I promisseee to be more active, my god. I really do enjoy reading your journals, but I think the sheer lack of activity I've been doing all summer has incinerated the "comment" function in my brain. But I do have a new layout: eosyn eosyn eosyn

I want to write a story, or draw a manga. I was always a decent writer and a mediocre artist, but I am a shit-awful storyteller. It probably has something to do with the fact that I never had any emotional investment in my stories, much like I have little emotional investment in life xD

I'm a bit detached and I wonder if it'll be a problem, but to be perfectly honest I like it. I've never been over-stressed or extremely emotional, but I'm not good at making close friends. I will probably never get married and own fifteen cats instead.

Umm in other news, my relatives and I talked a lot about homosexuality this summer and my parents will probably not disown me and definitely not execute me if I brought home a girlfriend. Although my mom is still pushing the pregnancy vs. adoption thing, but I don't think there's anything that I'd like less than spewing a bawling baby into the world THROUGH MY VAGINA :( Sorry uterus, but I'd rather you didn't exist.

In other other news, I finished the Nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling. The first three books were amazing, but I thought the fourth one read a lot like fanfiction--albeit very well written, extremely fulfilling fanfiction--with its comparably large amount of MANSEX and comparably small amount of political intrigue. I'm still on a gay epic fantasy high, but it's slowly being crushed by my obligation to read Grapes of Wrath and other various, shorter, seemingly less-painful schoolbooks.

Also, two weeks ago I BABYSAT for the second time ever, I don't even know why because I really, really dislike children. I'm going to do it again tomorrow :(( Luckily I'm earning good cash. I didn't even entertain the notion that the lady would want me to babysit again seeing as I wasn't exactly stellar last time...but meh. I think to prevent further job inquiries I'll have to accidentally injure one of her children or make them ridiculously obese or something.

HELL YEAH. I'm done with my one, singular AP test! With the exception of one essay, it was a lot easier than I expected it to be, so I'm crossing my fingers for a 5. I'll be happy with a 4 or even a 3 though xD Since I'm effectively done with WHAP forEVER, the only thing I need to do this weekend is write my entire world authors essay.

Also apparently gay marriage has become legal in California thanks to our good old governator. Hooray!

All in all, today was a good day.

I've been going through the process of overhauling my drawing style bc I realized I am completely sick of how it screams ANIME!! Over the summer I will steel my ego and put it up for concrit :D

(if this is absolutely destroying anybody's flist, I'll put it under a cut)

Merry Christmas All! I hope you all got expensive cars and other things, like maybe the loving warmth of the holidays. I pulled this out of my ass at 1 in the morning for your enjoyment :> They're prep-school boys bc god knows I have an unhealthy obsession with boarding schools and all that jazz.

I've been doing a lot of reading lately, so I thought I'd share some recommendations with my FL :D Feel free to post your own five (or six, or seven, or fifteen) books in your journal--I'd love some recommendations :E

( Five--Or Seven--Books You Should Read )

I realize that a general trend in my book taste is boys, England, and boys in England. Huh.

( I CAN ABUSE CAPSLOCK TOO, HARRY POTTER )

Also, OotP the movie failed. Old news.

oh my god it is so hot.

New layout featuring Loki and Heimdall from Matantei Loki and userinfo featuring non-prescription glasses :) For someone who spent so long obsessing over webdesign, I sure am illiterate in the language of livejournal layouts ;^;

At the Children's Discovery Museum, all the kids decide that it's a Good Idea to turn the waterwheel the wrong way so that ALL THE WATER SPLASHES ONTO THE FLOOR. YES, CHILDREN, that's a wonderful idea! It was my third time volunteering there this summer.

What have I been up to lately? Well, a lot of shopping, for one thing. I thought I was pretty well-off from Christmas and Lunar New Year before summer began, but haha, well...someone really needs to stop me. I have a couple of sewing projects planned too ♥

So recently, I reread Cardcaptor Sakura. It must've been because I was like, eight, but it blows my mind how I didn't pick up on all the homosexuality going on. Also, I have the chix comix/oldschool tokyopop versions so they're falling apart xD Oh, those were the good old days when my gaydar wasn't completely hypersensitive.

I missed fireworks yesterday because I didn't care. I'm quite the patriot. (I actually think it would've been a lot cooler if we were still part of England. JUST SAYIN')

I think there is something off with myself and maybe my fandom if, when I hear that someone is uncomfortable with shonen-ai or dislikes shoujo-ai, I am extremely surprised.

Which is not to say that I am spontaneously going to force acceptance of homosexuals/homosexual activities on people, but I thought I'd share.












.....In other news, I learned about Shakespeare today and our assignment is to relate his life to the events of Romeo and Juliet.

GOOD FUN, THAT IS.