Ohgod I'm so ready to be home now.
Y'know why? The need for FOOD just set in.

Like, up until now I've been floating along, happy that I'll be going home in what is now 6 days, but not really stressing about it. My finals are definitely manageable, nothing super stress-worthy except for maybe shenanigans with 20th Century, but no MASSIVE SOUL-SUCKING projects. Which is excellent.

But I just saw a commercial for Golden Corral and I thought 'hey, I can make that but BETTER' ('cause it's Golden Corral), EXCEPT I CAN'T. Because students can't even have frickin' TOASTERScylons in their rooms! And I'm really, really hungry, but there's nowhere for me to eat, because SCAD hates feeding their students. I'm so completely and totally fed up with the dining hall hours and how inconvenient they are, especially during Finals. It's ridiculous. Students need to eat to do well on projects, yes? Yes. apjewralwjraljralwjera;wer.

So yeah, I'm very, very ready to be able to cook my own damn food again!

So there are new ads running talking about how easy it is for kids to get pharmies from their parents, and they are kindof backfiring for me. The ads are focusing on how Pharmie's are the new 'in' drug, and it's what kids are most responsible for taking now, and they're way easier to get then pot/ex/etc. I like the concept and the execution of them are all pretty well done. The drug dealer one in particular is pretty quirky. Yet when I watch them... all it tells me is how easy it'd be to get high.

It makes me feel like I should be getting high, since the kids depicted in these ads are all middle class whitebread. AKA, me. Really, these ads make it seem like all HS kids are doing this. That it's what's cool, it's what's natural. I've always wanted to be normal, it really bothers me how much I hang on the straight-as-an-arrow fringe, so is this what "normal kids" are doing these days? "Legal" drugs? Shit, if I can get drugs from my parents' medicine cabinets that easily, why the hell not? I know that my parents don't monitor their drugs like that. I have absolutely no doubt that I could steal from them if I were so inclined. And even if they noticed something was missing, I have 3 highschool age brothers. 1 of which they know is drinking/partying/whiny emo bitch.

Let's be completely honest. I HAVE some of these drugs with me, right now. In my room. And the thing is, they're in my name. I have prescription amounts of Percoset and Zoloft, both legally given to me for various reasons. So what's preventing me from taking those?

An incredibly strong conscious and desire to be a goody-two-shoes. And that I know how easy it is to have really bad side effects from drugs not prescripted to you. But otherwise? Nothing. Especially when I could be getting these things from my mum, who has almost exactly the same genetic makeup as I do, so chances of something going wrong with me when it didn't with her are incredibly low.

Yeah, I'm admittedly susceptible to advertising. It's not hard to persuade me to buy something from an ad. But since that's the case, shouldn't that be a sign against these ads? That even though I'm an Ad Minor, so I know how all of this WORKS, this ad still makes me want to go out and get the drugs myself? Not, "be a Good Responsible Person" and prevent my siblings from doing so? Yeeah.

I think something went wrong in the Copy room. Actually no, something went wrong in the Media Placement room. They know that the target audience is parents, so they want to show it mostly to parents on a parents-watched-network. That I'll buy, and USA is a good place to do so. THAT BEING SAID, Parents have kids. And lots of kids watch Law and Order and NCIS with their parents. Lord knows I did! Which means that this ad is also being shown to exactly the wrong audience at the same time.

Remind me not to work on not-for-profit ads in the future, ok? Stuff like this goes wrong too easily.

(Don't worry, I'm not going to do drugs. I've not completely lost it, I know how bad of an idea drugs are.)

apowerj;lwera;lewrj fucking weather.

So I'm trying this CurlyGirl method to see if I can rejuvinate my hair back into being healthy and curly. Right now it's... in need of some help. Well, actually, it's a fair bit better now, but a week and a half ago it was sad. Everything was so dry and limp, poor babies. My hair has always been rather perplexed with itself, never sure of whether to wave or curl, or on rare occasions straight. Usually my canopy is wavy and everything underneath is curly.

( Read below for explanation of Curly Girl regimen. )

My point is that I'm trying this new CurlyGirl thing, with medium success as so far. We kindof have curl?
My hair curls in places? It's... yeah. But so I bought a gel to try, see if it'll encourage my curls to stay, because that's what I'm having the most trouble with. Needless to say I shower, co-wash, condition, plop and apply gel. Hunkydory.
Mandy then trundles off to the post-office freshly dressed and ready to roll. When she walks out of the post office? IT'S POURING DOWN RAIN. So I get to walk back to the dorm and end up soaked, with my hair... I don't even know. I've just let it sit and airdry while typing this up, I'll look at it when this is done. I'm just frustrated that all of that effort went into getting hair properly gelled and set and close to curl only to get RAINED ON. I've never spent this much time on hair before, it's a little overwhelming.

Just wonderful.

LOOKIT MY EYECON, GUYZ. I MADE A TREX ONE.

Yeah that's pretty much my whole reason for wanting to update... 'cause I made one. He's got TEETH.

If anyone's curious the textures came from iconsbycurtana (just see my profile for links). And the image is from google, I'm not that suave.

Otherwise... life's still pretty dull. I made a print for Editorial Illu and Briant ended up loving it way more than I expected. He wants a print of it for himself! He also suggested I do it in color, which I'm going to (the assignment was for black and white, but making it color will be easy) and then save it as a portfolio piece! woo!

I also took some portraits of my friend Phill two nights ago inbetween shooting for an Ad project. I'm rather pleased with how these three came out, there's minor photoshop editing done on the 2nd one, nothing serious.
( Portraits below )

hahahaha.

"Where you're going is the only place in the world where the geese chase you!" - Dr. Ian Malcolm as played by Jeff Goldblum.

I. Adore. This movie. Lucky for me USA is playing Jurassic Park II while I'm seaming up my sweater! I'm so excited! I finally got over the 2nd sleeve syndrome and finished it, and now I'm seaming. This is my first seaming project and I was rather nervous about the mattress stitching. The first 3/4 of the first sleeve looks like TRAAAASH but then I finally got the trick and figured out exactly what I was looking at in between the stitches, and voila! Nice Seams! :D :D :D This is a THICK sweater, too. Definitely warm and squishy and cozy. It's too warm outside now for me to get any wear out of it which is a little disappointing, but it will probably become invaluable next winter. I'll probably post pictures over at novice_knitters once I get everything finished, if my flist was curious.

But yes, JP. It almost makes up for the fact that Watchmen has stopped playing in my area now that I have the chance to go see it. Almost. Teeth, Dinosaurs, rawrrrrrr. I put a T-Rex in my first Editorial Illu project, which went over really well. The entire class was like "DINOSAUR!" and said that it was drawn well, which made me feel pretty excellent. I'm always hyper-aware of my drawing skills as compared to my Illu peers. Because they're the ones I'm going to have to compete with to get jobs, so it's best that I stay on top of my game!

The new Royal Caribbean commercials make me feel like playing Katamari. I think that's what I'll do later tonight!

Why don't I have a T-Rex icon? This should be fixed.

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I'm still here.
This semester is going to be kindof boring, which all things considered, I need.
Spending all of my time alone is getting to me, though. Unsure of how exactly to fix it.

But yeah, have a meme.

( Three Things )

I'm not dead. Honest.
Still here. It's been rather busy the past 2 weeks. I had Finals which tried their damnedest to kill me, but did not succeed!
I'm actually still rather floored by my final grades, I somehow by the skin-of-my-teeth managed to get straight A's. I did. I don't know how. But it's amazing and I'm still really really happy about it. All of that hard work did finally pay off, it wasn't all for naught. Eeeeeeeh!

Buuuut soooo my boyfriend came and stayed for the week prior to that, which was wonderful. I do feel so happy and content around him, it's rather phenomenal. Kaity's noticed it too, which makes me happy that it's true and not just Mandyfeelings.

I'm sitting in 20th Century now, the first day of new classes! woooooo. I'm taking 20th Century, Intro to Advertising, and Editorial Illustration. I'm slightly perplexed by 20th century, what to expect from the workload. We'll see.

But last week I went to DisneyWorld! ooooh it was so good. I was on Spring Break last week, and it was definitely one of the best breaks I've had yet. Mum just called me randomly during the semester and said "do you want to go to Disney over spring break?" to which I squealed "yes!!!" Sooo yep I went! I went to Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom and Epcot as well as Downtown Disney. So good. If I'm feeling like it I'll post an extended journal entry later. I will say that Kaity got to come with us to Epcot on Thursday, which was EPIC.

To sum everything up, it was a great break. I spent alot of time with my bf (we'll just stick with Mr. T for kicks) which was also very relaxing. I wish I had 3 more days of break, before being shoved back into this work routine. My roommate is taking the semester off, so I currently have the room to myself. I have no idea if it'll stay that way or if I'm going to get a new 'pal' 3 weeks in... I wish I did know. The room is so bizarre being half empty. The starkness intimidates me. I'm so used to their being stuff and a person over there that I don't really know what to do with myself.


But, here's to 10 more weeks!

o____o it's my birthday again. A whole 'nuther year...
And I'm not a teenager anymore. Wooow ok. I can't say that 19 was the best to me, not by a long shot. But I think that 20 will be better, even with the whacky in-betweenness of it.

The fact that I wasn't anxious and freaking out about waiting for it like last year I think bodes well. Sure, I've still been freaking out lately but this time it's over a worthy cause. Finals. Yeeeaaaaah. Anyone on my flist who has been following this for any amount of time will know exactly how much I am ready to be done. And DAMN do I have a lot of work to do this weekend. Whrork.

But tonight is birthday dinner night! :) It will be good.

...I just got twitter. Because yes, I do need more ways to procrastinate entertain myself inbetween classes.

GrapefruitGeek
lemme know if you've got a feed too.

Also, why is Lj's code breaking?