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My teacher gave me this on Wednesday.

... I don't know what to think.

English: A+
3D Design: A
Colour Theory: A
Imaging Systems: A+
2D Design: A+
Drawing: A


Okay, I'm happy. XD

Is that patience or just being stubborn? Either way, seems to describe me pretty well.

Two weeks left to go before the month-long Crimmus break!

This hit in Alberta; not sure if they've found the impact site yet. Looks like something out of a movie:

Dammit...

You know those glands on your throat, just under your jaw, not exactly on your neck but right along the underside of the jawline? Yeeeah, I woke up today and noticed in the bathroom mirror that HOLYHELL they're jutting out like crazy. Creepily so.

This is worrying me greatly, these swollen glands have been accompanied by coughing and that telltale throat tickle that signals something more painful around the corner. But most importantly, strep throat has been going around Sheridan, and strep throat kills ratties.

So now I'm kind of freaking out about being anywhere near them. I don't really feel awful yet, just coughing, so I'm hoping it'll blow over. I'll get to the walk-in as soon as I can, but most everything is closed today because it's Thanksgiving, and I'd prefer to use the school's health centre.

How easily can they catch it, if it is strep? Do any rat people know? I'm washing my hands frequently and not putting my mouth anywhere near them, but we're kinda sharing the same stagnant basement air down here. x.x

Hopefully this will be nothing. I don't think I've ever had strep before, so I have no clue...

BOO to sickness just as break week comes. DX

Worst thing to have in your room while dealing with a centipede infestation?

An inch-long skinny brown feather...

I don't know HOW it got on the floor, but dammit I walked by that thing and it flew straight at my leg and I'm pretty sure took a year off of my life.

SKETCH DUMP. I finally got a chance to scan some of the shit from my sketchbook...

( Done mostly while waiting for class to start... or waiting for class to end. )

I thought the first centipede encounter had been something of a fluke... I mean, I'd been here for a few weeks and had only seen spiders. Well, now it's starting to make sense. The spiders have started to disappear, and now it's becoming clear that the centipedes have moved in.

I saw a second one of the many-legged bastards the day after the first, this time on the ceiling above the stairs. Thankfully Annie was with me and sprayed it with Febreze before smashing it with a broom. The third one I saw a couple days later as I opened my door and light poured into the dark hall. I ran to grab my shoe, but the thing had vanished before I could murder it. I did find a centipede corpse further along the carpet though; too old to be the one I'd just seen, unfortunately.

The next night, last night, I killed one on the ceiling. I shake SO BADLY when I have to kill them that I just threw my shoe weapon to the floor. Mr. Centipede fell off of the ceiling and onto a chair, its ridiculously long legs twitching in a fit of death spasms. I left him there because I wanted to be sure he was dead before I risked scooping him up with a tissue.

And this afternoon as I went into my kitchen to make lunch and turned on the light, I saw another skitter across the wall and in behind some insulation.

Thursday is grocery day. It will also be Raid, Borax, Sticky Trap, everything-that-murders-centipedes day. I need to enlist the help of a friend at some point to just stand guard as I do a huge cleaning sweep of the basement; vacuum and Swiffer in hand. I know they're coming from the guest room that isn't mine; it's the only room that didn't get the carpets replaced after it flooded down here over the summer, the windows in there don't look to be completely sealed up, and there are hundreds of bug corpses along the baseboards. As it's not my room, I'm just going to close the doors and put a perimeter of Borax along the bottom.

I'll also be telling my landlords about this. I don't think it's normal to see a new centipede every day... especially after having seen NONE this whole time. If this basement is infested, then it needs to be fumigated or the rest of the carpets replaced. I can't keep sleeping without blankets, having nightmares every night, and in a constant state of terrified panic just living here. I have to pause each and every time I leave or enter a room now, just to assure it's safe. I really shouldn't have to do that...

I don't think centipedes would bother me at all if not for the fact they chase you. I might even be able to analyze them long enough to see an innocence; to convince myself that they have a cute little face, and that their legs make them feathery and fun, and that they rarely bite, and in fact their jaws are usually too weak to break human skin... I might even enjoy that they kill the other bugs.

BUT HOLY FUCKING CRAP WHY DO THEY HAVE TO CHASE AFTER YOU.

When a bug chases you, I think any sort of "live and let live" philosophy must be thrown out the window (and then said window sealed and covered with Borax).

It's game time, centipedes. I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE. THIS IS SPARTA.

Finally finished these Batman ATCs... now to ship them off and never see them again. *single tear*

( What is with Batman villains and the colours purple and green? )

Oh gard, I love living in a basement.

( WHYYYYY..... )

So, next week all of the Art Fundamentals students are required to submit a piece for a gallery showing specifically for Fundies. The pieces can't be any bigger than 33cm x 33cm (roughly 13"x13") and can feature any subject and any medium.

I've decided, since the ultimate ambition is to go into a career in comics, that I would make a piece featuring all of the most popular comic book characters over the last 50 years or so. I'll have the obvious ones: Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Captain America, Hulk, Wolverine... but I'm also thinking of including characters (or at the very least, symbols) from Spawn, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Hellboy, and some others.

Any suggestions for characters I *must* have? I really want a good mix. :B
(Only looking for recognizable characters from Western print comics - no manga plzkthx.)

I love that this is like... the first art piece I've completed at Sheridan:





BLIND CONTOUR FTW.

Okay, so I had one of those first-time-on-your-own stupid moments today...

My landlady gave me this little compost bin to keep in the kitchen, because the neighbourhood I'm living in has compost pick-up every Friday. So I put a special "compostable" bag inside of it like I'm supposed to, and have been putting all of my leftovers and scraps and whatnot in there.

Last week it wasn't really all that full, so I decided I'd just wait until this Friday to take it out...

Um. Yeah, so apparently the compostable bags don't last more than a week. <.<

I took it out today because I'd noticed a lot of mold in there last night, and, er, there was no bottom to the bag anymore.

So I had a bin filled with moldy pickles, kidney beans, tofu, rice, and an assortment of other fun half-liquefied foods.

I will not attempt to describe the smell.

Nor do I think it's necessary to go into detail on just how wonderful an experience it was to clean that mess up.

I suggest you use your imagination. D:


Lesson learned: PITCH THE DAMN THING EVERY FRIDAY AND MAYBE EVEN MORE OFTEN THAN THAT OH GOD.

I joined a Batman ATC swap and decided to do all villains. And because Andrew told me that Johnny Depp wants to play the Riddler, I figured I'd make a Johnny-esque Riddler card. :B

These are just the sketches/inks, I'll post the real things whenever I get a chance to colour.

( The only thing cool about Batman are the villains, really... )

On rat intelligence...



A roasted potato is sitting on a ramp in the cage. Blimey and Zooks are sitting under said ramp. They are squealing and fighting with each other. Why? Because they are trying so desperately to pull this potato through the wire grid, rather than, oh, I don't know, walk out from under the ramp and two inches up the ramp and just eat the thing.

This has been going on for about fifteen minutes.

Surprisingly, they've managed to eat about half of this potato through the bars.



Apparently potato tastes better this way.

I never knew.