Wednesday, January 31, 2007

IT'S SNOWING!!!!
Yeah, I just got out of my Philosophy test, and I hear these guys yelling that it's snowing, and I didn't believe them then...
I sure believe them now! ^_^ Which means I have an excuse if I miss tomorrow!
Teacher: "Why were you absent on Thursday?"
Me: Well, ya see, I live in a little cheers-ified hole in the road, yanno the type, where everybody's up in everyone else's business, and it just collected snow like nobody's business. The streets suck and they were icy, and there is no way in hell I'm getting out on icy streets. I do good to drive on normal conditions..."
Yeah, sounds better to me than "I'm sick as hell and just didn't wanna get out of bed". I really do feel sick. It looks sorta like the flu, but I had the damn shot... believe me, I almost had to be sedated just to get me into the damn office to get the thing. So I'm just going to stay warm, take plenty of vitamin C, and stay in bed. Who knows, maybe we will have a snow day tomorrow. I can always hope. Probably won't stick, though. That'll suck.
Well, I'mma go celebrate the snow! Yay! Ja, minna-san! Solaris out!
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Gah... the coldness
And they think it may snow here Wednesday night. I'll admit to wanting snow... not much, but snow all the same. I think it's the fault of the damn Hallmark cards, always protraying winter as snowy. They shouldn't sell that stuff to the south, it hardly ever snows here. Get people's hopes up for nothing.
Well, I officially want to crawl back into bed, classes be damned, and stay there until winter is over. I'm thinking, oh, maybe, June? I don't handle the cold well, in case that's not obvious.
So... nothing else really happening. Someone's cell phone rang in biology yesterday, it was kinda amusing. It was really quiet, and then all of the sudden... "Woo-Hoo! I gots me a text message!" It sounded like Gir! ^_^ And my mom wants a copy of a mermaid picture I drew on Saturday. Shocker there, mom never wants copies of my pictures. So I have to photoshop it a little and print a copy for her.
Well... before I sign off for now, I'll post a couple of pictures. I actually want to see if my photobucket stuff shows up here.

This is my kitten, Suna. He's actually in one of his favorite places to be; no joke, he will sleep in the sink if you let him. Strange little cat...

This isn't actually from my comic, it's from a story I've taken a break from for a while due to lack of inspiration and a need to work on the comic. I swear to you it took me a half hour to color the sunrise. And, btw, it's supposed to be in Tokyo. Not Paris. Just to clear that up.
Well, I'd better go. Ja, minna-san! Solaris out!
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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Thursdays... sometimes I think they were created to tick people off...
Thursday is about as bad as Monday, I swear it. But that's not the point of this post.
I have pages to ink and tone before update, and, out of curiosity, what's the next character anyone would like used in a filler/pin-up pic? Because I sorta chose Sunny to vent my need to draw Gothic Lolita on last time, and I just wondered if anyone wanted to see filler pages of any other character in something other than goth loli. All the frills... those are a pain in the ass to draw.
But, that aside, I'm doing better now! I'm still mad at my former aniki, but since I'm not talking to him anymore, I'm doing just fine. And I am not apologizing. See, I have a disturbing little habit. Every time, pretty much without fail, when I fight with a friend, I'm the one who ends up swallowing my pride and apologizing. Seriously! When I fought with my ex-best-friend (the one before the group I hang out with now), she had a fit when I started dating someone, started a fight with me, basically said 'it's me or him', and left. I didn't talk to her for six months, and when I broke that silence, it was to apologize! When I hadn't done anything wrong! So, yeah, you can see why I'm determined for this to be different. Because hell if I'm apologizing to him. I'm breaking the cycle!
Hm... considering it's nine a.m on Thursday, I have surprisingly little to say. Someone just tried to read over my shoulder, which is a good cue that I need to wrap this up and say laters, minna-san! Solaris out!
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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Well, it's sleeting here, and there's a 40% chance of snow today, so I'm wondering if it actually will. I updated my comic earlier, three pages this week, zero filler.
I've just started watching Trinity Blood again, though I would much rather watch it subbed than dubbed on Adult Swim. Strangely enough, even though I haven't watched it in a while, I'm actually pretty up to date on it, and I haven't have anyone tell me anything about the past eps. I feel smart right now. ^_^
Actually, I've been watching Gundam Wing and a cute show called Akazukin ChaCha while I've got a good connection at the college. So Trinity Blood has been one of the last things on my mind. And after a bunch of shit that happened last night, I have to admit I haven't really thought about much.
See, what happened was I went to the arcade with my "sisters" (my two best girl friends from high school), and my former-older-brother figure, and one of his friends. Us girls were thinking of going to an Edgar Allen Poe thing at a theatre in the next town over, but the boys wanted to go to the arcade. So we decided to try going tonight (didn't happen, but oh well, maybe another time) and going to the arcade. After a while I got tired of DDR-ing (imagine that!) and decided to go to the movie/game/book/music store at the other end of the strip mall, and my former-aniki decided to go with me because he got bored. Long story short, his friend left, after us, and we caught him on the way back. He had taken a book and decided to show it off, then wanted to calm me down by saying he loved me. Daisuki ja nai! I don't love him! Especially considering I have a boyfriend... So I joined my other friends when he and ex-aniki went to Petco. After a little bit, we all decided to go back to the arcade, and caught them on the way. Apparently one little shoplifting thing wasn't enough, the guy wanted to take a beta from the pet store! Admittedly, I got a little more than pissed, took a swing at both of them, and stormed off. When we got back to the car, ex-aniki was pissed, I wasn't any better, and on the way home one of my friends and I decided we'd have to work harder at getting our licenses so we wouldn't have to deal with this crap anymore. She then warned him that we have other people on the street, and he was really short with her. She'd been polite and been as nice as she could all evening, and he proceeded to turn the radio up even louder, and it was on hard rock. Well, being one of the smaller ones in the car, I was in the middle, right by one of his speakers, so I was half deafened... and... I started to cry. I hate admitting it, but I started to cry. So we're never going anywhere with them again, and I spent about twenty minutes cleaning out my e-mail inboxes to erase every trace of him earlier tonight. And now you know why I have no older brother anymore.
I really don't think I was too extreme... and I actually think I had every right to be mad. I didn't want him to get in trouble, and I don't want to be another casualty of 'guilty by association'. Not me or my friends. So we're never going anywhere with him again. And I'm going to get my license so I can drive us anywhere we need to go.
On that note, my car is fixed and all it needs is some paint so it looks all right. And... sorry to dump all this crap on you. I just needed to get it out of my mind and off my chest. Ja ne, minna-san. Solaris out.
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Perhaps today's only post
And only because I have a few minutes. So. I've been sleepy all day, and I have to get home, do a little bit of housework, study for a philosophy quiz on Friday (only five true-false questions, but I still wanna know I really grasp the concepts like I think I do), and I need to work on the comic. I wanna get at least to page twenty on it tonight, and I'm already at page nineteen if I finished eighteen like I think I did. Won't swear to it and won't know until I get home. so woo-hoo.
I have chapter nine planned out in my mind. And now I have to get ready to leave, so ja ne, minna-san! Solaris out!
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Two in one day
Feel lucky, really, that I have time to update twice today. I got out of bio lab early, try twelve twenty instead of twelve fifty, so I've been taking up time watching Gundam Wing. But that gets sorta old after a while, so I figured I'd stop here for a minute and say hi. Yes, I am a loser like that.
So... bored! And I have about fifteen minutes or so until I can give myself a decent excuse to log off and shut down. So... I guess if I don't have anything else to say, I should get gone from the web hole. Laters, minna-san! Solaris out!^///^ (What a pointless post...)
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I think my face froze off!
At eight this morning it was 22 degrees (-6 celsius if you use that), and it's nine-thirty now and I'm frozen! But other than that it's all good.
I have learned a valuable lesson: never EVER try to write a thesis sentence for a freshman composition two class while on the phone with a seventeen-year-old. It doesn't work that well. We had our thesis sentences critiqued today for our first essay, and it turns out that the three reasons I argued for why gay marriage should be legal were pretty much the same reason repeated three times. But something cool happened! Normally, I hate having my work called out in classes, it makes me think everyone's going to gang up on me and try to kill me even if my name doesn't come up, but in this case she even said my name, and I didn't care! So I dunno if I didn't give a rip because it's a topic I feel strongly about or because I've just gotten used to it. Guess it's a good thing and I shouldn't question it. But man, there was a real buzz through the room when they heard who was connected with the topic! ^_^ Can't say it was a bad feeling.
Well, that's all that's happened so far. I have until about ten-fourty five, then I have to log off and shut down. I have biology lab today from eleven to twelve-fifty. Ja ne, minna-san! Solaris out!
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Monday, January 15, 2007

Kyah...
I didn't wake up until this afternoon and I'm tired again already! And I really didn't do anything but try to draw some more of the comic! By the way, I'm almost halfway done with chapter one, and I still need to finish scripting chapter seven. I'm looking over them all to see if I can revise, cut down some, and generally make the scripts better, but in the end it all comes down to drawing it.
So... anything earth-moving happen in anyone's lives today? I didn't have classes today, so I got a needed break. And I nearly died in Dirge of Cerebus. I ran out of bullets, completely. And it wasn't so much that but the guys I had to kill were freaking following me, so I couldn't get a break to see if I had any potions or let me hide! Sheesh... But I know that's how games go, so I'm not really upset. I just have to stop wasting bullets, that's all! ^_^ Or find a way to get more... that's going to be the hard part.
Well, that's all that really happened in my day. I guess I'm going to get gone. Later, minna-san! Solaris out!
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Sunday, January 14, 2007

So...
I ended up not having to do battle with a teacher. My mom's going to do that one. If she hasn't already... so that just lets me worry about other stuff.
I updated cl101. Two pages and a Sunny filler... she suffered my need to draw someone in Gothic Lolita wear... C'mon, it fits her! Sorta... Anyway, I'm also announcing a contest to design a banner for the site!
See, my little comic is minus one banner currently, so I need ideas. I don't want to do a text-only temp banner, I would like to find one and stick with it. So, I thought I'd ask around on the comic and in here. So here goes.
Contest ends on February 14th, one month from today's post. I won't take hentai submissions, you don't have to draw (descriptions are just fine, I know some people prefer to write rather than draw), it needs to be able to fit a 468x60 pixel space (all the space smackjeeves allows), you can take the descriptions in the summary and use characters I haven't shown yet (because all of them have a finalized design... even Roger, though I swear his hair is going to kill me...) and I need a screen name with the idea. There will be one winner, who will have their banner drawn and used as the site's banner, and four runners-up, who will have their ideas drawn and posted as fillers the day the banner is posted.
Thanks for hearing me out on this, and please send ideas to lunarepilogue at yahoo.com. Arigatou again, minna-san. Later. Solaris out!
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Sleepy...
And I had coffee for lunch! How the hell does that happen? Ah, well. Been watching Gundam Wing since I got out of class (And seriously, Relena's not sane... calling for Heero to kill her... something's not right with that)... and finished searching the net for some information on teaching ethics and policies for telling a kid they're failing. And I'm going to all this trouble for my brother!
See, here's the thing. My baby bro isn't too bright, well, I mean, he has the potential, but he can't focus on anything for more than two seconds. It's like he could have the most complicated quantam physics problem going in his mind, and be on the verge of giving you the solution to that and limitless free energy, and he'd get interested in a freakin' butterfly and leave you there until you died, jumping from topic to topic. If you got that messed up example, I'm glad, and if not, he has ADHD. That's why he's so hyped all the time... and part of why he ticks me off; he stirs up trouble as a hobby. So anyway, one of his teachers said that if he made one more F on a paper, he would fail the fifth grade. Now that put the fear of something into him, because he's been working his little ass off trying to get good grades so he doesn't have to repeat the fifth grade. Well, yesterday, said teacher comes up to him, tells him he made an F on a fact or opinion paper (what's got me riled about that will be explained in a minute), and told him his 'Fate was sealed'. Now, this fact or opinion paper has been there since he found out he'd fail if he made another F. That's what brought the whole damn thing on, in fact! So why the hell didn't she say something before? And you don't tell a kid their fate is sealed. Kids can do some amazing shit if they want to! Plus, there has to be some proceedure to this. I mean, really! I would think the state would require you to send a letter saying "To the parents of little Bobby, your kid is failing the whatever grade and we'd like to have a conference to see if we can do something so your precious little baby doesn't get held back". Or at least give a phone call... but we haven't heard from the school at all! Not a peep but what my brother's bothered to tell us! So I've spent a lot of the morning trying to find something on the lawbooks about ethics in education or proceedure for notifying parents of scholastic difficulties or something! But my search turned up nada, zip, zero, so I'm going to scour the handbook when I get home to see if I can find some info.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily doing this because I like the brat atm. I'm doing this because if he fails, I have to hear him weep and wail and moan about how he doesn't want to have to get a new group of friends, and how he'll do better (because I don't believe him, I've seen it too many times), and I just don't think the way this has been handled is correct! See, this is part of why I couldn't be paid to go back to high school. This school is a public school, ergo there should be some laws it has to follow, and instead they act like they are above the law! Plus, it's like all the elementary/middle school teachers forgot to go to their 'teaching students with health issues' class. His kindergarten teacher would stir up trouble and then complain when she couldn't talk him down. Of course you can't talk the brat down, woman, he isn't reasonable when he's mad! Trust me, when a twelve-year-old kid has come after you with a freaking baseball bat a couple of times while you were fighting, you know they don't have reason when they're pissed! Also, they wanted to intimidate him. Most kids can be easily scared into doing what you want, right? Never tried it, but I've seen it. Well, this kid doesn't get scared that easy. He understands already that saying you'll do something is one thing, but actually having the guts to do it is another. And there was no way in hell they were going to make him panic.
So, yes, I'm tempted to go up there tomorrow, oral communications class at 9 be damned, and raise some hell, because I am not going to stand for this load of unmitigated crap! I apologize for my excessive use of profanity in this post, but god dammit, I'm having a tough week already and then they wanna start this bullshit?! I say BRING IT ON!
...Oh, yeah, and once again, Relena is one crazy chick. You don't just yell for someone who threatened to kill you to come kill you! Something's not right in that girl's mind... Back to Gundam Wing! Ja ne, minna-san! Please wish me luck! Solaris out!
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