I HAVE AN INTERVIEW WITH THE LIBRARY FRIDAY!!!!!

8^DDD

Wish me luck people! The director sounded really nice, and my prospects seem really good as he called me around 1 pm on Monday; the deadline for applicants was Friday.

I'll let you know how it goes! :^)

Current Mood: cheerful

After a long, long, LOOOONG respite, I am drawing again. YAY! I haven't drawn since my April piece fordaily_deviant . X^D I haven't had the time. I technically don't have the time now (I have things I could be doing: wedding stuff, house stuff, job stuff) but I had the urge to draw so I had to comply. I'm working on a piece I would have drawn for June's posting for daily_deviant so it's been swimming in my brain since this. I'm sure you'll love this one,thepinkrabbit ,as Lucius/Draco is the prominent pairing in this piece. This one is going to take me a while to complete, but most of the main parts are already planned out. I'm still not happy with two of the faces (there are five figures in the piece, and possibly might have a sixth) so it's pretty ambitious. I hope I don't get bored of it. Hell, I still have 5/6 pieces I never finished. X^D I don't know if I will, though I should at least finish the ones that are pretty close to being done. :^\ I might just shit can one of them as I was never quite happy with how it came out. I dunno yet.

Anyways, it feels good to draw again. X^D I've missed it . . . Now, if only my bunnies would come back for my fic . . . ;^)

On a completely unrelated note, has anyone seen those commercials on CNN warning against child molesters? I know this is awful but I can't help but start laughing every time I see them. They are so hysterical!!! X^DDDD I know, I know. I can't help it. They're just really stupid and ridiculous.

Current Mood: chipper

Interesting . . .  they certainly picked a good kid to play lil' Tom.  X^D

It's definitely nice and dark.  I love that about the most recent movies.  Yates is doing a pretty good job, I must say.

That is all.

Current Mood: blah though I should be cheery

So many slashy possibilities . . .  Not that I haven't said it before.  ;^)

We're watching the episode "Lardner's Ring" and that jester guy is hot . . .  Reminds me of Adam Ant back in the 80's.  X^DDD

Guy of Guisbourne/jester-dude (dunno what his name is) anyone?

Current Mood: tired

We are in Marlboroughs and we have the Internets! X^D

Well, there was a problem getting it set up but it seems to be resolved . . . I hope. :^\ Anyways . . .

More later!

Current Mood: sore

Friday my PC's video card decided to crap out on me . . .  all of a sudden while playing Sims the thing wonked out on me:  vertical lines that shifted and got worse . . .  I restarted the computer to no avail.  When John got home, he switched out the power plug to it and it worked fine until last night when it shit the bed again.  Sims fried it both times.  X^DDD  I tried fiddling with it today and got it working for all of a half-hour.  X^D  I think it's fried . . .  toast . . .  kaput.  So I ordered a new one online this morning . . .  Which means I have to work that $73-whatever off this week.  Greeeaaaat!  I'm sure it's the heat and the humidity (and Sims 2) that finally did it in.

Current Mood: groggy

 . . .  with the calligraphy.  I have a few more to go, but I don't have the addies yet so I wait . . .  and wait.  :^P

Only 5 bazillion more things to do between the move and the wedding.  Yay.

I wish I could just draw some p0rnz.  X^D

My new characters OMC for HP's names:  Bastian McAgus and Vasile Iostinus Ozera.  Both are in Durmstrang.  Bastian is of Scottish origin and Vasile Romanian.  I had no idea what to make for houses so I came up with seasonal (lame, I know):  Springrain, Summersun, Autumnwind, and Winterchill  I thought maybe zodiac signs but then I was like, nah.  Though it would be better sounding; I may change this or steal someone else's if they've come up with better  X^DDD.  Bastian is in Springrain and Vasile in Autumnwind.  Fun.  I dunno why I came up with them.  They just sorta sprung into my mind.  They're a couple, obviously.  It's a sketchy romance, as Bastian was a first year and Vas a seventh year when they started dating.  X^D  I won't be doing all that much with them right now.  I have them created in in Sims, and their fathers and Vasile's mother.  Both know the Malfoys through their families.  I've been dabbling off and on when I have a moment.  (Rarely.)

That's it for now, kids.  Have fun.

Current Mood: drained

I'm writing out the wedding reminder envelopes in CALLIGRAPHY . . .

I have like 120 to do . . .  I've done about 20 over today and yesterday.  Yeah.  Big yeah.

X^D

Wish me luck.

Current Mood: crazy

Just a quick post before we finish The Constant Gardener (long overdue) . . .

Current Mood: tired

Happy birthday, mayflo !

Hope your day was a good one! ;^)

PS: Yes, I will be updating sooner or later . . .

There's a bit of a wedding and a house in the way of things . . . :^\

*is worried about June's daily_deviant  post . . . *

Current Mood: cold

I left this uncut because I think this is too important, esp. for Americans to cut.  Read away folks, read away . . .

Okay, so I hear on the news today (CNN) that Reverend Jeremiah Wright spoke at the NAACP Monday and the National Press Conference today.  I also heard that Obama made a statement condemning Wright's comments at the NPC today, but I didn't see any clips of any of his "offensive comments".  Well, they did show the comment he made about Cheney's "non-service".  I actually enjoyed that quip.  X^DDD  All they kept showing were clips from the NAACP dinner, clips where he was dancing, singing and doing impressions all of which made him look like an idiot.  Jeannie Moos even had a Moost Unusual segment about his antics there.  John brought up the whole "black god/white god, black god kill white god=kill white people" comment Wright supposedly made somewhere at some time which John couldn't tell me.  Then he shows me where he got this from:  a forum which quoted the book of author James Cone from his book A Black Theology of  Liberation where this paragraph was.  I read it and out of context of the entire book, it looks possibly insidious (again taken out of context from the page it was on) but no where did I get the sense that he believed the "black god" had to "kill the white god" and therefore white people . . .  I don't have the link as it's on John's PC.  I think you can find the same paragraph if you look at his Wiki-entry here.

Looking into matters further, I decided to look up a transcript of what exactly Rev. Wright said at the National Press Conf.  And after reading it (found it on Fox news's website no less .. .  ah, the irony of that) I found myself seriously confused.  Not only did I agree with everything the Reverend had to say more or less (well, not the biblical stuff . . .  Atheist here, remember?  X^D  Well, a spiritual atheist if such an animal exists . . . ), but I was wondering why the hell Obama condemned his "offensive statements"???  What the hell was offensive???  Okay, okay.  I don't know if I buy the idea that the US Gov. created AIDS to destroy people of African decent, but I also wouldn't put it past them.  Not to mention it also kills gays, other minorities, the poor, drug users, and promiscuous people (all people the far right love to hate) yeah, I definitely wouldn't put it past them!!!  The gov. doesn't exactly have a great track record:  African slavery, Native American subjugation, Japanese internment, lack of women's rights, subjugation of gay people's basic human rights . . .  we are seriously behind most supposedly "first world" countries as far as human rights go.  Seriously.

So that being said . . .

Here is the transcript in full for those wanting the full story.

Here's the transcript for the NAACP function, too.

I haven't read the NAACP transcript yet, but plan to right after this post.  I'm sure again, taken in context the clips of him acting like a moron will make more sense.  :^\

Also?  I have vowed NEVER FUCKING EVER TO BELIEVE THE MEDIA ON ANYTHING SOMEONE IS PURPORTED TO HAVE "SAID".  I don't care.  This is bullshit.  Now I wonder who else did they take out of context?  Makes you really wonder about the media and it's obvious bias.  I'll guess reading the transcripts of the majority of Republicans and right wing lunatics will just make them look more like assholes than they already are.  X^DDDD  But hell, I might learn something . . .  maybe they're not all as bad as I think, too!  X^D  Who knows.  I intend to find out . . . 

I'm also the same person who saw the original full-length clip (which yes, it's still a clip) of Rev. Wright's speech from the pulpit and agreed with everything he said  X^DDD.  I think sometimes people don't like to hear the truth no matter who they are:  white, black, gay, straight, male, female.  Granted, yeah there are better ways to put things but whatever.  So does that mean I'm biased the other way?  Possibly.  I still would prefer to read a transcript of WHAT WAS ACTUALLY SAID AND DONE rather than just listen to clips and sound bites that can easily be misconstrued into anything the media wants them to be.

Now, I'm wondering what Obama saw of Wright's speech?  And what he didn't . . . ?  Did he read the full transcript or watch the entire video?  I'm curious . . .  I seriously doubt he read/viewed the speech in its entirety because it doesn't make any sense for him to condemn this but not condemn the pulpit speech which out of context seemed more inflammatory . . .  Just my two cents.  I'm seriously not sure what to think anymore other than the MEDIA SUCKS.  :^P  And people why I look to the BBC for my news.  They're biased too, I'm sure, however.  :^\  X^D  YOU CAN'T WIN! 

*sighs . . . * Okay, rant over.

EDIT: After reading his NAACP dinner speech, I can only say that I disagree with his comments on education and differing learning styles and language . . . The phrase that stuck out there was: We owe her a debt of gratitude. Dr. Hale showed us that in comparing African-American children and European-American children in the field of education, we were comparing apples and rocks.

X^DDD Um, no? Maybe apples and oranges. Apples and rocks??? What is he saying we're two different species, no better yet a living thing and a non-living thing??? That just sounds bad. Anyways, I digress: there are plenty of white children who have a "right-brain" frame of mind, as I'm sure there are plenty of black children who are "left-brained" and then there's everything in between; most people white, black or what have you are a little of both, not specifically one or the other. :^\ Hell, my brother is mostly right-brained; he's not one to learn from a book: he learns by doing or listening or seeing. I kinda of vary between the two: some times I'm more hands on (need to see it or feel it), other times I need to just read it. So I dunno what the hell he's talking about there . . . Seemed to make no sense to me. Anyone can be left-brained or right-brained. That has nothing to do with ethnicity as far as I'm concerned. :^\ Whatever. Also the thing about language: yeah, everyone talks with a differing accent, doesn't make how they speak wrong, but everyone has a common way of spelling the American-English language and if you don't spell correctly than like it or not, you're grammatically incorrect. :^P Well, spelling-wise and grammarwise. Both or one or the other. Most people anywhere in this country don't speak or write grammatically correct unless they're doing stuff for school anyways. X^D Or something professional or in the public eye . . . Whatever, again.

I was kinda annoyed by the right-brain, left-brain thing . . . I just don't understand how he can say that. Maybe if he said something like the majority of children of African decent are right-brained and the majority of children of European decent are left-brained, sure I could by that. I still doubt it, though. X^D It's probably more like 50/30 for any given ethnic population. I'd have to see the evidence here.

Also, wait a minute: isn't left-brained creative and right-brained logical??? Shit, I am really confused. X^DDD Because he said white kids were logical, and black kids were creative. Maybe he's confused too? Or either CNN didn't transcribe it right . . . ugh, can't trust transcriptions either??? X^D

Time to do more research. Yay. :^P

(Not tonight, though) X^D BEDTIME!

So now I'm wondering: which comments was Obama offended by again? X^D I can understand him being offended by the things about education and language. That makes more sense than what he said at the National Press Conference. :^\ It's kinda offensive to say that black kids and white kids have differing learning styles that don't overlap . . . Not only that, but highly unlikely too. More deep thoughts to ponder . . . Okay, I have to look up the damn left-brain, right-brain thing!!! X^D

Current Mood: confused and disheartened

Happy belated b-day to twilightsorcery!

IJ doesn't always send reminders . . .  ah, well.  No one's perfect, right?  ;^)

P.S. Does anyone know what happened to snapelike? \:^(

Current Mood: blah

Just wanted to wish andreth_47 a very happy birthday!

Hope your day is a good one! ;^)

Later (which may be a few days from now the way things are lately) I have a few updates concerning about the weekend, folks. So stay tuned!

And how come no one looked at my Barchester Photoshop fun??? X^D CHECK IT OUT PEOPLE! Well, only if you wanna. It's not as funny as some of my other Photoshop funs, but it's still not horrible. :^P

Current Mood: cold

Just wanna wish draco_a_malfoy a happy belated birthday!

Hope your day was a great one!

(And sorry I am lates . . . ) :^(

Current Mood: d'oh

Happy birthday, tripperfunster and ladysunflower over at LJ!

Hope your day is a great one! :^D

I will be posting some fun things later, so stay tuned. ;^) Well, I hope to. Ya never know, I may get sidetracked which happens a lot of late. X^D

Current Mood: headachy

Happy birthday, bridgetmkennitt and artisticentropy!

Hope your day is a great one!

Current Mood: sneezy

Happy birthday, charlottechaos!

Hope your day is a great one!

Current Mood: annoyed

This is almost too late but . . .

Happy Birthday, headgirl!

Hope your day was a good one!

In other news, I'm working diligently on my daily_deviant post and it's coming out rather well! I probably shouldn't say anything in case I jinx it but . . . X^D I'll take the risk. I plan to work on it some more tonight, hopefully for another couple hours at least.

And yes, still way behind. :^\ Probably will be for the rest of my life now. :^P

Current Mood: cautiously optimistic

Happy birthday, sm_malfoy!

Hope your day is a good one! :^D

I have a feeling I might have missed two other birthdays but I didn't get a reminder for either of them . . . so if I did, I apologize. I really have fallen behind lately. :^\ I haven't worked on art or fic in ages either. I'm getting a little nervous about my DD posting date . . . I hope I have time to do my picture before then.  :^\

Happy birthday, iamisaac!

Hope your day is (was?) a good one!  :^D

Current Mood: exhausted