Well, I got my "thanks but no thanks" email from Target. It's probably because of that wedding I have to be at, right as the Christmas shopping season is winding up. I couldn't sign their "I promise I am available all of these days" sheet. :P

On the bright side, having had a real sit-down interview was doubtless a good experience (to FINALLY have). The people who talked to me were nice, anyway.

...Kobb why are you such a n00000000b

So basically my sister wins at life.

She linked me to a cool sand animation that had happened at Ukraine's Got Talent... and near the end, what should happen but

THEY PLAY THE MYSTERY SONG.

None of you probably remember, but the BYU library plays music at closing time, and very early on I heard this awesome, epic, cellofied song that completely blew me away... but there was nobody around to ask about it. What was it called, what was the group? Was it a cello duet or some other combo?

It would still have been out of my grasp (as none of the songs were listed anywhere) except for the music claim on Youtube, linking to the iTunes download for a song? It was a gamble (there were multiple songs in the piece) but I struck gold.

So after THREE FREAKIN YEARS, I finally have a group and song name to go with the kickawesome mystery music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdvTb81B5Gw

<3

One of my life goals has been to be able to catch an Ohio State football game, live at our home stadium. Well, I got to go today - my dad works for the medical center and gets discounted tickets.

Here is why it was awesome:

1) OSU won the game,
2) it was a 30-0 shutout (yeah D!),
3) ...in a torrential downpour  (for at least half the game at least) and where was I? That's right, B deck. With a roof over my head :>

BYU won too! They SHOULD have... but it's always good when they do. My sister marches in the band and says she got asked for a photo with someone's little kids X) so cute.

YEAH FOOTBALL


...but I shouted so much that my voice is deeper than it ought to be. I wonder if that means I will be able to sing some kickawesome tenor in church tomorrow. :B

Oh BYU.

Why is it you can beat big scary teams, and you can beat on sad little teams, but you cannot beat in-the-middle teams that are tough but should not be too much of a problem.

Seriously. You do this like EVERY YEAR.

You just... don't usually do it at home. :P

( 'dis is a weird dream hea' )

Finished the last book of Warriors: Power of Three this afternoon.


   WTF Hollyleaf?!
+ WTF no ending?


...This icon is more appropriate now than it has ever been. 8|

YAY BYU - 14-13 win against #3! *dances*

You show them Sooners how to overlook a ranked team :P

Best part is, if we didn't shoot OURSELVES in the foot so many times, it could have been 24-13, easy.

And resisting 6 straight plays from inside the 6 yard line (and forcing a field goal to boot) is nothing short of awesome, no matter how you slice it. Nice work, Cougars. C:

I also figured that having a snail on your face would be gross.

Well, it is.

But it's also kind of adorable. :B

I never thought that feeding bread to a snail could be so cute. :')


...

Holy cow, I need a pet. I am taking care of a snail I found on the sidewalk. And he is precious.

Breakdown of the awesome, so I can remember :B

( cut for the sake of flists everywhere :P )

So, update?

Um.

Graduating in August. *yay* Though I have no idea what the heck I'm planning to do after that happens, so :|
Apply to various places like a beast, I guess, and hope someone likes my stuff enough. Man, the more I look around the more I realize that I am not good enough yet to compete, and kinda want to stay another year or more. But the papers are in; I'm set to blow this popsicle stand.

Failed to get a summer job *shakes fist in the general direction of the economy* but I have picked up a couple commissions. They're not going to make a whole ton of difference, but it feels more like I'm doing something productive with my life. Other than the comic I'm working on...

And I got Team Fortress 2 and love it to pieces. It's my first shooter ever and I suck so hard, but man is it pretty. And hilarious. Which are two things I adore.

Also, going to Comic Con! And cosplaying as Scout from TF2 (like everyone else, I know) and maybe a random waterbender, if I can get over my sewing fail soon enough. Not that long left, after all. It should be fun, though. Last year I went and was jealous at all the fun the costumed kids were having.

I've been so bad at keeping this updated lately. Probably it's 'cos my life just isn't that noteworthy these days.

The job search still isn't going well. If I had a car I bet I could extend my search to like Orem or somewhere. Or *shudder* fast food.

As it is I am actually starting to seriously consider opening commissions, but internets + money = scary. :|

Baaaaaa and I am so lazy lately, what is this. I need to start doing something instead of just playing tons of solitaire and reading books. Like earning moneys. Or maybe actually fulfilling my animation obligations. Or freaking applying to graduate aaaugh. Must be the paralyzing effects of summer. At least I'm still not letting myself play TF2 until I earn some cash, or I would be even more hopelessly unproductive. :P

Maybe I can get myself going by doing some laundry.

Oh, and UP was kickawesome, btw. Probably the best storytelling I've seen from Pixar in a while. C:

My computer was uncrashed! Hooray for HP having good customer service/tech support/whatever! They sent me a new hard drive for free (under warranty still) provided I shipped back the defective one... even had prepaid shipping both ways. And included a recovery disc to reinstall Windows and everything. And that backup I made of the old HD via the recovery boot disc I downloaded? Totally worked. Booyah!

And then finals were happening, and moving and reinstalling stuff, so I've been scarce here. Not like anyone really noticed, but ya know. X)

Just working on my single spring class currently (an animation studio class, which I am changing up by doing my assignments in 3D so I can practice to fail less at it)... and failing utterly at finding a job on campus! Seriously, they were much more plentiful last year. Dang ol' economy. I might even be forced to do something terrifying, like figure out how to take commissions. :|||

Also, I am eating chocolate ice cream. Which is rad.

Well!

Computer crashed!

And I've made a nice backup and jumped through the system repair hoops. It even told me on the last repair that the OS booted successfully!

Hooray!

...or not.

Now when I try to boot, it hangs on the Microsoft logo (and the loady bar goes by for ages) at which point it breaks off for a disk check. If I run it, it doesn't turn up anything particularly worrying, and freezes when it tries to restart. If I force shutdown, restart and tell it to boot Windows anyway when it tries to check the disk, it gets as far as a cursor on a black screen before WOAH BLUESCREEN and there are a lot of words - too many to read before it automatically restarts.

So I ran a hard disk test from the BIOS and... the "hard drive does not exist"??! How on earth are you detecting Vista as being installed then, as it is on the C drive?

OH MY COMPUTERS

This is the second April in a row I've had a computer decide to throw itself in front of a bus. I'm still hoping this trouble I'm having now is fixable. Especially since I've only had this computer for 5 months and it was not cheap X|

So I got a Ustream account and kinda want to do something once school is out ( a couple weeks YAY)

I wonder how many people would actually watch. :P

I find it incredibly frustrating that almost every person I stumble across with amazing TMNT fanart, (especially awesome digital painting and color skillz) also loves to ship the Turtles with each other.

Your art is beautiful but I am SO NOT OKAY with Turtlecest. :(


...OKAY back to storyboarding. :(

Current Mood: squicked

I don't even know you guys. Someone in my class wants to do this as a storyboard and suddenly I had to draw this stupid comic.

I always get so ticked at myself for sleeping in and missing class, but then I realize things like "Well, you didn't go to sleep until like 4:30am."

Which makes sense I guess, but I used to be able to do that.

But then again, I didn't use to do that like every night.

Ahahaha sleep schedule fail. :|

Anyways, here's hoping I don't fail my test too bad today. I guess it's kind of a good thing that we end up getting most of the lecture notes online anyway. XX|

Step 1: Finally watch Hook, which practically everyone you know has pulled a "WTP you haven't seen it yet?!" for.
Step 2: Think you're mighty clever for catching that Wendy = McGonagall = Maggie Smith. Pat on the back.
>Step 2.5: Noticing Robin Williams doesn't count, and you already know this.
Step 3: Thereafter, devote 99% of your attention to the plot.
>Step 3.5: Notice briefly that "Rufio" is an awesome name, and your film buff friend mentioned him once.
Step 4: Watch credits. Cue 8D face.
Step 5: Promptly hit the back button on the remote to a) listen to Hook talk again and b) watch every scene with Rufio in it.
Step 6: While making retarded happy/incredulous faces. It's a good thing your roommate fell asleep halfway through.

I swear I have a magical ability to not recognize voice actors when I'm too engaged in the plot of a movie. I'm most likely to notice them when they show up at the beginning of the movie (a la Po's dad, which still took me a good minute to figure out. Same with the rhino guard - then he laughed and I was all "Tug :D!")

...and then I had a stupid desire to animate Zuko to the line "You can fly. You can fight, and-" Aang: *crows*
Or during the duel of insults.

I don't think I'll be able to sleep until I draw something. Fandom is retarded. :D

http://www.dingo-pictures.de/en/index.html

I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or go into a berserker rage. (at the moment I think I'm laughing) It's kind of fascinating in a "holy cow people got paid for this" sort of way.

For added hilarity, just leave the sound off and try to understand what's going on (besides characters standing around with their mouths moving). Or just pay attention to the backgrounds, or count the ripped-off, poorly drawn character designs.... oh man.