Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidayzies! Or rather, Happy Nondenominational Gift Giving Day (as par Fi).

So I've been at my uncle's in Ottawa the past two days, but am now back. Yay. On the 23rd, I used Flash8 to make a really cheap and bad Flash animation which I sent to people. Yay for cheapness!

No really. I was gonna make a video. But is it my freaking fault that there's no snow to record for clips to make a video with???!!! Meh. I'll do it next year.

So the new Blogger's outta Beta. I haven't switched yet. Might in the future.

So yeah. The drawing on left was done in black ball-point pen on lined notebook paper, and scanned as B&W so I didn't have to Photoshop out the blue lines. But I Photoshoped it anyway to add the color. And the color looks bad, cuz I used Transparancy Sth% so I could actually see the original lines. But hey. I was experimenting.

The santa hat looks A-Some.

I have one of those flower/bow things they stick on presents in my hair. Because I have no santa hat in real life. I've been drawing the glances of passerby since saturday afternoon.

I want a cupcake. My mom baked a bunch, but we left them all in Ottawa. x_x

The new E1 still has no Meta tags. I must go add them. It also still has weirded scrollbar issues on FF. Which leads me into the age old rant by IE users that FF messes up layouts, and FF users ranting that IE messes up layouts... THEY BOTH MESS LAYOUTS, OKAY DIMWITS????!!!!!! But that is for another time. For now, I will ignore the fact that E1's scrollbars don't exist in FF.

Oh lookie! Amanda drew an anime version of the gang! Yay! I should (try to) color it on Photoshop now. YAY!!!!!

I have an idea! Why don't I start a Holly Black fansite and add it to my already-muchly list of things to keep track of and update? I'm in my project-start mood! Yay!!!! (btw, I have no project-finish or project-maintain mood.)

And now I'm just typing about anything. Yay! Anything-ness!

*is really really hyper now.*

:D. <-- This is an idiot smile. That dot there is DROOOOOOL.

Deck the halls with lots of candy...

Deck the halls with lots of candy
Fa la la la la, la la la la
'Tis the season to drink brandy
Fa la la la la, la la la la
Don we now our santa hats now
Fa la la, la la la, la la la
I can't think of anything rhyming
Fa la la, la- la, la la la

But really people, don't drink and drive. Or drink and be on a bus, for that matter. Because Tiff recounted in homeroom this morning, that before going to work last night (scorekeeping hockey, I think), she drank something on the bus, and the bus jerked, and she ended up spilling it all over her polo. So because she smelt like mango, she had to wash it off in the bathroom. And then she was wearing a wet shirt in an ice rink.

But yeah...

TODAY WAS THE BEST SCHOOL DAY EVAR!!!!!!
I shall recount it for you.
- Morning: Got candy cane from Taline, chocolate from Jennifer.
- Homeroom: Gave chocolates to Ms Mavros.
- English: Forgot chocolates in locker, ran back to get, gave to Ms Zaphiratos. Finished rough copy of essay. Played with Ms Eskine's doggy. Began writing final copy.
- Gym: Skipped most of it to finish English essay. Finger was in pain. When done, gave chocolates + note to Ms King. Talked with Taline, Chyntia, Danvi.
- Recess: Got candy cane from Hajjera. Forgot to ask for email addresses for the umpteenth time.
- Geography: Gave chocolates to Mr Saad. Nobody was in class. Played on computer. Learned that Holly Black was in Mtl a while back to see Spiderwick sets. Concluded that it must be filmed here. Was happy. Watched boys kick around a paper ball. Ate candy cane.
- Lunch: Tried to find Chyntia/Amanda.
- French: She'd told us to skip it a few classes ago. So I left during lunch.
- After leaving: Went to Junior Campus. Gave present to Ms Ewing. Went upstairs. Asked if Ms Cameron was in her room. Went to check. Went to staffroom to check. Bumped into Humara, who said that she was in the computer room. Went to computer room. Gave Ms Cameron present. Felt awkward among all the little people. Left. Walked home. Remembered to put on hood, but forgot to put on gloves. Learned that the fur on the hood greatly limits vision. Finished candy cane.
- Home: Was hyper. Went on computer. Went on Neo. Did dailies. Won np, scepter, codestone from Geraptiku. Won 10k np and radioactive muffin from fruit machine. Put earnings in bank/SDB. Now has 97np/day interest. Checked email. Talked to Chyntia on MSN. Drew candy cane w/ green ribbon on Macromedia Flash. Changed display pic to said candy cane. Went on Blogger. Typed all this.

I just realized I haven't had lunch yet. I'll eat some stuff after I finish my hot chocolate, which will be in a while because it's burning my tongue.

So now I'm seriously hyper from the candy cane. And I owe it all to the holiday season. Yay! See, holidays (X-mas is not politically correct) can be great even without snow. (Yes, no snow here. Zomg.)

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I CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D

Hi, People of the Year!

So I don't usually post two things in one day, but this is just TOO RETARDED to wait.

Time has selected a person of the year. Who is it? Kim Jong II for threatening to blow up the world? Bush and his gang for continuing to not recall the troops? Of even Zhang Ziyi for making her way into Hollywood blockbusters with little to no English? No, none of the above. The Person of the Year is someone we all know very well: You. That is, the fine print says that this only applies if you've contributed something to the internet. But that's every one of us, right? Hey of course it is. And even if it isn't, give yourself a pat on the back anyway, because the people at Times Magazine love you all, even if you're mentally retarded and has no idea what the internet even is. That's okay, because you've probably unconciously submitted stuff to the internet anyway, as in a person in your household may have posted a webcam picture with you in the background, or you may have influenced some grand research in some way.

You know how friggin obvious it is that it's all like a fancy publicity stunt, sucking up the readers and the population in general to get them to buy or subscribe to a magazine that has long exceeded its natural lifespan?

Or maybe, you're just doing this because you're too scared to offend those political figures who have power over you just because they're political figures. After all, if they're so self-centered that they think they deserve Person of the Year more than any of the other 6.5 billion people in the world, then surely they all get mad at you for not recognizing you for it? I mean, if you're so dim as to not realize they deserve this recognition, what point does your magazine have anymore? But hey, you can't offend anybody if you honor EVERYBODY, now can you? Unless of course you offend everybody because they're all upset that you thought they wouldn't see right through your little trick.

Oh and look. It's a YouTube video player. Isn't that a little biased towards YouTube? I mean, the world wide web is not amock with little emo depressed junkie lonely kids with hormone running all over the place and nothing better to do than confess their sorrows and their eternal love for so-and-so to their webcam and put it up for all to see online. I contribute to the Internet, I enjoy editing video, but lo! I never go on YouTube unless someone has something to show me. AND HELL FREEZES OVER! Cuz that's obviously what Times thinks. They don't appreciate the common Internet user at all. No, they're mocking us. We're obviously all using the magic of webcams and windows movie maker to make professionalish videos for our MySpace pages and our LavaLife profiles and to fill the empty gap that is our social life, because why the friggin else would we be on the Internet obsesively anyway? Unless of course, we're not actually on the internet obsessively. Unless it's just an illusion because we are so much more efficient at getting things done than you are.

But back to Times Magazine naming "You" as Person of the Year. I'm not the only one who looks at it negatively. In fact, I find it hard to imagine how anyone can look at it positively. Like what people said on the Boston.com boards. They asked what people thought about being Person of the Year, whether they thought they deserved it, so and so forth. One person was quite frank. "I did [deserve it]. Thanks." Someone else wrote: "Send the check ASAP. Thanks." Yet another person skipped the sarcasm and wrote: "If I had a subscription to Time, I would cancel it immediately. Pathetic choice."

And here's the gem of the batch:

I am grateful for this award. Thank you, Time! I would also like to thank the Bush Administration, who threw our country into the quagmire of a civil war, gave our soldiers precious little to work with, and fanned the flames of the type of extremism they were merely pretending to put out (among other grave missteps) and prompted millions of us to get online, make a stand and say, "Enough is enough! Bring our troops home and restore trust and accountability to our federal gov't!" Yes, it looks like 2007 is going to be a better year. And also thanks to my internet service provider for being a good sport and making it easy for me to carry out my patriotic duty to preserve the First Amendment.

It's really kinda sad, when you think about it. And the irony is that, all of these satirical and sarcastic comments reflect Time's excuse for choosing "You" in the first place.

It's like a retarded pothole.

So. I'm in a bit of a rut right now. An emotional rut, a physical rut, an academic rut, a creative rut. And since I can't get myself motivated enough to get out of the rut, I suppose a motivational rut as well.

It's like a retarded cycle, that just gets worse and worse all the time. I have a writer's block. Thus, I get a bad mark on an assignment. Because of that, I cry, be depressed, bla bla bla. So I work like an insomniac to improve my mark. The sleep deprivation is not good for my body and I feel like crap. My head hurts, and so, I'm back in my creative rut. And before any of this completely fixes itself, the cycle starts again. So it builds up. And I can feel my sanity starting to give in. Seriously. And of course, feeling absolutely DEAD in all these aspects does not help to motivate me. So I will make a list of things to do. Just to kick myself further into the mudpuddle. Becuase I feel like it, okay dammit?!

- French oral (script, memorize, costume/props, reherse): Monday.
- Phys Ed pyramid routine: after break.
- MSI articles and response x20: Tuesday.
- ITT technical drawing: sometime next week
- Art drawings: after break
- Bio test corrections: Monday

Whelp, I THINK that's it. Then there's the non-school stuff, but that's more or less my own idiotic fault. Plus there's studying for January exams. Yeah. Life is sure as frick great.
My head hurts. Pardon me while I bang it against a wall.