Formal talk haha.

Spent the past ten minutes or so trying to tie my hair into a messy bun. I wonder why. Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that the formal is THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.

Yeah, doomsday reference.

It sounds so soon. I remember back several months ago, November seemed so far away.

Haha . . . I still don’t know what to do about a bag or clutch or something. I haven’t got one that matches with what I’m wearing. Actually, I don’t even have a clutch full stop. I think I’m sticking with my idea of just taking ID, some cash and a phone, and letting a certain someone take care of that. Because certain someone gets to wear something that has pockets.

I think I’ve mastered the messy bun. I think. I don’t think I even needed to search it up, apparently there is no set way to tie a messy bun, you just mess around with it . . . which sounds very obvious.

My hair is long. It’s waist-length. Reaches bottom of my rib cage. Eeek.

Actually I think I’ll go Google a few more styles just to see if I find another one that I like.

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I feel so lax. And unprepared. All those sites and magazines that tell you what to do eight weeks prior to a school formal . . . pshhht.

I have done nothing for preparation in regards to skin/hair really. I’ve been eating the same kind of junk that I normally eat (like a lot of chocolate cake), and not sleeping properly . . . hence I will turn up at formal with zombie eyes. Great. I could hide them with concealer but I don’t think I can be bothered. Oh well . . .

Okay, who would bother tinting their eyelashes for a school formal?

I wonder what I would look like with mascara. I’ve never worn it before . . . why the hell is mascara so expensive? Almost all the ones I see are like twenty bucks or so. You could buy a book with that. You could buy art materials, an mp3 player, stationery, food . . .

Overpriced mascara. In my opinion.

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I CANNOT BE BOTHERED to find another hairstyle. I’ll just do a random messy bun. Not much different from how I usually wear my hair I guess but I don’t care.

I kind of wish I had hair chopsticks now.

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Now I’ve given up on formal stuff, I’m playing Clockwords instead. LEVEL 22. PWN.

It’s addictive and stupidly so. Haha.

Aesthetics and typography

I am a genius. I just figured out how to escape Blogger’s annoying WYSIWYG thingo. You know how I kept complaining because now Blogger’s default font that you see in the “compose” mode for writing a new blog post is Times New Roman, as opposed to Georgia? And I just don’t like Times New Roman? I used to escape that by using the HTML mode and typing in Courier New but then, but THEN, in an amazingly slow moment of cleverness, I just decided to type my blog posts using Microsoft Word.

Yeah, my brain works with the speed of a zombified sloth sometimes.

Yeah.

I love Calibri. So much nicer to type in as opposed to Courier New and Times New Roman. And I’ve found out now that when I’m typing posts in Word, I tend to type more and don’t get as many attacks of “THE HELL AM I DOING THIS, why am I bothering to blog…” followed by my deletion of whatever I’ve just written.

I’m going to mention how annoying it is that the “compose” mode which is apparently WYSIWYG . . . well, okay, maybe it’s not. Somehow I assumed it was a WYSIWYG editor because you don’t need to type codes for getting italics/bold/etc., they just appear like that in the actual editor . . .

But Blogger does not have ture WYSIWYG! If it did, my posts in the compose mode wouldn’t show up in Times New Roman unless that actually was a font I chose to type the posts in.

I’m nuts.

Let me point you in the way of a fellow typographical crazyhead, Blair. I think he’s more nuts than I am about fonts though, but whatever. I’m diverting your attention away from my own strangeness . . . not. I think I’m just going weird now.

Anyway, fonts are awesome. Blair is awesome – I’ve finally found someone with whom I can crack font jokes. Not that I do that on a regular basis, but it’s just the fact that someone will understand if I talk about liking certain fonts because of the prettiness, and about liking humanist sans serif fonts like Frutiger Light. Haha . . . TYPOGRAPHY IS AWESOME.

Onto another topic of NaNoWriMo.

Urgh, I’ve got about 42K words left that I need to write in, what eight days. I’m crazy. I wonder if I’ll be able to pull of some crazy trick of writing 17K in a single day, like julietcaesar did.

I find it easier to force myself to draw than to write.

I would write extensively about work experience, but . . . I can’t be bothered.

I’ll write later about wexp.

DLD, exams, etc.

I got a DLD the day before yesterday.
Daily Literature Deviation.
On deviantART, the gallery moderators select "Daily Deviations" which are plastered on the site and give the receivers of such DDs publicity/etc. etc.
But there's a rule that only one literature piece can be selected per day among the official DDs, or something, and I guess to counteract that a group called DailyLitDeviations set itself up to award ... DAILY LITERATURE DEVIATIONS.
Like unofficial DDs - there are News articles, etc. and you get featured on their page, etc. Brings a reasonable amount of publicity.

AND I GOT A FRIGGING DLD I WAS SO HAPPY.
Spazzy bubble of happiness.

julietcaesar featured the piece for me. Many thanks to her (:

It was this piece.

Locks and Keys.

I wrote it for the English School Cert, choosing the key stimulus, obviously. I typed up what I wrote from memory, so it's not perfect, but it's pretty much what I wrote for the SC. With a couple of rather minor changes because they sounded better.

It sounds like I'm being pretentious/fake-modest, but in complete honesty I didn't really like the piece very much while I was typing it, and so I couldn't be bothered adding more to it and fleshing it out.

And it was a huge surprise for me to find that it had gotten a DLD.

Hehehehehe.

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Have work experience next week at an animation studio. Is nice. Vereh nice.

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Atm I'm sort of obsessed with Tokio Hotel's song "Nach Dir Kommt Nichts"
It's awesome. Even though at times Bill's voice sounds really yowly/strange. Hard to describe.

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Yearly results came out except for commerce.
Got 19.5/20 for VA; and
German: listening&responding 52/52 | writing: 43.5/44 | reading&responding 20/20 | speaking: full marks (don't know what it was out of)

OH YEAHHHH. FEXCELLENTTTT.
My two favourite subjects --> best marks.

I got 84/90 for English. I am happy.
41/50 for both History and Geo. Could be better.
79.5/100 for Science. In comparison to others, I've got a good mark apparently so yay.

AAAANDANDANDANANDANDNADNSLKDFJSKLDJF:
Just so you don't think I'm an arrogant/egotistical prat (even though I am at times)

Behold my mark for Mathematics...
55/100

And I also happened to spectacularly destroy any chance of my getting a Band 6 in Maths School Cert... by making a really really epically fail mistake. That had nothing to do with maths. It was a horrible shellshocking mistake with papers :I

Hrm you know German's getting to you when you accidentally type "shellschocking" haha.

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The School Cert wasn't bad. Much much nicer than yearlies.

Our examiner was one of those typical strict old women you'd expect from an English boarding school. Strident voice, yells at everyone, etc. I got the impression that she though we were a pack of insolent brats who think highly of themselves and are too laid-back for their own good.

And the way she'd say "Board of Studies" - sounded like "Board of Studdeeeeeez". She...overemphasized it. That's what it sounded like. Vaguely amusing.

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I've written about 5.5K for NaNo. Fail. Oh well. This is like how I do my assignments, I coast for the first half of the time, then I go crazy once the deadline starts creeping really close. Haha... I wonder if I'll make the 50K deadline?

I have an unfinished digi painting of Tom Kaulitz sitting on my computer. I need to finish it.

This feels utterly utterly pointless, ranting on about ... random crap.

Congrats if you've actually read this (:

Hello ambiguity

Hey,
You remind me of how I was before. Maybe our roles have changed, maybe not.

Hey,
You give me reason to believe I'm safe, but I think maybe I misjudge the defences you've given me. Don't your safety blankets and force fields come with instructions?

Hey,
Are you truly happy?

Hey,
You used to read random things I wrote and surprise me with them; I wonder if you still do that.

Hey,
Are you learning too whole-heartedly or am I just cynical and strange?

[/pseudo-poetry]


I need to write more of NaNo. I'm on 3.6K. Haha...
Yeah.
I think my sketchblog's dead, gotta remove those dodgy links I have on top of my dA journal. I reinstall links if I ever get around to offering art commissions . . . I told myself I would, but occasional bursts of non-confidence, and lack of time in general, are making me reconsider.
I need to fix up something in my journal CSS, I made something unnecessarily complicated for myself. Haha, skills.
I have 4 deviations and 21 unread messages waiting in my deviantART message centre. I will not check them now. Because then I'll be even later in continuing with my NaNo story.
And I should continue with it, especially now I have a plot.
Okay, I fixed my dA CSS.
Now to NaNo!

P.S. The bunch of stuff at the top actually has substance, believe it or not.

Stuff I need to do:

1. Stop picking at my toenails and tearing them off... to some extent. THE FRIGGING FORMAL IS COMING UP. MY SHOES ARE like thong/flip-flop shaped. Thus toes visible. Thus toes need to somehow look normal. Or something.

2. Revamp this blog's layout; I kind of really don't like it now for some reason.

3. Write more of my thing for NaNoWriMo; currently a third of November's died already and I've only got like 2.9K words. Ha. Ha.

4. Start blogging more often; maybe

5. Finishing off the two in-progress digital paintings I have sitting on my computer

6. Update my sketchblog; maybe