1. The Bookstore called me today and asked if I was interested in working the Spring Rush. Um, YES PLEASE!!! So with any luck I'll be earning sweet sweet dollar bills during winter break instead of sitting on my bum like last year. This is great!

2. I haven't gotten any actual toy toys for Christmas in a while. So I'm fixing that and getting myself one of Miss Monster's Uncle Dapper plushies http://www.flickr.com/photos/missmonstermel/sets/72157622818673712/ and probably a new My Little Pony, but not a NEW MLP, because the redesign is seriously EW!

3. Time to go watch Bambi again and draw some stuff.

First List- Things I am going to do during Thanksgiving Break in Aurora

-SEE FRIENDS!
-Haircut
-Rid myself of eyebrows and mustache
-Mani/pedi with a bright colored polish
-Facial
-Back Adjustment
-Get new pair of jeans
-Dig through old boxes of kids books for ones with good illustrations
-Eat at Wan's, drag parents with
-Go to dog park, bring sketchbook

Second List- Xmas Wish List

-Copic markers, as always
-ART!
-Acryla-gouache paint
-PS3 or Xbox 360 (with Fallout 3, Borderlands and Bioshock. I have a thing for Post-Apocalyptic grunge.)
-Deer plushies (I don't have any, can you believe it?)
-Lackadaisy Book 1
-Various Topatoco shirts
-Ultimate Sandman vol 1-4
-iPhone (Hahaha...)
-Good pair of mid-calf steel toed black leather bitch boots

Third List- Ways to Shut Up Downstairs Neighbor

-Confound speakers with magnet device
-Cut electricity to downstairs apartment
-Note on door
-Complain to Landlord
-Call cops
-Hang a cheap pair of headphones on doorknob
-Buy Bass guitar, out-bass him
-Jump on floor angrily
-Yell "SILENCE MORTAL!" into the heating vents
-Get earplugs
-Lure bass speaker outside with bits of tasty copper wire. Trap, tag, neuter and release back into the wild.

Class registration for Spring 2010 is coming up soon. We sure don't get much time to think.
I get to finish up all of my remaining Core credits in one go:

ART 100- Intro to Art (wish I had known about this sooner)
ANTH 100- Intro to Anthropology
PHIL 110- Logic & Critical Thinking
PSY 320- Abnormal Psychology
CO 150 (again....)- Writing
and SPCM 200- Public Speaking if I'm feeling particularly masochistic.

Then I'll take a couple Psych credits during the summer and try to find a job. Unless Michigan happens, in which case, FINALLY A VACATION!!!

AGGGGGGHHHH!!!!


I wish school during the year could be more like summer school. Four to eight weeks of concentrating on one subject only.

The title sounds much more vulgar than what I'm actually going to write about.

First off, check out the new icon. Keep watching.

So, Friday, I got to attend my first REAL session of figure drawing. Which means a complete lack of clothing.
Luckily our model was a cheery 20-something lady. I've found it's to hard to feel awkward when you're trying to draw correctly at the same time. I nixed the pencils and just sketched and shaded with my warm gray markers. It looks almost the same as pencil, but less messy. I feel like I'm improving already.

Made a whole foods run (Note to self: Only do this once a month...). I was craving salmon, not sure why, but dammit, I got me some salmon! Expensive as hell salmon. Then I got home and realized I don't know how to cook. So one consultation of the internet later, I threw some salt and basil on it and pan fried it in lemon juice. After going to eat it, I realized the inside was still pink and gooshy and I had used too much lemon. So I fried it again, this time with just water. It took the edge off the lemon flavor and tasty fish was had by me. And I didn't even burn it.

Then, since I was still feeling culinary, I decided to make chai: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/17/how-to-make-chai-tea.html

And boy did it turn out awesome. I wish I could steam some milk though. Also, I am covered in cinnamon.

Lots of assignments due this week, and research hours, and tests. And I'm sitting here doing nothing, because that's how I roll.

Birthday's in two weeks. Not sure what I'm doing yet, if anything. I know I'll be down for Friday night and most of Saturday that weekend, but b-day is on Sunday, which means I get to drive back up here. Blech. Birthdays get less exciting when you get older. And I got my big present already in the form of a television. In truth, I just want $$$ so I can commission folks and continue saving for the super secret skin art.

I know what I'm doing for halloween though. Had to nix my first idea after the recent Tyra Banks furry drama. But provided I can find a gun belt, this is going to be awesome.

So my Clothing/Adornment and Human Behavior class really makes me want to go shopping. If I have but one stereotypical female trait, it is that I love clothes. Here's a list of things I do not yet have but really think would look awesome:

-Brown deerskin trenchcoat
-Black knee high lace up steel toed boots
-Brown Fedora
-Top Hat
-Bowler Hat
-Cloche Hat
-Flapper pearl necklace
-Argyle socks
-Red flannel shirt (OH GOD 90's GRUNGE...)
-Fitted pinstripe suit
-Red Suspenders
-An actual necktie
-Anything from Sockdreams
-New Neighborhoodie ("WANDERLUST" across the chest)
-Brass Industrial barbell
-Red eye shadow (shush, it goes with the clothing)

I am missing things, I know it. Agh!

Since I'm sure you all wanted to know... and I can't remember if I posted it before, here is my schedule for the fall semester.

PSY 121 -Health and the Mind
AM 250- Clothing, Adornment and Human Behavior
PSY 210- Psychology of the Individual
PSY 250- Research Methods in Psychology
HIST 151- U.S. History Since 1876
PSY 296- Psychology Group Study.

This could go either way. Research Methods and History are either going to be easy, or suck hardcore. We'll see.
Health and the Mind doesn't start until October, it's also a 1 credit course. So is the Group study.

I am happy though, I only have to go to three buildings for the lot of them. On mondays, I never have to leave Clark... unless I want lunch.

Permanent employment is still up in the air. I'm rather neutral about it right now, I feel pretty burnt out.

Maaaaan, I still need to do laundry. Crap.

Holy... I have worked for forty hours this week. Temporary Full Time job. Oxymoron.
Needless to say, I'm pretty beat. But the prospect of making a ton of spending money keeps me going.

They pretty much threw me into working the cash register today. I have never cashiered in my life. It was downright terrifying at first, but I think I'm getting the hang of it now. There's usually someone higher ranking to help me out when the machine goes beep and chaos ensues. And it does ensue. Gotta go get some gel soles for my shoes though. It really hurts to stand around for hours on end.

A fellow I knew from the Smoky Hill drama club, Matt, is one of my coworkers. He's hilarious when he freaks out about swine flu. Which reminds me, I am going to make a killing selling designer flu masks.

Amy's in town! Amy! Aaagh! Finally I can have company over!

I think, maybe, the bookstore might keep me around for longer. I told one of my bosses that I had a ton more hours available during the week than what I had originally thought. She said I could pretty much show up if I wanted to and they'd find me something to do. Awesome!

Got my check from the RMFC art show today. Seventy two bucks, not too shabby! That's like 45 minutes of tattoo chair time! Or a whole commission from a good artist! Or two PC games. Or or or or...

Going back to work in the morning. 9-5 I think. Not doing the register, thank goodness. Just helping people on the sales floor find their books. I am so wearing my combat boots tomorrow, they're better for long periods of standing.

I need to do some art. I haven't made anything all week.

Parents came up today. I had very little warning and had to organize this pig sty right quick. But now the dishes are done, Frank's floor is devoid of piss stains and my laundry has been beaten into submission. The art supplies are yet to be put away or put to use though.

They brought the dog with them. I missed my dog. Frank and Brownie are friends. They play tag.

The next few hours consisted of Dad fixing my computer (somehow, I'd missed 12 windows updates. But I don't boot into XP all that often.) while Mom and I ran errands.

I got a haircut. Nothing special, just got rid of the rapidly invading emo bangs. We also went to Whole Foods and Petco. Petco was a bust though, no good hay at all and all their rabbit pellets had corn in them. Corn is a really bad and cheap filler for bunnies and should be avoided at all costs. Screw Petco, I'm going to the feed store in the morning. Maybe I'll just splurge and get him a bale of the nice Oxbow brand hay. Hell, I would eat anything Oxbow makes. Yum, fiber.

I think tomorrow I'm going to go to the bookstore and pick up some newsprint and a sheet of transfer paper. If I'm going to do some big paintings, I'm going to get them right. Decided I'm not going to splurge on markers until after my textbooks are paid off. Don't want to overcharge my student account. Bad things will happen. Bad nasty awful things.

Back to work on Tuesday. I'll learn how to be nice to people and how to work a cash register. Valuable skills, those are.

Finally, after almost five years of searching fruitlessly, I have in my hands a Red Sweater with an Alligator. My greatest geeky wish fulfilled. And it was fulfilled on sale for 45% off.

Oh god
It's like every marker that I need and use the most have up and died within the past hour.

This is not good.

Oh jeeze! Where did all these dealer's den people come from? There's like 20 of us now and I feel like I'm not going to be able to compete with all the awesomeness. And it looks like there's no way we're going to be bumped up to full size tables now, so I'll have to find a creative way to fit everything within 9 square feet of table space. That folding posterboard will come in handy.

I'm kind of sure I'll be the only one there selling hats and tails and the like, so that might help me a little in the sales department. Supply and demand.

Aaaaagh, excitement abounds!!!

Must go clean rabbit cage.

Mom came up to visit. We're knitting a ton of hats with ears to sell at the con. I can do the knitting part, I just can't start them on the needles. I also help to sew the ears on and add fluff to the insides. I hope they sell well.
I like knitting, it's repetitive and you don't have to worry about ink smudging or messing up anatomy. Plus you can wear the outcome. We have a green and orange one that is supposed to be a dragon, but makes me think of a stegosaurus. I hope that one doesn't sell so I can wear it.

Made a couple of tails today. Catlike ones are pretty simple. I could stand to make some fox or dog ones though.

Currently have about ten pieces for the art show. I gave up on making the set of ten hooved things and instead I'm using up my extra 5x7 mats and making some minis. Trying to aim for the more popular animals. Also really want to make a Red Panda. Time will tell.

I ran off all the prints for my binder. Poor Pixie (it's a Canon Pixma Pro 9000) didn't like that very much. The prints turned out okay though. Though the ones that originated from my brown paper sketchbook seemed a tad dark. Ah well. I'm only selling them for $5. I only made about three of each print on average. Some I only made one of. I'm not expecting huge numbers of print sales, but you never know, eh?

Costume's going to have to wait until next year it looks like. I'll just run around in steampunk gear instead and look completely lost.

The hot water heater in my apartment seems to go out on a regular basis. So hence, I am off to shower now in hopes that it isn't out right now.

The amazing Tod Wills of http://ninjahijinx.com was having a donation drive in exchange for icons and dragons. You would give three words to describe what the dragon should look like, and Tod took it from there. My words were, brown, curious and white tail deer.
I got deer dragons! I love the fawn's face so much.

Slowly but surely I am amassing a collection of Tod art. I want to commission him for a full painting of Kite and Phillip on an airship someday. Hopefully soon.

So yes, go hand all your money over to Tod, because you will not be disappointed.

What started off as a weekend trip to my parents' ended up turning into a 7 day mini-vacation. And so, I will recap.

-Hauled the rabbit and fish with me. Captain Hammer traveled in a water bottle. Such a brave fish.

-Went to AuroraFurs. Had a fun time, drew lots, got a commission and caffeinated myself something terrible. Laken decided to host a late night showing of Repo: The Genetic Opera at her house, so I followed. It's like someone artificially inseminated Kill Bill with the genes of Sin City and RENT. I was shaking pretty bad through the whole thing, but that was due to caffeine and lack of sleep. Watched it on Megavideo a couple days later, and now I'm sufficiently hooked. Humming songs and what not. Plus GraveRobber is a hotcake and now deserves icon status. He can remove glowing blue snot from my dead body any day!

-Went on an epic quest to find craft supplies for the con. I swear nowhere in this town sells print bags. Had to order online.

-Had Milk, Cookies, and Girly Chat with Kate and Amy. I'm pretty isolated up here in the old FOCO, so I was overjoyed to see them. We are very loud when put in a room together. Also, we turn into goats. Beh-eh-eh!

-Nobody ate the cake I made. Seems it'll go to the squirrels now. Overfed bastards.

-Began a love affair with Mochi ice cream. Made a run to H-Mart and bought a ton.

-Saw Harry Potter. Ah, I remember the teenage angst like it was just yesterday... Also, I forgot what happened in the book entirely, so the movie was pretty much a surprise.

-Went and bought the Orange Box. Half Life 2 is fun so far. Haven't gotten into Portal or TF2 yet. Clearly I'm doomed when I do.

-I have blue nail polish again.

-Ordered 3 fancy Copic Multiliner pens. The aluminum body, refillable kind. I am way too excited for them to get here.

-Now the next three weeks are to be spent doing nothing but drawing, coloring and sewing. Man, am I going to need some serious motivation. I'm aiming to get at least one art show worthy picture done every other day. WOO!

Annoyed because I'm not allowed another bunny until I get my GPA back up to over 3.0. I figure that'll be more great motivation, but it'll also be another semester. Agh. I deserve it though, I'm not as good of a student as I once was. I need some driving force, and rabbit it will be.

I am relieved because Mind, Brain and Behavior is over and I'm holding at a 92%. Thank goodness for extra credit.

Now I'm down in Aurora for a few days. I'll be working for most of the weekend. Dad wants the backyard cleaned up and says he'll pay me for it. I'm alright with this. Though we have possibly the biggest yard in the entire neighborhood and it's fairly unkempt. Hello inevitable sunburn.

Brought home enough bristol board to at least plot out some con art. I really need to get cracking on that. Have a few trades I need to ink.

I'll be here until Wednesday maybe, or until my parents boot me, so I'll be sure to see my friends. I think a mecha girls night is in order, because I (somehow) made a cake and a dozen cookies yesterday and I need them gone.

Oh crap,

Is there anyone out there that I gave my address to?
The zip code is 80526.

80526!

Not 80256....
That would put me in the middle of Civic Center Park, rather than Fort Collins...
Agh...

My sticky address labels are all wrong, and there's 400 of them left. I hate when this happens.
They went out on all the bills and thank you notes from the past two months. DAMNIT!!!

Storm's going through. It's flashing like a freaking disco out there. Naturally, I have the window open.

Rosie came up for the weekend. I was quite glad to see her again and we proceeded to gallivant around the town. Ate noodles in the Oval, went to go see UP (which was awesome, and tear-jerking and made me want to fly cross country to hug my grandparents) and went to the Alley Cat. There is never such a thing as a "quick" jaunt to the Alley Cat. Gotta sit there for a couple hours and take it all in. I think I know what I'm going to paint on my ceiling tile now.

I drove her back down, after having to fight with Valhalla's starter. It was taking a dozen turns of the key to get her going. Thankfully, we made it to Aurora without serious incident, and lots of Daft Punk.

I may be getting another Rosie bunny. Frank needs a lady friend. Lady friend's name is Marla Singer. She's a black and white lop with comically large feet. A bit shy, but I think she likes me. However, Dad delivered an ultimatum (or at least what I perceived as one) that if I get an A in Mind, Brain and Behavior, then I can have the bunny. If I do poorly in the class, no rabbit for me.
I got a 92 on today's test, so I am feeling pretty confident.

Why the FUCK does it smell like cigarettes in here?

Valhalla pretty well died once I got back to my house downstairs. Wouldn't start at all. Somehow, on a Sunday, on Father's Day, Dad was able to find a pair of mechanics that were willing to make a house call. For really cheap too. My faith in humanity was restored a bit and I was able to drive back up here by ten yesterday.

I hope I get a TV soon. I'd like to host movie nights again. Or at least actually play the games I got for Christmas.

Drawing is coming along slowly. Priorities in the next few days are exchange badges, and inks for the RMFC conbook. It's good advertisement to be in the conbook.

....talking to parents just now. In a remarkable stroke of luck Mom has agreed to split a hotel room with me on the weekend of Aug 7-9. And you know what that weekend is! So she gets to cruise around downtown while I hawk my wares at the con. This is going to get very interesting, especially if we end up in the furry block. Woo!

I get bored when I have nothing to do on Friday nights.

I was going to go to Fort Fur Friday, but I forgot the house number once I got to the neighborhood. Will print address next time. Or wait until I know someone else who is going so I don't feel incredibly awkward.
I just want to art jam with someone. Maaaan...

Rosie's coming to visit tomorrow, which should be fun. I believe the Alley Cat and perhaps old town is in order.

Frank can now sing in falsetto.
He's doing well. Still can't get him to use his litter box. Agh.
So long, pet deposit.

My new class, PSY 252, is pretty much all review. If I do not get an A or B, I will.... well it won't be pleasant.

I've taken to carrying around an upside down axe handle in my bag, in case I get jumped by hobos or drunk bros. "I axed you politely to go away..."

I need to wash a load of towels, but damned if I'm not out of quarters.

I need a top hat to go with this moustachey goodness.

Got an F.

Four more points, and I would have passed.

Why am I even in college? I obviously lack the brains and motivation. What is the point anymore?

Can't even pass a 100 level class.

I am good for nothing.

I am currently sitting in a corner of the Morgan Library. Microsoft Word is open, with four essays that I'm supposed to write by Friday. By Friday or all bets are off.
I thought leaving my apartment and coming here would help me concentrate, but it doesn't seem to be doing any good.

I'm still a miserable writer. I suppose it would help if I had but one original thought in my head. Or anything for that matter. I really am not built for deep contemplation.

At least it's quiet here during the summer.

Inked a shit ton of year old sketches last night. Will likely slap some quick coloring on 'em and put them in my "furry bargain bin" for the con. Flawed Anatomy: Ten Bucks or Less! Should probably draw some generic sexy vixens and badass looking wolves to toss in there too. Might offer grab bags, stuff a bunch of sketches into manila envelopes labeled "cats", "dogs", "deer", "etc". Not sure if that would work or not.
I just hope I can turn a profit.

Urgh, I really hate writing. I can't even write fiction anymore. Fuck...

Mom came up to visit. And since Friday, we've been running around like crazy getting fun stuff done.

Friday
-Vet's office, made appointment for Frank's emasculation. Really, it's for his own good.
-Bank, grandma sent me a nice "Woo, you made it through Freshman year!" check. I did the morally right thing and put it into my college/rent fund rather than the tattoo/costume/art fund.
-Got a manicure/pedicure at the local beauty school. They did a pretty good job. Can't go wrong for thirty bucks.
-Got my eyebrows threaded. Look less like a lumberjack.
-Sushi dinner at an old town bistro. Tried smoked salmon on rice.
-Took Frank outside. Am now likely friends for life with the little girls that live downstairs.

Saturday
-Went back to beauty school for haircut. It has very mohawky tendencies. I don't think I've ever had it so short in the back.
-Went to CSU bookstore. Mom got her shirts, I broke my promise to not have school spirit and bought a car sticker and a ram plushie. Plushie is cute and huggable.
-Windowshopped around Old Town. Picked up some Tibetan prayer flags that now hang from my loft railing.
-Got that industrial piercing. Mom came with and got her upper ear done. It didn't hurt very bad at all, it was rather surprising.
-Got my corkboard back from Amy. Pinned all my badges to it.
-More sushi dinner at a different place.
-Now home and all tired out.

Now, pictures!

Industrial! It was over pretty quickly.


Frank. I don't think I showed him to you yet.