A Geekish View of Life

No I wasn’t the concert. That would have been an exercise in pain and boredom. Plus I would not want to inflict my lack of musical talent on anyone. I feel sorry enough for the people who have to hear me sing at chruch. But that’s a wholely different matter.

To night I got to see Switchfoot! These guys rock! You may have heard their songs on the radio, Meant to Live, Dare You to Move, and one more that I’m forgetting. Well they are friggin’ awesome. I think I said that already. Well it’s worth saying again. The openers were pretty hard core too! The openers were Copeland and The Jealous Sound. Copeland has a sound similar to Switchfoot, addtive, clear and fun! The Jealous sound, is much harder. They were really rocking out tonight . . . not that I’d ever seen or heard of them before . . . but that doesn’t change how much they rocked. My friend bought all the CDs and I got one too. Naturally the headline band was the best but if either Copeland or The Jealous Sound is in your area check them out! Support new and up coming music! CD sales at concerts have a much stronger money tie to the band, so if you buy there your support is deffinatly felt! Okay. Need sleep now. Take care all!

p.s. If any of you also look at my art blog, I have not forgotten it. It’s been mid terms lately so I’ve been busy. Sorry. Updates this weekend for sure.

Dude! OMG! I’m really friggin’ excited. Just checked my e-mail, and there was a letter for me! “Dood! Sw33t! Letters!” But to top off this cool thing is that the letter came from the author/illustrator of 10K Commotion! Which if any of you are DDR nuts you have to read. Even if you aren’t a DDR not you should go for the art. The plot line draws on some of the DDR subculture stuff so it may not make quite as much sense to non DDR players. But even if you have a passing interest in DDR it should be fun. I likes it. It likes it alot! Two big BIG w00ts! From me. Plus she replied to my e-mail! ::big sparklie eyes:: Okay. I’m done gushing . . . I think. ^_~

Okay. I now have more details and a better understanding of why the girl from class may be behaving like she is. Today is her 4 year anniversary. One of the reasons she’s been stressed is that she’s been troubled by the way the relationship has been going recently. So she told me that they having a final date and then gonna “take a break for awhile”. This explains a whole lot . . . to me at least. It is also a rather nice release to me since now I have a frame work in which I can try to process her actions. ::processing::

Here’s the results:

1. She is not being a horrible tease
2. She is (most likely) seeking a little comfort in the time of stress.
3. I am still free to feel how ever I want
4. Little has probably changed in the way I will treat her, and that is probably the same from her side
5. Enjoy the fact that I have a friend that doesn’t mind a little teasing

Well that’s a load off my mind. I’ll catch you all on the flipside. Take care!

A little while back, past post, 3/1/04 I mentioned that I had an odd experience. Well . . . life gets, stranger, but better. I think. I donno. Here’s how it stands: the girl I mentioned earlier . . . well since the, uh, incident has been more physically affectionate to me. Not that I mind but I’m not sure how to interpret it. I mean she has a BF (::mutter::). So that leaves me wondering. Is she being a horrible tease? or just affectionate? ARGH!

No it didn’t happen all at once. We just sorta chatted and goofed off in class as usual for about a week or so but then this Monday [which I just noticed was yesterday, strange how long ago it seems], critique day for Painting 2, after the critique she came up behind me and was scratching my back. =^.^= nyow! The best was when I would do my best attempt at purring she would lean in to try to figure out what I was doing. =^.^= nyow!! I had a little time before my next class so I thought I’d return the favor and gave her a back massage.

Okay, fast forward to today. Figure Painting class. I’m thinking the fact that I see this girl every day I’m at school doesn’t help my growing affection for her. Anyway. She looked a little tired and she said she hadn’t slept well so when we had our long break I sat down next to her and scratched her back, which is very relaxing to give it too. She was very grateful, and said so. Well it was phrased more like “Mmmm. I just want to go crawl into my bed after this.” To me that says ‘Job well done!’ w00t! But then she sorta leaned against me. (@.@) I don’t know what to make of this. The best advice I could come up with for myself was, “Make nothing of it. Accept it as a gift and leave it at that. Anything else and you’re setting yourself up for trouble.” So I’m trying to do that. But it’s hard. Especially when you are starved for physical contact. Yeah. To save yourself from this become a huggy person, or at least a hand shake person. Life without a little physical contact is just not as satisfying. Sure you can get by, I have for years now, but that doesn’t mean I’m not starved for just a little more of it.

So that’s my day. Oh in Figure Painting I actually got most of the figure down on the paper! w00t! Go me! It was possibly the most complete figure I’ve done all semester. Yay! Okay need sleep now. Take care all.

Good evening all!

I had a tiring yet rewarding day today. I turned in my midterm essay for my modern Art “history” class. And I finished it a full hour and a half before it was due! w00t! Go me! Then I got to hang out for a while with a friend from class, way cool! And I got to introduce her to Chrno Crusade.

It’s sort hard to describe. But the best I can come up with is … imagine Hellsing but cute and funny, oh and Catholic. I know that is quite a mind stretch but is about as good as it’s gonna get. To try to classify it by it’s aspects would be a really long list. Needless to say it is better than the “teaser” line may make it sound. If you’re hooked into a fan sub network look it up. It’s up to episode 15. The story centers on a warrior nun Rosette and her daemon assistant Chrno. Along the way they encounter a girl with a divinely blessed voice and a jewel powered witch. They work to solve the mysteries of their respective pasts and slay tons o’ daemons! It’s fun and laughs, and a healthy dose of freaky demon mayhem.

::sigh:: Now I go to sleep. I have to do mucho mucho painting this weekend.

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If the weather was read like the stock market today would probably sound something like this.

Today in San Francisco California:

Hem lines were way up.

Neck lines were down. Despite this down turn investors are happy and not about to sell any time soon.

Spaghetti straps are rising quickly.

And finally toes have an IPO and are showing strong gains for the second day in a row.
They are also wiggling freely in the grass and royally enjoying their time out.

Okay so I tacked on that last bit about the toes. But that’s what it’s like out here. Spring comes fast here on the west coast I guess. Despite my love of cold weather, I am not about to complain. With hem lines up who really could? ^_~ So get out there and enjoy the weather! Just keep some long sleeves near by just in case the wind picks up, and for when the sun goes down. It cools off right quick when that happens.

::ponder:: With the rising hem lines, maybe it’s a good thing we don’t live in “Anime-Land”. All those strange stray “fan service” breezes would be vicious. Although since we are not obligated to ware the ubiquitous japanese sailor uniforms it probably wouldn’t be as bad. Okay my stray thought for the day. ::waves:: Take Care all!

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Oh here’s a quick side note that just was possibly the oddest thing to happen to me in . . . years! Okay so I’m standing at my easel and I’m looking kinda painterly and assessing my canvas (in leyman terms that means I was staring at the blank space thinking “Now what?!”). Then BOOM!! Out of the blue I feel something on me bum! It . . . it feels like it’s nibbling! What the-?! I can’t even turn around I’m so shocked. All I can manage is to stand there and blink like some sort of anime character.

It’s time like this I wish I had Genji’s become-chibi-at-will skill. Because that’s how I felt. I don’t even know how to describe how strange it is to have one of the girls in class . . . em . . . ‘hand-nibble’ yer bum! Not that it was unwelcome . . . but it was so unexpected . . . When you’ve been dateless for nearly ::counts on one hand and then goes to the other:: well a few years. Ah who am I fooling? I’ve dateless most of my life. The first 10 years don’t count because I wasn’t dealing with hormones then. The following 14 I have all but given up on the idea. But that is way off topic. Anyway. I had a day stopping, jaw dropping, unable-to-move-from-shock ing moment today.

And damnit! She has a BF! ::mutter fume mutter grumle complain pout::

And she’s cute too. >.

I was watching the Bio Channel earlier today and they had a special on ‘Cleavage”. Well, I decided to have a look. since it was mostly told from a female point of view, it was actually quite informative. Although I don’t claim to understand them any better. That aside, consider this statement by one of the head ladies over at Cosmopolitan Mag, “Cosmo finds the twelve most beautiful faces in world, it’s nothing to do with you.” (slight paraphrase) That’s right folks even Cosmo admits that cover girls aren’t “real”. They are the high end of the gene pool, they are the lucky 12 out of several million that look that good. Which is why they are often used again and again and again. In magazine land there are only perfect people. So guys: Don’t expect your girlfriends to look like a Playboy model. Gals: Don’t expect yourselves to look like a Playboy model. These people aren’t part of the vast majority of the world population. They should not be used as a measuring tool. Don’t compare bust sizes, don’t compare hair, don’t compare legs, just don’t compare! People should accepted as they are. Once you accept them that way they are beautiful because they are, not because some magazine tells you they are. ::climbs down off soap box::

In other news I seem to be over my sickness. hurrah. Although it means that I am now in “major-catch-up” mode since I was unable to use my weekend to work. Blah! Stupid sick stomach. I think I will be able to get this painting project done by Monday. Especially since that’s when it’s due. Meh. Stupid school. Oh well. At least now I know where to get Fan Subs! Hurray! Fresh (as in probably shown last week) anime! w00t! But I’ve probably talked about that before. I guess that means that there isn’t much going on. ::sigh:: Kinda depressing really. Well I guess I could say a word or two about my art.

Well my painting 2 class assignment is to do an abstract painting. This is not my strong suite. I’m actually not sure how to go about it. Right now I have simply divided up my board into 20 squares. As it stands now I’m going to paint about 6 or 7 of them with small images and the rest will be painted solid colors. It’ll probably look like a disco floor gone beserk. ^ ^;; Oh well. I really wish I had a digital camera so I could make pictures of some of my stuff. Not that it’s actually any good but some of it ain’t bad. Especially when you crop out other parts, and stand about a mile away. ^ ^;; Maybe I can borrow my grandparent’s one for a little while. Well I’ll let you all know if there is anything like that on the web. Okay I’m done. Later.

Well. I’m feeling better today. Hopefully what ever little sicky thing I had is gone. ::sigh:: It is so nice to hold onto food for more than 20 minutes at a stretch. ^_^ Okay. I have to go catch up on setting up my painting and other stupid things that I was putting off because I felt all sicky-icky. Later