new layout + notices + etc.

Classical @ 01:00 am CST

and hey! done coding up the layout.
one more thing i've gotten done on my summer checklist, anyway.

opted for another really simple layout because it looks nice/not distracting and greymatter's template editing is a pain in the ass if you have as much as i have in the archives. every time i edit something and i want to see if it works, i have to rebuild every single file, which takes five minutes every time. >_>

by the way, comments will be sporadically turned off on past enteries because there are fucking comment spammers with ip scramblers putting up links to porn and viruses on my blog. they seem to be attacking particular enteries, though, so it's easiest if i just disable comments.
a mighty "FUCK OFF" to those robots. :|


annnd...yeah.
i have had a pretty busy week, as compared to the rest of my summer. next week is just as crazy, and then SCHOOL STARTS. D:
it will actually be quite nice, though. for the whole year, i basically have a schedule that looks like so: real classes in the morning where a lot of them are things i want to take, then MCAD's class and arrrrrt and a lot of doing whatever the hell i feel like doing in the afternoon. seriously, whenever i don't have my PSEO class (which is four days of the week, guys) i don't have to do or show up for anything. i can run around the hallways for an hour and a half if damn well wanted to. though most of that time will probably be spent in the art room, anyway.

it will be slick, guys.
i'll need a light schedule, though. pit will be in october and november and i will be busy with portfolio work and getting into college and perhaps a part-time job if i can get one and having a social life and all that ...fun stuff.


but anyway, this week consists of my last working week (and my last fat paycheck D;), having a taiko drum master/end-of-summer bash sometime, and getting my hair cut.

YES, i really mean it. i'm getting my hair cut. for reals.
for those of you who don't know me, my hair is veryvery long. i mean, almost-sitting-on-it-when-it's-down long. i got my first and only boycut in the first grade and from there on out, i decided i hated (was afraid of) short hair. and it's been growing out since then.

but i have gotten so...fed up with hair in my everything, flatness and boringness, and thirty-minute showers. i want to be able to blow dry my hair again, damnit. D;
so i've got a thursday appointment for cut and color at this ritzy place in uptown. it promises to be a good place to go for the hair i have in mind: thinking it will be about chin/neck length, layered, flipped, spiky, and with more bangs (i am tired of these wispy ones). and adding a lot more red to my hair. modern, hip, and all that.

HOWEVER, i am super-nervous. i am seriously afraid i will totally hate my hair or something after getting it cut and then want my long hair back and never get it back buuuuuuuu. D': so while i look forward to thursday for like...a lifestyle change, i am dreading it more and more.

siiiigh. :<
to make me happy for the moment, new psychonauts! tees came in today and they actually FIT ME this time, so they are gooood. and my new ipod is working still, so that normally means it's in good shape.

"i am cute!"

gimme a good name for it and i will give you cookies. or maybe a doodling, because god knows i have plenty of time at work to do something like that. (i spent a whole work day last week doing a GIGANTIC doodle page for a friend. the whole damn day. really.)

i have been listening to a lot of specific albums as of late. i normally have this shuffle list of picked songs from everything, but lately it's been full albums.

Spoon - Gimme Fiction and Girls Can Tell
We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
Keane - Under the Iron Sea

Beck - Odelay
The Subways - Young for Eternity
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand and You Could Have It...
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say...

kinda weird. but always good that i'm not bored of my music, i guess!

and i don't really know how to finish up this utterly random entry because i am tired so her--