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As for the polytopes....they are becoming a personal talent of mine. I'm going to redraw the S7 polytope because it was rushed and rather sloppy, and as you know I'm a perfectionist. After that...or perhaps while I'm doing it, I'll be doing another polytope project. The figure presented in my Perfection submission will be duplicated on poster board with thumb tacks as the vertices and the lines formed with a spool of thread.

In other news I got my jaws some bling bling, AKA braces, and cannot eat for 6 months. Bracers on the back of my front teeth prevent me from biting down until the rest of my teeth erupt from my gums and make contact again, correcting my overbite to some degree. After that, I'll have another year and a half to go before I get them off. Hoorah.

Cheers.

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[EDIT] - The current spotlighted tesseract is the perfect outcome of this attempt. - [/EDIT]

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This is what I am drawing.


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Also, while taking a bath a moment ago I got the urge to revitalize an old writing project concerning my fictional world, Loer. Whether I shall act on this urge or not is of yet undecided, but hope for the best.

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-Remy G.

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Thank you for your time.

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Cheers.

-Remy G.

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In gaming land I've beaten Crisis Core and loved it, and bought Twisted Metal: Head On for the PSP. Should be fun. I'm fervently playing FlyFF still, as well. I finally have made the transition to keeping myself on one main character, but not for leveling purposes. I'm permanently stuck at level 69 with plenty of very good equipments for my future as far as lvl 90 (unlikely) but would be content making it to 75 eventually. I've become a pet merchant and am raising four pets to S level in hopes of making money. They're cheap to raise and keep me distracted. Plus I get to hang out at the arena and watch people die and laugh and chat with friends while all this occurs.

As I said, fun stuff.

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So tomorrow I'm going to go get examined at a doctor's office and determine when I'll be getting surgery. Why, might you ask? Well, I've got a hernia that I've had for four years. Its luckily a painless one, albeit larger than both testes, and hasn't increased in size or been any serious problem since it's appearance. It was only recently that I was forced to have a physical done to be approved for travelling to Hawaii that this medical problem of mine finally was forced into the light.

Much like my mom, when something is wrong with me I simply figure it out myself, find the risks, the warning signs, symptoms, and when its dangerous and deal with it on my own. The type of hernia I have is relatively common anyway. One in four males will get an inguinal hernia at some point in their life, and because of our gender we are 25x more likely to get them than a female. As such I didn't consider myself unlucky and didn't care too much about it. The only problem with it is that if I was sexually active it would be an embarrassment issue and I would've requested a consultation for surgery sooner.

I must admit though, the timing is flawless. The surgery itself is same-day release and recovery only takes a week or so. Since I've only got five days till school is out *not counting days I'm officially allowed to miss* and even less should I decide to skip out on the rest, the surgery will occur and be in the past before I get to Oahu. Once there...who knows what kind of men I'll find. Hopefully someone better than a southern bastard with no personality.

I'm partially finished with chapter five, and decided to keep chapter four, but still have neglected to type it. I allowed a friend to read it today, much to my disagreement, but she seemed to enjoy it for the most part. Her own story is much better written and probably thought out better because she has prior writing experience, but she has trouble developing key details and back story necessary to get the readers truly interested in her characters. Fanfiction practice in this case is a double edged sword; its easy and fun, but you don't learn to develop characters, they are how they are and you just put them in situations.

-Remy G.

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When I write, those that know how I do so, I make a very loose, but effective script of events with moderate details and leave many things out by accident. I do all of this by hand on paper in pencil, and since I hate smudges, refuse to erase and rewrite any parts I might screw up. When I've come to the conclusion that the chapter I finished is worthy for public enjoyment I type them up and the text instantly increases by 25% in length, words get longer, plot points fall in line, and the finished product is the basis of my next chapter.

I'm working on the fifth chapter already and have yet to type the fourth. There are many potential risks at hand with this because I only like chapter four 87%, and all previous chapters met at least a 90% approval rating before they were typed. I don't feel like rewriting the fourth chapter, and the fifth is already going so well. Oh well. I am the architect of my own failure. May my own demise be sown by my spindly fingers alone.

In other news my gaming fixation has only expanded. After completing all the games in The Orange Box and partially finishing Bioshock, I have acquired a Wii, but as of yet no games for it, and have been fervently playing Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core. I am at the very last chapter of the game but haven't been able to complete it because I lose patience so quickly and crave a good FPS to play that will replace Half Life 2. I'm torrenting a copy of Area 51 in the hopes that it will be a decent play. Blacksite: Area 51 didn't run at an acceptable frame rate and had to be forgotten. What a waste of $15. At least there was no tax. Military family benefits rock.

I write wonderful journal entries, don't I?

-Remy G.

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I've always been good with French and intend to finish learning it. Although I lack a lot of confidence needed to speak it, I am exceptionally good at translations and learn much faster than most of my classmates. Had my schedule for my senior year been open for French 3 I would have definitely taken it. Since it wasn't I've been having to come up with creative ways to keep what I've learned and constantly write in French and doodle comics for fun. Thank god I kept my folder with all the classwork and notes we took.

I have plans to go into the business of translations professionally after I complete at least a bachelors in another language. I want to translate scripts, games, books, and all that stuff. I'm tired of crappy subtitles for otherwise ingenious movies and books that just don't carry the same message when translated to another language. Doing this will also give me a wider exposure to foreign areas for sales and thus increase the overall income I gain from royalties once I get published. That being the case I will now move on to the progression of my story.

~-X-~

Something I've noticed that has occurred with my new style of writing is that instead of focusing on a finite, detailed plot I have instead tried developing my characters realistically and allowing them to tamper, devise, and control the plot directly. In doing so the reaction I've gotten from guinea readers has increased almost 10 fold from previous attempts. This is wonderful news for me and them, and the progress I've made with short chapters and lots of depth that I never planned has lead me past the toughest milestone I originally had; the first chapter, and beyond to the third.

That being said I am now stuck at the ending of chapter three with a tough decision. Not only is there so much information in this one chapter that it is dwarfing one and two, I am realizing that I am throwing in too much action into one book and that can't be healthy. I already lost the plot entirely and now am staring at an uncertain choice between four different possible outcomes and no idea what the hell will happen.

In the long run I know that my book series will be more than a trilogy. The whole progression will be, without change from my characters' actions, starting at the school level and ending with the extinction of the human race. There MUST be a book series available to the media, the public, and the governments that reminds them that humans are a frail species and not indefinite, or superior. Anyway, staying on subject, with so much action packed into just the first book I must expand the series beyond a trilogy and at least have two books for the school section and divide the plot. In addition to all of this, ironically the book has taken on the name of my previous journal entry and is now named Eve for that reason, and a plot reason which only a few people know and will not be spread any further.

I apologize to Jesse and Liz for ruining everything for them and from the depth of what heart I have thank them for still being psyched to read my chapters as they are produced. I talk myself through the most intimate of plot details and give them raw spoilers with general summarization of the entire series simply to keep myself motivated and they never complain. I have no idea if they even listen but it is a tremendous help just to have someone to listen to me when all my life I've been the kind ear and the silent help. I love you guys.

Cheers.

-Remy G.

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Today in school we had an hour long memorial complete with Honors Choir singing and the families of the lost students present and hundreds of students cried. I did not. My point? Nothing. Its just a morbid setup for my birthday that will forever be remembered by the students and myself alike. I had no emotional connection to the students that died and congratulate them for achieving the only logical life goal a human can have; to die.

Aside from such a depressive subject I recently revamped my story's plot and found it much easier to write the story without focusing too hard on just developing a single group of four people and instead switching around to various characters of interest, as well as throwing in some interesting teasers for later on. Allow me to go into a more appropriate teaser below.

-lolteaser-

As those who know that I take my writing seriously (regardless that I never seem to progress any with remote success for long periods of time), my main characters are a group of four students at the fictional school of Faldonia Institute for the Gifted (optionally "Faldonia Institute for the Extraordinary"). The story is based in modern times of Earth's reign, though in a separate galaxy on a hospitable planet named Loer (pronounced Lore) where the current year is 3272. Unlike human evolution, this planet has seen numerous sentient species arise as varied as the Puritan subspecies Elementals to the frail but dominating Matae (essentially humans with odd ears, varied tails, and adaptations).

In 3000 years of recorded history many wars have been fought and slowly as a result various mutations have given individuals extraordinary abilities of limitless possibilities. After the first few hundred to arise were slaughtered in fear, the royal family decreed their murder to be a capital offense and built a campus where they could be trained to use their abilities responsibly, named after it's creator Eran Faldone. Eran's son, Dana Corana, was the first gifted student to be schooled there who was born with a natural aversion to fatal incidents (a subconscious version of precognition) and the unstoppable condition of aging one year every decade. Eventually his father died, and outliving him easily, Dana became headmaster of the campus. Since then hundreds of students have taken residence in it's walls.

The campus itself is massive; almost the size of a small state, though larger than Rhode Island. The main campus has five buildings; the Faldonian Academy where all students train, a high security prison for both gifted and normal convicts, an administration headquarters, dorms for the students, and a massive cafeteria/recreational facility. In addition to the above ground buildings there is a massive network of caves and catacombs which serves as a permanent exile to all criminals of Loer which has no exit and is guarded by the strongest creature currently known.

The story focuses on the four main characters I was previously using confronting a slew of four new characters that were exiled a decade prior to their entrance into Faldonia, as well as a few surprise characters to spice up the story. Briefly describing the four originals there is Anthoniel Lyre who can teleport distances equal to or less than fifty yards and can use destructive alchemy to break down most any substance into simpler particles. Elias Young, Lyre's companion, has a doppelganger which only he can see and experiences every sense from simultaneously. whenever he wills the doppelganger to take a physical action he teleports to where it was, and it takes his old place. Daven Kilara has a variation of subconsious kinesis that allows him to take materials, shred them into smaller, easier to control particles, and wrap them around his body like armor and use them as weapons. Lastly is Benn Gahlast whose kinetic abilities seem to have no limit and with training can master most abilities with incredible power.

The new characters deserve their own paragraphs. Collectively they formed their own gang and call themselves Gravan Swedam, or more accurately GrAVaN SwEDaM for their initials in pairings of who they are the best to work with.

GrA is Allen Greensworth. He is a 290lbs Matae with type Z geokinesis. In simpler terms Allen has the ability to produce exponential amounts of force with a simple amount of energy in a cascade effect that no scientist could understand. Combined with exceptional durability he is an u... ]]> ~Vlad-Remy http://Vlad-Remy.deviantart.com/journal/16292790/ http://Vlad-Remy.deviantart.com/journal/16292790/ Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:06:57 PST
As of right now the time I have left to live is 19 years, five months, 17 days, 21 hours, 12 minutes and 45 seconds.

Cheers.

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While he is a poet I strive to become a prose author. He went military, I'm going civilian. But anyway, lately he has become obsessed with the 1960s pinup girls and how beautiful they were without fancy clothes, makeup, photo-shopping, and camera tricks. He thinks that society as a whole is degrading to the point where vanity is so common that the practice of plastic surgery for physical alterations to please the fads of the every day that eventually people will discuss a boob job as carefree as going to Wal-mart for groceries. Sadly, I must agree with my flesh and blood. It does seem so that such a vain culture as the United States is can only lead to such a conclusion, and he had to travel to another country to learn this.

Needless to say not only is his innovative thinking very close if not identical to my own (only he is more realistically involved while I am more fantastically interested) his writing style is just as interesting. He writes with short and punctuated humor quite common of the popular columnist that works for a local newspaper while people claim I am on par with the average large city article writer and possibly even a critic for my use of cliffhanging sentences and catching phrases to emphasize the power of someone's work.

I am finally starting to realize that my family ties aren't yet left for dead. There is still a sliver of hope for my brother. And for my mother, there is yet some benefit to her nature and career. She has harbored me well and sought in her ventures to please the needs of both of us, not just herself. I can't say I'm not grateful for what she has done, but as far as deep connections of unconditional love I will still to this day admit that I don't care at all for the woman, just what she does for me.

As before I have admitted that external media has an influence on me more strongly than I anticipated. Well, as of late I've been listening quite seriously to a variety of music and techno. The end result was the registering of the above revelation in my mind, and the somewhat enjoyable event of Thanksgiving at my mom's friend's house which hosted about twenty people, all coworkers, who had no family of their own to celebrate with in the area.

It was by far the biggest celebration I've ever been a part of excluding family reunions that are a depressive reminder of how distanced I am from what blood remains in the southern United States that I may be kin to. Nothing particularly special happened, but it was nice to be part of the festivities. Three men were there, each not much older than myself so they were easy to relate to and no more mature than those at school I hang around with, so the event was smoothened by their company. The other thing I happened to notice at this event was that I found it easier to socialize among the women of the gathering more readily.

I knew that being gay had some profound influences and effects on how I acted but it has never really dawned on me how easily it has become for me to be around the opposite sex than those of the same. It is as if by nature we are shy of the preferred gender somehow. Although, I admit I was deterred. Two babies and a two year old were present and made up the majority of the conversation and the "man" in me took control because I don't do well with children. I'm sensitive, but not motherly.

A lot of this ties deeply into my story as well. I've noticed that as I've progressed in writing I have been forced to delve deeper into my own personal affairs in order to gather a deeper understanding of my characters so they can have a fulfilling and memorable personality for the reader. The plot comes together very easily and the holes fill in rapidly when I brainstorm with friends (though mostly I just talk and they read as I come to revelations on my own faster than they can type) and the only problems arising are character depth.

I don't know how many times the story will change, but every submission that I type regarding it will never be deleted from my account. They serve as important markers to me of my mental development in my own nontraditional way of recovering the lost emotions that a normal person my age should have.

-RJG.

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To date I've watched the entire Gravitation series three times now. The first time I watched it I only teared at the end. The second time twice. And now, following the trend, teared thrice. It feels good to know I can still sort of cry. In addition to just crying when I watch the series I actually feel more human and care for my friends. To use this connection to it's fullest I actually downloaded all the gravitation songs and have them with me on my iPod all the time. It is a very relaxing and surprisingly helpful therapy.

I suppose if I went to a shrink there would be some very interesting results. Almost assuredly I would be put on anti-depressants, but to me that is a waste of both money and time. The more I dwell on my thoughts the more I understand them. My only real problem is that only recently it has begun to affect my school work. My mind drifts with the breeze without my acknowledgment and results in last-minute rushed work that amazingly still keeps me at an A average in most of my classes.

I can't honestly say that writing in this journal helps me much in my emotional distress but it is a reassuring thought that by writing my most recent thoughts here those few that I care for the most will read them and hopefully understand without me having to bother them personally and force my sadness on their day.

Perhaps the one comfort I can safely rest in is that my mother doesn't check, or even know of, my deviant art account and won't be reading this. It sickens me to think of her as a caring person to comfort me. She has such drastic emotional trouble as it is that I aspire to never be like her. The only qualities of hers that I admire are that she always gets her tasks done to her fullest ability and only requires honesty in return. That is something to be modeled after, I believe.

Ever since my high school was destroyed by the tornado on my birthday, March 1st, I've enjoyed the hours before school starts. Although I ride the bus I can safely prepare myself at home without my mother's presence for the day's drama. Even though I know that opening up to emotions is the best possible way for me to recover it is increasingly difficult to do so. Not only that but the amount of potential suitors is approximately none. The last was a senior who expressed an interest in me as a submissive, but I was too shy to even think about being dominant and refused, and he moved away.

Why can't I bear handling emotions? I haven't had a bad experience with love so my fear is unjustified. Irrational, even. As the days progress this will be my biggest question that requires answering. I can deal with how to confront the issue later. I want to know why.

-RJG.

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To me the first chapter always posed the biggest problem, but now I'm confronted with the issue of story progression. Chapter one was dramatically fast in itself with little explanation, and chapter two seems to be following the same trend but at a much faster pace than I intended, and still no details to fill in the cracks. I want it to remain in a fairly simple writing style that young readers would easily understand but with the current trend I'll be forced to go back and heavily alter the story into a higher vocabulary level and greatly increase the amount of detail in every scene.

I know to some that would be preferable, but for my story if it were to ever get published I would want to reach the largest target market. Young readers don't nearly make up the vast majority, but my ploy follows much in the unintentional footsteps of J.K. Rowling. As my story features a homosexual couple as part of the main character group, then targeting young children is the best possible route to get it on the bad side of parent-teacher organizations and fuel a ban in schools which would only increase it's reputation and gain more readers.

So far I have three different possible avenues for chapter two, all of which I do not like and have no idea which to choose from. On top of all this I accidentally watched some AMVs of Gravitation and like before made deep emotional connections to Eiri Yuki which fueled my recognition that I have sabotaged my personal life and tailored it to being alone so well for the past seven years that I've never kissed someone.

It is mildly funny that now that I look at the situation I have traded the woes and pains of losing someone for the unbearable solitude that I once believed was preferable because I moved so much. As this period of my life is drawing to an ever slowing end with my high school career I now realize I can make friends and keep them finally. The only companions I have had for the past years have been the few who will be reading this journal in the coming days.

Perhaps the most perfect example of my trained hermitism would be that every time I moved from one state to another I made no effort to remember or keep in contact with those who I had once been friends with. The last friend from my move from Missouri to Alabama I made sure would never contact me again. I willingly and purposefully pirated her user account on an MMO which she had entrusted to me and then blocked any access of communication she could have had with me. I am entirely certain that this scenario would have played out in full for those who have kept me company online these years if I had met them in person first.

Thank god I don't have the hair to be emo, nor the optional tight or bondage pants to complement the look. Along with school pressure which gradually shifts like all life does between valleys and mountains of freedom and restraint the story is slowing down at an accelerated pace that I never saw coming. A true test of my dedication and courage will be the completion of this first novel. I want it done before I turn 20. March 1st of next year will mark the two year countdown.

It is truly incredible how I always assumed that I was immune to the drama of relationships and only now with the aid of a shonen-ai anime series do I realize just how worse off I am alone. Without religion and love a human is a miserable creature who lives only to further improve on their own desires. I have improved mine for far too long in the most crucial of years in a teenager's life.

-RJG.

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F YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

So, here's how it works:

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie

Opening Credits:

Waking up: Korn - Freak on a Leash (Didn't know I liked it that way, did you?)

First Day At School: Shiny Toy Guns - Ritz (XD Man, first day rocked.)

Falling In Love: Rammsteine - Keine Lust (...Guess that works.)

Fight Song: Wolfsheim - Anybody's Window (...D8)

Breaking Up: Rammstein - Feuer Frei (Damn, got so violent we had a fire? I need to learn to control myself.)

1st date: X Japan & Dir en Grey - Caged Drain (...I'm learning more about me by the minute.)

Prom: Uverworld - Lifesize (Preferably.)

Life's Okay: DJ Tiesto - Insomnia (Yep, life's okay.)

Mental Breakdown: Lacuna Coil - Unspoken (Quite appropriate.)

Driving: FF7 - One Winged Angel [game version] (Schweet.)

Flashback: Uverworld - Rush (Whoo!)

Getting Back Together: Eiffel 65 - Blue (Damn, that relationship sucks.)

Wedding: Namie Amuro - Go! Go! (Run? Run?)

Birth of Child: Various Artists of BDR - Terror X-Mas (Save me... D8)

Final Battle: Gazette - Anti-Pop (Quite an upbeat fight 8D)

Death Scene: Gazette - Maggots (...Thats odd...but it works.)

Funeral Song: Malice Mizer - Nocturnal Romance (IN HELL)

End Credits: Glay - Happiness (Yay for good endings.)

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I just randomly got the notion to check my gallery stats and was surprised to note that I was two page views away from how many people I have watched. Matching views with watches isn't something that occurs often on DA, I'm sure.

Just felt like pointing this out for any that may view this. I won't be doing anything if anyone gets my 195th pageview to match my watches, so don't get any ideas...


But perhaps I might submit my first chapter of a book I'm attempting to write and hopefully won't scrap in celebration in a few days (assuming in that length of time I will come to 195 page views).

[EDIT] Vlad-Remy has 195 pageviews total and his 9 deviations were viewed 73 times. He watches 195 people, while 4 people watch him.

Well, what do ya know. I got it in the past few seconds. Hoo-ah. [EDIT]



Cheers.

-Remy.

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At the end of this process, all I'm gonna be doing is complaining heavily about copypasta.





-RJG.

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