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i...i hugged my hairdresser, guys.

Classical @ 02:29 pm CST

pardon my ego for a brief moment, but I LOOK AMAZING.

so this morning, i was as NERVOUS AS SHIT when walking into this place in uptown (it's right next to the really good ragstock and i totally did not know that). it was mostly because i couldn't see myself with anything but the dumbass bob cuts i got when i was a kid, so i didn't know how this would turn out, at all.

my hairdresser was this really nice asian woman in her thirties. and when i saw her own hairstyle, i immediately felt a little more comfortable, because she had a really modern-type style with a lot of similarities that i wanted to see in mine.
anyway, though i was scheduled for just foils for some highlights, i asked about getting a full color and because she is the most awesomest person ever, she fit it in. so we picked out this fabulously red color. it's somewhere between dark auburn and copper, as it is kinda dark in that piccur up there. in the end, it will lighten up a bit, but it's not orangey so my face won't look y'know, more deathly pale than it already is. :B

and then the cuuuuutt. since i had the worst time finding anything remotely similar to what i was sorta thinking of via pictures, i just kinda had to tell her. wanted more bangs, hair down the sides to frame my face, have it all long enough so i can still pull it back into stumpy pigtails or something, and go fluffy and with a bit of a flip in back.

and VOILA! amazing. communication with the lady was seamless.

and now...i look forward to shorter showers. though the time i save under the water will be now spent styling, because i never did that before. XD however, it seems like a really managable style. a few more added products and a blowdryer, but it will all take me like ten minutes to dry and do.

AAAAGH, guys, iamsohappy. this, coupled with the joy of having sent something to a friend and it finally getting there (damn post always LIES TO ME D:) plus having this crazy burst of inspiration to do this thing i am going to go back to working on here, i am feeling pretty damn good.

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school stuffs.

Classical @ 10:48 pm CST

-pauses for a moment to POINT AND LAUGH at siblings-
hahahaha because they are stuck going to private schools, they started school today. a whole WEEK earlier than me. though i don't get to take much advantage of the fact that they are both out of the house during the day because i work most of the rest of this week and on thursday, i will be out and about. (hair cut!! D; )

but i guess they will be laughing at me come summer because they will get out first. ... but then I get the last laugh, because then i'll be done with high school FOREVER and soon out of the house and all, "SEE YA, SUCKARS!"

yes. yes.

my school schedule is niiiiice, as previously mentioned. i got it buffed out. looks like this, as our school goes by four quarters, rather than two semesters:

1st: creative writing, psychology, art!
2nd: physiology, psychology, art!
3rd: world literature, government, ART!
4th: physiology, economics, more freaking ART!

life is awesome? :D
the second half will be boring as most of are those required credits i am supposed to take, but it's not going to be difficult. at all. and i am not looking forward to uhh, dissecting cats in my second physiology class. but it promises to be fun otherwise.

anyway.
i had my first MCAD class yesterday, their drawing I class. it's...intimidating. at least, right now it is. my technique that i am so used to is so much different. while i am usually against erasing unless i need to and working up darkness through layers, this guy is having us work with really soft stuff and then trying to erase dark lines like crazy. i grew out of this process so long ago, man. it's so inefficent, wrecks the paper, makes things too heavy too fast, etc.
so i dunno, i am probably going to put in pencil layers and then doing the charcoal thing unless he starts getting mad at me or something. because i got in the worst fight with charcoal yesterday to the point that it was all over my paper, me, and my neighbor pretty much. everything i drew turned out like shit with this soft charcoal because it just SMEARED. EVERYWHERE.

i am also slowly starting to dislike the teacher the more i think about it, though. not only is he incredibly boring and has this annoying ego that keeps slipping into whatever he's talking about, he has this "noise distraction" theory that is absolute bullshit. he doesn't allow any sort of music or...any noise, really. (i'm seriously not going to survive, guys.)
i can understand the point he made about obnoxiously loud headphones that blare music so everyone around them hears it and the communication barriers it sometimes creates, but the whole, "no noise so you can focus 100% on work" thing? i cannot CONCENTRATE for hours on end if i don't have some sort of noise in the background. hell, even if it was talking i would be okay... but he doesn't really allow that, either.

music is my artistic fuel. seriously, no artist i have ever met can ever focus completely on work. i've noticed that even if me or someone is really deep into it, they are still usually listening to music, talking to others around them, and so on. i probably give about 90% of my attention to work, while the other 10% goes to something else (music, usually). but if there is nothing filling that void, my concentration on work slips more and more as time passes...
the fucking eerie silence besides the sound of charcoal screeching occasionally and the blinds clacking together in the wind really started to bug me after a while. started gathering my short attention span more than my work did... and all of that could've been EASILY prevented if there was just some comforting noise. whether it was music, talking, SOMETHING.

if he would just make like, a volume limit so that it doesn't disturb others and we can still hear him, then i know i wouldn't be the only happy person in the class... or just at least allow us to TALK.
gah. at least i will be able to get my out-of-class work done without an issue. well, as soon as i get some money for supplies anyway, because apparently they did not set up my $50 that was supposed to be there the first day. so i am struggling to keep my bank account positive at the moment... i might have a cute little $33 overdraft fee showing up in the next few days, because i realized last night that i had been negative for some time already. UUUGGGH.

anyway, i have a feeling that i will be debating with the professor sometime soon about this noise thing. i sure hope our class is allowed to y'know, BOND and stuff so that we will feel more compelled to ignore him and talk throughout class... (because i would like to talk to that ungodly beautiful guy that was sitting next to alexa yesterday. holyCRAP. o 3o;)

annnnd i'm done. what few precious hours i have of my summer is slipping away slowly so it's kinda sad this whole entry is all about school. i am running out of things to draw (and debating doing some gaia commissions again because of it) and spending most of my time playing video games when i honestly should be getting something more constructive done. sigh.

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--

revamp!

Classical @ 09:15 am CST

i'm redoing the layout for this thing here. fun times of endless coding await!
so if something looks funky while you're visiting, it's not you or your computer; it's just me screwing up the coding. :D

ipoooooodd~

Classical @ 07:45 pm CST

oooomg guys. amazing. my new video ipod came in.
IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL. i am like, totally afraid to touch it and mar its beauty. D;

i am going to name him...it vincent. because yes. guess what i've been obsessed with the past few days. ;D

-scowl-

Classical @ 03:02 pm CST

errrgh.
so apparently jewish community centers are my arch-nemesises now. because if you are trying to find the nearest office max, you're going to end up on a dead end without warning and get dumped into their utterly confusing parking lot. which, by the way, has lanes that lead you to more dead ends and has huge speed bumps EVERY FIVE FEET.

[/sour]

dirge of cerebus~

Classical @ 10:23 pm CST

errrrrhhh i just picked up dirge of cerebus at the store because it was there and $10 off.
watch me go squeal like a little fangirl now, kthx. <3

la la la~

Classical @ 10:56 am CST

so i have not updated this thing in a while.
pretty much because not much has been going on.

i got a real fat paycheck today (a bit over $400) and i have a lot left over from my other paycheck, so i purchased my ipod video. it is black and amazing and i hope it gets here soon. <3
now to go accessory shopping! if anyone has a good recommendation for an fm transmitter that is no more than like, $30 or something, do tell.

i am also debating picking up dirge of cerebus because omg, vincent. ffvii. love.
but it is $50 and because i am a cheapass, i generally don't like paying anything more than $20 for a game. however, i think i can spare it, because i have money just pouring out my ass at the moment. i really don't know what to do with a lot of it, besides like...save it. for christmas presents or something. i guess i could start preordering gifts for birthdays coming up/christmas stuff, seeing as i'm already figuring out what to get a few people.

but eh!


in other news, i got my new huge mattress in. my mother insisted that i get a queen size so she could use it when i move out for college next year (whoo). but holy shit, it's massive. it takes up half of my wee room. and it's a rather...strange feeling to be sleeping in such a large bed when i have been on twins my whole life.
but hey, i get to spread out and stuff. i could sleep sideways if i damn well wanted to. XD

now to get a rug for what's left of my floor (a little awkward chunk in front of my door about 7.5'x5'), get my shelves back up...somewhere, get new blinds (the ones i have are...ugly XD), and get my dad to wallmount that stereo i got for christmas that he still hasn't done. :<
and then my room for the next lessthanayear will be compleeeete.

and it smells like something funky and industrial in the office. we FINALLY got our granite countertops in (it only took them three weeks of "oh, we'll be there!" and not showing up). now it smells like the glue they used to adhere the slabs to the top of the halfwalls in which i sit in front of, so i'm going to be smelling it all day. and probably have one hell of a headache when i get home.


uhh... i have been drawing. like crazy. i don't think i've ever been more productive, really.
after upgrading my sketchbook to a new big size (11x14, whereas i am used to 5.5x8.5), i now have the ability to 1) doodle really big because i am slowly getting used to that, 2) create whole doodle sheets! and 3) use that $30 brushpen effectively. that thing doesn't like drawing small so much because of the wee tip it has. you also don't get any texture at a small size.
but with the big paper, it is wonderful. <3

yeah and... blah.
so this is what my summer has really been about. work every other day, come home, draw stuff, play video games, sleep, see friends sometimes, spend money, lather, rinse, repeat.

it's kinda repetative, like how it gets when i'm in school. oh well. i can't complain too much, besides the fact like i feel i should be doing something more...exciting with my time away from school.
i guess the whole senioritis thing is hitting me even before school starts, wah. :<