In the spirit of those far more inventive than me (Scout), this is an introduction post. A friending policy, a public service announcement, an autobiography--whatever makes sense.

A note before I begin: if you're thinking about adding me, read the journal-related bits here first. The massive amount of information about me at the end isn't important. The other things here are.

( Cut for various space-consuming things. )

Update on The Boots: wore them to a Leonard Cohen concert on Tuesday* along with dark denim shorts and a blouse with capped sleeves and an embroidered scarf slung around my neck, so combined with the VIP pass I was wearing I felt very much like a rockstar. My feet didn't hurt even after several hours of walking and standing, too, my calves just felt like I'd been working out. Win all around, in other words!

I wore them again yesterday and got a blister on top of my pinky toe, but that just means I can't wear them without socks. Still in love with them. And they make my butt look FANTASTIC

*Which was AMAZING, by the way. I was kind of worried, given that older touring artists I've seen in no way lived up to my expectations, but as my brother & I reasoned, the guy sounded like he was 70 when he was 30, so being 74 now can only be a good thing. The band was fantastic and really well put together, not just a bunch of twentysomethings whose sole function it is to make the old singer seem younger (I won't name names) and who can't really sing/play at all. The arrangements were new & fabulous as well -- I'm running out of adjectives here -- and I got honest-to-goodness chills at several points, and started crying at the end. Yeah. Pretty fucking incredible. He played Hallelujah near the end, of course, so now I've seen two renditions of it in less than a month (Rufus Wainwright in June ♥).

Because it was on Canada Day, too, the embassy had arranged for Canadians to get VIP passes (shiny ones we hung around our necks, I felt super special) with access to a separate area with food and wine and then some of the best seats, surrounded by Canadian flags. SO COOL. The ambassador herself had a V-VIP area along with the prime minister and his family right next to ours, yeah mum & I were fangirling him a little. So that just made the evening even better.

Also I am sick of having six icons, I'm just going to stop rotating them & you'll all have to see this boring one repeatedly.

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Wooo summer school and/or an extra year of uni! \o/

scarletautumn is where I post all of my art & occasional writing stuff, and I don't always mention new posts here so PLEASE OH PLEASE feel free to friend me over there! I post pretty rarely so it shouldn't clog up your friendslist.

P.S. I bought the boots. :D

Come to Tusenfryd on July 7th/8th/9th, bring people, have fun & sexytime y/y?

Since Julie riddled hasn't posted any art and it's past midnight, I hereby declare myself the WINNER of our five-bits-of-art-by-Saturday challenge (here are my five ++).

So Juliebutt, in accordance with our agreement, you now owe me "a sleepover with lots of chocolate etc [...] except with MORE SHAME". 8D

EDIT: APPARENTLY I WAS TOO HASTY WITH MY JUDGEMENT. Julie claims she has the art, she just hasn't posted it yet. I remain skeptical.

I'm the last person who falls in love with shoes -- I have unusually large feet, and have been shown to the men's section enough times to make shoe shopping an experience akin to how most women feel about bikini shopping -- but today it finally happened: I am completely obsessed with what I've begun to refer to as The Boots.


This photo is a little off, they're dark grey in real life.

They're 1000kr (about $200) and they're high-heeled (see the shoe in the background for an example of my usual footwear) so I'm really hesitant about buying them, but I've been wanting some proper going-out shoes of the ankle-high boot variety for a while now, and I've been thinking about them constantly since I got home.

Is this what being a shoeholic feels like?

( Last week's )

♥ Go for a short bike ride once a day.
Yeah, I'm slipping with this one (and by slipping I mean I haven't had any sort of exercise for a week).

♥ Start sketching ideas for my HP Art Project assignment.
Even if I can't find the damn book...

♥ Complete five-art-things-by-the-28th challenge with Julie riddled.

Anybody going to Norwegian Wood today? I want to see Alanis Morrisette but maybe not if I have to go alone. :/

EDIT: Nvm, Dad's going with me. 8) How appropriate that it's Father's Day in North America, too.

( Last week & a half's )

♥ Write another article for the Lexicon.

♥ Floss every day.
Another thing I am so, so bad at and really should do more often.

♥ Start my HP Art Project assignment.
It's not due until the end of the summer, but I know I'll be agonising over it forever so I might as well get started.

♥ Post seven drawings.
Not necessarily one a day, but there should be at least seven new drawings up at scarletautumn by the 16th.

In other news, my nose stud fell out overnight and now I can't find it. o_O I've put my ring back in but I can't attach the ball by myself, so I'll have to find some other replacement soon.

Godfuckingdamn, I just wanted to play around with a new layout but when I tried to change back to my old one it turns out it was a paid theme. Now my friends page looks like shit. >:|

EDIT: Nevermind, I worked it out. Just so this post isn't entirely meaningless, a sitting-on-a-yoga-ball update: I've only been doing it for a few hours, but my butt & lower back are already getting kind of tired. On the plus side, it's basically impossible to not sit up straight, which hopefully will outweigh the muscle stiffness I'm expecting tomorrow morning. X(

I finally got around to planning out which courses to take next year, and because I'm a nerd ( here's my shiny table of them all )

I have no idea whether I'll love or hate the computer programming course, but I want to give it a try. Most of my time will be taken up by drama courses, obviously, but I managed to squeeze some art and (required, theoretical) English in there too. No scifi and graphic novel courses this year, but at least I get printmaking. :D

P.S. I'm refusing to cave in and get a sponsored account or renew my paid account, but god am I ever getting sick of my six icons.

GO VOTE, if you haven't already! (Statements from the candidates are here.)

I do have minimal faith that this will help much, but yeah. Still worth a try.

Watching Eurovision last night (HELL YEAH) I felt like I'd heard Portugal's chorus before. Yeah yeah, I know, you usually feel like that with 90% of the Eurovision songs anyway, but this was different! I went crazy trying to figure out what it reminded me of, until just before I fell asleep I realised which song it was. And clearly you'll all dying to know too, so for the sake of comparison:


Listen from 1:00 and then for ten seconds or so.


Listen from about 1:20. Sound familiar? (I am madly in love with the video for this song, by the way, they've just disabled embedding.)

The Good: Seeing Warren Ellis speak at the Oslo Comics Expo.
The Bad: Deciding it would be a good idea to ask him a question, despite having no idea what to ask.
The Ugly: Asking him where his ideas come from. Yes, really.*

*Okay, so I actually asked him where Fing Fang Foom came from, and after the initial laughter and "in Britain we have this rule, that when someone asks an author where his ideas come from, that person is taken outside and beaten up -- you in the back there, could you take care of this?", it did lead to a whole ramble on Nextwave, and Dirk Anger vs Nick Fury, and some hilarity about George Clooney, but still!

Side note: possibly the best quote of the evening came when he was asked if he had a list of people he wanted to kill in comics (referring to his killing the president in one), and Tom Cruise was suggested. His reply was something like "no, no no no. He's the favoured of Xenu! If I say anything, I'll come home to a volcano where my house used to be, with Tom Cruise in front of it, holding a three-headed baby, ringing a bell and saying "YOU ARE UNCLEAN".

Hetty boho mentioned iCiNG a while back, and since then I've been completely obsessed with the site - organisation, fashion, clutter-clearing, gorgeous photos and style tips all in one place? *_* One of the things I've been meaning to do from there are weekly resolutions, which are so much more manageable than yearly ones. (Except I think you're actually supposed to continue most of them past the one week, but oh well. It's a start!)

( Mine for the week, starting tomorrow. )

Otherwise it's amazing to be home with nothing to do, and actually be here for a serious amount of time. I hope my family doesn't get sick of spoiling me just yet. Caroline leka_moya is coming over tomorrow afternoon! Let the socialising begin. :D

I completely forgot to say that I am currently on a squishy air mattress in Leeann leeann_marie's bedroom, and I'll be here till the 3rd (well, not just on the mattress, obviously). So far we've spent hours in the Detroit Institute of the Arts, seen the best stop-motion animation video made by 3rd graders ever (pictures later), had a lot of amazing food (no gross dining hall food in sight!), spent hours on youtube, etc.

Here, have a dramatic lemur (a.k.a. pretty much the most terrifying thing I've seen in years. I had to hide behind Leeann at one point).


To recover from that, here's an adorable animated short about a cat trying to wake up his owner.