Sorry I haven't written in so long! First my harddrive crashed on my computer a few months ago and ever since I really haven't been doing much iconing. Alas. Anyway, now i have GIMP and I am going to try to get back in the swing, as it were. The only other thing is now I am on my laptop and for some reason my pen tablet isn't responding very well (I got it to work last month but when I tried this time it was very jerky and there was no pen pressure either in GIMP or openCanvas 1.1. Soooo... It's sort of frustrating as I carried my tablet all this way and it isn't working. Sigh. Sigh sigh sigh.

Anyway another thing is now that I'm in Halifax and in university I really don't have time to do much iconing, seeing as all I do for class is read and work on papers. Oh well. Hopefully things will get back in the swing and I'll be able to do some icons and all will be well. One can always hope, right?

Also I may start making brushes again but as I don't have any of the nice fonts I wanted (since my HARDDRIVE CRASHED) then I dunno.

Sorry for being a stranger so long, hopefully I'll start making icons soon. 8D

So as some of you may know, I was in Nova Scotia for a few days scopin' out the colleges. I actually got back last week (Lulz) but I never actually got around to posting the pictures and giving everyone the low-down on what happened!! So anyway here I am, finally posting. Finally. =D
( HALIFAX! HEATHCLIFF! MYTHOLOGY! OH MY. )

Wheee-hoo, more Icons! yaaaa. And also the typical rant about my life and why I dun liek it nun. xD Just kidding, I'm fine with my life. Actually, today I found out that I got into all the colleges that I applied to! Which was rather quite shocking!

YOU MAY ALSO NOTICE I HAVE A NEW LAYOUT! I made the header image myself but the codes are from The Butterfly Box.

Today at about 9.30 in the morning (it was early, I know because I wanted to sleep but no the doorbell rang) I got a Fed-Ex envelope and it was for me! Well, I never get Fed-Ex envelops (not in never ever) and so I was rather scared... I blearily looked at the from address and made out "University of King's College". Dramatic Gasp Here. So I carefully opened the folder. And then I carefully pulled out the nice fancy grey envelope with my name on it. And then I rather uncarefully sliced open the sealed part with my finger (it was sort of like I ripped into it xD). And then I got a nice letter that says I have been accepted and I was very happy! What a nice way to start off a holiday from school! And here I was thinking I had gotten my Math Final sent to my house because I failed so epically (but more on that later).

So, with this envelope, I am now 8 for 8 with the schools I have applied to. Of these 8 I really only want to go to 2, maybe 3. I could have saved a lot of money, but oh well.

Also I realized that I am sort of staking a lot on this Dalhousie University visit that I'm going on on February 11th (YEAH IT'S REALY SOON N STUFF!). I mean, my "second choice" school (DePaul), I could have applied for honors college but I didn't. I sort of... don't know what to say. They recommend that you send your stuff in 2 weeks after receiving your acceptance letter, but the deadline isn't even until February 15th! So, I don't know. I suppose I COULD still send in my application, but I need teacher recs and it's sort of close to the deadline. I don't know. I suppose I could... But. If I go to DePaul I have to live at home with my parents for four more years. And I don't really want to live at home for more years of my life. That's why I think that if Dal doesn't work (please, please PLEASE please work) I might go to Loyola. It's still in Chicago and it's right on the water and they have enough housing for everyone (at least I think so) and I wouldn't have to live at home. However I might go to this one school in Kalamazoo Michigan in which I can major in public history. It's also not too far from home, which is really nice. And I'm going to look at it before I go to Dal, so hopefully it, too, is nice and I'll be able to view them both with an un-biased eye (though I know nothing about this school. Western Michigan University, anyone?).

So, about that math final... I got a 62%. That's a D... It was only a few points away from a C, too. So in hindsight I'm kicking myself. Now, Dal and King's require that you send your semester exam grades. Hopefully they don't withdraw their admissions decision based on one bad (really bad) exam... Do you think they will? All my other exams, I think, were pretty (if not really) good. That, and they've already seen my transcripts, so they should have some idea of how I get along with math (sort of like oil and water, or oil and vinegar). I don't know. I do well enough in class most days, if I study for the quizes, but I never seem to do well in Exams. Maybe it's because I don't study enough (xD) or maybe I just can't retain that much mathematical information.... And I sort of lose focus studying for something if I get easily frustrated by it (like Math). I don't know. I'm not really a math-and-sciences sort of person.

Anyway. I think that's about all for me today. I've written about everything I care to write to, or want to write about. xD

And I'm sort of having crush-issues. But. I've learned not to give them much thought and not let them consume your life. That, and, I don't even know if it really is a crush. So. xDD

Teh Icons. There are 56. And they are all from varios Fashion Photography shoots.


( Fashion Victim? )

Oh ho ho, I finally made more brush sets, oh shit.

Anyway, I only have three sets for you, but you ought to be thankful, because one of them has ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SIX brushes. Yeah. That's right. 126. EINHUNDERT SECHSUNDZWEIZIG or something like that.

Anyway. Two are lyrics, one is a poem (that's the 126 brush one). xD

Also, I screencapped Marie-Antoinette (the 2006 movie) today. If I find somewhere to host it, I might upload them. Maybe. In any case, look for some new MA icons soon! The plot of that movie may be really dull, but the costumes are too good to pass up. I really only watch it for the visual candy, the soundtrack, and because Louis XVI is such a dweeb it's endearing (yeah, I fangirl over 18th century rulers, stfu).

Anyway, in COLLEGE NEWS: Got into Loyola and Creighton, and Western Michigan Univeristy. Loyola gave me 11,000, Creighton gave me 13,000, and WMU didn't give me anything (at least not that I'm aware of). This means I'm just waiting on University of King's College!!!!

[3] Brushes:  "Hey Teacher" - Louis XIV, "Killing an Arab" - The Cure, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" - T.S. Eliot
[15] Fashion Photography Icons

Teasers: 




( Louis, Louis, Louis! )

Today certainly was interesting. I didn't have school, so I slept late (well, 11.00, to be exact) and then went on my merry way cleaning things for the big Thanksgiving get together tomorrow. Oh, sometimes I hate these holidays...

Then I started playing on the piano and re-learned 2 songs (I haven't taken lessons in a long time but I was bored) and my mom wanted me to learn The Piano Man but really, that isn't happening any time soon!

And then I found a good icon table generator, had issues getting the lj-cut to work, and wrote this.

Finished screencapping Neon Genesis Evangelion (all 26 episodes), might post the files soon for everyone to enjoy. Probably won't do director's cut episodes since I have to give the DVDs back to my cousin tomorrow.

Also found out that I got into DePaul University with $9,500 a year and possible admission to the Honors program. But I have to write 2 500 word essays, which, as everyone knows, is fun fun fun fun fun fun fun!!

Also, let us take this opportunity to discuss something I fear I will never, in all my years, understand as an art form. This would be the suddenly very popular media of DOLL PHOTOGRAPHY. Saying that you shouldn't take pictures of inanimate objects and call it art is an invalid point (why bother with landscapes, then, or still lifes?) but really. Dolls? I mean, not just dolls sitting on shelves and looking dolly, but those Japanese (or Chinese, I am not 100%+ sure) ball-jointed dolls that have suddenly become sooooo popular (you know, like Dollfies!).

What scares me the most is when people start treating their dolls as if they were actually human. Like, not just "I love to photograph my new Dollfie!" but when they start NAMING their doll... and then scary things like this happens:( icons here )

Ok, so. Last weekend I went up to Marquette to do this Presidential Scholarships Competition... Basically NMU takes the smart kids and we go up there for 2 days and do scholarly things. xD It wasn't that bad, I actually enjoyed it (Well, as much as you can enjoy such things) and I got to watch cable TV. 

So at the competition we got to do small group work and solve a murder mystery and decide which 4 of the 9 people we get to save on a plane crash in the ocean... That was interesting. xD And then this morning I had an interview with one of the professors. Of course knowing MY luck the guy was a Calc professor and here's me, with my, "I don't like math..." self. Well, at least he was nice...

I've realized that once someone finds out you're from Chicago they all assume you live downtown, possibly right on the lakefront and are a die-hard Cubs fan (which is like 0/3 for me). It's very strange. It's like, Chicago syndrome where then once they find out you're from chicago you HAVE to talk to them about Chicago, because it's as if everyone KNOWS (/knew) someone who lived/worked/played in Chicago. But that's because Chicago is better than New York. ;D

It was snowing up in Marquette where NMU is... It was pretty but that Saturday when we left I got some weird illness... I think it was just mother nature's gift to me. Things were cured with midol and I think I sweated out my fever that night... That was fun, because I was shivvering to death under 5 blankets and then I woke up to go change into a tanktop and shorts... Oh, mother nature!

And this weekend is MY FREAKING BIRTHDAY. I am going to be 18!!! OH NO, EVERYONE RUN. xD Haha. Also this Saturday I'm going to the Art Institute (they just opened a new wing) and then for Afternoon Tea with my mom. Then Sunday I have to go run out to the Garfield Park Conservatory to work on my Western Civ project, which I haven't worked on though I knew about it since foreverrr. Oh well. xD And then Monday Leah and I might go try to find some belts for her Guinevere outfit. I hope. Maybe. xD