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"Wouldn't it be great
If the band just never ended?
We could stay out late,
And we would never hear last call.
Wouldn't have to worry
About approval or permission.
We could slip off the edge,
And never worry 'bout the fall..."
-Great Big Sea, "Consequence Free"

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Meanwhile, I'm in Phoenix for a super-awesome internship. The weather here isn't ideal, but the rest of it makes it all tolerable. I've been doing a lot of dancing, swing and otherwise. It's pretty much awesome.

Anywho. That's about all for now. Dancing, internships, weather, etc. I'll post stuff next chance I get. Probably next month or so.

]]> ~ThirteenSwords http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/17087893/ http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/17087893/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:52:12 PST 1) Answer the questions below
2) Take each answer and type it into dA search box
3) Take a deviation from the first page of results (may use ' popular' or 'newest' ) and post thumb (for subscribers) or link (non-subscribers)
4) You can't copy the persons answers who posted this before you


1. The age you will be on your next birthday: 20



2. A place you'd like to travel: Sweden



3. Your favorite place: Swing Dancing



4. Your favorite object: Computer



5. Favorite food: cheese



6. Your favorite animal: falcon



7. Your favorite color: purple



8. The town/state/etc in which you live: California



9. Name of past pet: William



10. A dream come true: Abducted by Aliens!



11. Your nickname/screenname: ThirteenSwords



12. Middle name: Kendall



13. Favorite Smell: rain



14. Bad habit of yours: optimism



15. Your first job: Teaching



16. Favourite Movie: Star Trek: First Contact
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Anywho, just updated my gallery. Added a bunch of new stuff, cleaned out some old stuff. I'm working on some more drawings and comics as we speak, but I don't know when those will be up. I kind of have a lot to do right now, with my three jobs and my internship/job applications and all my classes and whatnot.

I'm still accepting commissions, if anyone wants me to draw stuff for them. It may take me longer than usual to finish things, but I like getting money, so I'll draw stuff for people. ]]> ~ThirteenSwords http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/15595343/ http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/15595343/ Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:57:26 PST
1. Name your favourite book series of all time:
Amelia Bedelia


2. Name everything in your favourites/bookmarked slot in your browser:
The ones on my toolbar are the link to the school website, my email, facebook, myspace, this, google, Bank of America, and the webcomics I read.


3. Name of the song you are listening to right now:
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon


4. The next song you will be listening to:
Whatever happens to come up on my music player, as I set it on shuffle.


5. Name of the book you are currently reading:
Storm Front by Jim Butcher


6. Current favourite video game:
Halo

7. Weirdest video game you've played (a real one, not a flash game or something like that):
Halo?


8. Tag 8 people to do this too, and tell them. Also, if you've been tagged, say who tagged you:
It's Sylvia's fault, and no, I won't tag anyone. Let anyone who wants to do it of their own accord.

I'm still accepting commissions, if anyone wants me to draw stuff for them. See my previous journal entry for details. ]]> ~ThirteenSwords http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/15264121/ http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/15264121/ Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:00:44 PDT
-Characters, either invented or based on specific people (I'll need some sort of photo for specific people), in my comic strip style, in black&white and shades of gray. If the character you want me to draw has a catch phrase of some sort, I can add that in. These are the simplest and thus the least expensive. $1 per character.
-Characters of some sort in my more comic book ish style, either superheroes or normal people. Single characters will cost the least, couples will cost slightly more, and group pictures will cost more. These will likely be in color. $3 per character.
-Realistic pencil sketches of horses or people. Horse heads only will be least expensive, full-body horses will be more expensive. People must be portraits/head shots only. I will need photos for reference for the people. Since these are the most time-consuming and detailed, they will cost the most, but they will be awesome. $8 for a horse head, $10 for the whole horse, $12 for a person.

Send me a comment or a note of some sort if you wish to buy one of these drawings.

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That being said, I should probably mention that I've been getting extremely depressed lately for no reason I can figure out. Part of it could be stress from everything I try to do, part could be the friends I hang out with and the severe lack of hugs I'm getting, part could be the lack of food, the pathetically unsuccessful attempts at drawing, the homework I need to finish, the low self-esteem telling me I'm ugly and will never get a boyfriend even in a school with an 83% male population, the friends mooching homework help off of me when I'm trying to do my own homework.... But usually these things don't affect me like this. I've cried myself to sleep more in the past month than I have in all the years previously. I'm afraid to let myself like someone, because I don't want to be put in a situation like my relationship in high school. But I'm also too afraid to get to know anyone well enough to be comfortable with liking them. I don't want my friends to be stuck only hearing me talk when I'm complaining about being angry or depressed, but I'm too shy to start any other conversations. Only one person here seems to notice when I'm feeling more depressed than usual, and he does try to listen to me complain sometimes, which does help a bit, but sometimes all I need is a hug. Hugs are hard to come by here, since my guys don't give hugs often and I hardly know any girls. It would probably also help if I could dance with someone who knew what he was doing. Just to be a follow and not have to think about what I'm doing for a few minutes, to trust a lead enough to take care of me, to jump around and have fun with no concern for how I look or what else is going on around me, would probably go a long way towards making me feel better. Unfortunately, none of the people I know are experienced enough dancers to do that for me, so I have to make do with trying to teach them myself.

I'm hoping I'll at least get a hug on Valentines Day. I'm hoping people will continue to show up to Dance Club. I'm hoping my guys realize how much I care about them and I'm hoping they care about me, too. I'm hoping this will be the year that no one in my family dies or gets cancer. I'm hoping my mom will send cookies soon. And I'm hoping I can figure out how to cure myself of this depression.

]]> ~ThirteenSwords http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/10190944/ http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/10190944/ Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:37:11 PDT I have some great friends. Mostly guys, of course, since this school is about 83% male. The main group I hang out with includes, but is not limited to, Sam (my suitemate), Justin (Wolverine), Tony, Alex (Yogi/Sasquatch), Joe (Booboo), Praful (pronounced Waffle with a Pr), and Patrick (Gigantalopithecus). They are quite amusing.
I'm also enjoying all my classes, and I have some great teachers. I'm taking Calc 3, Physics 150, Physics Lab, Speech, Univ 101, and Honors 150: Utopia and Dystopia in the West.my favorite so far is Calculus (big shock there).
Don't really feel like writing more at the moment and I kind of need to finish my speech homework, so that's all for now.

]]> ~ThirteenSwords http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/6638550/ http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/6638550/ Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:47:49 PDT ~ThirteenSwords http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/5073799/ http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/5073799/ Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:38:58 PDT
getting ready to take my 5 AP tests, SAT IIs in three subjects at once between AP tests (so much for resting on the weekends), play opens next week (ack! we are so not ready...), need to find a birthday present for my brother (have ideas but need to actually get something) (oh, and skylar, if you're reading this, don't necessarily expect results until after AP tests, but hey, maybe i'll surprise myself and actually get something soon ish), applying for more summer programs, writing essays, applying for next year's AP classes, orthodontist appointments, unknown ailments, headaches, backaches, star tests, stupid spanish teacher giving me projects in the busiest month of my life and expecting me to have time to complete them, calculus camp (fun stuff - free food, candy, t-shirt), chemistry study groups, getting up early on weekends to study, not getting to bed until midnight, creating a star trek club, missing dancing next week because of the play, probably skipping dancing during AP tests since SAT IIs are next day and studying may be needed, needing to write essay for psychology, not having As in everything (just almost everything, and the highest grade in only one class (calculus)), reading 5 long, classic books at once, being out of shape and knowing it, wondering if i'm even capable of feeling emotions, wanting to watch The Incredibles again, etc.

at least calculus is fun. ]]> ~ThirteenSwords http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/4610907/ http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/4610907/ Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:07:58 PST
calculus is fun

dark matter and dark energy are confusing me and i must study physics to learn what they're all about. ]]> ~ThirteenSwords http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/4466077/ http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/4466077/ Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:16:56 PST
"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once."

well, that's basically what's happened today. and tomorrow. and probably the rest of this crappy week.

so first of all, i only had time on sunday to do my english homework, and i stayed up until 1:00 doing so. i didn't do my math homework or my psychology homework or study for the US History test i had today. i warned Grech that i probably wouldn't do well on his test, since i had been working on our school's production of Pippin (an annoying musical that i hated but had the best line in) and had a ton of other homework assignments to do and he had decided to test us on chapters 23 through 26 all at once after not very much lecturing and only 2 weeks (which Some People may be able to do, but then again, Some People aren't insane enough to take ten of the most difficult classes all at once). so this morning, our math teacher decided to collect our homework and i received my very first zero on a math assignment in my life. then i had the Grech test, and guessed on at least half the multiple choice questions and skipped the essay question entirely. at least Grech decided to be wonderful and is letting me do the essay question for homework. damn him and his most-wonderful-teacher-in-the-worldness. i had managed to do my spanish homework on friday before leaving school, so i didn't have to worry about that. i'm still on chapter 6 in physics when we're supposed to be on chapter 11, but i'm actually reading the book and trying to understand it and i've never taken physics before but decided to take the hardest level physics anyways, and mucklin is supposed to be actually teaching me starting this week, so i need to catch up like a madman or something. i have a chemistry test tomorrow that i haven't really studied for and i really really need to but don't have time. english was okay since i'd actually done the homework. acting was relaxing since the play is over and our teacher wasn't there. then i only got to go to improv for 15 minutes and ended up sorting out our game cards instead of actually doing anything, since there were only three of us there. then i had to go to psychology and feel stupid while everyone else was discussing some essay questions and knowing what they were talking about, and i realized that i'll probably fail the AP test unless i actually manage to find time to read the book and find room in my brain to memorize the million and a half terms i have to know better than the back of my hand. i still haven't read any of the world history book, and i haven't read the european history book since last year, so i doubt i'll do well on those AP tests if i do them at all. on top of it all, i was on the verge of tears all day, my parents are always annoyingly cheerful which makes me feel about ready to strangle them, i still haven't written my thank yous to the various relatives who sent me money for christmas and my parents are constantly nagging me about it, i have to memorize a monologue for a summer program application audition thingy, i made fourteen little origami stars for various people who were in the play or were just being annoying and needed to be given something so they would just shut the hell up and leave me alone instead of listening to the lecture during chemistry, i promised to work on posters and a video clip to put in the announcements so people will come to improv club, i managed to get sick, and my headaches (which had decided to hibernate over winter break) have come back with a vengeance.

so basically today has been the week from hell. it has practically singlehandedly made me fail all my classes. fun stuff. can't wait to see what they shove at me tomorrow.

at least i get to go dancing again on friday (finally!). i really need it.

and now i've wasted a good half-hour writing this journal entry when i could have been working on my homework. damn me and my hypocrisy and lack of a strong work ethic. ]]> ~ThirteenSwords http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/4414878/ http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/4414878/ Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:40:03 PST ~ThirteenSwords http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/4306753/ http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/4306753/ Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:33:29 PST
get back to work, carrie! goodness! you're so lazy! ]]> ~ThirteenSwords http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/3853297/ http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/3853297/ Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:09:12 PST 2. Are we friends?
3. When and how did we meet?
4. Do you have a crush on me?
5. Would you kiss me?
6. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.
7. Describe me in one word.
8. What was your first impression?
9. Do you still think that way about me now?
10. What reminds you of me?
11. If you could give me anything what would it be?
12. How well do you know me?
13. When's the last time you saw me?
14. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?
15. Are you going to put this on your journal and see what I say about you? ]]> ~ThirteenSwords http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/3432104/ http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/3432104/ Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:24:53 PDT
AP Calculus AB
AP US History
AP English III
AP Physics C
AP Chemistry
Spanish II
Advanced Acting
AP Psychology
AP World History
AP European History

hopefully i won't kill myself when AP tests come around.

At least i'll only have one or two finals second semester.

oh, and i have Science club, improv club, and GATE/Psychology on mondays, more Psychology on some tuesdays plus play practice, Chess club on Wednesdays, and swing dancing and possibly Ballroom dancing club on fridays. and Speech and Debate somewhere in there.

and a driving lesson next tuesday, and my driving test next thursday.

and two stories/comic strip thingys to work on

and improv club posters and science club t-shirts to design

and speeches to write

and maybe lindy hop lessons on tuesdays once i can drive

i need a guy to swing dance with and to carry my books for me. don't have time for anything else.

hopefully nothing else will happen. ]]> ~ThirteenSwords http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/2675038/ http://ThirteenSwords.deviantart.com/journal/2675038/ Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:39:22 PDT
i'm insane. ]]> ~ThirteenSwords