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verte_grez @ 2009-11-26T02:27:00

2009-11-25T15:27:14Z

Oops, it's 2:19am, I'm still not asleep, and I have year 12 orientation tomorrow. I'm gonna have fun~. T_T

My mum found a feral rabbit. The vet told her that if she brought it in he'd have to put it down (being an official, national pest and all), so she kept it. It's so small. It fits into the palm of your hand. It's still a baby and it had conjunctivitus so she's spent the past 4 days taking care of it. Now it's well enough that it's starting to play games where it hides then races out and sniffs everything then runs back in again, and it's really adorable because of how curious and kinda stupid it is, although not so much because of the healing conjunctivitus, and I think mum plans on keeping it if possible, because she gets unbelievably attached to animals.

Exams are over, thankfully. I have four days to go for nanowrimo so I don't think I'll finish, because I can't find my usb, and I'd need to write like 38,000 words in four days >_> I have orientation to worry about, and my booklist to hand in for next year, and money for year 12 formal in February. Double the price because I want my boyfriend to come. :P And then on to Christmas shopping...

I just wanted to update because I've left my journal hanging. I wish I had more time for all the different website and stuff I do on the computer. I can't wait until holidays. Four days...

Improvement, maybe.

2009-11-12T11:56:35Z

Yay, the weather has improved! The temperature dropped like 10 degrees this afternoon, so I am happy. :3 I got a dress for the valedictory dinner, and I saw my boyfriend. Things are looking up. I've been downloading fonts like crazy, for some reason. They just look so pretty, though I have plenty on my computer already :P

I'd better get sleep, though. My sleeping pattern has been ruined and at least during exams I should try to hold it together.

I think I'm failing Nanowrimo

2009-11-08T11:02:07Z

Loads happened at school, and I am so glad it's almost over :P If it weren't for the oppressive heat that grows with each year, I'd REALLY be cheering on the summer holidays. But as it is, I'm just worried I'll be away from the house during bushfire season and the insurance won't cover my laptop and wacom tablet. As soon as I can, I'm getting a good quality bag for them, and I'm going to take them wherever I go, just in case.

I was also meant to have 1600 words done for nanowrimo, but I only have 5000. Yikes. Tomorrow night I'll probably be cramming to finish even more homework, but once my awesome long weekend comes around, I'll be able to write to my heart's content :D

Although I also need to buy a dress to wear to my boyfriend's valedictorian dinner. Does anyone know what kind of dress I should get? :P What's the usual dress code for those sorts of nights? Everyone I've asked seems a bit divided.

Persona and Deviantart

2009-10-25T11:09:28Z

I bought Persona 3 FES for my boyfriend's birthday. It was a good choice. It's a very good game, from the looks of it, and it's the first time in quite a while I've heard of him actually being challenged by a boss fight. It's completely messed up, though. You fight by SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE HEAD. The main character is totally emo, but the art is beautiful and the properly animated cutscenes are awesome. I want to play it. Hopefully sometime I'll have the chance to.

I started watching a group called Gimmefeedback on deviantart, and now I've been flooded with hundreds of submissions. I regret it. I can only be bothered giving feedback to so many deviations, and there's far too much emo poetry up there. But I like deviantart, nonetheless, because while I'm not as fantastic as some artists there--some of whom are professional photographers and the like :P --but I'm not the worst. I'm doing okay.

Games and Music...

2009-10-22T01:55:38Z

I found a cd in my room with a free game making program. Score. I should clean up more often. But installation seems to be taking a while. :P

Speaking of games, I really wish I could get Team Fortress 2. I saw it in EB Games once but otherwise it's only available in the Orange Box, which is a bit too expensive for my liking. I also can't wait until the World of Darkness MMORPG comes out~! I'm wary, of course, it being a mmorpg, but WoD is just an awesome roleplaying game and I hope it does turn out well.

I wonder what game soundtracks would be the best? From Final Fantasy, Sephiroth's theme sounded awesome (One Winged Angel) though I don't know how the rest of the music is. Brutal Legend would be best if you're into rock (though even if you don't like that genre of music, I urge you to check the game out--it's from Tim Schafer, who's pretty brilliant, and while I haven't played the game myself it looks nothing less than AWESOME) but beyond that, I don't know. I guess, for the most part, the music is just mood-enhancing, but enough thought goes into some games that the soundtracks would be worth looking into. But idk, I usually don't listen to game soundtracks, I just mentioned this because I was on the subject of games and I like to explore different thought trains...

And Evil Dead the Musical is awesome, by the way. I showed it to one of the music teachers at school and now he wants to adapt "All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons" for the choir. Bwahaha. It's not the best song there but, my school being a Catholic one, it's probably the only one we could do without getting in trouble. It'll be interesting to see how the choir does this.

Jedi and the Greens.

2009-10-13T08:21:06Z

Someone gave me the idea to join the Greens. But I"m only 17, and they have a membership fee, and I'm not entirely sure how often I'd have to pay. :P I took a look at the website and they seemed ot have good ideas, although admittedly I don't see any plans of action in relation to the economy or anything.

But at the moment it seems that they're the best for our country, because the Rudd Government--while they started the healing process for the Stolen generation and got rid of detention debts and those crappy Worksafe laws--don't look to be doing anything about the environment, and that's the most important thing right now. It's necessary for the survival of humanity, not to mention thousands of other species, that we stabilise our environment asap. :P That may sound a bit drastic, but I am thinking in the long term.

Bleh. Stupid politics. On the one hand, if people payed more attention to grassroots movements, a lot of good things would be done, but on the other, so would a lot of stupid things. Apparently, thanks to a grassroots movement of a looser sort than ones involving politicians and the like, Jedi is an official religion in Australia. How awesome is THAT? :D

I got new music~!

2009-10-11T03:38:16Z

I just thought I'd take the time out to mention how awesome the album of Jekyll & Hyde (The Complete Work) is, particularly the song I Need to Know, where Jekyll is singing about how he must create this experiment to rid humanity of its evils... And Alive is pretty awesome, as well, and Bitch Bitch Bitch is kinda funny.
I really, really hope the musical comes to Melbourne sometime. They obviously won't be doing the entire thing, as it goes for two hours, but it would be brilliant to see it done professionally, nonetheless. (Or at all.) It makes me really want to read the book.

I also got the album to The Hunting of the Snark. It's a musical based off Lewis Carrol's poem, of the same name. I don't think many people know about that one, but it reminds me of my childhood. :) I used to listen to it with my best friend, as her mum is heavily into musicals and participates in amateur productions from time to time. I don't think she ever performed this one in particular, though, but the music has charm, for me. Particularly Children of the Sky and Dancing Toward Disaster.
The music is kind of old, though I can't pinpoint the era I suspect it's from. Kind of like Abba, I guess, with all the harmonies and the beat in the background and soft guitar kind of sounds...? But don't trust what I say, because I never listened to Abba. :P And the music changes. The Snooker Song reminds me of those old Australian children songs I learned in primary school.

Enough about musicals. On to alternative music! I haven't got much of their music, but The Weakerthans are pretty good. They wrote a song from the POV of a cat. :D It's so adorable. Plea From a Cat Named Virtue is what got me into their music in the first place. I find it really easy to listen to, although I showed it to a friend and she was bored of it. :P But then, she's an anime freak, and nearly anything not in Japanese or sung by people from Japan is lame to her, so she wasn't the best opinion to get. I should shove the music on to more people. :D

Okay, enough rambling about all that. I should go do my Viscomm homework. :P I'm proud of myself, though, for not ranting about my personal life. Seeing those past entries bugs me, sometimes.

I'm very erratic.

2009-07-22T12:22:07Z

Okay, so:

--Back to school. Music camp remains in my heart, always, as I toil through all my folio work and try to find time for my own projects. :P

--Teeth are fine. You have no idea how relieved I was. I was crying when they took them out. But whatever, it's not so bad as my friend's balloon phobia. :P

--Public schools are gay, because they take so long to get their equipment set up, and their computers stuff up all the time.

--MUTILATION OF WOMEN IS WRONG. CHILDREN RIGHTS FAIL, AND WE SHOULD CHANGE THAT. Haven't thought up anything extensive at this point in time, but I will. I will write extensively on the subject when I make some progress. Or when I'm bored and angry.

--Manifest is coming up! It is imperative that I get my cosplay ready. I should take pictures this year, if it turns out well.

--I GOT A LAPTOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 XD *loves*

I'll rant later, maybe. I just thought my journal looked a bit dead.

Yesss, holidays. :D

2009-06-27T05:45:58Z

W00t, music camp! It was very awesome, but now my voice is sore. I was only in the normal choir last year, but this year I'm in contemporary choir as well, and all the extra singing really put a strain on my voice. It felt like it went forever; only because we had so much stuff to do, rather than it dragging on.

I'm eternally grateful for the holidays. ^_^ I reeeaaally needed the break from school. I still have a ridiculous amount of homework to do, though, but I feel semi-confident that I might get through it.

I dread the dentist's appointment I have on Monday. I'm freaking out because I'm meant to be getting my braces off, but WHAT IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG?!?! WHAT IF IT DOES?

If it does, I will shut myself in my room forever. >.< At least I'll have plenty of time to finish my homework if I do.

I hope it all turns out okay. D:

La di dah.

2009-06-16T10:21:33Z

I had valuable things to say. But I forgot them.

In the absence of other topics; Freakangels is a good comic. I wish I had purple eyes and super mind powers.

Wacom tablets are awesome. ^_^

2009-03-04T07:10:48Z

Playing with my tablet is fun. It'll take a while to master, though. It takes hours and hours just to do a simple cartoon drawing. :P My deviantart account is far too eclectic. I want to put more stuff up on there... I'd better go and do something constructive...

BLEH.

2009-01-30T04:24:05Z

I sound like a TEENAGER. Sure, I AM one, but it's like suddenly I've reached this hurdle where I feel like I DON'T have to explain myself to everyone over an ONLINE DIARY. I guess that's kind of mean to all the people who do, but I'm gonna change! If I ever want to use this account for anything useful I either have to make so many entries that the teen-sounding ones disappear through time, or delete them, and I hate deleting stuff because it's like an erasure of knowledge.

Time to start rambling incessantly, then. Well, maybe not, just not about my relationships with people. It's unecessary when most people reading this likely won't care.

Getting Slightly Back on Track.

2008-12-17T01:40:53Z

School's been over for the year for a few weeks already. Christmas shopping abounds and most of my friends are starting to turn into hermits. We had to bodily drag one away from two internet cafes while we were wandering in the city on sunday, but gave up on the third one. It's so much less expensive to go to the city when you DON'T buy manga from pop culture specialists.

Which reminds me, I tripped on the stairs going down into the shop, and he tried to catch me... <3 I stopped myself. But it was a sweet moment, even if nothing happened, dammit.

Anyway. Yay, the city. Takes an hour and a half to get in from my mum's place, but who cares? There are buildings where you can text messages to flashy signs, and protests every saturday, and a video games room in the Victorian Library! Who wouldn't love a place like that? And yet, I'm kind of expected to like the country more. I mean, the privacy is great. There's a hill near my place where you could take off all your clothes and dance in the moonlight and no one would know. Well, unless you're REALLY unlucky. But nothing happens there, and everyone lives so far apart that if you don't have a car, you don't do ANYTHING. Public transport only takes you so far.

Not to mention the abundance of weirdoes in cloaks and the smell of marijuana on the main street.(Didn't notice it myself, at least not until my sister smuggled home some and made me smell it. I didn't take any, I have no interest in it.) I've probably given away enough that anyone who lives in the same area would know exactly where I was talking about.

My friends and I are having another picnic, at least, some time soon. Food and hanging around in parks. I ~~kinda~~ really wish that he would ask me out. I've given him enough opportunity, telling him when I'm free and all that... hinting, but only very vaguely. I'm probably kind of not helping, because every time I try to compliment him I'm so afraid of showing that I like him that the compliments come out as detached observations. And crap, I'm talking about him again.

I'm going to practice piano before the skills fade from my mind, or something. Not that I'm particularly good at it, I'm so clumsy that I mostly just stumble over all the keys, and I don't have a great ear for the pedal. I've tripped over three times in the past two days, once UP the stairs. Damn teenage klutziness. That's the reason for it all; adolescence.

Roleplaying! And Nanowrimo.

2008-11-01T11:47:16Z

OH MY GOSH.

My dad has HUNTER; the Vigil. That's the roleplaying game that Supernatural was based off, apparently.

My sister's more into that series than I am, and mainly because she's a fangirl, but I do love the whole supernatural aspect of it, and having the roleplaying game is a gazillion different kinds of awesome because I can look at all the monsters, the different cults and organisations making up the Hunter world, and have a closer look at the mechanics of the game. It means that if I want to write fanfiction, I'll be DAMN GOOD AT IT.

So anyway. The point of this is.... My dad is the biggest nerd I know. (Seriously, he has Battlestar Galactica miniatures--that's at least 2 different geekdoms in one.)

And now I'll spend the whole weekend trying to read the whole rulebook. And maybe start asking around my friends of who wants to start playing it with me... >:D

Oh, wait, nanowrimo. I'm gonna be starting that soon. Currently, I'm procrastinating until monday, when I'll be on my home computer rather than my dad's, and I might have a clearer idea of how to START this fickle little story... D: It's going to be about steampunk, centred on two characters who I so far only know by Grungeboy (because a friend said my sketches of him looked like Curt Cobain) and Madwoman. Once I come up with names....

Okay, screw names. I'll just write those names in, and change it later if I come up with something better.

But... what is my sudden fixation with superheroes? I've started reading superhero comics from the library. And "Grungeboy and Madwoman" sound like a bad duo.

This wasn't supposed to be so long. Oh well.

Wa-hay!

2008-10-26T08:17:39Z

I want a wacom tablet, really badly.

See my icon? I made that by hand. With a mouse. It's really not fun. I get hand-cramps. I use the mouse with my right hand, and draw with my left, and so it really, really doesn't work. And now I'm annoyed because when I look back at the picture, that particular shade of purple just doesn't fit in with it. Okay, okay. I'll stop complaining now... Once I get a proper job, that's the first thing I'm buying.

I'm feeling particularly strange today. Like, at first I'm happy, then I feel depressed... And no, it's not that time of month, nowhere near.

And I'm more than slightly... No, I don't know. I'm going to sulk...

This post had nothing to do with anything, really.