Answer: Yes she is!

Well, my stomach is slowly feeling better, but I seem to have hurt my back! D8;

I think I try to do too much sometimes and this one bit me in the ass. Of course, my back pain made my stomach pain actually seem worse, but now that my back is feeling better, my stomach doesn't hurt as much as I thought it did yesterday.

I think college has pretty much shot my health. I don't eat or sleep enough, and I haven't been absent the whole semester, even on a couple of days that maybe I should have. So last night I decided that my health was actually important (what? No way? What's wrong with me! )


Seriously, college has put itself first and me second. Projects take so much time that us students will do anything to make sure that the project is alright, even at personal expense.

So today, I'm taking a health day. And there's no school tomorrow because it's election day > )

Hm... maybe I could actually clean my room today... and.. like.. get ahead on schoolwork. Yeah..

I have a very tiny pain in my tummy, on the lower right, and I'm worried that I might require surgery.

If the pain persists, I will be going to the doctor tomorrow. Hopefully I won't have to, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

I'm wondering if any of you have had appendicitis, or know someone who did, and how long it took for the pain to become really obvious?

Or could the pain still be very mild and be appendicitis?

I've heard appendicitis pain is very sharp, but I don't actually know anyone who's had it, so I can't be sure.

Halp? ;_;

I do realize that a good chunk of my watchers are younger than me and are not able to vote, but I'd like your input on this anyway.

Who are you voting for and why? (or if you can't vote, who WOULD you vote for?)

And if you're not voting: why?

This is a BIG one. I'm so glad I turned 18 on time owo

[link] <<< HIGHLIGHT FOR LINK

Menewsha.com is an avatar-based forum where dorks like me like to hang out and collect pixel items! I'm almost amazed at how fun it actually is, haha. I really recommend it.

For those of you who are part of Gaia Online, you probably have a vague idea of this is like, only Menewsha is, in my opinion, a better community, with nicer items and nicer people. I've actually left Gaia for this website, because it's not as elitist and the items are prettier. Also, unlike Gaia, the shops actually get updated.

If you decide to join, please remain active so that we can hang out~

my name over there is PlatinumChild, look for me~

And tell me if you need help.


And so, the return of my HW list in the next block.

Cultural Studies- Day of the dead, small altar writing
Visual Culture-Reflection on important issues and suggestions
Cultural Studies-Reading
Life Drawing-Skeletal leg illustration
Form and Space-Obtain Materials
Form and Space-Illustration Board Form
Composition and Critical Thought- Essay
Principles of Design- Render Fruit
Drawing and Composition- Still Life Window

Well, school seems to have relaxed enough for me to try and catch up with things going on online. I've got some interesting things to tell you all (like my stalker problem? Haha).

I got five hours of sleep last night and this is the way I'm keeping myself awake while I wait for the bus. Huzzah!

So. I seem to attract men at bus stations at corners. The first one that really freaked me out was when I was waiting for a bus pretty late at night and the guy starts asking me about myself. The questions are normal at first but slowly he starts to get more personal and I end up having to lie to him about not having a phone. He then says he wants to escort me home so I tell him no, someone is picking me up. He responds with "are you sure?" to which I answer in the affirmative. He asks a few times more which makes me really nervous and am grateful when he doesn't get off the bus where I do.

The second man, I have seen more than once, and this man is a womanizer, I think. I keeps blowing kisses at women and telling them to have a nice day, completely ignoring the men around it. I'm not saying he should be blowing kisses at them but his intent is kind of... obvious.

The third man I've seen a few times, always pretty close to me. I was standing on the bus (as it was full) and I wasn't holding on to anything, so when the bus moved, I moved my foot back for balance, and he thought I might fall, so he lightly touched my waist. This would have been fine with me if he had let go right after, but slowly his and moved to my ass and then just rested there. If my stop hadn't come up I don't know how I would have reacted but it would not have been pleasant for him.

The fourth is a man who said hello to me at a corner as I walked to the bus station. I pretended to ignore him, as random men tend to say hi to me for some reason. However, a minute later he's alongside me on his bike talking to me. Like the fist man, he begins by asking me basic questions and somehow moves into personal things. He crosses the line that one is not supposed to cross without a pass or ticket just to follow me, and asks me where I live. I point in a general direction and when he asks the name of a street I flat-out lie because I'm not really feeling like his intentions are what he's pretending they are. He then asks me if I sleep alone. I say yes and he responds with "we can sleep together, if you want". I respond with a shake of my head. Then he asks me to be his girlfriend. I say I'm not single. I refuse him multiple times and he says things like "he doesn't have to know" or "it will be our secret". I am not about to morally degrade myself by going out with an idiot who doesn't understand "no" and takes me for being an "easy" girl.


I've also had multiple random men come up to me for no good reason, or getting too close. And people who want me to get close to their car. NO THANK YOU.

What is it about me, anyway? At least in high school the boys were polite enough to shut up the first time I said "no."

I bet it's the boobs. And the fact that I look small and appear unable to put up a fight 8D;

Anyway, my HW list will be going back up soon, now that I have time to make one LOL. Probably when I get home.

I have 131 messages to read and 191 deviations to look at right now >w>

How's college?? @w@

Unlike some people on here who won't admit they're in college *coughguesswhocough*, I WILL admit it. And I will tell you right now that I have almost no live and there is no such thing as 8 good hours of sleep in college!!

So to improve my time-management skills, I will be going on a hiatus, checking my mail only once a week. If you have something important to say, please say it in a note because I will practically ignore every other kind of message.

It's not like I've been all that active in the first place (the last time I submitted an art piece was on August 14th, 10 days before college...and it's now October!)

It's going to be hard for me not to get distracted, but if I so much as comment you, kick my ass out of deviantART, or at the very least ignore me until I say I'm not on hiatus anymore.

This also means that I will ignore people on MSN, unless I'm talking to them about school. DON'T YOU DARE MESSAGE ME OR YOU WILL COME OFF THE FRIENDS LIST..

(You too, Chison ;_; )

Wish me luck! I hope to be back before the end of the month. (haha woah, I never thought I would every say/type something like that).

I will miss you all!





EDIT!!
I might come on here to ask opinions to quote in my college papers. you can talk to me then...

Since a lot of my papers are art-related, I figure I would go to an art community to get quotes...

Just thought I'd throw that out before I log out.

I need to interview someone who says "that's so gay" for a HW assignment, but I haven't been able to, so I want to look for someone over the internet, since I can just send a message with questions for them. So if you say "that's so gay" or know someone who says it, can you lend me a hand? You won't have your name mentioned, I just need to interview someone because I don't want to make assumptions, and I don't want to like about interviewing someone 8D

So.. help?

STRESS in capital letters.

I am starting to feel very stressed, and I have a need to tell SOMEONE. So you're all getting my complaints. My assignments are starting to increase and pile up, and I'm starting to get less sleep. I feel like soon I'll be sleeping later and later, and my chest is beginning to feel just a tad heavy. Gah. I wish my time-management was better, and that I lived closer to the school. I'm just so tired of having at least 2 hours eaten out of my day because I have to commute.

FUCK.


I even have a blister on my finger (burn) from one of my projects. It doesn't help when it's on my drawing hand. HA.

*whines*

Well, I was going to get one of those HP lap tops with really good reviews, but the space was lacking a bit, so I kept on searching for quite a while and I found me a Dell~

I happen to have found the last Dell they had left, so that automatically shaved 100 dollars off the price. And then dad found a teeny scratch on the surface, so that was 30 dollars off. So it was cheaper than the one I initially had in mind and it has more space! It's smaller than the other one by an inch or two but the screen size is very decent, and so far I'm really liking it. I've heard some horror stories about Vista though...

I'm still going through installiing and un-installing what I want and don't want, and that might take about an hour... the computer also has the wrong time zone on it, so I have to change that before I get throuwn for a loop LOL

Yay, lap top!

Oh, I've also got my own checking account now, and my debit card should be comming in about a week. This should make commissions in the winter a lot easier on me... I wonder how much the rest of my money will last, though....


Hm.. I seem to make less typos with this keyboard than with my PC one....

EDIT: I just got ANOTHER check. This time from my school. It's the money they didn't take from my loans that they're giving to me in cash. Sweetness.


Oh, and there was a horrifying accident today involving the MetroLink somewhere near Chatsworth (close to where I live, somewhat) and people died. For someone who has to travel daily, that's not the greatest thing to hear. The Metrolink is a train though.. I don't ride trains.. still... it scares the SHIT out of me, because my agnosticism won't let me believe I can go to heaven... *cowers*





I am currently procrastinating because I am very exited~

I come home kinda mopey because I'll probably take a while doing my homework tonight, but I find mail on my desk. I open it, and what do I see? A $1,000 check~

I can get me a lap top now~ hehehehe...

(oh, and the money is from a scholarship). I already have a specific lap top in mind. Hopefully I can get it because it got some great reviews..

oh, and my to-do list will be back up this weekend, when I can update it properly. Right now I have to hurry my ass up and away.

So I finally got to pick up my glasses (I finally had the time, LOL).

and I must say: HOLY SHIT THE COLORS.

They just... jump out at me now. I lurve them now haha. I promise to take a picture myself this weekend for you guys, but right now I'm kind of rushing to get my stuff together and leave for school (ant to buy myself a big sketchbook which I will tell you all about later.

Wow... everything just looks.... BETTER. LOL I've never had glasses before so this is interesting. The only thing that bothers me is that they somehow distort the perspective on my screen for some reason, so I probably won't use them too much for the initial stages of my art because... they might end up looking really funky. I will be using them for coloring though...

I see the world differently now~ LOL

oh, and in the picture I'll take, you will all see just how fast my hair grows....pretty damn fast.

TO-DO LIST

Life Drawing I
-none for now-

Form and Space I
-none for now-

Honors Introduction to Visual Culture
- Term Paper 1: Artists and Objects in Visual Culture, 0% Done, DUE September 30th
-Week 3 Discussion Question, 0% Finished, Due September 9th
-Create O-Space portfolio, 0% Finished, Due September 9th

Honors Composition and Critical Thought
-Term Paper 1, 0% Finished, DUE October 1st
-Read "Creativity in Art and Ethics", 0% Finished, Due September 10th
-Read "Aesthetics: The Mother of Ethics?", 0% Finished, Due September 10th
- Read "Ethics, Aesthetics, and Design", 0% Finished, Due September 10th


Principles of Design
-Read chapter on Shapes, 0% Finished, Due September 11th

Drawing and Composition
-Tall Furniture, See-through drawing, 0% Finished, Due September 12th

Cultural Studies
-Read "God Grew Tired of Us", 0% Finished, DUE October 17th
-Fieldwork Paper on Verbal Culture, 0% Finished, Due September 26th
- Read "Facing the Problem", 0% Finished, Due September 12th
-Read "What's Behind the Asian Mask", 0% Finished, Due September 12th
-Read "Last Word in Anti-Semitism"

CLICK THIS PLEASE>> [link]

And I'm curious, how many of you have started school and how have the first days been for you? I realize all I do is talk about myself, but I'm curious about all of you now~

Well, I'll start off by saying that I was so nervous that I had trouble sleeping last night. I even regressed back into some of my childhood nightmares! Still, today was pretty cool.

My first class is Life Drawing, and on the very first day, we get a nude model. And I'm sitting there, keeping my jaw from dropping to the floor. NUDE MODEL OMG.

I swear, that man could dress and undress like a ninja, and despite his age, he had a pretty nice body. He was thin, but obviously fit. So, the class is from 8 am to 3 pm (with a one-hour break around 12), and I must say, it's quite a helpful experience. I can draw men now~ If you look at my gallery, you'll notice it lacks men. Haha~

I think the class itself is totally worth the time. I did quite a few sketches of the nude model. We did some 5-minute sessions, 10-minute sessions, 25-minute sessions, and even an hour long session. I also made some very nice friends, and I'm certainly looking forward to tomorrow.

The teachers are helpful, the environment. I'm enjoying it. What else can I say?

Now if you'll excuse me, I have homework to finish~

Yesterday, I found 's journal on deviantART's today page, and thought that maybe I'd write a similar journal to hers before I forget or don't feel like it anymore.

Her journal basically lists things that she doesn't want people doing/asking, and I think that I'd like to tell all of you the kind of things that bother me, things that are okay, and things that just annoy the hell out of me.

First off are these watch for watch, favorite for favorite, or comment for comment requests. I see this on people's pages, on my own pages, and in the forums (particularly the thumb share forum). Now, a comment for comment I can handle. In fact, this hardly bothers me at all. What bothers me is when someone says "I'll favorite something of yours (or "I'll watch you") if you favorite something of mine! (or "if you watch me"). Usually it's people whose art is not too impressive, so I really don't want to, and I won't. If I'm impressed by someone's art and they ASK me to watch them or to favorite their work, it sort of turns me off, because they seem like they don't really care about the art. They care about statistics. Favorites and watchers. Don't get me wrong, I care about these too, but I don't go around asking people to watch me or favorite my work! If you watch me, and you add my stuff to your favorites, I hope it's because I earned it and not because of something else.
I will only watch someone if:
1. I know them and think they're nice and intelligent
2. I think their art is neat
3. Both 1 and 2.
If someone asks me, they've most likely deterred me from watching them.

Another thing that bothers me, but only on occasion, is when people post on someone's profile just to advertise themselves. Now, if they're asking for a bit of help, that's one thing, but when they're trying to get popular by posting around, that really gets me going.

Moving on... I'm a big personality person. If I find the attitude of the artist irritating, I will un-watch them. I don't care about their millions of page views. If I can't stand them, then I can't stand them. This also goes for moral values. I respect different values and all that, but there are certain lines one just should not cross. I absolutely detest liars. I've unwatched some very popular artists because they lie. And thieves. Same thing.

It also really ticks me off when an artist brings down their own art to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It's just incredibly disappointing to watch someone you admired going down steadily until their anatomy is even worse than yours. Just. No.

Random asking for free art or art trades. Only people who know me can ask for those, especially with my trade slots currently closed. And I never do free art, unless they're gifts, NOT requests. I do have a life you know. There are other things to get done. I also don't like it when people expect me to deliver a full-color, when all they're willing to give me is a sketch. It's just not going to happen.

Let's talk about constructive criticism before I forget about it. I hate it when people copy others to pretend like they know what they're talking about. I also hate it when people say "you suck" and then leave (hasn't happened to me yet, thank goodness). Another thing that occasionally bothers me is one-liners, or even better, a one-word comment. You know, it's nice to know that you like something, but telling me why would be nice too! It's not that I don't appreciate short comments or anything, I'd just like more sometimes.

and my biggest peeve of all. THIEVES. I hate art thieves with a passion and can become angry if a thief doesn't get that he or she has been caught and needs to take the stuff down. For the thieves that actually do what they're told, I don't like them, but I don't hate on them after they've redeemed themselves, either. But I just hate it when people steal.


ON ANOTHER NOTE: I can no longer keep up with thanking each and every single one of you for your faves in person. It's not that I get that many favorites, it's that I don't have the time. So please don't think I'm neglectful or anything, I'm just busy. OMG college next monday! *eeeek* I'm so... ]]> ~TheChibiPhoenix http://TheChibiPhoenix.deviantart.com/journal/19822944/ http://TheChibiPhoenix.deviantart.com/journal/19822944/ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:51:06 PDT
.: Partners in Crime since June 20th, 2007. Remember February 9th, 2008~:.

Yesterday (August 21st, for those of you on different timezones than me) was my college orientation, and I must say, it was better than I expected. However, I did have some moments that made me feel like crying. For those of you who know me, you know that despite my occasional meekness, I do not cry often at all. But I'll get to that later on.

I wanted to have pictures in this journal because I got a lot of neat stuff, but I can't find the camera. I'll have to wait for mom. She's awesome at finding things the rest of us can't seem to locate.

On to the actual journal...


Because I can't pay for housing, I have to commute to the Los Angeles National Airport Area every day, Monday through Friday. The school is so close to the airport you can watch the airplanes take off. They look so HUGE compared to how we see them at home. Anyway, I got on the bus, and I managed not to get lost on my way to school (all by myself, yay!). I really wish I had a car so I could drive over there, but that would do me no good, because I don't have a license (I haven't taken the driving test), and my family can't afford separate car for me anyway. Both of my parents need their respective cars so there's nothing for me to drive. And gas prices are horrid.

So I get to the school and realize I should have taken a sweater, because where I live, it's hotter than where the college is. Much colder. Blah. When I got there, there was already a lot of students. And coffee. YAY. I don't really like strong coffee but it was warm and I was sleepy.

Now for the students. The students are so incredibly diverse, even for such a small school There were people from all over the United States (like New York~) and even people from Russia and Korea.

Once we all got done with our coffee and bread, we headed over to the registration table to receive our Student Handbook/Planner and some minimal paperwork. Then we went over to the very large tent and received our welcome from the vice president from the student body government. We all took a liking to him because he had a great sense of humor and was very interactive and dramatic. He introduced to us the president of the college: Sir Samuel Hoi. Yup. We've got a SIR at the college. I thought that was totally neat. But one of the first things he says is "Call me Sammy, everyone calls me Sammy." There he is, standing in a suit with a "sir" title, and he's asking us to call him Sammy. He's aweosme. From 9-10 am we got to listen to some neat speeches that made us all feel pretty happy abut where we were. The staff there was so great and funny.

From 10-12:30 we went to the park across the street to play some games and get to know some people! I must admit I felt a bit awkward, but I found someone who loves purple the same way I do and her name rhymes with mine. That was pretty cool! I also found myself talking to random people afterwards, because we could all relate in some way or another. "Wasn't that game weird?" "Did you get out fast?" "What section are you from?" "Are you from the Valley too?", Things like that.
Oh, and our game leader was totally awesome. He had really long dreads and he kept saying "Word" and "It's a beautiful thing" over and over, and a good chunk of us would keep giggling because of that.

After the games there was Lunch (that was a lot of food!). During and after Lunch there were a few tables set up. Art and merchandise tables. I git a few free samples of different types of canvases one can draw/paint on, and I also got a free mini-sketchbook with a little tube of paint. There were also some Apple representatives handing out brochures and cards for jobs. Pretty neat.

At 1:15 it was back to the program, and we started up with the safety presentation. I got scared because she mentioned "what do do when you get stuck in an elevator". I HATE elevators. It's all television's fault. Then we moved on to academic expectations. They told us we would have a lot of work and sleepless nights. Thanks. That helps.

Then we get to the Student Affairs thing. This is the one people should pay attention to because they are really helpful with anything. Problems, questions about something related to you or to a staff member you disagree with, coping with stress, and the like.

Then there was Student Health and well being. This is where t... ]]> ~TheChibiPhoenix http://TheChibiPhoenix.deviantart.com/journal/19660490/ http://TheChibiPhoenix.deviantart.com/journal/19660490/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:10:15 PDT
.: Partners in Crime since June 20th, 2007. Remember February 9th, 2008~:.

Just a few minutes ago, I felt what seemed like 2 separate quakes. One felt really small, like a pre-quake. Then I felt a much bigger one roll on for like 15-20 seconds.

At first I thought it would be something like the big trucks moving close by, but no. Earthquake. 5.8. Nothing too bad happened, it just left me shaken. I've felt some smaller ones (5.0 and under). But I haven't felt something as um... memorable as this one since 1994. I was for and I still remember that there were things falling that day.

I just hope that this is the big one this time around, and not some sort of warning. A bigger one will definitely cause damage.

The whole house was moving. The pool water was waving around afterwards and I know no one was outside anywhere near that thing.

So if I suddenly disappear, I'm somewhere outside 8D;

I'm up here in the Los Angeles County area nad I hear people in San Diego felt it.

EDIT: The magnitude of the earthquake has been brought down to 5.4. It wasn't as big as they said initially.

I was tagged by
This tag will contain curse words (guess who it is?)

1) What's your character's name?
Yume: It's Yume. Plain and simple.

2) How old is she?
Yume: twenty. thousand.

3) Is your OC a male or female?
Yume: do you not see the boobs? They're as big as your fucking head.

4) What's her race?
Yume: Angel. Kind of. I'm one of a kind. Big fucking whoop.

APPEARANCE

Yume: hell yeah.

Yume: Aw man. Why'd you show 'em that one? It's all.. girly and crap.



5) Is your character considered normal in her own world?
Yume: Nope. My wings are cooler. I have a black one and a white one. Ha! And I can make your mind implode.

Yume's a special kind of angel classified as a "Dreamweaver". At any given time, there is only one Dreamweaver in existence, and they are always female. One disappear and the next one comes, and they live their whole lives asleep. Yume is the first one to wake up, so she's sort of a lab rat for the Council of Elders, who took interest in her.

6) What would be her most recognizable feature(s)?
Yume: I'd say having two different colored wings is pretty distinguishing. And I look like I've got makeup permanently tattooed under my eyes.

7) Would you consider your OC attractive?
Yume: I'm so fucking hot. I'm the girl of your dreams.

OH, Dreamweaver, I get it haha

Yume: shut up, idiot.

8) Temper?
Her temper is horrible. She gets pissed off really fast.

Yume: I WONDER WHY. GTFO.

9) Does your character ever get depressed?
Yume: sometimes. But I'm not emo. Just pissy.

She misses the love of her--ow. Don't hit me. You kick like a horse.

10) Leader or Follower?
Yume: depends. I'm not a people person. I'll either stay quiet or lead everyone into shutting up.

11) What is the main aspect of her personality?
Yume: I'm a bitch.

Yeah, that XD
She's very hostile, but cares deeply about her friends. She doesn't have many though. She hates people.

Yume: I hate you too..

12) Did your OC have a family of any sort? If so, are they still alive?
Nope. She seriously came out of the blue, like all other Dreamweavers.

13) Is your character out on her own? If so, why?
For the most part, she's on her own. She's got a pet wolf named after her (and taller than her too). The pet wolf was given to her by Shan because Shan said the wolf reminded her of Yume. Yume will also visit Shan occasionally. Her visits grow more and more frequent as Yume grows more and more uncomfortable.

Yume: what, the girl's kinda cute...

BISEXUAL.

Yume: A PROUD ONE, THANK YOU.


14) Has she encountered any traumatizing events?
The love of her life vanished before she could confess her love, and she keeps getting experimented on.

Yume: sadist.

I won't deny it.

15) What was probably the best time in her life so far?
Yume: when I was still a kid and everything looked easy. And I had someone looking after me.

Loli Yume, how cute~*slapped* ow. Aggressive woman.

ROMANCE
16) Single?
Yume: YES. *punches a hole in the wall*

17) Has your OC developed any romantic relationships?
Yes and no. She was too much of a coward to confess to the first person. And the second person's taken.

Yume: life's a bitch.

18) Virgin?<... ]]> ~TheChibiPhoenix http://TheChibiPhoenix.deviantart.com/journal/19356849/ http://TheChibiPhoenix.deviantart.com/journal/19356849/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:30:35 PDT
.: Partners in Crime since June 20th, 2007. Remember February 9th, 2008~:.