Glee, you need to stop making me cry every week.

Also, brb loving bitchy Kurt forever. XD <3

So.

I just got Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon.

Meaning I'll be brb-ing constantly to play it.

<3 Marth <3

Hey there, all. Finally done with the group debate thing, so that's one thing that's gone and never coming back (with any luck). I have another oral presentation to prepare for gym, but that's fairly relaxed compared to the one for my ethics class, so it's cool.

All I do these days is complain about school, GUH. It makes me seem like I hate school when I actually don't. I love school. I'm a freak that way.

Anyway, I'm waiting on an email reply from my teammate (again ajkldbsfg) to see if we're going to meet up tomorrow. I would honestly like to stay home from school tomorrow, seeing as it is one of my days off and I wish to sleep in. I figure I have enough time to finish all my art stuff during other studio hours, so I'm trying my best to get out of this one. MISPLACED EFFORT GET.

Oh man, it smells like cinammon buns all the way from the kitchen, so I will go have one.

Also, am using the Chris Colfer icon because hee. S-So cute. <3

Currrently waiting on debate teammate to finish sending me her text.

So much for collegians being smarter.

*grumbles impatiently*

That was the sound of despair, by the way.

I'm currently at school on about five hours of sleep, which normally wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have GYM in like AN HOUR AND A HALF. I'm so tempted to skip but I mean that's two points off my grade if I do and GRAH.

*is a goody-two-shoes and will go anyway* orz

In the spirit of school-related news, I'm currently waiting on the last of my teammates for the debate project we have in ethics tomorrow. Debating, uuugh. Debating in class always involves social issues, which I normally do not care about. I know that prolly makes me a bad citizen, but MEH. I am/will be an artist, so I don't need to care about that stuff unless I intend to make art commenting on it. XD Luckily, we're on the side of the debate that I actually support, so I'll probably get pretty fired up when my view gets challenged by the opposition.

Also, I think I've given up on my NaNoWriMo project. After like two weeks. GO ME. D8

I need to go do some studio work instead of sitting here complaining BUT ISN'T THAT WHAT LIVEJOURNAL IS FOR?

Hi! I'm obviously procrastinating! WHEEEE.

I should be writing my text for the oral presentation I have on Tuesday, but I keep going off and messing around on the internet. I just downloaded a bunch of gadgets for my Vista Sidebar so now it is sexy and black instead of randomly ORANGE. XD

I realize how pathetic I sound, so I'm going to stop now.

November is turning out to be a pretty busy month for me. I have two oral presentations and a bunch of readings and drawing homework and studio hours to do, not to mention a first draft of a portfolio that needs making before the end of the semester. Whodathunkit.

Anyway, that leaves not a lot of my time/energy left for NaNoWriMo. I haven't written anything since...three days ago or something. Sorry, Adrian, but I don't think I'll be finishing your story any time this month.

SRY BBY.

On the bright side, I'm feeling a bit more motivated to do actual school work, so I'm gonna go all out for that. Intaglio class is sort of kicking my ass right now, so I need to buckle down on that. Also, some weird/awesome personal stuff has been happening, BUT I'M NOT SAYING WHAT BECAUSE THIS IS THE INTERNET, AFTER ALL.

Yeah, uh, that's it.

Okay. I need to talk about the week's episode of Glee so I can get on with my life.

So those who know me in real life know I'm pretty sensitive despite the stoic-ness with which I usually go about things. I'll be able to stay poker-faced about pretty much anything unless it falls within my range of obsessions. One of those things is music.

I cry a lot. OKAY MAYBE NOT "A LOT" but you get the point. It's like my one most reliable emotional reaction to most things. I'm not emotionally stunted, what are you talking about. All this to say that when something touches me, it will most likely touch me a lot. Aaaand as much as I hate to admit it, Glee touches me. Often. And a lot.

I know I wrote up this uber rant a while ago where I basically lambasted the series in its entirety. I would like to take this moment to take some of it back. Okay, fine, I TAKE IT ALL BACK. Except for that part where I hate on Rachel. Rachel needs to go die in a fire.

Watching this show every week since the premiere on FOX used to be just shameless fun, a guilty pleasure of sorts (like Dean Winchester watching Dr. Sexy M.D., but I'll get to that later XD). But yesterday, it suddenly went all srs bzns with both Kurt development and Sue development. In the same episode. AS IF KURT WASN'T ENOUGH TO KILL ME WITH LOVE ON HIS OWN.

So while the FinnxQuinnxPuck is off getting slightly out of hand, Kurt and Rachel have this sort of stand-off where they compete for a solo in one of the songs Will chose for sectionals. While Rachel is claiming the part for her own for the usual reasons *coughPLEASEgodieinafireCOUGH*, Kurt stands up and challenges her for it on the basis that the song - "Defying Gravity" from the Wicked musical - is one of his favourite songs of all time. And with good reason. Not only does he have the terrific range required to sing the traditionally female-sung part, the lyrics of the song themselves pertain to his character.

But of course Will goes all douchebaggy on him and hands the solo to Rachel. Stop living vicariously, Will. Please.

Anyway, I will skip forward because there's a bit of (love quadrangle) tedium in between the good parts. This is where this series really starts to shine. So by now, everyone pretty much knows that Kurt is "queerer than a 3$ bill" (his father's words! XD). Although I expected this element to be kind of brushed aside after Kurt's coming out episodes in the beginning of the series, they continue to go with it as Kurt's father is suddenly forced to face the consequences of raising a fairly out-of-the-closet gay son. How many high school drama series do this? Seriously. Major points right there.

So in the end, it's decided that Kurt and Rachel will have a "diva-off" to determine who will get to sing the solo. So they sing, and there's that predictable montage where they split the song between their two voices. I expected this. What I did not expect was the song did to me as it was playing.

I bawled in the way that I never bawl unless something touches me really deep down. I bawled in the same way that I did during the orchestra rehearsal scene in The Soloist, and in the scene in the newest season of House M.D. when the woman in the psychiatric centre plays the cello for everyone. This was my music bawl, the kind of cry associated to this very specific situation.

Glee gave me the music bawl.

And for this it has my eternal respect and devotion.

Also, Chris Colfer is a fruity god made of fabulous win and I will love him forever.

I still don't fully understand how I could have gotten the music bawl because I had heard the song before! Last week, I was hunting for music from the show and came across the official "Defying Gravity" track sung by Lea Michele and Chris Colfer. I loved it and downloaded and have been listening to it on repeat since then. AND THEN I CRIED.

I ACT REALLY GIRLY WHEN I WATCH TV DRAMAS. D8

GO LISTEN TO IT NOW. This is the Kurt version, which I plan to steal off the internet appropriate the moment I get up tomorrow. But now it is time for bed.

Obligatory Chris Colfer icon is obligatory.

"Ah, I say...where is Mr. Arandall?"

...

Actual.  Piece.  Of.  Dialogue.

WHEN DOES NOVEMBER END AGAIN.

<3 PERSONA 3 <3

That is all.


p.s. I have 8,271 words. |||Orz

13,336 WORDS?!

I have 6,894 right now.

NOW I HAVE TO SPEND THE WHOLE WEEKEND WRITING.  THANKS FOR SAPPING ME OF THE LITTLE LIFE I HAVE LEFT, NANOWRIMO.

GAWD.

NaNoWriMo, Day 5.  Word count: 5,469.

I have the feeling I should have more than that by now, but I don't care much at the moment because I really want to go play Persona 3.  I'll juuuuuussssst write more this weekend.

*commitment fail* :/

Have some crappy dialogue from yesterday's writing session!
 

 

Heh.  Theo said "smashing".  I'm going to edit the shit out of this section later on, for sure.

Writing my NaNoWriMo project right now.

I just used the word "poppycock".

.........this is gonna be a long month.

So.  I started writing my NaNoWriMo project today.  So far, I've got 1594 words, which isn't bad for an hour, I guess.

I've managed to describe a high-level wind spell and a bit of Adrian's crazy a few pages.  Now comes the task of describing Victorian London and the things I've decided to dump into it.

It's exhilarating and a little terrifying.

Okay, mostly terrifying.

I just decided to enter NaNoWriMo OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE I DID I MUST BE CRAZY.

I don't even know if I'll actually have the time to sit and write 50 000 words this November, since it's approaching the end of the semester and I have presentations and research to do and BLAH.  But.  I really want to write, and I figure this is the best way to get my butt into gear right now.  I mean, this way, I'll probably arrange to finish most of my actual schoolwork at school so I can have my evenings free for writing.  It's like the ultimate procrastination buster!

OR MAYBE THE ULTIMATE WAY TO PROCRASTINATE, I DUNNO.

Anyway, I'll be writing my (other) novel, Circulus, for which I have many ideas and a bit of research and outlining done already, but no actual writing.  It's kind of a strange genre, like, fantasy/gothic/alternate history/psychological.  Yes, I know how I said that I can't write proper mainstream fantasy and all that, so I'm attempting to move away from regular fantasy and kind of mesh it with other genres that I like. 

Yes, it takes place in Victorian England.  The story may actually border on steampunk, if I can fit it in.

And the main character is autistic!  Autistic.  Since when do I write character with actual disabilities?!  I mean, Seth is socially retarded, but that's just regular, nerdy retardedness as opposed to a real condition.

Soooooo I'll be doing that for a while.  Can't wait for Sunday so I can start, arrrgh! :)  For those wondering, autistic guy's name is Adrian.  Adrian Icarus Blackwell, actually, but ignore the middle name, IT CAME TO ME SPONTANEOUSLY.

OGOD WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO. *despairing/jubilant flail*

Yeeeaaaaah so I've been photoshooping-da-whooping all evening, and here's the design I've settled on for my intaglio print.



I flipped the sketch around and decided that it looked better this way, for some strange reason, so there you have it.  There isn't going to be a black border in the actual print, but I needed the lines so when I print this out as reference I know where to place the paper...if that makes any sense at all.  J'ME COMPRENDS, OKÉ.

The hiragana says "Eriko" and the kanji + hiragana says "Nanaho Hikaru".  I figured it would be too corny to write ERIKO in big, obnoxious, cursive script across the thing, so I pulled her name and nickname off of her TakaWiki page. XD Mentioning it makes it pretty clear that I considered it, though. |||orz

I am so excited to start making this print tomorrow YOU CANNOT IMAGINE.

OF ERIKO.

( UNDER THE CUT. )

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President Johnson: *grope*
Raiden: WTF!
Prez Johnson: ur a dude lol
Raiden: WAT YES

OMG POOR RAIDEN XDDDDD

ILU BBY

brb becoming a Metal Gear fan now.

It's snowing.

OH U CRAZY CANADIAN WEATHER.