Weeelll that sucked. That really sucked. The fact of the matter is, whether I know how to do the math or not (and I did know how to do more of it this time because of my studying), I work slowly. I can't do 60 math problems in 60 minutes, unless they are terribly easy, and these are not terribly easy. So I ran out of time, with a fair (not a frightening amount, but a lot) amount left. I made quick, mostly uneducated guesses before the proctor (whom I disliked) called time. I don't know. I just hope, God forbid, that my score is not lower than the first time, otherwise I will be a depressed lynmonkey. At least it's over.

Now I get to haul bricks into the backyard. Joy! (also I can't post at the SLG messageboard right now because of some problem it is having..rrraarrr)

Okay.. I've released all my spazness, and now I'm going to bed. But still, pray for me, voodoo dance, perform strange mystical arts..something, anything. I need all the help I can get.

OH GOD I HAVE TO TAKE THE ACT AGAIN TOMORROW AND IF I DO SUCKY SUCKY THEN MY PARENTS WILL DESTROY ME AND ALL THAT I LOVE!! PLEASE PRAY FOR ME!!! (or whatever you do when you want someone to do well, voodoo dance or whatever!) JUST HELP ME

I FUCKING HATE MY BROTHER.

That is all.

HAHAHA I laugh at your pain, Jaimie-J. No, I don't, that's mean.

But honestly, I check the board a couple of times a day. It's one of my favorite places. Though I got the tip that Jhonen posted a response from stopping by Tengu's blog, because I usually read blogs before boards.

I went driving again today. I'm doing fairly well, but I'm still having Issues with backing up/parking. At least other cars don't PARALYZE ME WITH FEAR anymore.

Woo! I was right! Gaz is the Anti-Christ!! Kind of.

Yes, Tengu, I will exude fangirlish glee. Especially since it was mmmeee who brought up Pepito's name (the people before me said different stuff :3). ::glees:: ::glees::

OK, now I need to get ready for my ACT studying.

Kristen-bug, I'm a white little sheet. X3 Not as white as in that photo of me (because that's with talcum powder all over myself), but I'm pretty pale. My mom is has olive-y brown skin that's only a few shades lighter than Kuruma's, though, so it's weird.

I have decided that the first chapter of Claris needs rewriting, since it sends me into painful spasms every time I read over it. The same things will happen, it will just hopefully suck less.

The sixth page of KS is drawn and inked and partially colored. Spect it up (along with the other stuff I was speaking of yesterday) tomorrow. I'm also working on this (it's a clique/ring for fiction blogs). I be a busy monkey.

Nothing in life ever comes that easy
Doesn't mean it has to be that hard...

Ghuurrg... someone come over to my house and strangle me until I smile. I can't get any goddamn work done like this.

It's raining again... I like rain, but it's never rained this much before...I don't really feel like doing the ACT studying today. I don't feel like doing much of anything, actually... blah...

Blah blah, Kuruma is lecturing me... I'm such a petty person sometimes. Really need to work on that. Still, I think I'm semi-justified in being mildly miffed at being left in the dark.

Yess, I am being cryptic. I'm sorry. But it's too embarrassingly petty for me to get into. Or it seems that way, anyway. It's hard to really judge the attributes of a situation because everyone interprets them differently and everyone can make a case. Almost everything can be reduced to absurdity if you pick at it enough.

On another note, I drove today. I was right: driving is kind of like riding a bicycle. You get better every time you do it, and you don't forget how to do it either. I was much more calm this time, despite having not driven for months. Go meeee.

Umm.. Kendorah finally redownloaded AIM so I may harrass her viciously once more! And she drew Karma Slave fanart. Yeeeaaass. I put it up tomorrow with some other stuff I be working on.

Arrgghh, WHEN is your birthday, Rose? ;__; I always miss birthdays... But I'm glad that you're liking Clarity. Rose in there is Riordan's daughter (as I'm sure you've gathered). She's not mysterious, she's just a little girl. I don't think I ever mention her age, but in the first series she's somewhere into her late sixth year, and in the second I think she's nine (I need to check on the time that passes between the first and second series, but it's quite a bit).

And I like the beginning of your story, Jaimie-J.

I also like all of Verafluff's sketchings, though that last one was disturbing. XD (but in a good way. I think) I liked the first ones best though.

Yes, this post was a mishmash of miscellany... I will end the madness now.

Okay, so I over reacted. That's how I am. -__- I'm just not used to being left out altogether I guess. Sure I'll get used to it though. :\

Okay, people, here's a tip.

Don't try to fucking (yesss I will split my infinitives) hide things from me. Nothing makes me more angry, and anyway, I'll eventually figure out that you're screwing around with me.

Yeah, Jaimie-J, he has the white flag (my other Zim piece) in his favorites as well. I think he arbitrarily added most everything he read to his favorites list, because it's huge, and most of the stuff on there he insulted. ^_^;

The positive response to Karma Slave has made me so happy happy. There really isn't any feeling quite like knowing someone cares, in whatever degree. The support people give me for my work means more to me than I could ever hope to express in a coherent thought. In other words...

I LUV U

Don't think I haven't had my dissenters, though. Ooohh no. Why, this guy just told me that I suxx0red today (nevermind the fact that he seems to hate everything he reads and constantly posts inflammatory remarks wherever he happens to be on ff.net...).

That's just lame, though. A stupid remark made by an equally stupid person (or, someone who is certainly acting stupid). I have had several deep criticisms. The first was when I was just really getting into writing: I was twelve, and in my giddiness at finishing a story (a really awful, perfectly HORRIBLE story whose existence I am now ashamed of. Yes, it is on the Net somewhere. No, I will not tell you where), I uploaded it at this writers section in AOL. Now, back then, unlimited time for a set rate did not exist. You paid for every damn second you spent online. So the first note the guy who emailed me a scathing review of this story was about how people had to pay at the very least a penny to read this stuff, since it took a couple of minutes to download it onto their harddrives. I can't remember most of what he said, but the parts that actually meant anything were about not forcing your characters to serve the plot, and instead having the plot serve the characters. This advice is among the best I have ever gotten, even if the guy was a total ass throughout the rest of the message. He also gave me this wonderful quote from Robert A Heinlein, one of the sci-fi greats, about not really writing a story, but just putting a bunch of interesting people in a room together and seeing what happens.

The other time I was severely schooled was by my friend Amanda Flowers (the actual coiner of the term 'soulbond' that everyone likes to bandy about these days), after reading another story which I am now ashamed of (and which, thank God, is NOT anywhere on the Net). I actually can't remember much of that either, but the basic jist was that I putting in a lot of stuff that was really, really, really stupid. The story was random, and not in the hopefully cool and amusing way that Claris and many of my other work is now, but in a bad, brain-aching way. I've had other criticisms, but those two are the most poignant.

The point here is that I don't mind if you have less than glowing praise for my work. I will probably be upset over it for a while, yes, that is how I am. But then I will go back, and I will think about it, and I will absorb what I think is useful and discard the rest, and my life will continue. But saying that something just sucks is the most lame thing in the whole world.

Of course, this guy is also possibly bitter because I roasted him a la Court on the message board for being a disrespectful twit to a whole bunch of people and seemingly expecting praise for it. :\ I know that Jaimie-J knows who I'm talking about.

And since I noticed people have been talking about My Little Ponies lately, let me just tell you that I had a whole trashcan (yes, it was a trash can, but it was plastic and it was yellow, so not really) full of those things. I even had the blue boy pony. I remember watching and being repeatedly traumatized by the movie (I say traumatized, because I was very young at the time and I found the slimy stuff and the villains [whose names I can't recall] to be horribly, horribly frightening). I was really into ponies and horses when I was like 6 and 7. Unicorns, especially. Unicorns rocked my world.

I mean, I was the girliest girl on the planet when I was a little kid. I wore pink, frilly dresses. My wall was painted pink with rainbow wallpaper. I loved picking flowers and putting them in my hair. Bows, jewelry (especially rings), mom's makeup: all over it. I had a box of all kinds of bows. You just did not get any more stereotypically female than me. I still don't quite know how I evolved into the un-feminine, pink loathing freak I am today (though I still wear mostly dresses and skirts. They are breezy), but good lord. I was a scary kid.

New Karma today, but once again, if you care, you've probably already seen it. I've also written more of Clarity, but I don't believe it's substantial enough to post.

There's not much that's been happening, besides my machine-like devotion to KS and such, except that I'm undergoing study sessions in preparation for the ACT on Saturday. Not enjoyable, but at least it's only an hour a day and I am learning things. Also it's been raining a lot and that's always nice.

Thanks for the link, Jaimie-J, but it's linked http://kurai.com/ks/, when the URL is http://www.kurai.com/karma/ ^_^;;

No pages for it today, but there is some ugly sketchings and I got my first piece of fanart :D I be putting it up later, I am hungry now.

Bwwar! Your CGing is so beautiful, Kristen! x__X And your lineart--so clean x__x