la la la la la la!!!

After class and feeling more positive!

Enjoying my painting class very much, though I don't know if I'm doing well or not!

Also enjoying my Biology through Art class! Need to start on my painting and on a group project but still...

Art History is art history and is boring as all hell....also need to get down to the art institute some time within the next week or so.

Philosophy of Religion is equally as boring...but at least it isn't hard, so yay!

Archeological Lab Methods is interesting...but I have a feeling the teacher is picking on me! The class is small, so I think he feels like he should pick on quick people and he knows I'm smart (I've had him twice before), so eep!

Ahhh, la la la!

Caught up on Heroes for Monday's finale. Still sad Dollhouse is over. Have no other shows I'm currently watching, though I should be watching American Idol (if only for Ellen).

Think I'm sick...throat's all messed up, coughing, headaches, stuffed up...it's no bad, just annoying, and I want to sleep more than I should be allowed.

*sigh*

Back to stuffs now...

~Crazed

Why am I up before noon?

WHY DEAR GOD WHY?!?

...I didn't get back from the Repo! Shadowcast until 4:30 am, and wasn't asleep until at least 5:15 am....I planned to sleep in until at least 11 am (as I have something to do at one), but my body was like, no bitch, you're getting up at 8:50, so na na na na!

...blurgh...

BUT, last night was fun! My friend totally fangirled over meeting Terrance Zdunich (cocreator of Repo!, plays Graverobber in the movie, and did all the art work)...twice.

(First time was the official met and greet, second time was after the show to get pictures.)

It was very funny...

Got my DVD signed (the actual DVD, as I left the case at home on accident), as well as buying the first two issues of his comics and getting those signed ($20, but he's self-publishing so...yeah, expected them not to be cheap!).

YAY!

Now to eat some food, because I never really did eat diner last night!

~Crazed

So, I must have done something right in my Drawing 1 class, because I just got an e-mail from my teacher asking if I'd be interesting in designing a bin for the school newspaper.

So, yay!

I'm probably going to be doing it, even though I probably don't have time to do so, lol! It's a good opportunity, so why the hell not!

Anyways, classes continue to be cool. Philosophy teacher is amazingly chill for being one.

-Crazed

Got back to school, moved from one dorm room to another...as the first was confirmed to have bed bugs a good month and a half AFTER my two roommates first complained about bites.

Yeah...stupid school...

Anyways, have now been to every class at least once.

Art History II:Renaissance to Modern seems...eh. Some of the work seems strange, but the teacher seems pretty nice. Going to the art institute tomorrow with the class to catch a painting before it gets shipped back to London.

Surprisingly, Philosophy of Religion doesn't seem like it will kill me. It's writing intensive, and thus the grade is four papers plus an in class written final. It's also the only class I have that doesn't have a participation grade, and thus the only one I can skip.

Biology Through Art seems like it's going to be a shit ton of fun! Honestly, we went over basics of the class, followed by quick art examples, and then spent the last hour (of two and a half) PLAYING with watercolor (we never had to finish or really do anything). IT WAS AWESOME! Plus we're going to play with glowing bacteria and stuff to make art...REALLY! AH!

Painting 1 is looking good. I have a different teacher than my roomie had, and thus I have 4 less painting and no actual schedule for when they are do (just have them done by the end of the semester). AND my needed materials is a lot less specific and a lot cheaper than what my roommate had. PLUS the teacher has random paint and paint brushes we can use in case we only need something once.

And then my last required anthropology class, Archeology Lab Methods, seems like work, but fun hands on playing with artifacts and such work...something none of my anth classes have given me so far!

Anyways...already busy. Lots of planning for Japanese Club.

AND OMG I'M GOING TO HAVE SO MUCH FUN THIS WEEKEND!!!

I'M GOING TO SEE A MIDNIGHT REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA SHADOWCAST AND THE CREATOR IS GOING TO BE THERE SIGNING STUFF, AHH!!!

...*geeks*...

Yup...

-Crazed

blah blah blah...

Went out with my parents on New Years to a small party my mom's friend was hosting. Had planned on bar hopping with a friend...but stuff came up on her side and I wasn't going to go all the way into Chicago to celebrate with other people.

Been kinda eh since then.

Got a bit of reading done. At least 9 books this break so far. YAY! Always nice to have time to read!

Been getting up earlier than I want to help my youngest brother off to school. Saw my foot doctor again...have to clear with the insurance to get my orthodics.

Also saw the dematologist. Getting put on the strongest stuff they have...which will involve monthly tests and an online program to make sure I'm following the program.

Anyways...been watching the first season of True Blood...because I can.

...still not enough Eric this season, but ah well...

Right. Need to order text books and such!

-Crazed

Head feels like it's going to explode. Damn sinuses! Damn lake effect! DAMN SNOW THAT WON'T STOP FOR SHIT!!!

...this is why I hate midwest weather...

Anyways, Christmas was good. Didn't ask for anything but money and a random cd. Got both and more.

List of stuff I remember getting: $200 ($100 from one grandmother, $100 from the other grandparents, which will all be spent on art supplies for my painting class), the newest Muse cd (from my brother), gift card to Murices, gift card to See's, jade earrings, random candy (mostly See's, including cinnamon lollipops!), drinking games set from my uncle (who got everyone a board game of some sort), Chinese characters magnetic set (currently have "I like to read books" across the pipe in my room)...

...and then the stuff I was actually excited about: Doctor Who Dalek phone charm (it spins and lights up when I get/make a call...most of the time anyways), G and Baby perfumes from the Harajuku Lovers set (they smell SO good and the containers are too cute), and season 1 of True Blood dvd set! (Which I will make Kerry watch...yessss....though, season 1 has a lack of Eric...MUST SAVE MONEY FOR SEASON 2!!!)

So, yeah. Spent yesterday cleaning the basement. Will clean upstairs today (hopefully).

And then tomorrow's my 21st! Getting my hair done (it needs a cut anyways), finishing cleaning, and then going to see Sherlock Holmes, out to eat, and back to the basement of my house for drunken gaming with friends! Because drunken gaming is the best way to play certain games!

Yup...

-Crazed

ETA: AW SNAP! Forgot an awesome present (I picked it out)! I GOT AN AWESOME HAT MAN! It's from Tim Burton's upcoming Alice movie...hat's SO awesome I don't care if the movie comes out crap! It's blue, with ear flaps with pompoms at the bottom, with the Chesire Cat's eyes and mouth printed on it and cat ears coming off the top! IT IS RIDICULOUS AND I LOVE IT! I would post an image of it, but I can't find it online...OH WELL! I HAVE ONE AND IT ROCKS AND IS AWESOME AND THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS!

Kinda abandoned posting on LJ...sorry. But don't expect that to change really.

Finals were busy busy busy! Got done on the 11th. Only got my last grade a few days ago. Did much better than I expected to do: 2 A's and 3 A-'s, so lower than my average GPA prior to this semester, but not enough to drop it that much.

Home, hurrah! Helped put up Christmas decorations! Played lots with my kitty! Brother got home yesterday after ignoring my mom's calls/e-mails for a week. Nice and rested and already read a good three books (as I feel the need to catch up from not being able to get much fun reading done during the semester).

Need to start cleaning much ignored parts the house now and get the rest of my laundry done. Mostly because I'm actually having a small party on my birthday...because it's my 21st and damn if I'm getting drunk with my family!

Also, drunk group gaming=WIN!

Also planning on seeing Sherlock Holmes on my birthday...just because going to the theater to see a movie is now a standing birthday tradition.

Nose is all stuffed up due to me being allergic to both the cat and dog, but whatever.

And yeah. That's it.

-Crazed

Haven't updated...haven't really had time, nor have I wanted to. Been reading my f-list though, soooo....eh.

Thanksgiving was eh...got to see my kitty and laugh at all the stuff my youngest brother's been up to (he's first trumpet in Jazz band and 8th grade band even though he's only a 7th grader, which it the gifted program's hardest year next to Junior year of HS). Had some turkey, watched some football with the family (even though I'm not a fan of it). Mostly tried to watch what I ate as I haven't really lost anything this school year (unlike years past where I shed pounds at school).

Family got a Blu-Ray player on Black Friday.

OMG! BluRay+Netflix=SO MUCH JOY!!!

...instant movies and tv shows (mostly old movies, but a number of current tv shows, which surprised me), but all free and as many as I want and OMG! love love love! (mostly because I love movies too much anyways.) Started rewatching Dead Like Me and plan on continuing as soon as the semesters over.

Speaking of this semester...surprised I'm not dead yet! This week has been and will continue to be hell. Next week (finals week) looks just as grim, though I have more time to get shit done because there are no classes, so yay!?

I should be doing a 10 page paper that's due Thursday that I haven't started, but eh...it's one of those I'll want/need to work on in one shot for it to make any sense, and I don't feel like dong the whole thing tonight, so I'm putting it all off for tomorrow. I'm prepared for an all nighter.

Only final I'm excited for? My Drawing 1 final project! It's the first final, so our teacher's letting our class's projects be smaller than his other class (so, only 48" compared to being as big as you are, no joke). Basically he told us to find a sketch from our sketch book, use observation and imagination along with at least two materials and methods explained in class and have fun.

I'm using my raven sketch (see icon). Decided it should be a bunch of ravens playing with a ribbon in the forest. So it's whimsical! But then I decided the ribbon should be connected to something...a dead body that's only slightly seen at the very bottom of the paper! So it's morbid!

I told the teacher I'm aiming for whimsical and morbid! He just kinda went "Ok, that might work," and walked away. Which either means he trusts me or he thinks I'm crazy....or both...probably both, as nothing I've done before has shown this morbid side but he's liked most everything I've done.

And omg, this post has been so ramble-ly. That what comes of my head wanting to explode I guess....damn sinuses....

Right...off for some me time in the mist of hell...

-Crazed

Know I haven't updated for a while...this semester has been busy to say the least.

How the fuck there's less than a month left boggles my mind...

Anyways. Last Saturday I helped put on a Murder Mystery Dinner after being drafted last minute. It went well, considering none of the majors were actors (and the third most important character had to be replaced for a different actor 2 days before hand...Anthony, you rock, you really do!). About half the guests figured out who the killer was, BUT half of those had cheated because a script somehow got left out.

...I was shit tired after that...I was a server and I was keeping track of times, giving people their cues. I didn't get to sit the entire 3 hours of the event, and that was after setting up for a good few hours before hand!

Classes are still chaos. I'm only this weekend getting a chance to PICK OUT a topic for the last of my 10 pages research papers (there's three of them this semester). Luckily, this teacher doesn't want lots of sources...really. Maximum of three outside of the class textbook...no, really. Doesn't boggle my mind as much because my midterm I wrote the night before ended up being around 9 pages anyways...so I know I can BS a History of Anthropological Theory (yeah...sounds like the fun-est class ever, right?).

...just trying to survive my classes right now, which includes actually getting to each class...I have skipped SO damn much this semester...except for my art class, which has required attendance. At this point, I'll be happy with B's in most of my classes.

Anyways, this weekend is my induction into Golden Key (hurrah for shit that makes me look good), and lots of work.

Next weekend is Japanese club's SSMB tournament and Anime club's Maid Cafe, both of which I'll be working, along with even more school work! Then Thanksgiving break, followed by a week of hell and then finals (finals look like they will not be as bad as the week before finals, considering I only have one no notes final, one final with notes that the teacher gives us the questions to before hand, one final art project, one written final, and turning in one of the research papers [which is already half done]).

Yeah...THEN WINTER BREAK AND CHRISTMAS AND MY 21ST!!!

YAY! HALLOWEEN!!!

...anyways...being a Zydrate Addict this year. I had introduced a number of friends to Repo! last year. A group of them thought it'd be fun to dress up as the cast for Halloween...

They all insisted I join and wanted me to be Graverobber.

I had no cash...so I raided my closet and decided that I could only really pull of a background character like a Zydrate Addict.

...it's a rather skimpy costume, to say the least...

Did laundry, now relaxing. Probably take a nap because I plan on being up late. Shower later, then into costume. Hang with some friends and then go to the Anime Club party. Leave that early...

Was meant to go to another Halloween Party tonight, but my roomie and I got talked into joining some other acquaintances in going to a Rocky Horror midnight event. I've not seen all of Rocky Horror. But I know enough to change parts of my Zydrate Addict costume so I am not mauled at the event (for while some people like both, I have a feeling some Rocky Horror goers don't appreciate Repo! fans at their event).

And then I come back to my dorm to pass out and wake up to a shit ton to do tomorrow...(multiple art projects for Monday as well as a test and the need to at least start research for 2 of my 3 papers for this semester).

so, yeah...

HAVE A HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

...mine should be! ~.^

First week I don't have a test/paper or an art project to do?

Need to do research for multiple papers and do Japanese Horror week...yup...

Changed my layout to a generic LJ one. I liked it, but needed an icon to match.

I made one. Raven's an ink drawing I did (REALLY) from my brother's picture of one of the ravens that followed me around at Yellowstone. (See my DA for the whole picture!) And the fireworks I used for cheesy background texture were from pictures I took last 4th of July.

It's not the best, but it makes me happy and matches the layout....so, it stays! XP

Dollhouse tomorrow. Followed by a weekend of debauchery with my roomies!

Right, that's all for now!

-Crazed

...so, my roomies and I had told each other we'd work out together this year.

...wasn't really happening. We all have a number of time consuming classes this semester, so it was hard to make times to go to the gym together.

Without buddies, I'm not a gym person. Hell, even with buddies, I'm still wary of gyms.

...then my roomie had an idea.

BUY A WIIACTIVE!!!

OK! So we can work out in our room whenever we want/have free time.

...yeah...

OMG! THE WIIACTIVE IS TRYING TO KILL ME!

I worked out yesterday and OMG SOOOOO MANY SQUATS! my legs are all jacked up. I can barely walk down the stairs and I keep almost tripping when walking.

But despite that, I worked out on it again today. Happily, no squats in today's work out but the lunges were still no fun. Only worked out because I'm stubborn...and had free time.

Anyways, back to Heroes...

-Crazed

Sooooooo....been busy and slightly sick and such.

Taking three 300 level classes and an art class and another random 200 level class...not the best planning on my part.

IT'S LIKE BEING BACK IN THE ACADEMY!

Sort of anyways...

All three of the upper levels have 10 page research papers to be done in them. Have ideas for two, and only one of those two do I have any research in.

...rough drafts are due for both next week!

Drawing 1 is fun but time consuming...though it makes me kinda glade I'm dropping the chemistry minor for an art minor! Chemistry was time consuming and tedious and not interesting enough to make up for the fact!

I should have some...well, one, of my class works up on DA soonish...maybe...

On top of being busy with art and midterms and papers, club stuff has also been busy and stressful. Stressful for Japanese club board members anyways (one of my roomies and myself). Yeah...

And then there's actually having a social life this semester! That bits fun even if it does take up time I could be using for other things.

...here's to this weekend! Yes, I have stuff to do, but some of it's happy fun stuff!

(Can we say mustache party???)

-Crazed


CLICK THEM!!!All adopted from squiby

GO AND SEE ZOMBIELAND!!!

Just do it! It was amazing! Right amount of gore, with a splattering of different comedy! And a handful of more serious moments.

Went to an advanced screening last night...and by advanced I mean 4 and a half hours before it actually came out in Chicago.

Dressed as a ZOMBIE. My friends and I were originaly going to go to the Navy Pier advanced showing where you HAD to be dressed to get in. Changed our minds because we didn't want to do the zombie walk in the rain. At the theater we ended up at we were the ONLY zombies.

The theater people were beyond happy. They kept snapping pictures at our lame zombie costumes. And we got bumped to the front of the line of 200+ people.

Being a zombie pays.

And it's funny watching people watch you as you ride the subway, lol!

So, right.

GO SEE ZOMBIELAND!!!

And hurrah for start of fall break today!

-Crazed

...was...interesting to say the least.

Kinda wondering where this one's plot will go.

Also, Joss is messing with his fans I'm thinking...there were WAY too fanservice pairing scenes, no joke. Some were cute...others...wrong, just wrong.

I <3 Whiskey! Like where her character's going!

Anyways. Off to Navy Pier today to listen to my brother play in his college band. Meeting up with the whole family...even though I have much to do for school this week and should be studying, not treading around Chicago....

AH WELL! XD

-Crazed