Guess it's been a year since my last journal update, might as well make it stupid.

1. Closest red thing to you:
Empty "Chip's Ahoy!" package.

2. Last thing to make you angry.
My computer, probably.

3. Do you have a temper:
I get frustrated, but I don't know quite what angry is.

4. Are you a fan of romance:
Pretty much the only thing that keeps me moving.

Orange

1. Closest Orange thing to you:
Background of a Season 3 Futurama disk case.

2. Do you like to burn things:
In a practical manner, yes.

3. Dress up for Halloween:
I like to plan to dress up, not to do it.

4. Are you usually a warm-hearted person:
Sometimes.

5. Do you have anything against redheads:
Just an unusual attraction to them.

6. Are you usually full of energy:
Never. Unless something Star Wars related gets me riled up.

Yellow

1. Closest yellow thing to you:
Bits of lettering on my "Magic the gathering" mouse pad.

2. The happiest time of your life:
When I explored in SWG, or raided in WoW, but nowadays it's spending walks with a goof.

3. Favorite Holiday:
One where I have off.

4. Are you a coward:
Probably. I don't get pushed around often enough to know.

5. Do you burn or tan:
Burn, like fire.

Green

1. Closest green thing to you:
A green tote box I use as a secondary monitor stand.

2. Do you care about the environment:
Not really.

3. Are you jealous of anyone right now:
The well-employed who waste it instead of share it.

4. Are you a lucky person.
Every once in awhile.

5. Do you always want what you can't have:
By circumstance, yes, but I could fix that with a few extra bucks.

6. Do you like being outdoors:
At night, sometimes.

7. Are you Irish:
Nyet.

Blue

1. Closest blue thing to you:
Books. There're many blue books beside me.

2.Are you good at calming people down:
Yep.

3. Do you like the sea:
I'm obsessed with its symbolism, but not its existence.

4. What was the last thing that made you cry:
Wall-E. Goddamn Pixar.

5. Are you a logical thinker:
Whenever possible.

6. Can you sleep easily:
If I'm tired.

Purple

1.Last purple thing you saw.
A dress upon a beautiful woman.

2. Like being treated to expensive things:
Considering most of my electronic habits are expensive, sure. I don't mind little things of great value though.

3. Do you like mysterious things:
I like my computer, and it's pretty goddamn mysterious.

4. Favorite type of chocolate:
The type involved in a love affair with peanut butter.

5. Ever met anyone in royalty:
Nope, royalty is a creature I don't seek out.

6. Are you creative:
I make playing video games into intellectual exercises, and I write in my head when I can't find energy to put pen to paper. So yeah.

Pink

1.Closest pink thing to you:
Knock-off Pepto-Bismol bottle.

2. Do you like sweet things:
Almost exclusively.

3. Like play-fighting:
No. I don't go out of my way to try it, but I'll dish it out in reaction.

4. Are you sensitive:
When I'm not numb, yep. Goes back and forth.

5. Do you like music:
Couldn't live without it.

White

1. Closest white thing to you:
The walls. My skin. Paper and more paper.

2. Would you say you're innocent
Well I haven't committed any crimes yet.

3. Are you good at keeping the peace:
Usually.

4. How do you imagine your wedding:
With my memories, as it happened a month ago.

5.Do you like to play in the snow:
Not really. I'll walk in it, but not much more than that.

6. Are you afraid of going to the doctors or dentist.
The dentist only gives me bad news I can't pay for, and the doctor simply tells me what I already knew. So not really.

Black

1. Closest black thing to you:
My desk, my pants, my shirt.

2. Ever enjoy hurting people:
I try not to, but my mind is aflutter with the idea most days.

3. Are you sophisticated or silly:
Sophisticated to those who don't know me well.

4. Would you like to go to space:
I always have.

5. Do you have a lot of secrets:
Just a few.

6. What is your favorite color:
Green.

7. Does the color you wear affect your mood:
I only own black, except for a few exceptions, so no.

And, I'm not tagging anyone. It's silly enough.

So I've been on and about for awhile now, but not really talking much. I'm mostly trying to get a job elsewhere, preferably a second night job, and have been writing. I've got about 3 pages or so of ideas for where to take Part 2 of my manuscript and am reading "Purgatory" by Dante Alligheri to get some ideas about how I want it to progress. My usual poetry has been popping up, of course, and in it is mostly the worried wanderings of myself living in the world I'm in.

I've been reading through all Roland Barthes' work, having finished "Pleasure of the Text" & "Writing Degree Zero, I'm now working on "Elements of Semiology" and "The Space of Literature" by Blanchot. They're all pretty decent looks into linguistics and the way of writing and understanding reading. Decent critical theory to read up on at least.

Other than that, I've mostly been playing WoW every night or so, working my way into heroic dungeons at long last. Still playing a little bit of BF2 to get my FPS fix. As I do love medic-ing around, as well as some support classing. Hopefully I'll have a new job and can save money to go to PAX in late August so that I can see bands, play games, and just enjoy the game developing world.

So I got 42 pages written for my Winter 2007 manuscript. It turned out alright, I think, and I intend to work on it further when I have the time. For now, I just have to go take another class and deal with that.

I get to see Explosions in the Sky in concert May 5th, so I'm looking forward to that. Beyond that, I'm losing my mind trying to figure out where I'll get the money for surviving if my job falls through. Here's hoping it doesn't turn into shit.

I probably won't update as often, or maybe I will, since I'm going to be doing an independent contract for class this quarter. Mostly I'll be writing 50 pages or more of material on my free time instead of poetry, though it'll be poetic and heavy form laden. Thought I'd note the fact, since it'll be awhile.

So I noticed something today, well I've noticed it before, but DA doesn't let you submit .doc files, but it does let you submit .jpegs. I was thinking as to why, and I think it's rather obvious to me now. When you click "expand" on a piece it art, it just renders the image for you that you uploaded. If you had the same thing occur with a .doc file, it'd probably have to open up in Word, rather than on the web site itself, which would mean a download, which would be a security issue.

In any case, it kind of annoyed me, since I end up having to make a lot of "visual" poetry that is basically just me taking a screen shot of my work because the text formatting here doesn't allow for as many advanced procedures. I wanted to submit a piece I did as a final project, that's 5 pages long, but it's got images and extreme amounts of text formatting in it that just won't do as a series of screen shots.

So anyway, if you want to check it out, go here to read the .doc file. I invented a new form of literary structure to produce the final part of it, so whee and all that. Thought I'd share it while I was positive enough to try.