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December 31st, 2010
 | 05:48 pm - ITP: TOP POST
Hello, everyone! I'm surskitty or ss or skoot or something like that (I collect nicknames), and this is my LJ. I AM AN ACCOMPLISHED LURKER and usually only come out of the lurkerbox if there's a plot hole I spotted or something. I will VERY RARELY add someone to my flist first but I nearly always add back if you add me. Comment here if your journal's apparently empty or if you want me to KNOW WHO YOU ARE (I am awful with names so I might not recognize you even if it is completely obvious NO OFFENCE) \o\
I try to tag most of my entries, although 90% of my tags are only useful for me. You should totally look through my tag list and marvel at how many I have and how so few of them have been used once. Hint: most of the ones that've been used all of once are actually useful.
Most of my posts are fandom-related at least partially! ... This is probably because I assume no one cares about my personal life unless I think there is something funny about it. So yessssss.
I totally will make icons or write crappy flashfic for people if asked. Feel free to do so; I am so easy to convince.
I do lurk at CFUD and on the IRC channel but I am v. shy and can go for months at a time with never actually saying anything. orz
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/3163/awakeoo3.jpg) awake
Current Music: Final Fantasy IX OST - Nobuo Uematsu - You're Not Alone!
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December 16th, 2009
 | 09:36 am - I am so awesome.
So today in DIgital Art we started our vector graphics project: trace a raster image and make it be a vector image. Me being me, I spent the first ten minutes of class figuring out how to get Illustrator* to automagically trace my base image (radishes; who is surprised?) into vectors. :D
Everyone else was completely baffled by Illustrator (and by trying to do the same thing in Photoshop) so I went to help people! for that is what I do. So first I was showing people how to do it properly and then I was demonstrating how to get the computer to do it**. For some reason this assignment has now been cancelled.
Also I showed the teacher my trick for accessing .doc files on computers without Word or OpenOffice: upload it to Google Docs tada. :D So now she can access her lesson plans from the past few years in this classroom. SUCCESS
* I've never used Illustrator before, okay. I have problems with Illustrator and Photoshop because I'm used to using Inkscape and GIMP and not everything's in the same menu. Don't judge me!
** The teacher was entirely aware of this and approved. Illustrator is confusing! ... possibly. Certainly it's confusing for a group of not-exactly-tech-savvy art students.
ETA (which is not a footnote): I think I made three or four new tags just for this post. I think I may need therapy.
Current Location: the mac lab
Current Music: Jonathan Coulton -- Code Monkey
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December 12th, 2009
 | 12:10 am
brb, kidnapping ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kiraboo for drama club debauchery.
also I wrote a bunch of post cards today. if you're someone other than nerrin, Altmer, opal, Keta, or H-land, send me a message and I will totally send you a postcard. :3 I think I currently have six more postcards that aren't planned to go in any particular direction? They're easy enough to get, anyway.
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December 9th, 2009
 | 08:49 pm
Mom has discovered Death Note.
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December 7th, 2009
 | 06:18 pm
Yay, I have a badly-titled art book by beanclam. :D
Someday I'll pick up some prints of ursulav's stuff but first I need to figure out what. Too many options :'(
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December 6th, 2009
 | 12:02 am - in which there is much reflection and little action
Slowly but surely, I'm working on the fine art of saving myself time and energy. Also closing tabs. ... okay, I lie about closing tabs; I have around 63 open at the moment. Which is pretty low! Actually it's about 10 lower than it'd've been maybe a month ago, so! ... And I wonder why my computer yells at me.
\o\ I set up my secondary email and the email I sign up with things with (it forwards to my main email; I tried setting that one up, too, but Yahoo! apparently demands that one give them money for the honour of using a proper email client) in Thunderbird and ... sort of trained the spam filter. A little.
Strangely, I keep changing the keyboard settings to Hindi today instead of Japanese. At this rate, I may have to remove a few keyboard options. I do like being able to hit ctrl+shift a few times to type русский язык or 日本語, though. Or at least theoretically I can type in Cyrillic; I'm unfamiliar with the transliteration they're using and I certainly have no idea what I'm doing if I, say, set it to act like a Russian keyboard. ... I should really get around to looking through the Learn Russian book kiraboo gave me for my birthday more, but then I haven't gotten much farther with German or Japanese lately, either. I've practiced Japanese more than German, but mainly kanji (through Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten) and not much of that, either.
I still need to bind a key I don't use to alt-gr on this computer.... I did it on flypPC a while ago (with the right-alt, though I do apparently use that, so I think I may bind it to Insert or whatever the key brings up the right-click menu instead. Only the right-click key is potentially useful as I try to avoid using my mouse more than necessary, so I suppose it'd be Insert. I never intentionally click that.), but I haven't gotten around to it on pinaPC. Possibly it's piñaPC, rather than pinaPC, but I might as well give it a proper name. Whenever flypPC's replaced with a different box (hopefully not anytime soon, though the monitor's half-dead and is being replaced with a much larger one), I might name it albertoPC. It'd probably only be funny to me, but that's who matters there, right?
It snowed today.
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December 3rd, 2009
 | 07:35 pm
Today was strange.
In Italian class, the teacher couldn't remember the English word for one particular vocab word: vongole. I leave the significance of this and what happened next up to you.
Also, in European History, some of my classmates asked me if I'd play MtG with them. Unfortunately I did not bring my deck (and have not since fifth grade or so, but I still HAVE it somewhere) and told them so. They weren't surprised that I said I didn't bring my deck not that I didn't play. Presumably I have a reputation.
During drama club, one of the ninth graders randomly showed up to watch us rehearse. It was one of the girls in the English class I student aide for! :3
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December 1st, 2009
 | 07:33 pm
I just realized that I had a few of my journal filters messed up so journals I meant to read weren't on the filter I pay attention to....
Ooops. At least I don't really comment on other people's entries much anyway. /)_(\
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November 29th, 2009
 | 04:28 pm
I hate moodswings.
In particular, I keep going from feeling awesome and not knowing why and feeling like I've committed some huge faux paus and it's just ... sigh
@_@
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November 27th, 2009
 | 07:38 pm
It is vaguely close to the Christmas-y season and so I feel like maybe setting up a WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM MEEEEEEE post! Warning: it is entirely possible that I will forget and nothing will happen.
Also you can ask for more than one thing but don't expect me to ... remember all of it. It might happen! It might not. IT IS ALL A MYSTERRRRY
THINGS I WILL DEFINITELY DO AND NOT FORGET
- ICONS with 100x100 as a target size with neither dimension exceeding 100 though I end up with lopsided ones a lot. Examples include everything in my userpics uh. You'll definitely get at least one icon of whatever you ask for and usually I'm okay with doing more than that but if I am unsatisfied with the original image quality that might be it. I get really obsessive about the base image okay :( There's no real upper limit for how many you can ask for but note that I GET BORED so no promises there. Also if the original pic is smaller than, eh, 200x200 I will be very sad.
- STUPID SUMMARIES OF STUFF I LOVE
THINGS I WILL PROBABLY DO AND MIGHT FORGET
- Postcards or letters! I have a horrendous track record with postcards and letters but I will totally try. Note that I live in the US and have never sent anything out of country as far as I know. So er. I'll try but I am a SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE and -- yes. CHECK THIS if it is less than $5 to your country for a postcard I'd totally do it
- SKETCHES no examples but go ahead and askkkk
- FICBITS samples available upon request and I love writing ficbits but I am allergic to sharing unless someone else brings it up first. Er. Yes ♥.
- POKÉMONS I have most of them and can get the rest ('cept for a legal Arceus) and can trade them or somethiiiiing but. I do not play Pokémon much! Honest. ... But if you need something cloned? I can totally do that. My attention span sucks though so.
THINGS TO GIVE ME if you want idrk idrc
- POSTCARDS ARE AWESOME. I am against posting my address on the internet that much and I don't want to flock this since a lot of my friends don't have LJs (bastards) but ask and thou shalt receive.
- FICBITS I could totally prompt you
- AMUSING DEMOTIVATORS I'm specifying amusing though
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November 26th, 2009
| 07:13 pm
I am thankful for delicious spiral ham cooked with cherries and pineapple.
I am not so thankful for the fact that I'm going to end up wandering towards New Jersey on Saturday morning because one of my great grandparents finally got around to kicking it on Tuesday night.
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November 19th, 2009
 | 07:59 pm
\o\ I've now gotten around to using Google Reader. RSS feeds cleaning up a few of my tabs~~ now I have at least ten tabs open at all tabs and probably closer to seventy instead of having twenty-five tabs open and -- yeah
I also upgraded to Karmic! ... Unfortunately that seems to have punched my font settings in the face, maybe. I'm not sure what the problem is but EVERYTHING LOOKS WEIRD ah well. I don't ... care that much.
SO GUYS
WHAT COMICS SHOULD I READ THAT I DON'T ALREADY
- MANGA: KHR, Air Gear (... on occasion; I catch up around four months at a time because I don't actually care 98% of the time), Fullmetal Alchemist (FUCK YEAH), Kingdom Hearts (... theoretically), Pokémon Special (this is even more theoretical), Claymore
- WEBCOMICS: Digger, Order of the Stick, Erfworld, Girl Genius, Lackadaisy Cats, Phoenix Requiem, Slightly Damned, Goblins, xkcd, The Meek, possibly Roza as of five seconds ago
Notable pings include mafia, stupid, time travel, stupid, continuity, stupid, and mascot characters. Notable anti-pings are bad art though I can ignore that on occasion. I still need pretty, though.
Unrelatedly! There are a few people on my flist who I pretty much NEVER TALK TO! This is sad! Come bug me sometime on IM! I always feel bad when I get confused as to who is who. AS SUCH come talk to me so I don't ... screw that up more. orz
Also this is pretty much for my own reference but my DS broke. It is very sad. :'( I might've cried a single tear before transferring data from dad's DS Lite to a DSi and my data to the DS Lite.
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November 10th, 2009
 | 05:37 pm - KHR 266 OMGWTF
DINOSAUR PEOPLE THAT ARE ON FIRE
THIS IS SO AWESOME
LET ME SAY THIS AGAIN: D I N O S A U R S
And to think I was thinking about ditching KHR for a while.
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October 31st, 2009
 | 07:29 pm
So my friends and their friends and I are trick or treating. When we get back to my house, we go inside because some people are thirsty or need to use the bathroom.
A small child followed us inside.
I'm a pirate. So's one of my friends. We also have a pirate ship and a cat and ... Oliver Twist?
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October 28th, 2009
| 01:08 pm
Strep throat :(
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October 26th, 2009
| 06:37 pm - RE: KHR 264 SPOILERS
I DON'T UNDERSTAND
IF THIS IS TRUE THIS IS SO AWESOME BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND
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October 23rd, 2009
| 06:14 pm
So I now have an internship for small amounts of money where I'll do mosaics and paint stuff I guess. It should be fun, and it counts for community service, too. So I'll get a bit of money and most of my hours dealt with, and the rest'll be from magically aiding teachers. \o/
Also today there were AUDITIONS for DRAMA CLUB. Which was awesomely awesome except that this one guy who should really know better (he went to the same elementary school that I went to and they always have the fourth graders put on a school production) was an idiot and half of the people there can't currently act their way out of bags. On the other hand, this is high school. No one's really expected to be able to act their way out of a paper bag. Even so....
Also, I love you, LJ Add-ons, for bringing up my art-related icon without me pressing things. You are so psychic ♥
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October 15th, 2009
 | 07:05 pm
I think I'm a bit lost.
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October 14th, 2009
 | 12:54 pm
I am something like a fish.
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October 10th, 2009
 | 03:40 pm
My cousin apparently has pneumonia.
what
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