lesumai

I have kind of abandoned dA.

I blame Tumblr. I wish I could feel bad about it, but honestly Tumblr has everything dA should have but doesn't. There, I said it.

Although I'll still post any art I make to Deviantart. It's easier to keep track of here. Which reminds me, I need to post some recent doodles. Somehow I've gotten significantly better at drawing faces just by doing it a lot. Apparently it works that way.


IN OTHER NEWS,
A mysterious person managed to get into my friend's Facebook account and post a weird code to a bunch of people's walls. When deciphered, he told us to go to a certain place on a certain day. We did, and found MORE CODES AND STUFF--and now it's this total crazy mystery and omgsdfsdkfjsskjdfjdf I feel like a sleuth cracking all these codes and using all these clues. I'm pretty sure I know who it is but damn if this isn't the most fun I've had in a while.

So we got this crazy-huge new monitor (well, 24". Maybe that's not CRAZY huge, but it's the biggest we've ever owned).
It's friggin awesome!
EXCEPT FOR ONE THING.
This computer is reeeeeally old (in computer years, anyway). There is no resolution setting that's exactly right for this size monitor in the control panel. Everything is stretched just a little bit, which is no big deal really--except that on deviantArt it becomes PARTICULARLY annoying. :<

I don't know if it's just because the computer is so old it doesn't "know" monitors of this size exist, or if this is a problem more specific to the graphics card. :/

I've tried everything in the Control Panel and the Menu for this monitor, but it always falls JUST short of perfect. Setting it to a 4:3 aspect ratio resolves everything quite well, but then I don't get the width that is the reason this monitor is so much better than the old one. :I

EUGHHURGHHHARBLGARBLABLEAHBLEAHBLOOBLEAH



In other news, I hate summer clothing with a passion (or at least don't know how to shop for it), think I have finally learned to draw faces satisfactorily, wrote a bunch of thank-you notes for graduation money, and my dread that I have not picked the right college/major/etc has once again reared its ugly head.



In other other news,
X MEN FIRST CLASSSSSSSS~
it has re-unlocked my latent x-men fangirlism.

Today was my last day of high school. Ever. It's over.
It's weird. And kind of hard to believe.

I'm kind of sad because I realized today that there were so many people I wanted to be friends with someday, and now I'll never get to. There were so many friends I made this year that I won't get to see again for a long while (of course, many of them were underclassmen, so I wouldn't get to see them often anyway, even if I weren't graduating).

It hit me just now, that this is really happening.

I keep having all these flashbacks of elementary school and stuff. I feel like I've died or something. :/

SO, I'm back! (actually I've been back for about a week but I'm lazy~)

AND NEW YORK WAS FRIGGIN THE BEST
But I think I like Boston better. :3 There was a surprising lack of pastries in New York.

So much stuff to talk about...
I sat in the very front of a Blue Man Group show, and my world was thoroughly and completely rocked. ♥ SO COOL SO COOL

We also went to see How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying--with Daniel Radcliff! who I didn't really care for that much before but who I am now convinced is hilarious and charming and a pretty great dancer (not that great of a singer, however).

I rode the subway! WOW

We visited Battery Park and The Sphere and Central Park and Strawberry Fields and Times Square (several times; we were right down the street) and Wall Street and of course Broadway... We were supposed to take the Staten Island Ferry to see the Statue of Liberty but my group was late to leave the hotel so we missed it. And then we were also supposed to tour the Empire State Building but they cancelled that because it was a 2 hour wait. :/ And we were also supposed to tour Carnegie hall but they stopped giving tours I guess? BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER because we got to play on the stage. Yes. My school orchestra played in Carnegie Hall. :'D

We stopped by the New York Public Library which I only knew from Ghostbusters but was still pretty cool, and went to the Pokemon Center/Nintendo store (which was like A DREAM COME TRUE :0). And we went to Chinatown and ate at a great bakery my friend's mom showed us, and bought green tea mochi ice cream and ate it on the street, and I bought some cool origami paper/instructions from the Japanese section of the supermarket and made some wicked neato star-balls on the plane back home.

PLUS

The day before we left, I convinced my group to go to Obscura Antiques and Oddities (from the TV show "Oddities")! GUYS, IT WAS AWESOME. I didn't have much money on me, so I couldn't buy anything cool like a real human skull or antique medical equipment or Victorian hair jewelry or anything, but I DID get a picture with Evan Michelson, who is the nicest and the coolest and has the coolest hair. :'D (And I feel really bad about this but I also completely ignored the un-televised shopgirl who I didn't even realize existed until she said "bye" when we left, and I DID I MENTION I FEEL TERRIBLE ABOUT THAT? D: )

The whole trip we saw several street performers and hobos (playing harmonica!) and generally interesting people who really made the experience all the more enjoyable. Matt also made his samurai face at any and all passers-by, adding "my gut" to my list of aching body parts--SO MUCH WALKING. D: I don't think I have ever walked so much in my life.


Blehurblegurble, that is all I can remember for now and you are probably not that interested in my trip anyways. :-/ SO! I now return to my regularly scheduled life of school and homework and AP tests.

OH CRAP AP TESTS

I AM GOING TO NEW YORK TOMORROW. O_O It's a school trip.

I am very apprehensive, but also pretty excited.

fjsdklfjsdkjf if I start writing more I will begin to rant and then worry some more so I'll just leave it at this.