD; However, correcting this takes a nice paper form... and two-three weeks.

I have three weeks to respond to my second choice about financial aid. I know nothing about financial aid from my first choice because A) I'm registered as needing 20-something grand, and the cost is actually around 14k, and b) I need to send in a form with some other financial shit that wasn't mentioned anywhere on the main website/admission letter/in my original phone call. I found it wandering around the site. >>;

Yeah. So, basically, I have the choice to either take my second choice's money and reserve a spot, or chance it, reserve the spot to my second, and hope to myself that my first choice gives me something decent. Bah. Humbug.

(Though it's kind of funny, the woman I called thought I was an independent student and said I could turn in my tax records, apartment rent info, stuff like that to prove my residency. I was all -is seventeen, doesn't have those things. o_o-

That said, HOW IS EVERYBODY ELSE? I've been neglecting dA so much lately. Any wips you're happy with right now? C:

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17332019/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17332019/ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:04:58 PDT A) Would have kept all my notes, as I just tossed them after the first semester ended.
B) Would have actually started studying them before now. O_O Two months =/= Memorization of a 1200 page textbook.
C) Probably would have paid attention to the teacher more in the "If you're planning on taking the AP exam..." monologues she's prone to.

Joy. Gotta memorize 400 years of US History and a shitload of English, too. xD Funfun. Not planning on being online much.

On the bright side, I just noticed that from my SAT score, I have the chance to be exempt from first-year writing. Delicious. Gotta find three different things I've written lately...

My brother is trying to eat my toe.

That's all. C:

I might draw something later tonight, I could use a break... and I owe people art. x-x

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17255623/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17255623/ Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:31:37 PDT
They have friggin' human hands. [link] And really cool noses/faces. Lots of teeth. O_O And the one I was taking care of basically attached it's tail around my neck and crawled around my shoulders while I was fixing up his cage.

I approve of that animal. I also approve of the attack squirrel, the three baby squirrels, two baby rabbits, 5 goats, 8376786438 geese/ducks, 13 pigeons, the broken-wing crow, the two screech owls, the grey owl, the various poultry, and the duck who believes he's a chicken named Winston. (I'm assuming Churchill.)

All in all, I think I'm going back there. The day got cut short because it was pouring outside. >>

Somebody come here and make me write my paper about the most boring book in existence. x_X;;;

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17224920/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17224920/ Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:27:12 PST
You have no idea how happy I am about this. It's... vaguely ridiculous. I've been stagnant for too long, just sitting around, reading and spending time on the internet and just subsisting...

Apparent baby bird season is starting soon, so they really need volunteers... hell, works for me.

I still need to get a real job, though. Bah. Later, when I can actually transport myself to it.

wheeeeeeeee.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17106135/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17106135/ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:48:54 PST So it goes."

Excerpt from Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17093213/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17093213/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:40:48 PST
"Discuss your concerns for the future of our society and for the people of the world. In addition, tell us about an issue of local, national, or international concern and its importance to you. You must sign and date your essay."

Father decided to close down my page without saving when I went to lay down for a bit. (I've been fighting a fever for the last week; 103.8, 102.6, down in temp to 101.5 today, so I've feeling good enough to work on stuff.) He always does that, just to try and teach me to save before I leave. At least that's his reasoning. I think that's bullshit.

He doesn't like me. Probably the fact that I was packaged in with my mother before he came along.

He did it just for lulz.

argh.

I lost a really really good paragraph, too. You know when you write something and look at it and suddenly you see one thing that needs to be edited and then the whole thing will just fall into place perfectly and you know the next person to read it will actually -remember- what you said, and probably think about it? Yeah. Lost it.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17018064/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/17018064/ Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:22:49 PST [15:27] Jakiao: Your ethernet ports turn me on so hard
[15:27] adotninetyone: baby we'll beeeeee
[15:27] adotninetyone: in the datacenter
[15:27] adotninetyone: behind the server racks
[15:27] adotninetyone: screaming for more
[15:27] adotninetyone: oh god
[15:27] adotninetyone: there is no hope for me
[15:27] Jakiao: Plugging in and out the cat5e!
[15:27] Jakiao: Oh god yes!
[15:27] adotninetyone: @_@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

Friend of a friend's site: [link]

I've officially been entertained.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16963180/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16963180/ Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:16:26 PST brand the top of my hand with the oven element. I have a burn mark from below my pinkie to near my thumb.

I don't think it'll be permanent in all the spots, but damn that hurt. -returns to tap and cold water-

(I hate you, pot roast. I hate you so.)

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16905559/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16905559/ Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:46:16 PST
I'M SO RESTLESS!

I want to move, do something, anything. Wanderlust, damnit. I need a car. I need my license. I need time to fast-forward to this summer so I can -do- things. I'm so... motivated to do work that doesn't involve sitting around. I've been walking my dog, running, making trips to the nearest gas station, just getting out of the house lately. Hence I haven't really been around the internet, besides to post these things.

I can't sit for more than ten, maybe fifteen minutes. I got Bioshock for my 360 and it looks like a really cool game, but I get so antsy sitting down to play that I'm not enjoying it like I should.

...

I hope I stay like this for a long, long time, despite how exasperating it is. I could get so much -done.-

I still draw, but I think I'm going to put any major digital art (besides the pieces I owe people) off for a while. My priorities are shifting, and plus, I can't sit at the computer for long enough. >>


That said, how has everybody else been? Happy? c: I've been crap on commenting people's art, so I've fallen out of touch with most of my watchers. :/

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16810775/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16810775/ Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:59:00 PST
"Your application is scheduled for an admission decision. The decision will be sent to you by mail and updated here on your WolfPAW account at 7:00 pm ET on 3/15/2008. The decision may be to Admit, Deny, or Defer for Final Review."

By the wonderful online counter, that would be...
34 days
828 hours
49709 minutes
2982561-ish seconds

...kill me now.


I should get in.
Going by last year's admissions, I should. I basically fit the average profile of someone who would get in; the average class rank percentage (my rank/number of students) is 18%; I hit at 18.4%. My SAT scores are in the top 3% of students. (Highest score in my high-school class out of the people I've spoken to, and that's a majority of the college-bound people. Go me. Beat our valedictorian by almost 300 points. ) I have decent extracurricular activities. I can at least say they're varied. (Martial arts, backpacking, GSA, art club, teen court, countless hours of volunteering... no school sports, but eh.)

I just want to know. e.e

Assuming a full scholarship doesn't somehow appear to some other school, I will go to this school if accepted, no matter what sort of fight I have to put up against Mother. xD;

I think establishing a major and getting some idea of what I want to do in life is actually... helping me a lot. No senioritis for me. I'm relatively happy, motivated, and actually doing better in school than I generally ever do. 98 in Intro to Engineering, 100 in Drafting IV (though that's not fair since I've only finished one real assignment, Mr. Jones has no idea what he's doing with our class) and 95ishes in both AP Bio and English.

Sorry about the constant school-related posts. It's just what's on my mind right now. c:

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16711257/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16711257/ Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:13:30 PST
So I'm a couple steps away from being finished, and it requires me to enter a pin #. I hadn't gotten one yet, so I went and got mine, got the 'You now have a pin!' screen, double-checked it, and entered it in the form.

Didn't work.

I checked it again, entered again. Didn't work.

So I figured, just gotta reset this application, it probably isn't working because I didn't have it when it started. I hit save, got the "Your application has been saved!," then closed it down and re-opened it.

Nothing saved, except for the first three or so pages I filled out a week ago.

We're talking about an hour and a half of work rummaging through tax shit.

Argh.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16574335/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16574335/ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:10:33 PST I'm debating if I want to get a new one or not. I love drawing, truly, but I see it being a problem in the future. Too much time and no profit. I still doodle a lot on paper, though, gotta try and get the scanner working again.

I have various essays I should be working on right now. I'm lazy. Don't want to do them. (Also, a history of toilets that I need to make a general timeline for. xD;!)

I started a new semester in school thursday. AP Bio, Ap English, Intro to Engineering, Adv. Drafting IV. I think Mr. Jones, the drafting teacher, almost had a heart attack when I told him I wasn't going into any sort of technical career. Too much advanced math. I refuse to set myself up for failure that easily, and I just don't see it as something I could do. That doesn't stop me from enjoying it, and using most of my elective credits for drafting courses, though. xD

We took a mock AP exam in english. (Just the multiple choice part, no essays.) I missed five out of 56. Ninety-one. Beat the student with the second lowest number by seven correct answers. I like the class already. Started reading 'The Fountainhead' today, also. About three hundred pages in, it's a wonderful book. Save author as Anthem, if you had to read that.

We're studying viruses in Bio. It's interesting. Such a tiny, insignificant bunch of protein and dna/rna, and they kills millions of people every year. It seems...ironic.

I apologize for the rambling.

Anybody else just start a semester? How's your schedule? Like your teachers?
I haven't been talking to everybody enough.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16474039/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16474039/ Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:39:28 PST
Urge? No, urge is too light of a word. Compulsion. And if I don't leave immediately, it's stuck in my head until I do, an hour or two later.

The only problem with this is that it has been raining for three of the past days, and my compulsion doesn't seem to mind that. So I get my cd player, (I don't remember where I left my shuffle, and looking for something smaller than my finger just sounds like too much work) grab a hoodie, get some electrical tape and actually get the stupid earbuds to stay in, (Who's going to see me at 2am in the dark?) then I just go and run.

I'm getting better, too. Within a couple days, I already can go farther and faster.
The music is Orgy, if you're curious. CD? Candyass.


On a more related note to dA, my tablet pen is finally dead. Gonna have to wait a month or two before I get another one, we're all low on money, but my father finally came home from FL so we'll be good in a bit. Then it'll work. In the meantime, I'm debating actually touching the prismacolours I own.

(...though I don't know where half of them are, since my baby brother thinks that it's fun to crawl around the house with them.) Argh. xD

My motivation is still here, it's just taken a bit of a less light-hearted turn. This feels more like me. I like it.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16403267/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16403267/ Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:40:09 PST
I have... AP Bio, Intro to Engineering, Drafting IV and AP English next semester. I don't think it's going to be that hard. I need to do well, though, because I kind of sort of need at least a 3.75 gpa.... Mother's bribing me with a laptop. ;; I'm at about a 3.6 right now, where I've been since I started high school. AP courses are on a 6.0 scale and I've been getting nineties in my Bio lately, though, so I'll probably pull it up on that course alone. xD;

I'm happy. I feel motivated and energetic, which quite a strange thing for me, since I'm usually just a calm person. I want to -do- something, go somewhere. Wanderlust. xD I need to get my license and a job. I live in suburbs, though, so job-searching is rather irritating... I have the prospect of a half hour drive to get into the nearest commercial area. Not fun.

In contradiction to my happiness, I'm vaguely worried. I've still got two months to go until I learn about whether or not I'll be accepted into the college I want to go to, and it's gnawing on me... I would have known in about a week, but we were waiting until the end of this semester to send in transcripts, since I get a decent little gpa hike. c:

Art-wise, I'm almost done the polar bear picture. It sucks. -shot- Was fun, though.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16287545/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16287545/ Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:02:39 PST
The first Golden Sun for something like seven dollars.

I lost my original (150+ hour) game about two-three years ago when I moved, and have been checking Gamestop for one for about the last year... they turn over games so quickly, though, that you just have to be lucky. I mentioned it to a friend a month or two ago when I was there and he gave me his old Golden Sun: The Lost Age, which is the second in the series, but it's just not the same. XD; So I finally found another one, and you might not see me for a couple weeks. -shot-

I saw Sweeney Todd last night... very good movie. I think it would have actually been better if it was less bloody, though; I'm really not usually fond of movies that coat the screen in blood. It's not that I'm squeamish or anything like that, I just think that things can be more artistically stunning with less emphasis on it. What's more dramatic, a small amount of blood dripping, or just a squirting everywhere? Though when you slit throats, I guess there's not much choice. xD There's going to be lots of blood.

Brilliant music. I'm currently slightly obsessed with the soundtrack. xD;

(The dA smilies still entertain me.)

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16245028/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/16245028/ Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:34:15 PST Several thoughts have been wandering through my head for the last few internet-less days...

I hate the smell of weed. It's sweet and makes me sick to my stomach. I was in an elevator for a couple floors with a couple people who had obviously had quite a nice new years celebration, and that was not fun.

My family is almost normal... compared to most of my relatives. I've been gone for two weeks visiting almost everybody in my extended family, so I've naturally been making observations on them.
- I have an ex?-druggie uncle with three young kids, and no decent job. People should be sterilized until they can pass parenting tests, damnit.
- I have another carpenter uncle with a wife he doesn't care about, and two more young children. I watched them two summers ago and they'd cry every few days because they thought their parents were going to separate. Seems a little better now, and both adults have genuine affection for the kids, but not so much for each other.
- On my other side of the family, I have an aunt with a fisher/paper mill husband who works a night shift and barely sees his (four!) children. Three boys, one girl. The mother is obsessive in controlling their exposure to the world... the seventeen year old male isn't permitted to see LOTR movies. He's going to be in for a surprise come college.
- My other aunt is a dairy farmer/renter of real estate... not sure of a better name for that. She got married when she got pregnant from her 5+ year boyfriend. Ridiculous. "Let me marry you for your womb." That said, she's probably the best balanced of my entire family. Two young girls, including an adorable one-year-old who butt-drops to the floor on command. Good dog. e.e;

My grandparents intrique me. I worked back the math and discovered my maternal grandmother married when she was nineteen. She has an eighth grade hs education. I love her to death, she half raised me as a child, but... she's stuck between times. She cleans and cooks and washes and does everything around the house.... which would be okay, if she didn't also work the same shift as my grandfather, a diabetic with a love of chicken fat and watching tv.

Yeah, diabetes runs in my family. Everytime I'm hurt in any way, my mother claims it's setting in on me.

On my other side of the family (my 'stepfather's side,' sort of; he's the only father I've known, but he's not genetically mine.) we have a relationship I just plain don't understand. My father's real father is divorced from my grandmother; he delivers bread to places and drinks the money away. My 'new' grandfather is an environmental engineer with a degree in some sort of chemistry. We get into interesting conversations. What's hilarious about this relationship is their entire belief system; George, the grandfather, is probably the most science-minded person I've ever seen. He doesn't believe in alternate medicine or anything that isn't strictly chemical/western science-based. My grandmother, on the other fork of the tongue, is a woman who believes in only herbal medicines. She also believes she has a virus that is attacking her "butt-bone." It's contagious and has spread through the family; however, she doesn't believe in taking 'drugs' like excedrin or the such, so she pops down a handful of white willow bark tablets (which I believe is what aspirin is derived from?) and various other (non-drug!) vitamins, and hopes it works.

I'm rambling, but it's interesting to see them interact. I don't see that relationship working out long-term, but they've built a house together, so... maybe. He's rich, she's poor and dependent on him, so who knows.

I'll write more later... I have a secret santa picture I really need to work on. (I've lost all steadiness in my tablet drawings in the last two weeks. Gotta get better again.)

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15928521/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15928521/ Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:10:36 PST
We basically just need to how a typical debate would be run, what sort of topics would usually be done, their time schedule (so we could adapt it?) and other small things that I'd need to to talk to the person I'm working with about. So yeah. Do it for Nooocccchhhiiii?

That aside, my mother's B-day present should be here soon. o: [link] Isn't it awesome? She likes giraffes.


...I have muchos art I need to finish. xD;

Leopets
Celestia (H)
Lumina (H)
Djinn (FB)

Trades
Obsidhian
Liza + Mute (H)

Kiribans
Sun'scharacterthatshehasn'ttoldmeyet?
Zyerasu

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15855600/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15855600/ Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:03:53 PST
And I don't know why. It's been awhile since I was last like this.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15781733/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15781733/ Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:55:01 PST
Amanuet (Unc. Plushie draik)
Kazzika (Unc. Darigan draik)
Mailukiia (Unc. faerie kougra)
Quan (Auto-converted royal zafara)
Rekkuli (Pink kyrii)
Trokni (Grey shoyru)
Decreate (Ghost lupe)
Cite (Purple lupe)

I have rules on my Draconyst lookup, but really it's a petpage for Lukia, Kohl, Ama and Quan, and just PM/note/neomail apps for the rest. Have a personality/design. Etc.

Yeah, that's about it. xD Spread the word, please, if you have any friends or anybody who would be interested. They're wonderful pets.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15663483/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15663483/ Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:18:54 PST
I haven't signed into either of my labs for quite some time (turns out it was 64 days, I checked by looking at my other lab) and I just noticed today that one of them is frozen. That's a 'wtf?' moment because, as I said, I haven't signed in in a very long time.

So I go and try to sign in, and there's a grarrl named Serended staring at me. Serended? Wtf? I had Kakarsha, Serenade, Vatican and... Kijunna on that account. (GoddamnitKIJU! Why? She's one of my oldest pets. e.e) Frozen. Gah.

And I'm going to try to get the account back, but I'm sincerely doubting my chances, especially since I have no idea when it was taken over/frozen. Could have been almost two months ago.

I'm glad it wasn't my main, but... eh. Give me Kiju back. >3

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15634392/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15634392/ Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:27:49 PST I still need refs from you both. xD

Drawing all these tags is kind of therapeutic, kind of bad for me. Therapeutic in the way that they're simple, stress free. Bad because I'll never improve if I become complacent like that. I refuse to not at least try to continue improving.

That said, I have a list of about twenty little pictures people on neopound asked me for. Kill me now. xDD

Turkey day was boring, simple. I'm still stuffing myself with lemon meringue pie. My mate came over, we watched some Noir. My father's home for the weekend; he's currently stationed in FL for EOD training (he dismantles bombs >>,) so it's interesting to have him home. He and I don't really get along, we spend our time together ignoring each other.

I need to fix our scanner. Now that school's back in, I spend half my time doodling, (and I still have a 92 in AP Bio. Ohyes, I own at life. Biology is just easy for me, it makes sense.) and not being able to do anything with my doodles is killing me.

I've learned to love Rammstein recently. I go through moods in music, where I dislike some genres that I formerly loved. Lately all rock had been like stabbing rocks into my skull, but that's receded now. Which is good, because I think my father would disown me if I turned my mother's music on over his. xD

...I'm rambling, aren't I?

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15475117/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15475117/ Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:43:37 PST
I like numbers like that. The two 12:34s daily are my favourite times of the day. Ohyes. 11:11 is also a cool time. And. 02:46. And... I look at the clock and make a pattern between numbers. o-o I don't know why, it's just something I've done for a long time.

Hmm. What else can I talk about?
- Long weekend, hence I'm at home at 10:30 on a weekday.
- I kick ass at Halo. I had two friends over yesterday and besides two game of rocketball, I pwned them. Repeatedly. Even on team slayer when it was me against both of them.
- I should be boiling eggs right now. I don't know why. o_O; Mother told me to.
- Yeah, I'm running out of things to put in a checklist.
- [link] <- That website is basically god. It's just... great. Go read it, and apologies for the religion-inclined among you.

...I'll make you want to click. The website is 'Why won't God heal amputees' dot com.


I'm booooorrreeeeddddddddd.

Joined a new site: [link] Try it?

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15313542/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15313542/ Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:01:33 PDT
"Well, if I was a photosynthetic pigment, I'd always be in an energized state."

May I also mention the stomata hokey-pokey?

You bring the CO2 in, you let the O2 out, then you send it to the cycle and shake it all about.

Wow. Kill me now.

(Yeah, have I said I'm at school, bored, and really need to have less time for my DNA tech class? I finished everything for the week on Tuesday, and I have until next tuesday before she posts anything new. -headdesk-)

I think our scanner's working now. Prepare for an onslaught of doodles.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15070478/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15070478/ Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:11:33 PDT
1. Choose a few of your own characters. Five at the most.
2. Make them answer the following questions.
3. Then tag three people.
4. Feel free to go ahead and add some questions yourself!!

OCs:
Kohl
Amanuet
Lukia
Nameless


How old are you?
(I'm going to convert them all to human years. >> Also, their ages vary by the time I'm rping them in, so this is really just my rough guesstimate.)

Kohl: I... don't know. o.o It's been about twenty since I woke up, but I haven't changed since then, so I have some years behind that.
Amanuet: Fifteen. (Kohl's basically a pedophile, if you go by US laws! xD -never noticed that before- )
Lukia: Twenty-three.
Nameless: By body, I'm about twelve. (Stupid growth inhibitors.) I'm actually around twenty, like Kohl.


What's your height?
(Oh god, this is going to be difficult. I have rough size comparisons for my chars, but not any actual numbers...)

Kohl: Three foot.
Ama: Almost four feet tall; I'm less long, more tall than Kohl.
Lukia: Six foot at the top of my head... add in my wings and I'm quite a bit taller, though.
Nameless: Five feet and a few inches... my species is rather large.

Do you have any bad habits?
Kohl: I tend to... not sleep. And be violent about keeping myself awake.
Amanuet: ....what were you asking? I wasn't paying attention.
Lukia: No.
Nameless: Probably? (I haven't developed his char enough, damnit.)

Are you a virgin?
Kohl: Depends on your definition of virgin.
Amanuet:...*ditto*
Lukia: Can I stop answering these now? -avoids question-
Nameless: Um. Well, this is kind of a difficult question for me. My mind isn't (digital wooorrllddd) but I guess my body would be. o-o ;

Who's your mate/spouse?
Kohl: -glances at the name below-
Amanuet: -glances at the name above-
Lukia: I haven't run into any of my species for over ten years. You think I'd have a damn mate?
Nameless: I did, but it wasn't real.


Do you have any kids?
Kohl: Not possible.
Amanuet: What she said.
Lukia: No.
Nameless: My world didn't have children. o.o

What's your favourite food?
Kohl: I hate food. Honestly, how do you stand the texture? x.x
Amanuet: I don't have a favourite, actually.
Lukia: Goat's pretty good.
Nameless: Anything with honey. owo

What's your favourite ice cream flavour?
Kohl: Ew.
Amanuet: Mint chocolate chip!
Lukia: >> Rocky road.
Nameless: What's ice cream? oo;

Have you killed anyone?
Kohl: Not... on purpose.
Amanuet: No.
Lukia: I should.
Nameless: ...yes.

Do you hate anyone?
Kohl: If you switch out anyone with anything, yes.
Amanuet: Not really.
Lukia: Many people. e.e
Nameless: Can I hate a society?

Have any secrets?
Kohl: Of course.
Amanuet: Yes.
Lukia: From who?
Nameless: Doesn't everybody?

Do you love anyone?
Kohl: Yes.
Amanuet: Yes.
Lukia: No, not anymore.
Nameless: I don't know enough people to love them. ;;

What is your job?
(Not applicable to my chars. >> )

Boy or girl?
Kohl: Female.
Amanuet: Girl.
Lukia: Male. O_o;
Nameless: Male.

What do you do to relax?
Kohl: Stay someplace cold.
Amanuet: Talk.
Lukia: I don't relax. e.e
Nameless: I like weaving stuff.


I tag anybody who wishes to be tagged. Because I'm lazy like that, and don't want people to feel obligated? o-o

Lukia is changing from a sensitive character to a bitter asshole in my head. Somebody stop it, he's my favourite.

(He's also been completely revamped, along with his entire species. Picture sooner or later, he's been covering my notebooks.)

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15040782/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/15040782/ Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:37:20 PDT
I cannot (could not?) for the life of me pick exactly what I wish to do.

What I've wanted to do since childhood was become a vet.

But it's insane. I understand the reasoning (you are working with people's pets/animals/stock,) but the gpa requirements, classes, amount of volunteer work... it's HUGE. Not to mention it's more than the typical four years of college, and my family isn't exactly rich.

...however...

...I can't think of anything else I truly would ever want to do. I was the nerdy kid in elementary school who always carried around books on animals. I actually went through a phase (don't laugh at me. >> ) where I spent almost a month or two acting completely like a dog. My grandmother even put my plate on the floor for me. xD

I tried doing a veterinary job ready this year at school, but I don't have my license, (the school lost my effing paperwork, then told me for a year 'Oh, no, we have it, we'll call you.' I was a junior before I even got my permit. There are freshmen who get theirs. e.e) my mother works until five so I couldn't get a ride to the clinic, and the school doesn't understand how to work with their kids, so I couldn't work out a way to get their by school bus.

I digress.

I'm filling out an application to NC state right now, picking my major as Zoology, with the intention to pursue pre-vet as soon as I can work up the requirements.

I know that, if I can actually get into and through the college, I can pay my mother back. The average salary for first year vets is about as much as both of my parents make together right now, so... I'm wandering. Sorry.

I'm happy.
...I think.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14853344/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14853344/ Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:30:50 PDT
That actually isn't the point of this journal, though.

I need music. Lots of it.

Actually, I need music suggestions for two different things; first, music for my own enjoyment and second, for Amanuet's page.

For me, I listen to basically everything ambient/techno/etc, like a decent amount of rock, some metal, and basically anything that has a female vocalist. >> I have weird taste, shuddup. Suggest a band or some particular songs, I'll listen to basically everything.

For Ama's page, I want something that's not as startling as the stuff I have on there right now; that's there because I was obsessed with the song while working on the page. (The greater good, NIN, if you have FF and no plugin to hear it) I don't know exactly what I want, so just... throw me at any music you think might match Ama? Read the personality section on there (it's three or four paragraphs) if you want to know how her char is.

Life is good, and I'm overly entertained by all the smilies on dA.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14775534/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14775534/ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:38:28 PDT
1. I have a nine month old baby brother who is hell to hold while typing. He also loves my game controllers. e.e
2. I actually (-gasp-) draw humans on paper relatively often. They suck, so I'm working on it. Ama has a zoomorph form I love, though.
3. I'm bisexual, but not in the normal terms. I simply don't find people overly attractive, period, and don't see the point in excluding half the population from my future. I've dated both sexes.
4. I absolutely hate using the same shading style for extended periods of time. I don't really have a particular style, shading wise, and actually really like that.
5. I'm envious of cartoonists. ;;
6. Politically, I'm about as liberal as you can get. ...which is actually kind of funny, because I had to meet one of our (Republican) senators for an award, and was dropping comments the whole time. -cough-
7. Neopets made me start drawing; it never would have happened, otherwise. Then people ask me why I don't quit, and I laugh.
8. I'm an introvert, but I don't mind starting up conversation with people... provided I know who they are, even if I don't know them. I'm not shy, I just don't like lots of people around me. I've made good friends by bothering them. xD
9. I really wish I could draw dogs better. :/

aannnddddd...

10. I think the Santa smilie on dA is really creepy. o-o -looks down-

Can you tell I ran out of things to say? >>

Nochi tags ~Shetried ~wanderings ~Littlepainthorses, ~ShatteredSmile, ~Kikuli, and anybody else who reads my journal and wants to do it. Write down ten random things about yourself. >>

...I feel talkative lately, sorry about all the journals.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14712459/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14712459/ Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:19:45 PDT right. I know I can't be the only person who occasionally wanders upon a picture that you just can't stop thinking about for a bit. Maybe a poem that you can't -quite- figure out, but lingers in your mind? Yeah. They resonate, damnit.

This did have a trigger, so let me put forward ~so-normal for that; I'll showcase what she recently uploaded in just a second.

What pictures/etc have you wandered upon on dA that resonate for you? Ones that you can remember off your favourites list, pictures that you would put forward as being 'right'? I'm curious as to if people have similar taste to me, or if this is highly individual... which wouldn't surprise me, either.

As for my contribution, I must ask everybody to look at these pictures:
'Solitaire' - [link]
'Shadow 3' - [link]
'Broken Dreams' - [link]
'Burn your Life Down' - [link]

And what basically prompted this journal, and so I exclaim to you 'read, damnit!';
'angel, i tried' - [link]

I don't know, maybe I'm the only one who gets things like this. -wonder-

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14684935/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14684935/ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:57:28 PDT
That said, I actually have a point for this journal. Suggest people for me to watch. I did large scale murder on my watch list a couple days ago, cutting it down to just people I actually know/talk to.

With the exception of *Hideyoshi, because he's just an idol. xD

I want you to suggest your friends, not overly popular, talented people. I see those pictures in favourites already. I want people I can talk to, not someone that has 2378463 watchers; I wish to meet people, not just join the crowd.

Their art doesn't matter as much as the effort put into it, or the pure fact that they try and draw the best they can. As long as they don't mind a random person commenting on their pictures, trying to start up vague conversation, I'll watch'em. c:

I dream? of a day where I know every single person on my list by name. (Never gonna happen, though, I'm utterly horrible at names. xD)

To-do (Others)
Supaslim: Cleric: 40%
Littlepainthorses: Pompom guy: 2%
Ninetails390: Sidhia: 20% but probably restarting.

To-do (Me)
Amanuet's page: 90%
Unnamed adult: 50%
Beauty and the Beast: 2%
Gamer adopts: 2%

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14677595/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14677595/ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:48:09 PDT never good enough. At anything. Art is at a standstill. Got my fucking transcript, 3.6, 42nd in my class of 230 or so. Not good enough for Mother. Not good enough for me. I haven't taken an easy class in three years. My elective this semester? DNA technology. Ugh. Ugh

Weak. Weak. Bad. Pitiful. Smallinsignificantlame.

I don't want to do anything. I don't want to talk to people. I want to draw, but I want to draw something important, and I'm not good enough for it. I don't think I ever will be.

I'm such a fucking emo kid. Somebody shoot me in the head before I become contagious.

To-do (Others)
Supaslim: Cleric: 40%
Littlepainthorses: Pompom guy: 2%
Ninetails390: Sidhia: 20% but probably restarting.

To-do (Me)
Amanuet's page: 90%
Unnamed adult: 50%
Beauty and the Beast: 2%
Gamer adopts: 2%

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14533601/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14533601/ Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:50:56 PDT
'Art high'

I'm open to basically anything. I deal in equals if we do a trade; we decide ahead of time whether the picture is going to be fullbody, full background, etc etc etc, and both of us do that sort. I don't like the idea of working my ass off for a scribble, and I know you don't either. xDD

I also have my test tube draik adopts: [link]

And! I can pay for wajas commissions, but definitely not neopets commissions... (-coughnotemecough-) You heard nothing.

It's my bday tomorrow, love me and trade with meeeeeee.

Oh, and go check out this: [link] And love her. Because people who draw things for Nochi are awesome.

....I apologize for the huge rush of useless journals lately.

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14429672/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14429672/ Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:39:01 PDT
-bannerswaaavvveeee-

September 8th. Virgo, bitch.

...I'm trying to beg my mother to allow me to get one of my friends chinese crested/sheltie puppies. Probably gonna be an ugly bugger, but I want a dog that's mine. The one I have from childhood, Slurpee, never really got along with me. And he's old now, and I want someone to run with. o-o

I just called an animal 'someone.'

Sorry about the lack of art. I got kicked off the comp for the whole week.

I've had so much sugar today, I'm bouncing in my chair.

-hop-

-hop-

-hop-

....did you expect something meaningful here?

]]> ~Kunochi http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14228963/ http://Kunochi.deviantart.com/journal/14228963/ Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:01:29 PDT
I also don't really talk about myself. It bothers me.

Do I act like some sort of robot? Am I something that never laughs, never cries, never responds in any human way? I don't want to be like that... The comment's rubbing on my mind like fucking sandpaper.


I wish to rp. Anyone alive? -typing up response for Lukia right now- I'm slow in response, but I do do it eventually. I can start. Mixed species are fine. Neomail or note or email or aim. Prefer notes.

Latest example, probably won't make sense to you but can give a feeling for my writing:
He did know the answer to her questions, rhetorical or not. The end of these woods was far, farther than he had ever flown as a aerial being, but seeing from high ground is always an advantage, and his species kept detailed maps and drawings of the surrounding areas. All it took was less than a week or so of travel directly east until you reached the end; there the trees slowly disintegrated into level plains and grass.

Lukia had been wandering in the forest for weeks now, denying himself the loss of even this small familiar territory, simply exploring and living without his wings. Which, he mused to himself, was more difficult than he had expected. He was clumsy on the land, and having a long chain attached to you isn't the best for stalking prey...

...but then her final question snapped into his mind, and he pulled a stop to his memories. How had she ended up in the ruins without being detected by anyone? Most of them were highly watched by the Reds, and a female creature with her colouring would be noticed in minutes, no, seconds, against the black and grey rock. Was this before or after he left? And once again... what -was- she? His eyes flickered towards her flaming tail for a second time, and the moving line of fire burned into his eyes, leaving blue-green-black streaks, adding yet another source to his disorientation. Too many questions...

"I think they are probably one and the same..." He gathered his thoughts for a second, wondering what this conversation could end up being, "We aren't that far from where I used to live, so it stands to reason they are most likely the ones I know... there are dozens of small, worn down parts of the main ruins that are all built across the mountains. We usually watch them all, but maybe you were lucky and ended up in one we didn't know of. Was it hidden at all?"

]]> ~Kunochi