Today my supervisor didn't come into work---- so I've been drawing all day!!!! I think I'm starting to understand the concept of layers in Photoshop, and I did some actual shading too. (No 3D sort of shading yet, only 2D). I drew these little girls in a very cartoony style with dresses that mimic Miki's green dress to the left, in 3 different poses, with vintage looking icons around them. I turned it into a layout, and if I may say so myself, the layout is really cute. But I have no idea what to use it for! Goodness forbid that I change my blog layout for the 50th time (no, not really, maybe more like 6th, but 3rd in the past few weeks). But every other site I own is food-themed (Alphabet Soup, Starfruit Cafe, Cup of Sailor Moon. . . .)


So what to do? I need to find some use for my layout soon. Tomorrow we leave for Colorado, no internet access for a while. My friend says work will be weird without me--- hehee work is boring with or without me hehehe but I guess I'll sort of miss him too.

I've been looking at www.thefanlistings.org. (I'm sure you've seen fanlistings at websites now--- they're reallly popular. . . You sign up at a certain designated website, put up a little icon on your website, and proclaim to everyone I'm a Harry Potter Fan, or I'm a Draco Malfoy fan. I guess it's to show your support for things, especially if you think they have a bad rap, like Slytherin fans who really think that the people in Slytherin aren't as bad as they're made out to be. . . But still. . . It's weird how certain web trends get started. . .)


Anyway, as far as Harry Potter ones, there are so many from Mr. Ollivander, the wand-maker, to Pig the Owl, to of course, Harry Potter himself. I like the Oliver Wood one: called "He's a Keeper!" ^_~. It's totally his voice. He's sort of cute, but I swear, no one would notice if it weren't for his voice.


One strange thing is that there is no Cho Chang fanlisting. I honestly don't know of a single person who wants Harry to get together with Cho Chang, even though she's so sweet and pretty and perfect. (Keep in mind while reading this that I haven't read book No. 5 yet, so perhaps things will change and maybe people's opinions too). Perhaps I should support her because she's the only Chinese witch mentioned in the story, and I guess, what's not to like her besides that she's too perfect? Especially at school, there's a big push for Hermione, because she's the smart one, and us MIT nerds want Harry to have a girl with brains.


Except I like Ginny. Harry's mother has red hair, doesn't she? (No Oedipal intentions, but Harry looks/acts exactly like his dad). Don't like Ginny because she's too much of a fangirl? She's a fangirl only in the sense that she can't believe that she knows the great Harry Potter, that her Harry Potter is her brother's best friend, and that she loves him, but is sure that he's to great and wonderful and important to ever love her back. But in that sense, I'd sort of like her dream to come true.


It's kind of weird to that I (and other people too, I suppose) get all involved in these people's lives---- when they're not even real. But they're real to us because we've read their life stories, we've seen them heartbroken, and happy, and silly. And we care about how they'll end up.

Ah, well. I've been thinking about majors and stuff. . . Civil Engineering is actually so important--- building dams, bridges. . . especially after hearing that lecture on the 3 gorges Dam. Which is why I would never do it. It has so much consequence! If you screw up, you end up killing people, ruining the earth forever. . . Never give Amy that much responsibility, that would be bad. So that's why I'm going to be an electrical engineer. With the power to help, and the power to hurt anyone but myself (while I'm soldering) minimized.

EVERYTHING : You belong in a small percentage of Asian females who are an all-round-little-bit-of-everything group. You don't have an accent, but you can speak your own language a little too. You shop at many stores including Forever 21, Rave, and Abercrombie. You own several pairs of platforms and those cute neon colored thongs. Stop being indecisive.


What Asian Girl Are You?
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Okay, maybe---- except for the thongs. Thongs are stupid.

I've been watching Miyazaki's "Castle in the Sky"---- the scenery is soo gorgeous, and Pazu is so sweet and cute.


Between Japanese and violin and work and house chores, I hardly have any time to think about anything.


Finding a balance between self control and self-expression. Between attachment and distance. Between naivity and cynicism. The thing that's just right inbetween and that's so hard to reach. I'm usually the extreme of one or the other and then catch myself, only to switch to its opposite extreme.


The more I like someone, the stupider I act. The stupider I act, obviously, the less that someone will like me in return. I can therefore conclude that no one I ever like will like me back.

Wow. It is sooo freaking cold in my office. Even though I was basking by the creek for an hour before lunch. I'll need to seriously thaw once I get home, that is if I make it through the rest of this freezing day.

Had another nice weekend. . . Hehehe I live for the weekends now. My friend and I were talking about the things we've always wanted to do around town that we've never done. Mine was watching "Gold in the Hills", a melodrama that plays every weekend every summer and is even in the Guiness Book of World Records for being the longest running play. So, we went to go watch it. Although we had no aim and never hit the villain with peanuts, and although a cast member knew my friend and volunteered him to be dragged onto the stage for a scene to be a singing waiter, and although I still don't know why it was called Gold in the Hills, because there was no gold mining whatsoever and half of it took place in New York City, it was fun.


I came home this summer to be with my family and work. Work--- the project I was supposed to be doing ran out of funding, so I have a data processing duty =P (blech), but something else happened unexpected--- I made a friend, and that has completely made up for the lack of an interesting job, and so my summer hasn't been too bad ^_^.


This weekend we'll be leaving for Colorado--- which I'm definitely looking forward to.


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I am getting sooooooooooo dumb. I kid you not--- when my supervisor told me today that I need to multiply 9 days by 8 hours, I thought for a whole minute, and he finally asked me: "72, right?" Wow! What will I do when I get back to school?

Okay, so I don't usually do quizzes, but who can resist the temptation to find out what kind of pocky they are?



Sweet Milk Pocky! You're an elitist, since you're
not really suited to the American taste. You're
sweet, as your name implies, but sometimes you
do get a little haughty.


What Kind of Pocky are You?
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Haughty, eh? What's wrong with being better than everyone else? ^_~ J/k. Or not.

Hi, like new layout? When will I ever have a layout I'm happy enough with to keep for more than a month? I wanted a very green layout, and this one ended up being, yes, very green. . . And my archives have stopped messing up.

Happy 4th of July! ^^ I had a great weekend. The aforementioned boy (last few posts) and I went to go out to dinner, saw Legally Blonde 2, and then went out for smoothies. Other than that I've just been relaxing (and working), and our trip to Colorado will be next week! Ellie will be coming to town and we'll go to orchestra practice together for old-time's sake.

Waaaah! A company has bought the rights to Kenshin, and so now there are no more scanlation sites T_T. And they won't be publishing until November. Not only will I have to wait months to find out what happens next, I'll have to pay $10! (And then another 10, and then another. . .)