I have a job! I finally have a job! Okay, so it's not the most glamourous, just a McDonald's job, but it's still a job and it pays money and that's all I care about. As long as I get plenty of shifts anyway. Now I just have to decide what I'm going to do about Centrelink. Keep it until I'm sure, or ditch it because I already am? I'm inclined to ditch it. Can't stand the place. The people there are better than they used to be but still.
Anyway, I'm too bouncy so I'm off to play WoW and celebrate my new employed status. :D

1156 words in 1 hour, off the top of my head. That was fun. Check out my LiveJournal to read it. ^_^

Going to bed any minute now, but thought I'd post this quickly while I'm thinking of it.

Did a quick impromptu writing exercise and posted it in my LiveJournal. Check it out if you're interested. Post a comment to let me know that it's not being ignored.

I'll try to do something similar as often as possible, at least until I decide that no one's interested and it's not worth the effort.

I have this great theory. Really, really good theory. Flawless. The theory is that if I have enough photographs of the various animals I want to draw, all different positions and details and all that kinda stuff, if I have enough of them then I'll be able to get my arse into gear and learn to draw them all properly.

The reality: If I have enough photographs saved onto my computer I won't have as much space for everything else...

Once again my enthusiasm has run out far too quickly. Maybe if I get into the Navy like I want to I'll have enough spare time without WoW to actually become interested again, but I definitely wouldn't be willing to bet anything valuable on it.

Someday I'll write a novel.

Someday I'll be able to draw gryphons and dragons and all the other things I want to draw.

Someday I'll own my perfect house somewhere in New Zealand.

Someday I'll breed dogs and never be without my pack.

Yup, someday I'll actually care enough to be involved in my own life. Hold your breath waiting. No, really. Hold your breath. I promise it'll happen any moment now, but only if you hold your breath. And keep holding it until I tell you.

On a different note, I just spent a whole hour and more telling a friend all about the different classes on WoW, all the pros and cons and what personalities work best with what classes and stuff like that. And so another of my friends enters the addiction that is World of Warcraft. This is so cool. ^_^

Still holding your breath? You better be. I can see my life just around the corner. I promise.

I'm sure there's more I could talk about, and probably something I intended to mention, but oh well. I've forgotten what it was now.

So I think I'll go do some tai chi and write and draw, and maybe even actually stay awake another 5 hours until the WoW servers come back online. Not that I'm an addict or anything...

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.....Oh yeah, you can stop holding your breath now. I think I've established the lack of likelihood of me getting a life.

O_O

Goddamn it!

I almost thought of the scene I know I thought about earlier for a story that may not exist. Argh! I can't get it to stay still! Dammit.

What's worse is that I don't even know what exactly triggered it, so I can't try to pinpoint it that way.

Guess tonight's going to be a scene writing night. Either that or I'll let myself go even more insane. Gods I hate these half-remembered scenes.

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Goodbye now...

If I keep zooming in that much and adding minute bits of shading to my picture I'm going to go insane and rip my eyes out, I'm sure of it. They certainly hate me enough to encourage it. So I'll be nice to them and quit while I'm still manageably insane, rather than maniacally and uncontrollably insane which is what will happen soon.

And I'll even consider getting a proper night's sleep tonight, so bed by at least midnight, 1am at the latest. Really, I promise. ...And would you like to consider purchasing this wonderful bridge I have up for sale at the moment?

Seriously though, that'll do. Gonna post my current progress with this pic and then at the very least start thinking about bed. Maybe a can of coke first though...

I think I've established that I can't stay awake for 24+ hours straight anymore, but I can easily stay up till dawn. Around that stage though I suddenly become really, really tired and can't stay awake no matter how close it is to true dawn and a new day. Maybe I'll even learn to fall asleep once the sun's up. That'll be cool. Much more freedom with sleeping patterns that way. I'd really like to be able to go to bed mid to late afternoon and sleep till evening. Ridiculous I know, but it would still be nice. Now if I could just get a night-shift job I might be able to work on that goal.

In other news, despite my previous hassles with shading and stuff and trying to make it look 'perfect' I think I may actually be onto something. Of course, it could collapse into nothing, but it wouldn't be the first thing to do so, so I really don't mind. All of my artsy stuff will stay at hobby level and never get to career standard, even vaguely, so as long as it's fun it doesn't matter.

I'll add my wip to this entry when I'm too tired to keep working on it for tonight.

There we go, basic shading on hair and faces. I'll work on the clothes another time I think. I should really be going to sleep now.

...kinda sucks really. Scratch 'kinda', this really sucks. If I don't think of something to do soon I'm gonna get desperate and do homework. Which really sucks coz it's a correspondence course and I don't have to do it until the assignment I just sent away comes back >.<

Or worse I might decide to clean my room and not have a bed to sleep on for the next week.

I should be writing or sketching or something, but I'm just not in the mood. Restless and lethargic. Crappy combination. If you've never felt it just trust me that it really sucks.

I would type up the scene I wrote yesterday as a quick writing exercise, but quite frankly I'd be embarrassed so no one gets to see it. Unless it turns up in the novel I'm gonna have published one day, but I'll be the only one who knows it's the same one, so it's kinda a moot point. But I'm bored, so it was worth the fifteen seconds or so it took to type it. The point that is, not the scene...

We have a family thing to go to tomorrow, so I'm gonna have to get some sleep tonight. Probably a good thing, although I'd rather stay home tomorrow and not have to sleep tonight. 

One interesting thing from tonight, working on colouring an outline I found from a webcomic I read, UC. Good comic. Might work out where I found the outlines at some point. Too lazy now.

Seriously, there's a pink elephant in my backyard. Making an awful mess too. Hope someone else plans to clean it up, coz there's no way in the world I'm going out there. It's quite cute, particularly with the blue waistcoat, but that's beside the point.

Anyway, pink elephants aside, not much interesting happening. Another friend shall soon be in the addictive clutches of WoW, sometime tomorrow in fact, unless the update takes too long and she has to wait till the day after. Regardless, a new WoW addict shall soon appear.

Also tomorrow I have an appointment with Centrelink so I can sign up to get handouts from the government for reasons other than study, which of course I don't do anymore. Here's hoping I won't be ripping my hair out at the end of it, although it certainly won't be surprising if I am.

Third thing...third thing...drat, I was thinking of it just a second ago. Oh wait! I remember now. I'm in the process of colouring a pic from UC, and I have one of their wallpapers on my computer. I'll add them in a sec, and then, tragically, I think I'll start getting ready for bed. Soooo sleepy.

 

 

Had another shift with Judy at a catering job. 4 hours this time, and most of that I was washing dishes. Glad of it too, wasn't particularly in the mood to have anything to do with people. Plus my legs and feet were grateful since I wasn't walking much. Back hates me, but you get that.

Only other vaguely interesting thing lately is my two newest sketches. Gryphon heads...well an eagle head and a hawk head with ears drawn on them. Eagle I draw by sight, hawk I was lazy with and used photoshop to draw guidelines, printed the guidelines and then used them to trace out the hawk head. The ears on both were annoying since I've never really looked at ears before and had no idea whatsoever as to how to draw the damn things. I'm still not entirely happy with the ears on either gryphon, but shit happens huh?

 Eagle on the left, hawk on the right.

What I planned to do today:

- Ring Centrelink and tell them I'm no longer a student

- Ring Aaron from the ADF and do the phone interview I need to do for the Navy job

- Re-print and -edit my assignment

- Finish Kushiel's Dart

- Totally reorganise my room, or clean it at the very least

- Watch Serenity

 

What I've done today:

- Woke up (at midday)

- Eaten (i'm sure of it)

- Played WoW

- Read a hundred or so pages of Kushiel's Dart

- ....other things, i'm sure of it

 

Basically I've had a really lazy day. Not really that different from most days actually. So anyway, now that I've reinforced just how little I've done today, I'm going to go back to doing exactly that. Although I may sketch...or I may not...