Intro:
Good morning! You're going to enjoy my post today! Lots of fun images! I took out my table so you could see them better. -^^- Anyways, it's Thursday, and I don't have to go to school. Because I don't have any finals today, I am free to stay home and sit on my lazy bum all day. ^____^
Wallpaper
Before I move on, I'd like you to take a look at this pretty wallpaper I found. It features the characters of Clannad, which is by the same company that made Air. 
It's a japanese video game (sorta), but it's supposed to be turned into an anime later this year, according to a couple websites I've looked at. I wonder if it's any good? I sorta wanna see it, except that if it doesn't get released until the fall in Japan, then it's probably gonna be like a year or something before it gets English subs. This is one of those times where I sorta wish I knew Japanese, except that I suck at foreign language. I mean, if Spanish is a struggle, Japanese would be next to impossible.
Air:
I've spent my free time in the past few days obsessively purging the internet for more anime images to add to my collection (it's sort of a hobby of mine). I came accross a really great Air site during the process and signed up for MiniTokyo.net. Makes me happy. -^^- So I added a bunch of Air pictures to my already big collection. As of today I have 30 Air wallpapers, and 54 miscellanious Air pics. That makes 84 images in total! Check it out! -^^-
*Note: I've set my images to automatically appear in 150x200 size, so some of the images aren't proportioned very nicely. To see them in their full size and dimension click on them, and it'll open up a new window containing the image.
Art Frustrations:
Yet again, I feel like changing my layout. Only this time I want to do it completely from scratch. I'm trying to create a new banner, only I suck at digital imaging. Right now I'm trying to cut out Misuzu from a picture so that I can put her on the banner. It's not going so great. >__< Is there any easy way to cut out the character without having to manually paint the entire background, so that you can make that color transparent? It's really annoying because it's JPEG, so it's all pixelated. Although, the bigger problem is that I just plain suck at digital imaging.
So far I have this:
From this:
Ugly isn't it? And this is after several hours of failed attempts to bribe my computer (with chocolate chip cookies) to be nice to me. I wonder if I would be able to do something good if I had (or could at least afford) an expensive image program, like Photoshop or Illustrator?
Do you guys have any tips for me?
Finals:
So far my finals are alright. I already know I got a 90 on my chem final (we took it in class before finals week started). And although my second English essay was rushed, I think I did okay overall. Math was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I think I did well on those finals.
I don't know about my Global Regents though (the Regents is a NY state test). My essay on King Henry VIII was really offtopic. I was supposed to be saying something important about political changes. Only my mind blanked out so I just rambled for a while about the whole 6 wives thing. I suppose that's not bad in theory, except that they like to fail off-topic essays.
I have my Spanish Regents tomorrow. I'm worried. To put it simply, I can't speak spanish. I'll consider myself lucky if I pass.
Since I finally have the time I'm going to go visit sites today. No, I'm not going to study for my Spanish Regents. I hate studying, and I'll probably fail whether I study or not. Anyways, I'll see you then!
May the gods of sporks and insanity be with you,
~Xanth~
