Still feeling a bit drained.. physically and emotionally. I find icon making pretty relaxing, so I did some of that.. mostly basic cropping and colorization of Imai Kira images. Same artist that did the Alice artwork used in my layout. #31, #32, and #33 make me think distinctly of
natsukigirl, prolly because of the colors and major cute factor. I also just really like #30.
I've lost 4 pounds in about a week and a half - I'm sure most of that could be kind of a fluctuation in water weight and not having eaten before weighing this week. But still! It's a good start and definitely motivation to stick with not drinking alcohol. Obviously it's a mix of that and exercise and diet, but I do think it's making a difference. I'm currently getting in at least two or three 5K runs a week as well as some biking and stair climbing. I need to work more weights in, though.
Classes are okay. C++ kind of plagues me. But I finished out my History of Communication Graphics distance learning class with 100 - well, 130, but that doesn't really count. Hehe. My art classes are just so draining and I fear I'm not showing much improvement. I really need to spend more time on each project. I'll be glad when summer session is over.
Participated in a Go Game today. We played at SXSW and I signed up after to be an agent. This is the first time I've gotten a gig and I played Agent Mobius - basically just had to sit in a coffee shop until the teams showed up and then repeat five actions like I was stuck in a mini Groundhog Day. At first I think I was too obvious by fixing my ponytail and putting on chapstick. But by the end it was: read, cough, drink water, check phone, scratch arm, repeat! The last team had a much harder time and were impressed when they finally spotted me, which by then I was hacking my cough and scratching my arm in a very exaggerated manner just to get their attention. It was fun, though. And a very easy $60. Hope to do it again.
Read "Wicked" and was severely disappointed. Had so much potential, but just fell incredibly flat at the end. Currently reading Gaiman's "Fragile Things" and "Dead Until Dark" - the first Sookie Stackhouse book, even though it's basically the first season of True Blood verbatim. Not sure I'll read the others, yet.. really don't want them to give away what's happening in the show because I'm loving this season.
I really enjoyed Half-Blood Prince. Not really fussed to do much of a review for it, I've kinda talked it to death with Mike and to a certain extent Deborah and I'm sure I'll be discussing elements with
absolut_jmo when I go home to NC. Overall I thought they stuck surprisingly well to the books, considering how much past films have butchered the source material. The changes they did make seemed a little unnecessary in my opinion and some of the acting left something to be desired, but it was fun and I feel like you could tell most of the core actors were having fun with it. The experience itself was surprisingly fun, too - considering we had JUST decided before going that we were going to do the expensive surgery on Binx and were completely dead from all the stress of the situation. Still, we forced ourselves into costume since I'd never not dressed as Harry for a premiere. We met up with Gary, Deb, April, and Laura at the Alamo where we got the commemorative pint glasses with our Butterbeer and some of the waitstaff were dressed up, including an excellent Bellatrix. The only picture of the night was fuzzy iPhone shot of me with her; ( follow to see! )
I've lost 4 pounds in about a week and a half - I'm sure most of that could be kind of a fluctuation in water weight and not having eaten before weighing this week. But still! It's a good start and definitely motivation to stick with not drinking alcohol. Obviously it's a mix of that and exercise and diet, but I do think it's making a difference. I'm currently getting in at least two or three 5K runs a week as well as some biking and stair climbing. I need to work more weights in, though.
Classes are okay. C++ kind of plagues me. But I finished out my History of Communication Graphics distance learning class with 100 - well, 130, but that doesn't really count. Hehe. My art classes are just so draining and I fear I'm not showing much improvement. I really need to spend more time on each project. I'll be glad when summer session is over.
Participated in a Go Game today. We played at SXSW and I signed up after to be an agent. This is the first time I've gotten a gig and I played Agent Mobius - basically just had to sit in a coffee shop until the teams showed up and then repeat five actions like I was stuck in a mini Groundhog Day. At first I think I was too obvious by fixing my ponytail and putting on chapstick. But by the end it was: read, cough, drink water, check phone, scratch arm, repeat! The last team had a much harder time and were impressed when they finally spotted me, which by then I was hacking my cough and scratching my arm in a very exaggerated manner just to get their attention. It was fun, though. And a very easy $60. Hope to do it again.
Read "Wicked" and was severely disappointed. Had so much potential, but just fell incredibly flat at the end. Currently reading Gaiman's "Fragile Things" and "Dead Until Dark" - the first Sookie Stackhouse book, even though it's basically the first season of True Blood verbatim. Not sure I'll read the others, yet.. really don't want them to give away what's happening in the show because I'm loving this season.
I really enjoyed Half-Blood Prince. Not really fussed to do much of a review for it, I've kinda talked it to death with Mike and to a certain extent Deborah and I'm sure I'll be discussing elements with
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