Two journals in one week? Geez, am I becoming...active again? XD

Well anywho, a few updates.

I'm almost done writing my college application essays. Another month, and (hopefully) I won't have to worry about college applications anymore. Apparently, they notify ED candidates for Penn online on December 11, so I have officially ONE MONTH of waiting left to find out whether I get into my top school.

The other day I babysat for a girl down the street. I brought Spirited Away with me, and she watched it. She loved it, too. xD That was pretty epic, getting payed for watching my favorite movie. ^__^; I should do this babysitting thing more often (and corrupt America's children with ANIME, hahahahahahaaa)

Also, I've become a huge fan of Prismacolor markers. They're AWESOME. My art teacher ordered a set of them for the art classes at my school, and I've used them a few times to color stuff. Again, they're so epic. The bad part about it is that the ones at school are running out of ink pretty fast (people forgetting to put the caps back on doesn't help, ugh >_< ) and now I want a set of my own. I wish they weren't so freaking expensive. Here I am trying to save up money for Anime Boston...*cough*, I mean, college, but I really want the markers. Ah well *shrugs.* Maybe I'll buy a few sets but not the whole bundle. I'll have to see. I'm not about to ask for them for Channukah because my parents are getting me a laptop for college. I don't want to sound greedy.

By the way, I'm still up for some serious art critique and suggestions, if I do end up doing the Artists Alley with Tokyo Club.

This may sound pathetic, but I can't stop thinking about Anime Boston. Seeing as this may possibly be my last year going for a while (since as of yet I have no idea where I'm going to college, and if I do end up going to Penn traveling to Boston will expensive and a pain in the butt), I have lots of plans.

I'm going to try and run an Avatar panel, but we'll see how that goes. The panels coordinator told me I *could* make something like that work as long as the panel centered around the anime influences in Avatar and the Asian culture, stuff like that. I could live with that. Though of course, god forbid the panel be ONLY about Avatar. XDD But if they let me do it, I'll make it work. And it's going to be a bit of a pain applying, since I'll still be 17 in March, but I've got someone over 18 who can officially submit the panel application for me.

I'm also entering the AMV contest again. I really hope I make the finals again this year, cuz you bet I'm going to try and get Avatar in there. It won't be all Avatar, unfortunately, but I've got an epic multi-anime romance AMV in the works that I plan on submitting, and it has some kataang in it. YAY rulebending.

Dang, it's been way too long since I've gone to a convention. I need to have some fuun. :3

This year, the anime club at my high school is looking into buying a table in the Artist's Alley at Anime Boston this year and collectively selling all of our art and taking shifts at the table.

If we do this, it will be my first artist's alley experience, and I'm beginning to think about what I'm going to draw/paint or make prints of, how much I'll sell it for, stuff like that.

Let's face it- my art isn't the best. There are a gazillion artists there every year who just plain kick-butt with their shiny amazing skills of pure awesome, and there's no way I can compete with them.


But I do need money for college, and selling art at a convention could be a huge help if I can even sell a moderate amount of prints.

Here's a general question for everyone, and please be honest. Out of the all the drawings/paintings in my gallery, which is your personal favorite, and which, if any, would you be interested in buying prints of if you saw it at a convention. Don't answer this as my friend, answer it as a congoer who has limited money and is only going to buy certain pieces of art. I want your honest opinions.

Hey guys.

Guess who owned the SATs?

Math 750
Critical Reading 760
Writing 790

YAY

I know I shouldn't let this get to me, but some users over at kataang forever are driving me crazy.

It's not just that they can't wait to see the movie. I couldn't care less whether or not they go and see it, that's their choice and they can enjoy the movie if they want to. It's not even that they think Racebending is some evil cult or something. I've dealt with that level of ignorance before.

But some of the comments made by this one user, easilydistracted, are so ignorant and nasty that I can't take it anymore. I avoid KF most of the time now, but I can't stand what she's saying about Jews. She's implying that Racebending is anti-semitic, which couldn't be farther from the truth. The irony is that her comments are pretty anti-semitic and insulting themselves, and she refuses to back down.

For example:

"Hollywood was founded by Jews and still ran by Jews. Yeah, those evil white Hollywood execs they're wailing against are most likely to be Jewish. And Jewish Americans are an even a smaller minority than Asian Americans."

Am I the only one who thinks that comment was completely uncalled for? Tell me, somebody, what the hell does the fact that there are several Jewish executives in Hollywood have to do with casting discrimination? I'm Jewish, and I'm certainly not in this for a reason to target Jews in Hollywood. That's BS. It's completely irrelevant, and it annoys me a lot.

And who said every single person in Hollywood is Jewish? That's a false statement. Are there a lot of Jews in Hollywood? Sure there are. But that doesn't mean that Hollywood is run by Jews. That's a negative stereotype.

But then again, this is the same girl who said:

"Yah know... if Jews hadn't spent millenia in Europe (living in areas which encourages skin color to lighten), they'd still have their Middle-Eastern coloring.

If Jews still were brown now, I bet the RB folks would go around comparing 'not many Asians in Hollywood' to the Holocaust."

*Sigh*....I guess I have a long way to go if I'm still insulted by crap like that. But what am I supposed to feel? She's making casual stereotypical remarks out of nowhere and making light of a great tragedy as though it were hilarious to think people at Racebending were racist crybabies.

But apparently she's "OMGALWAYSRIGHT!!!!11!1!!!" so my responses fall on deaf ears. I think she's just determined to hate the racebending group for reasons unknown to me. But her comments are insulting me personally, and I can't stand it. I don't even feel bad about mentioning her username anymore. >___>;;

I've watched the first ten episodes of Fruits Basket and read the first 6 manga, and I have officially decided I love Yuki x Tohru. I can't help it. I know that Tohru x Kyo is canon and that's what all the fangirls love, and I'm TRYING to like it with all my being, but for some reason I can't get myself to like Tohru x Kyo as much and Tohru x Yuki. I feel like such a nerd just talking about this conversationally. XD

Oh yeah, and about real life... I'm still first in the class...or at least for a while. xD It could change by the end of the year, but now is when it counts because I'm applying to schools. I visited Penn again a week ago and decided it is by far my number one school. I'm sending in my application early decision, so I'll know by December 15th whether I'm in or not. If I get in, I'll be bouncing off the walls happy. xD

I was talking today with my friends about how badly I need to get out more and get a life. I'm a nerd who just studies and then goes on the internet. Yaaaay! x333

And my offer still stands- a free AMV request to anyone who can find me footage of my AMV playing at Connecticon 2009. I've practically given up on it, but I'm still hoping that someone somewhere has video footage of it.