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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

May Day

May 1st!

Two weeks until ACen!

I have a good feeling about the t-shirt contest!

I have to write an essay within the next half hour!

Woooh!

What's a gidget?

1.) A character created by Frederick Kohner.
2.) A character in Eureka 7
3.) My new nickname at work

I have an idkbff!waitress at work. She is Ann, who first called me Ginger Z and only calls me that. She even wrote it on my tips envelope.

However, yesterday, she came into work and said "hey Gidget" before going "...why did I call you Gidget? Probably that Ambien I took last night..."

Sooo I'm now Gidget. That was written on my tips envelope from yesterday.

Speaking of tips, I made $35 last Saturday, and $31 yesterday. The Saturday envelope bequeathed ten singles on me, yesterday's, eleven. [Where's Shinkiro when I need her to remember that joke. Geez. At least Waffles is here.]

My reaction: "FECK YES!"

I'm saving it. Today, I bought the rest of the components for my necklace and then the little string braclets. But unless it's for cosplay or gas purposes, I'm not spending money. No. Not. RAWR!

I made another Conventionist post. Just to tell ya. XD

Among other things, ACen

Get used to these. :3

It's Friday, which means only three weeks to go. But before that, there's the art club talent show next Saturday [Jesus Christ, when did this happen?!], plus NHS induction Monday the 5th. Also, band concert the Wednesday before ACen, then theater night that Thursday.

Note to self: Get senior gifts in order. Like, now.

PSAE is all done and over with. We're apparently going to find out our ACT scores before the end of the year, so...ugh. Ah well. The WorkKeys test was truly insulting to one's intelligence. BUT! I was able to answer one question on the science portion because of TELEVISION!

What has been found to lie at the center of most spiral galaxies?
BLACK HOLES! Thank you, "The Universe"! You can be seen Tuesday nights on the History Channel!

I received a progress report from my algebra teacher. I'm getting an A. Confusion ensued for about three seconds.

Today is prom. I has the day off. Waffles and I are going to par-tay in our own way tonight. ...After I get off work. Speaking of which, I'm busing alone tonight. Daaaamn. Hopefully, the waitress that said she would be busing will be doing so. But at least I get to pick up the tip money from last Saturday, in which we had 143 orders. Wooh!

Costume checklist go!

-Wig [x] - Currently hanging off this art easel thing in my room
-Hair accessories - Need to detangle wig first
-Kimono white [x] - Being made
-Kimono purple [x] - Also being made
-Bow thingie [x] - Also also being made
-Flip flops [x]
-Necklace - Need to make

I bought clay and half the beads I need for the necklace. I decided to re-sculpt the magatama, as the one I made previously didn't paint too well. Still need some giant spheres for the other four beads, though. Maybe I'll explore the basement...

Last night, I had an odd dream. But it was a dream in which I knew I was dreaming. [To quote MythBusters: "I turned to the passengers in the back and went 'I know this is just a dream because I'm not wearing any pants'." I love Adam Savage.] It was Sunday, May 18th, and I had yet to go to ACen, and I was like "Dad keys gimme con go me". I ended up going but, like, my costume wasn't ready and stuff [since I was thinking in the current timeframe], and for some reason, I ended up at this, like, bathtub showroom. They did look cool, though.

I should probably change out of my pajamas now.

Ho'snap

Because SomeGuy is awesome...

It caused me to me snort, which made a snot bubble explode from my nose.

DEVELOPMENTS TO COME SOON! ...AFTER SCHOOL! ...AFTER MORE PSAE TESTING!

MWAHAHAHA!

ACT nao!

I view this as a tradition:

'gome's birthday fell on a Sunday last year, meaning that I gave her that picture on a Saturday/Sunday night. Yeap! Good times from the past!

Today was the ACT. I feel the only appropriate way to tell you what they were like is to copy-paste the IM with 'gome...

Sangome: ACTs murdersome?
Katana: Guh
Katana: Well
Katana: It started off with English
Katana: Where I'm like "WOOH HELLS YEAH AWESOME! >D"
Katana: Then it moved to math where I went "hey this isn't so bad OMFG WHAT'S GOING ON WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!"
Katana: Then reading, which was like ".............................*snore*"
Sangome: Geh
Katana: Science, which had me going "what the hell is going on and why should I care"
Sangome: I feel sorry for all my junior friends
Katana: And then the writing portion, which made me laugh because the prompt was the easiest thing evar [especially after AP Brit Lit]

I was in the same room as a friend of mine [because they split us up by last names], and I'm like "this is why I'm an art person". And to make it worse, it feels like I'm surrounded by frickin' geniuses [*COUGHTIMBERCOUGH*] that make me feel pressured to do really really well.

Eh, whatever.

In other news, the school held this contest to re-design the "Rocket Rowdies" [terrible name, I know] t-shirt. First place got two t-shirts with the design and $100. Hey, I could use money! 8D

When I turned in my design yesterday, the office was stumped [and being their usual grouchy selves]. While I insisted that the poster said [and it did indeed say] to turn the things into the office, they were like "WELL we don't know anything!" So the shooed me off to the athetlic office, and while the lady seemed a bit stumped, she took the design.

Later, my friends tell me that the contest was run by our band director because he's in charge of pep club, and that I should've turned it in to him. "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, IT SAID TURN IT INTO THE OFFICE AND HIS NAME IS NOWHERE ON THAT POSTER RAAWR".

For the curious, you can see my design here. I like it, and of all the people I showed it to, one girl was actually going to be 'affected' by it, and she thought it was awesome.

If I do indeed win [*proceeds to knock wood*], then I will, as promised, buy pizza at ACen. Well, I was thinking of Sunday, when 'gome will be there, and maybe a tiny little party of Otakuites and stuff. ...The rest of the money is going towards gas. =D;;