We made the moon our mirrorball

Happy early Easter!
AND HAPPY DOCTOR WHO DAY AAAH!

My Blueberry is doing really well and I'm so grateful to have a working computer and yay. I've been putting it through hell lately, watching and downloading tons of stuff just because I can, and it's held up fabulously well. I did manage to get a virus less than a week after we bought it, but I kicked its ass and now everything's gravy.

Oh! I forgot last time, but my friends and I started a tumblr for nerd-themed cocktails. We just started officially last week, but I think it's going to be lots of fun. The first drink is Star Trek related. Please to be taking a look if you're interested?

More meme time.

- Comment with "Hit me!"
- I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you.
- Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
- Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people.

niamy_tak asked...

( Wherein I talk too much )

Today was weird. A bee hit me in the face, and then there was a camera crew on the bus, and a lady on the street dancing for "peace", and a license plate that said: 4r moose. What did you do for your moose? Buy a car? Kill a man?

Anyways. I know I slacked off last year, but I'm totally gonna do it this time around.

SO, if you want a holiday card, regardless of whether we interact regularly, just comment here with whatever name and address you want me to use, and I'll send something! Comments are screened, but if you're still uncomfortable with that or something, you can always PM or email it to me. Also, doesn't matter where you live! Though people far away might not get theirs until, like, summer. I don't know how these things work.

Let me know if you want a specific holiday, or I'll assume that Christmas/generic is groovy. You can even tell me to do a specific non-holiday theme (rabbits, bananas, fandom stuff, whatevs), and I'll do my best to fulfill it.

I also can't guarantee that they'll get out in time for Christmas, cause I do things weird.
And speaking of that, I might put strange messages in them. Just...uh...know that it might not be the most ordinary things. People who've gotten my cards before may know what I'm talking about.

Anyways, DOOO IT.

First of all, thanks to everyone who sent cards! I knew I wouldn't have time to do it myself this year, but I do so appreciate getting them.
Second, nnnnnnnnnnrggggggggghhh. The only thing I don't like about lazing about on break is that my internal clock is so off it's not even funny. Por ejemplo, it is 10 in the morning and I'm about to go to sleep. Hurrrr.
Third, oh god I miss England so much. And traveling. I want to do it always and forever.
Ennglaaand come back baby, I just wanna hold you.

So my last final has come and gone, thank goodness. Sorry that I haven't been around much for commenting and journaling, but the last few weeks have been red alert "let's make Roxie write a billion papers" weeks, and I was hella sick last week so I wasn't coherent anyways.

I have many things to do over the break, and to prepare for england. Ohgodohgodohgodohgod.
I was kind of in the Christmas spirit, and then finals busytime happened, and now I wanna get it back. But I'm too tired to go around being merry because it started raining this weekend (yayayayayyyay) and I was wearing broken down sandals, and I slipped and almost fell down a flight of stairs. So I have bruises on my legs and butt, and a complete lack of desire to go outside right now.
There's also snow on the mountains!! I was on campus this morning and I could see the snowy mountains, and it was beautiful but I was like "I thought I was in California?"
I mean, there's snow sometimes, but usually not this much. Awesome.

I'll try to post consistently over break, although it seems that when I actually have the time, I start to forget. Maybe it will help me stay on track with my break activities/goals.
For just the next few weeks:
- Christmas presents
- Finish a few drawings (color Rorschach picture!)
- Finish Twilight Princess, or at least get further

I think I can do that. Or try. Bleh.

Today Erin and I saw There Will Be Blood in a theater that used to be a burlesque house. That was pretty damn cool.
I want to see it again, but I think I'll wait until it's out in normal theaters. Guhhh, I love me some Daniel "hotpants" Day-Lewis. Or as Erin would say, 'ol Crazyeyes Day-Lewis.
Paul Dano was pretty awesome too.

School starts again in two weeks! Editing is going alright, so I will hopefully finish that on schedule.

New Years celebration was exciting, even though I got a stupid cold the next day. My tolerance for alcohol is much better now than it used to be, which is nice for the holiday celebrations.
Christmas was decent, but it was probably the least exciting day of that week, which is odd.

Oh, and the wind on Friday was INSANE. Ain't seen anything like it in a while.

Omnomnomnomnom.

EASTER EASTER DAYS

Am I only going to draw on holidays from now on? Feels like it.
I am a complete idiot for doing this goddamn picture instead of working on my latest 2-D art project, which involves mostly stippling (i.e. the most tedious fucking thing IN THE WORLD) and is due on wednesday. Ah, fffffwhatever.

I definitely don't draw mah girlz enough.

Preview:

( Every holiday is gay )

People are just...gah!!
Anyways, I'm at my mom's for most of the week, so I'll have limited internet access. I will try to hang around when I can, though. Hopefully I can really relax this week without too much stress...at least, once Christmas is over. And then I can drawdrawdraw and writewritewrite as much as I want. Joy.
If anyone wants to get ahold of me, call me on my cell.
And in case I don't get to say it in time, happy Christmas to everyone!

I never look forward to holiday meals. Being a vegetarian AND an unreasonably picky eater = nothing for me to eat, evar. So instead of eating with the family, I spent the whole Easter time in another room playing video games. I'm such a great daughter/sister/granddaughter/niece.
BUT, on the upside, I did spend part of that time bathing. Last week I didn't wash my hair for five days straight (I'll give you three guesses as to what was distracting me so much). When I woke up on Sunday, it felt like my scalp was on fire. Then I bathed and fell in love with the feeling of having a clean head.

So that's what I did this weekend. Bathed and played video games.
Oh, and:
lemons.
LLLlllllemons.
Say it with me.
Lllleeemmmonsss. And llliiimmes.

CHRISTMAS
was boring as shit.
I sat around in my pajamas all day trying to avoid going into the family room where my grandma, aunt, uncle-in-law and uncle were watching movie after movie. They watched A Christmas Story for the millionth fuckin' time. I used to love that movie when I was a wee one, but after years of being forced to watch it over and over again I have come to hate it. Such is life.

That's not to say it was a bust. Not at all. On top of a whole bunch of cool gift cards, I got a 250 GB external hard drive and a Wacom tablet, both of which I have made good use of in the past few days.
This is also the first year I've really been able to give my family cool gifts, so that's pretty cool too.

In the meantime, I have gotten back into one of my all-time favorite anime, Trigun. If you've never seen or heard of Trigun, it's kind of a futuristic western sci-fi comedy on acid with interesting characters, a killer backstory, some intriguing philosophy and a huge scoop of awesome on top.
The other day, I found the old soundtracks and was reminded of why Tsuneo Imahori OWNS MY FREAKIN' SOUL. He is one of my most favoritest composers EVAR. I have known this since the first time I heard the Trigun theme song, and fell in love.

I have all of the Trigun soundtracks, including the third which was simply a "best of" type combination of the first two, except that it was the only one of them to be released in North America.
I got it on the first day it was released, in 2001.
At a huge comic-book convention.
If that is not proof of the dork that is me, I don't know what is.

( Simple mathematic explanation of albums )

I'm not quite sure how I'd describe his music. It's kind of...bluesy-funk-honky-tonk-techno-craziness. Let's just say I wasn't the least bit surprised when I found out that one of his major influences was Frank Zappa. If any of that sounds at all appealing to you, I'd have a listen. Seriously, even if you hate anime, this music rocks. I'm sure it's not for everyone, but it definitely suits my tastes PERFECTLY, and it makes a great show even better.
And I don't know if anyone will care/want them, but I have uploaded a few songs from Spicy Stewed Donut for your aural pleasure.
These are all instrumentals.

No-Beat - Fast!
Philosophy in a Tea Cup - Calm! And then fast!
Blue Funk - Smooth!

And a gorgeous song...with words! Japanese words, but words nonetheless.
Sound Life

I'm not certain that Tsuneo wrote the lyrics, but I know he composed it.
Even so, beautiful lyrics. It's supposed to be a folk song that was taught/sung to the main character Vash by his mentor, Rem.

English translation:
( It's about the recording of life...through sound! )

That was kind of a long entry, but I seriously love this guy.

HEY EVERYBODY.

On Monday my hair was bleached (due to the collaborative efforts of Erin and Dani) and then dyed with pretty awesome results. Though, because I dyed it myself, I ended up with the top half of my body being virtually slathered in dye due to my recklessness and impatience. Erin says that the green on the back of my neck makes me look like The Hulk. Anyways, I present you with my festive, red and green hairs:




Choking on a toothpick.

Top layer is red; bottom is green. I am pleased.

Right now I find myself pondering something that I have often pondered in the past.
See, as far as I know, I'm not affected by caffeine. And I don't mean that I drank so much coffee or soda over the years that I'm now immune to it. I mean that I have never felt anything from ingesting caffeine, EVER. Sugar also seems to have no affect on me. When I was a child, I was always confused as to why my friends would act "hyper" simply by eating candy. That's not to say I've never been hyper before, but it's never occurred after the consumption of caffeine or candy. However, I have no idea what it feels like to be "wired", as the weasels say. Is it the same as when you feel hyper?

Anyways, my point is: can anyone else relate to this? I know this isn't incredibly rare as I've heard of similar cases before, but I'm curious about all y'all.