Friday, September 5, 2003

Blood and Pumpkins

Well, I guess I could start off my saying I feel like complete and utter crap right now. My allergies are all inflamed which makes it a little hard to breathe and whatnot. Bleh...      I was not quite so delirious today. I probably got the same amount of sleep as I did the night before last. I still have some homework I need to do... Actually I have not even started my homework, but with reason.      So let us see, what happened today. Before school, when I first arrived, I looked to find this one guy I kind of wanted to interview, but I could not find him. So then I just went and sat with my friend Allie and we ended up talking about AFI and tuff. ^__^ She kept comparing my hair to Davey's claiming that I had it long just because he did, which is not true because I was growing it out back when I figured he still had short hair. Like back in the days of The Art of Drowning, three years ago (well, maybe not entirely that long). She then spoke of when they were on the VMA's. Apparently Davey and Jade/Adam (cannot remember which they said) were singing praises to MTV, which makes me mad. She said that Hunter looked like he really did not want to be there, so I say good for him. I would not have shown up if I were them, but oh well...      Multimedia went a bit smoother today. Our normal teacher was not here so he gave us simple instructions on the board. I just did them and continued doing what I wanted to do.      In Applied Design I have begun making a design for a stamp. The teacher said it how to using geometric shapes, and a shape from nature. It did not take me long to come up with an idea. I saw on the front of a magazine a dragonfly pin. So I decided to do something like that. It is a dragonfly broken down into simple shapes dipping it tail thing down with a bit of a pond ripple coming out; like when they lay their eggs. It is pretty neat. I think I am going to try and draw it in Photoshop so I have have nice, clean edges.      for Newspaper I had to write an editorial. I finished it a little late, as I was still typing it up when class started, lol. But I got it done and handed some story ideas in. I could not get the twenty, but the Editor in Chief did not seem to have too much of a problem with that. I drew some editorial cartoons... I think I am going to have three going into the paper. I have to draw one tonight as a revision to one of my other ones. They have two ideas going, someone is doing the other. I wish I was doing the other idea, but oh well.      Musical practice was okay. Just learned another song was the only new thing that happened.      After practice I had my mom drive me back to school so I could work with the newspaper some more. That is where I finished up one of the cartoons I did. It turned out pretty good, I think. The best part, though, is that we had this pumpkin brought in and we hollowed it out and carved it to make a jack-o-lantern. Then we went out and bought some supplies to make fake blood and brought in a big knife. The knife was simply stabbed into the pumpking about half-in and half-out, and then we mixed the fake blood together and began pouring it onto the jack-o-lantern with a big spoon and just took random photos of it with what digital cameras we have. At the very end we just dumped the bowl of 'blood' onto the pumpkin while taking photos and such. It was really cool. Before that, we have this baby doll head that is already kind of deformed and poured some 'blood' on it and piked it up on an arrow overlooking the doorway. Our adviser also has this paper posted up on this cabinet and wrote "NO PAIN" with the blood on it, and a guy dipped the palm-side of his hand in it and slapped it on there. That was my idea, but he stole it... v_v; We bought some pizza earlier in the night for dinner, so that was good. I do not know... I do not think any other high school newspaper stuff has nearly as much fun as we do while still getting a lot of work done. ^__^      I think it was the pumpkins that made my allergies go wild, but it was worth it. I have three stories to do, though. Those on top of my post-poned one which is due Monday. I am not sure when these other ones are due.      But yeah, all that newspaper business is why I have not started my other work yet. I love the newspaper.It is such a good paper. If anyone here is involved with a high school newspaper and went to national competitions or whatever you probably know of us. We usually do really well, but last year we got placed really low. The system is literally going against us. When I was at the journalism seminar this summer someone who was involved with the nationals was there and actually told one of our staff members that the reason we placed so low is because they simply do not like us. They think we are too cocky and whatnot, but it is not like we have no reason to be. So regardless of how good the paper was, it placed merely on how our staff was viewed. It is the stupidest thing ever... *sigh*      I need more caffeine, I have work to do...

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