The Calendar Girl.

So I'm due for another long entry. 

I suppose this is better because it's a compilation of events as opposed to daily musings of what very little I do.  

It was Christmas on Thursday. My siblings and I frantically cleaned the house the whole morning of Christmas eve while my mother cooked. I'm surprised my room is still clean and I mean actually clean. I found stuff that I thought I lost months, even years ago. Now I think I'm starting to be a clean freak. I keep making my bed or reorganizing things on my desk... Is that some form of OCD? Maybe just boredom... I suppose it's better then just sitting in front of a computer throughout the day. My room is actually now a place where I can just sit around and hang out by myself. I've been spending a lot of time by myself lately... but I'll expand more on that later on in the entry.

Back to Christmas. Most of my relatives were at my house on Christmas eve. I was glad that I was able to see my relatives again. I haven't seen them in such a long time. They're so fun. It made me really happy to talk and hang out with all of them. On Christmas day, we went to my aunt's house and my grandmother was there too. Again, we just talked and enjoyed each other's company. My uncle brought his computer and webcam with him and we were able to talk to a bunch of our other relatives around the world! Yes, I'm not just talking about the Philippines. I got to talk to my relatives from Japan, Saudi, Arabia in addition to the Philippines AT THE SAME TIME. It was so cool. Wanna hear something weird? My uncle in Saudi asked me what my major was. I told him it was graphic design. He replied with, "oh really? My daughter is in graphic design too! Her name is Danica." That freaked me out a little because... her name is REALLY close to mine. Well, Danica is not her real name... Her real name is actually the SAME as mine. Wow. We ended up talking to my relatives for a good three hours. It was really awesome. My grandmother seemed really happy to see her kids and their kids... she was smiling the whole day. 

Also, I got to talk to my penpals from Japan. Both of which I haven't talked to in months. I talked to my penpal a few days before Christmas. We talked for a good two hours and caught up. I was surprised that she didn't resent me for not meeting up with her when I was in Japan... or not emailing her in such a long time. But nonetheless, I was glad to talk to her. I have her on facebook now, so we should be able to keep in touch more ofter. My other penpal has been extremely  busy with entrance exam prep. That kid studies too hard.  I was really glad I had a chance to talk to him too for a while. A good Christmas present. 

I didn't buy anything on boxing day. I just stayed home. For some reason, there isn't anything in particular that I want to buy. I guess that's better for my parents. They don't have to spend money on me. But even on Christmas... I didn't want anything in particular. I was just glad to spend time with my family. Hopefully I'll get to see them New Year's eve. Is this somehow a way I'm maturing? I have no idea...

The day after boxing day, my friend woke me up and wanted to make cheesecake. I met up with at the supermarket and shopped around for all the stuff we needed. Well... more like, I got to the supermarket late and he already got all of the stuff. haha. We ended up making three cheesecakes. It was intense. So we were at his house and I honestly had an overload of Superhero movies. We watched The Incredible Hulk, Iron man and The Dark Knight. A bunch of our other friends came to join us. My friend brought along her cousin and... it was awkward. That's all I'm saying. Overall though, the day was really fun. I really should get out of the house more. 

So I've been spending a lot of my time alone lately, as I said before. Well, I have been going out with friends and such... but when I'm home, I just stay in my room and do whatever. I've been thinking... about lots of things. Sometimes I feel like I'm moving too fast and I have to wait around for everyone else. But some days I feel like I'm getting left behind. Regardless, I feel alone in both scenarios. I remember I was talking with my friend one time. He said, "sometimes I'm home and I think, 'wow... I'm lonely.' I need to find something to fill that void... I just don't know what". I suppose that's why I've been cleaning so much... to forget that I'm just at home not doing anything special. But then again, I like being alone sometimes. I guess I just don't know what to do with my time. There's so many things I could do... or should do. I'm just not in the mood. This feeling will probably pass... I'm just over thinking. It's what I do. 

So I've been catching up on Nana after I was looking through the volumes I bought. The chapters are really, really long. But I don't mind. There's some parts in the manga that seem similar to what I'm feeling right now... I suppose that's why I'm so intrigued. 

There isn't really much to add to this entry. So I'll just stop here. I think I'll try to do something other than cleaning. 

The End.

Grapevine Fires

Wow... this is the longest amount of time where I haven't blogged. 

So get ready for a very long entry. Filled with rants and OMG moments. 

Ready... set...

SO this is the beginning of my entry. In the days where I have been away from blogging, I've done a variety of things. I was actually really busy. And I don't mean I was sitting in front of my computer reading a million chapters of manga and watching thousands of hours of anime. Well, I did do that... BUT add that to hanging out with friends and family. That was pretty general. Shall I give you a play by play description? I think I shall. I don't feel like attaching pictures today because I want to maintain a constant flow of writing without interrupting my thoughts as I pause to attach a picture and wait 5 minutes for them to load. I apologize for bombarding you with long paragraphs and large heaps of text that may very well leave you cross-eyed and weary. I promise to add some sort of imagery later on so your eyes can forgive me. At least this is set in a serif font? Makes it more legible, right?

Feel free to take breaks. This will take a while....

Let's start with Monday. I went skating with my friends from school at Nathan Phillips Square. It was unseasonably warm that day... about 8 degrees celsius. The snow was already melting. At that time, I doubted that there would actually be any ice on the rink to skate on. We went downtown about... 2 hours earlier than the time we were to meet the rest of the group and we browsed for cosplay fabric. We didn't buy any. I'd much rather like it if all of the members of our cosplay group bought it together. Much more fair/fun that way. Anyway, after fabric browsing and last-minute secret Santa shopping, we headed to City Hall. To our surprise the rink was still intact. There was just a huge puddle in the middle of it. 

After about... 2 hours, I started to freeze so I went to the nearby Tim Horton's to warm up with a friend. The rest of the group joined us later on where, from there, we headed to a Korean BBQ place. I have never eaten so much meat in my life. We were honestly in the restaurant for 2 hours–maybe more–and we just kept on eating. The people I sat with certainly got their money's worth. The service there was... I'd like to say terrible, but that might be a little mean. Let's just say it wasn't good. It seemed like they were trying to get rid of us... even though we were still eating. Also, whenever we tried to order, it would take forever to get our food or we were ignored altogether. 

We exchanged secret Santa gifts at the restaurant. I got the name of a girl I kind of knew. Good thing I bought generic, cute Hello Kitty candy. I'm glad I didn't get the name of the one guy who hung out with us. 

On to Tuesday! I hung out with two of my really close friends where we planning to watch Twilight for the second time. However, we decided to watch Bolt. It was a really cute movie. Rhino the hamster is my hero. Haha. After that, we browsed around the mall, more specifically, the gift/toy store inside T&T supermarket. After that, we just sat around and talked. While we were talking, one of my friends showed up. His birthday was on Thursday and he was asking me what I wanted to do on that day. I felt a bit awkward because I thought I was the only one hanging out with him.... Well, I'll describe more when I get to Thursday. 

I woke up early on Wednesday to help out my uncle. My grandmother was going in for an appointment/minor surgery at Mt. Sinai hospital. We had to drive to the hospital where my grandmother was staying and get her ready. We also had to get the papers, health card, hospital card and new trach (something inserted into her trachea to help her breath) ready was well. When we got there, my uncle and I were running around the 5th floor of the hospital looking for my grandmother. After about... 5 minutes, one of the nurses told us my grandmother was at a Christmas party. So we had to go back to the main floor to pick her up. Then back to the 5th floor to get her and the other things ready. 

We met up with my mom at Mt. Sinai hospital after that. So, at the moment, grandmother has to use a walker so we couldn't really go on the escalators. What really sucked was that day, half of the elevators weren't working and there are like, 37823828739183190 floors in that hospital. Honestly. I'm pretty sure we waited 15 minutes for an elevator to come to the main floor. My grandmother was about... 10 minutes early for her appointment. My mom went with my grandmother when her name was called to see the doctor. My uncle and I just sat around for... about 45 minutes and talked. He also showed me some pictures he took on his DSLR. After that, we went back to drop off my grandmother and stayed with her for a while. So she's doing okay. Last time I heard, she was just feeling a little nauseated ... but besides that, all is good. 

My sister called me on Thursday at 12:30PM. Good thing she called, or else I wouldn't have woken up. It was the first time in three days where I woke up in the afternoon. I slowly cooked lunch for myself and got ready for my outing. I had to take the bus to the mall because my parents were out doing errands. I didn't mind... it wasn't that cold when I left the house. Unfortunately, the bus was 15 minutes late and it got colder as I waited. So, weirdest thing, as soon as I get off the bus, I see one of my friends from high school that I haven't seen since well... high school. We had a quick hello/goodbye and Christmas greeting. 

 So for a while, I thought that I was going to hang out with my friend alone. It wasn't all that bad. We just walked around the mall a few times and bought movie tickets. About... 15 minutes before the movie started, our other friend called me and met up with us. We bought him a ticket 5 minutes before the movie started. We decided to watch Four Christmases. It's actually really funny. There were some sappy parts... but aside from that, a good atypical Christmas movie. It was only about... 90 minutes long. I thought that movies could not get shorter than Iron Man, which was 2 hours. 

After the movie, we walked around and visited a friend who was working and I saw another high school friend who I haven't seen since high school. After a long catching-up conversation, my friends and I decided to sit around in the food court and talk. After a short while, one of the birthday boy's friends came by to wish him a happy birthday. He sat down and stayed with us for a while. Pretty sure it was about 2 hours. So at first, I didn't really notice him because I was too busy talking to my other friend about things. We needed to catch up... the last time I saw him was in early November. When my friend left though, the birthday boy introduced me to his friend. I got a good look at him and... he looked a lot like Jimmy. Remember him? Anyway, this guy looked like him. Not only in terms of facial features, but the way he dressed. I'm pretty sure I stared at him for a second or two... hopefully he didn't catch that. He was really cool though. He actually talked. Very UNJimmy-like. We ended up talking about Anime North, Japan, superhero movies, and some other random stuff. Similar interests. Score! 

I don't recall talking about my Jimmy dream I had a few weeks ago. It may seem that I'm diverting from my story but I assure you, it coincides with it to a certain degree. So the description of this dream is short: I was in a lecture hall  at school with Jimmy (or who seemed to be Jimmy) and we were watching a movie. Before and during it, we seemed to be talking for a long time. And that was the dream... 

Now I'm saying that it coincides with the story because I started making connections. ONE, Jimmy, or the Jimmy look-alike. The guy I met on Thursday looked like him in terms of dress facial features. TWO, the setting of the dream, which was a lecture hall. The guy's name which I'm not going to say, is the same name of one of the lecture halls where I go to class. THREE, we were talking for a long time in the dream. Firstly, I haven't really talked to Jimmy. In my dream, we were talking and we seemed fairly comfortable doing so. I met this guy that day, and I was already comfortable talking to him. It wasn't awkward at all. FOUR, we watched a movie in the lecture hall/dream. I met this guy after we watched a movie. This probably seems crazy and it is probably a product of my over-thinking. But I don't know... I never really had a dream where I was able to connect it so many factors after experiencing one short incident. There was only one other time where that happened... but it was more of a "this is what could have happened" scenario. 

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So I promised a ranting section. I'll just cut it down to a few sentences because I'm fairly calm now. My sister came back from university the day I went out with my friend for his birthday. We were okay for a few days... but as per usual, she is starting to get on my nerves. At least when she was away, I could just wait for someone else to answer to phone or not talk to her on MSN. Now, I have to deal with the real thing 24/7. When she's bored, she tends to come into my room and sits there silently. There isn't really an attempt at talking. She just sits on my bed and watches me do stuff. It gets a little annoying because even though I'm not doing anything of importance, I feel like my privacy and personal space has somehow been invaded. I'm in my room for a reason. If I wanted to socialize, I would have been in the living room chatting with everyone. I'm just glad that right now, she's out with friends. I won't have to deal with her for a little while.

Ah, so I have finished the D. Gray-Man anime and I am now up to date on the manga (read 178 chapters in about one week). Yes, I know. I have no life. Oh the things I do for cosplay research. Yes, I'm calling my D.G-M obsession research. It makes me feel like less of a loser. I feel some sort of uselessness now. For the past month I have been doing this and now I don't know what to do. I suppose my room is due for cleaning and some other errands need to be done. I also know that I need to get a great deal of drawing and other random things done. I suppose I know that I have so many things that need to be done that I just can't decide what to do. So now I'm just sitting here thinking and contemplating as I keep typing this sentence. I'll find something to do... eventually. I apologize for the redundancy. I'm just writing what comes to mind. 

I suppose I'll continue typing until my brain finally decides to cease working for a short while. Yesterday one of my friends who goes to school in Ottawa talked to me. He's back home for the holidays and wanted to hang out. For some reason, it always involves drinking. I'm not a heavy drinker. Heck, I don't think I'm a drinker at all. Well, I can tolerate alcohol better than most in my family. I don't go red nor do I feel sick after one glass. I guess I'm lucky that way. On Tuesday, I'm meeting with one of my close friends for a mini movie marathon! We're going to watch The Tale of Despereux and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. We're practically watching both movies for the price of one! I'm also getting her Christmas present that day. You can have anything you want, dear! Although... I already know what you want. haha. I made green tea cream puffs yesterday. I think they would have been good if I made the puffs better... they ended up like pointy cookies with green tea custard inside. They tasted good....?  When it comes to baking, I always do better the second time. 

Alright, so my brain has not ceased functioning... but I have, however, run out of things to say. 

I will therefore end this entry and possibly decide  on something productive to do. 

The End.

Step and Go

We're gonna step and go! *starts singing Japanese lyrics I can't understand*.

I'm really happy right now. Why you ask? I finally finished my assignment one hour before the absolute deadline. I'm actually pretty proud of my work considering I procrastinated for 2 weeks. Shall I show you? I think I shall. Well, let me tell you about it first. So this assignment was a "self-reflective paper". We had to think about the one thing that inspired us to pursue a career in graphic design. I picked CD covers. For a while I really, really wanted to work for a band and make their album art. I guess I would still like to along with other things... The only restrictions for this assignment were the word count (750 words) and the page dimensions (letter size). I mostly took pictures and added effects via indesign. Without further ado, my assignment submission!  *claps*

So this is my inspiration page. I like this the most out of the 2 pages.  It has album art from The Used's In Love and Death and Billy Talent's Billy Talent II. I chose these as inspiration because it was so different from the other CDs I had. Especially the In Love and Death one. I was actually inspired by that album's art the most when I first saw it in grade 9. 

Hurray for text-wrapping! So this is the reflection part of my "self-reflective paper". 750 words is kinda difficult to fit into one page. I had to reduce the point size to 9 points and keep changing the typeface to make the body of text more legible. 

Curious as to what it says? 

The first thing that inspired me was CD album art. In particular, the album art for Billy Talent's second album, Billy Talent II, and The Used's In Love and Death. The CDs I usually owned mostly featured a few snapshots of the band or artist followed by the lyrics. It was often redundant and quite boring to see. In ninth grade, I saw the album art for In love and Death. Therein lied illustrations, handwritten lyrics and aspects of collage. I never saw anything like it. There was some sort of integration of methods to create something interesting.  At the time I knew very little about graphic design. I was actually in a visual arts program then. But it was then where I thought, wow. I would love to do this. 

So I worked throughout high school thinking about how I could possibly make my work stand out enough to be displayed in something like a CD album booklet. My drawing skills improved and I planned to somehow have visual art in my career. In tenth grade we had to take those tests that suggested what kind of career I should consider. Somewhere in the list I spotted graphic designer. I looked into it a bit but it didn't really catch my eye, or interest at that moment. At some point I decided to go into architecture. Despite my poor mathematical skills, I tried pursuing it. After a year of math and physics, I realized that architecture wasn't for me. I then turned back to graphic design as an option. 

It wasn't until my last year of high school, working on my school's yearbook, where I became highly interested  in graphic design and truly considered it as a career. While making the yearbook, we learned to use software as well as learn printing and typographic theory. All of which I found to be extremely interesting. Despite the high stress levels near each yearbook submission deadline, I still enjoyed doing the work. I realized that I really wanted to do something along those lines because I enjoyed doing something during a time where very few would. 

When asked why I wanted to become a graphic designer, or what I would want to do once I graduate from this program, I still think about those CD booklets. The visual aspects within those booklets were certainly different than the norm and that's what drew me to it. Those aspects are what I was finding in, and expecting of, the YSDN program and I have indeed found them within it. Design in general is continuously pushing boundaries and constantly creating something intriguing. Although we get assignments and guidelines on completing it,  that in no way hinders the creativity of the designer. In design, with one problem comes countless solutions. 

By taking this course, I was able to look at the different aspects that make up design. In my last year of high school, I thought design was made up primarily of technical aspects like the proper tracking within a word or proper leading within a paragraph. Yet though each lesson I learned there was so much more. We learned history, linguistic origins and theory. It allowed me to analyze and question the designs we see on a daily basis and what others have seen in the past. Design is not just text and image. Through my lack of education in this field, I believed that for a long time. I learned that the analysis of design goes far beyond what we see. We have to look at the social and historical connotation of each piece to fully understand it. We discover the designer's intentions and the audience for which it was intended. Each class I was able to learn something new. Even if I saw certain images or heard about certain theories before, I was able to have gain a broader understanding and fuller appreciation for them. 

Overall, I highly enjoyed this class. It allowed me to have a different view on my surroundings and to question them. Each class I was able to learn something new. It brought a new element to design altogether;  more than what I expected design to be. I'm not only learning how to use design software like a pro, I'm also gaining more and more knowledge to better my way of thinking and approach to design. This class has surely prepared me for the years to come in this program and my eventual venture into a graphic design career. 

Isn't it oh-so-intersting?

...

Alright! Onto watching D. Gray-man! Oh how I've missed you... although I watched 3 episodes last night.  Oh how addicted to you I am. 

I'll most likely be done the series by Friday. Then to reading the manga and spewing out fanart! 

The End.

Sleeping Sickness

So I woke up at 2PM today. 

Well, actually, I've been waking up around that time for a while now.  I'm a little cranky right now. Some idiot decided to shovel snow at 3AM.  Every time I tried to go to sleep, all I heard was scrape... scrape. I am majorly displeased. 

Speaking of displeasure, I am not liking the way I look right now. 

Well, not my hair. My hair is awesome.

I'm talking about the dark circles under my eyes and my skin breaking out. 

Hm... foundation and concealer anyone? 

Anyway, I figured since I woke up so late, I wouldn't need any coffee. 

Oh how wrong I was. 

I'm yawning as I'm typing this sentence. I'll get some caffeine after this entry. Hm... that may be a factor in conjunction with idiot shoveler in my crankiness.

I need to get my assignment done. I have sworn off D. Gray-Man for an entire day. That's close to 5-7 episodes I'm missing out on right now. How will I manage? I guess I'll use that as motivation to get this thing done. Tonight.

My friend asked me yesterday if I thought I was an exorcist yet. I suppose the reason why I'm not saving the souls of pitiful demons (paraphrased quote from Allen Walker), is due to the fact that I don't have an anti-demon weapon filled with Innocence. I can therefore not be an exorcist no matter how much I would like to be one. 

Wow. That was maximum nerdage right there.

Alright, I'm falling asleep. Time for coffee and actually doing work! 

So this is what anime withdrawal feels like...

The End. 

How to fly

I couldn't think of a proper title for this entry... 

So I closed my eyes, pressed the "next" button on my itunes and wrote down the first song that came up. I think I should do that from now on. It'd be interesting. 

Anyways, I actually DID WORK. I'm not completely done... well, actually far from it. I jotted down some ideas and did some sketches. I lost my outline for this assignment but thankfully, someone posted a scan of it on the facebook group for my program. 

I could have probably gotten a lot more done besides sketches and ideas but alas, D. Gray-man has once again prevented that. I'm almost at episode 80! And btw, episodes 72-73 right now are my favorites right now. Tyki and Lavi. *dies* 

Oh, so I found this funny little guy at one of my windowsills yesterday:

Not too sure if the picture is clear enough (perhaps if you see the enlarged version?), but it's a squirrel. It was there for quite some time. He even waited for me as I ran upstairs to get my camera and take this picture. 

So I'm not really doing anything besides blogging and listening to Arashi. I really should be working on my assignment... well, I technically have 47–ish hours left until it's officially due (Wednesday, 5PM). I guess I'll laze around before and um... start in an hour? 

Oh about my broken chain. Here's the victim: 

The entire back of my chair suddenly fell off yesterday.  Well, I've had it for a really long time, so I suppose it was time for it to finally give out. So... I just stole my sister's chair from her room and replaced it with my broken one. She'll be surprised when she comes home from London. Anyway, I think I'm getting a new one... sometime. 

Okay, so that's about it. I'll be doing... something. Most likely not work. 

The End. 

Bowl of Oranges

Hm... do you ever get that feeling when you realize that you've become really close friends with someone? 

I woke up early this morning... well, not intentionally. My phone woke me up. My friend had an exam (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) today and she texted me while she was waiting for it to start. She seemed pretty nervous/worried about it. I tried making a super long, random funny text in response to help ease the tension she must've been feeling.  But yeah, it's not a bad thing. I just didn't expect her to text me right before her exam. I thought she'd tell me later on when all of her exams were finished. 

There was another instance where we talked about stuff not related to anime or cosplay or dramas and stuff like that. We actually talked about some personal things. I didn't know she trusted me enough to tell me stuff like that. 

We even have an email chain that have entries that are equivalent to about 2-3 pages talking about random stuff. It's been going on since October. 

It's a good feeling to get a new friend, especially when you become really close with him/her.

But yeah... just a thought. 

Today, I will try to do the impossible: my homework.

I somehow forgot that I had an assignment for critical issues due (distracted by anime and dramas). I have to email said assignment to my professor before Wednesday. It's nothing major; it's a reflection and some sort of design associated with it. If all goes well, I'll send it to my professor tomorrow and go back to watching anime. By the way, I'm at episode 68/103. I would have been at 70, but megavideo won't let me watch more than 72 minutes of video without waiting an hour in between. I'm planning to read the manga of this series after I watch the anime because the story line's somewhat tweaked in the anime. That and... my favorite character apparently looks WAY better in the manga. Motivation! 

And... that's it for now.

The End.

UPDATE: My chair just broke.

UPDATE: I'm tweaking the layout of my blog... Playing with the color schemes. I also returned my post text to a serif typeface; makes it more legible. ^^;

The Usual.

Hurray for new blog layout and header! Everybody dance!

...can you guess what my favorite colours are? 

So I got a haircut on Thursday with two of my friends! Yay!

I didn't really do anything drastic, pretty much re-styled my hair into what it was in Japan. So at the place where we were getting out hair cut... when they're pretty much done cutting, they wash your hair. I'm pretty sure my stylist went for a smoke break during that time because when I went back to get my hair dried/styled, I smelled cigarette smoke. Gah. 

Oh, before that, we went to a Japanese restaurant with ACTUAL Japanese people working in it! Aaaaand, we had PURIN! That stuff is awesome. I've been wanting purin since watching My Boss My Hero. I can see why Makio likes it so much. 

Anyway, yeah my hair is all light and layered now. When I got home that night, I asked my mom if she liked my new haircut and she goes, "huh... it looks the same". I suppose that's a good thing to say since I DID want it to look similar to how I had it before. What's strange is today, she saw my hair and what's like, "oh, it's nice!"... Okay. 

So I wanted to start my fourth drama about... 2 days ago. I watched the first episode andright after spazzed to my friend, who was also watching it. Then, she told me to hold off on that drama until the 12th because she has a music history exam. She wants to watch it with me once she's done. Sooo, I have now resorted to catching up/finishing D. Gray-man. I am currently at episode 62/103. In the past 2 days, I've already watched 10 episodes. I think I'll be done sometime next week. 

I didn't do much last night besides watch anime and... work on my resume. Before I discovered the wonderfulness of Adobe programs, I had my resume on template via microsoft works. I tried working and editing on that template, but it was way too frustrating. I mentioned this to my friend who later suggested using Indesign. Due to force of habit, I sketched out some layouts and did a little research on resumes... I finally started using Indesign at midnight and finished around 5AM. I had to make sure everything was aligned, that the spaces in between each heading and each statement were uniform. Check for typos.... yeah. It made me nostalgic of yearbook class again... This might sound totally strange, but I don't want to shoot my computer yet. I was actually thinking of doing some homework today. I... actually enjoyed staring at my computer, making a grid and producing a layout based on that grid. I know, I know. 

Surprisingly, I didn't wake up 3 or 4... I woke up at 1. Yes, I know it's still in the afternoon, but considering that I went to sleep around 5:30-6AM, I'd say that was pretty good. 

Not much planned today... I'll probably watch even more anime and try to get some work done. Well, I'm actually in the mood to draw, which is good. I'm planning to send a drawing to my penpal just need to know what she wants me to draw for her. That, and... I need to get drawing/sketching for Anime North.  Pre-registration's in a month. Cosplay. Selling. Oh. My. Gawd.  I just internally spazzed out of excitement.

The End. 

Wha-wha-what?

...I'm due for an update.

So this morning (yes, I woke up in the morning!), I went driving with my dad! Wow, two shocking statements in a row. I'm on a roll.  How about a couple more. I think my dad isn't scared of my driving anymore AND he said we can go driving again tomorrow if the weather is good. Okay, I'll stop there, your brains might explode. 

What else have I been doing? Well, as of last night, I have completed 3 series of dramas and I'm planning to start a 4th one later on. Hm... I think my Japanese is getting better. I'm really thinking of teaching myself... there isn't really much I'm doing at home anyway. I have the textbook and my wonderful DS teaching me. PLUS my excessive drama-watching is sure to help. I was also planning to re-teach myself guitar. I was going to ask one of my friends... but I'm kind of afraid of becoming his rebound... something. 

Also... I need to get a job. I'm really starting to feel the effects of this strike. Well, I really shouldn't because as of today–if the strike didn't interrupt the semester–I would officially be on Christmas vacation. Anyway, I feel more drained than usual. I'm basically sleeping and not doing much when I'm awake. My mom's starting to get worried. I recall her saying, "get a job, go out more... you're going to get depressed staying at home all the time".

Well, I'm going out tomorrow with 2 very good friend. Can I call them best friends? Yes, I think I will. I think they're the only two people that I have remained close with AFTER high school. The others well... let's just say they're preoccupied with other things... or other people. But yeah, we're going downtown tomorrow to get a haircut and to celebrate one of our friend's completion of exams. I'm not quite sure how I want my hair cut though... I'm thinking I might get it cut the same way I did in Japan. I still want my hair to be long (I have no idea why)... so I suppose I'll just get it styled?  I also want to dye my hair maybe after the weekend. I'm leaning towards dark purple. For the past year, it was either reddish brown or blue-black. I'll have to bleach my hair to make the colour stand out. My hair hasn't been damaged in a while, so I suppose I'm due. 

Alright, so I'll try to find something productive to do for 10 minutes before I resort to starting a new drama. 

The End.