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The Biographer

Plotful, Character-Oriented, Platonic

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There was another one I thought I should have gotten, but after further thought... I suppose this is pretty true. I like one solid setting that I can tinker around in and explore all aspects of with my characters, and tend to let other characters help with the plot and character development. I looooooove implementing changes in psyche. As we can all see from Mr. Sociopath over there...

Aaah, sorry about disappearing last night, people! D: My internet randomly shut off around 11pm, which I took as a sign from above that I should get my ass to bed.

Of course, the day I don't go into work is the day that the rest of the team walks away with five sales. Orz.

TODAY:
• Laundry
• Vacuum
• Store
• Game Logs
• Driving
• Music

Yesterday I took the day off because if I didn't, I was going to go insane and snap at someone or have a mental breakdown in front of my boss or something unfortunate and embarrassing like that. I went to the Pride Parade and had a blast with friends. Got my face all sunburned, but I have no regrets. Also went on a hike yesterday morning, which made me feel pretty hardcore. I've decided that the next Monday I get off, I'm going to go to the aquarium and draw fish all day.

I've decided to at least take every other Sunday off for the game, because I need that day full of lulz more than I need a couple of demos, I think.

( and now, a countdown meme! )

I'm way behind on my f-list. I'll get on that after I take a chunk out of my to-do list.

I went to the first day of my professional sucking thing.

I can make a lot more than I thought I could.

I'll get $2000 a month as long as I meet showing minimum.

I'll be working for a boss that actually gives two shits about this trainees.

He said he'd find ways to get me places even without a driver's license.

They cycle people around so I'll get ridiculous amounts of job experience.

The Kirby vacuum is the most badass motherfucking vacuum you will ever see in your life.

It's absolutely disgusting what lives in your mattress.

It turns out I don't work Sunday's after all, so I get my game back.

To top it all off, my dad just texted me to say how proud he is that I finally got a job.

...

This is slightly balanced out by the fact that they may not ask me back if they thought I wasn't good enough today or something like that because they can't admit everyone who applied, but it's not enough to outweigh the fact that I'm so fucking happy right now I could cry.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a dozen phone calls to make.

TOMORROW:
• Six-mile hike with Dad. 5am. Set both alarms.
• Buy some new headphones (broke my big ones, orz).
• Look into how expensive iPods are these days.
• Cash that check so that I have more money.
• Badger Mom for driving lesson until she gives in.
• Purchase some ice cream. Eat said ice cream.
• Level up Cynis obsessively until my eyes bleed.

And that'll be my day, I think.

I want to get another icon post up (so far the menu looks like ROR, DOGS, Clover, 9, KH, and DK for my personal reference) before Wednesday. Brandy's graduation is on Tuesday, so I should figure out just who I'm stealing a ride from. Probably Sean.... I thought I had more to write about, but I guess I spoiled that by condensing tomorrow into bullet points.

I've been making a lot of comparisons regarding my growth as an artist lately. I still have the very first manga icon I ever colored, and recolored that same panel again to see how much I've learned about how to actually color things in. See the difference? I also recently found this seven-year-old drawing of mine (yeeeesh) and re-drew it for my monthly art challenge over at DeviantArt. It's a little bloody, but check it out. Makes me wonder how good I'd be now if I hadn't stopped drawing for five years in-between...

Ask me questions. Any questions. If you've ever wondered something about me, or if you just feel like finding out factoids, ask here. I promise to answer every question to the best of my ability.

I don't know what anyone would want to ask, but just in case you've been curious or something, here you go. ♥

I got the job.

Training starts Wednesday.

I have a week before I sell my soul to a vacuum.

A vacuum that cleans, paints, blows leaves, cooks dinner, and watches your kids for you, but still.

...

BRB, playing videogames all week.

So I had a dream where I was finally back in college. It was late, I was brushing my teeth, and then I remembered, "I can't go to bed yet, I have math homework to do" and I was actually happy about it. I think that's my subconscious letting me know just how much I really want to get back to school. :|

Of course then it switched to my brother wanting to go to some school event, and needing a chaperon. It was last-minute and getting late, so my mom had me go with him. I agreed reluctantly, but it turns out the event was a Star Trek convention and I was filled with relative glee. They were showing movie previews in one room, and most of them ran on the theme of SCARY ANIMAL vs SCARY ANIMAL. The last one was like, sea turtles vs penguins or something, but after some fierce-looking shots of the dangerous sea turtles, it panned out to show that they were all just kind of stuck on one side of this rock wall and couldn't actually get to the penguins. That produced the narrated line, "What are they going to do, throw food over the wall and hope that the penguins overeat to death?"

Then that switched into a preview for a movie about what would have happened if Padmé Amidala had a shoe obsession and had been kidnapped halfway through the second Star Wars movie by Hitler. I think it was with the intention of forced marriage, and I think they were in Scotland anyway. I am not making this up.

So yeah. I applaud myself for being able to come up with such comedy in my sleep.

Guh, today.

( Unimportant details about a job interview. )

The job pays pretty well, has decent hours, deals in sales (vacuums, exciting), and is actually able and willing to train their employees. The catch is that I'd have to work weekends, which probably means giving up my Saturday morning hikes with Dad and my every-other-Sunday table-top sessions with the group. The idea of ditching either makes my soul shrivel up a little every time I think about it, but the amount of money I'd get from this job starting out would be enough to pay for not one, but two quarters of college. And I need the money. So... Yeah. Maybe I'll run away and live with my friends to stay sane.

That assumes I get the job, of course.

On the way home I almost got a nosebleed on the bus. I thought of walking up the bus driver and going, "Hey, do you have a tissue? 'Cause I'd rather not bleed all over your floor." The potential bleeding stopped pretty soon though, so I didn't have to cause a scene.

At the transfer station, some guy sat down next to me and managed the feat of hitting on me without saying anything. It was like a game of charades. It was kind of charming in a "what the fuck is wrong with you" sort of way. I dodged all questions and looked in the other direction out the window as much as possible. That's the last time I get on a bus without my giant headphones on, man.

On the short walk home, one of the neighbor's dogs came up to me with a tennis ball in his mouth. I thought maybe he wanted someone to throw it for him, so I told him to drop it, but he rolled right over in front of me instead. So I rubbed his tummy. He was very friendly, and made up for the creepy charades guy, I guess.

Now I'm tired and kind of in a weird mood. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeh.

HEY ANDI!

I believe you wanted this?

I think it's really kind of strange how I get my best roleplay ideas, advice, and tips for improvement off of the meme meant to cause wank and turmoil. Maybe it's only because I feel like I could comment there and actually get a response besides "don't know their canon, but all your characters are ♥!". Not that there's anything wrong with love and maybe I'm not doing it as wrong as I think I am, and it's not like anyone's said anything bad about me but HEY I'M IN A WEIRD MOOD AND JUST WANTED TO SAY THIS SOMEWHERE SO IT'S OUT OF MY HEAD.

Me and roleplaying are a little weird right now, I guess. I've been feeling a little burned out for a while, but knowing that other anons out there have similar ideas as me gives me a wacky sort of inspiration to go back to the way things used to be. Fuck the norms, fun is for winners.

And I am a winner.

PS: I'm typing this from my closet. No really, I'm leaning on my jackets. They're warm and cozy.

BRB NAVIGATING

Hope that I don't get lost and miss my interview, orz.

I wanted to do a quick twenty-minute sketch of the crew of the Silent Monsoon up on deck saying various witty things. Spent way more time on it than I'd planned, and I kept scrapping various angles and going, "grrr, that looks all messed up!" and ended up hating all of it and just ditching the idea entirely until I can get a decent scheme together and have the time to commit to it. I randomly adored this little doodle of Kelzin looking mortified, though, so I salvaged it. So it goes.

It's gotten really hot in the last couple of days. The sweaty, gross, if-you-stay-upstairs-then-you-die kind of hot. I've migrated onto the living room couch, and claimed it as my own. The windows are open, there are no screens separating the inside from the outside, and and lots of insects are taking advantage of this. There were half-a-dozen flies chillin' in the middle of the room this morning. I've seen two wasps buzz past my face today. There are moths in the cupboard, but that's mostly unrelated. Just annoying.

I love the temperature and the sun, but why must so many bad things come with it? Dat ain't fly, Mother Nature. Can't we all just get along? I'm sticking to my couch, for the love of Pete.

Tomorrow I have an internship interview with The Mountaineers. I'm nervous, as I always am for anything social and vaguely official-like, but not worried. They asked me, not the other way around. They so dig me. I'm awesome and a winner. When I get home from that tomorrow I need to call my Financial Aid office about... Uh, financial aid. Because I don't want to wait a month for my mail to get here. Because by then my money will be due. And that would be bad.

Crunch time. Yeah, baby.

In less stressful news, I have a game this Sunday! Now, to spend my experience points on helpful skills... Or nifty artifacts that I'll probably never use? Dunno if I could justify buying more hearthstones, but I want that one that converts all lethal damage to bashing. Just in case I get shiv'd again. Chumps or not, being shiv'd hurts.

Came up with another random Original Character. Her name's Jack Tar, and she's been just about every Jack in history from Jack and the Beanstalk to Jack Frost to the Jack-of-all-Trades to Jack Ketch. You could even say that she was Every Man Jack of them. Except, funnily enough, she wasn't involved in the Jack the Ripper fiasco. She was on the other side of Europe at the time. I could probably translate her over to an O!WOD setting, since I have a plot for how to turn her into a starting level character. As long as she's something that could live until the age of 800-900 and still be pretty.

I ♥ Baldur's Gate so much.

Being a level one character with a bounty on your head kind of really sucks, though. Out of gold, and our new party member needs some better equipment. Also need to be able to afford a Stone to Skin scroll to free a... Cleric, I think? She's pretty hip. If I get her, I'll have a full party again. Kicked the Evil characters out of my party because they were pissing off the rest of the group. :| I'm the only Chaotic Good one in my party. I'm like Robin Hood... With a merry band of adventuring crazies.

I need to get stronger so that I don't get my but kicked by every evil bounty hunter who happens to be out to kill me. And, you know, the giant spider side-quest. I guess that means I'll level grind on some bandits and hobgoblins until I can kill the goddamn mages before they cast Fear, Hold, and Entangle on everyone in rapid succession.

My party thus far consists of Giovanna (me! Ranger, befriends animals, hates skeletons, doesn't afraid of anything), Imoen (thief, neutral good, sucks at picking locks something awful), Khalid (fighter, neutral good, has a stutter and dislikes confrontation), Jaheira (fighter/druid multiclass, true neutral, currently my token healer), and Minsc (ranger, neutral good, has a berserk button and a hamster companion named Boo). I needs that Cleric for healytiems and the ability to turn the dead. Those zombie motherfuckers are going down.

It's stuff like this that really makes me want to try running a campaign. Probably not one based on D&D... Too much math. But the world works, because everyone understands the world. I could find a simple game and apply the setting, and it wouldn't be too hard. I know I've got the BESM guide around here somewhere, and maybe I'll browse through some of my mom's RP rulebooks in a while.

Dude, you guys. I totally have internet connection all the way up in my treehouse.

My dad built me, like, the most badass treehouse ever (it's shaped like a ship and has all these portholes and everything) but I was scared to come up here for the longest time because it was full of bugs and dead stuff and the last time I tried I got attacked by a wasp's nest when I opened the door. And the crow's nest was rather precarious and I was worried it might fall on my head or something (it was also a good forty feet in the air and that just makes me nervous). But today my dad went up and took out the crows nest and cleaned out all the dead stuff and I'm up here for the first time in years and it's aaaaawesome.

Not to mention it was actually hot today. I loooved it. My brother was writhing in agony in the family room because it was too toasty for him, while I was chillaxin' in jeans and a black t-shirt. I love the heat so muuuuch. ♥

So yeah. Happy. :3

I'M GOING ON ANOTHER HIKE WITH MY DAD TOMORROW... SO IF YOU NEVER HEAR FROM ME AGAIN, I DIED.

PROBABLY EATEN BY A COUGAR.

Today I have a college orientation, which means that tonight I'll be cleaning the upstairs and running loads of laundry through the washer and dryer well into the night, but that's fine because I don't usually go to sleep until morning anyway. Tomorrow I can tackle the downstairs. I will make the living room shine.

S-Still no word from the job thing, so for now I'm setting it in the "lost cause" category of my brain to worry about later. I have five other emails I need to send regarding job things, so I will get on that... After cleaning, while the laundry is going. Organization, yes!

But right now I'm just worried about oriiiientation oh god what if it's something stupid like what they did with high school? I really hope not. I don't want to take a tour and learn people's names. I really don't. I'm only there to sign up for classes so I can know just what I'm taking and how much it will cost. ;;

I should get my Financial Aid feedback in five days.

I MIGHT BE JUST A LITTLE NERVOUS AND SPAZZY RIGHT NOW, DON'T MIND ME.

It's very hard to explain the inner workings of websites and the internet to people who don't go on the internet much. "Web hosting" does not automatically translate into layman's language. Neither does the logic behind Katamari Damacy, but that's only because it's ridiculous.

Went to the movies for my brother's birthday. Saw a longer preview for 9, squee'd like a little girl. The Sherlock Holmes movie looks like a million kinds of fun, and that movie with the people that go around in robot versions of themselves? Awesome.

And instead of seeing Star Trek like the rest of the world, we went and saw Terminator: Salvation. And I... Really liked it. I mean, it definitely wasn't a moving commentary on the nature of the humans vs. machines, and it wasn't beautifully crafted scripting and plot, but so help me... There were explosions and robots and a lot of people running around being badass. Quite a few moments had us going, "Eeeeeeh," but there were also a few moments that had us going, "Oh... Clever!" as well. And did I mention the explosions? Lots of those. :)

So as long as you're willing to not take it seriously, it's pretty cool.

The How's My Driving? Meme

I was late to the Para HMD, so maybe this will make up for it.

I think things have been going really well the last couple of weeks.

Which is... Kind of weird. I mean, check this out:

• All my financial aid stuff is in and I'm just waiting for them to process it.
• Assuming it isn't a crazy internet hoax, I'll be making $80 a day pretty soon.
• I've got two paying website projects set up behind that, huzzah for freelance.
• My friends have rented an amazing house and I'll eventually move in with them.
• I've been cranking out pieces for this art series that I'm actually proud of.
• I seem to have crawled out of my RP slump with new inspiration for my characters.

And to top it off, the weather is fabulous today.

I... Don't want to jinx it, but holy moly, it's so strange to not be stressing about something.

Steps to restoring the First Age:

1. Do exactly what the voices in your head tell you to do.
2. Follow a mysterious mechanical woman all the way to Cybertron.
3. Have a quick moral debate before becoming an ANATHEMAAAAA.
4. Swear to use your powers only for good and great justice.
5. Make a machine to keep all Fair Folk out of Creation forever.
6. ???
7. Profit!

And I guess that's pretty much the plan so far.

I should have just played a combat character. :|