* so i totally failed at fixing my computer on my own because i'm a goddamn coward. i'm having a friend coming over this sunday so he can do it for me instead.

* since i'm cut off from my computer, i don't have access to any of my music. so i've been listening to this on repeat since yesterday.

* i got my hair cut and dyed. i'm not thrilled with the color (it's more reddish/burgundy than purple), but i'll live. i also indulged my inner consumist and bought clothes and an adorable pair of silver angel wing earrings. and bracelets, because i'm addicted.

* i had to pimp this: walk_ofshame. feeling inspired to write/draw something after watching the newest spn episode? then post it here. all pairings/characters/ratings welcome. the only condition is that your fic/art has to be directly inspired by that week's episode. and speaking of pimping, i have brought gryffindor_j to the dark side and made her write me dean/cas phone!sex.

* speaking of spn, i got crack_impala'd! that made me ridiculously happy.


well, i have nothing else to say. hrrrmmm.

EDIT: wait! i do. i am endeavoring to lose weight from here to december. i'm at 60kg/132lb and i want to go down to 55kg/~120lb. it doesn't seem like much, but i'm lazy and i love junk food way too much. oh well, gotta make the attempt, at least. wish me luck!

my skin is an absolute mess and i am in despair. will have to get an appointment with the viking dermatologist SOON. i need my good drugs.

( a few small things about merlin 2x03 )

deancastiel posted the renegade angels masterlist/reveal post. so many fics i never got around to reading, so many fics i FORGOT i'd read. need to do some serious catching-up...

why does my internet hate lj. :[

anyway, i'm... massively depressed after today's student reunion regarding our fucked-up school situation but i don't really want to talk about it, so may i please request some sort of cheering up? CAN WE TURN MY FROWN UPSIDE DOWN? we can have a "cheer aoede up" party. idk. i kinda need it.


*listens to happy music*

so i've finished watching s4 10 minutes ago. go me.

say whatever you want, but the last two seasons were much better than the first 2. there was no episode-skipping this time. and my urge to kill dean went away for the time being, which is a plus. seriously thinking about fanart (because castiel is just too pretty to resist), but i'll hold out until i've finished my bigbangblackout and rs_games pics. it'll be my reward for finishing those. :p


in other matters, it's very likely i'll have to move out of my house next year, because it doesn't look like i'll be able to continue studying in this city. :/ my school's closing down. and even if it doesn't i'd rather get my degree in a safer situation. the school's offering to transfer us to their building in santiago city -- which is more or less 2 hours away from where i live, so i'd have to find a place to live that's closer. on one hand, i'd love to have the experience of having to fend for myself in a city i barely know, but on the other, it scares me shitless. knowing me, a household accident will do me in in about a week. :p

pics of stuff i bought last saturday.

( coat & boots )

guess who, out of complete stupidity, had her wallet and cellphone stolen from her backpack.

THAT'S RIIIIGHT. MEEEEEEEEEEEEE. holla.

course, now i'll be suspicious of all my classmates that were at school today until i graduate. orz paranoia doesn't become me. :[

ughhh when i went to classes today the pig's head was still in the painting room :[ it was all blotchy-red and starting to smell

if it's still there tomorrow i might die, i have classes in that room DDDD:

so i finally decided to use dreamwidth and import my entries there. i wanted to have a private back-up, like the stuff lj archive does for you, only online. no one can see it but me.

however, since i'm a fucking moron, i forgot to set the default security setting to "private" so all my public posts were imported as public. and since i can't neither delete everything at once, or make everything private at once, i have to go through 2 and a half year's worth of posts and edit each post by hand.

GOD.

DAMN.

IT.



and i was eating dinner (well, la once rather than dinner: chilean version of british afternoon tea, only... later. okay, "the more you know" moment over) earlier with my mom and youngest sister and suddenly i choked on my tea and bread. after a minute of coughing my lungs out, i grabbed a napkin to wipe my eyes. then i blew my nose and chunks of chewed-up, soggy bread came out of it. :| EWWWWW

ugh i did fuck-all this weekend. i feel so useless.

• i spent most of my time in blogs written by foreigners living in chile. it was interesting, to say the least. sort of a strange mirror effect, and a bit of an eye opener at times. also most of them have a strange fixation with palta (avocado). well, i suppose we really do eat a lot of it...

• speaking of chile, i am actually considering selling my soul to the chilean electoral system and register to vote in the upcoming presidential elections. but when you do it to vote for the lesser of two evils... well, the idea is more disheartening than usual. sigh.

• i ♥ red_squared. sirius/handlebarstache OTP!

• HAPPY BIRTDAY TO gryffindor_j, my sister in gutterdom! ♥♥ name your gift, and you'll get it!

• i know next to nothing about bleach, but i'm really enjoying this crossover by furiosity. i have a bit of difficulty following it at times, but it's fun.

man i'm bored. i think i'll just go to bed. :/

victory!! i found the painting i did for my painting final last semester. someone had stolen it from god knows where (i asked the man who was in charge of cleaning out the painting room last year and he told me it had been thrown away, so wtf) and had written the following message in the back of the canvas: "do not throw away, steal or tear, canvas will be used for 3rd year painting". i was like, WHAT so i enlisted a classmate's help and stole it back. i left the following message written on the frame the canvas had been stretched on: "this painting is mine. i had been looking for it all over and i was told it had been thrown away, so i'm taking it back." i thought about leaving some choice expletives but i ran out of space. if they had asked around to see if the owner still wanted it or not, i would have probably let them have the canvas after taking some photos of it to keep, but since they didn't care enough, then i won't care that i left them without a canvas to paint on.

yes, i know this was worthy of http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/ but well. fight fire with fire and etc.

in other news, i am liking super paper mario very much.

i was really skeptical about this game because so much changed from the gamecube version, which became one of my all-time favorite games like 10 minutes into the first playthrough, but it's much better than i expected. i don't like the main city very much, it seems so empty, but as for the rest, i have no complaints.

expect some drawings later tonight and through the weekend. the sketches are piling up and i want to show some of them (i'm thinking of posting the one i freaked out about --some of you know which one-- but flocked and with disabled comments).

first off, happy birthday to elsane. we don't know each other very well, but i wish you were around more often to talk to! :]

haven't done much this week. the work is already piling up and i'm too tired to get any inspiration to do anything else, i still haven't gotten used to waking up early in the morning and sleeping enough to not start running out of steam by lunchtime. and my hair has been bothering me but i can't work up the extra energy to go to the hairdresser.

i think i need a new project. my daily_deviant can be done in about a day or two, i don't want to draw it so soon or else i'll get itchy posting fingers. i think i'll take a look at that WIP list and take a sketchpad to school to doodle during lunch hour. gmail chats with red_squared (if anyone wants to add me, acct. name is entrambos) are a goldmine of cracky ideas, but i don't feel very funny lately.

oh, and hi to paulamcg if she's still around, and to all the new people who have friended me these past few days.

( here's an update on the school situation )

edit: on the plus side, and on a rather shallow note, i did buy a bitchin' pair or much-needed jeans. unfortunately not in any wacky colors, but i am considering another pair in a lovely toned-down fuchsia that reminds me of berries. i need to stock up on the winter clothes, i always seem to be short on them and summer died a sudden death this year.

well, wasn't this a lovely day.

( school-related problems, feel free to skip )

my friend's kid brother is the most attention-whoring little shit i've ever met.

i stayed the night yesterday and he did not leave me alone. the kid just doesn't UNDERSTAND "no", "i'm not interested" or "go away". i was tempted to try "i don't like you" but i didn't have the chance. at least my friend was there to tell him off. not that it stopped him for long. about an hour after arriving at her house i was already sick of his shrill voice asking do you want to play with me, can i play with you, hey i want to tell you something, hey look at this toy i have, LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME and screaming the house down when my friend told him that no, he couldn't a)play mario kart and b)sleep in our room.

I HATE THAT DAMN KID.

(i initially misspelled brother as bother. both could be used interchangeably in this case)

also all my wii games have stopped working properly, wtf is this shit?

firstly, WTF australia. if only there was a way to magically transport all the water from the floods to where the fires are. or, you know, something.

i slept a couple hours and the swaying feeling has gone away. mostly. i had to wake up to shower because i was feeling incredibly disgusting and my hair was a ratty mess. oh, and remember my comments about finally getting a tan? well, the lobster red coloration on my chest and legs toned down to... splotchy brown. go me.

oh and speaking of hair, my blue fringe was a hit in the caribbean. i had at least one person commenting on it every day.

i had a bit of internet access while i was staying at the hotel in panama, so i was pretty surprised when i received an invitation to daily_deviant. i only accepted it today, but i'm afraid their posting schedule is still beyond my comprehension so i had to ask a mod to explain it to me. if it's too deadline-heavy i think it'd be best if i dropped out of the comm. me and deadlines, you know.

speaking of deadlines. i worked a bit on my hd_worldcup piece while i was away. that was pretty much it on the art front. i didn't really have the motivation to draw anything.

i did read a couple books. child 44 which bored me a little in the middle but picked up later on, i enjoyed it. in the ship's library i found kushiel's scion, which i picked up because i've heard some people on lj talking about that series. the world-building and the inter-character relationships were pretty interesting (esp. the royal families, i always like that sort of stuff), but... the sex bored me. i abandoned the book shortly after the stuff with the pseudo-roman senator's wife started happening. and the constant mentions of phedre's super duper fabulous awesomeness were a bit tiring as well. i also read GoF (in its original english) which was a good memory refresher because i had only read that book once, like 6 years ago. and once again i thought that if harry and ginny had gone together to the yule ball it would have been beyond adorable. too bad they sucked as a couple later. it also gave me major cravings for both immediately-post-azkaban r/s and school-aged h/d. oh, i suffered. :[

i also gained like 3 kilos from the cruise food. stupid delicious food.

now, i think i should go edit some photos.

tomorrow i'm leaving on vacations for 10 days. going on a cruise. so, don't expect to see much of me those days. though i suppose i'll go park my ass on the ship's internet cafe if i get really, really bored.

(for those interested this is where i'm going: panama, colombia, aruba, curaçao, bonaire and then back to panama. i guess this year i will finally get a tan)

well, that's my heads-up to you. i expect you to link me to anything interesting that's been posted when i get back. :p

another thing... i was thinking of issuing a little challenge for fic writers. i upload x number of instrumental songs of various genres, you write a ficlet inspired by it. most of the "inspired by x song" fics i read have their basis on songs with lyrics, i wanted to give a more sensory, visceral source of inspiration. the selection won't be as varied as i'd like to, since i'd be getting the songs from the remains of my music collection, but... how does that sound? i could post the songs tomorrow and give you the 10 days i'll be away to write something.

uhh yeah so, happy new year and stuff. i don't have any pretty photos or sparkly fonts, sorry about that. if all goes well i will post some pics of the fireworks show.

( cut for introspective wankery and flist love )

ffffhgjfds it's official, the first thing i will do after managing to set up a paypal account will be change my username. :│ :│ :│

i'm gonna be out most of the day tomorrow doing various errands and then off to a friend's house to spend the new year eating junk food and playing videogames. as far as plans go it's not very exciting, but i'll enjoy it.

speaking of videogames i started playing silent hill 4 yesterday. i still haven't been scared half to death (but then again i didn't get very far), although i did get sort of nervous when i was being attacked and couldn't figure out how to swing the steel pipe. :p

the harry potter fandom really takes my propensity to be set off by anything that annoys me, no matter how small, to unknown limits. and then breaks those limits.

also i didn't get presents for anyone this year, despite the fact that i had money coming out of my ears, i can't figure out how to change the comment display on insanejournal for the life of me, my stupid hair is pissing me off and i have to get up early tomorrow because i have to get my passport. whine whine.

so, my theory is that when you have nothing big and important to worry about, every little thing around you bugs you way more than it should, to fill up the space reserved for big and important worries.


blah.

earth, stop quaking. you've been at it for 2 days already. what gives? warming up for the big one or just fucking around? you're scaring my cat.

annoyed,
me.

my photo final is tomorrow and i'm going to crash so hard because my photos are the most boring ever and i can't even remember the guidelines. :│

anyway, this has cheered me up: oddsbobs wrote me two wonderful drabbles: one unrequited!charlie/tonks which made me want to scream "DAMN IT!!" and shake my fist at canon (always a good reaction) and one remus/sirius in which sirius is endearingly annoying and balls of crumpled paper are totally a metaphor for ETERNAL LOVE (shut up, that's my theory and i'm sticking by it).