*yaaaaaaawn*

Been working most of the week – more so then I usually do on my weeks off. A very special project, see?

Well of course you don’t see yet, it’s not ready for unveiling… but including that, this week we’ve gotten done…. (we? gah. must have a mouse in my pocket. *L*)

1. Typsetting job for dad
2. Billing done for LD (officially have a business license now even!)
3. Poster for the APL, two versons of rough drafts, waiting for word before finishing
4. Updated and new layout for Active RP characters…
5. Updated Poetic Voices
6. and in the past 36? hours alone:
a)1. Main page layout, in frames
b)full forum set up plus color cordination to a,
c, d, e, f) Mt set up for 4 different journals,
g, j, i) 3 complete graphic/template layouts for said journals done, with one more still to contemplate and finsh up (though damn- I’m so sick of looking at MTcode, I opted to work on the 4th tomorrow. heh.)

*thinks* hm. might be all, but I think there’s a couple more things thrown in there somewhere. Toss in random surfing of faves, dealing with kids and asshole, wishing I was in CA for Gaydays with TBF right now, making sure to surf the beauties that are participating in the Boobie-thon (will Lessa’s rack make an appearance? quite possibly… wait and see…. and oh. my GOD. Favorites two: here and here. I am SUCH a sucker for a sexy belly….. and goddamn, but those are beautiful bellies – and the tits aer just the icing on the cake! Rest assured I will be surfing them often as more submissions come in – and hot damn, already raised a TON of money and it’s only the third! Whooohooo!

Man. No wonder I’m tired! Going back to school on monday will be a vacation. *LOL*

Free at LAST!

Hahahahahahhahahaha!

for the first time EVER I have managed to make it through a month of jury duty and not forget to call, and not be stuck on a damn jury!

and I get called like. every. single. year. Gets annoying, specially when the asshole has only been called ONCE…. it’s just not fair! course, he automatically gets out of it now because of his job that keeps him out of town for the majority of the month, but still – would be nice to see the calling equalized a little bit more.

But! I just called in for the final time, and says we are not needed and are all done – I had begun to belive that I was going to get nailed the last day and stuck for like a week. heh. I did have to go in once and sit there for a couple hours while we waited for the defendant to plea bargain, bargain struck and we were free to go, and I should get a whole 5 bucks for my trouble. *smirk*

You’d think for making us do our civic duty under penalty of law and jail time we’d be worth more then five bucks the first day and 20 for each full successive day. People have to take off of work, and miss out on full paychecks or go to Jail – just doesn’t seem that their reward system works very well. I’m always tempted to walk in and tell them to just hang the damn bastard already!….. for, you know, a shoplifting charge. *L*

In other news – another quarter over and done with. I believe I pulled A’s in both classes, even in Logic with was a damn fine achievement if I do say so myself. My final assignement saw me proving without a doubt through the use of properly valid logic argument forms that my prof was indeed not human, but a computer program. Poor guy emailed me privately to make sure that he hadn’t REALLY been an emotionless cad throughout the whole term. *L* Poor thing. I explained my careful use of Satire, and assured him I had no complaints, and he promised not to take the fact that I argued so convincingly for his automation personally. He’s even going to use the acronym I came up with for his last name in way of introduction for his next Logic class. *L*

The other class went well – even if it was all done in illustrator. My project was mostly faked info as I hadn’t heard from the Alaska Poetry League yet on which event I’d be making the poster for, however I did hear from them this morning, and they love what I came up with and will get me the information for their November 18th event and want to use my poster for it. Cool huh? I love seeing my work out there on bulliten boards everywhere. *beeeeeeeeg grin* Sure, it’s a donation of my time and talent – but what better way to get my name out there? People like the posters, they ask APL who did them, and tada, Lessa’s a household name.

Gonna dream? dream big.

So, I’ve got a week off.. unfortunately the asshole just got home so it won’t be much in the way of relaxation. heh. Dividend day is next wednesday though, and I’m pleased to report for the first time in 4 years, not including the house or the student loans, we will be debt free. As long as I can keep the asshole’s fingers out of the money pie. *smirks* I’ve laready told him I’m using most of it to complete my 2 year long struggle to get us out of debt, and he -says- that’s fine, so here’s hoping he keeps his end of the deal. For the last two years at divident time we’ve got his manspace, then his bus, and both, plus bills, cost us a pretty penny. This time I’ll get everything caught up, get some other stuff, get insurance back on the cars, and we’ll be set to go.

and THEN I’ll let him in on the bill paying and show him where all his money goes. I didn’t want to before then, because I simply do not need the stress of “why are we late on this, why wasn’t this paid, I dn’t understand I’m making more money then ever how can we still be behind by the way I need 50 bucks for this, that and the other thing.” Gee. Asshole spends us broke every time he walks in the door. Hell – I told him before he came home that there would be no extra spending until I saw what the insurance will do to the size of the paychecks, and he’s already asked me to send off 75 bucks in shit as he went through his mail. the man has not a clue, I swear.

Anyway, gonna have to putz around the sites and stuff to keep myself looking busy since I don’t have school for a week and well, he’ll start wanting to do stuff with me. *wrinkles nose* Apparently gotta go smooze with the bible thumping boss on sunday for some bonfire. Oh the joy. Man’s been good to the Asshole so we gotta go, but christ what boring people. Gonna try and figure out some way to bug out, but well – doubt I’ll be that lucky. heh.

Anyway – he’ll be back around this way momentarily so off I go. Happy Monday, all.

randomness

Well, for those wondering about the aftermath of an entry a while back, I feel better. I took some time after the Asshole left to just kind of veg, when TBF logged off the computer at night I put up an away, curled up on the couch, read books, watched movies, basically gave myself permission to be something other then the total support for someone else, something other then the one who can be counted on to always be here.

I didn’t quite log all the way OFF, but I did put an away up and didn’t come over to see who pinged when people did. *chuckles* I also didn’t allow myself to feel bad if no one did. Hell, the people who were online anyway were people I can’t stand after all – so its good they were silent, right? right.

Of course, with all that reading, it lead to me pulling out my all time favorite series by Terry Goodkind. I only have the first four books (of eight now! *Wah* though I’ve read five and six… but I don’t own them, and I didn’t even know the names of book 7 and 8! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!) I read all four books of The Sword of Truth series (Wizards first rule, the stone of tears, blood of the fold, and temple of the winds) in 4.5 days. If anyone has seen these books, they’re NOT small books. at all. *chuckles* Even tbf was impressed it only took me 4.5 days.

That means I’m jonsin for books 5-8 now. And Debt of Bones which is a short story that prequels it….
So. You know. If you love me? They’re all on my wish list…. and some of the used prices are pretty darn good, and there’s like 40 items of wishing there.. and you know… someone mentioned me making a new layout for their journal and I’d be most happy to do so for one or two of those books….

Really…
Or call it an early christmas gift for the poor girl who’s desparate for reading material…..

I’m not above groveling either… yannow, just in case that would help… *chuckles*
(just, if all this groveling and begging works? let me know so that I don’t go on a shopping spree when dividends get here and get them myself. *L*)
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Ok, enough sniveling and begging. for now. *chuckles* I’m like some crazed junkie needing a fix, I swear. Need my reluctant hero quota, really.

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I was looking through the course catalog at school last night, figuring out where I am and where I’m headed and realized that – I’m officially a senior.

A SENIOR.

I have 13 more classes and then they will give me my piece of paper and release me on the unsuspecting design world… MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

and then I paniced. I ONLY HAVE 13 MORE CLASSES! What on earth will I do after that? Holy shit. for the past 2+ years every breathing moment it seems has been eaten up by my being ferociously determined to succeed in this little Graphic Design venture…. I’ve gone to school year round, had a couple weeks for breaks here and there, then back at it. I’ve struggled and whined and cried and triumphed to a 3.9 gpa.. I’ve hated profs, and loved profs, and taken leadership roles and been the flunky who’s had to step in with leadership roles, I’ve struggled through having TBF push me harder then anyone else in shared classes to delighting the few times I bested him in some answer, or at least thrilled in that I could keep up with him when he’s an artist and I’m not….

It’ll be weird not to log in first thing every morning, not to log in throughout the day, not to HAVE to post something to some stupid idiot politely telling them how stupid they are without seeming too..

It’ll be very odd. very odd indeed.

But I’m looking forward to it – and well, I still have a year so it’s all good. (though if I pull three classes for one session of an upcoming quarter I can graduate next September instead of next December – might look into that… since my last quarter would only have one class anyway…)

Speaking of idiots… there’s a girl in my graphic illustration class who posted this morning that she doesn’t like doing the illustrations, she doesn’t like having to be ‘artistic’ she just wants to do layout, she’ll pay someone to do her illustrations.

Blink.

She’s getting a degree in Graphic Design. if she wants only to do layout, what the hell is she wasting her money for? Some people have too much money to waste, I swear. *chuckels*

Anyway – the pup is looking at me with beady little eyes and has a fork in her hand so I’m thinking I’d better feed the child before she descides to start poking me. *chuckles* So I’ll leave you with a little pup humor… conversation yesterday (exerpts from convo with TBF over aim):

Me: ahHA. so the little shit CAN count to 10 wihout messing up. *cackles, having tricked the little wench.. MUHAHAHAHA* i knew she always messed it up on purpose, just to get her gramma’s goat. *L* *yes, is happy to have outsmarted the 4 year old. *L**

Pup- “What number do I start with?”
me- What number do you start with, child.
pup -“um. 8!”

Hey pup! say your abc’s!
“8, 11, 4, c, f, elmnopZ!”

Say your abcs..
“No! I won’t do it timothy’s way!”
and what’s timothy’s way?
“abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz but I don’t LIKE that way.”

(For now.. I am STILL smarter then the 4 year old. *LMAO*)

God. her teachers are in SO MUCH TROUBLE… we’re gonna have them retiring left and right – is it any wonder I’m keeping her home one more year instead of sending her to preschool so as not to give them prior warning?!?