63 posts from 2006

Audio:  Share one of your favorite songs from 2006.

iwouldsetmyselfonfireforyou - Eleven

I Would Set Myself On Fire For You

I've been sick for pretty much a week. I checked my weight randomly, and I'm now at 185 pounds. I was at 210 like two weeks ago. What the fuck. It's awesome, but scary.

I was going to take a picture, in fact, I have everything I got for Christmas set up for a picture, but there are nooooo AA batteries in the house, and my camera's dead. So. Yeah. Here's the rundown.

Xbox 360 network adapter. $100
Xbox 360 - Oblivion Special Edition. $75?
Xbox 360 - Perfect Dark Zero Special Edition. $60
Sin City Special Edition DVD. $45?
Gray flannel shirt.
Really comfy black hoodie. Really goddamn comfortable.
White University of North Carolina at Greensboro long sleeve shirt. (I got accepted there, if you didn't know)
Some printer ink.
Some CD-R's.

Stuff from friends so far:

Boa Narrow - As the Boa Narrows... CD (from Brad)
Savannah College of Art and Design shirt (from Brad)
Death Note Vol. 5 (from Nikita)
And some really nifty cards. :D

Oh, and my gamertag on the 360 is ComedyOfChrist, apparently there's already a RiflesAtRecess. What the fuck. I only have Silver right now, I'm going to shop around for deals on a Gold card once I get better. I'm also still buying gifts for people and I'd like to see if I can get myself some new anime. Either a box of .hack//SIGN (which is really cheap now) or Elfen Lied.

That is all. :D

How did you find out the secret behind Santa Claus?
Submitted by Carinish.

One year, I think I was 9, my parents got me a portable black & white TV. You know, so I could have a TV in my room. o_O

So, while I was trying to get to sleep (I had sleeping problems as a kid too! True story!) my dad was carrying all the presents downstairs from mom's room. Apparently he didn't have a good grip on the TV box and dropped it down the stairs, there was a loud thud, I flew out of my room to see dad with an armful of Christmas presents. Ha.

Have you ever secretly unwrapped a gift before the big day? 
Submitted by Red Pen.

No, but I have secretly wrapped a gift before the big day. Everyone needs to hear this one.

So, basically, I acquired a Playboy magazine from my friend Ty when I was like 13, right? Christmas was coming up, and I thought of the funniest thing I could do with it. When my parents left to go shopping, I found what was left of the wrapping paper they used to wrap my other stuff and wrapped it expertly, even forging a "to Kevin, from Santa" in mom's handwriting. Christmas morning came and I got to that present, right? I open it up and go "so uhh... which one of you got me this?" and I held it up high, boobs all up in their faces. They looked at eachother, looked at it, and started arguing with eachother until around New Year's. It was awesome.

I think that the moment anyone mentions having a 'break' or a 'vacation' my immune system shuts down. There has never been a Winter or Spring Break where I have not been sick through most of it. I thought I was going to be okay but I woke up sick this morning. Mildly first, but by third period I was in a full blown fever. I stuck it out through school and made it home and collapsed on like three soft objects before making my way upstairs to my bedroom. I felt better with some Tylenol and sleep in me, and I hope it goes away soon.

Also, it looks like I'm not going to see Swift's reunion show. Brad canceled out on me, and I can't find anyone to take me. My parents offered to take me, but I simply hate going to these places alone. Being sick only makes matters worse.

Despite all of this, I've managed to keep a good mood. I think The Rules of Attraction alone can easily put anyone in a good mood. All you need is that dinner scene with Dick and all your problems just go away. :D

Also, Nikita gave me the lone volume of Death Note that I was missing for Christmas, without even asking me if I had it. She was extremely lucky in that respect. I just wish things would go well for her for once. We're hoping to spend some time together over the break.

Also, I have about fifty million plans going on at once tomorrow, provided that I feel well enough to go through with any of them. Basically, Elisa's coming over, and I'm watching a movie with Will, and I'm writing songs with Joe? ;_;

Also, Matt reminded me of his party today, which I kind of forgot. He has no idea when he's having it, most likely thanks to me being an asshole about my schedule.

Also, I'm interested in starting up an RPG at OtakuBoards. I'm strongly thinking about resurrecting that DuskRider Legacy RP under a different name, or at least have something like it. I'll figure it out. Also, I'm interested in joining that Death Note RPG, but I can't think of a good character idea and it's already started.

So, PLANS. I need to stay organized.

12/08/06 - Dress Like An Asian Day. I have no idea how I'll participate. I might tape my eyes into slits and attempt a bowl cut. We're also doing a -get this- show and tell extravaganza in Spanish class, I'm bringing some Transformers. :D Brad's coming over afterschool.

12/09/06 - Joe, Cecile, and Will are coming over to jam and play video games and such.

12/10/06 - AP Art Day ;_;

12/11/06 - Tarantuloco/Giant/Advent/Cassius show at Bounce-U. Brad is taking Nikita and I.

12/12&13/06 - Fuck you, I'm doing AP Artwork.

12/14/06 - Take digitals of all of my completed artwork and submitting them to be made into slides. I also have to matte all of  them by then. Afterschool, I'm leaving for Pennsylvania to visit family and participate in Christmas parties.

12/15-17/06 - Pennsylvania.

12/18/06 - Returning. I won't make it to school or to the guitar concert.

12/19/06 - No plans other than school, I'll be needing at least this day to collect my bearings.

12/20 & 21/06 - FREE!

12/22/06 - Swift Reunion show at Ziggy's.

12/23 & 24/06 - FREE!

12/25/06 - Probably staying home for Christmas.

Anything else is indefinite.

My first 9wks grade for AP Art is a 60.8. The goal is to get high enough on this current nine weeks to have a C for the first semester. A D isn't terrible either. I'm starting to get everything done very quickly, I've discovered my style, my favorite media, and the ideas keep flowing. I have 12 images to get done in about 16 days. Obviously, that isn't going to happen. I'm shooting to get four done this weekend, and at least two before the weekend. From that point, I should be set to take my goal seriously. Mrs. Coggins has really been liking what I've been showing her, I'm just struggling to get a certain one finished.

Sometime around this weekend, we haven't planned a date yet, but Kit and I are going Christmas shopping together for the old crew. Basically, all the ex-fencers and anyone strongly attached to them. I do not have much money so I really have to limit myself to that group and not spend too much on anyone. The list is basically Kit, Michaela, and Katie, as well as Rachel, who was a big help to us. We're not including Garrett, Chanelle, or Rudy (or at least I'm not) because I'm not on speaking terms with Rudy right now, and Garrett and Chanelle are removed from our group I guess. I'd also like to get stuff for Joe, Cecile', and Nikita. I figure seven people is more than enough.

I haven't really hung out with Kit outside of school activities, so this will be really interesting. I've suddenly realized that she does, in fact, respect me and wants to be my friend. I thought she hated me throughout last year, especially after the whole Nick drama, but that actually made our relationship better. I want to make the best of our shopping trip and hope we come out as good friends. We've only ever been on seriously good terms for like one week, ever.

So yeah, things are looking up.

Also, FF3 is a real wake-up to me. I'm not used to RPG's that don't give you second chances anymore. It's definitely harder than SMTDDS2, at least.

Thanksgiving break sucked. Except for Saturday. And half of Sunday. That giant moment was quite possibly the most meaningful moment of my life.

Highlights of the party:

Setting up the X360 to play downstairs was a pain in the ass. Will saw the whole thing. It took me and my dad half an hour to figure out how to get the video through the TV, but the audio to come out of the home theater system. Once it worked, it was amazing.

Will was the only person who came on time. I think everyone else was at least 30-45 minutes late.

Joe stole the party. Will also kind of did.

There was a group of us that bonded extremely well and were constantly crazy, then there were a short few who were extremely quiet throughout most of the party.

I thought everyone would be bored within two hours of my party starting, technically, it lasted until noon, Sunday. No one was really bored at all, but there were moments where we stood around talking about what I had planned next. I had nothing planned. I figured that with 17 people in the room, the party would run itself.

It did.

We played games for a few hours. We ate. Will, Brad, and Joe traded off stories in front of my camera. We watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail (it was a vote). We thought about what we were doing next. We looked at theaters to see if there were any movies we went to see. We decided to go to Blockbuster. We didn't rent anything, but ended up discussing where all of us would branch off and get movies from. They brought Eurotrip, Sin City, Just Friends, Ong Bak, and several other movies over. We watched Eurotrip. People started leaving. Will and Joel stayed for the night and left around noon.

There was a 10+ person pileup on the couch that started as a Rachel sandwich.

Dad put a candle in my cake and then Will said "Wait! I think I have candles in my car!" He ran out and came back with a '1' and an '8' candle and put them in the cake. He didn't even know why he had them. What the hell.

Brad gave me a Playboy magazine as a gag gift. Michaela had to leave at like 5:30 to go on a date with Nick. Nick lives right down the street from me. The plan was either to have Michaela give the magazine to Nick (she was completely willing) or that one of us stick the magazine on his windshield. We ended up doing neither, as when we got to the house, we all thought that the other person grabbed it and it was still at my house. XD So basically, Michaela rang the doorbell and the handful of us that came with all shouted obscenities at him from his driveway and bolted home. It was liberating.

Me and Joe pretended to be gay lovers for the whole night. Right in front of his girlfriend, Cecile'.

My parents learned that Will can rap.

Will, Joel, and I all stayed up very late to fill in the gaps with stories. The three of us haven't been able to talk at length since forever ago.

That's about it.

In my pictures, I uploaded a few senior pictures (I picked my four favorites, they all look awful to me). There's also a draft of a picture I'm working on in oil pastel.I am never using this brand of pastel again. They're so hard to work with and I got a blister from trying to make them cooperate.