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With all that I have to cover, who wants to bet this is gonna be the shortest journal ever?

Well, let's get the big stuff out of the way first- I'm living in Seattle now. That's right, I graduated and moved up to start college. I've never lived in the big city before, and holy crap is it different. For one thing, until Seattle, the only time I saw bums is from the car while we drove through downtown Reno. As stupid as I feel thinking this, every time I get near someone that looks homeless, I feel like I'm gonna get stabbed. Hopefully I get over that soon, because it sucks and it's a pretty messed up thing to think of someone.

It's weird living alone, but I could get used to it. I have to do a lot more stuff myself, which is a good thing because it's forcing me to be more responsible, but it's tough when it comes to keeping myself in check. I've spent entire days just doing nothing, which isn't good since I've got a truckload of work just from my 3 classes AND I still need to find a job. Gonna try to get a job at either Gamestop or Bed, Bath & Beyond because both are relatively close, one involves something I love (videogames, although I appreciate quality linens from time to time) and the other seems to require a lot of movement and activity, which will be helpful for keeping me in shape.

It's also tough managing my money. My Dad gave me Quicken to help with it, and it definitely helps, but it's still tricky. Especially when it comes to avoiding the urge to buy awesome new games and all. Speaking of games, I've gotten a metric assload more since March. The list in its entirety is as follows:

Just Cause 2, Brutal Legend, Dead Rising 2, God of War 1-3, Bioshock, Borderlands, Call of Duty: World at War, Assassin's Creed 1 & 2, LittleBIGPlanet, Heavy Rain, inFAMOUS, WET, Red Dead Redemption, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Army of Two: The 40th Day, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Tekken 6 and Transformers: War for Cybertron.

There's probably a lot more to cover, but I can't think of it right now, so yeah.

Great ending, huh?

Alright, it's been... I dunno, a month and a half now since my last journal? Bout time for another if you ask me. If you didn't ask me, well screw you. >:[

There's a lot to cover, so this is going in order of what I think of. Don't expect any sort of logic to tell you what's going to come next. I'm a fish.

OKAY

SO

Like, I entered this 2010 Scholastic Art competition with an 8-piece senior portfolio including stuff like this, this and this, and check it out: I WON A SILVER KEY. ME. HOLY CRAP I'VE NEVER WON ANYTHING FOR MY ART IN MY LIFE THIS IS BIG YOU HAVE NO IDEA OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG So yeah, my stuff's apparently going on exhibition all March in the Nevada Museum of Art and there's a formal exhibition IN FIVE DAYS F*CK YEAH SEAKING THIS IS SO AWESOME.

Hokay, next uh...

I GOT A PS3. 8D

Dunno if I already said this, too lazy to check, but yeah. It's awesome. Only problem is our TV is superold so sometimes I've got problems reading text on the screen and the gfx only look a bit better than on the Wii. 8( Right now, my game list is as follows (in order of how much I like them): inFAMOUS, Assassin's Creed II, Rock Band 2, LittleBigPlanet, Metal Gear Solid 4, Rock Band: Beatles, Civilization: Revolution... and Monopoly. Yeah, my parents picked those last two.

We've got an awesome-ass band going in Rock Band called Fiddling Beaver (after the Monster.com Super Bowl Commercial and my dad's religious following of Whhhhil Whhhheaton on Twitter [aren't I clever?]). I do lead and my dad does drums, and my little brother does vocals every now and then. Dad's drummer looks like an awesome-ass biker named Rocky, my guitarist looks like a mashup of Motley Crue hair, Marilyn Manson-style belt-jacket shit and badass blue camo cargo pants. Oh yeah, and he's rockin' a Dimebag goatee. Damn straight. Other than that, our bassist is a punk chick and our Singer is Jesus ("Jay Seuss") with an eyepatch, a Killgore Wrestling t-shirt and a crown-of-thorns bracelet of gold. That's just how he rolls. I think we both play on Medium cause I still have problems with the damn orange button and I'd rather have a good time rockin' out than worrying about hitting the right notes, which is why every time a really good song that I like comes on I ROCK THE F*CK OUT. I've started taking off my glasses because otherwise I'd headbang them off my face. Btw, Let There Be Rock is THE BEST SONG ON ROCK BAND EVER.

EVER.

Okay, what else? Uhh, oh yeah, I dropped Physics, since I had all my science credits (so it was counted as an elective) and the class was boring as hell. I got library aide, which is pretty easy, and I actually get to listen to music the whole time. Oh yeah, and since Mom works here, I get to joke around with/at her too. I think these days she's the one that gets more embarrassed by going to the same school as me than I do.

Oooooother than that, I've been dealing with some computer problems lately, namely the problem that makes my newer computer freeze every 20 minutes, making it impossible to get shit done and totally pissing me off. My dad was gonna back it up and switch it out for Windows 7 this weekend, but he never got around to it before he left for California on a business trip, so I kinda got screwed there. Also, since I don't have Photoshop or anything on my backup 5-year-old laptop, I can't make/submit anything right now. Which means you all get to see nothing but what I'm doing in Web Design. Yaaaaay.

I think that's it, if I think of anything else later... whatever.

Amfgggggggggggggggggggg.

2 finals done, web design and english.

The AP english one pissed me off cause I never got to finish.

We had to answer some questions I don't care about and then write an essay supporting or disagreeing with a quote from some German philosopher about how reading and learning actually limits how we think. It was a really interesting quote and it really got me thinking. Like, REALLY thinking. One thing we had to do was a t-chart of pros and cons, and for the lulz I drew a thumbs-up and a thumbs-down in the appropriate boxes, then scribbled down something i remembered about how we had it backwards and thumbs up meant death as well. I looked it up just now and it looks like i was wrong (thumb sideways equals death, from the looks of it), but i still tied it into the theme by pointing out that moviemoakers might have made this change to avoid confusing people and keeping this easy to figure out.

I also made tie-ins to music (such as how "mainstream" rap is all pretty similar, whereas some underground emcees are some of the most profound poets of this day and age) and quoted a song of Eyedea & Abilities' new album: "I am all that I think/I'm the way that my neurons are wired", from the song Forgive Me For My Synapses.

Seriously, i had a metric ASSLOAD of ideas, but I ran out of time and couldn't expand it nearly as much as I wanted to. If we get our finals back later I'll see if I can rewrite it or just copy it up onto here, because I was seriously proud with how it turned out. Now that my inspiration is slowly fading, though, I don't think I'll rewrite it from scratch anytime soon.

Four more finals to go, Trig and Government tomorrow and Physics and Foods on Friday. Wish me luck, and good luck to everyone else going through the same. D8

crap, accidentally posted before i was done. Dx gonna need to see if i can delete the last one, if not then oh well. P:





Winter break has been... eventful, to say the least.

I mean, the first week or so was boring. I didn't mean all of break was eventful. It mostly started on the trip to Seattle.

K.

SO.

LIKE.

Unfortunately I had to quit wrestling because my grades had made me ineligible for the entire time I had been on the team. Let's face it; I want to wrestle, but I want to graduate more. This, however, opened up a lot more time to work on my grades, and they're getting better, so it wasn't all bad.

But yeah. Seattle.

We headed up on the 26th, and the cool part was I got to drive for chunks of it. Each time I only lasted like two hours before starting to get bored, but hey, by the end I'd knocked a good fifth off of the 50-hour requirement. That and I got to play my music on speakers since headphones were illegal (and would make my mom freak out), since silence would get me bored almost as fast as physics class.

We visited my grandma first, which was nice. I got one of those sets of black boards with metal or multicolor stuff underneath where you're supposed to like scratch off the black in a certain pattern and get the shiny/multicolor stuff underneath to make a picture. It was good, but the pictures it wanted me to do were pretty lame. I'm not knocking the people that like super-realistic drawings, but that's just not how I roll. That said, I probably won't do what it says to when I finally decide to do them, since I would much prefer blank boards to the ones with imprints on them. My grandma doesn't think that way, though; she spends a lot of her time doing paint-by-numbers, which is nice for her, but would bore me in a heartbeat.

On the 28th, we went to visit one of the admissions guys at the Art Institute of Seattle, which was easily the highlight of my day. We got a bunch of papers and stuff, but I had the best time just talking to the guy about the stuff that went on there and all. I know I should look at other schools, but AI seems like it's really the best fit for me. The way they teach makes real sense too: the classes are about four hours each, and are divided up into tutorials and free practice, which is the best way for an artist like me to learn. Nothing annoys me more than getting in the zone and starting to really work at something only to stop and have to change classes. The overall class setup makes sense, too. It's a lot more personal, which can be all an artist needs to succeed. Since we're so individual, generalizing help would only cause problems.

After we spoke for a couple hours, my dad went to add money to the parking meter while we started a tour around the campus. Let me tell you now, I almost wanted to study fashion design just so I could stare out the window all of the class. It is AMAZING.

After that we headed over to Pike's Place market. It wasn't the first time I'd been there (we went once before while visiting family a few years back) but it was still pretty nice. It was a good contrast to the grocery stores and McDonalds that are within walking distance from my house. The Art Institute is just a five-minute walk from Pike's Place, too. Talk about location!

On the way back, though, shit hit the fan. We stopped at a Round Table for lunch, and coming out my mom noticed that out back right tire was almost totally flat. I had also gotten a $250 check from my grandma that we had cashed at a Wells Fargo, so my dad borrowed the cash to pay for one of those Slime repair kits to patch the hole. We pumped it up and drove for an hour or so before my dad checked again and saw it had lost some pressure again. He inflated it again and drove some more, and we stopped in Grant's Pass to use the rest stop when he noticed it was completely flat again. We had to get the car towed, and we ended up staying in the same hotel in Medford that we had stopped in on the 26th overnight while the car was in the shop to get new tires. Apparently Subaru has some sort of auto-adjust traction thing that was so sensitive that if one tire had to be replaced, all of them did. That cost us about $400 bucks, but we did get it done and made it home on the 29th.

A couple days after that, my dad came home with some extra Christmas presents, since we were already aware that we didn't have the money to buy stuff before my dad got his bonus. Christmas itself was nothing special, and at first I thought it'd be the same way this time around. I got some markers and drawing pads, which was great cause I had been running low on both (except for a super-smelly king-size sharpie), and then my mom pointed out that he had accidentally gotten one of her puzzle games for the PS3, not her computer.

SO HE BROUGHT IN A FUCKING PS3.

I cannot tell you how amazed I was. We might pay for it later on, but OMFGIT'SAPS3OMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFG

The games he got with it were Assassin's Creed 2 (for me), Rock Band: The Beatles (for my little brother) and some other ones I don't care about.

Assassin's Creed 2 is AWESOME as expected, except that our TV is so small that I can barely read the text sometimes unless I sit really close to the TV. It's not as bad as the quitting issue, though. Apparently if you don't quit the game normally and just stop it from the PS3, you lose everything you did from the time you started playing on. This was especially frustrating yesterday, when I found out that everything I had done the night before had been completely erased, and since Jake and his friend were over, I couldn't play it through again until they left. They're still here, so I still have a mission to replay. Yaaaaaaay.

We also did a four-person band last night on Rock Band. My little brother had vocals, his friend was on drums, my dad did guitar and I had bass. Normally I would have insisted on lead (and did, at first), but since Rock Band's medium is like easy plus blue, it was supereasy to play and eventually got really boring, even with the awesome solos. In the end I chose bass because it was slow enough that I could play most of the songs on hard, and even a few on expert, without being overwhelmed. I'm getting better, but I still need plenty of practice before I'll be ready to try Guitar Hero's hard mode.

Winter break has been... eventful, to say the least.

I mean, the first week or so was boring. I didn't mean all of break was eventful. It mostly started on the trip to Seattle.

K.

SO.

LIKE.

Unfortunately I had to quit wrestling because my grades had made me ineligible for the entire time I had been on the team. Let's face it; I want to wrestle, but I want to graduate more. This, however, opened up a lot more time to work on my grades, and they're getting better, so it wasn't all bad.