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.
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"Some of the great artists of our time started off by doodling in class. ...Maybe. Oh heck I dunno."
- Miss Anonymous
I'm going to go mad sometime sooner or later. It's ridiculous how quickly I shrivel up without anything going on or actual human contact. With the parentals gone, there is nobody in the house to talk to, since the brother doesn't really count.
I'm also bored out of my mind and unable to really channel the energy into actually useful things. However, this may be due to the fact that right now, I'm feeling a bit nautious because I ate more chocolate pudding than I should've.
Anyway, since I have to fend for myself, I've decided to try and cook out of my norm. My mom bought a lot pizza, waffles, and mini-burgers for me and my brother...and that's about it. I went looking for some meat to cook and turned up empty-handed. Chicken is plentiful, but the beef that is there for the taking is being reserved for like, stew and family dinners.
We did have some steak things that me and my brother were given permission to eat, so I set about making beef fried rice. With just minute rice on hand, I fired that up with egg, onion, and the aforementioned steak, throwing in lots of soy sauce and salt. Dumped that in a bowl and watched my DVR recording of "Vincent and the Doctor".
Title inspired by an episode of a show whose artbook I bought today.
You know how, in many stories, the main character is an orphan of sorts? Maybe they're on their own, maybe they're being raised by relatives or siblings, or maybe they're they're even in government care. Whatever. Orphans are fun because they don't have to burden the story and the author by having to write and explore parents.
My parents left this morning for the likes of southern Georgia, leaving me alone. Well, me and my brother, but I hardly count him as a person. This boils down to me taking the dogs out, doing the laundry, cleaning the dishes, and keeping things from not exploding.
It got me thinking about how much being an orphan sucks. Grant it, most of this lies in taking care of the dogs, and most orphans who are on their own tend to not have pets to take care of. Still, there's everything else involved.
I think having the week to purely take care of myself is going to be fun. Also, I got to cook and be fancy and not have my mom ask why I was chopping up broccoli and tomatoes in the food processor. (Chicken topped with tomoccoli garnish and baked at 400° F is nomtastic.) So maybe I can milk a cookbook out of this deal.
Things I'm looking forward to: Friday's 4pm Doctor Who is with the 9th Doctor. Saturday is an all-day marathon of DW season 5, ending with the season finale. No work this weekend (since I was supposed to be on vacation). Geology class ends this coming week!
Things to do: 2-3 drawings for various people of various things...but all for birthdays...
So like, you how the itty-bitty icons for everyone are about three months behind? As in, they're probably still on the old server? These are the icons that appear in, say, your subscription/bers box, or who has favorited a work, etc.
Mine's changed, inexplicably, from the Benzaie Bazooka to some icon of the 11th Doctor. And this wouldn't trip up my knowledge...except that I don't have that icon and have therefore never used it.
Out of twisted curiosity, I rented Twilight from Netflix and gave it a go.
My resulting 36 minute rant can be seen here. Sorry for the crappy res, it has to do with file size constraints.
Many of my trains on the thought track derailed, and there are so many things I forgot, but I had to compile the video with three different videos because of the space limits on my memory card. I mean, daaaaang...so much stuff I wanted to say and it was hard to keep track of it all.
