| RIP Nicodemus |
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| 11:07pm 05/11/2009 |
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I'm angry
angry
angry
feel like punching stuff
I have a feeling those stupid vets had no idea what the hell they were doing.
It's not fair
Luz took such good care of him. She changed his food and water every day so it would always be fresh. I'd tell her, Luz you're wasting the food like that, just leave it there and he'll eventually eat it all, but she wouldn't have it. Fresh food every day along with veggies and lots of love and affection.
What happened?
how did he get sick?
Was he just sick from the beginning?
Was he just that old?
He was perfectly fine and energetic up till get got sick.
*sighs*
I just don't get it
It's just not fair
why do bad things continue to happen to my little sister?
at least she got to be there when he went.
She was holding him and reading Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH to him
I suppose I can't think of a better way to go
He was very loved and he knew it
He loved cuddling and being affectionate
When we first got him of course he was scared of people, but that didn't last
He'd sit on your lap and let you pet him and when Luz let him roam around her room
he'd just hole up in her bookshelf and curl up atop her books
He was an adorable little thing
I'm just so upset over this
Poor Luz...I just keep thinking about how she had said "I can't imagine life without him"
and it just makes me angry. Could something have been done?
Maybe he'd have been better off if there was no vet involved prescribing him these shady meds...
No point in dwelling on that I suppose...
His funeral is tomorrow...Luz and my dad are going to bury him in the front yard and Luz is going to plant some flowers there. God this hurts me :( it's hurting so much more than I ever imagined it could. I just can't help thinking about poor Luz.
Enough ranting and venting for now I suppose...
Rest in Peace dear little Nicodemus You were a great little rat and you made my sister so happy for the terribly short time you were with us. We will miss you ♥ |
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4...over the stars| time for something new...
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| My painting got in the show :D |
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| 11:06pm 04/11/2009 |
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yay
my painting was one of the 30 they selected for the art in circle gallery student show thingy
it'll be up there till december 4th :D
They never emailed me about it. I had to figure it out myself today as I went to the student union to ask then saw the pieces up and took a walk to see if hopefully mine was up there. Of course mine was in the very last section I looked it, but it was quite a good feeling :D
I was in class when they announced the winners, so I don't know if I got anything, and I have a feeling since I don't have any emails from them by now, they're not gonna send me any and I'm gonna have to go to the SGA and ask them about it. Oh well, either way I got in the show :D
on random note; I was looking through my scraps on DA and made myself the best icon ever XD |
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| I need a cage! |
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| 03:15pm 27/10/2009 |
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My babies Domino and Iko
are in need of a bigger cage. A 2 or 3 level ferret cage would be awesome. (I prefer a taller cage over a wider one because of space issues in my room)
Unfortunately all the cheap ones I find on Ebay are pickup only, and of course they're all in Ohio or California. -.-"
Sooooo, if anyone knows where I can get a decent priced, decent sized cage for 2 hyper little rats to live in, please let me know! |
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time for something new...
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| stole from Heather |
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| 11:30pm 09/10/2009 |
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music: "This Town" - OurAfter
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YOUR BOY SIDE
[x] you love hoodies
[x] you love jeans
[ ] dogs are better than cats
[x] it's hilarious when people get hurt and fall
[x] you've played with/against boys on a team
[sometimes] shopping is torture
[ ] sad movies suck
[soon] you own a XBOX
[probably not enough to count] you played with Hot Wheels Majorettes as a little kid.
[sorta] at some point in life you wanted to be a firefighter
[x] you owned a DS PS2 or Sega
[x] you used to be obsessed with Power Rangers
[ ] you watch sports on TV
[x] gory movies are cool
[sorta] you used to go to your dad for advice
[sorta] you have at least 1 trophy of a sport
[ ] You used to play Yu-Gi-Oh
[x] baggy sweat pants are nice to wear
[x] it's kind of weird to have sleepovers with a bunch of people
[x] green, black, red, blue, or silver are one of your favorite colors
[depends] you love to go crazy and not care what other people think
[a couple] sports are fun
[x] you sometimes talk with food in your mouth
[sometimes] you sleep at night with your socks on
[X] you have fished at least once
I'm going to count the sortas/sometimes as like half a point...
TOTAL= 15
YOUR GIRL SIDE
[sometimes] you like to shop
[X] you wear eyeliner
[x] you wear the color pink
[ ] you go to your mom for advice
[ ] you consider cheerleading a sport
[ ] you hate wearing all black
[sometimes] you like going to the mall
[ ] you like getting manicures and/or pedicures
[x] you like wearing jewelery
[ ] you cried watching The Notebook
[ ] skirts are a big parts of your wardrobe
[ ] shopping is one of your favorite hobbies
[ ] you don't like the movie Star Wars
[sorta] you are/were in gymnastics
[x] it takes you around one hour to shower and get dressed
[ ] you smile a lot more than you should
[not sure on that one] you have more than 10 pairs of shoes
[x] you care about what you look like majority of the time
[sometimes] you like wearing dresses
[X] you like wearing body spray/deodorant
[sometimes] you like high heel shoes
[x] you used to play with dolls as a kid
[X] you like putting makeup on others
[ ] you like being the star of almost everything
TOTAL: 11
yep
girly-tomboy |
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time for something new...
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| Desktop meme |
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| 10:47pm 26/09/2009 |
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- Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper.
- Explain in no more than five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
- Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!
If you're not aware of this by now; The Birthday Massacre is my favorite band and I love them lots and I think they're all adorable, and this is the cutest picture I have ever seen of them yet so...there ya go |
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| job please? |
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| 03:52pm 12/09/2009 |
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going to Sally's to see if the manager got my app
please please please let me get the job
I could kinda use one now
it'd be pretty nice
it'd also be pretty sweet working at Sally's
discounts on makeup and hair dye for Kristal? yes please! |
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1...over the stars| time for something new...
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| Buddy |
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| 05:32pm 06/09/2009 |
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Buddy is my Chihuahua mix
he's 12 years old with blond fur and hazel eyes
he's quite furry and very fat
He was my first dog that belonged to me and only me
He hasn't been doing extremely well during this last year or so as he's started coughing a lot
The week after I moved to Orlando he stopped eating, became lethargic and had gunk circles around his eyes which had also swollen.
When I came home to visit I took him to the vet. He has quite a few problems, the most severe of which is congestive heart failure which is what has been making him cough so much.
The visit, the lab fee, the x-ray fee, the blood test fee, and the meds fee totaled to just under $300. My mom wants to just put him to sleep in order to not spend any more massive amounts of money.
right
so
he had apparently gotten better
but now that I'm visiting again I see he's still coughing quite a bit even though I was told it had stopped...perhaps it started up again after the dosage of one of the bottles was cut in half, but no one was paying attention so I don't know. He has to take 2 different pills twice a day, one of which for the rest of his life.
I'm going to have to keep buying them for him
Eventually I have to take him back to have them work on his teeth which are a mess and contributing to his heart sickness, cuz apparently the bacteria gets into the bloodstream somehow and messes up his heart.
Today we've also noticed some strange wound on his side. It looks sort of like a ringworm except the edges aren't raised and there was a small bump in the middle. It looked like it might have been a tick but it wasnt. My mom took it out and put some antibiotics and a bandaid over it. Then we noticed a couple more little bumps only these didn't have rings around them with bald patches. Apart from that he also seems to have a couple abscesses on his foot along with some other wound on his front foot that he's always chewing on.
In other words; my dog is messed up.
I don't want to put him to sleep
I want the vet to fix him as best he can so he can live as long as possible
For as old and messed up as he is he's actually pretty good. He was only all lethargic for that one week, afterward he got back to his normal self which is pretty energetic and happy. So it's not like he's all decrepit and suffering.
this was just the worst time for this to happen
I'm having enough issues trying to have money for school and rent
I was thinking maybe I could sell some art and keep that money for his medical bills
I'd like to sell stuff online but I have no idea how
I need help with that stuff
I know obviously it's not like I'm gonna instantly make $300 or anything
but I'm freaking out here
I've had this dog since I was 10
I just want him to be ok
I was freaking out and crying that day I took him to the vet
when I was younger I always thought it'd be good that my dog would most likely die when I was older because then I'd be able to handle it better...but no...I think I'd handle it just as bad if not worse |
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2...over the stars| time for something new...
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| homework |
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| 01:14am 29/08/2009 |
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2D Design:
take 3 pictures outside of examples of the 3 Gestalt types
create 3 pictures depicting the 3 different Gestalt types
but first make 3x4 "thumbnails" of 10 different ideas for each of the 3 types
that's right, 30 thumbnails
Drawing Fundamentals 2:
draw contour line self portrait [late]
semi-blind drawing of skull and rib cage
woot
woot |
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1...over the stars| time for something new...
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| and day of school |
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| 06:56pm 28/08/2009 |
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hopefully a much shorter post
mainly because it was a couple days ago and my memory just doesn't work well
2D Design: we didn't have a projector so after a while we moved to a class downstairs to use one of the others cuz we needed it for our lesson. The teacher had been told no one would use that room but apparently she was misinformed as like maybe 10-15 minutes into our lesson this tiny Indian man barges in shaking his finger at her declaring "I WILL CONDUCT MY CLASS TODAY!"
after which he began to argue with her saying that ever since his arrival at UCF he has been an "orphan" and been pushed around from room to room and so on.
So we skedaddled out of there ASAP and continued in our original classroom with a borrowed projector.
Art Fundamentals II: I was pretty much screwed since the night before I was unable to purchase the required 2X3 ft newsprint pad that apparently is only sold in the art store all the way in Winterpark and Sam Flax which is not exactly close by either. They didn't have it at Michaels. Of course by the time I made it to Sam Flax it was closed. So I didn't have the required materials nor did I have my homework which was a contour line self portrait on said newsprint.
There was a new girl in class luckily and she helped me out a bit. The teacher told her to get a newsprint pad from the vendor outside the classroom and she took me with her. I felt pretty stupid that I had not noticed the little art sale set up right outside the classroom. This guy from that art store in winterpark was gonna be there till tuesday selling supplies. So I got my stuff and it was all good :) no one seemed to notice I didn't turn in my homework...not yet at least.
and yes...sadly the cute guy was not there today, so I guess his credit did not transfer and there will be no eye candy in this class v.v
which really sucks because this happens to be my least favorite class of the bunch. The other classes are fun and interesting so far, but I've come to realize I rather dislike figure drawing classes as they tend to be terribly boring, redundant, and seemingly pointless.
I ate a delicious PB&J sandwich I had made for myself that morning and bought some vitamin water. Doodled in my notebook ideas for my 2D homework and listened to music until it was time to go wait outside my Art As Interface class.
Art As Interface: I absolutely love this teacher. He is a delight. Not only is he terribly funny but he seems to genuinely care for the well being of the students. He stays after class answering questions no matter how many students are there. He told us that Monday he stayed after like 40 minutes answering students to stayed to ask questions.
Art of Cinema: Dear God...
seeing as I wanted this to be a shorter post I won't even get into this one. I'll just say...I should have known what kind of students I'd have to deal with in this class. I should not have been surprised. The teacher is quite delightful in this class as well, but ya...the students...God help us all...
oh ya, and Jerry has that class with me so yay :) |
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| oh ya, about that first day of school |
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| 12:51pm 25/08/2009 |
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Luckily Jaro was able to bring up my schedule at midnight so I wouldn't be lost.
Went to bed at like 12:30 but probably didn't fall asleep till well after 1
Heard Edd come home and woke up. Kept waking up periodically throughout the night. That happens to me a lot. For some reason also my hearing is very sensitive when I'm sleeping. Well for the most part. I feel that's a good thing though. I'd prefer that to sleeping like a rock while the zombies come and eat everyone.
So I finally got up at 5:55 AM even though I was super tired. Showered, got ready, did my usual standing in the doorway motionless blankly staring into my room for a moment trying to think if I forgot anything, then headed out the door after asking Jaro to tell me how to get to school.
Horrid traffic. I was reminded of Office Space. Regardless I made it to school rather quickly as it's not very far away. The one good thing about having an early class is the parking situation isn't ridiculous. Though there was a bunch of cars frantically roaming about the already seemingly full parking lot, I was able to find a spot on the ground floor.
I found my first class easily enough. The night before I had told Jaro "I hope they don't change my classroom on me." He didn't know what I was talking about so I explained to him how lots of times they like to change the classroom at the last minute so your first day ends up like a mini scavenger hunt. He said that had never happened to him before. So there I am first day of class before the door of my first class and what do I see? A page stuck to the door stating that the room had been changed.
Luckily they had only moved it across the hall and some ways down but I still found it terribly hilarious. The teacher was late so after a while I began to wonder if I was waiting with the right group of people. However, eventually she came over though she had the wrong keys and had to go back.
It seems like it's going to be a good class. The teacher is from Belarus, has an awesome accent, and looks like she could be a gymnast. She seems quite spiteful of all the negative remarks she's gotten on ratemyprofessor, but she seems overall quite swell to me. I don't know what those idiots were complaining about. The class isn't very big and there's only 4 guys. No eye candy T.T
I was really kinda surprised to NOT see any stereotypical art kids. No hippie/stoners no goth/punks not even indie/scene kids! Everyone was very ordinary looking...or preppy. I imagine they all must have looked at me and thought I was fresh out of high school.
My next class was no better. It was MUCH bigger. In fact, there weren't enough stools in the classroom so half of us were standing. Again...no "artsy" kids. It seems all the girls are preps and all the boys are geeks...like stereotypical movie geeks. There was one girl who was dressed kinda fancy and one dude looked like he might be somewhat of a stoner kid but apart from that they're all cookie cutter images. In that entire class there was ONE good looking dude, and he just so happened to be a guy who was in my drawing class at MCC. We recognized each other and had a brief chat and it seems he's not sure his credit will transfer so he may not be in this class...and I will have nothing pretty to look at.
Oh ya so I don't know what's up but I had my fist class marked as drawing fundamentals 2 but then I go to my second class and the syllabus says 'drawing fundamentals 2' and I'm like ok wtf was my last class??? I guess somehow I switched them but I looked back and in every copy of my schedule I have it says drawing fundamentals 2 at 8-11 and 2d design at 11-2
whatever...anyway it was just sorta funny cuz I was really confused for a moment.
So anyway this class is 3 hours but since it's the first day and I guess the teacher didn't have much to talk about he let us out after half an hour. Now...regularly, after this class I have a 2 and a half hour break before my third class...and now I was let out 2 and a half hours early...I had 5 hours of NOTHING ahead of me!!! I was like holycrap what the hell am I gonna do for 5 hours!?!?!?!?! No way in hell I'm going back home and losing my parking space.
I was starving so I went to go eat chick fil a. I guess they had some sort of club rush type this going outside but I didn't pay it much attention. Everywhere was full, but I found a table with one dude sitting at it and asked if I could sit there. He was nice and let me sit with him but I guess it must have been sort of awkward eating right across from a stranger. He eventually left and then 2 girls came and asked to sit with me. Eventually Jaro joined me with some subway then we went to check out the club rush thing. It was pretty funny.
There were the republicans and the democrats right next to each other, like their tents were practically connected. Then there were the Christians on the side and in the middle of the sidewalk some ways away from them were the stoners trying to get everyone to sign a petition to legalize marijuana. They were ridiculous amounts of annoying and obnoxious. The Christians just looked at them in horror. It was really funny.
So Jaro went to talk to the 'Obama people' and I went to the Christian tent to ask about some churches in the area. They were really nice and gave me information on 3 different nearby churches. Then I signed some petition for healthcare or some such and Jaro wanted to find the library...which ended up being right behind us.
It's a huge library but it made me sad because it wasn't cozy like the one at MCC. Oh how I loved that MCC library, it was like my little sanctuary. Anyway we hung out there for a bit then he had to go cuz he had work at 3 or something, so I walked him all the way to his car cuz I had nothing better to do. Then I walked back to the student union, went up to the first floor, found a bench and sat listening to music on my ipod and broken headset for like an hour straight. Finally I decided to wander over to my 3rd class [Art as Interface]
It was like half an hour before class started so I sat on the floor amongst other waiting students and listened to some more music and played Pokemon gold on my gameboy.
This class was even bigger than the last class and was in a huge lecture hall. I love those classrooms, they make me feel like I really am in college. There were a few slightly alternative people in there; a few girls with piercings or a strip or 2 of colored hair, and some dork in tripp pants. There was one really pretty scene girl. She looked like a faerie or something. However I sat up front so I didn't get a good look at everyone. Still..I doubt there's any cute guys.
Now I'm sure at this point I appear to be some girl who thinks going to school is about scoring hot guys. No not at all, I'm not after a dude, I just like to have something pretty to look at during class sometimes.
Anyway this teacher is HILARIOUS! I'm pretty sure on ratemyprofessor kids complained about him using class as his own personal standup but he just seems to be a genuinely funny person. I don't feel like it's a performance of any sort. He just happens to be really funny. The class was laughing pretty much for nearly the whole of those 2 hours. I'm very excited about this class.
Oh this is worth a mention. At one point he was explaining his quiz answer system. He had this chart with percentages and A,B,C,D listed one way with Correct/Incorrect listed another. It seems some of his questions have more than one right answer and each answer is worth a percentage it'll either add or take away from your overall grade on that question. Anyway it was hella confusing to me at first glance. He began to give an example by asking about something he mentioned in class earlier. "So let's say you answered A and B, what is your grade for that answer?" The entire class was silent. The teacher stood there in disbelief and tilted his head to the side and uttered "wow you guys are really bad at math"
The class erupted into laughter. I said "That's why we're art students" and the girl next to me was like "I know right!"
Eventually we got the concept but it was really comforting to be in such a huge class and see that everyone was just as bad at math as me.
So after that I went to the parking garage and headed home, almost missing like 2 of my turns. Actually I did miss the last one and had to turn around x.x
Got home around 6 or something, terribly exhausted and terribly hungry. I made some yummy ramen and that's pretty much the end of my story :3 |
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