I tried to give up coke during October. I made it about two and a half weeks. Not perfect, but pretty good. I'm back to drinking it regularly again now. Yummy yummy yummy!

Skool has been busy. I've got an essay on the French Revolution and it's effects on British literature. British Romanticism is probably my least favorite class ever. : (

NaNoWriMo hasn't been going too well. I'm so far behind it's... yeah, I'm not gonna make it. But I'm planninging to post what I have to here and continuing to update it because it's silly and fun. Who doesn't like sickeningly cute, pink, sparkly, princesses?

OK, a lot of people don't. But those people don't gotta read it, right?

I'm super excited about going to Japan! Like, super, very excited!

Also, I've been cleaning my DeviantArt. Ya know, just scrapping a few things and whatnot. While my writing for NaNo hasn't been going too well, I've been drawing a lot, so, uh, for the few people who watch me there might be some updates!

That's about all. *yawn*

First of all, I still got features... Ya know, in case you want one.
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Next, I'm thinking about NaNoWriMo. I've never participated before (actually, I only heard of it last year I think) but I am considering this. Would you be interested in reading the story of the Pretty Piggie Princess: Tazzy Tiara [link] and her villian, the Crow Lady [link] ?

And in further news, I have a VERY exciting announcement - I'm going to Japan! I'm very excited about this. Every year during the month of January (my college's "winter term") the skool has trips to other countries that you can sign up for. I'm going to spend two weeks in Japan this winter. I'm excited for the opportunity to travel and see new places... but most of all, I'm excited to see the ocean. I've never seen it before, and I was so happy to learn we're going to visit a shrine near the ocean.

But until then, I've got to do well in my classes this semester - which is going pretty well.

In more current news - I decided, in order to try and develop healthier habits, that I would give up Coke this month. No Coke October. My only exception is Halloween, because everyone should be allowed to splurge on Halloween. The rule is that I'm not allowed to drink any Coca-Cola. Technically, I'm allowed to drink any other soft drink, but that's not really an issue because Coke is my major weakness, and I'm just not likely to drink any other flavor. Wish me luck. I've just hit the one week Coke-free mark, but it's a long way to go.

I haven't submitted any art lately. My scanner is being a pain. I'd like to scan some of the doodles from my Media Law notes when I fix that. Right now I need to focus on my writing, because submissions for the Apogee end on the 11th.

And that's all the news for now!

Two years ago, my then roommate Whitney and I went to see a show called Art vs. Art. We had a great time, and it was quite an exciting show.

This year, since I turned 21 last May, I signed up to enter the competition.

Everyone in the competition paints on the same day. You have 4 hours, using only the supplies they provide to you. A canvas, 5 brushes, and red, yellow, blue, black, and white paint.

I was increadably nervous. My entire painting experience comes from my class two years ago, and the class I'm taking this semester (which I've only been in for 2 weeks now) - needless to say I was intimidated by the fantastic artists that were there. But I had fun and painted something cute and I hope people who see it will enjoy what I put into it.

There's a voting to get into the next round. The top 32 will be prominently displayed at the main event, and then the top 16 of those painting will make it into the main show.

During the main show, painting are displayed side by side, two at a time. The crowd cheers for their favorite painting. The winner makes it into the next round, the loser is auctioned off, and if it is not purchased, they spin the wheel of death and the painting is destroyed on stage. They use things like chainsaws, swords, or spraypainting over top of them.

You can vote for the paintings at ArtvsArt.com: [link]
Click, "See the Contenders"

If you want to find mine, search for canvas #32. It's a little boy searching for adventure on a dandilion fluff.

The main event is Friday, September 25th at the Vogue Theater in Broad Ripple. I hope to see some of you there.

Compy-D is fixed, and I'm back online now.

Unfortunately, being away from the internet for about a month, and I've built up a bunch of messages on DA. Comments, journals, activities... I'm sorry, but it was just too much.

I usually try to visit the pages of everyone who favorites my work - but I'm so far behind now. Please don't think me rude that I just went ahead and cleared everything away.

Also, if you made a journal in the past month, I'm sorry, I didn't read it.

But! I'm back now, and ready to start over online.


My Twitter: Cakes_with_Jam

I'm way behind on all things DeviantArt related. My messages have built up like woah and I haven't checked on updates. It makes me very sad, but I just can't right now.

Compy-D got a virus, or 400 thousand viruses - [link] whatever, it's out of commission right now. It is in the process of being fixed, but I had to order new operating system disks from Dell because I didn't get them when I bought the computer. It's not costing me anything because it's still under warranty - but since I know nothing about how computers work, I had to take it to Best Buy. Which means it'll be a while before I can get it fixed.

*grumble grumble*

So if I don't respond to anything sent here - it's not by choice.


In the meantime, I'm back at skool again. My roommate and I have pretty much set up our room to our liking and the first day of classes is today. I'm only taking four classes, but that doesn't mean I don't have a lot of work. Two literature classes and one journalism means that I'll be spending a lot of time in the library writing papers.

I'm really looking forward to doing well in my classes this semester. Last semester I lost a lot of my motivation and it took a toll on my grades. This year I'm really going to work hard and not slack off. And hopefully if all goes well, I'll be able to take a trip overseas during winter term. More on that later when I find out if I'm approved.


Features are still open! It might be a while before I can get to them, but go ahead and comment! [link]