So... I was kinda sick-y yesterday and today? Thank goodness that it resolved itself relatively quickly. It still sucked, though.
I feel a little bad that I had to miss church because of it, but it was nice to (try to) sleep and chill for the day. I'm also quite happy that it was me that got sick and not my sister, since it was her birthday and all. (She's been unlucky enough in the past to be sick and/or in pain on holidays and family vacations, so she deserves the break.)
Man, she's 20 now! That's so weird! I feel like it was just yesterday that I was like "She's 16 now?! WEIRD!" or "13?!" But, well, that tends to happen when you know someone for as long as I have.
We basically celebrated throughout the week preceding today- she went out with her boyfriend (Plot-twist: he's not Mexican!), her friends came over to watch movies, we went to the family-fave African restaurant (per her request), and maybe something else? I also gave her presents a little early, in the form of "coupon" thingies; they were a free manicure thingie (as in, I'm gonna try my best to paint her nails) and a chance for her to put makeup on my face for anytime we're going to some event and/or public place. She can do really dramatic makeup, or gross makeup, or whatever the heck she wants, for that second "coupon". I'm both scared yet mildly curious to see when she plans to use that one.
School's been... kinda nice. I let myself get distracted by TAU (AKA Transcendence AU, mentioned in the last two posts) a little too much in the first half, but I still got much more studying done than necessary for my Physics final, which I got 100% on!
After that, I started with reading the last two chapters of the textbook (which I haven't finished doing), which completely boggled the mind of one of the tutors at my school. ("Even I don't do that!" he proclaimed- and he's big on science and engineering.) On Friday, I also spent most of my free time at school reading some of the essays in my English textbook. Not because I love essays, for some reason, but because these were usually cut out of books and articles with lots of interesting information and perspectives on things.
I've decided that I'm definitely buying a copy of my current Physics textbook in the future. I mean, I don't wanna lug around any more books than necessary now, considering I'm highly likely to move into a dorm and stuff next year... but once I feel like I've got everything figured out regarding how much stuff I'll have with me for the next few years of my life, I'll get the book on KSL or something. Maybe, by then, the book will be cheaper because it'll be an older edition of the textbook, and it'll be cheaper then anyways.
I had intended to do a lot of the Creative Writing class, but... I guess I got writer's block for the next assignments I was supposed to do. I believe I only managed to turn in one assignment throughout the week. Not cool. (On the upside, my English teacher told me on Friday that she absolutely loved some of the stuff I submitted for that class. That was really nice to hear.)
Instead, I ended up doing stuff for my own stories. I edited what I had so far in the demon story and figured out a few of the details I'd been unsure about before. I only got an extra paragraph further from where I'd left off, but I know the story looks better than it did before.
As for WFAM, I took some time from the second half of the week to write down a few ideas I'd jotted down in my phone forever ago and try to draw a few of the characters. (I mean, seriously? I'd only bothered trying to draw Guinn, Cami, and Ben so far, when there's plenty of other characters that need to be worked out? Get it together, Me.) I intended to draw Rory (the version that will appear in WFAM), Benji (the baddest guy of them all!), and Heart (the lady that is Cami's boss). The last one just refused to be drawn, but I got something decent for the other two.
I'm not as happy with Rory's drawing as I was hoping for. My hand didn't want to show her like how I imagined (and she looks a little disproportional?). I guess it was less necessary to draw her, since I knew pretty well already how I want her to look, but whatever.
I think it's kinda funny, now, how I'd made a redhead who looks relatively harmless, but can definitely kick your butt and enjoy doing so, when I've now found TAU, and a bunch of the main characters in it are much like that, too. Rory's a little more into showing her tough side with her clothes and attitude, though, while the TAU gingers have more of just an aura that comes out of them when they have reason to release it. (Also, they're all curly-haired, while Rory isn't.)
Anyways~ her typical sort of ensemble is a navy blue shirt- likely long-sleeve- with jeggings, paired with steel-toed leather boots and a pair of leather gloves that look much like Alphonse's, for they have small steel plates on them to make punches really hurt. When she's on-the-job, I guess I can say, she also wears a bullet-proof vest, which I'd attempted to draw. (...It failed a little.) Even if no one's fighting with a gun, wherever she may be, I assume such a vest would be very useful anyways.
Benji's results are a little more surprising.
(I just took these pictures from when I sent them to Carter, thus why I tried a little less to make the picture nice.)
I knew his hair was brown, but I hadn't really considered what sort of haircut he'd have. I ended up just thinking, "Well, hey, he'd probably like having tall hair," so I tried to draw that one haircut guys used to do a lot where the sides and back are shaved and the top is very voluminous, even though I never really liked that cut. It was harder to draw than I expected... and I think something mildly different is in order for Benji.
His face came out so creepy, when I hadn't even tried all that much! Frankly, I'm quite proud of myself! Though I guess I hadn't thought of making his creepiness so overt, he certainly looks like he holds the sort of personality I intended.
One of the first traits I had made for him was that, for some reason, he'd wear monochromatic outfits every day. (This is inspired by this one guy in my old middle school that did this very thing for the entire school year. White with white, blue with blue, even yellow with yellow!) He'd likely wear blue most often, but it'd depend on his mood and what he planned to do for the day, so there'd also be a fair share of red, black, brown, and maybe white and purple? A detail I'd thought of later was that he'd probably also like wearing suspenders daily. (I considered giving him a bow-tie, too, but dismissed it when I remembered that bow-ties are used a lot now. ...Well, I guess suspenders, too, but they're most commonly used with ties and bow-ties, not just by themselves. I can think of only one exception right now, which is Dez in Austin & Ally, but even then, he always had his suspenders off his shoulders. (Honestly, he's one of the reasons why I got into suspenders a few years ago. I seriously need to get back into them again.)
I'm unsure about footwear, but I feel like it's a little more likely to be something casual, like Converse, than a loafer. Is it odd to find 30-something-year-olds that still wear Converse, though? I don't know very many 30-somethings. I probably should, in order to make the older characters, like Benji, act realistically for their age.
Unfortunately, when I'd been intensely reading TAU and writing in my little notebook for WFAM, I missed that everyone had gone to an assembly... and my mentor teacher had sung praises about how I was cool and got a 34 on the ACT at that assembly, but didn't know I wasn't there until it was too late. I feel kinda guilty about it. Even worse, I don't have much of an excuse as to why I wasn't there!
There's not much left to say... Well, I finally learned just what the lyrics are to "No Surprises" by Radiohead, watched Elf at school on Wednesday [and Santa Claws today with my sister (though she fell asleep a third of the way through), which just about as cringe-worthy as we expected], and a kid at school showed me that he had a crazy cool, fancy calculator... and I ended up fiddling with it a lot.
It had buttons for every letter of the alphabet, which I used to type down several messages and jokes. The first was "it has a little mouse oh mylanta" (hadn't found punctuation and caps lock yet) because it had a touchpad that showed a mouse on the screen! And my sister and I have been watching Fuller House lately!
The second message on this picture was specifically for my sister, cuz I wanted to send this to her for her amusement. Apparently, she indeed found it quite funny.
I put down a few other things, like the first few lines of "Baby Got Back", before I gave the calculator back (after trying the third time before the owner and I found some other cool feature on the calculator and I played with it all over again) and ran away. The temptation is strong in this one.
Okay, that's pretty much everything, I think! I wonder if I'll actually get around to doing everything I was hoping to do this next week?
WAIT! Dude, I can't believe I almost sent this without putting in that the family Christmas party was yesterday! Unlike most previous parties, which were linners hosted at my grandma and grandpa's house, they apparently tried mixing it up and did breakfast at Golden Corral. (I saw Beka's mom there, by coincidence.) Though I didn't really talk much to the more distant relatives, I had fun with Cam and Ash and their parents. Even though I'd already been feeling mildly nauseous when we were there, I managed to eat most of the food that I put on my plate (even though I took longer to eat that food, in the process), so I was mildly proud of myself. And yeah, it was fun despite that.
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