Last week I finished up the last of my exams, and thankfully, I passed them all! I was worried for no reason. (Well, my GPA dropped 2% compared to last year, but what can you do?)
I’ve been working on a new web project that combines several things that I love. I’ve started something akin to a photo log, but combining prose, verse, and photography into one visual medium. I’ve called it Transfiguration. Originally when I started making the site I had called the prototype site “Photoverse”, and built it on a Wordpress backbone. But then I wanted to create a layout which would use PHP to generate a different background colour for each image, so I decided to create my own system. I’m really pleased with the results!
I’ve been enjoying my time off from school, hanging out with my boyfriend, my friends, and my family, while working on web projects on the side. Next week I have to get my wisdom teeth pulled out (fun), so I’ll be out of commission for a while with chipmunk cheeks. The week after that, I’ll be starting up with my part time job again, which I’m looking forward to. I miss working!
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008 at 11:28 pm [ 1 Comment ]
I need to study more. I’m going to fail Rise of the Novel. Yup.
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Monday, April 14th, 2008 at 10:51 pm [ 2 Comments ]
[Current Song // Serj Tankian - Lie Lie Lie]
Happy Christmas Eve everyone! It’s after midnight, so I’m allowed to say that already.
I’ve been working really hard the past few days. I was able to get rehired where I worked in the summer for Christmas help. After Christmas, I’ll be working inventory shifts rather than being a sales associate, helping to count every item in the store. I’m looking forward to it! My feet are tired from standing in high heels, but the money is worth it. I have Christmas Eve, Christmas, and Boxing Day off, so I feel like I still have a vacation.
I’m dating Mark officially now~! I feel ultra-happy-happy. I was starting to feel really discouraged, but things are really turning around. ^_^
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Monday, December 24th, 2007 at 1:19 am [ 5 Comments ]
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 at 2:39 am [ Enter your password to view comments ]
[Current Song // The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight]
I love when people come to the door and ask if my mother is home. I’m the oldest girl living in the townhouse, so when salespeople visit and ask that, I can say “no” legitimately and send them on their way without feeling guilty at all. Heeheehee.
I’m going back to Oshawa on Wednesday. I’m really really excited to be going home! This semester has been my most stressful, and I’m glad it will be over in two days. Two days with two essays left and an exam. My dad’s driving up after his midnight shift to come get me, and then plans to nap on my couch until he has the energy back to drive me home. He’s pretty dedicated coming to get me on the first available day! How sweet!
I want to…
- I want to visit with my family. I miss them so much!
- I want to spend time with my friends who I haven’t seen since reading week, or even longer. It’s been so long!
- I want to finish two to three essays in advance over the holiday break. I should be a better good student!
- I want to work on the unveiling of a new version of Magitek Designs, with 10 new layouts and tons of avatars by Christmas. It’s a goal of mine!
- I want to take more serious photographs.
But I suppose I should focus on getting these last two papers done so that I can study for my last exam tomorrow. I want to think positively!
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007 at 2:06 pm [ 2 Comments ]
[Current Song // Pretty Girls Make Graves - More Sweet Soul]
My 10-12 page history essay was due back on Monday, but I’m so uninspired with it. I have some ideas in an outline, but I don’t have a thesis joining them. The research is going terribly.
I don’t know why I decided to choose history for my degree minor. I’m pretty terrible at it! History papers are so different from an English studies paper. I’ve actually cried several times when trying to pull this paper together because it seems so fruitless.
I’ve been thinking about spending an extra two months in North Bay in order to take an extra 3 credit history course, leaving me with one less to do later. I need to have 24 credits of history for my degree, and I just have to be enrolled in one history course each semester left in my career. But, if I stay for the spring session instead of going home to visit my family during that time, I could have full semester without taking a history class. History is always hardest for me…
I’m seriously thinking about it, but I think my parents will be sad that I want to exchange two months of vacation time where I could visit them in order to do just one class during spring session. I think it would be a great experience, because I’d only have nine hours of class each week, and for the remaining time, I could work full time on my sites and art and hopefully increase my income from the level it is now.
It just might be lonely. My roommate would be gone. =(
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 at 3:59 pm [ 1 Comment ]
[Current Song // The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Pin (Live Version)]
My scholastic work ethic is sometimes questionable. I’m a sucker for procrastination, easily distracted by personal projects, and waste time. I really did it this time. I decided to take art classes as my electives this year, one per semester. We have a sketchbook in which we’re supposed to complete two assignments per week. I was doing really well for the first few weeks, but I grew lazy. Each week I kept telling myself that I didn’t have time this week and would do them later. I accumulated four weeks of backlog.
It wouldn’t be too bad except that I’m an extremely slow artist. My teacher says if we are spending more than an hour on each assignment, we are spending too much time. She said we can stop after one hour if it happens. I’m too scared to do that because if I don’t finish it, it looks terrible and I’ll get a bad mark. Just because I spent an hour on something doesn’t mean that it would look like I spent an hour on it to a critic. Eek. I stayed up until 4am working on Friday, and I worked a fair bit on them Saturday afternoon. I did manage to finish all eight pieces, and a few of them I’m actually quite proud of. Yay!
The next two weeks are going to be fiendishly mean to me. There are so many essays to write and so many novels to read.
- History papers x 2
- Three English papers x 3
- Exams x 3
- Art Portfolio
I’m really happy that all of my exams are in class rather than during the exam schedule. I get to go home directly after my last class in December. I’m counting down the days!
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007 at 5:04 pm [ 1 Comment ]
[Current Song // Bloc Party - This Modern Love]
Every year I seem to attend more and more anime conventions. I can’t seem to resist an excuse to wear a silly costume. I’ll be attending AC3 in Ottawa this weekend. I worked so hard on my cosplay for the past two weeks and finished it on Friday officially. I’m dressing as Kairi, Kingdom Hearts II version. I really really wanted to wear her pink zipper outfit, because well, a trio of giant zippers was too much fun to resist. Giant zippers are expensive though, but hoorah for Fabricland employee discounts! (I really miss working there.)
This is my first cosplay that I’m not doing as a couple with my partner in cosplay crime, Mish. (Actually, my first cosplay ever, Kuguya from Planet Ladder, wasn’t in a couple at all, but I tend not to count that one since it was so terribly done.)
I don’t have a wig because I couldn’t afford one. My hair’s the right cut, but not the right colour at all. ^^; It’s dyed pitch black right now. I have to walk around a convention without any glasses either, so I have a feeling I’m going to feel disoriented. I’m sure it’ll be fun in any case.
Tomorrow, my apartment is receiving a kitchen makeover care of the housing corporation who owns the row of townhouses. The cupboards are being removed and we’re getting new ones. It’s exciting but Lea (my roomie) and I have no idea what they are putting in place of our white cupboards with old fashioned wooden handles. I’m going to take photos tonight so that we’ll have before and after shots.
There is so much to do this week before the weekend. I have two essays, a major art project, and an essay proposal due before I leave on my convention ‘vacation’. Both of the essays are technically optional - they have floating deadlines so if I don’t finish them, I have other essay options to choose from later in the semester. I’m thinking of not doing this this week and focusing on the project and proposal. The proposal is a significant percentage of my final mark, so I’m a little worried.
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Monday, October 29th, 2007 at 12:56 pm [ 3 Comments ]
I’ve been slowly piecing this site back together. I’ve developed several concepts (one of the other one’s viewable here), but I think this will be the version that I stick with! I wrested with the Wordpress Loop in order to get the format of the site to take on the form that I wanted.
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 at 5:03 pm [ No Comments ]
