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DRAMA

That is all for now.

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Got a new look for my el jay. Mostly because it matched my new firefox skin. Now (to me) my lj looks like this




Pretty sweet, yah?

Stolen from Diana

The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but some of us don't know much about one another. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Bonus points if you share a little known fact about yourself to me also!

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

Okay, I try to make a point of journaling about important stuff that happens to me. It's most of the point of why I keep a journal. Lately, I haven't been very good about it, but I'm trying.
On Sunday I drove up with Ashley and Mike to Cleveland, stopping at Ashley's old roommate's house in Dayton along the way with Val and Judith. Once we got up to Cleveland I was treated to a late-night tour of Cleveland before we met up with some SCA~affilated people for dinner at Applebee's. I use that term lightly since I think most of them haven't been active for quite awhile. But anyway, three of them work at TMW. I told them that I was up in the area for a job interview. One of the people at TMW, Tricia, said off-handedly, 'if you have any experience with tech support, we have an opening at our place.' Next thing I know I've given her a copy of my resume and I have an chance at that job over there. Neat! Anyway, everyone at the dinner was very nice and did a good job of making me feel at home, even though I was hours away from Miami. It was very nice.
The next day I wake up and take public transit to my interview. This was the stressful part. The interview itself went pretty decently. I was a nervous wreck most of the way there because I was constantly afraid I was going to miss my transfer or something. Mike, who works at the public transit headquarters in Cleveland gave me his number and assured me I could call him as much as I needed to. I think I called him like 5 times just for things like "okay, what side of the road should I be on?" and "are we sure this bus is supposed to come here?" It was all very silly. I ended up going straight from the interview to downtown Cleveland where I grabbed some early dinner with Mike then walked over to the Greyhound station. This part was also stressful, as the bus I was supposed to get on said "Buffalo" but was headed for Cincinnati. W/e. I spent most of the bus ride home studying for my exam today. I would have liked to relax a bit more, but that's what I get for being such a procrastinator.
So I get back to Cinci and Reiner picks me up. We had a nice chat about SugoiCon and the interview.
I noticed that both of my roommates have called me multiple times just to check on me and make sure that I am doing okay. This was really great of them. The most surprising part of this whole adventure is how much people were willing to support me the whole way. If it weren't for my super awesome friends, I would not have been able to make this trip. Everyone was really excited for me and very willing to help me out with anything I needed. That you so much, everyone! You are all so wonderful! I don't deserve to have such amazing friends <3

I recently found and downloaded a fan-made Berserk RPG. It was obviously made with a stock RPG Maker. While there were picture uploaded from the manga and clips on the anime embedded into the game, most of the enemies were stock RPG villains, complete with an ultra anime-esque style. It was a turn based game, not my cup of tea, but it went quickly. I've only finished the first chapter but I am downloading the second.

Criticisms- Okay, since this was made with a RPG Maker, there are a lot of inconsistancies with the Berserk series.

Puck is with you from the beginning when Gutts first gets sent off to kill Bazuso. Yes yes yes, Puck isn't supposed to come in until after the eclipse, but with all the villains you face, a little elf powder can be really helpful in a pinch. My main complaint was that Puck was a waaaay more powerful fighter than Gutts. As you leveled, Puck got a bunch of offensive spells like 'Fire' and 'Ice'. After level 10, he was completely unstoppable, while Gutts got knocked out on almost every level. No worries, because Puck was so awesome the he would revive Gutts as if nothing happened. It was a bit ridiculous.

Anyway, so you fight your way through Bandits, Theifs, and Mercenaries, until, 2 hours later, you finally get to Bazuso. If you are level 10 or higher, this is pretty easy. Then you're done. On to Chapter 2. Griffith makes a quick cameo at the end with Gaston. Corkus shows up at least twice, but his lines are so un-Corkus like I almost wonder if the game maker knew who Corkus was.

Basically, it's a RPG with Berserk named characters with cut scenes taken directly from the anime.

Compliments- Even if the game was just a quicky fan-made homage to Berserk, the creator did capture some of the characters very well. Gutts sounds like Gutts. Puck is just as mind-numbingly annoying as he is in the anime. When things happened that were based on the Berserk story, it was exciting and fun to play along with them (even if you already knew what was going to happen). So, yeah. It's a game. About Berserk. And it's free. You might as well give it a shot.

Act 1
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EXSUS51N

Act 2
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BATU4I1B

Okay. okay. Okay. Does anyone here know what a Shaymin is? Anyone? Okay, it's a legendary pokemon that looks like this...


ZOMG it's an adorable hedgehog thing. So cute <3

Anyway, I made one.



Fffffffffuuuu... So fucking cute!

Okay, that's all for now. :D

(Edited for final picture)

This has been my mantra all day. I found out that it was this weekend last night. Now I have to go. Val told me about this event a couple months ago and I've been dyeing to go (get it? tee hee).

But yeah. Sheep to Shawl. It's a thing that I'm going to do. Now I just need to get all my shit together so I can actually go.

Group meeting in five minutes. Gotta get to it so I can get onto the next thing. Then the thing after that. God, I'm so crazy busy right now. At some point I'll need food. Mmmmm, food.

Wednesday was my 21st birthday. Wheeee :D It actually went very well. It had its ups and downs like everyday, but a whole big group of people followed me up to Steinkeller's and I ordered my first legal beer. The group was Val, Matt, Theresa, sketchyheart , f_l_a_i_r , and Reiner. It was a very lovely time. Reiner apparently doesn't take alcohol well and ended up crashing on our couch after we stole his keys from him. It was his own fault, for threatening to drive home drunk.
Last night I bought my favorite wine for the first time for myself. It was even more delicious than I remembered. I invited Beough over to share it with me. He came over but had to leave soon after to pick up Nicole from work. Ashley made some fried rice and we chilled out till the wee hours of the morning.
Anecdotes were generated during this time, but I am not inclined to write them down at this point. See me in person to hear the juicy details.

Oh man, I am so super excited about crocheting right now. Now that I've figured out amigurumi I don't want to do anything else. Which is fine because there are a literal ton of stuff to crochet with amigurumi.

( Penguins, Turtles, and Cat Toys (WITH VIDEO!!) )evilhippo and I will be conducting a Cute-Off contest around the middle of August. We have taken it upon ourselves to make a personified bacteria or virus of our choosing and will compete against each other to see who can create the cuter creation. Stay tuned!

I just learned that my blood type is A positive. I've always wanted to know what my blood type was. I donated blood for the selfish reason that they tell you your blood type for free. Now I have become very interested in Japanese meanings for blood types. If you have never heard of them, or forget what they are, here you go:

Japanese Blood Type Personality Chart (http://unexplainedmysteries.yuku.com/topic/703)

Type A
Best Traits: Conservative, introverted, reserved, patient, punctual, and perfectionist.
Worst Traits: Obsessive, stubborn, self conscious, and uptight.

Famous As: George H. W. Bush, Ayumi Hamasaki, O. J. Simpson, Britney Spears, Alan Alda, Adolf Hitler, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon

Type B
Best Traits: Creative and passionate. Animal loving. Optimistic and flexible. Individualist.
Worst Traits: Forgetful, irresponsible, and self-centered.

Famous Bs: Akira Kurosawa, Jack Nicholson, Luciano Pavarotti, Tom Selleck, Mia Farrow, Paul McCartney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Vince Young

Type AB
Best Traits: Cool, controlled, rational. Sociable and popular. Empathic.
Worst Traits: Aloof, critical, indecisive and unforgiving.

Famous ABs: John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Mick Jagger, Thomas Edison, Bob Sapp, Miyavi

Type O
Best Traits: Ambitious, athletic, robust and self-confident. Natural leaders
Worst Traits: Arrogant, vain and insensitive. Ruthless

Famous Os: Ronald Reagan, Queen Elizabeth, John Lennon, Paul Newman, Elvis Presley, Gerald Ford, Mikhail Gorbachev, Al Capone, Crystal Kay

I think my description is horribly inaccurate. But then again, I am not Japanese, so it might not even apply to me. I am not a perfectionist, in my opinion. Nor do I think that I share any personality traits with Bush, Hitler or Britney Spears. I think I would prefer to be AB. That one look like a lot more fun.

What type are you guys???

Once upon a time, there was a young girl who lived in a mightly castle. ( BUNNIES!!!! BUNNIES EVERYWHERE!!! )

Edit: It should be noted that evilhippo should receive some credit in motivating me to learn how to crochet, as this is the god-honest truth.

My friend Evan and I were just leaving the house. Evan was standing in the yard waiting for me to close the front door. I was just stepping out when we heard a rustle in the bushes.
"Oh, it's a groundhog," said Evan. "It's a pretty big one, too." That it was. I had seen it out back a few times this summer. It was about the size of a small dog.
The rustle happened again. A little furry head popped up by the side of the front patio. Our eyes met.
"I-wanna-get-past-you" said the groundhog with it's eyes.
"Oh no, please don't." I replied desperately, with an imploring look. "I really don't want to be near you and you don't want to be near me."
"I-wanna-get-on-the-other-side-of-the-patio-right-now. Here-I-go!"
"Oh nooooooo!"
The gigantic groundhog jumped up on the patio and started bolting straight-head, towards my feet. I yelped in the alarm and jumped back into the door frame. The groundhog barreled across the patio and took a magnificent diving-leap off the edge into the bushes, and scampered away.
Evan just stood there laughing at me as I frantically rushed away from the bushes exclaiming, "oh, I knew he was going to do that!"

So I decided to knit a stuffed animal. Specifically I was trying to knit Ahiru from Princess Tutu.
( Omg, so many pictures )

So, as it has become my custom, I will now share with you some of the knitting/felting projects I have been working on since the semester ended. Yes, I do realize that was last Friday, however I have completed enough project in order to justify a post in this short amount of time. How sad is that?

( pics! )

On a side note, I would like to say that the best thing about coming home is the food. I just made myself a delcious broccoli and swiss cheese omlette with pine nuts. It was lovely :D

So I haven't posted about knitting in awhile. That doesn't mean that I haven't been knitting. Far from it. I felted this hat last week (or so) and I tried to felt another hat today. It didn't turn out so well so I might work on it later this summer and get it into a better shape. Anyway, here is a pic of a little something I made.

( Butterfly hat )

The flowers are from JoAnne's floor while I actually bought the butterflies. I still have two more of the butterflies. If anyone can think of a use for them, they are free to have them.

Other pictures
http://i39.tinypic.com/o77sd5.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/21aznkz.jpg

Okay people.  I need exactly 3 more credit hours to fill up my schedule for next semester. These credit hours have to be the easiest thing I have ever done. I need a class that I could sleep through every day and still get an A. I'm not too picky of what department the class is in. Right now I'm looking at Fundamentals of Nutrition or Acting for Non-Majors.

So this is a shout out to all my friends on my flist here at Miami, asking them what their easiest class was and what they would recommend I take.

Edit: My DARS has me listed as a senior right now. Lol!

WTF, life?! Today was my day off from visiting with people, it was supposed to be slow paced and relaxing, right? NO!

Spent morning in bed knitting. That was nice.
Went to the Himalayan with Mother. She told me that she had run into the Phoenixville chuch's Pastor's wife and she had mentioned that she was looking for interns to help out with her non-profit organization called Orion Communities, Inc. It is a company that finds jobs for people who are unemployeed or in need of a bit of help. Mainly it's people who come in off the street, people from the slums, and such. They have a database of client information that I can maintence for them. They also asked for my resume so they can distribute it to their job search network and get me some internships in some of the surrounding organizations. So if everything works out I'll work at Orion for a day or two then spend the rest of the week jumping around a bunch of other companies doing odd jobs like research or public relations or maybe even counseling.
Afterwards we went over to Steel City and met a professor at Ursinus who is trying to start a college in Phoenixville. He wants intelligent people to help him set up programs and create this Sphere College. We talked for a bit and he suggested I get a professor at my college to back me and I could get some nice benefits out of it, since it is a good pro-bono, community benefiting project. I'll have to ask around at college. I just sent him an email with some samples of my writing and times I'll be available to work at in the summer. If this works out and the college gets established, it will be a simply beautiful thing to put on my resume.
After all that I went over to the library to see some old friends I worked with back in high school. Mark was there and knew the professor I was just talking too. Apparently he had tried to get the library to give him some money to get his plan off the ground. He was, of course, rejected, since the library very notoriously has no money. Talked to Edna. She was saying that the library was petitioning to expand their building into the street to the edge of the park. It is an interesting concept. Perhaps their computer lab will actually be a computer lab, instead of a computer closet. Anyway, that sounded exciting. She apparently wants to gossip with me sometime outside of the library. I hope she goes to church on Saturday so I can find out what all is going on with that shady woman down in the children's library.

Tonight I'll probably go hang out with Evan and Maria. I also want to see Watchmen.

Dad called again today to check if I was still on for lunch tomorrow. The man is getting crazy considerate of me. I can only blame Naomi's interference.

Okay, now this is all getting a bit ridiculous.

Here's how today went:

-Had breakfast with Vy. Turns out she's designing a pulse-rate monitor for her biotechology class which will be installed in kiosks around Kenya for a class. I always knew she was smart but daaaang.
- Walked around Coventry Mall with xtrainingwheels ! That was pretty exciting since I haven't seen her in forever. That mall is seriously small so we lapped it like three times and we still hadn't run out of stuff to talk about so we went to the bookstore and made fun of the romance novels for a bit. Oh man, there is so many Highlander romance novels, or stories about beautiful rich women being strung along by beautiful rich men. That was pretty good. We were trying to find these books (http://www.sandrahill.net/books.html#Viking_Series_I) but we couldn't. If you have the time, go to that website and read some of the excerpts. They're a hoot and a half.
-After Diana went off to work on her editing, I meet up with Justine who is living in Pottstown right now. She's living with her mother, commuting to Cedar Crest. She's still going steady with Dan, who we tried to meet up with for dinner but some temp bitch lost $1000 dollars and they had a 2 hour audit to find out where it went. I was introduced to My Sims: Kingdom (or something like that title). It was cute and fun to watch.
- Got home, made plans to go see a play Wednesday night with Liz N.  I think this is hilarious because she is one of my mother's friends who wants to spend time just with me. I love Liz, though, and I'm sure it will be a great time. And this play HAS to be better than all the crap ones I've seen a Miami recently. I remember the People's Light and Theater a pretty good venue.
- Dad called today and asked if I wanted to get lunch on Wednesday. I, of course, said yes.
- Melissa is coming back on Thursday and wants to go down to Steel City. Alissa might come along too, maybe even Shannon!
- Vy gets back on Thursday night maybe. Need to remember to call her.
- Also wanted to see Ben Albertus before I have to go back to Ohio. I'll try to get him online tomorrow.

What the hell? This was supposed to be the stupidest most boring week ever? Why am I running all around P-ville and the surrounding area visiting an incrediable about of people? Why haven't I been knitting except for two hours a night while watching TV? Why haven't I been cooking for myself? How am I going to get those four new coats back to college? Bah! Whatever Life, I am tired of trying to predict what you'll throw my way. Forget it, I'm going to knit myself to sleep.

Being home is surreal. I haven't been here in so long. Everything is the same yet different at the same time. It is hard to explain.

As soon as I got home Kim and Melissa came over and hung out with me at home. We talked for four hours just catching up and reminding of each other about our middle school and high school years together. Already I'm remembering so much more of my Phoenixville roots than I have in years. We talked about people from our class, the classes under us, who have already graduated and gone off to college to get drunk with their new friends. It's been very trippy for me to think about all these things that I had completely forgotten about.

Also, I'm learning new things. My grandmother and my mother were both very in to embrodery. There is a literal ton of embrodery floss in my house. If I cared more than two licks about embrodery I would be in heaven. We found two unfinished sweaters knitted by my grandmother. I'm going to fix one of them up and it should be a really warm over jacket. I just hand washed it and hung it up to dry. Now my hands smell like wet wool, which is one of the worst smells on God's green earth.

I'm thinking of going into mum pottery studio and making some ceramic buttons. I was walking around downtown Phoenixville, which is super neat after the whole Renaissance they had, and I went into a store called Diving Cat Gallery. They had all these hand made, super expensive crafty knick-nacks being sold at inflated prices. I was looking at one stand and saw some ceramic hand made buttons on sale, 5 for $18. They looked pretty cute and I thought about getting them and putting them on stuff I was planning to make but then I stopped by myself. If I made them myself I could just charge more for what I was making, or just sell them if I don't get around to using them. So I think I'm going into mum's class on Tuesday morning and starting that. I'll try to make 25 at first.

There was a shop down the street from my mum's studio that had a bunch of knitted scarfs for sale. They were made with super weird looking novelty yarn. I just raised my eyebrow at them and went, 'wow, I can do so much better than this.' So I think I will. The more I think about knitting for profit the more I want to do it. Then I try not to get to excited about it, otherwise I just won't do it because I know it won't be everything I want it to be.

If I do decently well with the buttons I'm going to make this week, will I be able to buy some clay and work on them at Rowan back at Miami? I probably shouldn't be thinking that far ahead just yet.

Haha, I went over to Kim's house today and they were watching Chelsea football. I sat there watching it going "oh yeah, Mat really liked Chelsea football. Huh, now I'll never get a chance to tell him that I finally watched it. They're pretty cool to watch too." The funny thing about soccer is that whenever they have a collision or a wipe out, the players immediately look really indignant and spread their arms wide and make the universal facial expression for "What the hell was that?" This happened without fail for the half an hour of the game I watched.

Listening to Lilly Allen. It's my thing right now.