http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:oddballlucy&section=today deviantART RSS for by:oddballlucy en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:09:05 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/28666376/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/28666376/ Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:49:01 PST Shame that lovely glowy leaf-y autumn that makes you smile seems to have given way to the wet bone-deep cold that threatens for winter... but it could be worse!
Also, this is the perfect weather for both drawing and watching old films. I saw Singin' in the Rain for probably the hundreth time at the weekend, though I'm biding my time before I get out some black-and-whites... Yes, I am a tragic tragic person. 'They don't make 'em like they used to' indeed.
"I'd rather kiss a tarantula."
"You don't mean that."
"I don't- Joe, bring me a tarantula!"
Hee
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/28525504/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/28525504/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:55:15 PST [link] s art getting stolen? scary stuff - dude stole from some other people too, and i'm not sure sure if all the artists will know already. i know two should know (na-chan said she'd let the two identified know), but if you guys recognise someone elses work other than [link] and [link] let either them or na-chan know? the guy's been reported now though i think, so you don't need to hassle him or his site. crazy stuff... it would make me paranoid, yet somehow it doesnt! im a silly person, through and through! awful for the artists though. the guy is at [link]
Random news - i've been offered a free exhbition space in a pub in Cambridge! it's insane. in fact, i need to decide what of my old stuff could sell, and work on some new sellables too....ALICE, HELP ME!!!
Still no job, though i may be in the process of getting a voluntary position at a local school, which would be nifty!
aah, i went to visit alice (aka Fiverart) at the weekend - twas really fun, but its made me sorta want to go back to japan again. desperately. heh.
^^
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/27664462/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/27664462/ Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:37:34 PDT i'm job searching right now - did you guys know we're in a recession right now? crazy huh? i CANNOT find a job thats willing to take me for the life of me, it sucks... although i did actually get rejected twice in the past week (once by phone, once by email), which going by the utter ignoring of my existence i've had up til now suggests things are looking up! i hate how people whose vacancies you apply to usually don't even acknowledge you exist - its utterly depressing. as such, im abnormally happy having been rejected!
new art soon i hopes.... ^^
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/26461175/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/26461175/ Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:24:33 PDT [link] at 6am tomorrow (oh god, oh god, no-one should ever have to see that time of morning, but i can take it for Japan's sake). I cannot tell you how much i need this trip! I mean, even ignoring the many many years i've spent wishing i could go, it's just going to be sooo nifty! Plus, i recently attended a funeral, and its all got on top of me a little bit. Goodbye's are always sad, arent they? Ahh well, such is life. Doesn't really change things much in the end, i've just been a bit... well, depressed, really. It's always harder when it's someone you actually really care about, but that's just the way the cookie crumbles... what a wierd saying! Would've liked a cookie at the funeral actually - they had a buffet, which i considered the height of irony, because Ron hated buffets with a passion. He refused to accept them, and insisted on the general necessity and basic human right that was a proper meal, every meal time. None of those silly buffet things, that only give you scraps of things and never but NEVER have enough cake!
Ah, random detour.
This trip is going to be AWESOME!!!! I shall return with stories, photos, and hopefully new art! Here's to hoping, eh? ^^
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/26187970/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/26187970/ Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:44:08 PDT over 4 months!! well, quite a lot has happened in those four months, in my defence: I had my birthday (22 yrs and counting... i have accomplished worryingly little...), took my final year exams and graduated university with a 2:1 in Psychology, and have bought tickets to go to Japan for a 2 week holiday with a years teaching over there in mind for next year! well, that sounds like less than it felt... hehe! i've been mostly worrying about my future, or lack thereof - i really don't know what i want to do, and feel kinda like my parents are more worried about my future than i am! ah well! ^^ i think more people feel a similar lack of ambition to my own than seem to admit it, but who knows, eh? well, its not really lack of ambition, its just... i feel this inescapable pressure to figure out and begin doing WHAT I'LL BE DOING FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, RIGHT NOW!! and really haven't found anything that appeals to me crazy amounts thus far. the only thing i really do with a passion is my art, and dream of going to Japan. now the former is all well and good but hardly career material - i know better than anyone that i'm way to limited in what i do to actually make a decent living out of it, and thats fine. and Japan, well, i'm going there (finally!!!!! ), and hopefully will go again for a while after this little taster trip, but thats like saying i really love chocolate - its great, but not exactly the kind of thing you can do for a living. geh. i'm probably going to train to be a teacher, which i know i will enjoy, but im all too aware its really for lack of a better alternative. which is really a little sad in the end!
so, only one thing to do: leave the country and draw even more! WOO!!!
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/23632675/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/23632675/ Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:47:02 PDT right, now that we've got that over and done with....
so yeah, im going to japan! i've got a degree to finish off first (oh god, my dissertation is killing me, and ive got an exam next week too...), but after thats done it's me off to japan! my wonderous wonderous friend alice ([link]) is going to go with me if all things go to plan - we'll do the fun holiday thing sometime in august hopefully! that is also part of a larger cunning plan of mine to go there for a good long period of time and work out there... but more on that story later!
on a side note, a friend of mine has asked me to maybe design a tattoo for him. i'm kind of honoured, but if i think about it too much also a bit worried... god, poor guy, what if i can't come up with something he likes? or worse, what if we figure out a design, but then once he gets it done he hates it?! gah, the pressure!! so many ways this can go wrong... and i really like this guy! i can't ruin his first tattoo!! i've been working on trying to figure out a tattoo for myself for years now (my hand tends to have a different design every day these days...), but im cursed with an insanely indecisive nature... well, lets hope i can come up with something. the best plan really is to just draw on him for a while, though the downside is if we come up with a design he likes, id then have to transfer it onto paper so it can be copied, which is always more of a challenge than you'd think...

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/22636887/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/22636887/ Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:04:57 PST i love how you can tell which season you're watching based on scully's hair cut! ^^
Just thought i'd say a belatedly Happy New Year to everyone out there - hope this year treats you all even better than last year did. i'm in my final year of university and completely unsure of what i want to do next (though i have enough to worry about in the present, so i'll deal with the future when it arrives!)..... ah, remember thinking 'adults seem to know everything'? i'm fast realising that the older you get the more you have to worry about, but the ability to deal with these new things doesn't seem to show its face in time!
but its ok. i have the x files! ^^
*Daisy*
PS. ALICE!!! can't wait to see you - not sure if i'll be around the days you mentioned, but im home this weekend coming, depending where you'll be? let me know! and have no fear, there will always be a spare bed here for you and kosta!

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/21537739/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/21537739/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:40:15 PST An odd start to a Monday morning.... i wonder if it's some kind of sign...
I have an exam on Friday... waah!
*Daisy*
EDIT: So it's exactly one week later and this monday morning I was involved in a car accident! Looks like that crow may have been an omen after all.... I'm fine though, so it's all good!

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/21050202/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/21050202/ Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:11:35 PDT It's helped by some good news from a friend of mine - she's getting married! yay! ah, i'm so happy for her - and it was a ridiculously romantic proposal too... she and her boyfriend (now fiance!) trekked up to Machu Picchu, and once they got there he got out a ring and proposed! so sweet! sigh... i choose to remain hopeful, regardless of life and it's inevitabley sh*tty moments... how about you guys?
*Daisy*
My mood llama is in homage to alice - CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Also my thanks especially and again to rDarkchild for the insta-lovely words... really, thank you! ^^

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/21048470/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/21048470/ Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:04:05 PDT ah, i think i'm just trying to vent a bit. i'm not the kind of person who melts down in public, but i think it'd be good to feel like someone somewhere in the world knows how rubbish i feel right now. so please excuse this poor excuse for a journal - hopefully it'll get replaced in a little while when i look back and think 'oh god, what the hell?! it's not that bad, fool!!'
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/20400918/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/20400918/ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:46:56 PDT I've actually come back quite tanned, which is unusual for me and my normal 'white as the clouds' skin tone. So woot for that! Also, I tend to do this once a year with my family with two goals in mind. 1. To relax. I just can't relax in the UK. I'm perpetually stressed. I know it's my own fault, I just worry myself into a wreck - I don't want to, but I can't quite help it! And 2. To detox. I mean this quite seriously - I have become more and more aware that I am a serious tea junkie. I just can't function without it. So two weeks in France (which I do love, but my god they can't make decent tea...) is a simple way to have two tea free weeks. Sure I'm tired and vaguely grumpy the whole time, but the relaxation thing balances it out! Plus the first cuppa when you get back... god, it's like the nectar of the gods, I swear. Ah, I love tea. I'm drinking some right now, in fact!
So, I'm heading back to uni soon, which means more frequent internet access and access to a scanner (finally), so hopefully I'll be a better deviantartist and watcher to you all!
My thanks for your patience! ^^ *bows*
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/19336788/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/19336788/ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:19:21 PDT i think it'll take a while to get used to it....
on another note, just wanted to say a big thank you to all of my watchers (and others ^^) who are so very very patient with me and my frequent long absences... i shall try my hardest to do better in the future... my sincerest thanks *bows*
oh, if anyone is english like me and happens to live near Colchester in Essex, i'm heading there on tuesday with my top hat for the Tokyopop Recon at Ace Comics!
Alice!! if you read this, when you comin' home?!! i misses you!!

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/18426877/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/18426877/ Wed, 21 May 2008 07:37:31 PDT sorry i've been fairly absent recently, it is indeed the dreaded exam period, and this year the results count to my final degree!! gah! well, wish me luck (right now i'm actually revising the structure of the eye, so.... yeah....), and hopefully i'll be back with more new pics and will be better at replying sometime soon! in the meantime, sorry if i son't reply to things quickly!! ^^
oh, and it was my birthday last week!! 21.... crikey.... on the up side my house mates VERY amazingly bought me the complete Xena boxset!!!! WOOT!! when the exams are over i know what i'll be doing!! ^^
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/16239602/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/16239602/ Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:28:38 PST more soon!
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/15267596/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/15267596/ Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:00:30 PDT just a quick update: i'm currently working on my first (of many) lab reports for this lovely 2nd year at uni! woot! meh, it kinda sucks to be working again tho...
ooh, i recently watched a new anime series called Kino's Journey - so good!! i got really hooked on it - it was wonderfully wistful and kinda dark!! i'm also addicted to the ending theme tune, 'The Beautiful World', sung by Ai Maeda!
Well, this has been a fairly 'meh' journal! sorry guys!
EDIT: i'm now playing Shadow of the Colossus again - gah!!! I'm one of those lame gamers who always panics when she has to fight a boss at the end of a level, and however beautiful and amazing this game is it's just a game of bosses!!! eep!! i get really panicked and end up gripping the controller so hard my hands hurt afterwards!! anyone else get this?
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/14823391/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/14823391/ Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:38:58 PDT [link] s original character contest with this picture ( [link] ), and it's now voting time! so, if any of you nice lovely kind people out there want to vote for me(^^ lol - i suck at this kind of stuff!!), then please send a NOTE entitled "MY VOTE" to Jazzcatnya, and vote for me! check out the other people's entries too - they're all reeeally good!! ^^ THANK YOU!!

So, I've had a print request!! Crazyness!! It's for [link] and I'm seriously thinking about doing it, but I dont know how to submit prints!! Ah well, I'll work it out! In the mean time, if anyone else has any of my pics they'd like to see as prints, let me know, and as long as i can work out how to do it I'll see what i can do!
I'm pretty happy at the moment - I'm finally all moved into my new house, an I finally managed to get a competition entry finished and uploaded in time for the deadline! Woot! Go me! That pic's also the one which had a print request, so I'm doubly happy!
Well, I'm done for now - I have a new competition to begin working on!! Wish me luck! ^^
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/14347114/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/14347114/ Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:18:13 PDT on a down side, ive just had apple juice spilled all over a pic ive been working on... its really ddepressed me!!!! i was really really happy with the pic, and this time i was gonna not ink it coz the pencil was so detailed, and although i dont think its beyond all repair, i liked it how it was, without apple juice stains! it was an accident to be fair, but i can say that right now im not happy about having my 8 and 10 year old cousins here.... waah!
so that sucks. but hey, life goes on right? i feel kind stupid for 'mourning' a picture, but its actually really upset me!! ill probably upload it sometime anyways, but it sucks!!
However, chin up, and on to the next 1000 page views!! ^^
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/13843722/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/13843722/ Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:35:31 PDT i keep looking up to the sky since getting back, like i did there, but there's nothing there anymore
its a bit sad really, when the wheel turns like that
you feel a bit lost in the familiarity

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/13536139/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/13536139/ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:16:26 PDT Me and a coupla friends went to see Grinderman (Nick Cave's new band) last week in london, actually, which was AWESOME!!!!! we got there rediculously early, and also saw Noel Fielding of Mighty Boosh fame, walking past on the other side of the road (we got a cheerful wave)!!!! Nick Cave is, i can happily say, absolutely brilliant live!! we were right at the front too, so he kept looking at us (meh - fangirl's delusion - please, no-one shatter it!!!!) The first support act was brilliant - just a man and a guitar (C16, i think he was?), but the second (a techno band) was scary!!! ironically, i like their stuff, kinda, when its on CD, but during the performance i was actually quite worried that the singer was going to attack us or something !!!!
And next week, we're off to see Tori Amos!! twice!!! i have a plan.... ah, it shall be discussed after the fact!
so, on with the drawing!! ive actually done quite a lot recently, but havent scanned, for some reason! Please bear with me! ^^
How's everyone else out there doing? i get my results soon..... also, i have a PS2!!!!!! finally!!!!!!! ive been suffering, a gamer without gaming equipment!!!! THANK YOU BRADY!!!!!
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/12928619/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/12928619/ Sat, 12 May 2007 11:29:04 PDT oh well!! and of course, because im stressed, ive also become ill!! woot! also, scarily, im 20 in less than a week!!! gaaah!!! i wont be an adult!!! i refuse!!!
i hope everyone else on DA's doing well!! i think its the exam time for a lot of them, so in sympathy i say GOOD LUCK!!! to all of those who share in this special pain! ^^
and expect more pictures - its a real issue of mine that when i have work based stress, all i want to do is draw!! but then i imagine a lot of other people share this problem! ^^
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/12399163/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/12399163/ Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:12:57 PDT So, expect more art soon, hopefully!! Though all this depends on scanner access, so it might take longer than usual!
*Daisy*

]]> ~oddballlucy http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/12189235/ http://oddballlucy.deviantart.com/journal/12189235/ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:20:02 PDT )!! i seem to have been taken down (relatively hard) by the dreaded lurgie - a well cultivated strain of bronchitis, in fact, i do believe!! because of this, i havent, and may not upload or actually reply/comment much for a little while longer - i would like to say im gonna spend the rest of this month in bed, but unfortunately next week i have an exam, and a lab report due for psychology!! woot!!
gah
anyways, sorry about the lack of communication which has/will continue possibly for a while!
*Daisy*

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