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Leaving on Tuesday. Classes start on Thursday. I'm still slightly scared of this year, what with classes, running Trans* Parachute United, doing my thing with ODK, working on my honors thesis, and trying to do the clay thing while my hands are continuing to bother me. (Seriously, I keep them splinted most of the time, and whenever I remove the splints, the pain comes back like within 5-10 minutes.)

I'm going through this thing with my hair: I want to buzz it off. The only thing keeping me from doing it is fear that it'll look weird on me. My hair's grown since March, and it's gotten to this place where it's short, but it's too long for me, and I want it cut shorter. And I'm not happy with the sides of my head, either. I'm really close to just either trying to get one of the barbers around here to shave it off, or see if we have a set of clippers here and doing it myself. I haven't said this to Mom: I said I wanted to get it shaped up. Don't know if I'm going to go to Roger to do it (I have less than a week), but if I do, I'm going to ask him about it. I don't think I'll buzz it totally bald, just close to the scalp. I still want there to be a coating of hair on my head. XD; But I know short hair makes me feel more confident, possibly because it's more in line with my image of myself, more androgynous. I have no idea what my head looks like under all this hair though. ^^;

But you know, I see videos like this, and I'm so inspired.

ANYWAY. Going to enjoy the rest of this week while I can. Lola's not gonna be happy when I leave. Oh, also, she's two years old today. ^_^

Current Mood: contemplative

I'm heading back home on the 8th! It should've been the 4th, but Sophie's last final isn't until the following Tuesday, and she and I are sharing a storage unit. (She's from California and has no way of moving stuff currently. She's going to drive back here, though, so she'll have a way to move things. Well, I thought she was. Now I'm not sure. XD;) I cannot WAIT to get home and see people and my DOG. You have no idea how much I just want to have a lap full of excited Lola right now. I was hoping Mom could bring her down when she comes to get me, but the idea is really silly. Mom would have to leave early in the morning, she couldn't feed Lola because Lola gets sick in the car if she's eaten... it wouldn't work out. I'll likely have to wait until I get home. And even then, that might actually end up being a night spent in PA before heading back to Brooklyn, as the house is closer to Juniata than the apartment by two hours.

Tuesday I didn't give a crap about anything, and today, my body decided to give me a very unpleasant surprise, and I've been dealing with it all day. I skipped both my classes just because I could not leave my bed. This morning was hell. When I get back home, I need a trip to the doctor to sort myself out. Nothing serious, just major annoyance.

I've been drawing a lot lately... except a lot of that's been in a small sketchbook I picked up just to have a small wire-bound one. The other one I have is six inches square and has a spine, which irriates me to no end. I was trying to remember to draw in the book for Art Therapy--we had the option of doing a visual journal for extra credit--and I kept forgetting to do it until about a week ago, when I found myself missing Oliver a ridiculous amount and decided to recreate one of my favorite photos of him in colored pencil. I was super happy with the result, and my artmaking's just taken off since. I've been experimenting with watercolor in those pages, too. Right now the sketchbook is with Leah, so she can look at the pictures, so I'm using my large book. I've got a drawing of Skyward Sword!Link that I used a screenshot as a reference for in it, and I'm currently working on a redraw of two characters I've only ever drawn once before. I'm noticing a huge shift in the way I go about drawing since going through art therapy: I'm much less likely to hem and haw about what I should draw, and more likely to just start doodling and work it out as I go. This is what I wanted to happen from the beginning of the semester.

My life is in the ceramics studio right now. Lots of glazing happening. I was just in there tonight glazing something that probably won't look great once it's done. :\ I'm not overly happy with that piece; it could've been made in a different way and it would've turned out better, but now it just looks a mess. It's an abstraction of the flashlight I reproduced. I'm kinda hoping the abstract gets dropped by someone and gets destroyed, I feel that badly about it. On the plus side, a student saw my apple reproduction at the Liberal Arts Symposium art exhibition and liked it so much she wants to buy it. :D I only charged her $25 because she's a student probably making minimum wage and it didn't take me long to make the apple at all, but still, I sold something that I made. I think I need to thank Bethany for giving Patrick and me a relatively simple apple to make. Some of the apples she had were crazy, but ours was more or less what an apple should look like.

Also, the Link Making Faces Tumblr is the best thing ever. Especially this post. I'd buy that game just for the name. XD

Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: Sonic 4 Episode II - Sky Fortress Zone - Act 2

Hope everyone had a great new year!

Good news: Craig has been officially hired at Rockefeller Center/Top of the Rock. It was just a seasonal thing, but they've decided to keep him. He's happy. :D He gets three days off starting tomorrow, and we might go to PA... and I'll probably spend at least the next week up there, although I might as well just stay up there, especially if Dad's still planning on driving me back to campus. I have to e-mail Res Life in a couple days to ask what I should do.

Lola got into Craig's room (because he left his door open) and ate up the adapter for his 3DS. I've decided I'm not even gonna tell him she did it, because he'll just get angry. I put mine in its place instead, and I'll just get a new one. I keep telling him he can't leave that door open AND leave his wires laying around. Either pick the stuff up or shut the door when you leave. -_- If I wasn't feeling so lazy, I'd head out to Gamestop now and get a new one, but I just don't feel like it. XD;; Lola's losing her milk teeth! Yesterday I noticed a loose one in the front of her mouth, and earlier she was nibbling on my hand and I felt another loose one when I took my hand away. The two center ones in front are already gone. Hopefully once her adult teeth come in, she'll stop wanting to chew on absolutely everything. I brought Craig's destroyed adapter to her crate (where she was sitting) and showed it to her, calling her a bad girl, and she totally knew what she'd done. She followed me out of the crate and sat in front of me, and you could just see the whole bad dog thing in her face. She went to sleep. She might still be asleep, really. She probably is; usually she comes into my room to say hi when she wakes up. Maybe she thinks I'm mad at her.

The first episode of the second season of Sherlock was AWESOME. I'd forgotten all about it. Mom and I went to my godmother Denise's house for Kwanzaa. Saw people I haven't seen in years, including little Imani, who was either an infant or a toddler the last time I saw her, and while she's not that little anymore, is still quite little, haha. She's petite. XD She's graduating from SCAD in six months. We got in touch when I was considering SCAD, and then I found out she's a Sherlock fan too. We were actually watching the episode in the house yesterday, at least as much as we could before people came upstairs and started getting loud. She sent me the link to download it. ^^ She should be back in Savannah by now.

Current Mood: calm

I realized it's been ten days since I updated, hehe. Back in Brooklyn for break. Dad's here since Craig had to work today. Normally we'd be in PA instead. We're probably heading to Rockefeller Center tomorrow and doing all that fun post-Christmas shopping.

Got a 3.563 GPA for my first semester! What is Religion screwed me over, hehe. I only got a B, and that was my lowest grade. Everything else:

Quantitative Methods: B+
Explorations in Clay: A-
Computer Science: A
Information Access: A
Career Planning: A

Both IA and Career Planning are only one credit, so yeah, not much impact on my average. CS and Religion were each worth four credits, and QM and Clay were worth three. If I'd managed to do better in the religion class, or in QM, I MIGHT have made the Dean's List, but I didn't actually calculate what I'd have needed. (Dean's List is 3.60.) I knew most of the grades just based on the work I'd done. I wasn't even trying to make the list, but I found out after grades were posted that I missed it by so little. Maybe next time.

Lola's got this thing lately with nibbling on carpets. That dog will eat anything, I swear.

I've been bad about drawing lately. I've just been so freaking LAZY. I'm enjoying not having anything to do. I would say I'm enjoying sleeping, but Lola tends to come into my room early in the morning to wake me up, or she'll want to get in my bed to sleep, so I'll pick her up. The other night, she had an upset stomach and kept whining every hour, so I didn't really sleep. One good thing about Lola not being an outdoor dog; she doesn't get all the germs you'd get from walking outside. I don't mind putting her in my bed, and neither does Mom. She just got a bath today anyway.

Craig's working. He expects he'll be able to get hired permanently, which is freaking awesome, because he LOVES his job. The only thing he doesn't like is when people change his schedule around on him. He gets to interact with so many different people, though, and he pumps people up. He loves the place.

Dad was happy about his presents--he made out like a bandit this year. 3TB external HD, his own 3DS (a blue one! I love my Zelda edition one, but I swear, that blue...), and Super Mario 3D Land. Mom asked me what I wanted (since the 3DS was Craig's present to me, not hers), and I couldn't think of anything until a visit to dA a couple days ago, so now Mom's bought me this backpack. She didn't want anything but a pair of earrings that Lola managed to get to and chew up, so I told her whenever we next go shopping to find a pair she likes, and I'll pay for them.

Dad said he's planning on driving me back to school! This is awesome. If it happens, he can help me move my stuff. I'm going to contact Res Life again after the third, because I believe all the offices are closed until the 4th.

I need sweets! Do I be good and eat an apple, or do I be bad and eat ice cream? Hmm.

Current Mood: calm

Lola's sleeping to my left, and Craig is sleeping behind me. Both of them have fallen asleep in here. I keep thinking eventually I'll kick Craig out (Lola can stay), but I might just leave it and go to sleep. This is a wide futon, it's big enough.

Lola's freaking crazy. XD;; She has sharp little teeth, and she's teething, so she likes to nip and nibble on things and/or us. I'm redirecting her attention to her toys when she starts getting rough. She's adorable, though. She runs all through the house like crazy and then just crashes later. We had her running back and forth for a while; she found a ball earlier, so Dad sat on one end of the living room and I sat on the other, and we rolled the ball back and forth. She followed it pretty much every time, although she did hit a point where she sat down and just watched for like ten seconds before she started chasing it again.

I wanna take a picture of her right now, she's so cute. If I get up, though, I know it'll disturb her, and I don't want to do that. Girl needs her sleep. It's bad enough that if she DOES wake up at some point tonight, she'll want to play. One problem is that she will want to play, even if it's 2am. When she wakes up, she wants a playmate.

She's doing very well with paper training, but Mom said she's terrified when she's outside, so she'll have to get used to walking outside.

Not looking forward to having to take the bus back to State College on Sunday. ^^; Just ugh. Not looking forward to it at all. Five hours on the bus is not as comfortable as six hours on Amtrak.

This song. <3

Current Mood: content
Current Music: Bentley Jones - Road Trip To Oblivion V² (Gaia Online's Promageddon)

I let the drawing bug bite at 1am! :D I'm forcing myself to bed after I type this. There's an unfinished sketch of Reilly sitting on my desk. I'm trying not to look at it lest I grab the sketchbook and pencil again.

I keep watching the video of Lola I posted on YouTube, which leads me to watch Oliver's video since it always comes up in the suggestions. I miss my baby. ^^; Lola's not really mine, you know? It was Mom's decision to get her from the Figueroas. I mean, Lola slept in my room the first couple nights and all, but I didn't find her, I didn't pick her out, I haven't been responsible for her. Oliver was my baby. I'm not sad about him anymore, though. I'm at peace with it. I can watch the video now without feeling like I'm going to cry, and that's a good thing. Now I just laugh at how adamant he was that Mom always had food. XD; Next dog I get will definitely be another Lhasa. I really like that breed. Ollie was a stubborn little bastard, but he was awesome.

Oliver!icon just because his underbite still amuses me and makes me "aww". ^_^

Lola broke out of my room yesterday. XD I'd blocked part of my room off for her to stay in before I came back to the college, and Mom and Craig both had to leave the apartment yesterday... and when Craig came home, Lola greeted him at the door. Needless to say, Mom bought her a nice-sized crate to stay in when they have to leave. ^^;;

Been staring at a Java problem for the past few hours, tinkering with the code to fix a bit of an error I'm getting. Not an error, more like a miscalculation. It's something very simple, I'm sure, but I haven't been able to figure it out. It's a problem to do with compound interest. I got the yearly amount to come out right, but the monthly and daily amounts are off, and nothing I do fixes the problem. The program is due tomorrow, so I think I'm going to hold off on submitting my files, and ask John about it after class, before I submit them. I'll run it for him so he knows I've done it. The loops work, and I think that's the most important thing. The issue is that we have to have the program give us a balance, after the user inputs an initial balance and interest rate, with interest compounded over 10 years, and the interest has to be compounded yearly, monthly, and daily. We can't use math to do it, though. It has to be done through loops. Right now I have two loops, an inner and an outer. (Was originally three inner loops, but I realized it wasn't necessary and I could just consolidate everything into one while statement, which got rid of a couple variables. At least, I've done that and there's been no change to the result, so I'm assuming it's valid.) The outer loop was the first thing I did, and that's just a sentinel to tell the program to stop. Easiest part, right there. And the rest, I'm stuck. Yearly comes out perfectly (John sent us his results, so we know what we're supposed to get), but the other two are off.

Rediscovering old music! So glad I brought the 2TB HD with me. I was able to put ALL my old files on, including all of my music. Sometimes I get the urge to look through the really old stuff, plop some music onto the laptop so I don't have to have the HD connected, and just remember. This band was one of my gateway groups in terms of Japanese music. I think it was them, GLAY, and Chisato that dragged me into it. I still have the Chisato stuff I downloaded a good ten or rmore years ago. (Was it that long ago? Napster wasn't targeted for infringement then... but I didn't use Napster. I used to get my Japanese stuff from Audiogalaxy before the RIAA screwed everything up. And then AG became Rhapsody.) I need to find my GLAY stuff. I don't recall seeing it on the drive, and I have a bad feeling it was a casualty from the laptop crash of 2004.

Tomorrow, hanging out with Heather again--she wants to play more Sonic. I whupped her ass last time we played. XD Of course, I am much older than she is, and I've memorized so much of old-school Sonic it's ridiculous. I've lost all my skill at Sonic Spinball. I only got up to the very beginning of The Machine before I died. Hate that level with a fiery passion. -_-

Okay. Bed. Two classes tomorrow morning, and I am done. This weekend I have to glaze three cups for Clay, and maybe fix up my vessel a bit more. I meant to take a picture of it before I left today. We had our critique, and everyone liked my design, but it did have some flaws I needed to deal with, like the horrible rim and the handles. Those were the last things I did last night, so I was TOO through with the entire process and didn't really do as well as I should have. I stayed behind after class to fix the issues, and it looks much better now. I can't wait until it gets fired. :D I'll probably go back this weekend and fix the coloring. I needed a much smaller paintbrush than the one I was using, so the slip is really messy in some places. Not terrible, but I drew figures on the surface and I want them to look good.

Holy crap, 1:36. All right. Good night.

Current Mood: content
Current Music: Luna Sea - Tonight

We've named her Lola (her brother, who Marcia adopted, is named Razzle), and she's adorable. She's the only girl of a litter of... six, I think? She's sitting in my room right now, in her bed (Oliver's old one), and resting. She spent a good chunk of the past hour whining at me because I was on the other side of the barrier of the little home I set up for her. Being on her side wasn't enough, either--I came to her side and sat on my bed, but she still whined. XD She's finally calmed down, and I think all that whining was "I don't want to sleep, keep me busy!". I think she's tired herself out enough that she'll be napping for a while.

Sleeping in her bed. ^_^

This has been a great fall break, and I'm glad I was able to get home for a bit. I'm leaving to go back tomorrow, hopping on Amtrak and riding the six hours back to Huntingdon. Tonight, though, steak (my family loves me! XD) and finishing up the HD version of Shadow of the Colossus, and getting as far as I can in the second playthrough of ICO. Next time I get home, Halo Anniversary will be played. I was totally tempted to get a 3DS so I can get my BIT.TRIP fix... I'm SO out of practice! I managed to get to Meta mode in FLUX, but I couldn't stay there because I kept missing beats. Don't get me started on RUNNER.

Aww, Lola just got up and got some water, then crawled back into bed. She's looking at me now, but being quiet.

She can't walk outside yet. She's only about 8-9 weeks old. She and Razzle were hilarious last night... we had Oliver's old bed (the smaller blue one at the house) out on the floor, and Mom pulled out the cushion that goes with the car seat... and every time Razzle would sit on the cushion, Lola would run from wherever she was and TACKLE him. Like, "Get the hell off my cushion!", even when she wasn't on it. They chased each other and played for like three hours, when Joanne said they'd tire each other out after fifteen minutes. It got to the point where we had to separate them and hold them down! XD

I'm completely exhausted right now. I didn't sleep as well as I'd have liked. I want to sleep, but I'm slightly concerned about Lola. There are newspapers set up, though, and for the most part, she seems to know to use the papers, so hopefully she does that. I think I'm gonna follow her lead and at least lay down, if not take a nap.

Oh, school-wise... I did a little bit better on the second religion test than the first (and the question I really messed up on was one that probably shouldn't have been on the test, because Braxton said he just wanted us to see the calendar system and we didn't talk about it). Henry hasn't graded assignment six yet. I got my math test back on Friday, and I lost points on really careless stuff... like one question where I gave the answer but didn't show my work. Easiest question ever, and I know it was right, but I only got partial credit. There were a few things like that. So, I felt like an ass. Easily could've gotten in the mid-80s rather than a 76. Will have to be more careful next time.

Okay. Finishing reading through that story I needed to get from here, then laying down for a bit.