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Hello there, this is Katana, also known as Kat in some circles. I'm your friendly neighborhood twenty-two-year-old illustrator/writer whose sarcasm is second to none and harboring the ability to verbalize the parentheses in stories. I drink coffee and draw like an addict and am liable to get you into things that I like. Currently the wielder of a BFA in Illustration and a minor in English.

Questions? Comments? Death threats? Feel free to PM or message me in some iteration. I'm always around, you just don't know it.

"Some of the great artists of our time started off by doodling in class. ...Maybe. Oh heck I dunno."
- Miss Anonymous

Nyooor

Senior night tonight. I'll be shipping off in about an hour, and I have no idea when I'll be back. Seniors get to leave after half time, but I think I'll...stick around and...

...

Sorry, my thoughts wandered and evolved at a very rapid pace there.

This is it for me! My last football game, and I'll be in it with a lime green t-shirt and spiky hair (it's fuuuuun Dx). We're meeting up early to have a little like, tribute to the seniors, with our director talking about each of us. We also get a corsage. XD

But I'm just like...wow. Here I am. I remember sitting on the floor of the band room last year, thinking that I'd be up there in front in a year. A year later...

Warrrgh.

Also, my director let slip that he has a Facebook. I friended him. XD

Time to move on

Note: This is one of *those* posts. *watches as 90% of the people leave and 5% have no idea what she means* I reached a conclusion the other night, and it's one that's been long in the making. Two years is enough to crush over a boy who is ...

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A message from MS

Last night was rather interesting. There we were - me, TC, and Kastom - diddling around Movie Sign and then, suddenly, we had an influx of members come in. XD Unfortunately, Driffter and Kimmeh couldn't stick around and Alla's internet was crap, but it was a good turn out none the less.

I was rather surprised but excited when 'gome showed up. And there I sat, fingers crossed, really hoping that it would be a good night and it would be a good display of the good time MS can be, and and -

Oh my God, "Rocketship X-M" was a terrible introduction episode. You know how when you want to impress somebody with something but it just so happens to not be the night? Yeah, that was last night. The movie was a sleeper and getting through parts 6-8 were rough, made even worse because the host segment didn't come until the eighth clip rather than the seventh (as per usualish). The movie's bad when we're all cheering for the deaths of the astronauts. (Spoiler: They did, and we were happy, except it was too little too late and just a bit vague.)

If last night was your first or second night in Movie Sign, please don't make a judgment. XD; Last week would've been one of the best ones to come in on - "Giant Spider Invasion" is classic and we've now got a bit of a meme going with it. (PACKERS WOOOOH PACKERS!) Next week is going to be a good one though, I promise. "Werewolf" (or 'Warwulf' if you go by how the actors keep saying it) is a fan-favorite and just plain good episode. It's also our Halloween extravaganza! Which would mean something if we could have, like, costume parties or hand out candy! But we can't!

Anyways, random spiel about Movie Sign is over. Thanks for reading. ;D

Homecoming week in review

Agh, so sore...And so glad homecoming is over.

Monday: Decorating stuff and TPing the school. For having never done it before, I was surprisingly good. >>;

Tuesday: "Twin day" was the theme. The seniors all wore pink t-shirts that said "Yup, in my PINK TEE". It stems from the homecoming debacle of last year, when the then-sophomores-now-juniors decided they had a sense of entitlement and began to tread on the seniors' traditions. This year, for the class color day, we seniors thought it would be clever to do tie-dye. The juniors had a hissy fit because they proclaimed it was their idea, so they decided to do white to boycott all color. Their shirts read "Yup, in my WHITE TEE"...yeah, you can see where we had our fun.

What was funny was seeing the reactions from the juniors to them. "Don't you dare talk to us with that shirt on!" a duo said. Good God it was hilarious.

Wednesday: TOGA TOGA TOGA TOGA! "Decade day" was the theme, and seniors picked Roman times because our original idea for a toga day got shot down. We did a group shot (two missing, we dunno where) in AP art. I enjoy my little Kevin Murphy-esque hand gesture.

Thursday: Class color day, along with the pep rally. Being in the band, it was a bit surreal to see the juniors in their white and the seniors in their tie-dye standing next to each other in the bleachers from our balcony view. The senior, sophomore, and freshmen classes booed at the juniors when they went up for the tug-of-war, which was amazingly fantastic. Of course, band is the neutral party and didn't do any booing. I just screamed for the seniors, that's all.

Best part, however, was our drum captain Dave winning homecoming king. Is he a jock? No. Is he the guy people riff on? Nope. He's just...you know, not in that loop. It all started at lunch a few weeks ago, when we had to write down a boy and a girl we wanted for homecoming nominations. Our group was about to not do it, until we came up with the idea to put Jazz (who's in the toga pic above as the one on the desks) and Dave. You know, just 'cause. "JAZZ-DAVE '08!" was our slogan, and it spawned out from there. They made it to the big list, then the semi-finals, and then...yeap.

Right after school, I darted home to e-mail the senior night band t-shirt design...Then I came back at 3:30 for tech club. As we began to prime the set for painting, Ryu began asking for nicknames for the backs of the club shirts.

Ryu: "Kat, what do you want?!"
Kat: "I don't know! I don't have a nickname!"
Ryu: "Pick one!" (We were shouting across the auditorium, by the way.)
Kat: "Grrrr...Missy, pick something."
Missy: "Uh, uh - Crow!"
Kat: "..."
Ryu: "Okay, Crow then!"

I'm Crow.

At five was the senior spaghetti dinner. That was a good time. Seven, I went out and bought hair gel, and by the time I got home and plopped in the front of the laptop, I realized I was exhausted. And it was only 8.

Friday: Blue and white day (school colors). This was also my pre-Halloween test run day to see how well I could spike my hair. For only spending ten minutes on it, half of which was devoted to putting color in, I think it went well. People seem to like me with spiky hair, and I had a little photo-op demanded of me in AP art.

It hit me third hour that I was wiped and essentially running on negative. Three sessions with the bass drum the previous day (morning practice, pep rally, and then an hour rehearsing the field show), painting, and running the spaghetti dinner completely killed me. By the time the homecoming parade rolled around, I was ready to collapse. Luckily, we got out of school at 2 rather than 2:30, so I came home and slept until 5 before darting back to school for the game.

Homecoming football game with our glorious sucky team...We lost! Wooh! 21 to 0, haha. It was combo high-middle school band night, so the drumline was on the track rather than in the bleachers to make room. After playing "Gimme Some Loving" (which is just constant eighth notes on bass drum), my arms were screaming at me and asking what the hell I was doing. But this was just the break between the JV and varsity games, wooh. I was able to pull through, though.

I heard a great story from Phil, a sophomore on mellophone who is also a Doctor Who fan and who I loaned some MST to and got him into it. He told me of a moment in class, where he was talking to some kid whose life goal is to get high and such...Anyways, the kid asked Phil if he was on any drugs. And going off a joke we made Thursday in band...

Phil: "Oh yeah, I'm on MST."
Kid: "Woaaaaah!"
Phil: "Yeap, MST3K."
Kid: "Woah! Dude! You gotta hook me up!"

I love the younger generation.

Slept from roughly 11:30pm to 12:30pm today. =D; I never looked forward to sleeping in like I had all week to today. Got work tonight, so unless I get off early, I won't be able to make Anime Club.

I'm going to shut up now.

Oh my, plotholes

For some bizarre reason, this here World ranks at number 23. Wtf indeed. Percentage wise, that means...top 1/3 percent, which cracks me up.

If nothing else, the new ranking thing got me to thinking about my little journal here. [Rant ensues.] The description, which I completely forgot about, reads "Hmm, that doesn't bode well..." Looking back, I realize that I made this thing at roughly 6:50am before rushing off to school. I gave little thought to the title, thinking I could just change it later. But me being me, I'm a lazy person and knew that if I changed it, I would feel that it would never be as good as the original.

So even though the title comes from an icon that I didn't even use on the site, I feel it describes me perfectly. How? Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Careful, it's a plot device. It's very flimsy.

Homecoming week continues. Tomorrow is "decade day". Senior class originally wanted to have 'toga day' as one of the themes, but that got shot down in voting. Therefore, we went with 'Roman Times' for our decade - though I've unoffically made it 70 AD. Why? I can sing a song to it, that's why. This is made even greater because the freshmen picked the [19]50s.

Quoth Lorenza: "You have a song for everything, don't you?"