AnimeFest Con Report
Dallas, August 2003

Okay, it's a little late, yeah I know. . . .

My party of three daring otaku's arrived at animefest sometime around noon on Friday, and immediately ran to the dealer's room. Well, Natasha (aka Candycorn) and Carson (aka Sabrick) ran to the dealer's room, while yours truely was left behind sobing, and was uncerimoniously dragged off to sit in the Move panel as part of my job as a "staff member". (which, consequently, is the ONLY thing I had to do for my free ticket ^_^)

The Move panel, a long. . tedious hour and 1/2 session where I learned the most intimate details of the J-pop band that I would be entralled with in less than 24 hours. . was the only panel I attended. Sure, there were other panels. . . all FOUR of them over the four days. However, animefest was sadly lacking in the panel department. . .with a very cheesy 'how to draw manga' panel, an origami, and the mandatory anime quiz panel. The only thing worse than the panels was this years cosplay, heh. Where was Kei Blue, with his amazing cell-painting panel I wonder?

The cosplay panel consisted of 2/3rds of the people who dressed up. . .. and their skits consisted of running on stage, making sounds for exactly 1/2 seconds, and running back off. There were a few exceptions. . . .., a few most note worthy!! The first cosplayer was a over-weight Link, who spent a good five minutes giving us the back history of the whole Zelda series (and thus putting everyone to sleep). . .and then played his recorder for the next four (with his shrill, off-key notes waking up everyone who fell asleep). The best cosplay that I saw was a ten year old girl dressed up as sumomo (from Chobits. . aka Plum), who danced Sumomo's screen savers dance with a tambourine to "I'm a Barbie Girl". I ran screaming from the cosplay panel 1/2 way through. . .but I hope that little girl won the prize. I fell over my chair laughing.

The cosplay was held in the same room as the Move concert, which was amazing! The concert itself was worth the whole 40 bucks that I didn't pay for my con badge. They didn't play any of my favorite songs from them, but there was lots of dancing, cell phone (pseudo-glow stick) waving, and clapping. . bouncy goodness. Not to mention, people waving everything else from their darn shoes to what looked much like a pink thong to me. Ramen and Rice opened for Move, and where I have heard of them before, I've never actually. . . eh. . "heard" them play. They take popular anime music, and play it on their violin/cello. It's great, nice. . . jamming work music. I wish they had a CD out!!!! (They played the ending song, Wind(?) from Naruto, and it almost made me cry ;_; )

The video rooms were, for once, playing rather good animes. . .and subtitled, unlike 1/2 the stuff shown last year. No traditional "akira". . . .this year's fare consisted mainly of comedies. . including Jungle Guu (a personal favorite), Return of the Cat (I nearly died laughing). . . and many other unlicensed goodies found on BitTorrent. . . .like Scrapped Princess and Get Backers. Best yet, was the 'bad anime' panel, where I peeked in from time to time, and laughed at just how horrible anime can sometimes get. I normally stay away from the video rooms at cons. . . .but animefest was highly disappointing, and the videoroom was a must.

Okay, now what really yanked my chain was the con program book. This HUGE, GIGANTIC thing. . . was full of nothing but utter crap. Was the schedule in there? Noooo! Anything interesting? Nooooo! Of course not! I'm sure the con people were sitting there laughing. . . "Let's kill some more trees! hahahahaha! Let's torture them. . put in LOTS of fanfics, and the rules of Go!" *insert evil manical laughter here*

My entire weekend was spent split between dodging confrontation, going around and round the dealer's room spending money, and getting stopped every three feet for pictures. I swear, I had my picture taken no less than 400 times. Which is very sad, considering that there were likely only 600 people at the con, total. I have now found my pictures up on over two dozen webpages. . . most of which say I'm Mimiru. . and not BlackRose. *COUGH*. I did get an amazing compliment, however. One girl said I was the best Black Rose she has ever seen. . . and one of the best at the whole con! Yay for me! ^_^ I got scolded by one of the con head of staff memebers for not dressing in a manner that was "appropriate for family's." "This is a family-oriented con. . . blah blah blah blah blah." I was wearing more clothing that he was. . .just not all in the same places, hehehehe. I also find that pretty funny. . because I seemed to be a pied-piper at the con. .and attracted every single little kid there to my side. Anyone under the age of 12 hung out with me, much to my cargrin, at one point or another during the con.

Most of the highlights of animefest didn't happen during the actual con itself, but before, inbetween, and afterwards. Tying Carson up with rubber-bands, and painting his toe-nails, the angst, and a sport we dubbed "bunny ball". . . hehehehe. The best story is probably the one where Carson and I are hiding in the girl's bathroom of the hotel across the street. . putting on my body paint. We shove Carson, a boy, into the handicapped stall to do my body paint. Now, if you've never had cold, paint applied to your body. . . it tickles like HELL! It doesn't help either when the person doing it is pretending to be gay, and is painting right underneath your bra line. What makes it even better. . was trying not to laugh as a group of girls walked in. . .and simply would NOT leave. Banging on the bathroom stalls. . . . hmm, look at that. . there are TWO sets of feet. Soft, spontaionus laughter. Hehehe. . . . 1+1= . . .not 2 in this case, but I"m sure they thought it did. I loved the look on the hotel guest's faces as I walked out, fully costumed. . through the lobby and hallways. Got quite a few stares. . and then some! =^.^=

I don't know though. . the "dragon-butt dance". . the trojan truck accident. . . and the "what if cars had babies?" were all quite hilarious as well. Not to mention getting stalked in Waco at 3 am by some really creepy guys. . and reducing Carson's sanity to nothing, I'm sure. Can't forget Natasha's crossing-dressing friend, who looked better in a dress than anyone else there, and the baka license plate. No. . . I think the dragon-butt dance was the best. Too bad I'm not going to elaborte on it. . . I was waaay too tired at the time to look like anything but an idiot! :D

I got to briefly hang out with FJ and Derelict. . .and meet the infamous Inkmo and Jackmo. I found it hilarious to watch Natasha and Carson's mouth's drop as they watched FJ sketch, and pestered him with questions. Tancients was there as well. . .but was in such a funk that neither of us could enjoy the other's company. I also got to meet the person whom I bought my last fan cell off of. . . . .sheesh, that was weird.

All in all though, the con was fun. Not as fun as Ushicon 2002, but better than nothing. And it had been so long since ushicon, it was most welcomed. I also made out like a bandit. . .my goodies consisting of:
A big naruto plushie, and naruto figure, the whole naruto poi-pon set, Kyou and Yuki key chains, Kyou button, Kyou and Yuki poster (yay!), Kyou and Tasuki lapel pins, a Fruits Basket pen & pencil, sumomo and chii keychains, sumomo art piece, two anime soundtracks (love hina, and vandread), Haruhiko Mikimoto art book, some random trading cards, Get Backers vol 1 (which I haven't been able to find since the con), and MOVE's autographs. Also add in two more pieces of art. . .a gothic bunnygirl, and a beautiful elf mage from the art auction (called. . "Bizarre Bazar. . how dumb). I also got my mug smeared all over the net. . and some free m&m's from o-chibi con *^_^* I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff. . but that's most of it. And I only spent 130 dollars. . between toys, food, and everything. Not bad at all for a con. Made my first cosplay costume entirely by myself. . .met some cool people.

That about wraps up animefest 2003. Yeah, I left alot of sheep out. Next time, come with. . and you'll get the whole story. ^_^

Written in the clouds, 03:28 a.m. - Saturday, September 20, 2003

I was very nearly killed today, by a 4-runner.

This. . in the holes in my very busy day today. . . .has left me feeling quite nostaligic about the past. . and looking towards the future.
I look back on my childhood. I have very happy memories of it. . lazy summers, great army/ninja games, lots of ice cream and warm houston days. I was so innocent back then, it's great.
The early teen years I've blocked most of, but I wouldn't take back all the pain even if I could. I think so learned so much from it, it's not funny. I thought about the people who kept me going. . . the person who turned my world upside down, and ultimately influenced. . and still influences my life even now.
Moving. . leaving. . .the freedom, the bittersweet taste of it. Discovering that I really didn't know anything. . but the horrible things I learned first hand. Cooking for myself. . being responsible for suddenly everything. . quite scary. Still is, actually.
And now. . where am I at? Who would care if I had been in that accident? And I don't mean the three seconds of "oh, that's sad." I'm not childish enough to believe it would be no one, but still. Have I influenced anyone's life? Made a great impact?

I'm a complete different person right now, then I was yesterday. . .let alone a year or two ago. David's little brother kept commenting on that tonight. . .how much I've changed since I came back from Florida. I constantly absorb new ideas. . philos. . stories, people, events. . .theories. Ever-changing. And I know that I'm not normal. . well, normal as what the majority of people believe it is. No where near it, actually. But, y'know. . I don't think I'd want to be normal. It would mean that I would have to trade the images I see when I close my eyes. . be petty and childish. . like the rest of the world.

So. . .what am I going to do with myself in the future? I don't have a clue. Funny thing is, nothing seems wrong with that. The person I'm taking my cues from isn't telling me stuff too far in advance. (maybe he thinks that I'd yell and scream if I knew)

Maybe I'll tie up the con report and post it. . who knows. Not that anyone is too interested, ;)

Written in the clouds, 01:35 a.m. - Monday, September 15, 2003
Go listen to Hasan's Music!!!!

Went to ChibiCon this weekend. . . and it was the worst con I've been to yet.

Both con reports. . .maybe. . .sometime later this week. School is kicking my arss right now, ^^; , heh. Shouldn't have signed up for 16 hours with my three other jobs on top of it.

Maybe. . if you are Reeeeeally lucky, I'll link the last commission that fell through. *wink*

Written in the clouds, 12:32 a.m. - Friday, September 5, 2003
Random Art-- One of Cloud's girls ^_^

I need to do a con write up about animefest 2003 (dallas), but I'm way too lazy to try to put it all down in words right now. So instead, I'll just complain about my **NEW JOB** :D

So I work for GameStop now. As I signed this little piece of paper (once again), saying that I can't talk bad about the company, I won't. I really don't have anything to say bad about the company in the first place though. . . great discounts, nice perks, close to home. My manager is a nut-case however, hehehe.
It's really weird. . he's just a few months older than me, but acts like he's about 12. We're opening up a brand new store, and it's such a mess. I sorted, labeled, gutted, and priced GameCube games for 5 hours tonight. . and that's not including making the signs, learning the crazy computer system, and all the other little menial tasks. AAaaand! I'm suppose to be back at work for the grand opening tomorrow. . three hours before we open!!! I'm sooo going to die! Soul Calibur 2 has been sitting in my room, still un-opened since Monday. . .I've had ZERO time to play it. :( Soul Calibur One, for the dreamcast, is one of my favorite games still to date. I LOVE stick-boy! *^_____^* I actually paid-full price for it, go figure.

More tomorrow. . . maybe. If nothing else, I'll link Hasan's songs in here. He just put them up on the net. . .they are great! :D

Written in the clouds, 08:23 p.m. - Monday, September 1, 2003
AnimeFEST 2003 Cosplay pics!

Written in the clouds, 01:11 a.m. - Thursday, August 28, 2003
animefest!

So. . I bought my car today!!!!!! YAY! Tasuki is now OFFICALLY mine! They handed me the pink slip today. . what in the world were they thinking? ^_______^

In other news, I'm leaving with Natasha for animefest tomorrow. . .and my cosplay costume is, of course, only about 80% done. But, I suppose I'll have after class to work on it today. Finish up the boots, and do the gauntlets. I'm meeting FJ, Inkmo, Derelict, and Zac up there again. . not to mention picking up Karson in Waco on the way. It should be a blast!!!! Maybe more right before I leave. . .if not, see ya'll Tuesday. :D
And no. . they still haven't told me what job I'm working at the con yet. . should be fun, heh.

Written in the clouds, 01:19 a.m. - Monday, August 25, 2003
Tasuki! ^__^

School officially starts tomorrow. . . .. I have a new car. . . and my cosplay costume is 1/3 of the way done. Life is . . .great! :D

My car is a little black, two-door.. . 1996 Saturn. Sun-roof, leather interior. . .the works. And I lub him! ^____________^ He has recently been dubbed "Tasuki", in honor of my latest anime beinge, from Fushugi Yugi. (yes, another red-head. Go figure! :P) I get to find out if I can keep him on Monday! I hope so, I hope so, I HOPE SO!


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Written in the clouds, 02:58 a.m. - Saturday, August 23, 2003

Konoyo de ichiban yowai mono wa nani?
Sore demo futari wo mamoru tame ni aru.
Hoshino kazu hodo aru koto dakara.
Anata no koe de kikitakute.

Dakara aidato itte.
Sorewa ai dato itte.
Mamo shirenu hanatachi to ongiyou na futari demo. . .
Koi wo surutte. .
Totemo tsuyokunarutte. . .

Anata nimo onajikoto kanjite hoshiikara. . .
. . . chiisaku hakanai ai wo.

No, I will not translate it for you. Go learn some japanese, or watch Ai Yori Aoshi. The words mean something to me right now, but I only want the one person to know who it's for. Jennifer's been bringing up my past alot recently, and it's nearly killing me all over again. I don't know why she insists on torturing me with it. It's my own darn fault, yet it was right at the time. But if it's still right, I don't know. Why do I care when she teases me with a tid-bit here and there? I have loved many people in my life, in many different ways. Why can't I stop loving this someone? Can't it go both ways?



No, my computer still isn't fixed. No, most of you don't have a clue who I'm talking about. No, I don't want to talk about it. I should know better than to watch Shoujo anime right after seeing Jen.

You represent... hope. You're quite a daydreamer and can be a hopeless
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know what you want in life... even if they are
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Funny, I don't feel that hopeful right now

Written in the clouds, 02:00 p.m. - Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Wai! Anime con Time is here again!

For all. . . . like. . .two people who've been frantically dying because I haven't been online in two weeks. . yes, you know who you are (:D), my computer's dead.

Dead, as in, I can't get the sucker to turn it's little robo-body online. However, it does like to turn itself on in the middle of the night. . about every five minutes after I decide I'm going to fall asleep. I got that blaster worm thing, in combination with a very chincy virus that altered my admin password to something completely different than what is was before. This wouldn't be too big of a problem, if XP pro hadn't gone and corrupted itself. So, this basically leaves me two choices. . . . .
1) Mess with it contintiously, until everything breaks and blows up even further than what it is right now.
2)Re-install windows from scratch, and loose all 70 gigs worth of info. . .anime. . music. . manga. . .art work, ect. This option, not being very favorable.

Other than this, I'm just twiddling my thumbs. .waiting for fall semester of college to start back up again, so I don't murder all the crazy people around me. Part of my recently acquired (or at least acknowledged insanity) is due to reading the "Hitchhiker's guide to the Universe" trilogy. . which in fact, is currently on it's fifth book. It is . . . SERIOUSLY messing with my mental processes right now. After reading it for almost an entire day, I thought I was pretty crazy afterwards. However, I remedied this by listening to Mark go on for 20 minutes about how "oranges really grow underground, and it's all a government conspiracy. . .run by three toed midgets from aussie-land. . . .ectect", and now I believe I'm perfectly normal. ^__________^ Douglas Adams is a great author. . . anyone who can make no sense and perfect sense at the same time has got to be darn good.

School's starting. . .animefest in less than two weeks. . .Natasha's back from Germany. . .just sold another piece of artwork. . . Life is good, and crazy, bizarre, and weird. . just like always ^_^

Written in the clouds, 11:12 p.m. - Sunday, August 3, 2003

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Hahahaha! There's just something about red-heads recently I guess. ^_^;

You're A Hero! You live to save the world! You are honest, true,
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ICE is your chinese symbol!

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Written in the clouds, 01:51 a.m. - Saturday, August 2, 2003

Yes, I know there is something wrong with this page. Yes, I'm trying to fix it But it's just not working atm, and I think I'm going to go draw instead of trying to fix it for the next half hour XD
Here. . .I'll work on it for the next 20 minutes. . if nothing happens. . .it'll be stuck like this until tomorrow night!

UPDATE: as you may have guessed. . .the sidebar stuff is *supposed* to go on the . . well duh. . side bar. For some reason, it works fine in my browser, but doesn't on anyone elses. I can't seem to figure it out, so it's going to be stuck like this until I either figure it out, or come up with a new lay-out. Gomen Nasaii!

Written in the clouds, 11:15 p.m. - Thursday, July 31, 2003

QUIZ TIME!~ Yes, it's that time again. . I have nothing better to do than to find a bunch of cool quizzes, and take them. . thus showing the cool buttons off unto the whole world! :D
Who knows? Maybe I'll make my own someday ^_^

As The Fires That Burn In The Hearts Of Men, Your
Dragon Color Is Red

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You probably know as much Japanese as the
average Japanese student knows English.

That's a compliment, you know. Of course you
knew that- you being so moderately
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there's a 50/50 chance you don't know that
much- these online quizzes are always
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Omedeto! You know quite a bit of Japanese.

You're cool! It says so on your
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Yay! I'm cool. . hahahaha, yeah right ^_^;;

The Fate-stricken Heroine

You're destined to change the world, though it
might bring about your downfall in the end. You
see the world through hopeful eyes.

People you might relate with:
Aeris (Final Fantasy VII, above)
Terra (Final Fantasy VI)
Rosa (Final Fantasy IV)
Garnet (Final Fantasy IX)


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That's all for now. . .my computer has decided this is the perfect time for it to freeze up ⌐.⌐

Written in the clouds, 10:08 a.m. - Thursday, July 31, 2003
Lunaregina-- Lots of FB piccies! yay!

My new current obsession is an anime called "Fruits Basket". And the object of that obsession is Kyou-kun, who's zodiac animal is the cat.
Isn't he so cuuuute?! And aren't I so immature? Yes *^_^* I didn't really get Kyo-kun. . but :P

Then, I took another Fruits Basket one. . and got. .

You're Momiji - the rabbit!

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He's so cuuuuute too! Wai!

And. . . of course. . .. .

You're Kyou - the cat.

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^_^ I'm in love! hehe

Omae wa dochira juunishi no MEMBAA desu ka?
[koyasunomiko.com]

HAHAHAHA! I finally got him! =^.^=

Hehehe. . I know, I know! Leave me alone. If you really want to pick on me, pick on me for running out and ordering the first 8 graphic novels for FB in Japanese the day that I finished watching the series. :D Tokyopop is also going to release FB in english as a manga in Jan 2004! YAYAYAYAY! I'm sooo happy about that. ^_^ I'll also get to find out about this "Getbackers" series that I've heard so much about. =^.^=

Okies. . enough of that. Nobody wants to read about my random obsessions with drawings, :D

Written in the clouds, 03:38 a.m. - Thursday, July 24, 2003
A *New* Picture of the demon puppet

I finally pulled all the pictures I had taken from my camera. . . .all the wonderful memories of disney. Look above to see a picture of the hideousness of Sunny Eclipse.


And this is where I work. . . part of the week at least. As you can see, right next to it's a small hell-hole. I can't hear the music from inside the restraunt, but everyone always comes in humming or *shudders*. . singing that infernal song.

As you can see here, we also share a window with them. Or should I say, a whole, entire flippin' glass wall. And on this wall, we have a row a little kids banging on it, screaming, "LOOK MOM! THEY WAVED AT ME!!!!" much to our great annoyance. But as long as they don't hum the damned song, I'm A-okay.

And finally, something so completely not disney, it's not funny. You won't see this room unless you work at Pinocchio's. It's called the A-vac room. All your paper boats, cups, and forks go down this little shute, and is shot out at 30 mph into a garbage dump behind splash mountain. The A-vac and I became great friends. Despite the fact that it smells like rotten apples 99/100ths of the time. . .when it breaks, I nearly cry. For when it does, guess who always seems to get put onto trash duty? Uh-huh, you guessed it!

Now that I've ruined that. . . bedtime for me.

Written in the clouds, 03:36 a.m. - Tuesday, July 22, 2003

I've just spent the last four hours being entertained by two 15 yr olds, and their irc bots. Two bots that will say pretty interesting things about me. . . . makes me wonder. The program is interesting enough I might try to make my own bot. Heh. . . . when I write my first novel.

Speaking of writing. . I've been trying to write out the script out for my side comic. . .it's been alot more difficult than what I first imagined. I just don't have the discipline it seems when I don't have a deadline, or some big ole', scary deadline in front of me. And I can't seem to trick myself into believing in any of the self-imposed deadlines that I give myself. *sigh* Oh well. I at least have the main gist of the story writen down in short-hand. But to thumbnail it out, I really need to sit down and hammer out a script. Just too damned lazy I guess, LOL!

I wish I could get my scanner fixed. I swear, I will never buy another Microtek product as long as I live. Horrible tech-support, and a sheepy product.
Heh. . yeah. . .the sheep story. . . . . .

At disney, we aren't allowed to curse on the floor. My second week at work, a lil girl dropped her snocone on my leg.
Ping: "Shhhhhhh. . . ."
*manager glares over at ping*
Ping: ". . . eeeeeeep! sheep! Baaaa! Baaaa!"
Manager, sometime later: "I know what you said Ping! You can't fool me!"
*Ping looks very innocent*
Ping: "sheep? Baaa! baaa! You'know? Little Bo' Peep? Toy Story? Yeah. . um. . .it's . . a riot with the kids"
*Ping's face turns a deep red color*

The sheep story. ^_^ And hence, why I don't say sh!t, but I'll say everything else. ((heh, I learned it all at disney, y'know))
More later. . .it's waaaay too late atm.

Written in the clouds, 11:25 p.m. - Sunday, June 29, 2003
The Monster Puppet, Sunny Eclipse

I let the last entry sit too long. Yes, it's really that bad, but not always. . and usually not for an entire day like that one was. But either I'm becoming accustomed to slave labour, or . . no. . that's probably it! XD As is becoming a frequent saying around the "tragic kingdom". . "I hate my job, but I love the people I work with!".

I recently designed a tattoo for one of my co-workers. Very, nice. . once I get my scanner fixed again (curse the shitty microtek products!), then I'll scan and pimp. Robin, a fellow otaku and wanna-be goth girl, wrote down the specifications, and I drew it from her description: a gothic faerie, with jagged butterfly wings, kneeling, holding a cross, and looking down upon it as if she were in prayer. I would have never thought to draw something like that, and it came out quite nice.

Today was also the first day I was crossed over from Pinocchio's to Comic Ray's Starlight Cafe, and had the. . um. .. pleasure to meet the purple monster who will haunt my dreams tonight, no doubt. This. . .thing. . is called. . .Sunny Eclipse. He's a "perfomer from the planet Zurg. I remember the first time the rangers ever came to my home planet. .. . " and so on. And on. . and on. . and on. This big purple puppet has about a 20 minute routine, and since I worked for over 10 hours today, I had the pleasure of hearing it 30 times. The same. . .jokes. .. . songs. . .. and. . . more jokes. Over and over and over again. Hehe, it was enough to make me want to kill the puppet. However ironic though, I saved the monster from a hoard of kid's trying to "feed" sunny by shoving soggy french fries down his little animatronic throat. . .much to my suprise. I now have his whole rountine forever burned into my mind. . .. and I know I will be seeing sunny in my dreams tonight. And now I'm so much happier about working at Pinocchio's instead of Comic's. If I have to be a monkey slave somewhere. . I'd rather it be at P's instead of where the purple demon puppet lives! :D

Written in the clouds, 01:10 a.m. - Sunday, June 8, 2003

So, today was Gay and Lesbian Pride day at disney. Before I go any further, I have nothing against the gay and lesbian culture. I personally am not a member of it, but I'm also not offended by it, and have several friends who are. So, I didn't really think much about it when I heard the announcment that Saturday would a large gathering place for bi-sexuals, ect.

Yeah, what I didn't expect was people having sex in my bathrooms, people throwing each other across tables, or the large groups of christians in blue shirts (the counter culture was in red) protesting the, um. . display of gayness?

Basically, everything that could possibly go wrong today, did. Someone changed my schedule on me at work, without telling me. So, instead of clocking in five minutes early, like normal. . the little machine that bosses me around (read: is the slave driver) tells me I'm too late to clock in (read: haha! You are in trouble now, sucker!) So, this is the first time I get yelled at by my manager today. . and by all means not the last.

Day starts off like always. . cleaning up trash, listening to customers bitch that the prices are too high, food low quality, and that someone is looking at them funny. (Like I can do anything about any of it?) Oh, don't forget directing half a billion people to the "toilet" while standing directly underneath a gigantic sign reading "exit to restroom". Then, day gets crazy. A christian couple starts apparently giving dirty looks to a gay couple. .. or a group couples(?). Both groups start yelling at me to ask the other one to leave. I swear, they sounded like kindergardens. "teacher! He looked at me funny!" The groups end up at each others throats for the rest of the hour. . until the puking started.

Yes.. .. the puking. Some lady walks into my restraunt, or rather half falls into. She speaks no english, and no other language we could readily identify (including spanish, finnish, chinese, japanese, russian, ect) She clutching her left side, and is breathing laboriously. I sprint over to the phone, yelling something incoherantly about an "alpha unit". All the managers are conviently on lunch break. . so I call 911, and give them my location. The stupid idiots walked in, the stupid managers go "no, we didn't call 911" and the medics walk around the park for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, this lady is puking, passing out, and puking somemore. And when I say puke, I mean puke! Finally, the medics get there, and the whole part of the restraunt that wasn't flipping out by the puking foriegn lady, was by the medics making fools out of themselves. Meanwhile, I get yelled at for the second and third time. . . one for not keeping my floors clean. . you'know, while I'm trying to make sure this lady doesn't die, and the other for not telling my manager I called an ambulance. . while, you'know I was making sure this lady didn't die. Meanwhile, every person in authority except for Damned Michael Esiner himself showed up to see why in the hell an ambulance was called. Yeah, score one for me!

Lady gets all better. . now I get to clean up puke. And lots of it. Fun.
I go on a quest for Vo-ban, which takes a year and three days to finally procure some. Meanwhile, I manage to pick up a 17 year old Janitor (who looks about 12), and he proceeds to hit on me for the rest of the day. Next. . I get to deal with guests. First, they complain because the smell of the "protein spill" is ruining their "magical day". Next, they complain that the smell of the voban is doing that too. These people cannot be made happy. I give them free brownies, and they STILL go and complain to my manager. . who then wants to know why the hell I gave them free brownies? Yes, time #4 I get yelled at. I have to keep pulling guests away from the puke ridden table. Apparently some guests can't see OR smell the puke/vo-ban mixture, and they keep trying to sit at that booth. . or let their kids play around and even. . .*shudders* in the puke. Yes, I had to physically pull a child who was covered in puke out of the puke. And he WAS kicking and screaming. Then, their parents actually YELLED at me for doing it!!! Geez.

About this time, my manager decides to come out and yell at me again for good measure. . just because he hadn't done it in about 20 minutes. So, I get yelled at now for pulling a kid out of a pile of puke, for wearing my necklace that I have permission to, and for wearing a disney pin that I was told to wear by one of the other managers that was on break. Yes, I love my job!

Now, I'm ready to cry. My moral support, Matt. . my fellow monkey slave that I trained with, shift ends. And I'm left completely alone in my bussing world, without a person to shove my trash duties onto. ;_; The rest of my day is a complete blurr. . .filled with more yelling, a bird that keeps coming into the restrant and stealing fries from the guests (and even pooping on a guest's head), more arguments from the reds vs the blues, sex in the bathrooms and almost on my tables, more. . yes. . MORE puke. . and me finally crying and almost quiting my job. Yeah, I wonder why.

Yes, and that was my day today. Not to mention the fact I am still living nowhere, and don't move into my new apt until Sunday (now, heh, today). And now, all I have to do is link this, instead of re-typing this Piro-ish rant to 20 billion different ppl! Yay! *bows* But yes, I'm all better now ;)

Written in the clouds, 10:50 p.m. - Thursday, June 5, 2003
The Truth Behind My Job

Yeah. . . .I love this artice. It sums up the College Program so well, it's not funny. Written truely as only someone who has been a CP slave would know. People like Heather should be quite happy they didn't end up selling their souls over to disney for 6 measely bucks an hour!!! This site has some of the disney lingo on it too, quite useful: http://filebox.vt.edu/users/vwiker/lingo.htm

Other than that. . what else is new? You may be wondering why I haven't been pimping anything. Well, I'm not allowed to draw, according to disney. . and I've been kicked out of my disney apartment, literally. So, the combination of these two things are. . um. . . .hindering my creative expressionism!

Written in the clouds, 12:08 a.m. - Friday, May 30, 2003
American Civil Liberties Union

I've been here a week. . .but it feels like a year already. Okay, maybe not a year.. . but at least a month. A long. . .long . . time.

One of my roommates turned 20 today. . .or rather, yesterday I suppose. It's techincally Friday now.
My feet hurt so bad I want to cry. I stand up and walk around for eight hours straight every day now. Not allowed to sit down at all. . the entire time. I got those lil Dr.What's his face things. . .I shouldn't have wasted my money. The job isn't so bad. . especially when things are really busy. What sucks really, . . .REALLY bad is the whole "you are not allowed to sit down the whole time. . slave monkeys!" Actually, there's a running joke between the other mew CP and myself about his lil german jacket vest. It reminds me of the lil jackets the trained monkeys wear. . . I told him about it. Now, I'll just look over at him, and bust out laughing!

Now, some of you may have taken a look at the link for today, and gone "wt. .?!" I have some beef with disney. Actually, they'll prolly find this in google, try to track me down, and get me for insulting the company. Fie on you, I have my rights as a US citizen! :P However, disney is good at making magic, but they treat their workers like utter crap. I'm sorry, but they made me sign away more of my constitutional rights than I felt comfortable with. I'm having a lawyer look over all the crap I had to sign, to see if all of it is legal or not. Techincally, according to some paper I had to sign. . anything I create while working for them.. . is there. Now, this is not only stuff I turn in, but anything they "find". And by find, I mean when they do random searches in my room, and they find my clipboard o'drawings, they can take them and keep them. What a pile of dung is that? =.=

But now. . you must excuse me. . . this lil monkey slave has to be at work in a few hours XD

Written in the clouds, 11:38 p.m. - Saturday, May 24, 2003

Ever try walking two miles in high heels? Hehe. . not my idea of fun today! :D

I am so proud! I am now offically certified to serve french fries in the state of florida! For three whole years no less! Gawd, I'm such a lucky little disney slave. ^_^

I'm beginning to enjoy myself though. I sat through two more days of orientation, signed more of my rights as a US Citizen away and all. . .but I'm meeting lots of new people, setting up my room, and building up those interpersonal relationships. My roomies and I all went and saw a movie tonight. . Bruce Almighty. It was pretty good. . would have been better if I didn't have to pay almost Nine bucks for it, but oh well. This *is* disney, after all. I have to be up at five am tomorrow though, that . . .should be. . .interesting.

I think it's hilarious . . . .I sent three more daphane sketches to scott, and he likes the one I hated, and almost didn't send. Funny. . in that way that makes you want to walk out to your car, close the door, and scream at the top of your lungs. (that feels quite good, btw. I recommend it XD) I have some sketches I need to show off, I'll have to get my scanner hooked back up soon and do that later.. . .but for now, I needs some scheelp. XD

Written in the clouds, 02:14 a.m. - Friday, May 23, 2003

Yeah, this will be a pretty quick entry. . . I hope so at least.

So, I made it here to Orlando, stood in lines for hours. Then, I met my three . . .um. . .weird roommates, and stood in more lines, for six more hours. Lugged my computer, computer desk, and all the rest of my heavy boxes up. . not one. . . not two. . but THREE flights of stairs. You would think the two boys lounging around, eating my pizza would help. Yeah right. Lazy bastards. XD

So, I paid 12 more bucks a week in rent so I could have 2-4 LESS roommates in my apt with me. I figured that I would NEVER be able to get online with seven other phone-hungry girls in the same little place with me. As it is, I never get the phone. Now. . for the roommates. . .
First, we have Blair. She's the best of the bunch, and my actual bed-mate. . .err.. . bedroom mate. She reminds me of my friend Heather Campell in so many ways, it's not funny. She's not really the same. . but physically, they could be twins. She doesn't like anime, which was highly disappointing, but eh. . I'll work on it. She's from Kansas, and quite the party girl.
Next, we have Devon. . who does modeling and beauty pagents in her spare time. She's from Georgia, and sounds like it. XD I really haven't got to spend much time with her yet (give me a break. . been here two days ^_^;)
Last, we have Tiffany, who's from somewhere here in Florida. She seemed really flatline at first, but is slowly warming up to all of us.

I signed away my soul today. . .gave it all up to disney for almost nothing in return. I'll go into more details in that later I suppose. . not that it really matters. You can't have the job unless you sign all the papers, and I'm already here, stuck. I gave up my housing at UNT and pulled my admission. . and the chances of getting housing over there is second to none. I think I'm the first person since the program started in 1981 that has had a problem with the NDA agreement. . basically disney raping you of anything you may do while in their employment. . whether it is related to your job or not, or whether you showed them or not. If you created or designed something between the dates your soul belongs to them, they claim they own it, and you get zilch. Now, that is a load of bull caca, and is illegal, as I understand copyright laws. (which, heh. . yeah) Regardless, that's pretty dangerous because of my freelancing job, and my work with Codename:Morning Star. . not to mention KingFingers. Yeah, lot of fun there.

My recruiter lied to me about a bunch of stuff. . and I'm not too happy about it. But once again, here I am, stuck with no choice but to make the best of it and move on. I found out my park job is in the Magic Kingdom, in a german restraunt. I have to wear this. . hideous. .. .green and yellow "traditional dress". Now, I don't know about you, but I have family in germany, and they don't dress in any green and yellow sack clothes. . especially not neon yellow ones. >_<

Okay, I have to be up at the crack of dawn for more. .. you guessed it. . .standing in lines, sign the other 15 of my rights away as a citzen of the united states, and listen to speakers for five hours drone on and on about the history of the park. Wow, I can't wait to wake up and paaaaarty! Speaking of which, my roomies should be back from PI (pleasure Island) by now. . so I'll skip the part about being drenched at the Magic Kingdom, or the lovely beer incident. . . or even the store about the little five year old boy who trailed me around the park.

Actually, it's not as bad as I'm making it sound. But. . it's 2:30 in the morning, I haven't slept in days. . I'm a grumpy bunny, who hates standing in lines!!! =^.^=
Oh, and don't forget. . . Have a magical day! XDXDXDXD
I am sooo going to die here. . death by sparkle, if my roomies don't get me terminated first by drinking

Written in the clouds, 02:05 p.m. - Saturday, May 17, 2003

This time tomorrow, I'll be well on my way towards Florida. . .a new job, new state. . new surroundings. My life is in big brown boxes, only a few of which are coming with me. Heh, there is not really anything that can get me down, but moving is one of those things.

You would think that by now I would be used to moving. I've moved every 1-2 years my entire life. This is actually the second longest time I've ever stayed in one spot. Always new places, new people, new culture. I'm a gypsie, through and through. Funny that it's in my blood too. ^_^;; I seem to be very transient. . always leaving, always meeting new people, always loosing contact with others. I already know ahead of time I'm only going to be there until January. . so another move is on the horizon. At least this one I'll know about in advance! XD

The last couple of places I've lived, I had family nearby or with me. This time, for the first time ever, I'll be moving by myself. At first I was scared, but now I'm ready, willing. . a little excited even. Yeah, I'm still nervous. .who wouldn't be? I don't have a clue what I have sold myself into for the rest of the year, and that in itself is a very, very scary thought. I've never been to florida before, never been to anything disney. I'll be living with seven other complete strangers, and sharing a room with one of them. I get to make new friends all over again. . ones that I know will only be tangible for a short period of time. Something's pulling me forward, and now I have realized I just need to stop resisting, and go.

There's an old proverb that asks a question: "They say a butterfly here can cause a tornado in China. So, when does a butterfly know when to beat his wings?" Heh, how do I know if this is a good idea or not? Will I like it? Will this turn out to be the launching pad for a new career with disney for me? Heh, that butterfly doesn't know when to beat his wings. . and neither do I. So I just will. . . let what will happen, happen. . and come what may.

Watch out Disney! Here I come. . and I'm about to rock the world! XDXDXD

Written in the clouds, 10:31 p.m. - Sunday, May 4, 2003

Art? What's that? *looks around* I don't see an artist anywhere about? You are crazy! =^.^=

No art for you yet. . .yes, I've done some. But it's either been given away, or is top secret! Instead, I'm going to rant on about me, myself, and my life. Hey! This *is* a journal afterall. :p

Yesterday was my lil sister's prom. So, of course, I couldn't help but start thinging about prom, and the times I went. Funny that I don't talk to my dates anymore, and the photographs are hidden in some box at the top of my closet. Senior prom was both the best year, and the worst year combined. I think it's funny how people always remember the bad, and forget the good. The good is nothing more than a blurr. . and happy dream that you can't really trust that it was real. The bad, however. . .is forever burned into your mind. I hate having a photographic memory most times. It doesn't allow me to forget things that I would like to. >_<

So many changes in just one year. I no longer speak to the guy I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with, my religious beliefs have gone in and out of a blender. Lifestyle changes, hair. . clothing. . food prefernces changed. Graduation, college,. . and now I'll be leaving the state to go work for Disney. . in florida. I finally decided to take the plunge, and keep my major as art, instead of biology. I've now been published, and will be several more times hopefully soon. Made new best friends, and lost a few old ones. ;_; hehe. . I went to my first anime con, met lots of amazing people, and played with lots of cool toys! =^.^= Improved vastly in my art, and branched out to new ideas. Discovered new ideas, reached new understandings. . and of course, got a year older! XDXDXD

Funny that the time I measure a year by has always been the end of a school year. . even now in college and beyond. The blooming of honeysuckles in texas will forever remind me that summer. . and summer vacation is almost at hand! I suddenly become restless, easily distracted, and stare out windows for long periods of time. . . . .and then I come crashing back to reality that finals are here, I must study my cola off, and the grass needs to be mowed twice a week now! XD
Funny how this has taken me so long to write.
That's all for now. . .I think I'll finish this one on paper. ^^;

Written in the clouds, 08:05 a.m. - Monday, April 28, 2003
Andy Park's art page ^____^ (artist on TombRaider)

So, I got this package in the mail. . .. .

and it's BIG, very big. And would you guess who it was from? I'll give you a hint. . it wasn't from my mommy!
^______^

Yes, I got the job with disney. . . and yes, I'm going! *insert happy dancing here* I leave about the 18th for Florida, and won't come back until early January. Means I had better start packing, huh? ((Don't worry, I'll still be updating on my own semi-sporadic schedule :p

Yes, this means I am missing Project-Akon in Dallas. ;_; Funny thing is there is another con in Florida where I *will* be the same week. . "jacon". However, I likely won't be able to go to that either. . *and* the guest list pales badly when held up to Akon. Not to mention the fact I'm going to miss meeting all my favorite psycho's from #mtartanddrawing. . namely nomoreself, FJ, Inkmo. . .seeing my twin again, and Tsume, my new fox-boy stalker! It's funny how I can meet not one, but *two* people who are so similar to myself. (and both from mt. . I should write Fred a letter, or something. Yeah, something XD) I'm going to miss meeting Fred at Akon too ;_; . I wanted to get some index card art from him. I wonder if he's going to animeFEST in florida? The only good thing about missing Akon is that I will still be in Florida for animeFEST. . .one of the oldest cons around in the Us. I'll get to see all the folk from IronCat again, and a bunch of other cool ppl! Better get thinking about a costume ^_____^

Finals are this week . . . not looking forward to that. I'm on a drawing overload now! &_& My boss for my freelance job finally decided to quit ignoring me. . and now I am having to crunch to get anything done! And. . .you know me. . .I'm waiting to the last second to get my design project done, which is being a major thorn in my side. Loosing too many hours to that thing!!! That beast!! (quite literally too XD)

Okay, this rant is bordering on Piro-ish. . .better stop while I'm ahead. . or I'll start going on about all the new toys I've bought recently. . . like my takeout-box, or the Vash bust Natasha gave me last week! :D Ommmph! Tai food is the best. . but it comes back to haunt you for two days afterwards! XD

Written in the clouds, 03:47 a.m. - Sunday, April 6, 2003
The Many Forms of Daphane!

Yes, I promised more art. . and there it be. It's easier to link the whole album than each individual piccy. And this way, when I add more. .it's in there too! :D 4-1 is my favorite. . but 6-1 is the approved sketch.

Oh wait. . I didn't tell you. I finally signed another freelance contract. . *gasps*! Those above pics are pre-lim designs for a character named Daphane for HeavyCat Multimedia. (Blake is doing sketch for them too now, yay!) Scott first advertised on the MT forums about six months ago, and I almost did stuff for him way back then. I'm glad I didn't though. . .I have more time now than I did back then to sketch. I'm actually enjoying this quite a bit. . it's forcing me to draw instead of being lazy and doing other things!!! XD Like. . watching the rest of Trigun!
I'm also really happy, because I finally broke down and made business cards for KingFingers. They are sooo pretty!
Still waiting to hear back from disney. . . the suspense is killing me.

What type of Bishounen are you? Find out at artificial-soul.net by Rin.

Written in the clouds, 11:44 p.m. - Sunday, March 30, 2003
The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Clichés

Pingbunny: hey! who wants their name written on a grain of rice?
Pingbunny: only $9.99!!!!
Pingbunny: free shipping, even! Pingbunny: you can choose between Indian rice with an elephant on the package. . . or Ben's Rice. . with some old guy on the box :D
FJ:do you have jasmine rice?
Pingbunny: *checks behind counter* yes, actually I do!
FJ: I like my name-rice to smell nice
Pingbunny: all profits from the sales will go to the save-a-ping foundation. . .which puts little 'bots through college :D

Yes, I haven't posted in a while. . but yes, I've been drawing and keeping myself busy. I'll link some of it up in an edited version of this entry, or the next one. ^_^ I've also been playing around with nib pens again. . and various types of ink and techinques. That should be fun to show as well.
I had an interview with Disney on wednesday, and I eagerly await the results.

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Written in the clouds, 03:13 a.m. - Sunday, March 16, 2003
The Truth About Dragons and Virgins, page 1

I know what you are thinking, "WOW! She changed her layout, sweet!" Not really. I'm not happy with it. I didn't have the time/patience to make my own, so I opted for a pre-made one. Several hours, and several different verisions, I gave up and slapped this one up. Cute, eh. . maybe ^_^;

Today was a pretty good day. Woke up late, ate some girlscout cookies, and FINALLY started on Gleep's story into panels. I have the first page linked at the top here. . enjoy. (I had to shrink it to upload. Hope you can still read it) I am straying from gleep's original script by alot. I hope he isn't upset ^_^;
Spring break is almost over. . which means I have to go back for classes on Monday. Actually, I don't have a heavyload at all. . quite the opposite in fact. Woe unto me next semester! XD I have a $400 housing fee due tomorrow. That should be fun to come up with. For those of you who don't know, I'm going to be at UNT next semester.
Okay, I'm about ready to fall over. . so sleepy. More later! For now, just look at the piccies. you know you want to! XD

Fanart, Jenna, from Golden Sun. Inked ^_^
WindyFog. . a cute little chic that a MT forum goer created, and I "fixed"
Quick Sketch, not that great, but eh.


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Written in the clouds, 02:31 a.m. - Friday, March 14, 2003
Tsume's Pretty Piccy ^_^

I have decided that I am not as good of an artist as I think I am. . . but not as bad of one as I believe either. Make any sense? Good. ^_^
I decided that this in an ONLINE JOURNAL, so cheese and crackers, I should use it as such, right? *laughs* Yeah, we'll see how long this lasts.

School, work. . . and lots of play, that's what makes up my days. (yay! it rhymes! XD) I should draw more, but I like talking too much. I have been drawing, and even *gasp!* inked a couple of sketches. It's too late (read: I'm too lazy) to put them up tonight, but I'll edit this and stick them up tomorrow maybe!
Lately, I've run out of ideas of what to draw, so I've been re-drawing characters or characters and poses for random. . .well, not-so random people over at the MT forums. Tsume is one such person. I re-drew a pic of his, but he astounded me with this "quick doodle" of his linked at the top. Wow. (See my nick hidden in the flames? Too cool!)
I need to get back to work on the comic idea that gleep gave me. . .now that I can draw a dragon half-decently, we'll see what happens.

I was attempting to clean out my piles and piles of sketches today a little bit earlier. I realized that I couldn't bear to part with the vast majority of my sketches, baring the most crappiest doodles. It's neat to look back on my progress just in the last few months, let alone since I started drawing anime-style a little over two years ago. Hmmm.. maybe I should upload my first attempt at anime ever so you can see how far I've come? *dies of laughter* I still have it though, and it gets me through those days when no matter how hard I try, everything is crap. Sort of like the progression sketches for your favorite dragon-girl and mine: Midori Shooshin. I should make a new layout with her as the focus!
Okay, this is bordering on one of PIRO's rants, I'd better call it quits. (Heh, maybe they really did fry my brain with those tests today at the hospital! XDXDXD)

Written in the clouds, 03:27 p.m. - Sunday, March 9, 2003
Haven CG

Yes, you knew it would happen! I've had my annual "ignore the blog" spree, and now I'm back to posting some-what regularly.
As you may have noticed, the images come and go sporadically, as imagemagician can't decide whether to kill my account, or let me keep it.
I *actually* do have some new drawings, which I'll link below. School and work caught up with me. . . and I had a visitor for a month that, ah. . . took up a bunch of my time. There's an interesting story behind that. . which I'll have to tell in my next update! XDXD
Quick bishie, five minutes. Turned out, eh. .soso
another quickie. Practicing drawing the outfit more than the character.
I'm thinking about Cosplaying this character to A-kon. Can't remember who she is though, ^_^;
Yeah, the best of the lot! RAWR! Dragon boy, wai! XD Read the caption, it's all there
And finally, many ruined sheets of paper later. . .a dragon. . .sort of ^_^;
Hmmm. . I really should change my blog layout, shouldn't I? It's either broken, or christmas-y! Ta-ta for now.
Yes! You know I couldn't go w/o adding another quiz! bwaa haaaaa!

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Written in the clouds, 11:49 p.m. - Tuesday, January 7, 2003
The Chariot

Okay, I partially got over myself, and started drawing again.
The picture in the link above is my tarot card assignment from the MT forums. Personally, I don't use or believe in tarot cards, but I thought it would be fun to do one. It actually didn't turn out badly. Helped boost my confidance. The symbolism on the card is all bible-based too, which I find funny now since most Christians would flame me for drawing a tarot card.
So, this means I should post some of my doodles from this week, doesn't it? Well, I finally hit 1000 posts over at megatokyo, and This was drawn in a rush to celebrate it.
Another lovelyfive minute sketch that The_Cat asked me to draw. It's cute!
The last Draw Club challengea ten mintue sketch/ink of a chibi pilot!
And you know what else? TODAY'S my BIRTHDAY!!! So, I'm. . .ah, one year older than what I was yesterday! XD Night all, have a good day. ^_^
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The crazy girl in the shadows.
Find out what anime girl you are.

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What fuzzy creature are you?

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Find out what anime villan you are.

Written in the clouds, 03:17 a.m. - Sunday, December 29, 2002
My crappy Drawing Club Pirate

Once a week, in the IRC channel, we have this thing called "Draw Club". A topic is assigned, and everyone has a time limit to draw the topic. This weeks was "pirate". Above is my pic, which I was okay with until I saw people like FJ's and SK's.
Now, despite the fact that I usually never compare myself to others, I feel really outclassed. VERY outclassed. So much so that I suddenly have zero desire to pick up a pencil. Call me juvinile, but I'm actually depressed about it. Usually seeing something by FJ fills me with desire to draw. Maybe seeing something of mine right next to his killed me somewhere.
I should delete this post, but maybe its better I don't.

Written in the clouds, 03:13 a.m. - Saturday, December 28, 2002
Kay, the cookie Jar dragon five minute sketch

Well well. . .three days after Xmas. And yes, I did get my tablet after all. (not to mention lots of other neat stuff!) ^_^ Its lots of fun, but I don't quite have the hang of it yet.
I also got my package from my kuya!!! Yay! He sent me the neatest stuff. A BEAUTIFUL Hikaru no Go art calendar that I absoultly adore, some HNG cards and bookmarker, a wonderful BIG Love Hina scroll, some comic tones, and a mag with lots of pinups. I was SO HAPPY! Yay!
Okay, my sister asked me why I never put up any of my "real" drawings. . . meaning non-cartoon/anime I suppose, so here's a three hour sketch of my marching band hat (wai! I forgot to give it back =.=) done with prisma colored pencils. Not really that great, but its the only "pretty" thing that I've done recently that will fit on my scanner bed. XD

Written in the clouds, 01:58 a.m. - Wednesday, December 25, 2002
Merry Christmas from Kero!

Merry Christmas!
Here's my gift to all of you. . .my 15 minute sketch. . from the first stroke to uploading the CG.
I'm pretty excited. I sent out a package to my kuya in Japan, and he got it in time for X-mas!!! His should be here the day afterwards. I can't wait. I wonder what goodies from Japan he sent me? Ronnie REALLY like what I sent him: a book on perspective drawing for comics, and OWAW vol 1.
I wonder what I got for Xmas this year? I only asked for three things, and I went ahead and bought the scanner and PS2 this week. Only the tablet. . .and I doubt I got that. I guess that is what happens when you ask for $$$ things. ^_^

Written in the clouds, 05:32 a.m. - Tuesday, December 24, 2002
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Over at the Megatokyo forums, someone started this "thing". What you do is take one of your old drawings, and give it a "make over". . or in other words, re-do it.
Maybe from the lack of much to do. . .or at least FUN stuff to do, I gave it a hack.
HERE is the OLD picture. . .my first manga character ever, and one of the first sketches of her (Midori) I did. (yes, I kept them, wouldn't you?)
HEREis Midori's make-over! I skimped out on the hands and forgot the tail, but Yay! She looks so much better now. ^_^
Funny, I was SO proud of the old sketch when I first did it a little over two years ago. That's how long I've been fiddling with manga. Improvement or no? Certainly not two years worth. =.=+

Written in the clouds, 02:25 a.m. - Monday, December 23, 2002
Go take a look at some of Blake's Drawings

Blake is an online friend of mine, who works for the same comic book company that I do. I love Blake, and his work to death. I wish he just loved himself a little more.
Now, for all the piccies I've been promising. I finally went out and bought a new scanner, and went scanner happy. ^_^
Kakita from MT asked me to draw him as an anime character. . so I did! ^_^
Some random, hot boy I used to use alot
Sketchy girl. . eh, so-so
Five minutes, sketch of Redwoods for an Indie game
Look! I found the first page of panels I ever did!!! Click on it and laugh.
That's all for now. ^_^ Go home and cry now. Bwaa haa. Merry Christmas all!

Written in the clouds, 01:43 a.m. - Friday, December 20, 2002
Once again, DrCloud's Sketch of me

Okay, blah. . .I finally archived my blog. (If you REALLY want to see something that was on it before. . like all the really cool quizzes, then there's a link to the archive on the side bar. Strange to have it longer than the middle 0.o
NOW, all my pretty buttons are gone!!! Waaaaaaaiiiiiii! But you know what? That means I get to go find more, yay! ^_^
Not much going on lately. . lots of new piccies that I will try to get scanned and up tomorrow. ^_^

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