| I think baby Ivy is kinda starting to get it now.
#0217: ivy #22: anything i want
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This one's kinda touching, kinda panicky, kinda cute, and kinda . . . awesome?
And it involves a baby in a laundry basket. How much better can you get?
SHE IS EVEN HOLDING A STUFFED KITTY.
AND SLEEPING ADORABLY.
IN A LAUNDRY BASKET.
ON A ROOF.
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| It's likely most of you guys on my friends list know that I was a music major in college for a year and a half. But for those of you who didn't know that . . .
. . . I was a music major in college for a year and a half.
My instrument was voice (as you might've guessed), but all music majors are required to learn how to play the piano, and I had keyboard class every semester. Much like non-arts classes have final exams, we had "juries" at the end of every semester. Most of them involved some kind of demonstration or presentation or performance. For various classes, final exams consisted of performing songs with an accompanist in front of an audience, sight-reading music by myself, part-writing for songs, listening to music and writing it down on music paper, singing in different languages, playing instruments I hadn't touched before that semester (by the time I quit I'd done this for percussion, trumpet, trombone, flute, and clarinet), and . . . you guessed it. Piano.
My final piano piece for my third semester was a really lovely piece called "Lydian Nocturne." (If you know what Lydian Mode is, you'll understand why if you listen to this.) I recorded myself performing it for your listening pleasure. Click the link to hear it, and do keep in mind I wasn't a freakin' piano major, so yeah, I effed up a little.
SwankiVY plays "Lydian Nocturne"!
And just FYI, this piece's lovely trick was a lot of hand-crossing. I sometimes had to cross my left hand over my right to play the middle of the piece.
Enjoy! | | comments: 13 comments or Leave a comment |
| Hey guys,
Some of you may have seen my "Letters to an Asexual" video series on YouTube. In three of the four so far, I've featured letters sent through OKCupid, which is primarily a dating site. Due to their failure to offer an "asexual" (or even "none of the above") option, I'm listed as bisexual on the site. In my most recent installment, Letters to an Asexual #4, some moron nailed me for choosing "bisexual" because he insisted heterosexual is the default, and if I'm not gay in any way, I should just put "hetero." (Back when it happened, I complained to the asexuality group about it in this post. You might remember.)
Anyway, I'm sure you can imagine I had a problem with that, but that's beside the point (though I invite you to check out the video if you haven't already!). The main point of this post is that if OKCupid (and other social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook) DID acknowledge asexuals' existence by letting us have a drop-down box choice, I wouldn't get in this kind of pickle. Furthermore, a big part of being accepted and spreading awareness about asexuality is getting its existence acknowledged by the bigwigs.
Apparently, pansexuals have the same issue asexuals do. Yesterday, someone I didn't know came across my YouTube videos and sent me a message asking me to sign his online petition, and the purpose of the petition was to get social networking sites to add "asexual" and "pansexual" as choices. The original petition link he sent me had a few errors and some muddy language, though, so I helped him rewrite it, and now the new version of it is available. I promised him I'd pass the petition on to my networks, and perhaps it will be one little thing we can do to help in the march toward widespread understanding of our legitimacy. I don't know how well online petitions work, but it's always worth a shot. (This site does not display e-mail addresses, so they can't be harvested.)
Here's the link:
http://www.petitiononline.com/asm55579/petition.html
Please pass this on to asexuals, pansexuals, and allies that you might know. | | comments: 12 comments or Leave a comment |
| I'm looking through old college papers and whatnot for the autobiography part of my site. While looking at my notes, I came upon a detail that I'd forgotten about my tutoring/mentoring experience for Bright Futures, which I did during my second-to-last semester in college.
My first grader sometimes used to try to get out of adhering to my lesson plans. Ordinarily it would be something like pretending he wants a drink of water or a bathroom break, then taking an extraordinarily long time to complete the task.
But once in a while, he would try to get out of working by eating the materials.
Weird little kid. If only he was as serious and creative about his schoolwork as he was about getting out of it, he wouldn't have been behind. . . . | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Yay YouTube morons!
This was posted in the comments for my "Once Upon a December" singing video.
xxdiogenescynicxx
Why do you act like a child?
Meh. I've dealt with bullshit like this before, and at first I had a sneaking suspicion this was actually a new screenname for a person who trolled a bunch of my videos last month and made similar comments. (I've since come to the conclusion that they're not the same person, because the last person had a difficulty in constructing sentences which appeared to result from speaking English as a second language, while this person doesn't appear to have that issue despite his idiocy. On to my reply!)
swankivy
I'm not interested in engaging you in a stupid argument, but if you'd like to ask a civil question without assumptions that just make you look like a judgmental ass, go 'head and try to phrase this in a mature manner.
Accusing people of being immature is something insecure, narrow-minded people often do, but I'm willing to answer if you'd like to form a coherent question.
Explain to me what you think constitutes "acting like a child" and why singing this qualifies, and I'll be happy to play.
He replies:
xxdiogenescynicxx
Viewing most of your videos you seem to be preoccupied with childish hobbies, activities, etc.
Oh, whatever. Here's my response.
swankivy
Childish vs. childlike is a mistake many people make when they're not discerning or mature enough to understand the difference. I'm not unable to take care of myself, prone to immature decision-making, or failing to meet adult standards in my life, so my taste in entertainment or hobbies is irrelevant.
If you can't understand why interest in certain pursuits don't render me immature, I can't really help you. By all means, judge me if it makes you feel like a grown-up.
Now for his last comment:
xxdiogenescynicxx
Well we all make judgements based on factual information, this is absolutely part of being a grown up. You seem to need some psychological help, actually I feel sorry for you, it must be difficult to be a child trapped in an adult body.
Yaawwwwwn. Trollsville.
I wrote this:
swankivy
It's a widely noted phenomenon that our society's most brilliant and innovative contributors tend to have an ability to enjoy life with the wonder of a child. Some say it's indicative of a higher understanding when one can see the profound in the simple.
You've attempted to reduce my interest in cartoons to an immature outlook and a need for mental help, but that only shows the narrowness and rigidity of your worldview. I think it's sad how you pounce to judge me based on such poor reasoning.
Also, I really have enough to do without having to deal with trolls. I think I made my point.
And I blocked him from commenting on my videos anymore, because anyone who feels the need to make sweeping judgments of my character based on my desire to sing cartoon songs is not worth talking to.
So, what is with this whole "correlation equals causation" phenomenon that seems so rampant in morons' brains? Couldn't it be possible that if someone is otherwise able to live his/her life as an adult in all the important ways, perhaps it's NOT "childish" to still like something children like? Couldn't it be possible that person could be enjoying said entertainment on a more mature level, or that the cartoons aren't necessarily ONLY for children in the first place?
But no. I need mental help because I like cartoons and think it's fun to sing songs on YouTube.
I swear, I actually don't think I've ever been told to "grow up" by someone who's more mature than I am. And I don't think that's a coincidence.
What is the use of growing up and becoming mature and living life as an adult if it doesn't result in getting to live the life you want? Just so happens that by the time most people are adults, they don't really like the things they liked as kids, but that's not the case for me--perhaps because I had good reasons for liking most of those things as a kid, and perhaps because I'm not worried about some idiot judging me and looking down at me for doing what I love.
I like to rant about it on the Internet, though. Hope you enjoyed that. Hehehehe. | | comments: 7 comments or Leave a comment |
| I posted a new asexual video yesterday. Checkit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AhkihhJGb4
This is from when I got a moron in my OKCupid box claiming that I shouldn't list myself as bisexual on OKCupid, even though I explain thoroughly in the OKC profile that I don't have a better choice from the drop-down list and that I chose bisexual because I like both sexes the same: NOT AT ALL.
His beef was that if I'm not gay, I'm automatically heterosexual, because that's "the default."
On top of that, he claimed to have the magical ability to tell from watching my videos that I actually AM heterosexual because he "saw no homosexual or bisexual tendencies in me whatsoever." (Which makes soooo much sense when describing a girl who talks and sings to her camera!)
The linked video above shows me reading his mails to me and also relaying my responses. Furthermore much mocking of his spelling ensued. Enjoy. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| I'm so freakin' burned out on drawing sometimes, and I'm sure it shows BIGTIME in today's issue. I just DID NOT WANT TO DRAW TODAY. So I drew CRAPPILY. There, ya happy?
That said, I think this is pretty cute. I like Dax's sort of innocent excitement over all the crap he learns. I remember some of you guys were amused by his opinion of literacy during his last issue; you'll probably just as impressed by his enthusiasm this week.
#0216: dax #25: the context of time
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No, he didn't wet his pants. Shut up, V. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I walk or ride my bike to work all the time. One day I was walking to work and there was a CD on the side of the road.
It was just lying in the grass and it had some decoration on it. The main picture was some colorful stick figures--a boy and a girl with their hands connected by a heart. The label said something like "12 months = 1 year!" or something like that--I know it was an equation of some kind, and indicated to me that it was somebody's dating anniversary mix.
On the side of the road.
I was a little saddened by the idea. I left it on the side of the road because I figured there's always a chance whoever dropped it there might want to come and get it again, but of course I assume someone threw it deliberately. (CDs don't escape out car windows all that often by accident.) Making an anniversary mix and doodling romantic stick figures strikes me as a more girly thing to do (and shut yer yap about sexism!), so I began imagining that it was probably some girl's gift to her boyfriend on their one-year dating anniversary. Which he flung out the window after their breakup.
I wondered about it. I wondered why they broke up. I wondered if they were together when someone tossed the CD. I wondered if it was angry or explosive. Or just sad. Based on cheating? Based on not wanting to date a deadbeat? Based on just plain falling out of love?
I mentioned it to a friend and he said, "Yeah. There's a story behind that one."
The next time I walked to work, I saw the CD was still there. It had rained several times since then and some of the marker had washed off, so I don't know what the writing said, but there's still an illustration.
Weirdly, the heart connecting them has washed off too.
I picked it up and cleaned it up and listened to it. It contained 12 songs that were . . . er, SORT of about love. This is the Unknown Couple's anniversary mix.
- Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
- Akon - Don't Matter
- Fergie - Glamorous
- Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
- Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
- T-Pain - Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')
- Secondhand Serenade - Vulnerable
- J. Holiday - Bed
- Boys Like Girls - Hero / Heroine
- The-dream - Shawty You A 10
- Extreme - More Than Words
- Archie Star - Let's Get Married
The only songs I'd already known were the Snow Patrol tune and, of course, the song by Extreme. About half the songs were weird rap/hip-hop type songs that I didn't care for. The other half seemed more like folksy love songs. I wondered if some were his favorites and some were hers.
I wonder if they think about each other with regret or sadness or anger when they hear these songs now.
Or, I wonder if someone just lost the CD.
But I think I have a breakup in my CD player.
Sucks. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
| The fallout from being posted in various places as an exceedingly lame person who made an exceedingly long pointless video continues . . . however, it's nothing to write home about.
But you're not home! You're the Internet! (Hi, honeys!!)
As of this post, Stupid! on YouTube has 2,826 views, and that's really not a lot for a YouTube video actually, but more than three quarters of those were in the last three days. Heh.
Only a few more comments today concerning my feature on TheInternetIsTerrible.com . I'm very amused by the 24th comment:
How can you hate this. If I had the skills, I’d make this replace the Rickroll. C’mon somebody do it for me please.
Too funny.
Web site traffic at swankivy.com is still way up. Pre-4channing, I had a modest range of 7 to 22 unique hits on the main page per day, and now we've got 38 Saturday, 56 Sunday, 42 Monday, and 39 Tuesday. The hit tracker indicates a large percentage coming from the link on YouTube.
The Internet isn't terrible, guise. It's funny! And Channel SwankiVY has 241 subscribers with over 10,000 views.
Not bad for a little Stupid, huh? | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Did you know?
- Koalas sleep for 22 hours a day, two hours more than your mother.
- It took your mother 22 years to build the Taj Mahal!
- Your mother is the world's tallest woman.
- Two thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in your mother.
- Your mother invented the wheel in the fourth millennium BC!
- Humans share over 98 percent of their DNA with your mother!
- Baskin Robbins once made your mother flavoured ice cream.
- Devoid of her cells and proteins, your mother has the same chemical makeup as sea water.
- Your mother will become gaseous if her temperature rises above -42°C.
- Only twelve people have ever set foot on your mother.
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| Ooh, guess what, today I'm featured on TheInternetIsTerrible.com. Wow, I am quite the little celebrity this week, being stupid all over the Interwebz and being widely mocked.
So fun.
Should I be annoyed? Or flattered? :D | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| I got more /b/tards Sunday morning. This time it was barely noticeable, but a few more YouTube comments trickled in on the video they pooped on the night before, and I knew someone was at it again.
Yes, guys, this is 4chan.
If you have no idea what 4chan is and want to look it up, just don't. SRSLY. It's an imageboard/message board and it is full of the sickest freaks on the entire 'Net.
For those who want the story: Yeah, the biggest gang of trolls on the Internet (no lie) chose me as their new target of interest late on Saturday night, and about 60 comments rolled in on my "Stupid" video. I deleted as they arrived, so no mess was made. The person who posted my video challenged the board's viewers to try their best to watch the whole thing (for which they would be rewarded with . . . I won't repeat it, and it's not what you think). Most people, however, lost, and could not bear to watch my whole video of stupid. Idiot comments galore. (One lovely person told me the video was all right but that s/he missed those nine minutes of life. I suggested that perhaps otherwise those nine minutes would surely have been spent writing the Great American Novel.)
By the third comment I recognized the "scent" of the comments and knew they were from 4chan. I had never been there, but as a seasoned Internet loser, I know exactly what it is and what Anonymous smells like. What a lot of people don't know (I didn't, until last night!) is that their content expires really fast. Like, 45 minutes. New CRAP filters onto their boards at over 9000 times an hour, and the older stuff gets pushed off the end of the conveyor belt and is actually gone once it expires. The trolling subsided when the thread was no longer visible.
Next morning, someone else was at it, and this time they were throwing one of my photos around on /b/. Apparently it is very common for idiots to post a picture of someone and pretend to BE that person, which is what this poster did. The poster also asked the other members to sound off on whether they would like to have sex with me. And many voiced their opinions, gave details as to what they'd like to do and in what creative locations they'd like to do so, and in some cases suggested that they would only mate with me if I had a bag over my head on account of my looking like a man, a Vulcan, or a hillbilly. Gee, don't do me no favors!
Wait, I look like a man? Must say that's the first time EVAR.
Losers began popping up begging the original poster to provide more pictures, so various /b/tards found more pictures of me and put them on there. Some of the comments were pretty amusing. One thing I REALLY thought was funny was someone posting a picture of me in my tennis outfit, and I was wearing my clover shirt, which they mistook for THEIR OWN LOGO and suggested was intentional. WHUT? (That shirt is surely older than 4chan itself.)
 |  | | Coincidence is coincidental. |
Some other people appeared impressed at my drawings and posted some of those too, and then some other weirdo defaced one of the drawings and reposted it with a big swastika on it. Lovely.
The thread petered out and disappeared right around the time someone declared that they were in love with me. o_O
Also, best comments that weren't too horribly obscene (but yes, some cursing):
( Under the cut )
As a result of all this, I got a dramatic spike in my YouTube views, and my channel there links to my Web site, so that got some extra "lovin'" too.
LOLWHUT i gotz viewz, thanx 4chan!
Question is, do they have the patience for something like my dumb site, or will they go elsewhere to troll something more amusing?
The world may never know.
Judging from the weird/amusing private messages, increase in YouTube friendings/subscriptions, and huge Web site traffic, I'm thinking I might have actually attracted some POSITIVE attention from this, all because some dumbass decided I needed to be posted on /b/.
It was hilarious to see their reactions when some of them didn't realize I can speak their language. :D
Now hopefully I don't smell like 4chan. I heard that shit never washes off. | | comments: 11 comments or Leave a comment |
| I had an unexpectedly fun night Friday.
I was busily drawing my comic as usual when my friend Eric texted me and asked if I wanted to check out a cool vegetarian restaurant called Grass Root. I told him that was cool as long as I could draw at the table and as long as he could get me back by 9. LOL I am so dedicated it's kinda stupid.
So he rambled on over and picked me up and we landed in the restaurant. I had a chick-un burger with avocado on it (wow yum!) and he had some vegan pasta and vegan cheesecake!!!
We came back to my place afterwards and I had to work on my comic so I talked to him and drew and made up the comic and whatnot. It was a little surreal for a while 'cause he was behind me on the loveseat and I'm at the computer and we're talking but my back is to him. Heh, he understood, I'm sure.
I decided to try to suck him into my obsession and invited him to watch an episode of Eyeshield 21 the anime with me. He accepted. We watched it and I tried not to be too much of a squeal dork at Hiruma and his scary-ass cuteness.
We chilled for a while longer and finally he ran off. And guess what? Today he e-mailed me and he was like "I am intrigued by Eyeshield 21 and I want to see more," so . . . HAHAHAH YAY! I GOT ME A NEW CONVERT!!!!!!
Yesssssssssss! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Oh shit. The /b/ tards got me.
It was bound to happen sooner or later.
I'm actually surprised it took this long for the biggest portal of diarrhea on the whole Internet to put itself on my doorstep, though I've had similar brushes with morons such as the reddit fiasco, the guys on "the forum," and the time I got chosen as Awful Site of the Day at somethingawful.com .
Depending on how bored they are, this might be the worst yet, though. We'll see.
ETA: It's funny how some of them come to troll me and do so, and others come to troll me and end up sending me compliments and subscribing to me. Haha. | | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment |
| I was just going through an old box of mementos because I am looking for more keepsakes to add to my autobio page junk (yes, it is incredibly obsessive and ridiculous and overdone, but it is fun to do!), and I came across a note that was written to me by one of my college roommates about the other one.
So I found this note, written in Oatanese, from Mia about JW. JW was a really bizarre roommate and his disgusting antics became the subject of my VERY FIRST WEB PAGE RANT, actually. I had forgotten this incident and OMG. Here is the (translated) note:
Ju,
This is in Oatanese for a good reason!
JW used my toothbrush this morning!
I know because I heard him brush his teeth. And then when he got out of the bathroom, my t-brush was wet. I asked him if he used it, & he said, "Uh, I looked for mine......." I said, "OK, it's your's then." He goes, "I, uh, didn't use it........ uh........"
He needs to do whatever the fuck he needs to do to use his bathroom. Since I never see him, & u r more tactful, will u impress upon him to use his own b-room?
Luv,
Phatty
For the record, JW hadn't been using his own bathroom because he hadn't gotten off his ass and bought a shower curtain yet and I think there was something wrong with the sink or something, but I don't remember. I do remember there were two dead cockroaches in his bathtub before he got around to cleaning it and using it.
He was gross.
In what universe do you just use someone else's toothbrush because you can't find yours?
I wonder if he ever died of pure slobbishness, like we used to joke about?
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| Sorry, I just thought this was too hilarious to not share.
After all, if we don't get some STANDARDS around here, we'll go to Hell in a handbasket!
And for those who want to know before they click, it's about a meeting of a group of folks who think English should be America's official language; their motto was "Building the New Majority" and one of their distinguished guests was the guy who runs a "white nationalist" Web site.
While giving speeches about how the country is going to go in the toilet if we don't bring out a can of whoop-ass on bilingualism and its increasing acceptance, they stood under a big sign that spelled one of the words wrong. The sign is pictured in the photo accompanying the article.
Dude. Seriously. I too would like standards in order to avoid mediocrity and, I dunno, the future shown in Idiocracy, and though I know that one mistake doesn't mean they must be stupid, it does make you wonder who should be in charge here and whether giving them even the illusion that they're holding the reins is a good idea. . . . | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
|
Your result for The "Ten Most Famous Tori Amos songs" Personality Quiz...
"Bouncing Off Clouds"You scored 61% on Straightforwardness! 
YOU are one of Tori’s new songs – upbeat, positive and empowering, speaking of something other than loss, trauma or self-image issues for a change. You appear to be leading your life according to the KISS principle (“Keep it simple, stupid”). Even in the face of adversity, you maintain an optimistic, active outlook. You are as straightforward as they come, and also outspoken and resilient. Your positive attitude is not to say that you haven’t had your low points. It’s just that, unlike most others, you’ve taken them in stride, with the deeply-held belief that there’s no pain you cannot bounce back after. You’ve learned that life, in general, and love, in particular, don’t always have to be about the drama, the pain and the wallowing in self-pity. On the contrary, love, for you, is sunny and bouncy. You’re probably somewhat practically inclined and prefer the simple little joys in life. Which, yet again, is not to say you’re at all unrefined. It may very well be the case that you’ve had your Beluga and your Crystal – just that, somewhere along the way you discovered that nothing beats a cold beer on a hot day, a good dish, an honest word and a genuine smile. You tend to dislike people who seem to be actively seeking drama and you’re particularly weary of over-emotional AND over-analytical people. Those who read too much into things are just not the kind of people you like to associate with. You can be pretty stubborn and set in your ways, but your healthy attitude towards life is more than likely to compensate for that. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | adventures, busy, dks, drawings, e-mail, family, fangirling, food, friends, holidays, jeaux, mike, mikey, mom, mulligan, pictures, sarah, singing, sister l, sister p, stacy, steve, tennis, visits, web page | | Subject: | Happy ramble | | Time: | 07:54 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/moonsis/stars/purple/working_sp.gif) busy |
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| Here are just a few things I feel like sharing, since it's been too long since a proper update really.
I think I have finally gotten back to a decent weight and I feel pretty good. I took a picture of myself today and it's the first one in a while where I didn't think I looked slightly scrawny. (If you either haven't been following that long or you didn't remember, I had a cold followed by an ear infection in January, and somehow right around that time I dropped five pounds, which is a dramatic change in comfort for someone who was already under a hundred pounds.) I feel healthy and I think I look all right. Yay!
I have had loads of social events lately. I went to an anime convention with my new-ish friend Eric, who was an OKCupid friend. We walked around observing the craziness, and we even saw one guy dressed as the Japanese celebrity Hard Gay. (If you don't know him and WANT to, just search him on YouTube and you'll get the idea.) You could hear him screaming "HOOOOOOOOO!" here and there throughout the convention. It was pretty hilarious. I didn't buy anything, but I had fun wandering the dealer room and then chatting with Eric while we ate and also seeing the artists' tables. After the con, we had fries at Denny's, and then went to Avi's birthday party.
Avi had a potluck for his Cube Day. (He turned 27. You know, 3 x 3 x 3.) I met some nice people there and got loopy because of lack of sleep. I think they figured out it was time to take me home when I started trying to bop the ceiling fan pull with my head by jumping. I was not drunk, I promise. There was lots of great vegetarian food there.
Sunday was the summer solstice. Yay. I have not yet redecorated my house for the season. I am a bum.
I have been singing on YouTube here and there lately. A couple weeks ago now, I think, I posted a bunch of singing videos. Check out my channel if you want to see them.
I saw my mom last week and she is going to make a stained glass piece of one of my characters. I am excited.
I did get my computer set up--the new one I talked about last month. Some of you were really interested in what kind I got. I bought it online. Um, I don't know much about it because I just asked my computer-expert friend, Jeaux, what I should buy, and he told me so I did. It has an Athlon processor, with 4 GB of RAM, and it's a 320 GB hard drive. It has one CD/DVD burner. I paid extra to have them install Windows XP on it for me. I hate changing over stuff on a new PC. HATE IT. I'm glad I won't have to do it again for a long time.
Saw my friend Stacy today. (This is after I accidentally double-booked myself, thinking I was free that afternoon to go have lunch with my mom. Then I fixed my electronic calendar--which had died the night before and needed to trickle-charge--and promptly noticed that I was an idiot. So, Mom tomorrow.) I got to see her and her daughter. It was quite nice. We ate at IHOP and chilled for a few hours. I went to the mall.
I got my bridesmaid dress picked out for my sister P's wedding. Sister L has the same dress. We look very cute. I already got it in to be hemmed and it looks great. The wedding is August 1.
I have kept in touch with some members of the family of Mike, the friend of mine who passed away. I called his mom sometime last week and she is doing so well all things considered. She says I'm unofficially being adopted by their family. :)
Another Mike friend visited last week. We watched a lot of House, some anime, and some YouTube crap, and we baked a little and had some food. He wasn't feeling all that adventurous--partly because the heat killed his ambition to explore Tampa without a car--so we mostly stayed in and just either watched stuff or talked. It wasn't eventful, but it was good to see him.
I am supposed to meet with my friend Sarah this weekend. Hopefully that will work out.
My beloved Eyeshield 21 ended last week. It ran for more than six years weekly in Japan. And now it is over. I felt like crying. No more ES21 to reward me after I finish my comic on Fridays!
I have no good news on my books. I also have not been writing any new queries. I'm exhausted.
My job is good. I have had my hours cut since January but am still surviving. I am much busier in the 28 hours I'm there than I was when I was working 33 to 35 hours a week--it is a bit stressful sometimes and there are days I forget to eat lunch. We're doing more proposals than usual because our work load is down, and I'm pretty instrumental in the production of proposals and letters of interest. But, like my novels by agents, we seem to be getting rejected a lot by the clients we are writing proposals for. It's disappointing.
I scanned and posted some of my old Animaniacs drawings on my Animaniacs drawings page.
Mikey and I haven't been playing tennis. It's too hot.
I saw Steve last week. He dropped by and we chattered about nothing and then he left. Good old Steve.
I have been trying to keep up with my e-mail and OKCupid mail (and mostly failing), so if I owe you mail, please be patient. Thanks. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| Aww, did you guys miss Adele? It HAS been since April. . . .
Yup. Adele is back. But . . . not quite as you have seen her ever before. (And, with any luck, you won't see her like this again, even though it's kind of hilarious.)
#0214: adele #56: my current self
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Hey, wait a second, Adele! Your comics aren't supposed to be the ones cracking me up! Usually it's something cute Ivy did or one of Weaver's clever phrasings! Even a joke from Fred in his current situation is more likely than this.
Yeah. I laughed a lot while drawing this episode.
And I will eat my hat if Meggie doesn't wet herself laughing at the semi-oblique Animaniacs reference. (Yes, I know there was no such thing as Animaniacs back when banana clips were in fashion.)
I will leave you to admiring Adele's antics this week, and will assure you that she will be back to her regularly scheduled seriousness in the future issues. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
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