art books

Monday, 18 July, 2005 at 7:20 pm

I finished Three Junes today. I read about this character who bought art books, and I just thought, ‘I want to do that.’ Kind of like how I want to own almost a whole closetful of clothes and shoes and accessories. (Well, not that much.)

The character was an art historian (a subject I really like!) and I just liked the idea of all these books with paintings in them that you could just pull off the shelf and say, “Oh yeah hey, [whatever we’re talking about].” So intellectual.

Okay I’m being weird.

haircut

Thursday, 14 July, 2005 at 5:35 pm

Hey look, I still have that old image of the haircut I wanted.

Three more to add to my wanted haircut collection: one two three (pics from GreenerPastures.us)

I found out recently that I have Fuse on my TV! Woo. So that’s how I saw Gwen Stefani’s new video where she wears that haircut. I want her hair … my hair doesn’t curl as much as it used to … or puff out as much as it used to … maybe it’s too long.

fallibility of the ‘net

Friday, 24 June, 2005 at 1:32 am

I’m tired, it’s late, so I can’t remember the word I’m thinking of. *blink* I can’t even remember what I’m thinking of. Something … about how it’s always changing. Yeah.

I guess I’m not getting back my old ezboard posts. ;.;

Someone hacked ezboard almost two months ago and everything went down and they spent all this time restoring everything and right now they say if your posts haven’t come back by now you’re not going to get them back and guess what? I’m really lame for being sad because of some bits (bytes?) lost in the internet void. I don’t even know what I’m missing. I didn’t get very far in cleaning up the topics. ^.^;; It’s just, I guess, some stuff from when I was 15 or 16. Is it stupid of me for feeling old because I’ve been online for the past 5 years? Ehehe.

Anyway. I keep freaking out about things like … I can’t say that, because the “that” that I would be referring to is the 5 years thing … I need sleep. This is a stupid post. I’m not supposed to make stupid posts on my nice pretty blog anymore. But oh well. Everyone shall hear my lament. Hah.

I keep freaking out about computer stuff and internet stuff. I really shouldn’t be so attached to something that I don’t even understand. (how exactly do you take plastic, metal, and electricity, and make it do all the things a computer does?)

But … I tend to be an emotional packrat. Like, sometimes I’ll wish I’d kept my Valentine’s from grammar school. Do you know how many valentines that was?! Maybe something like 15–30 × five years … silly. When I was a kid, I thought, ‘I can throw these out, I’ll just get more next year.’ Yeah … haven’t gotten a Valentine from a non-family member since … 7th or 8th grade.

ANYWAY! Um.

…I keep worrying that Livejournal might go down, and I’ll never see my entries again. (Going on 3 years now.) Or my Greatestjournal. I worry about GJ more, because no one pays for that, and LJ is more like a business type of thing … well now it is, anyway. *below the belt* haha. I mean … I already had my domain hostserverthingie go bust. They were definitely a business and still went bust. Then again, they were also overselling or whatever that term is. I lost the comments on my last 7 blog entries that time. ;.; (I salvaged the actual entries from the Internet Archive 6 months or a year later.)

That’s it. It’s late. Bah. Stupid. I think I may need a haircut. *random*

cactusy earthquake

Sunday, 19 June, 2005 at 11:34 pm

Last Thursday there was an earthquake. Somewhere in the desert. Something like … east of Riverside? At the time I thought it was Mum getting really serious about her vacuuming. hah. I went up to talk with her. She asked me, “What do you think, 4.5 to 5?” I, as the inexperienced one, could only reply, “Maybe, I dunno.” And that was it.

Then Daddy called and he and Mum talked and stuff and Daddy said he was trying to go to this one website but it was down and etc. A little while later Mum checked channel 4 and they were talking about it and said it was 5.2. I showed Mum the website usgs.gov and then Daddy called again.

Later that day when we were taking paint off the porch there was no Ellen or Dr. Phil ’cause channel 4 was still covering the earthquake. ;.; So we didn’t work for that long.

The next day Mum told me Hal Fishman’s commentary on the media coverage: all the journalists and whoever else were excited and everything and took up the airwaves for hours for an earthquake in cactus land? hah! Mum even teased Daddy, saying, “You called home talking about the earthquake.”

Star Wars costume design

Sunday, 19 June, 2005 at 9:47 pm

Gah! Shouldn’ta read the news at Natalie Portman Empire. They mentioned that Natalie Portman wrote an intro to a Star Wars book …

I want!!! O_O But it’s two hundred ninety-freaking-five dollars …

Actually I don’t really care about the special stuff (swatches, wookie belt buckle…), I just want the costume designs/sketches. ^^ That’s always been my favorite part of the SW Artbooks. (Yeah, I spent $50 for just a few pages of illustration….)