the random page of randomness

I called in sick yesterday.

And I feel shitty that I didn't really have a good excuse for it... but... blah. Half the state is burning crispy anyway.

Day before that a representative from the Victorian Coast Guards came to ask for donations for their volunteers. Don't get me wrong, I have no beef with coast guards, but I can't help but feel like they're capitalizing on this catastrophe thinking hey, the timing is right to ask for donations. If he'd been a representative from CFA, I would have dived for my wallet no question... but coastguards? About the best he could say is "yeah we help the CFA guys" and "you stand a 1 in 50 chance of winning $2000 with your raffle ticket."

Yeah STFU.

Ho hum I am bored. Should be working, but can't focus enough to do more than twitch a few walls into position. Will save the file onto my computer in vain hopes that I'll look at it tonight. >_< At any rate I need to get home early today to wait for the cleaner (and to get my junk out of cleaner's way orz...). I've got some nifty ideas for the new art I'm working on, but they're not coming out the way I want them. >( Rarr rarr emo emo hau hau. 

Carry on.

 

Observe as I express my current state of being:

AUUUGGHSDHASJDLKASDJAKLDJLA!!!

S-sigh. Work's frustrating. I think it's doubly so because I can't delegate any responsibility and it's bloody stressful taking care of the whole bloody project on my own. I can't pick up on every mistake and I get panicky and frustrated when I find mistakes. I took it over from a student colleague thining that all I needed to do was tidy things up a little here and there but nooooooo. I guess this sort of nitpicky attention to detail only comes after you've studied architecture for more than 3 years because I know I was like that once... but now when walls don't meet and levels don't match I see RED.

I've been playing heaps of Ragnarok Online to get over the stress (it's easy and mindless grinding. woohoo! XD) but they just announced that the server'll be closing in a week or so. Perfect. I reckon I should draw something because that always makes me feel better but I have zero (read: ZEERRRROOOOO) inspiration. Bluergh.

Mom and dad will be in town in a couple of weeks. Hopefully by then I won't be this antsy because if so, I predict we'll drive each other bonkers within a week.  Whee see my glee.

( over here~ )

I've been rather productive artwise despite my crazy work schedule these days. o.o Proves my theory that I draw more under stress. Blah. Got some Nabari no Ou pieces and a chibi comic to finish. Speaking of Nabari no Ou... s-sob chapter 50. T_______________T my heaaaaart

Ok! New(er) stuff goes here!

( i mean here )

\o/

Right, right. I said I'd post art and I... didn't. Lol fail.

First, check this out for another chibi comic (if you haven't seen it already o-orz).

Then have a few extremely outdated pics which have been floating around this and various journals. All CFUD related hur hur.

( do I fail at organization or what? )

Hmm these are pretty big. I think I'll post (relatively) new stuff in another post.

whoa. WHOAAAA. has it really been that long since I logged on? o.o Well damn. I even forgot that my paid account expired lolz good going jess. Oh well, thankfully my gallery got restored when I upgraded to a plus account.

At any rate, wotcher folks. Watch this space. Will probably post something artsy-like tomorrow.

So I'm in the office. Alone again. I have stuff to do, but all I'm doing now is staring listlessly at them while the numbers and letters swim around in my head like alphabet soup. I was thirsty and it took me 20 minutes to convince myself that my innards won't explode the moment I leave the chair before I hauled myself up to get a glass of water. It's 18 degrees and sunny outside and I'm shivering like it's the darkest, gloomiest day in winter.

In other words. Sometimes. I just. fucking. hate. being. female.

Curse you @!$@%@#%#$^$%& period. CURSE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.


I shall now try to summon the energy to find my meds. Urgh.

ARRASGHAgadhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

The sheer FUCKTARDINESS of some human beings (and I hesitate to call her even that. How about semi-sentient lower-life form? I'm being vindictive, I know, sue me) is just UNBELIEVABLE.

Let's start from the beginning.

I'm selling off my old apartment. Why? Well, It was time to move on. My old place was strictly student accomodation, and after 7 loooong years I was getting sick of people in admin talking to me as if I were a child. A fact that culminated in today's little episode.

It started as a simple question. Very nice, very short, very sweet. In fact I was doing them a fucking FAVOUR. I knew I still owed them some body corporate fees, so I call up and ask, what's to become of them now that I've sold my apartment? How much do I owe? They fumble around (and shunt me around to several different people) and finally this MARVELOUS, UPSTANDING, NO RLLY SRSLY lady tells me that there have been some changes to body corp law regarding a certain form, and that it's okay, they'll settle it through my solicitor. Well, I say, okay then. Good even. Less confusion.

Then I get a call today from my aunt (I'm using her solicitor because I am dumb and certainly not savvy in the business of properties changing hands) saying that the solicitor hasn't been able to contact this same lady and the form has been sent but rejected and the changes in law shouldn't apply to our case because we sold the apartment before they were changed. She asked me to please call the college admin and see if I can get them to contact the solicitor direct.

Which I did. I explained the situation, saying that there has been quite a lot of confusion and could you please contact the solicitor so you can hash it out.

The fucking CUNT said "No."

I was so bloody taken aback I just made fish noises at her for a while. "What do you mean 'no'?"

"Your lawyer should know what to do."

"I already told you, there has been some confusion. It's probably best if you spoke directly to the lawyer."

"She should know what to do. I'm not going to call her."

Insert me GNASHING MY TEETH in fucking frustration. "She's been trying to contact you. Apparently the number you supplied her hasn't worked."

"You got through to me didn't you?"

By then if I could reach through the phone and yank out her gall bladder, I WOULD HAVE. DID I MENTION THAT TO GET TO HER I HAD TO CALL 2 SEPARATE NUMBERS AND EXPLAIN MYSELF TWICE BEFORE SHE WOULD EVEN PICK UP? HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT FOR HER TO JUST MAKE A PHONECALL??

By then I had enough. It was pretty darn obvious that she was doing the whole: 'oh hum, little stupid kiddie on the line again, oh hum" deal that this entire INSTITUTE is notorious for. I told her that I would contact the solicitor and give her the correct number. "Okay, thank you," she said before she hung up. Thank you. Right. I exist to make YOUR fucking job easier?

At any rate, I gave the solicitor exact instructions on how to get through to her (since there was no direct number, or none she would give me anyway): "Speak slowly and with small words. Tell them the number of the apartment. Don't let them transfer you to the other building. Make sure you stress that it's for Body Corporate matters or they'll shunt you to another person." etc etc argh I'm bloody washing my hands clean of this shit. I pay both the stupid admin and the solicitor to make sure that this sort of NONSENSE just DOESN'T HAPPEN. Why the HELL then am I the fucking messenger-girl?? Fucktards.

Okay! Good now that I've let off some steam, I can go back to procrastinating work in peace.

I just read an aweeeesome fic. Awesome. There's just no other word for it. Maybe it's because it's been a long (about... a year? more than that? DD:) drought for me in the Naruto fanworld and it happened to be on my mind the day before I found it, but good grief I thought it was the BEST THING since sliced bread.

The fic starts here. It's Naruto/Gaara with a side of Naruto/Sasuke. Angsty in allll the right places~ :D Go read it and give the author mad, mad love, but be warned! If you're an over-emotional douche like me, you're gonna need to keep them tissues handy. And read the rest of her stuff while you're at it! She's a great writer. :D

And when you're done with the fic, here's some art to go with it. Dedicated to crazy_toffee who just made my whole bloody week. :D

( Fish in the Desert )

Hmm, which reminds me, I need to update art posts to this journal. Again. Go organizational skills go!

Here's hoping everyone had themselves a merry Christmas! :D Me? I did an awesome mountain hike, was traumatized by dead animals on the side of the road, and was kept awake into the wee hours of the morning by the other-enthusiastic clanging of town bells. Ho ho ho ... or more politically correctly: Ha ha ha!

I'm... not sure what to make of it so far. The good news is its been 3 weeks and I'm not going insane yet. The bad news is, I'm not sure how long before I DO go insane. XD Tinnnyyy practice is tinnnyyyy. There's my boss, who takes off at 3pm everyday, there's her husband, the builder, who is out on site visits 90% of the time and there's the old part-timer who only comes in 3 days a week. And... there's me. ahaha... haha... ha.

So, working life. I am actually pleased about the whole 'omg I know what it's like to be awake in the morning!' deal. The exhaustion at the end of the day is not fun, but I have high hopes that I'll soon get used to it. What I'm not so accustomed to is the significant reduction of spare time I have nowadays. Hopefully this will change once I get more setled into the routine. Although every time I sit back and think "well, this is going to be how my life will be for the next... 30 years or so", I want to curl up and DIE.

And here are pics which have been sitting on my hard-drive which are... nearly satisfactory. Mostly tons of KH stuff, some other stuff. I had trouble with all of them at some point or another, but never got around to resolving them. At this point, I think I'll just post them, or they'll never see the light of day the internets. :D

( More clicky clicky. Lots here @_@ )

T-There's more, but I'm getting lazier by the minute so I'll leave those for another post.

Tonight, I shall attempt to be organized! Let's hope my fiddling with galleries doesn't wipe out half the stuff posted previously =/

First up, have some pics which I've posted elsewhere (namely campersfuckoff) but have failed to post here. ( Clicky clicky. )

Will be uploading some other pics I've got floating on the hard-drive soon so, WATCH THIS SPACE! :Db

P-personal crisis averted! After fretting for a day and 2 nights, my tutor finally emailed me back to say that all was fine... he just wanted to check my student ID number. My overall response kinda goes something like this: =__________________=;

Iiiii am going to be a special and unique snowflake and not say anything about the whole lj strikethrough episode. Oh wait I just did. 8D /dork

Watched Pirates of the Carribean 3. Twice. XD Liked it, but nothing beats the first movie IMHO. Am of two minds on whether or not there will be a fourth movie. On one hand, Dizney was likely to have gone "ooo lookie all the $$$ to be had, woohoo open ended ending for the win!" and on the other, it did wrap up things sufficiently enough that leaving it there is feasible. And come on, after ALL the stuff they went through in this installment, what else could top that? A trip to the moon?

Shrek 3's opening in cinemas next Thursday. I haven't heard good things about it, but I don't really care. I am in the mood for some green funnies oh yeah.

Parentals are poking me about the question. Yes, the QUESTION i.e. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANNA DO WITH YOUR LIFE. Right now, my answer is: Enjoy it. =P Ask me later, mom and dad... a few months later maybe?

I just realised that I've missed putting up some artwork on this journal. Again. Go organisational skills. Shall do so when I'm feeling less... er... lazy.

Bought the Sims 2 Seasons expansion pack. I love it. XD I just haven't really found the time to try everything out in it yet. But omg snow is so pweddyy~

That concludes this edition of My Not-So-Crazy Life. Carry on.

s-so I'm idly looking through the prompts for springkink. Not sure if I'll pick any up this time, I might not be around to do any =( The fewture, it is uncertain! There're a lot more canons than the previous one, much to my glee. Then as I'm looking down the list, I see it:

T-Turtle-sex prompt! @_@

Kidding. By now I am numb to any turtle-induced brain trauma. "HAHA" I laughed in the prompt's face. "YOU WON'T EAT MY SOUL THIS TIME! neener neener neener~"

... then I scroll down a little more and my carefully guarded sanity shatters.


Transformers.

TRANSFORMERS.

ROBOTS IN DISGUISE YES THOSE TRANSFORMERS OH GOD BURNINGGGG YES THERE IT GOES BUH-BYE MY SOUL OH EM GEE I JUST AAAGGHHH X_____________________X

i-it's so good to know there are people out there who are crazier than I'll ever be XDDD;;

My mood's been swinging like a pendulum all this weekend. One minute I'm deliriously happy, the next I'm so depressed I just wanna crawl into a hole and die. Not sure what to make of it really. It's a strange combination of work + parents' arrival + yummy dinners + aching wrist + net-awesomeness + net-idiocy + general state of blah.

... also, it's 5am again. And I'm widddeee awake despite waking up earlier than usual today. askjdhaksd. Goddamnit self, FUNCTION NORMALLY FOR ONCE!

more springkink today of the Kingdom Hearts II OTP variety:

( KHII: Axel/Roxas. Staring at the sun )

In other news, Eminence is going to be on this Friday! Thank goodness I saw the flyer at the gelati shop :D Apparently Yoko Shimomura (writer of several KH music themes, including Roxas's which is my favourite) is going to be a guest in it?!! I am SO there. SOOOOSOSOSO there. Ticketttsssss must get ticketttssssssss~

Artsy mood is still full steam ahead! Am pleased with this yes. Very pleased. Posted this to campersfuckoff two days ago or was it early yesterday morning? Goddamnit I'm losing track of my hours here .__.;;; Inspired, as most of my art is nowadays by CFUD, specifically Rhode's dream post.

( D-Grayman: RAAEEPPP oh RAAEEPPPPPP )

love u Ticky. Plz be raeping moar pretty bois in fewture. T^Tb

On life: I was a bit down this past week because things weren't working out with design (what else is new *le sigh*), but I'm feeling better after talking to my tutor today. I almost decided not to go to class, which was the extent of my lethargic state of limbo this morning, but I'm glad I dragged my sorry ass to go. SO! Gonna try out some ideas he suggested and work on some sections tomorrow yes yes. I WILL CONQUER THIS FUNK!

Posted this to springkink today:

( Yami no Matsuei: Touda and Tsuzuki hawt hawt rawr )

Prompt: Courting - 'Then you will have only me, then only me, then the two of us amid the pointing and the horror, beyond the clean flame'

I did this when I was back in KL and missing my tablet like woaahh. It didn't turn out too horribly smudged and mistake-ridden so I was able to keep a lot of the original pencil lines and shading. Yayz?