I actually drew something I don't hate a little while ago, and since aporia's still down so I have no other place to show it, I'll do so here:
http://lerve.com/aporia2/paean2.jpg

Written on the board today in Geography, left over from the class before us: "QUANTUM NUMBERS: zip codes for electrons"

Today kind of sucked. I didn't get enough sleep last night and skipped Art Hist to come home early with the intent of napping, but ended up running errands and doing laundry, so I'm still tired. My legs hurt too much for DDR and I've tried writing all day but my ability has gone to hell. On a bright note, though, in class this morning I started work on my biggest painting ever, 4' square. Hopefully the $30 I spent on canvas, gesso and plywood to get it prepped and the multiple brushes and tubes of paint I'll undoubtedly exhaust on it won't be for naught. ...I'm really glad it'll be the weekend as of 2pm tomorrow.

The weekend and all of this week went by unnervingly quick! I spent the weekend wit Bec an Mone in Asheville, juz chillin an playin mad DDR in the arcade, yo. We're all getting really good at it! I came back Monday night only to find that I'd left my DDR disk at Bec's but luckily someone was nice enough to lend me her copy of the Disney Mix, which is actually really fun. I think my ankles and knees are slowly being ruined by all of this but at least I'm getting a lot of exercise.
I got a B on my Art Hist test and an A- on my English paper! I'm so happyyyyyyyyy

I... really can't remember today or yesterday very well, but tonight Matt taught me how to play Go and tomorrow I leave to spend the weekend in Asheville, and there's really enough for me.

Congratulations/Condolances, you're Jean Grey!

Sure enough, I went to see Crossroads. (I bought a ticket to something else, though, since there's no way Britney's getting my money.) The two things I realized from this movie are that Britney is truly beautiful and also that, as much as I hate to admit it, she has a very pretty voice. The premise of the movie: three childhood friends, who now hate each other, decide to go on a cross-country road trip with a man none of them knows who they hear allegedly killed a guy. ... Yeah. Sounds like a blast! One of them's the Popular Girl, another one's Pregnant White Trash (she even mentions trailer parks repeatedly) and Britney's the Virginal Nerd, of all things. I won't bother summarizing the rest any further than to say they play Britney's music half a dozen times and flash Pepsi products around frequently. She's like a 20-year-old Madonna!

I'm going in an hour to see the Britney Spears movie and I CAN'T WAIT!

What a great day! I just feel utterly content.
I went to campus to paint for a couple hours and got two paintings relatively finished for our crit on Tuesday. I spent hours working on the new aporia layout, had Taco Bell for dinner with Matt and did some Hemingway reading for my Lit class. Tomorrow I have to run all over the city and campus getting my residency forms copied and distributed to the right people. If all goes well, I will very soon be a resident of Georgia! I'm proud, man.
I popped Spiceworld in my car's player today, too, since I hadn't listened to it in a while. Driving around to the Spice Girls is fun as hell. Man, it feels like 1998 all over again...

Miss Muffy and the Muff Mob This, ladies and gentlemen, is what Flash was made for.

As foretold, Dad came down around noon or so and we spent about three hours fixing the sliding mirror doors on Stephen's closet. It would have taken only 45 minutes if I hadn't accidentally knocked over one of the doors and shattered the mirror, wasting all of the work we'd done and requiring Dad to spend $80 on a new pair of doors. I felt like total shit about it (and still do). Dad actually took it a lot better than I did, which is actually opposite of the norm when we usually hit trouble with something. We also ducked into the art supply store and I bought some new brushes and a tube of Cobalt Blue since I only have Pthalo. I cannot wait to use them. In fact I will probably lose sleep tonight thinking about this paint and these brushes, which I know is sad, but I've been totally nuts about painting since this semester started. We had dinner with Matt and they talked the entire time. Before he left Matt extended his hand to shake as they usually did, but instead-- Dad hugged him. My dad genuinely likes my boyfriend. I am so insanely lucky to have a dad as cool as mine.
You know, I bitch and moan about my life a lot (especially in this journal-- I'm sure I look like a soulless two-year-old little shit), but the truth is, as I see it in this moment of lucidity and candor, that I really have an awesome one. I take so many things for granted and spend so much energy chasing after things that don't matter. I don't know if I'll ever be strong enough to change that, but at the very least I know:
I like my life.
I like myself.
And above all, I am happy.

Doing more work on the new aporia and I'm really excited about it! Dad's coming down tomorrow to help me fix random stuff around the house and then leaving in the evening. Should be fun. I'm downloading Capcom vs. SNK music and digging it. It's more or less just hardcore synth, drums and bass dragged through echo and reverb, and even though the melodies aren't that great, it's catchy stuff. Okay, and I'm stalling, so now I'll force myself away from sitework and into bed.

For my last regents essay the topic was "Which type of reading material do you prefer most?" I wrote about the backs of cereal boxes. My interview was today and I got a P, which means I'm exempt from the rest of the required essays! Good way to start the weekend.

My test is over with finally, and I'm glad even though I don't think I did particularly well. Today marks the fifth time this semester that I've been asked to be interviewed for a local magazine, newspaper or TV channel. Maybe it's like a cat thing and they're drawn to the person who dislikes them the most? Talking to people I don't know makes me incredibly nervous, and when I get nervous I switch words around and sound like an idiot, so I've never agreed. If it happens again, though, I might as well give it a shot.
THIS JUST IN FROM THE GEOGRAPHY CLASS WEBSITE:

Exam1 MC Out of 47.5	Exam1 Map Out of 11	Exam1 ShortAnswer Out of 36	Exam1 Total
47.5	10.0	33.5	91.5

Kickass, dude!

Today is Matt and my six-month anniversary. ^__^

Painting is still pretty exciting and I didn't have my Modern Art Hist test today. After class I drove to the mall for some TK4. My driving is getting steadily more reckless and eventually I'm probably going to get into a serious accident.

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I might or might not have a Modern Art History test tomorrow! It's been a matter of complicated and unfortunate circumstances which have led me to the present moment of having absolutely no clue one way or the other and not being able to find out until I actually have the class tomorrow. ^_^ I'll treat you to a sample sentence from my textbook: "If one may hazard a generalization, the Blue Rider artists can be said to have combined in their styles Cubism's geometric structure with the pure, painterly color of Robert Delaunay (Fig. 250) and the Fauves, to which they added a distinctly Teutonic brand of vehement emotionalism and 'spirituality.'" Doesn't that just clear things up nicely!

Matt and I hit thrift stores today and I bought an awesome bedside table for $10 as well as a very cool briefcase that I'm gonna start taking to class instead of a backpack. I also bought another hat, which I've wanted forever since I've been wearing the same one for months.We saw Gosford Park, and it's a very smart, delicious little film. The characters, story, costume design, acting... it's all perfect.
In other news, my injured knee has gone from okay to terrible from playing DDR, so now I have to hold off for a whlile until it fully heals. How ironic, that I finally get DDR but can't play it...

I was up till 4:30 Friday morning getting my paper done, and I think in the end it's actually really good.
I got to class Friday and not only is it not due until next Wednesday, but I also wrote on the wrong topic. I talked to the professor about it, though, and she let me turn it in anyway. Which is great, because I sure as hell don't feel like touching it again for a while.
I got a P on my last regents practice essay (the highest mark) and if I get a P on the next essay, I can skip the rest of them! Hooray!
Matt and I saw Rollerball last night, and it sucked, but Rebecca Romijn-Stamos is actually a decent actress in it. Who knew?

DDR DDR DDR DDR DDR DDR!
I'm so happy that no one would ever guess I have a 7-page paper due tomorrow that I haven't started! (\^_^/)

BID BABY BID!

I've vacuumed, done laundry, decided not to paint and sorted my doujinshi! I have a total of 119 non-text and 43 text I mean to sell, all related to SNK games, mainly KOF. Now to figure out how to sell them and run to the post office to get the shipping rates...

My Lit class doesn't meet today because we have a paper due Friday, and since it's my only class on MWF, today's a free day!
Today's do-to list:
vacuum +
play Tekken 4 +
write my Georgia residency essay +
sort doujinshi +
sitework +
three loads of laundry +
pray I somehow manage to get DDR today +
start work on my paper +
see Matt tonight +
So you see, I actually have a lot going on. I'm off to paint!

Woot baby woot! The new layout is still underway. I did a coming soon page for the site and, ironically, from doing so I got a couple new ideas which would take the design in a new direction. It feels so good to be inspired again!

No DDR. I had my first Georgraphy test today and I think I did well. I harassed the lady who sent the DDR mats and game about when exactly she shipped it and it turns out it has a tracking number, which she forgot to give me a week ago. Uh, whoops. She sent it four days late and she's a complete moron so she's getting bad feedback but the good news is it's supposed to be here on the 7th (Thursday)! Rejoice with me now! I'm also tentatively working on a new side layout for aporia, which would make it aaronsite version five. Hope it works out...

No DDR.

Well, IMDB had this to say about the Austin Powers issue and I'm a little more at ease now:
"New Line Looks For A New Title For Goldmember
The MPAA on Thursday rejected New Line's appeal of its decision that use of the title Austin Powers in Goldmember is "inadmissible." MGM/UA had complained that the title infringed on its James Bond copyright. According to today's (Friday) Daily Variety, New Line turned down a last-minute MGM deal that would have allowed it to use the title in exchange for moving the Denzel Washington starrer John Q from its current Feb. 15 opening date, when MGM's Hart's War, starring Bruce Willis, is also scheduled to open."

Matt came over tonight and we watched some of Stephen's Dominion Tank Police, which in reality is so bad it's very entertaining. He told me that the James Bond people are suing over the new Austin Powers movie Goldmember and that the movie's been suspended indefinitely! Waaaaaugh!

Okay, I got something to eat and got the bathroom all cleaned and then suddenly I'm at the arcade playing Tekken 4! What the hell! Matt's coming over in three hours so I guess I'll go study for that damn test. Gah. I want to dye my hair like Violet's so badly (it's almost the right length now!) but first I need to get a job, and being hired someplace is more important than having hair as cool as Violet's if nobody will hire me because I have weird hair. Back in Virginia I applied to a ton of places for a job when I had long hair and none of them hired me. And I cut my hair and was hired at the very first place I applied. It pisses me off when I think about it.

I have a lot to do today. I had the last 35 pages of House of Mirth to read for class but I just finished it (man I love that book), I have to do all my textbook readings and study for my Human Geography test on Tuesday, I have to write an essay on Why I Want to Be a Resident of the State of Georgia for my GA recidency forms, I have to go through my doujinshi and put a shitload of them up on eBay because I have almost no money, I have to vacuum the house and clean my bathroom, I have to see Matt tonight because I want to-- but right now, though, I have to eat something because I'm damn hungry.

I went back to campus and it was finally open, so I painted for a couple hours before hanging out with Matt. We rented South Park eps and Parappa the Rapper 2 (which is even cooler than the first) and stuffed ourselves with pizza, chips and soda for dinner. I learned two things tonight: 1) that I can eat half a large pizza in one sitting, and 2) that I will never, ever do it again.

For the last three days I've been looking forward to going onto campus and painting this morning but when I got there, the building was completely locked up! There wasn't a soul around... I've never seen it deserted like that before. And I made a sandwich to take for lunch and everything. I'm so sad. I'm going to go back in a couple hours and see if anyone else manages to get in.

No DDR. But I am happy because my exam-reader really liked my regent's essay, I plan to go in and paint tomorrow morning, and Matt and I are hanging out in the afternoon! Stephen and I are also still getting along great, and we went to the store last night and they had-- CADBURY CREME EGGS! OHHHHHH MORE MORE YEAH UNGH OH BABY