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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

A Tale of New Years

I found this on my USB stick, which I've been living off of due to Piers being out of commission. *makes face* I wrote this for Writers' Club way back in the winter time for our, you guessed it, winter publication. For the most part, I used...

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NOW what are you?!

Last night, me and my friend Robyn were talking over Skype and she dragged me over to the FanFiction.net to read some MSTings she found. Those are stories that take fanfics and then riff on them with (typically) Mike and the 'bots. And these are n...

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Leg up

Gila monster snipers from the Allied forces take down Nazi grasshoppers. Coming soon to a theater near you.

Also, I turn 18 next Sunday. Wtf.

Thirdly, I am starving.

Ode to Mitsukuni

...Who is my 2000 Toyota Camry, named after Mitsukuni "Hunny" Haninozuka from Ouran High School Host Club.

I got the inexplicable urge to clean my car (which hits me every few months), so I went out with a bottle of Windex, paper towels, and disinfectant wipes to give it an inside cleaning. I also had my Zune, which I plugged into the tape adapter and had going with all the doors open. That was great.

I've had Mitsu for a year now, and done my best taking care of it. Oh, there was that time I backed up into some garbage cans while dropping Sarah off, which chipped my bumper and right tailight, but they're fine and the light still works. There was the time I fishtailed and ended up in a snow mound, but nothing happened except some ice getting in the chassy.

We traveled the 180-ish days to and from school, ventured the many weekends to work, taken an immeasurable amount of trips to stores and friends' houses, and made the hike to Rosemont for ACen. Come the end of October, it's time for our first official roadtrip as we head to Michigan for Youmacon.

Take care of your car and it'll take care of you. Never truer words have been said.

Welp, I'm doomed

I went to my Yahoo main page to check my e-mail. I see an item in the news ticker:

The most lucrative college degrees
Yahoo! Finance - The top-earning majors have one thing in common.

Kat: I bet it's math.

Math majors don't always get much respect on college campuses, but fat post-grad wallets should be enough to give them a boost.

Kat: GOD DAMMIT I WAS RIGHT.

The top 15 highest-earning college degrees all have one thing in common -- math skills. That's according to a recent survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which tracks college graduates' job offers.

Kat: Yeap, doomed.