Since the semester's almost over, I'm starting to take the projects from Graphic Design that I actually like and putting them in my email so I can keep them. Here are two such examples:
Wanna know the best part? Neither of these were actual projects, I just whipped them up when I was done with the lesson and was therefore bored. The first is the first part of "Misguided Ghosts", with a small, poopy doodle of Dipper's hat. The second I actually made in the last class. I just wanted to try out just making whatever in Illustrator (cuz it's the closest to drawin digitally I can get at the moment and I haven't really tried drawing digitally), and it came out like that. I actually really like it- it's not really my usual style (if drawing Al heads counts as a style), but has some cute parts. I sure hope my lazy attempt at arms doesn't make her look like she has tentacles... unless this is supposed to be a part-octopus girl. Then that is acceptable.
I have one or two others that I plan to send to myself, so I guess I'll have those next week.
And here's the thing I was all excited about because I was gonna finish it this week!
Yes. It is a doll in a pot with an eggplant on her head. With our kitchen in the background.
This is pretty much what I've spent most of my time in Ceramics doing. It's supposed to be three different objects stacked on top of each other... And, well, I think I accomplished that. And mine was different from everyone else's, so yay! People in general really liked it, I think.
I hadn't really thought a piece of art could describe the artist and his/her personality... But I have to say this one actually does a pretty good job of showing mine. I mean, there's the girlyness and cuteness and colorfulness, but then also a bit of tomboy (in the green striped pot, I'd say) and creepy from the eyes. People were already slightly creeped out by the eyes before it got fired... And I have to admit it really didn't help when I first tried painting them black first. I ended up putting dark blue over it to hopefully tone the creep down a notch. But people say it's still there, and I'm totally okay with that.
This is one of the projects I'm most proud of that I've ever done (though I would've taken even longer to paint it so it really looked nice if my teacher hadn't seemed impatient with me), so I really wanna take it while we move, but... Well, it's fragile, as you can imagine. So it's in a bag wrapped up and surrounded by stuffed animals. We hope that's enough for it to survive.
I wish my new phone could take pics that were as cool and dramatic as my old phone... That was one thing I liked about my old one.
This week, one of the other wards invited us to watch the newest Face-to-Face live (which had one of the new apostles, the YW General President, and another important leader) with them. This ward was the one that had the two girls I saw in my first activity in this state, officially met in Youth Conference, and later hung out a little bit during girl's camp (*insert their camp names*). They're the first young women I've told that I'm going, since I felt pretty dang sure this activity was to be the last time I'd see them. It'd be really surprising if I did see them somewhere else before we go.
Anyway, we missed some of the first part because everything was being set up, but there were a few messages that stuck out to me.
One: a question someone gave was about being nervous to raise kids in this sucky world. I've already had that concern for a while, and I remember discussing that topic with Blondie last year. She was also concerned for her little brother, who in just a few years would enter high school. Squirt is just such a cute and innocent little dude, and I had to admit I was scared for him, too.
But just as Sister Oscarson was about to give her answer, a sudden thought popped into my head.
If you've watched General Conference somewhere within the past few years, then you've most likely heard at least one or two people say that we young people have harder trials than anyone before us, but we were meant to be here on Earth at this time and we would surely be able to overcome the world.
The memory of having heard that came in, along with "Surely, the next generation will be even stronger."
Basically, if we live in a bad world now but are supposed to be able to be spiritually strong enough to be happy, then if the world worsens in the future (which I know it will), the newest generation then will be able to be spiritually stronger than us, the previous generation. If they were taught the right things and had a home and family based around Christ and love (which is a suggestion Sis. Oscarson gave), then they'd be able to take on anything, right?
That really comforted me, and I shared what the Holy Ghost had told me to the YW secretary later, because she has a baby right now and he's just the cutest little thing ever (and he reminds me of a monkey in a good way). She really liked the thought, too, of the next generation (her baby) being stronger than ours.
Two: The elders in the Face-to-Face gave some suggestions for preparing for a mission that I hadn't heard before. One of them was to get a job, because it would teach you responsibility, getting along with coworkers, and learning how to work out solutions for problems. I had to admit that wasn't that bad of an idea. I may very well be getting a job in the summer (we really can't know if I will, though, until we settle in somewhere), and this makes me realize it'd help me even more beyond just gaining some money. I wonder what kind of job I'd actually be willing to get, though, and could qualify for...
Another was to learn to love the Lord, because once you loved Him, then, obviously, you'd have the desire to serve and love others.
I think that's all for that. (I haven't bothered to look at the notes I took, so...) NEXT!
Ah, jeez, this is my next topic? *sad face*
K, so, I've barely told anyone I'm going, since I'd rather wait until the last day I can tell them so they spend less time being sad. But one person I have told is... Coatrack.
He looked so shocked and like he was really hoping I was just kidding, but... I mean, some people do say they're moving as a joke, but I'm not one of them. Poor guy, just like Broranges and The 1 and The 2... they all were or are heartbroken! And this time I can actually empathize with him, which makes me feel worse!
I told him earlier because he's currently my only friend I actually hang out with outside of school, and I feel closer to him than I have with pretty much anyone in a long time. As far as I can remember, he's the third person that I've had the experience of laying lazily and saying stupid jokes and feeling like I'm drunk off tiredness (though I wasn't even sleepy), the first being my sis and the second being Beka (and even then it hadn't ever really happened until two Winter Breaks ago). I'm really unsure of what to make of our relationship... But, well, whatever it is, it won't be able to stay the same since I'm leaving.
So many times already, one of the last lines in the song I wrote comes to me when I think about Coatrack... "Sorry I'm going, but that's what happens when you know me..."
We got the chance to hang out yesterday (though, since I had some other things I needed to do at home, I didn't stay at his house for quite as long as other times). We finished The Devil is a Part-Timer!, played a game, sang some songs, stuff like that. And, near the end of the visit, I managed to convince myself to give him the little Book of Mormon I had promised to myself I'd give to him. Just a few weeks ago I'd felt so sure about giving it to him, but right there in the moment I had a really hard time getting myself to again feel like it was a good idea. But I did it... And I blurted out a whole spiel that hopefully had some sort of meaning to him... Like I expected, he wasn't exactly very thrilled about what I was giving him, but by the time I was near to tears in nervousness and stuff, I think he figured out what this meant to me.
I wonder if he'll not only get himself to read a bit of it, but actually feel the Spirit and realize the book is true. It'd make me really happy if that happened.
We're hoping we can get a final time to hang out, but if it turns out we can't, I think this was still a good last hangout.
Last thing. There's a girl in the FFN group I'm friends with who goes by Liz. She's usually one of the ones who loves writing or at least helping to write fics with the others. The girl she'd been writing with has been super busy or has no inspiration or something, but so they haven't gotten to add more to their own story yet. And since she is itching to type something, she decided to ask me if I wanted to collab with her for a new fic.
It had been unexpected, and perhaps not super-smart considering how busy we are with packing things up, I said yes anyways. So far we still have a lot to work out, but I've started writing the first chapter, and it's already been really fun.
The thing is that it's been so long since I've written something all about the canon FMA characters. FH and VH are pure OCs besides two extra things at the end of two of the chapters. Ever. And the most recent one-shots I wrote that had dialogue was "Microscopic" and "Rush", which only had a few lines from Ed. In my own time I occasionally write Ed and Al with some version of me, but it's not canon material. It's not them in their original world with the other characters.
So, yeah. It's been a long time.
But this new story (that remains without a real title so far) will have at least 7 characters talking at some point, and is centered around 5 canon characters. And even though she wanted an AU (I managed to come up with how the AU happened, and it's a solution I don't think I've ever seen a writer think of before! *score*), in general the canon universe is the same and that's where the story starts. Man, it's so refreshing and feels so good to write about the whole FMA cast again. Liz herself hasn't done much actual writing so far since I have a lot more expertise in FMA than her, but I'm hoping this will turn out to be more of an equal partnership once her own characters come in. She's still giving her advice and ideas and is the one leading more in creating the world we'll write about, so I think it will be more even in the end even if I do actual writing more.
Alrighty then, I think that's basically everything for now. I considered saying something about a few ideas for stories, but I think I'll wait to see if they actually develop into something before bothering to mention them.
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