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[17 Oct 2006|12:08am] |
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Brett and I did some t-shirts this weekend: designed and screen printed. They look something like this:
We'll be working on more soon, and we'll be opening the site soon as well so that we can start selling them online.
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[21 Jan 2006|05:39pm] |
About time for another update. I've hardly been online in the past month or so. At first it was I lost my internet* and couldn't get on for about 3 weeks, and now it's just because I don't have any time.
School has begun again, and so far it seems okay. Mondays are going to be long...from 8-6. But that's okay. My professors seems alright, though some of the subjects are rather boring.
SOCI 100: Robert Gramling. Intro to Socioology. This man looks like a younger Santa Claus and speaks pretty quietly/mumbly, even with a mic on (it's an auditorium class and it's hard to hear!) but he doesn't seem so bad. I've begun reading the first few chapters of the book and it looks ridiculous. I took Sociology before (when I dropped out) and liked it, but the stuff we are going to be doing this time doesn't look very fun.
VIAR 121: Jessica Locheed. Um yeah. Art History. Cave paintings and the like. Not interesting at all. Maybe when we move on to a period where the people were more civilized I will be interested.
VIAR 111: Troy Dugas. Drawing I. This man seems very awesome. He is upbeat and friendly and talkative. We are only supposed to call him Troy, which is always nice--it takes away the formal atmosphere of school. I guess the benches in there do a good job of doing that, also. It's like everyone is just sitting around in a happy circle like in kindergarten. :P But yeah, I am looking forward to this class, and I am kind of sad that it's only on Mondays and Wednesdays.
HUMR 104 and 105. Gail DeHart. Textiles. Textiles...I don't know just how boring it will be, but I really don't mind learning about it. I had the same professor for a different class last semester and made an A, so I kind of know what to expect from her. 105 is the lab, which is kind of weird. Apparently we will be studying different fabrics and seeing how well they perform in different situations. Eh. Can't be too hard, right?
MATH 105. Frank Hammers. Algebra. Relatively easy subject, but the teacher goes too fast! I'll be writing down what he's doing on the board and by the time I'm done with one problem, he'll be halfway through the next one so I can't concentrate on one or the other. This isn't so bad now, because it's all review, but what happens when we're doing new and more difficult things? :( Originally on my schedule it said I had Jin Huang as my prof. I was not looking forward to that, since everyone on ratemyprofessor.com seems to hate him. Hammers doesn't have ANY ratings on there, so I dunno. I'm sure he's better than an Asian man I wouldn't be able to understand at all.
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[28 Nov 2005|01:57am] |
“I’ve become impatient when people claim they don’t care about clothes. They still dress every morning, and if they are going to reject fashion, they still need clothes to show it. Style rebellion is still a form of self-expression.”
-- Miuccia Prada
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[07 Nov 2005|12:10am] |
My mohawk obsession is now entering my dreams. I swear, there were multiple mohawked boys in my dreams last night, and one of them was my old friend Matt. I do miss Matt--I'm going to have to visit him at work one of these days, provided he still works in the same place. <3
Anyway.
Last night after seeing Urinetown (great musical, btw!), Chris and I went to the Loose Caboose, where I saw many people I hadn't seen in a while. Molly, Jade, TJ, James (who I wished I hadn't seen), Jason, and Jillian are among them. I hadn't seen TJ in about 5 or 6 years, and I didn't even recognize him at first. After I said hey, he proceeded to stare at me until he left. Creepy. I'm glad I got out of that circle of friends when I did, though, otherwise I might have ended up like James' brother Daniel (aka my sister's ex), who is now fried beyond belief. Seriously, Daniel is one fucked up kid. A couple of months ago he started trying to talk to April again...he'd come to work looking for her, and when she wasn't there he'd proceed to announce his undying love for her--to me. I was like, "yeah. She's totally seeing someone..." but he wouldn't give up. I don't know what he's doing now.
I've been taking German lessons online. Semester after next I do intend to take German at UL. That is, if I can get back in. I currently owe some $400 that my student loan didn't pay for because I'm supposed to have some ridiculous amount of "family contribution." WTF. My dad is the only person in this house who works, as far as head of household is concerned. And there are 5 people living here-- two of whom are college students! How in the hell is he supposed to pay for my college? Not to mention, I only get like 30 hours a week and I can barely pay all of my bills as it is. Am I supposed to contribute to my tuition? I have no fucking money! I have no idea how I'm going to pay for it before next semester begins. Ugh.
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[18 Oct 2005|10:13pm] |
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Sooo.
I've been designing a lot more as of late. It seems my new favorite color to use (as of today) is military/olive green. I have these color phases that I go through a lot. Pink is a recurring color, as well as red, but other ones come and go. I've got these olive green pants someone gave me a while back, and I'm working on making them into an awesome skirt, but I can't find my scissors!! I had all the seams ripped out and everything was going great until I realized that my scissors were missing. I have like 50 pairs (okay, like 6) but only 3 of them work well, and all of them are gone! So I guess that project will be delayed until further notice.
I also have this wierd thing I found by our trash (Jeri cleaned out the shed), which looks something like this--so I'm assuming that it's a gun holster. It snaps closed, though, and is a little wider. I'd ask my dad (who it once belonged to), but he's in Phoenix until Friday. At any rate, I plan to turn it into a hipslinger/hip bag (hip the noun, not the adjective). I just need a matching strap for it. So I'm going to see if my dad has any of his other military stuff that I can tear apart XD
Also, as soon as I have the freaking money, I WILL buy these (olive theme again, though bordering khaki) or these.
And. I am SO in love with these damned boots:
wtf is wrong with me? Seriously.
I'd consider buying them a) If £81 didn't equate to roughly $1,000,000 and b) If I knew that they were faux fur as well as imitation suede. I don't particularly like wearing an animal's skin on me just because I like how it looks.
On a related note, a couple of weeks ago I started my vegetarian diet again. If I can accumulate the willpower, veganism will follow. I hate to say it, but I love my cheese and ice cream. :( So, if anyone knows any really yummy vegan/vegetarian recipes, let me know. I've been making lots of new things lately. :9
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[10 Oct 2005|12:18pm] |
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Lately, my dad and I haven't really talked much. We have such opposing schedules, we hardly even see each other unless it's 2 a.m. when he's just waking up and I'm just going to bed. Anyway, he still knows me so well. Last night he was talking to me about my major being Apparel Design and he says, "Ya know what you could do, that I think you'd like? Costume design, like for movies and stuff." which is exactly something I'd like to do, thus the reason I'm taking theatre classes as well (not to act--but for costume design and stage makeup purposes)...but he didn't know that that was why I was taking theatre. Sooo yeah. I'm not entirely sure where this major (and minor, being theatre) is going to bring me, but I really can't wait to get my real life started.
April, on the other hand, has no clue whatsoever. She's in the same position I was 2 and a half years ago when I quit school...she has so many ideas and she doesn't know what she wants to do. She's getting all down about it, and thinking about just going into the Navy for a while. She's so smart and I know that almost anything she wants to do, she could, because she HAS that kind of drive that I didn't have. I just don't want her to end up like me. Everyone I went to highschool with is now a junior in college, and don't have too much longer. I still have 4 years or so ahead of me.
Anyway....on a slightly lighter note..I beat Trace Memory last night. (SPOILERS right here, so don't read if you plan on playing it!!) I could NOT sleep, so I just stayed up and played for a few hours, leaving me with two hours of sleep. I'm still not tired, though. Anyway, the game...it was really fucking short, that's definitely true, but I loved the way they used the DS's touch screen to make unique puzzles. Seriously, I was floored when I had to BLOW ON THE SYSTEM to solve a puzzle. I was thinking, "if I were really there, I would blow on it! I wonder...." so I did it (feeling like an idiot for doing so--I wasn't expecting it to actually WORK) and it did. The expression on my face when it did work must have been priceless. I plan on playing it through again to see the alternate ending (I'm guessing it will end up like I thought it was going to the first time around, but I hope not :/ )
Had a Biology test today. Made a 74. Eh. I knew this test would bring my grade down. That just means I'll have to show up every day to make sure I don't miss a stupid bonus point pop quiz.
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[07 Oct 2005|09:34pm] |
So. Today I looked at all of my grades to see how I'm doing and this is what I have:
English: A (I got an A on that fucking report I spent forever doing too! Hell yesssss)
Fashion Marketing: A (I love this class)
Human Resources Orientation: A (easiest class ever)
Theatre: A (My essays kicked ass!)
Biology: B (Seriously. That class fucking sucks. I'm surprised I have that. Thank God for extra point quizzes)
So yay! 4 A's and a B. I am so fucking happy. I have a test on Monday in Biology, though, so I'm pretty sure that grade might fall a bit. Eh. That just means that Andre and I have to get some studying done Sunday night, which we didn't do for the last one.
I have to start scheduling my classes for next semester. This means taking a math. Ugh. But I can do it. If I can have a B in Biology, I think I can handle math 105.
Another good thing: it's getting cool outside! I love it, so much.
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[23 Sep 2005|09:07pm] |
Just a quick update before the hurricane knocks my power out. The power on the other side of town is out as I type this, so I reckon ours will go sometime tonight as well. I hope everything in Texas goes okay. It's not supposed to hit Lafayette hard, but the wind is already really bad and it's hardly begun. I've been taking lots of awesome rain pictures with my colorsplash.
Hopefully I don't have to work tomorrow. I need to work on my project for school--I've been procrastinating hardcore.
Anyway, I guess I'll write sometime after the storm is over.
edit: I just used the word "reckon" wth.
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[11 Sep 2005|02:51pm] |
I LOVE FRUITI SMOOTHIE! It's this Asian smoothie place that sells some 39 flavors, including a couple of boba teas <3. I'd had boba tea before (only the Green Tea kind) and now I have a couple more flavors to choose from as far as tea goes AND like 30-something smoothie flavors, which you can put the tapioca "bubbles" in as well. Right now I'm drinking Taro. I like the Engrish on the top. "Warning: Tapioca ball must chew before swallow. Children under 5 not suggest to eat"
I think I'm going to start going there before school, that way I don't have to eat breakfast (these things are really filling).
I am so happy.
Not much going on as of late. School is going well. I have a few exams this week which, except for Biology, I am pretty confident about.
I'm supposed to do this paper for English, due in a few weeks, about individulity and community. Then the other day she decided that we don't have to write a paper. We can write a poem or story, make a movie, make a collage, paint a painting, etc. She's basically giving us free creative control over this thing, which is odd because English 102 is supposed to be a WRITING class, specifically. But I'm certainly not complaining. I've been wanting to paint a stencil on canvas, so maybe I'll do that. Not sure how I will incorporate "individuality and community" yet though.
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[05 Sep 2005|08:52pm] |
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My left eye is all blurry. Last night something (a grain of salt, I think. Damn you french fries!) got in it and I could NOT get it out. It didn't come out until a little earlier today. Anyway, this TINY grain of whatever ended up cutting my eyeball. There is an ugly red spot on it now, which may be there forever :( And now it's all blurry, which I hope goes away.
Maybe I should invest in an eyepatch.
I have homework I should be doing. I should be writing a critique on "Into the Woods". I should be readin Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. I should be answering questions on said paper. And I should be finding 1 source of the civil rights movement.
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[30 Aug 2005|12:40pm] |
The hurricane is over. I was expecting some excitement over here, but nothing really happened other than wind. We were all prepared for a hurricane party, too. Of course, I suppose it's a good thing the hurricane didn't get us too much because had it been a little more western (like Lafayette is), then NOLA would have gotten it even worse.
I was looking at pictures of New Orleans today, and it's really crazy. You see pictures all the time of disasters in other cities and states and think, "oh, that's really sad". But when it's somewhere you love, somewhere you've been multiple times, it's kind of surreal.
( I've walked these streets )
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[25 Aug 2005|11:55am] |
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So. School is going well. Here is a brief summary of my classes:
ENGL 102: I'm in love with my English professor! (Okay not really at all. But she seems like a rad person.) She's working on a degree in Creative Writing, she hosts poetry slams every semester, she's having us watch American Beauty at the end of this semester, and she made reference to The Royal Tenenbaums (which only me and one other guy new about because no one else has seen it--she asked us who had watched it before). So yeah. She seems pretty cool. The only complaint I have is that she's going to have us do a lot of group work, which I despise. I work better alone! Hopefully I won't get stuck with idiots. There seem to be a bunch in there.
THEA 161: My professor in there is retarded. Tuesday he spend an hour putting us (an auditorium class of 125 students!) into alphabetical order. Today there were some students that had just gotten into the class, so he spent ANOTHER half hour re-alphabetizing us. THEN, on Tuesday we will be moving to a larger auditorium so I predict we will, once again, be seated alphabetically, ridiculously wasting even more time. We spent maybe 20 minutes today doing any work. Now, I don't mind doing very little work, but damn. 3 days just to put us into specific seats is just stupid and a wasteful use of time. At this rate we'll never get to the costume design section of the book (which is, sadly, near the end of it). We do have to go to plays and musicals and stuff though, so I think that will be fun. It's just a matter of moving past the seating chart. Ugh.
BIOL 121: Suck. The professor isn't even in the country until Monday. The substitute doesn't seem to know what the hell is going on what with the, "Well, I don't know why Suzanne put this in here...let's see. This is a cell. We'll go back to this in a second..." and he goes so fast that there is no time to write any notes. I spent the last two class periods drawing antelope and design sketches. Andre is in there with me though, which slightly alleviates the boredom.
HUMR 146: It's alright so far. We're learning about the beginning of fashion...how people used to make yarn and shit. But it should get more interesting soon.
HUMR 101: Stupidest class ever. It should be really easy, but we have stupid projects to do like finding 3 people with the same major as us an interviewing them, writing papers about why we chose the major we did, and writing a report on a club meeting that we will have to attend.
So yes. Yay school. I still have a couple of books to buy, but that will be impossible until I get money Friday.
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[23 Aug 2005|11:00pm] |
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School is going awesome. Most of my classes seem okay. Theatre might suck, though. The only reason I took it is so that I can go and take Costume Design and Stage Makeup later. I haven't gotten my Biology or FMF books yet. Tomorrow I have my intro to Apparel Design class for the first time (or whatever it's called. HUMR101.)
Tonight I was looking at some site and it reminded me of my first websites. So, I decided to do a search for myself. I found this. It's a website I made when I was 12. Ugh. I think I found that a couple of years ago and yep, it's still existant. 8000-something views, even!
Also, with another sn I used to have, I found this godawful story I wrote when I was apparently 14. I wouldn't have even thought it was mine had it not had my real name on it. I'm not even going to post the link because it's way more embarrassing than that Taz thing. I'm trying to find more...I've had at least 8 or 9 websites in the past 8 years.
Oh, found some.
Here's my expage. I was 14 or 15 for that one too. It's just an "I've moved!" page now, but imagine the whole thing looking like that, with the cats and blue bars and everything. It then leads to my geocities site, which was from when I was 15 (I learned how to do frames. yay). It has a picture on it of me when I was 13 that I haven't seen in....6 years.
I'd go back and clean all these sites out (provided I still know the passwords), but it's too much fun looking at them years later and realizing how much I sucked. :P
edited to say: The geocities site has Gir on it, and I think Invader Zim came out in 2001. I must have started to redo the whole thing when I was 16 with the intention of updating and making it current. Obviously that did not happen, as the "about me" section says I was 15. Also, check out my favorite songs. Limp Bizkit! ha. I was so awesome.
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Today this kid at work said I look like a koala. So I decided to compose a list of things peope have said I look like:
-Sailor Moon
-PPG Bubbles (when I had blond hair)
-a porcelain doll
-a Care Bear (wtf)
-Miaka, from FY
-a generic anime character
-PPG Blossom (when I had red hair, this was from a different person than the one who said I looked like Bubbles)
-a Pokemon (again, wtf)
-a "caucasian asian"
-a koala
okaaaay.
School tomorrow. Must get sleep.
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[21 Aug 2005|10:08am] |
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24 hours from now I will be sitting in Biology class. I am terrified of this. I just feel so unprepared! I dunno, I guess being laidback about it is better than stressing over every minor detail. I'm off Monday and Tuesday, which is really cool when it comes to school, but my manager forgot to let me be off on Sunday. Next weekend=Mechacon and I seem to be working 2 out of 3 of the days. Friday is fine because I get off at 5. Saturday I'm off, but Sunday I close or something. Ack. I need to fix that.
My parents are out of town until Tuesday or Wednesday. This means Chris has been here every day. He's starting to aggravate the shit out of me. Always poking or biting or tickling me. I just want to scream, "Stop touching me! Go home!" but I can't.
Yesterday my new car died! Apparently the wires to the alternator are a little messed up, so my car completely dieed and wouldn't start. Then when it did finally start (now with no a/c or radio) it wouldn't go past 15 without jerking and stopping a lot. Imagine me driving down the road at 15 jerking all over the place and sweating my ass off in 95 degree weather. Today Chris and Sean are going to hopefully make it work.
Now...off to work. I get off work at 9 tonight and by then I'll be stressing out hardcore about school and my car and Chris.
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OMG HAPPY BITHDAY ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) seanswih!!!111
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[19 Aug 2005|02:16am] |
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I totally found my new favorite eBay store. Unfortunately I don't have any money -- between Mechacon, school, and the new car I doon't have anything to spend so frugally. Anyone wanna throw $50 or so my way? :D
Here are some of my favorite things there:
† 1: These aren't something I'd normally wear, but they kick so much ass that I think I could make an exception.
† 2: I think I will really buy these because they really are cute. I've been wanting clip-on kitty ears.
† 3: Very cool. They look ugly just standing by themselves, but they look nice on the actual model.
† 4: THe plaid version of the pants mentioned above. <3
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Today I got a new car :D The very first one I had to buy myself...so really, the only one that's ever really been MINE and no one else's. It's a white 94 Ford Taurus with tinted windows (that actually look like crap becuase they're the stickery kind and are peeling off a bit), and a practically brand new cd player (the first car I've ever had with one!). It needs a bit of work--the windshield is a little cracked. It's in the middle of the driver's side, which does not actually obscure my view but needs to be fixed anyway to get it passed on inspection. It also needs an alignment and perhaps new tires. One of the front headlights is out (the guy couldn't get clips to hold the headlight covers[?] on, so the shit is duct taped! ghetto.) And that's about it :D It has no dents, just a little bit of key scratches on one side. The inside is a bit stained, but nothing some Awesome and bleach can't fix! It only cost me $800 which is awesome because the blue book value is nearly twice that, despite its few problems. The a/c works awesome. Kick ass, because a/c is one thing I find absolutely necessary in Louisiana summers.
I need to post pictures when it's light enough out to take some.
Because it has a CD player, I've been compiling mp3s to make mix CDs to listen to when I start driving it. So far I have two which are titled "Ich liebe Deutschland" (German rock because I've been listening to that kind of thing lately) and "Why the hell do I listen to this?" (dance music, specifically from DDR. I don't even play DDR, but for some reason I've taken a liking to some of the music)
So yes. Pictures tomorrow perhaps. Now it's time for bed.
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