http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:tigerdrachen&section=today deviantART RSS for by:tigerdrachen en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:53:22 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/25187275/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/25187275/ Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:42:42 PDT

Anyway, I survived student teaching, passed all my courses with flying colors, made Dean's List, and got my teaching license! Whoohoo! Now all I need is a job. Mom keeps pressuring me to work for a Catholic school, and it is driving me nuts. I have nothing again Catholic schools, it's just that private schools pay much less then state and they have fewer benefits. In all honesty, I can't afford to work for one unless I keep my job at the craft store. And I know that will lead me to a mental break down. I have to admit, it almost happened while a few times while I was student teaching this past semester. Don't want to put up with a few years of that crap.

In other news I also have a Facebook account. Yep it's official. Hell froze over. Also since I so much free time now, I've been reading and playing games again. I have a few idea's for sculptures I wake to try out because I want to play around with a few techniques. I'll post the results if they turn out good.

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/22678040/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/22678040/ Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:35:19 PST _< I had to get dress fast, look as professional as possible, rush down to the school and give a professional apology for why I didn't come when I was supposed too. Luckily my coop teacher was nice enough about it.

The kids are great! They are surprisingly well behave and on task with their projects. I'm going to be spoiled with these kids. But don't worry, I'm going to get a nice wake up call when I go to my middle school assignment on March 30th.

Oh yeah, I've been addicted to Dragon Cave for a while. So here my scroll. [link]

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Also, it is official. I will be student teaching this spring! I don't know where my assignment will be though. I'm hoping for either a high school or a middle school. Once I finished with that, I'll expand my career search to cover the whole state. I have enough money squirreled away in my savings so that if I have too, I can move and pay a few months rent before I get a regular pay check.

I've also got hooked on the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series. I just started book four today. I tried to read a different book between two and three, since I have such a huge "to-read" pile, but I ended up putting it aside so that I can get further into the Anita series. Those books are like crack.

Finally, my brother gave me a kick ass Christmas gift this year. A signed Apple Geeks poster that he got costumed framed! I love that web comic! They even wrote "Merry Christmas Tamara!" on it, which made me laugh a lot. Now I just need to find wall space to hang it...

Have a happy New Year everyone!

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Something that is kinda artsy though is I'm going to stretch a couple of canvases for this one of the customers from work, and she is going to pay me to do it. Her mother, who is a painter, had a few frames that were odd sizes and she wanted to do paintings for them. But the lady is pretty old and can't stretch canvases very well anymore, so I'm going to do it and earned a few extra bucks for it.

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/20557896/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/20557896/ Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:13:39 PDT Along with those images I posted two samples of my armwarmers and wrist warmers that I made. Once I figure out a price range, I will open commissions for them.

Nothing really new, other then I get to go to the Nightwish concert in less then a week. Last concert I went to was Ozzfest last year, so yay!

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/20438524/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/20438524/ Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:54:12 PDT
Since I do not have to worry about teaching until the spring, I am going to the Sonata Arctica and Nightwish concert in Charolette, NC on the 24th. Tony, Hunter and Jessica have been bugging me if I would be able to go and I kept putting it off because I didn't know if I would be teaching by then. Their reply "You mean you can't play hooky when you're a teacher?" Well now I can go. Already bought my pass for it.

In other news, almost forgot that my own birthday was coming up. Again! I did this last year. At least I remember sooner this time. Last year I didn't realize it was coming up until my brother asked me what I wanted. That reminds, my brother's is a week after mine, so I need to get something for him. >_<

Also finished on set of arm warmers, and now working on a pair of wrist warmers. Once I finish those I'll take pictures and post them up. I think I will do commissions since I'm going to be needing the money soon.

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/20226589/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/20226589/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:22:56 PDT
I have all my grades from PAL now, including my independent study grade, which I kept putting off. Amazingly enough, I got an A in it. I thought I would be lucky to get C, but apparently I'm good at bsing in essays.

Since I don't have a teaching position yet, I am short on money again. I am seriously considering doing commissions through here on DeviantArt. Since I started knitting again, I'll probably do custom armwarmers/wristwarmers since I can do them fairly fast, and do some pretty good quality work in them. I just want to play around with a few ideas and post some samples before I do anything though. On top of that, I'll probably also go to BioLife and start donating plasma too. That will be an extra $240 a month right there. I am just hesitant to go because of where the place is located. Not exactly the safest place in town!

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/19589604/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/19589604/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:50:30 PDT
In other news, I've reached over a 1,000 views and I've just noticed it. Wow... I'm observant! I probably should start adding more art to my galleries.

Now for some not so awesome news. My car was broken into Monday night/early Tuesday morning. They took my CD player, the power adapter for it, the cassette adapter, my Sugarcult CD that was still in it, and the power adapter for my cell. Pretty much they got away with $75 worth of stuff, but it still pisses me off. It makes you feel violated! I did file a report with the police, since this stuff has been happening all over my neighborhood lately. They gave me a case number but I doubt I'll hear anything else about it. At least they didn't damage my car. The lock on the driver's side has been busted for a year now, so that's how they got in.

Okay, now for something light hearted! I would so show this video to my students if I can get away with it. [link]

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/19521532/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/19521532/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:48:22 PDT
In the other past three courses I've made two B+s and an A. As odd as it sounds, I really hate getting B+s. It's like they are saying 'You're not good enough for an A so we're going to mock you.' Especially when I miss getting an A by not even half a point.

In other news, I'm thinking about doing Student Teaching so that I can avoid taking the PRAXIS II. I got a look at a practice test of it for Art and it's intimidating! There are questions on stuff they never even went over in art school, such as stage, makeup, and custom set up. That's more Drama then Visual Art, but there it is on a Visual Art exam. Maybe I'm just freaking myself out, but still, better be safe then sorry.

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/19149313/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/19149313/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:06:10 PDT I'm not staying up to 2am trying to get two papers done in one night! I know I'm going to ace this class.

Warning! The following is a rant. Don't read if you don't want to hear about it.

I really really really hate living with an alcoholic father. Some days it's not so bad since I'm used to it. Today though... Oh boy. He was asking me when I was going to be leaving for summer camp. I haven't been to summer camp since middle school! Hell, I haven't been involved in Scouts since high school. He was saying that he thought I wanted to be a counselor and I told him I never said anything like that, and made it clear that I can't get involved in camps because of my classes. It's like living with an Alzhimer's patient, which leaves me to be very frustrated.

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/19060260/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/19060260/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:41:50 PDT
I'm pretty tired though. Sleep? That term sounds so foreign to me now. I haven't been getting much of it since I've been up doing projects at night.

Well four more week to go.

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/18930058/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/18930058/ Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:43:33 PDT
Also, starting Monday, I'll be in boot camp for teachers. Yay! Five whole weeks of classes that are from 9am to 4pm Monday through Friday. It will feel like I'm back in high school again, only much much harder. I'm both excited and dreading it at the same time.

Finally, my brother and I are silly. Last night I came into my room and found my Grimlock toy sitting at my computer looking like it was typing on it. My brother had put it there. Of course me being me, I took some pictures of it and added on to it.
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I put them on this lj rp journal, since this was just something I was messing around with and not really something I would put in my gallery.

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/18622255/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/18622255/ Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:47:36 PDT
In other news, I've been going to the doctor lately. Mom's paying the bill since I don't have insurance at the moment. I have this infection on the back of my leg that just doesn't want to go away. The doctor did a culture on it and we found out that it wasn't MRSA, thank God. So right now I'm on heavy antibiotics which I can't have too much caffeine with. That means no coffee for Tamara. T_T I'm going to go crazy because of this doctor...

I've also put myself on a diet, which I'm sticking too this time. I'm doing good so far! I've lost up to 15 pounds at the moment and I'm still going. It doesn't look like I've lost that much though since when I loose weight, I pretty much loose it all around and not just in one spot. But hey, it's a start.

Tamara

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/17564803/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/17564803/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:26:03 PDT
Well on to happier news. Got to see fireworks today. I was leaving my sculpture evening class and as I was just about to exit the parking lot, I got a very good view of the display. So I parked my car and watched the show. Found out the reason for the fireworks too. It was part of Greensboro's 200 year birthday celebration that's been going on this whole week. I was a really nice show too and I'm glad I got to see some of it.

I'm also having way too much fun playing Grimlock in Drama Drama Duck. You want to know how hard it is to write in bad grammar when you are so used be close to correct? Anyway we are having a Tied-up virus coming soon and Grimlock is going to have Timon from the Lion King tied to his arm. I am sooo tempted to draw a short comic of that.

Tamara

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/17433911/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/17433911/ Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:17:11 PDT
In other news, I started messing around in Photoshop today for something other then resizing and image. I started playing in Dramadramaduck about two months ago as Grimlock. First lj rp I've been in for about a year. Anyway, I've noticed some people have been making Fan soundtracks of their characters with album art as well as lyrics. I decided it would be fun to do one for Grimlock. It would be a good exercise for me in Photoshop. I designed an album cover in Photoshop back in high school for a graphic design class but that was years ago. I have all the songs picked out and am currently messing around with the front cover. I need to find a good image of his dino mode for the back. I'll probably post them here when I'm done and then move them to scraps after a while. That is, if they are any good.

Tamara

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/17385672/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/17385672/ Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:14:02 PDT
It took me 20 minutes to ring them up because they kept telling me I over charged them, saying they will spend that much on themselves but not for school. So after a lot of voiding and getting them to think on what they really needed I got their total down to about $55. They still kept saying that I over charged them because they figured it would be forty something. Then I told them how much the tax was and then they said "oh! We have to pay tax?" *bangs head* I just kept smiling and wishing them a good day when in my mind I was screaming "get the fuck out of the store!" Seriously. I'm starting to loose hope for humanity.

In other news, I'm going to scan in a few things from my sketch book so that I have a few more current works in my gallery.

Tamara

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/17353725/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/17353725/ Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:39:18 PDT I had to get him.

Also, I was just watching the news and found out that Bishop McGuiness's girls basket ball team won their game. For those who don't know Bishop McGuiness is one of the few Catholic high schools in NC and it's located in Kernersville, which is about a 30 minute drive from here. Now here is the amusing part. Their called the Villains. Now isn't that a funny mascot for a Catholic school. Hell, for any kind of Christian school. Just thought I would share that.

Tamara

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/17337383/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/17337383/ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:41:58 PDT
Yeah haven't done much with this journal. I used to use my lj account more often but I hardly go on it anymore unless it's to rp some character. Since I'm trolling around on DA more I figure I'll start using the journal more. I promise for real this time!

I've decided I'll keep this account more updated and better maintained. I cleaned up my gallery some and put some works that were fan art or not up to my standards into my scraps. I've been working in some more three dimensional works lately. I had post two of my masks a while back. I'll put some more in stuff in later, even some of my old work. And some new stuff too hopefully.

Well that's all for now.

Tamara

]]> ~tigerdrachen http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/13335053/ http://tigerdrachen.deviantart.com/journal/13335053/ Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:46:50 PDT
Speaking of my characters, I started writing again. My friend Sarah offered to help me with the editing, which I'll really need considering I have a bad habit of spelling words backwards. >_< I told her to let me know if the story was crap and not to be afriad of hurting my feelings.

I've also got a new sketch book/journal the other day. It's one of those small ones with the slate cover with a relief of dragons on it, like you see at Hot Topic. I found it in the clearance section and had to get it. ^^ I could throw it at someone and give them a concussion! I'll probably scan in some of the things I drew in there already.

Tamara

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