Next week is it and then SIX WEEKS OFF oh god I need it so bad.

Finals are kicking my ass. Worked all day on one project (literally 10+ hours) and I'm maybe half done.

Ahh but Jay comes to visit next weekend, and I'm going home with him after Thanksgiving. <3

I miss drawing for myself.

This is me not writing my research essay.
I'm going to write a journal with substance that's not filled with how much I hate something. Good job, me.

So I didn't go home this past weekend. My mom got bronchitis, I think. Really bad case of it. So my grandmother canceled her visit with my aunt because she didn't want me to bring home GERMS.

Made my life a hell of a lot easier on Saturday when I had to go do community service. It sucked majorly, but it wasn't all that bad. Spent the three hours of mulching with a really cool chick from my 2-D Design class. We bonded over raking mulch [or kicking/stomping on it for the first 15 minutes without rakes] and talking about school things. It was pretty cool, and it definitely made the morning a lot less painful.

Afterward I went up to Lenox for the first time, and then to Perimeter. Both were pretty nice, but the highlight was eating PUMPKIN STUFF. Dairy Queen Blizzards in really cold weather kinda sucks, though.

Sunday was kind of uneventful, but I managed to start getting my basement "studio" set up, and finished it today. Way to go, only after most of a quarter has passed.
It's pretty cool, I put up some prints and posters to make it less basement-y, and my grandma gave me a handmade easel and this bitchin' clip-on desk lamp. I don't know how old it is but it was coated in a hefty layer of dust when we dug it up.

( [ HERE HAVE SOME PHOTOS ] )
My awesome cast iron $25 drafting table isn't set up yet. :C We're waiting to get rid of the ping pong table, first.

Buuut what I have set up now certainly makes homework a lot easier. Don't have to work with half a dining room table.


Ahh. Now back to writing and wishing these next four weeks of composition were over. >:C

I love this.

My grandmother goes to visit my aunt a lot for I don't know what reason. So this weekend she decided to take it upon herself to plan a visit, and in order to do so she has to find a place to dump me for the weekend, because I'm not old or mature enough to stay in a house by myself. OBVIOUSLY.

She called my mom earlier this week and tells her I'm going home Thursday. After school I imagine? (I'll be carrying about THREE BAGS if I go home after school. Lots of bags + MARTA = FUCK NO.)
So they go about planning everything behind my back.

Here's why I SHOULD NOT GO HOME:

I have MANDATORY community service on Saturday.

I have to be at the school at 8 AM sharp.

I wake up at 6 AM when I'm going to my 8 AM class. I'll be 50 miles south instead. I have NO idea how much time to give myself to prepare now.

I've checked how to get there via car (~50 minutes) and MARTA (20 minute walk from the station, not to mention waiting on trains since I'll transfer to the east line half-way there). As pissed as I am I thought I had it figured out when I call my mom to talk this shit over.

Here's the grade A response I got:
"I won't allow you to go if it's raining."
Let me back up here a second:
"I have MANDATORY community service on Saturday."

Do you know what mandatory means, Mom? It means if I don't go I fail and I take this class again next quarter because I do not, do not, DO NOT have time to plan another community service trip, have it approved, and work three hours on my own time while balancing other shit. I have four weeks left, this has to happen.

So when I say I'm going no matter what because it's expected of me, I'm told to grow up.
Grow up and stop working my ass off trying to make something I didn't cause to happen go right again.
Grow up and stop trying to do well in college.
Grow up and stop attending MANDATORY events.
oh. my. god.
This close to taking out a loan and living on campus. Every time shit like this unfolds I feel like it's worth the $10,000+ a year.

Tags: family, school

There's this thing, it's called carpet.
I'm pretty sure I have some somewhere.

Jeez. The worst of it is, I'm probably getting rid of a lot of this stuff.

HEY firequall, LET'S PLAY A GAME. FIND THE SCARY ORANGE HAT THING YOU GOT ME FOR CHRISTMAS.

firequall: *is expecting obligatory class schedule LJ post*
firequall: >8I

So here we go:

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Monday:

2-D Design @ 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Tuesday:

Drawing I @ 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM

English @ 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM

Wednesday:

First-Year Seminar @ 2:00 PM - 2:59 PM

2-D Design @ 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Thursday:

Drawing I @ 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM

English @ 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM

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I'm pretty excited. C: First-Year Seminar will probably be a drag but oh well. Also not excited about getting up probably around 6:00 AM on Tuesdays/Thursdays to make it to school for my morning classes.

Fuckin' weird Mondays.

And yay SCAD for never having Friday classes! Hell yea.

Tags: school

Some guy IMed me today because he found my My Fursona page [lol] that I created and immediately abandoned. Found out he was from Southern California, and when I mentioned, "oh, I've always wanted to visit CA!" he told me he'd be willing to help me over there. And if I came to visit he'd definitely take me out to dinner.

Yea, this is about 10 minutes into the conversation.

I'm just, "whatever" about it and he keeps talking. We get onto the topic of 90s cartoons and that was about the entire conversation. At some point he asks if he can call me Lyz [because Lyd isn't the first thing to come to his mind?].
I eventually leave to lie down 'cause I'm still not feelin' too great.

So when I come back online later he IMs me and since I can't recreate the situation better than how it actually happened:

(11:23:19 PM) dillonhopper Lyz.
(11:23:24 PM) doirngs yus?
(11:23:35 PM) dillonhopper Are you spoken for?
(11:24:01 PM) doirngs hm?
(11:24:20 PM) dillonhopper Do you have a boyfriend?
(11:25:05 PM) doirngs Yea
(11:25:21 PM) dillonhopper Ah...alright.
(11:25:43 PM) dillonhopper :p okay cool
(11:25:58 PM) doirngs lol
(11:26:20 PM) dillonhopper Well alright then...
(11:26:32 PM) doirngs hm?
(11:26:33 PM) doirngs sup?
(11:27:20 PM) dillonhopper Eh...I didn't know...
(11:27:54 PM) doirngs I had a boyfriend?
(11:27:58 PM) dillonhopper I was gunna ask ya out.

Then when I tell him he's taking this WAY too quick, he tells me he's just gotten out of a bad relationship and he's really clingy.

Ariel tried to convince me to start a group chat so he could "talk some sense into him", but I honestly pitied this guy. wtf.

I'm pretty sure he blocked me, lol.

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On the topic of me being sick, the doctor's office called me today and said that my tests came back and I was negative for mono. However, they told me that I was still in the stage that could yield a false negative. Not out of this quite yet.

I honestly really, really hate doctors. I ended up seeing the nurse practitioner instead of the doctor when I went in yesterday, and instead of spending 5 minutes tops with me she actually looked me over and talked to me. Instead of telling me to, "expect worsening" she gave me something to HELP me, took tests, and told me what to do if I start feeling worse.

Even still, I have no answer. Something's wrong with me, I feel like absolute shit, someone figure out what the hell's wrong.

Went to the doctor yesterday because I had been running a mild fever and I noticed a lymph node on the left side of my neck was swollen a bit.

Today I feel 100% worse, the left side of my neck is swollen like mad, and I hardly have any strength to move. I'm incredibly nauseous now and haven't tried to eat anything since I woke up, and the doctor told me to make sure I eat...

He also said it's probably mono. Oh fucking joy. I can't get tested for a week if I want it to matter at all.

So glad SCAD doesn't start for another month. I seriously hope it's not mono, but the symptoms keep piling up.

fuck. my. life.

I met up with Carsen at the Mall of Georgia on Saturday, for less than an hour since he was late.

( [ organizing my thoughts ] )

I've put this off for TOO LONG.

On his way home from Pittsburgh, Jay stopped in Atlanta [or, rather, Peachtree City] to visit me for a few days. C:

( [ another really long, day-by-day post ] )

And that's it. This took too long to write up. :C

This turned out to be way longer than it should be. I BET YOU ALL CARE ABOUT THESE AWESOME DETAILS.

( [ AC recap ] )

seriously tl;dr: good times. also Jayx1000.

wow. Haven't updated here in a while.

( [ HEY GUYS, HOW ABOUT AN UPDATE ON MY LIFE: ] )

Other than that, well... everything's going really well.
See you in another month, LJ. Haha.

1) Write your name.
2) Write the name of two of your favorite bands/artists.
3) Write "I ♥ ______". (This is to see how you write hearts.)
4) Write the name of your all-time favorite person.
5) Write the name of a recently favorited person.
6) Tag six people to do this.

I went to visit SCAD-Atlanta on the sixth and I really enjoyed it. The area in Atlanta it's based in isn't one that freaks me out and, to boot, it's very secure and the interior of the buildings look very fresh and upbeat.

I submitted my portfolio which, to my surprise, was advised to contain my personal work more than my observational, more realistic stuff. SCAD, you're so silly.
Here's my final portfolio.

I should get a scholarship decision within the next four to six weeks, and whether or not I get a good sum of money is a big deciding factor on whether I'll go to SCAD or not. So recently I've been digging through various other scholarship opportunities because, honestly, I do not not NOT want to go to Georgia State.

I visited the campus today with my mom and Jesse [who may end up going there if he doesn't get accepted to Tech/doesn't have the money for Tech] and I was really not impressed at all. Firstly, downtown is just... augh. It's ugly and it scares me. And when driving by my mom says, "Lydia, that's where my friend got shot" doesn't exactly ease my paranoia about the area.

The campus was very jumbled, and they didn't have much to say to me when I said my interest was in Art. My mom took art classes there but, jeez, I don't think Georgia State is the best preparation for what I want to do after college. They don't even have anything beyond the broad as hell "Art" major.

So I guess I'll have up to six weeks worth of arguing about this with my mom, and then hopefully this will end with good news.

; ;

I'm officially excited about college.

SCAD-Atlanta is so so so cool.

My application was being reviewed while I was there. My portfolio has to be in the 15th and the lady who looked over the art I brought with me told me to stick with my personal marker work, because she thinks it'll earn me more scholarships in the end.

:D

The campus was awesome. The students were awesome. Everything was awesome.

And Carsen joined me on the tour.
It was actually a nice visit.
eee. ; ;

I started watching Dexter online and ended up buying the first season on DVD today.

So good. ohmygod.

I made these super awesome biscuits all by myself.

Check out the proof:


DELICIOUS.


jk, eralkfang made them for me. omnom.

I was going to say something here.

But I changed my mind and decided to wish everyone a happy new year.

Don't disappoint, 2009. Seriously.

http://www.peta.org/cooking-mama/index.asp?c=pcmgb08

Oh, Peta.