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My Meetup group for Asexuals in the Mid-Atlantic area ]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/28252404/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/28252404/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:24:44 PST
So yeah, I'm going to be sticking pretty close to writing for now. Erm...sorry?

A couple of weeks ago I suddenly got an urge to check out apartments. I didn't get beyond the internet. It's official. I literally cannot afford to live on my own on my salary in Montgomery County. And I make a RIDICULOUS amount of money. More depressingness. I would have to get a roommate (and even then the money issue is dubious), and I don't want a roommate. That would negate the entire reason I would be moving out of my mom's and Howard's house. At least I like mom and Howard. There is a 99% chance I would hate whatever roommate I would end up with.

Well that's one of the reasons. The other reason is...I want a doberman. Well you can guess how many apartments allow those.

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My Meetup group for Asexuals in the Mid-Atlantic area ]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/26931129/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/26931129/ Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:36:17 PDT
Granted, I have a cartoon character as my profile picture on Facebook, but that's because I don’t like being portrayed as an obvious female whenever I can help it.

Also, there’s this woman at work who keeps putting dish detergent in the hand soap dispenser. WTF?? If you want to use dish detergent on your hands and RUIN YOUR SKIN AND NAILS, fine, go ahead. The rest of us want soap.

Also, turn signals. Why can’t people just use them?

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My Meetup group for Asexuals in the Mid-Atlantic area ]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/26532679/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/26532679/ Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:31:03 PDT
I saw The Cove this weekend. I wouldn't even have heard about it if I hadn't been flipping through IMDB's upcoming movies. It's a documentary about Taiji, a small town in Japan that slaughters thousands of dolphins every year, while supplying dolphin shows and swim with dolphin programs their show dolphins. If you've purchased a ticket to an aquarium, show, or program that houses trained dolphins, you have funded this slaughter (that includes me, and the National Aquarium's snooze-inducing dolphin show was not worth it).

I can't recommend this movie enough. There's also a website to read if you're not up for watching a movie that details animal abuse.

There is no reason for these dolphins to die in the inhumane way these people are killing them. Dolphin meat cannot (sanely) be eaten - it has toxic levels of mercury. In order for the meat to sell, it is being falsely packaged as whale meat in cities such as Tokyo. It has even been sold to school lunch programs in Taiji and fed to children. This isn't even the tip of the iceberg on this movie!! Seriously, see it.

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My Meetup group for Asexuals in the Mid-Atlantic area ]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/26345512/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/26345512/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:57:55 PDT
There aren't enough horror story magazines around to submit to

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Livejournal sketchblog w/writings ]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/26094011/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/26094011/ Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:48:57 PDT luciole was there until everyone was leaving and noone would show me where she had been sitting so I never got to say hi and oogle pictures TT_TT But WHATEVER, ~blix-it was uber-awesome and I had a great time with her. She made me buy a cute hat and taught me the ways of the artist alley. I never had an artist friend before - I didn't know bookmarks and buttons sold that well -_- Now I wish I had a booth for AnimeUSA since I ran home and fashioned a whole bunch of bookmarks only to realize that Katsucon wasn't until February...

I submitted a short story to Weird Tales Magazine today, just cause I checked their website randomly last night and saw that their submissions were actually OPEN OMG. Believe it or not, that was a big hurdle for me to jump over. I get insanely nervous when putting story submissions together, so much so that I have never succeeded in fully putting a story submission together. I'm not a nervous person, but I go crazy when it comes to my writing for some reason. Now to wait for the rejection letter! (And no, that's not the part that makes me nervous.)

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Livejournal sketchblog w/writings ]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/25772127/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/25772127/ Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:59:14 PDT that much stress.

I had posted up a journal last week about how people are assholes, but quickly deleted it because I was afraid the involved people might possibly find it (I plaster my DA page’s address all over every online profile I have) and I decided I wanted to try to work things out. But
LENDSEY
and
DAVID
have decided that they really just want to stay assholes and use the Meetup.com group they organize / rule with an iron fist as a tool to meet possibly emotionally-damaged people and use them for their own fun and amusement before kicking them out of the group for suggesting they meet more often (no, honest to god, one guy got kicked out for asking if anyone wanted to meet up to watch fireworks on July 4th).

I’m now organizer of a brand new Meetup.com group (WTF? Am I nuts??), and have to put on pretences that I have no idea that there’s another asexual Meetup.com group in the exact same geographical area that doesn’t include me or my members.

And because I feel like it, and because I can, here is the response David emailed me when I tried to speak Sense to him. He obviously does not speak Sense. Did I not mention that he had OKed my concept of a separate group for more meetings before kicking me and three other people out of his own group? Oh, I guess I didn’t.

Sawicki,
I do not disbelieve anything you have said. Nor did I ever doubt that ___ spoke for himself or that you were behind his words. You all made your wishes and desires completely clear to me. And now, you all have you new group to look forward to which will meet as often as you, ___, ___, & ___ want. And as you gain more members and words spreads you will still have your opportunity to meet and support other asexual members as well as more people. The groups are not going away, they simply have diverged into 2 groups. You will be able to support your members whatever way you want. So, it is the best of all worlds and you all get what you want and get to do what you want. So, it is a win-win for everyone. This is all I have to say on the matter and after this I will stop responding completely as I see the matter resolved. You wanted to meet more, and your group can. You wanted to meet local asexuals and you have a start with ___, ___, & ___. You all wanted more say in the group and to do what you want and now you all call the shots in your group and can do that. So, everything you all voiced to me that you wanted, you got. I wish your group great success and your journey with each other and to meet others all the joy and success possible in this world. Enjoy your new group, the oppertunities it represents and each other. Please do not contact me again.
~ Dave

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/25449762/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/25449762/ Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:16:57 PDT blix-it! I'm pretty stoked because she's one of my fav comic-style artists, and I'm not just saying that because she's letting me sit at her postage-stamp-sized table :3

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Deviantart is not letting me change my journal mood - all that comes up when I click "mood" anywhere on the site is that damned boogie icon (I used to like you, boogie icon...why did you have to start spamming me?). I AM NOT neutral, I am sad and angered. If you aren't as well, you should be ashamed of yourself for not having paid attention. Iran is reaching a state of chaos, all due to a handful of men that value absolute power and money over human lives. An election was stolen, and the media was destroyed. Wounded protesters are being arrested at hospitals. Dead protesters are being stolen from hospitals. Foreign journalists are being forced to leave the country. All we have are Twitter and Youtube for carrying information from millions of Iranians that just want their vote to be counted - nothing more!! Her name was Neda and she died in her father's arms, one day prior to the US's Father's Day. There have been, and there will be, many more like her before this is over.

I am going to a rally today in DC. I wish I could do so much more, but all I can do is watch (I personally have been following The Huffington Post), and post news to Facebook that none of my friends will read, and stand in a group of about 100 people wearing green. And put a green hippy-heart in my DA icon...cause I'M ALL ABOUT HEARTS YA KNOW.

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That is all!

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(2nd character) ]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/23458123/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/23458123/ Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:00:27 PST
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]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/23421297/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/23421297/ Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:11:30 PST
Yes, it took me 26 years to realize this.

Why, yes, I do feel rather stupid.

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]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/23342596/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/23342596/ Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:20:49 PST
I can only watch...the trailer and short....so many timeesss.......

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]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/23180491/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/23180491/ Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:22:56 PST
Got this from ~quizzes

ANSWER USING ONLY SONG LYRICS
(always try to specify the author and title)

1. Who are you?
“half underwater
i'm half my mother's daughter
a fraction's left up to dispute
the whole collection
half off the price they're asking
in the halfway house of ill repute”
-The Dresden Dolls - Half Jack

2. What do you look like?
“She doesn't own a dress
Her hair is always a mess
She's Beautiful.
She only drinks coffee at midnight
When the moment is not right
Her timing is quite, unusual
You see her confidence is tragic, but her
Intuition magic And the shape of her body?
Unusual”
-Train - Meet Virginia

3. What's your secret?
“Imagine life fulfilled and fun. You could be a model or just feel like one. Girls, the men are playing court to us, girls are playing everything they ought because we’re beautifiers, face-destroyers, aunts, mothers, sisters, daughters, buy it use it feel it let it, If you don’t, you’re ugly sad and tragic.” Amanda Palmer - June If Busting Out All Over
OR
“It took a lot of work to be the ass that I am.” Modest Mouse - Dark Center of the Universe

4. What do you want to be?
من بعد اليوم ده قلبي مش حاجة مش أحزن
ما كفاية الماضي الاسي لجرح آه يا زمان
لو حيقرب مني يا الحزن حقوله لا لا لا
والفرحة مايقرب مني حقول تعال
لا يا دنيا لا أظلم نفسي لا
لا لا آه الف لا ابقى في حيرة لا
لا لا ولا لا لا أحزن تاني لا
لا لا والف لا أتعب قلبي لا
(After today this heart will need nothing and I won't be sad
The past history is not enough to hurt me, oh time
If sadness approaches me I will say to it no no no
And if happiness does not come to me I will say come on
No oh world I will not wrong myself no
No no oh 1000 nos I will not remain confused
No no no no no no I will not be sad again
No no and 1000 nos I will not exhaust my heart)
-Natacha Atlas - Shubra

5. What can you do?
“Who the hell made you the boss?” Modest Mouse - Parting of the Sensory

6. What can't you do?
“There is this thing keeping everyone's lungs and lips locked
It is called fear and it's seeing a great renaissance
After the show you cannot sing wherever you want
But for now let's just pretend we're all going to get bombed
So sing”
The Dresden Dolls - Sing

7. Where do you live?
“Everybody seems to wonder what’s it like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.” Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

8. What is love?
“Did you ever look, did you ever see that one person,
and the subtle way that they do these things and it hurts so much?
So much like choking down the embers of a great blaze.
It's that moment when your eyes seem to spread aspersions
and to scream confessions at the insipid sky parting clouds.
You let this one person come down in the most perfect moment.
And it breaks my heart to know the only reason you are here now is a reminder of what I'll never have...
I'll never have... I'll never...
Standing so close knowing that it kills me to breathe you in...
standing so close knowing that it kills me to breathe you in...
But this table for one has become bearable.
I now take comfort in this, and for this, I cherish you.”
-From Autumn to Ashes - Short Stories With Tragic Endings

9. What is friendship?
“I'm ringing all the warning bells; careful or you'll hurt yourself. Others lie, lie, lie, they adore you. I'll be the one to tell you careful or you'll hurt yourself.” Guster - Careful
“I hardly have people that I needed to know 'cause you're the people that I wanted to know” Modest Mouse - People As Places As People

10. What are you afraid of?
“If that's all you will be you'll be a waste of time. You've dreamed a thousand dreams; none seem to stick in your mind.” Guster - Two Points for Honesty

12. What would you do with a million dollars?
“You got a fast car
And I got a plan to get us out of here
I been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
We wont have to drive too far
Just cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
And finally see what it means to be living”
-Tracy Chapman - Fa... ]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/23128181/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/23128181/ Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:15:32 PST
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]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/23085773/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/23085773/ Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:32:17 PST
WTF???!?!?!?

Ok, typically I would say "What did I miss?" because typically I would surely have missed something, but I wasn't doing anything else while watching this movie. I wasn't drawing or playing with my DS. I was just sitting and giving this movie my full attention, and I still have no frickin' clue why everyone adores this movie.

Because here's my problem, and here's what I was yelling at my mom about towards the end of the whole thing: WHY THE FUCK WAS SHE APOLOGIZING TO HIM? Why was Juno apologizing to what's-his-name at the end??? (yeah, I'm bad with names...) She tells this guy she's pregnant, and goes on with life, and he NEVER called her, NEVER showed up at her house to see what was up (the only times they spoke in the entire movie except for the birth, SHE visits HIM), and SHE is apologizing to HIM after he asks another girl out to the prom. Oh, that bitch. How dare she...do nothing to him that warrants an apology.

And then they're together at the end! Playing a horrible not-song! Because he's perfect! Because every girl wants an apathetic bastard who's going to push the blame on her whenever he cheats on her! Awwww!!

It's like this movie is saying "Hey girls, you got you wanted, men don't have any right to interfere with choices concerning your bodies, which means they also get to completely ignore you when you DO get pregnant! Cause it's not our problem! Haha!"

And who really acts like the people in this movie? Honestly.

Fuck this movie. Fuck it right in the ass.

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]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/22928511/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/22928511/ Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:12:47 PST AWESOME this song is!!!!! Thank you Bourne Trilogy ^_______________^

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]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/22848937/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/22848937/ Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:35:37 PST
SSSSSSSSSSSNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!

In other news, it looks like my Arabic class is going to be canceled because not enough people signed up for it -_- This is really depressing. Every time I want to learn a language, something happens and I don't get the chance. I didn't get to learn German in high school because I had to take a WORTHLESS honors English class and the times conflicted. Now I can't take Arabic because everyone takes 101 and decides it's too hard to continue on with 102. Seriously, I'm looking at the schedule for fall Arabic classes and there were four 101 classes and they were all FULL.

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Cause seriously, look at this. Dude. Not cool. I am off to...wallow in self-pity...

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]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/22792587/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/22792587/ Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:36:35 PST
It's here. Friend me or something. Cause I have no idea how to use the frickin' thing.

Edit: HOLY HELL IT IS LIKE 2 DEGREES OUTSIDE.

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I'm the only person in my department that came to work, so I better get back to that!

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/22676131/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/22676131/ Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:59:37 PST
Got this from =shadowyzman.
Well I already knew I had no life but COME ON, the Star Wars movies are listed SEPARATELY on here!! Who besides =shadowyzman hasn't seen all of those? (Seriously Saad, WTF?)
Most of the craptastic stuff I checked I only saw long ago because of popular opinion. Because my GOD, Deep Impact was the stuff bad-movie-nightmares are made of.
I'd also like to recommend never seeing 16 Candles if you're a fortunate one. What a racist snooze-fest.


SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 movies, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 movies on this list. Copy this list, go to your own journal, and paste. Then, put x's next to the movies you've seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun!

(X) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(X) Grease
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean
( ) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
(X but turned the crapfest off halfway through) Boondock Saints
(XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
(X) Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
( ) Airplane
Total: 6

(X) The Princess Bride
( ) AnchorMan
(X) Napoleon Dynamite
(X) Labyrinth
(X) Saw
( ) Saw II
( ) White Noise
(Huh???) White Oleander
( ) Anger Management
( ) 50 First Dates
( )The Princess Diaries
( ) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Total so far: 10

(X) Scream
( ) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
(X) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4
( ) American Pie
( ) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
Total so far: 12

(X) Harry Potter 1
( ) Harry Potter 2
( ) Harry Potter 3
( ) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
(X) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
(X) The Village
(X) Lilo & Stitch
Total so far: 16

(X) Finding Nemo
(X) Finding Neverland
(X) Signs
( ) The Grinch
(saw the original...OH I'M SORRY LISTMAKER DID YOU NOT KNOW THIS WAS A REMAKE OF THEBESTHORRORMOVIEEVERMADE HUH DUMBASS?!) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
( ) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
( ) 13 Going on 30
( ) I, Robot
( ) Robots
Total so far: 19

( ) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(X) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
( ) Along Came Polly
(X) Deep Impact
( ) KingPin
(X) Never Been Kissed
(X) Meet The Parents
( ) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) Joe Dirt
( ) King Kong
Total so far: 23

( ) A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(X) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
(X) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
(X) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
( ) Flubber
Total so far: 26

(X) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
( ) Practical Magic
(X) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
(X) Hellboy
( ) Secret Window
(X) I Am Sam
( ) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards
Total so far: 30

(X) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
( ) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
( ) Gothika
(X) Nightmare on Elm Street
(X ugh...) Sixteen Candles
( ) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
(X) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
(X) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 35

( ) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Sleven
(X the remake) Ocean's Eleven
( ) Ocean's Twelve
(X) Bourne Identity
(X) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Lone Star
(X the remake) Bedazzled
(X) Predator I
( ) Predator II
( ) The Fog
(X) Ice Age
( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George
Total so far: 41

(X) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(X) ET
(X) Children of the Corn
( ) My Bosses Daughter
( ) Maid in Manhattan
( ) War of the Worlds
(X) Rush Hour
(X? I think X) Rush Hour 2
Total so far: 46

( ) Best Bet
( ) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
( ) She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/22429289/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/22429289/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:38:18 PST
The dream also involved floating houses and a lizard-man, but I'm not craving those.

I need watercolor practice, so free head&shoulder sketches. Give me your character description. I apologize in advance for never getting around to them / never scanning them / completely forgetting I offered these -_-

Apollo Justice is highly unprofessional. MAN UP, BOY!

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/22233335/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/22233335/ Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:43:36 PST [link] - there's a drastic acorn shortage Everyone in my house actually noticed this summer that the squirrels were eating leaves off the trees in our front "yard." We thought this was odd.

I know there's a lot of animal-lovers on this site, so put lots of squirrel food out, and tell your friends to do the same.

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/21934346/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/21934346/ Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:21:34 PST
1) These vampires were cursed long ago to spend eternity IN HIGH SCHOOL (a horrendous curse indeed!!)

2) These vampires are in actuality vampires from another planet, à la Brian Lumley, and are learning about humans by attending high school, à la Invader Zim. (Little do they know that high school is the absolute last place one should go to learn about humanity.)

Of course, these are only my theories. I imagine the explanation Stephanie Meyer will unfold to me is so much more amazing!

Well, of course there's an explanation. There's no way such an unbelievable, nay, inconceivable, NAY, UTTERLY RIDICULOUS premise would be the basis for a widely published novel. Now you're just being silly.

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I'm going to Katsucon - got an alley table, mostly just to have some place to roost. Is anyone here going???

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/21531842/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/21531842/ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:31:04 PST
So you will be seeing art from me in the near future. I just didn't have any time to work on anything recently, and I didn't see that until now.

Edit: I hope noone took that to mean that I had delusions of Val Kilmer being my boyfriend...I really did have a boyfriend, and he really did break up with me. Just making sure noone thinks I'm the bad kind of crazy.

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/19831406/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/19831406/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:52:14 PDT
Won't be sitting in the alley!

Just walking around!

That is all!

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/18853229/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/18853229/ Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:59:36 PDT
insert rant here

so it goes

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/18061535/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/18061535/ Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:54:19 PDT Free pic/kiriban for pageview #23,230.

Commissions open. Prices range. Note or email me for info.

I've put the first three pages of my comic up. Please read it TT_TT

This is a new story - this is NOT the story with all those people I always draw (Gabriel, Hilt, Balisong, etc.). I'm saving that story for some glorious future time. So, this story I'm drawing now does not have robots.

I know, that makes me sad too

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17930249/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17930249/ Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:43:45 PDT Free pic/kiriban for pageview #23,230.

Commissions open. Prices range. Note or email me for info.

...That's all. What? I ain't got no news. I've been watching South Park online for the past 4 days. I'VE GOT NOTHIN'!

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17863978/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17863978/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:32:14 PDT
My birthday was on Sunday. I got fudge AND choco covered strawberries!! My stomach's gonna explode D:<

Aaaand I got There Will Be Blood on dvd. Which I watched last night. I wanna watch it again! Soooo goooood.....

My boy got me some anime movie I've never heard of. Tensomethingsomething. No clue X3

Wow...it's been a long time since I've gotten so many presents at once. Woot!

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17814922/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17814922/ Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:56:58 PDT
<3

AND my temp job wants to hire me on full-time.

Okay, so maybe I was wrong about this year. It can continue as is

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17686900/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17686900/ Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:02:15 PDT
Then I saw that it's part of a birthday of Israel thing...

Fuck.

I ain't going to that!

And I really wanted to see her again

It's kinda depressing that my favorite musical artist is so caught up in the hype of something I am so fervently against.

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Free pic/kiriban for pageview #23,000.

Commissions open. Prices range. Note or email me for info.

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17512666/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17512666/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:21:00 PDT
Commissions open. Prices range. Note or email me for info.

So I'm actually moving along with the comic Albeit slowly, since I'm drawing things I never draw...like trees and wooden boxes and dead wolves...erm *cough* Though I got sidetracked this weekend by a GOOD DATE O_O Hence the "nervous" mood...I just know something will go horribly wrong...ugh, sigh...

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17307008/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17307008/ Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:10:40 PDT
Commissions open. Prices range. Note or email me for info.

So now that I have no classes, I have nothing to do after work. I'm bored! I'm also suffering from a bout of insomnia. I'm gonna start a webcomic.

...IT COULD HAPPEN!

...would anyone read it? :\

(Stay tuned for next week's episode of "Sawicki starts a webcomic, pencils two pages, and quits caring")

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17242927/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17242927/ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:00:11 PST
Commissions open. Prices range. Note or email me for info.

Waaahhhh finally got another job. Crummy boring computer work but decent pay this time around, so I shouldn't complain...but I will anyway ;D

Had a huuuuuuuuuggggeeeeee fight with my "stepdad" about money. He thinks I have an "easy ride." REALLY?? Then how come I'm paying my car insurance, medical bills, and school loans, with a $100 rent on top?????

I want to move.

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17033841/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17033841/ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:15:30 PST
I hate men. Why do I keep trying? Really. Come on, me. I give up. For like, the ten millionth time. Christ. Men. Fuck em.

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17009391/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/17009391/ Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:18:00 PST Pic/kiriban for pageview #22,222. Take a screenshot.

I FINISHED DEATH NOTE. Yes, finally! Ended better than I expected it to considering I hate the L clones. I fell in love with Giovanni :3 unfortunately...because...he doesn't actually do anything XD haha....

I still can't eat without PAIN.

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/16991255/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/16991255/ Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:37:32 PST Pic/kiriban for pageview #22,222. Take a screenshot.

OK OK I do NOT like the new way the Popular pieces are being handled. I don't know what the hell's going on but a photo of a chick...standing there...normal lighting....WTF?!?!?@@@?

Well Katsucon went pretty well. Could have slapped Perry a couple of times (he didn't know The Count of Monte Cristo is NOT A MANGA...), but otherwise, pretty well. A couple of really good things might come out of it but I don't wanna jinx em so no talkies about that.

Awesome FMA video! Fairly decent AMV contest this con. Even if there was a Linkin Park video e_e

I discovered, however, that I just barely missed the sign-up for Animazement artists alley. SIGGGHHHHHHH. Maybe I should go anyway and get one by chance like last year? I can hope... meh I'm kinda emo right now so I'm thinking maybe I won't go. WHO KNOWS.

I bought a bunch of Easter candy that I can't eat because I have a canker sore like...ON MY TONGUE... Is that even possible? Well maybe at the base of my tongue. It even hurts to talk

Worried about money this month...no job and all...

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]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/16788171/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/16788171/ Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:37:03 PST
Today, after I leave the office, I get a phone call from Manpower saying the office wants today to be my last day.

WTF?!?

I did not have to give this place advance notice that I was leaving! I could have just walked in the morning of the 12th and gone "hey I'm not coming back tomorrow." But now, because I was decent enough to tell them I was leaving, I'm missing two or three days worth of pay! And I needed that money. I missed a bunch of days when I broke down over the losing my financial aid crap.

GODDAMMIT.

Well yeah, guess I'll be taking commissions at Katsucon since I have no other income right now...

OMG YA KNOW WHAT I bet I know why they made today my last day. They were being audited and today was the last day the auditors were there. Guess they just wanted the extra help while the auditors were around. GODDAMMIT AGAIN.

2008 is evil. Can we skip it? I'll even take the extra year off my life, I just want this over with.

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/16740107/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/16740107/ Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:29:08 PST
I think I'll try applying for some bank teller jobs. All I can think of to do that might hire me with the experience I have.

I'm trying to finish up two things for Katsucon...I don't think either of them'll work out but OH WELL. I'll probably just end up there with the same old crap as every other con. Maybe I'll quit the alleys after this one? Not sure...but seems I'm getting too old to be sitting around anime conventions selling shitty art.

Need to write more. Too angry at life to do so. Just want to sleep until things magically change.

Y'all need to see There Will Be Blood. F'ing awesome.

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/16542559/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/16542559/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:29:26 PST
I got a letter from the college saying that my financial aid is cancelled due to the fact that I've taken too many credit hours for my degree. This came two days after classes started.

God, where to start on the emotional roller coaster ride that took me on when I read that after class tonight. AFTER classes started. AFTER I stressed myself out over whether or not I could handle the extra history class and finally decided it's going to be the best class ever so of course I should take it. AFTER I convinced myself that I'm some sort of born writer and I need to take this second writing course. AFTER I see the cute guy sitting two rows over from me that I made eye contact with for just one second. THEN I get to read that I can't do any of this.

And here's the kicker: I can appeal. I can go to a counselor and try to weasel some way out of this and see what trick I can perform to keep my financial aid.

If only there was no way out. Then I would be fine.

Why? Because I don't really want to stay here another semester. I don't want to have to stay in Maryland another MONTH. If I couldn't be in class this semester I could leave.

But why bother to do that? Every time I've tried to go to another school or move to another state something horrible has happened and I've been dragged back.

No matter what I do, it's wrong.

No matter what happens to me, it takes me down the wrong path.

When I tried to go to UVermont, the loan was denied. When I moved to SC, I met Russ, who almost raped me, and Marci. When I tried to find a place to live on my own, mom convinced me to come up to Maryland and I got stuck here. When I tried to go to USC, we thought mom had cancer and I had to come back. When I tried AGAIN to move to SC, Marci ...well there's no words for it, and now I've been stuck in the same temp job for a year.

A single temp job. For one whole year.

No matter what I do now, whether I try to go to classes this semester or skip it and try to move, I'll be doing the wrong thing. I no longer know what to do. Every decision I make is wrong. Everything is SHIT and I've been unable to change it no matter how many times I try and the lengths I go to. I just get beaten down and utterly destroyed, and I. DON'T. KNOW. WHAT. TO. DO. ANYMORE.

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/16418776/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/16418776/ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:35:58 PST

Working on some pics...trying to get them done in time. I need to become a color monster in the next few weeks. I haven't done any artwork in soooooo long.

Perry's coming to visit during Katsucon yayay!! He's such a sweetie. And I'll get to play Phoenix Wright on his DS during the con ^______^

No other news really. I'm taking another writing course and Arabic 102 this coming semester.

Oh and I'm really really reallly into Devil May Cry right now XD

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/16004839/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/16004839/ Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:17:22 PST

I didn't mean to click on the picture in the green book...it was an ACCIDENT!!!

Then I saved...

Now I have to start all over

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/15792925/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/15792925/ Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:34:17 PST
The movie, I mean.

The book still rocks.

But...the movie...the sucktasticness....it was astounding.....

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/15626609/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/15626609/ Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:51:53 PST
Got up this...morning? Not really, it was noon XD Yay Thanksgiving! But anyway, yeah I got up this noon and looked in the mirror and OMG there's this big ol' spatter of blood in my left eye. Well under my eye. under the surface I mean WHATEVER THERE WAS BLOOD IN MY EYE. So I totally (silently) freaked out and searched google for "blood" and "eye" and turns out it's just some subconsomething hemorrage and it'll drain out in about two weeks. Then I felt like crap the whoooole day and wanted to go to the doctor to have it looked at and COULDN'T CAUSE IT'S A HOLIDAY AND EVERYTHING'S CLOSED and the emergency room is too expensive. I still feel queasy and headachey and I don't know why.

Hopefully I'll feel better by tomorrow, cause that's when we're actually having the turkey.

My creative writing teacher absolutely went nuts over my story. He loved it! Like better than anyone else's! And he's veeerrryyyy blunt as hell so I would know if he thought it was crap. So I'm so excited that I can write decently! I'm gonna post the story up on here if only for a short time after factoring in some critques ~Braveanglo gave me.

So I haven't been drawing lately cause I've been too busy writing X3 I've got a table in the Katsucon alley though so I'll be there.

I got an amazingly random check from the college for a few hundred bucks. Thank god! I have some yearly car registration thing to pay for on top of all my med bills. When mom saw it she actually commented that whenever I need money, I always seem to magically come in possession of some. I've noticed this too so it's hilarious that she said that XD

Anyone read any horror? I never knew horror novels could be any good until I started reading Lumley's Necroscope series. I need more! Got any suggestions?

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/14975351/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/14975351/ Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:00:22 PDT
Gah I've got a week to get some story written for class!! I kept putting it off XP I hate to start writing - I feel like my ideas are just too too silly. And none of my stuff so far has been critiqued in class so I don't know how retarded I write yet T_T

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/14858688/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/14858688/ Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:44:27 PDT
Sorry if it seems like I'm fishing for attention with all this "I'm gonna draw I'm not gonna draw." Sorry sorry ARGH.

So this semester it's Painting I, CG I, Art history I (with a crazy hippy teacher), and Creative writing. Plus work. Plus grocery shopping every weekend. Plus me sleeping in til 3 pm today cause I felt like crap...

OH GOLDEN COMPASS IS THE BEST BOOK EVAR YOU SHOULD READ IT. AND HARRY POTTER IS NOT AS GREAT AS EVERYONE SAYS IT IS AS I FIGURED.

Off to read me textbook now.

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/14323167/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/14323167/ Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:39:04 PDT
Then last night I had a dream about my boyfriend from high school, who happens to be the only truly decent guy I've ever gone out with. I wish I knew what happened to him...not to get back together since we were both too quiet to last...all I know is a later girlfriend cheated on him. He didn't deserve that.

Anyone ever get the feeling you're only looking for a significant other because society demands it of you?

Hrmp.

Well anyway, I'm auditioning for *BlackLillian's Suvivor: DA OC tournament (info in her journal). First time I've ever won a coin toss in my life!! I'm thinking of making up a character just for the tournament...would go with Balisong but she probably just would seem like a ripoff of Gally/Alita when seen only in a fight and my other characters are too complicated/boring when viewed apart from each other.

Along with that, here's a list of my song sketch plan from last journal [link] If anyone else still wants to make suggestions, go ahead! I may or may not go in this order:

1. ~fallys: o.c. Vincent, Linoleum by Tweaker (because the song be awesome)

2. =Geazhal: Bellerophon and Chimera, Saline the Salt Lake Queen by Rasputina (um...shrug)

3. ~Braveanglo: o.c. Aurelia, Drifting by Enya

4. =CKOanime: his "musician" demons, Hysteria by Muse (guy, you're just asking for something VOHameln related...)

And a couple more from ~fallys if I get that far :3

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/14277158/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/14277158/ Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:25:22 PDT
I thought of a way to give myself an added incentive to do this. Music!

So here's the deal: Leave a comment on what you'd like me to draw - my O.C., your O.C., fanart, mythological people or creatures, whatever. But here's the hard part: give me a song to draw an idea from (no pun intended). I don't have to have heard this song - I'm quite the pirate (arr). You don't get to pick the pose or situation though, that's what the song's for! *edit - I may or may not take the lyrics into consideration. Instrumentals are good too as long as I don't find them dull.

If enough people read my journal to leave enough comments (and good songs), I'll make a list of what I'm doing and I'll draw a picture every week and post on Sunday. If I don't get the picture more or less finished, I'll post what I've done. If I don't even get started on it, I'll post something else out of my sketchbook. This deadline concept will urge me to churn out good work in order to keep my page uncluttered with crap. Also, if I don't finish what I intend to do that week, I don't get to have any tea at work as a mini-punishment. (I figure I don't have super-cravings with tea like I do with chocolate, which I would never be able to keep away from myself, I just like tea and can live without it for a while.)

Help me out! Give me your ideas, even if you don't watch me and are just passing by my page. If noone comments, I won't be able to go ahead with this! D: List the person(s) or object(s) to be drawn, and a song to draw it with, go!

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/14200179/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/14200179/ Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:32:06 PDT
My ipod dies. I install itunes 7 so I can restore it. I uninstall itunes 7 because gaplessness destroys my computer. I install itunes 6. I upload music. My ipod dies.

Rinse. Repeat.

I.

Hate.

Gapless playback.

I'm reading Violinist of Hameln.

I am.

I AM.

I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT SOMEONE SCANLATED BEYOND VOLUME 6, AND I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT I AM READING VIOLINST OF HAMELN.

BUT I AM.

Years. YEARS. LITERAL YEARS I HAVE WAITED TO READ THIS GODDAMMED MANGA!!!!!!

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/13746599/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/13746599/ Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:31:44 PDT (I learned my lesson from the Dresden Dolls experience). The bad news is I'm once again flailing to find someone to go with me. I asked a guy I met online and he said sure until we went out and had dinner together, and I haven't heard from him since even though I IMed him saying "um yeah I HAVE THESE TICKETS ALREADY and I need to know if you're going." Dick. I don't know what the hell I could have done within 40 minutes of dinner to warrent silent rejection.

But hey ~Braveanglo came back from Mauritania already!!! She hated it and couldn't stay!!!! I shouldn't be happy about this!!!!!! XD

]]> *balisong http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/13693759/ http://balisong.deviantart.com/journal/13693759/ Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:55:11 PDT
I'm not really angry! I just can't change my journal mood on my work computer!

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