I love Keith Oblerman. I don't agree with him on everything, and every now and then he can be a hypocrite. But lately I really have been liking what he has to say. This last clip, it really gets me fired up. I cannot wait for Bush to leave the White House.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24635229#24635229

Tags: news, politics
Current Location: work
I'm feeling: frustrated

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Tags: bpal

First off... Elliot's Spring Gathering was awesome fun! I had an absolute blast meeting and greeting and hanging out with friends, old and new. Was a fantastic time, I can't wait to go again :) For those folks whom I met and had the privilege of spending time with, big WAVY HI'S for you all!

Also... I'm still wonderfully sick, but slowly getting over it little by little. I was coughing up blood over the weekend, which is never a good sign XD The minute my plane landed and I got home, I went straight to the hospital where they gave me some lovely antibiotics. So hopefully this... affliction won't last much longer :( *wheeze*

Also... I'm Boss again this week as my boss is away on vacation, so my co-designer and I have been losing our minds. Apologies to folks who have been trying to reach me... this week is absolute nuts. However, my colleague did share with me the best spam EVER:

Co-designer: lovely spam emails
Me: oh share
Co-designer: Bomb her womb from your huge cannon!

We can't stop laughing. It's so brilliant. I wish I was paid to write that stuff.

I'm feeling: sick
I'm hearing: The Mac & Mouse Show

red dragon was pretty awesome X3

my respect for edward norton goes up again from his downfall in the Illusionist.

I'm feeling: content

Fighting a bit of a head cold currently, two others of the staff have already fallen victim to it. I’m hoping mine doesn’t get as severe as their’s. Last night I took some cold medicine to help me sleep and it didn’t help much. I did have some mighty strange dreams, including one about a special Celtic knot made out of bat skeletons. It was very beautiful. Wish I could remember more about it so I could actually draw it! Dreams are so fickle.

Ugh. I slept bad and I have a Nyquil hangover.

Tags: sick
I'm feeling: Ugh

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I got a voicemail from Molly's foster mom as I got off the the train last night. Apparently she adopted Molly out from under us. A family saw her yesterday and took her home. She told me they "can't hold dogs", but this is after she suggested a Friday meet up to ME. ARGH WTF.... Finding a dog in this city is almost harder then finding an apartment. I have a feeling she gave the dog to a friend of hers so she could still visit her..she seemed really bonded with Molly and said herself she didn't want to give her up.


I was heartbroken, but as my mom said "when things like this happen, it just means something better is on the way." I hope thats true. :/ I really want a new baby to focus on so I can ease some of this sadness from missing Jasper, everyday is a reminder that he's not here and it doesn't feel like it's getting any easier....


In other news, thank god it's Friday, I hope today flies by.

I'm feeling: sad

I just had a long conversation with the paper's political cartoonist. This is actually something I have wanted to do for a LONG time, but today I finally said, "Well, fuck it, why not today?" (not outloud of course) and asked him, "So what does it take to become a political cartoonist?"

He used to do the political cartoon every day, however he's retired and gone to once a week, so there's plenty of spots open (we publish a generic cartoon every day, one from the various online political cartoon sources and generally concerned with national issues, not Annapolis issues) and I wouldn't be taking his job.

One (admittedly quite interesting and rather similar to a path I could have taken [and could probably still take]) life story later, I've got his e-mail address and recommendations on how to approach the publisher. Now, this could not work out, the publisher could hate my style, et cetera...but holy crap! This is an opportunity not unlike one I was hoping for the other day and this could be completely freakin' awesome!

Tags: work
Current Location: at work
I'm feeling: holy crap!

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ICanHasCheezburger/~3/291621291/

http://icanhascheezburger.com/?p=51928

I miss Duffy. We had chicken for dinner and there were little bits I pushed to a side on my plate out of habit, then quickly realised he's not there to give em to. I miss how I used to just walk up to him and smack his ass a few times and he'd turn around all happy, not being able to see where you were but happy anyway. Then I'd pick him up and hold him and he'd just sit there in my arms, not caring to be let down. Everytime I massaged his neck, he'd yawn.. everytime, without fail.

I dunno, maybe I'm just lonely.

• 11:30 I need a sugar and/or caffeine hit; jellybeans are not effective. #
• 13:20 Today, free pizza. I love walking around the city. #

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oh god i can;t believe I left this out. Making a double post because this one deserves the exclusivity... or whatever..

I saw an Audrey Kawasaki painting IN REAL LIFE. Oh, Rhiannon for taking me to Outre where I haven't been in ages... thankyou..... but now it's made me want to buy it.

It was incredible. I always thought I could only admire her artwork from afar, but all of a sudden I walk into a gallery and there she is! Two of them... I was fixated and covetous. XD (And the more awesome news is I was told that she's having another exhibition here next year! *_*)

But I do not have 1650 spare. I am very sad.

Because the larger of her two paintings was what I wanted the most. It was of one of her beautiful girls, but not only that, the painting showed a phoenix. And that bird has special meaning to me. To suddenly see it in a gallery, in a work of one of my respected artists, unexpected but so damn obvious.... made it really wonderful.

Allright. I'm really done now. :3

I'm feeling: enthused

Oh Katamari...why must you be so cute?
With your funny posture, round head, folded ears...AND YOUR LITTLE SHARK TOY. O_O


*ded*

Today was awesome. My feet hurt.

Let's see, first up I woke up early, so I kept going back to sleep. One of the last dreams I had, it was sunny like it was this morning, only I was doing something in my room when I got a phone call. It was loud in my room (music?) so I went to the front room to be able to talk properly - time seemed to have wound back to when we just moved in to this house, because there wasn't much furniture in the front room at all - I remember a low table and a plant on it... but the day was beautiful... my uni friend Ash had called me to tell me excitedly about some animation news - a series that was to be released later this year. I even remember that he said "This is such an awesome series, I have the whole thing on my hard drive at home!" I remember laughing and being happy for him.

Then I remember looking at some person's art - a beautiful, flowing fan animation short featuring Link and Zelda, and this other golden character wrapped in strips of cloth and sitting in a cloud o_O except he was too big/grown to be a cherub. :o And Link and Zelda were flying through the air on a pegasus. Ahahaha. The colours and the happy were so inspiring.

Anyway after I woke up, I got ready to go to uni, and have pre-birthday cake with Rhiannon and give her her birthday present which was well received - I'd gone on a small mission to obtain a mirror she mentioned in passing some time ago >:3 It's awesome when things turn out like that. Anyway as I was leaving the house, class was cancelled \o/ and so we had the whole day to wander around the city, stroll the arcades, browse stores, take in the sights and be merry. I love Melbourne.

Later in the evening I met up with my mum, who wanted to go shopping for comfortable boots, and then at the end of this wonderful day, I managed to make it to a friend's birthday drinks and meet up with workmates/meet new random people at Golden Monkey. Such fun. :D

Extra highlights include:
- Busker on the tram with a guitar singing Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead Or Alive".
- Little old asian guy on the same tram performing pull-ups on the overhead bars for no particular reason (the big burly roadworker opposite him in a fluro safety vest was challenging him to last more than five minutes)
- The strange phenomena in Hardware Lane that is "The Charm Of The Suited Man"
- Live Jazz <333333

Now I've got the option to settle down with my newly acquired Silence Of The Lambs/Red Dragon novel (borrowed from kev in exchange for Uzumaki) or watch Red Dragon or Event Horizon borrowed from the video store. XD

Lately I've been on a Hannibal kick. I'm turning into some kind of intrigued fan. Red dragon is the last movie on my list to be checked off, excluding that odd Hannibal movie they made in the 80s. I heard it was crap. Anyway, seems like this was a pretty long update for me. All in all, a wonderful day. I'd better stop here. XD

I'm feeling: happy
I'm hearing: random chillout electronica