Orange's Journal

I hear a song I like.

I listen to it 30 times or so.

I google the lyrics.

I find out it's not nearly as well written as it sounds.

I hate myself for being so damned curious.

I continue to listen to the song and complain about how meaningless it is.







Bastards.

...I think I'd miss the sunset a lot. The lack of anything substantial to do this evening drove me to the beach earlier. For two hours I stared at the sun on its descent into the horizon over the water. The sky was completely clear of any clouds. In the middle of it I got to notice a huge sunspot go across the orange/yellow orb. Gazing at just how majestic this star is above our heads was a very humbling experience. We all go about our lives as if we're so important. We worry and stress about the pettiest things. We're hung up on ridiculous notions and beliefs of self-importance to the point of arrogance. People will come and go, live and die, and look upon the sun until the world does end and none of it will mater even in the slightest to the stars. All in all it was a very humbling and calming experience. I wish I did this more often because once the sun had finally set, I had the urge to get in my car, take out a pen and paper and jot down these thoughts right away in the parking lot at the beach so I don't lose them. I never do that.

My day in Tweets:

• 23:47 argh, all my source games are giving me the "OS paged pool memory low." the usual fixes don't work, may have to dick with my registry. DNW #
• 00:58 oh god chrono trigger ds oh god oh god don't panic please let this rumor be true #
• 00:58 see, my parents never loved me enough to buy me an SNES. when I did finally get a video game system it essentially ruined me, but still! #
• 14:07 my professional manner needs work...i'm months and months out of practice at this point and i find myself being brusque when i don't mean to #
• 22:08 i'm frustrated and unmotivated. beer o'clock it is! #
• 22:50 1 beer = me doing my best impression of john cleese doing the ministry of silly walks sketch. got it. #

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...The December illustration!



Recap from the sketches....

and to bring it full circle....


I decided to make the sky a bit more blue to match the others but haven't posted it here yet...Just imagine it bluer :)

Thoughts, as always, are appreciated

How did I end up knowing so many Canadians? :-p

Hope you guys had a happy Canada Day!

1:54:46 AM Andrea: I'm a hero, not a heroine
1:54:46 AM Andrea: heroines wait around to be rescuded
1:54:51 AM Andrea: heros resuce themselves

My day in Tweets:

• 01:43 no job and nothing constructive to do with myself. i haven't felt this low in a long, long time. unless you count, you know, yesterday. #
• 02:30 finished THE NIGHTLY NEWS. it's definitely one of the best graphic novels i've ever read. highest possible recommendation. #
• 16:51 lined up a source for a story that i've been working on for the daily news for longer than is really reasonable. #
• 16:52 these nydn articles aren't nearly as good as, say, a full-time job, but we take what is given #

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Today was a good day... well.. as good as any other....

Since I graduated, I aged some years or so, at least by 5 ... between house hunting and having to act more 'responsible'; I'm so ready to act immature again. I kinda wish I could go back to worrying about nothing but school again, not like I have much more anyways. Looking at houses that are 8x my paycheck is just too much. So I just got my 50k job, and I just graduated from college, I'd say I'm pretty happy right now ... and daymn, we're looking at a townhouse that is 8x my paycheck -- I'm ready to act immature again. It's just really taxing and too big of a jump for me.

And I don't know if I'm making any sense. But eh, that's my thoughts.

Peace out,
a

I'd scream, but it wouldn't change the fact that the carpet cleaning guy is now five and a half hours late.

*headdesk*

My day in Tweets:

• 02:45 finally reading THE NIGHTLY NEWS by jonathan hickman. it basically sums up every problem i have with my chosen profession. depressing. good. #
• 16:12 just installed a countertop dishwasher. i have a hunch that it took more time to pick up and set up than doing a year's worth of dishes #

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Played around with line colors, weights, layer filters....what do you think?



vs the previously posted;



Recap from the sketches....

Just got back, and WOW it rocked!! A 1-day con was kinda weird, but it worked as we got there fri and hung out with people, and sunday we hung out a bit too.

Now I will say that the con it-self was ok. I really only saw a few things as not too much was interesting: Part of the freezepop concert, a wipping demo, one of the magick panels w/ Issac Bonewitz, and the drumming demo by the drummer from 'the dresden dolls'

They had these 4 'tribes' that were supposed to...well I am not sure but I think it just wasn't well organized, and there was not a ton of people but it all worked out.

What made the con awesome was all the cool people, and the fact that our hotel room was social central both fri and sat nights. ktpinto really just is the social attractor. We made more noise than the play party that was next door.

I also got to hang out with Jade, whom I haven't seen in a LONG time and I met her friend Jen, who is WAY cool. I hope I can hang out with them sometime soon. Nice to be all cat-like with peeps again :)

People loved my outfit, basically a cat with wings. orelalaith, you missed it, everyone loved the wings you gave me!

We had some great sayings over the weekend, many dont translate well to typed word, like the werewolf one, but my fav was "they have a number for that" from:

G: "so, how old are you?"
me: "try to guess"
G: " well, from what people said, I think you are somewhere between 35 and 37."
me: "They have a number for that"
it really made everyone in the elevator crack up.

I met lots of cool people, made more of a pi-con connection to be a guest there, and wow, Issac bonewitz son eats all our food, and he is amazed black people exist at conventions...weird...

anything interesting over the weekend or LJ I should know about?

i love driving around for hours on end and having good music to listen to while i'm doing so is very important. every cd i burn ends up having some song(s) that i'll just skip. until today. i had to go back and forth from the city and surprisingly enough in the 22 songs that i burned, i didn't once feel compelled to skip a track. even the last song which is the worse song in the world (youtube 'my world' by gnr) but i needed to fill the last minute and a half of the cd. i feel good about that, as small an accomplishment as that may be.

the cd consists of a bunch of songs from the FF7:Advent Children soundtrack (the electric badass dramatic ones that make for great driving/dancing music), otherworld from FFX (fuck the haters, that song's badass), no rain by blind melon, chinese democracy and if the world by gnr, thinking of you by apc, overloaded by bumblefoot, adios by rammstein, supermassive black hole and knights of cydonia by muse, paradise city (gnr) and ABC (jackson 5) mashup, smells like teen spirit and billie jean (michael jackson) mashup, sweet dreams (eurythmics) and seven nation army (white stripes) mashup (the mashup songs are hysterical and should not be knocked til heard), and my world by gnr. the last one's a terrible song but it only lasts a minute and half and can be tolerated.

I see it was we took a step from "maybe we should do this" to "we should do this at some point".