all the avatars are gone......

....the ones in the previous entries, I mean. That's because I was lazy and direct-linked them from Dreamscape, and now that Dreamscape's moved to a new URL, the image URLs don't work anymore.

Why yes, this is just a cheap ploy to plug my domain. Thanks to Kururu of Owaranai Kiss Design's Scramble! contest, I won a free domain, Sylfaerien.net. There's nothing there now because I haven't decided what to do with it yet, but I've moved Dreamscape to the domain, and it has a new layout up too that I'm extremely proud of.

I've been meaning to make some more Xanga layouts for a while now, but moving Dreamscape was such a big task that I've found myself reluctant to touch Photoshop lately. I'll be gone for a week for ECYS retreat, so maybe when I get back from a weeklong abstinence from the computer, I'll feel like making stuff.

for real this time

WHOAWHUTTNEWLAYOUT.

And I'm not trying to psych you out this time.

So. Remember how about three days ago I talked about a brand-spanking-new layout that I was stuck on?

Well, here it is! I'm really happy with the way it turned out. It's very pink, true, but it's pinkish-orange and it's a pretty shade at that. And it features YUFFIE!!! Gotta love it.

I've decided not to post the dreams of the seventh star (my previous layout) on Skye Sanctuary because I think it's a little too personalized to make a good premade. This one will definitely end up there after a while, though, and I'm planning on reslicing/recoding it to make a website template for Dreamscape.

So, I really have nothing interesting to talk about. Except that I'm done with all of my AP tests, which means I'm pretty much done with half of my classes for the rest of the school year. Kind of. We'll still be learning new stuff in math, and there's a big project in bio, but for Japanese all we're going to be doing is singing karaoke.

Yes, yes, envy me. :D

how is two gigs not enough?

At least, that's what I thought when I got my iPod about a year and a half ago. NOW I'M FREAKIN' OUT OF SPACE. T_T

I guess it's kinda my fault, 'cause I went off and downloaded a ton of Younha stuff (because OMG it's just too awesome; I can't help myself) and it won't fit on my stupid two gig iPod.

GRAAAAAAAHHHHHHH.

So anyway. I was going to update with a brand-spanking-new layout for myself, but, uhh...... I'm kinda stuck. It was going to feature a Yuffie character scan from Crisis Core and filtering stuff and yeah...... but I'm having trouble coming up with stuff for the background. Oh well. Next time, maybe. (Or never.)

A while ago in my Japanese class, we had a series of cultural presentations in which we were given a topic and had to talk about its role in culture in Japan and compare/contrast it to American culture. All the visual presentations are in Japanese, and so is the oral part, but there's always an English translation afterwards, and as a result no one really pays attention to what they say in Japanese. One group did fashion, and the only native-speaking Japanese guy in the group got stuck with the American culture part of it (sensei's doing, I bet).

For some reason, he went back in time and talked about the sixties (? I think....), where guys wore bellbottom trousers and tucked in their shirts. [There were some rather interesting and vaguely disturbing pictures.] He also talked about women's fashion back then, and how they had shorter skirts and stuff. He said -- and I quote -- that "this was when the women began to show off their sexy bodies" and on the word "sexy" he did this wiggle/shimmy thing. [Apparently, I was the only one who saw it, because while I was busy laughing my head off everyone else was giving me weird looks.] It was really funny because he's a guy who dresses much more... elaborately than normal American high school guys and by all outer appearances seems too sophisticated to do something like that. His personality, however, is a different story.

So the guy went on and started talking about current fashions. When he got to teenage girls' fashions, he said, "They have very long hair" (where does he get this stuff?) "and they wear lots of jewelry and makeup and shave their...." He frowns. "Shave their eyeballs?"

"Eyebrows," someone manages to choke out between laughs.

and so ends the hiatus

WHOAWHUTTNEWLAYOUT.

Or not. Psych!

Well, there's a new one available for you to use at Skye Sanctuary. It's called Endless Story and it features the singer Yuna Ito.

WHOA WHUTT CELEBRITY LAYOUT?! I know. Unheard of. Anyway. It's my first xanga layout in two months, so check it out, please. :]

My locker at school is right next to another locker that has the same exact lock. Same color, same brand, same style, same everything. So when I went to put something in my locker yesterday, I couldn't get the lock open. I tried at least five times, then glared at it and ranted for a good five minutes before deciding to try my combination on the locker next to mine. Surprisingly, it worked.

So now I had a dilemma. My lock was on someone else's locker and someone else's lock was on my locker. My stuff was still in my locker, so I couldn't get to it. I had no idea whose locker was next to mine, or if that person was even the one who had made the switch. Off I trooped to the office to tell them my story.

The reaction: "...................................................................That's interesting."

They told me to give them my lock, and they'd cut off the lock on my locker and put my lock on it. Which they did. So I was happy.

But I feel kinda bad for the other person. Stupid Asian conscience.

definitions from the dictionary of the sleep-deprived

WARNING: Due to the current mental and physical conditions of the author, this post is prone to vague, nonsensical ramblings, sudden and completely unrelated subject changes, and random comments about the weather. Or season. One of those, anyway. In any case, read at your own risk.

My mood's been really *headdesk* lately. That has a lot of meanings. In my case, the most commonly used one is dropping out of consciousness due to exhaustion- slash- lack of sleep.

The second most commonly used one is the reaction that comes after the realization that you've done something incredibly stupid due to said exhaustion- slash- lack of sleep. *Facepalm* is also acceptable in this case.

I'm not really helping my current situation any by procrastinating on my Chinese school homework, which is what I've been doing for the last four or so hours. I'm going on three and a half hours of sleep, a bottle of Starbucks frappuccino, and most of a bag of croutons. Why yes, I did say bag. Don't ever give me food if you want to see it again.

Speaking of which, Cynthia says I'm getting fat. Which is entirely possible. I get no exercise, I'm eating more than ever, and I'm so lazy I don't even walk home anymore. You can't really blame me for that one, though, since it takes me an hour to walk home, and besides, it's starting to get warm again.

The plum trees are pretty this time of year. I think the cherry trees would be too, if I'd ever wake up enough to tell the difference between the two.

Ahh, the life of a junior.