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Friday, August 3, 2007
So, unless you read my entries solely from the Friends page, you may have noticed the experimental layout. It's not finished, but being an experiment, I'm more likely to abandon it than to finish it. Plus the experiment succeeded anyway: I learned about modifying LiveJournal styles with CSS today.
I'm not certain whether to claim I'm in a creative block, or that I'm being a wuss who likes the idea of being an artist more than actually being an artist. It's a harsh self-accusation, it stings, and I'm still not dealing with it properly. For one, I'm still trying to fight it, instead of ignore it and continue with my work. A bad sign.
Hello August.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
I'm beginning to loathe this time of night, just when I should be falling asleep, I feel wide awake and keep thinking of all the things I could be doing--when instead, I am fighting to go to sleep, which never works until after 1:30AM.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Ok, there we are, back to normal. I decided about ten minutes ago to play with the language settings on my laptop, after coming across an article about foreign fonts. So, I've enabled options for the the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, which as is commonly noted, is not so simple if you've grown up on the North American QWERTY keyboard layout (as I have); a French keyboard/input language; and if I can get it up and running, I'm going to put an Arabic option on here as well. Not ridiculously useful quite yet, given that I am far from fluent in French, and haven't even finished learning the Arabic alphabet, but hey, the fact that I can do this on my computer is just really cool.
( Erin playing with the French keyboard... )
I probably won't be able to just type up Arabic characters here, because the rest of the world sans support for them won't see them anyway, but if the support carries over to my adobe image programs...like Photoshop, prepare for me to take my Arabic language practice on the computer. I've decided to work on learning the Arabic alphabet this summer, btw. So far I'm familiar with the letters baa', taa', thaa', nuun, yaa', the 'alif, and the diacritical marks for the short vowel sounds a (as in "at"), i (as in "bit"), and u (as in "put").
*EDIT* Here we go, an image. One of the most beautiful things I've seen in a while...so much possibility!
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
http://zinkdesign.blogspot.com/2007/06/concurso-il-garabatto-de-armand-basi.html
Now I realize why I'm having such a problem designing something for this: I have no fucking chance. If even half of the entries are at the level of this designer and have that meaning put behind them--then the prize will certainly go to someone worthy.
Alors, maintenant je doit faire un essai, pour practiquer a parler de et a presenter mes idees.
I think I have no idea which article is necessary for an infinitive following the verb "to practice." It's ok. I like this song anyway.
I'm about to finish sketchbooks eleven (30 pages) and twelve (3 pages). Up and coming, on the 23rd, eleven will be 365 days old. But Twelve will be finished first--tonight, before midnight when little book becomes 376 days old.
happy [belated] birthday, little black book...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Sooooooo, instead of working on my planned essay (seriously, there's so much reading involved in environmental planning and policy, and I'm on vacation) I put some stuff up over at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=88.8) wildcantaloupes. Mainly fiction snippets that I wrote in/before January, sparked by my awesome creative writing class, and also (for kicks) an essay for my mandatory freshman academic writing course--on Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," a story that apparently everyone, except me, read in sometime in high school. I memorized "The Raven" in middle school, ok friends? =D
Saturday, May 26, 2007
What I have to show for a few hours...
( images... )
I keep forgetting the amount of time design takes -- for someone at my level of ability -- so right now my thoughts are, "You should go back to drawing. Or better yet, writing academic papers."
Anyways, I am actually intending to re-activify this journal by also using it as a medium to document my design and illustration practice over the summer (besides mundane this-is-my-life entries). Well, most likely the pure illustrations will go to my conceptart.org sketchbook (which is also due for a resurrection), so mostly design stuff will show up here. Fiction and other written works are scheduled to be over at wildcantaloupes, and I'll probably be annoying and post notices that the journal has been updated here.
Well, I like this style a great deal.
I feel iffy about using it, because I normally design/modify the look of my journals and I haven't customized this layout at all. I'm a bit lazy. It looks pretty.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=88.8) writemore
A June round, anyone? We've got some initial takers...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
3:03PM
P.S. I'm back home for spring break, from now until Saturday morning... since I'm naturally so good at communicating these types of things to people =|, =].
Friday, January 19, 2007
A General Theory of Love, by Thomas Lewis, MD, Fari Amini, MD, and Richard Lannon, MD.
Interesting read. The title is so presumptious that more people should read it than I think probably did. I have one last final tomorrow, and then I get to prepare for a new semester...
Friday, December 29, 2006
For those of you interested in my life, thank you for your concern! Nothing bizarre is happening right now, so I've given you fiction in lieu of any real-life occurrences I wouldn't narrate well anyway.
If you have five minutes (tops) and vision good enough to read these words, then by all means (or as many as time allows you) please examine nearly three hours of effort (provided below), and write your reactions. Thank you.
( Scene i of the Prologue, The Conjure One )
Sunday, November 26, 2006
5:08PM
I have four (possibly five) versions of a start to a storyline I've been planning for at least a month, plus another two-page start on a storyline I decided to try and illuminate this past weekend and another idea on how to structure this second storyline. I have a 12-20 short story due for workshop in about two weeks.
This is somewhat frustrating. Damn you writing.
...
Wait. Have my child.
Friday, August 25, 2006
My sister is burning smoked-ham flavor incense. I am confused.
(I have written more serious e-mails in the past two days than ever before in my life)
Sunday, August 13, 2006
7:07PM
Woot! Back from the Southwestern Land. Much love for the Sonoran from me -- even if 100 degree temperatures kill me flat.
Now, I have approximately twenty days to pack for the first part of the rest of my life and see how in shape I can become. And clean my room (a project at least six years in the making).
Monday, July 17, 2006
It occurs to me that I have not written anything[any stories, fiction] in a rather long while.
I finished Invisible Monsters this morning, and ended up at Chuck Palahniuks official fansite where, for a premium membership fee, one could gain access to a "Writer's Workshop" dealio. For improving writing and getting feedback and whatnot. I tracked down some of Mr. Palahniuk's essays. He is a strong writer, no matter my attention span. Tangent: For the record, I got bored 2/3s of the way through Invisible Monsters and put it down while I finished another book I had also gotten slightly bored with but really enjoyed by the end (Born Confused, by Tanuja Desai Hidier[sp?]), then started Abarat (Clive Barker), and then yesterday bought The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) to work on after Invisible Monsters.
And an hour ago I re-read Citidalia. What there is of it.
I like the very first section. I'm not so sure about the rest, and I am terribly confused because I was certain I had written another chapter that is sitting quite clearly in my mind, but I can't find it. To a certain extent that is perfectly wonderful because I kept remembering that chapter and concluding it sucked, but I'm still experiencing separation anxiety for a piece of fiction that was never in existence.
Wednesday, July 5, 2006
I'm in a bad mood because of paperwork (have I ever filled out an IRS 1040 form? No. Do I want to continue staring at these unfortunate questions? No. Vehemently.) and this was funny, though not excellently told. Possibly I've been watching a bit much CSI lately.
A couple goes on vacation to a fishing resort in northern Minnesota. The husband likes to fish at the crack of dawn. The wife likes to read.
One morning the husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap. Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out.
She motors out a short distance, anchors, and continues to read her book. Along comes a game warden in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says, "Good morning Ma'am. What are you doing?"
"Reading a book," she replies, (thinking, "Isn't that obvious?")
"You're in a restricted fishing area, he informs her.
"I'm sorry officer, but I'm not fishing! I'm reading."
"Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I'll have to take you in and write you up."
"If you do that, I'll have to charge you with sexual assault," says the woman.
"But I haven't even touched you," says the game warden.
"That's true, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment."
"Have a nice day ma'am," and he left.
MORAL:
Never argue with a woman who reads. It's likely she can also think.
Current mood: faintly amused
11:24AM
I hate paperwork.
C'est tout.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
The salsa dancing lesson was fun. But there is no class next Tuesday. There's no ballet either.
Anyone know any guys who'd be interesting in taking a class, or at least being a practice partner?
*sad puppy eyes*
Saturday, June 24, 2006
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