MemoriesOfRain

killjoy.deviantart.com/journal… <-- this has got to be the #1 most informative link yet. This entry contains many links, but is definitely worth reading. A substantial amount of information has been amassed here and once you have gone through at least the first 10 to 15 links, you have a pretty clear idea of what has been going on.
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College is going great, as is work, though I am too expensive and may need a second job... oh well. I am trying to save enough money to get an I-Pod, but they are hellishly expensive and my purse broke last week and a new one will not only demolish my savings but put me in debt again (I hate being in debt. Hate it, hate it, hate it. Ever since I got a job I have been buying my own stuff, and I have restricted it to just what is necessary, but that still costs more than what I make working. And I will not dig into the money that will go towards next year's tuition, books, etc.) I want an I-Pod so bad. Sooo bad. More than I want a digital camera (another thing I won't be able to afford anytime in the near future), more than I want a shoulder massage from a hot guy, even.
If I ask for an I-Pod for Christmas, my parents will buy the cheapest one there is, not out of stinginess, just because that's how they were raised and what they are used to doing. And for once I would like to have (something expensive which I want in) a really good quality model that won't break or go screwy within a year, which means I will be buying it myself.

The more active I am, the less trouble I have physically with being active. College has been good for me in this respect too. I also have finally gotten over my shyness as well. (I think it was work that did that. Having to smile at and talk to hundreds of people you don't know every day will do that to you.) Life is, in general, good, though I have been terribly neglecting DA. I'm sorry for that, people, though it will probably continue for a while at some level. I have some art but none that I think is worth posting, so feh.... I don't know. Moving on...

I am enjoying college so much, and I am actually happy now the majority of the time. Unimagined awesomness has prevailed, and I can now take over the world or at least could, if I would only find my Italian journal and my socks. Auggie has been stealing my socks again. He seems quite proud to bring them to me and show me what a mighty hunter he is and how he killed them himself. And he's too cute to yell at...

www.cafepress.com/alyssaland
I have put a few more items in my store (link above), but I am still taking commissions if anyone wants whatever on some random item. This includes if you want a shirt (can do plain or colored in a whole variety of styles) that says something in particular on it. I will sell things for as low a price as possible generally, particularly if it's someone I know who wants it.

CRAZY THINGS MY PHILOSOPHY TEACHER HAS SAID:
"The tomato has forced itself upon you!"
"And if you look at me, I may not look like I'm moving, but really I am!"
"You're grabbing the twinkie and saying 'I'll have THIS! It is MY spontaneous twinkie! Taking the twinkie was my choice and an assertion of my FREEDOM!!!' And why did you grab that twinkie? Maybe you're just a twinkie lover! You're a TWINKIE LOVER! Do you know what that means? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?"
"Hector's sausage! Don't put mustard on it 'cause it's not really there!"
"I'm kind of like a swarm of bees and part of the swarm goes into the shape of my kidneys..."
"Wooo, look at that cloud, it looks like Abraham Lincoln! See, look at that honker!"
"Can you see the value, the sparkling goodness, of the act the girl scout is engaging in?"

killjoy.deviantart.com/journal… <-- this has got to be the #1 most informative link yet. This entry contains many links, but is definitely worth reading. A substantial amount of information has been amassed here and once you have gone through at least the first 10 to 15 links, you have a pretty clear idea of what has been going on.
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I have two new means of income: a job and a cafepress.com shop. I'm a cashier at a restaurant on campus for $5.50 an hour (not bad considering that it is my first job ever and as of now, I am not that great at it.) The cafepress.com shop is here www.cafepress.com/alyssaland for anyone who wants to go visit it, and was created because Apothacer wanted a print of Solaria. Currently that is the only thing for sale in the shop, but as long as I have it, I will be putting a few other things in it, so if anyone has any requests, commissions, or wants me to put anything I have already onto a some kind of product (the list of products you can make goes on forever, just about anything you can imagine) just contact me and I'll see what I can do.

I cannot, however, give away free stuff, because despite newfound sources of income, I don't have the money to do so. Sorry.
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Featured Photographer of the Moment: :thumb8033829: :thumb6626572:

Featured Circular Things of the Moment: :thumb16452318:

Featured Half-Naked Guys of the Moment: It has come to my attention in the process of this search that there are shamefully few pictures containing half-naked guys in my favorites. This MUST be remedied. I am declaring a state of national emergency. It is now your task to each find (on Deviantart) a picture of a hot guy without a shirt on and send me the link. For... research purposes. The person who sends me the most will be one of my next journal's featured artists, no matter how sucky an artist they are, as a token of gratitude.
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned." –Lord Byron

"Wickedness is a myth created by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others."- Oscar Wilde

"I am an evil giraffe, and I shall eat more leaves from this tree then perhaps I should, so that other giraffes may die." –Eddie Izzard

killjoy.deviantart.com/journal… <-- this has got to be the #1 most informative link yet. This entry contains many links, but is definitely worth reading. A substantial amount of information has been amassed here and once you have gone through at least the first 10 to 15 links, you have a pretty clear idea of what has been going on.

I personally can't go through the entire gallery of links in one sitting because when I get angry I tense up, when I tense up, it multiplies whatever back pain I already have by 10, and this stuff just pisses me off. I hope they nail Sotira's ass to the wall in court, I really do. Someone ought to.

As predicted, no one got my 3333rd pageview, so I must postpone the photomanipulation, cancel the lapdance, drink the frappuccino, and donate the lemur to charitable causes (nuclear research, what else?)

College has been, so far, uneventful. I have made one friend and various acquaintances, lamentably few of them guys; despite my resolution to make guy friends it seems they still evade me. It rained today and that was wonderful. The teachers for my classes seem okay, I still need to get a job, and I will be hanging out and having lunch with Mercedes, Wade, and Kris tomorrow between classes which will be awesome. We miss you, Ash.

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It has finally occurred to me to take advantage of the member privilege of being able to post thumbs on journals and thus feature artists/deviations. So, I give you, the featured people/drawings/whatevers of the moment.

Avatar of the Moment:
Drawings of the Moment: :thumb14778919:
Paintings of the Moment: :thumb11136283:
Digital Art of the Moment:
Pictures of the Moment:
Stock Photos of the Moment: :thumb13667709:
Poems of the Moment: Your Graceful FallLeave this world
and me behind.
I read that letter
that tells me to find
The hidden meaning of your words,
of your whisper, the singing birds
and of your songs about love and sorrow.
Your breath, it ceased. I'll find
the meaning behind your life.
You'd been so misunderstood
the negatives of life took their hold.
So enjoy the ride
as you plunge towards the fall
Yours is coming
and we won't be able
to put the pieces back together
I guess you could just
blame the other.
I won't try
to sway your hand
To make you stay
on the land
It's your choice, you've chosen death
A swift beautiful suicide.
The gracefull line right down your arm,
this beauty remains unseen.
But not by me,
not by me.
Humpty dumpty sittin on a wall,
that poor fat fuck couldn't take the fall.
Yours is coming
and we won't be able
to put the pieces back together.
I guess you could just
blame the other.
We won't be able
to put you back together.
Graze it off,
right to the bone.
Don't want them to see it,
so never go home.
Pass i wanna be punk
i wanna be punk
i wanna be goth be rock
get fucked.
i wanna be somebody else
that moves like a cat
that makes people say
"i wanna be like that"
and things are gonna change around here.
Cuz they can only get better from here.
i can become the person
i always wanted to be;
so says a company so says me,
lose myself in monotony
don't mind that sound--
it was only a scream.
So i'll buy my clothes
from a certain store
and when i'm hollow inside
i'll go buy more.
I can fill my face
with tofu grace
and when i'm feeling full
i'll be out of place.
I'll buy into makeup secrets
and hair colour bliss;
My own bland plan
has and end with a twist;
i'll give up every right i've won
and everything i've become.
i wanna be followed
i wanna be silly and stupid with bovine eyes
(i want to let it out but i'll never cry)
i want to be like the girls on tv,
they look so perfect
so powdered and leashed.
i'm sick of the weather
this far outside
it's chilly out here
even in my disguise
and the temperature drops
th -
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>Connecting to user....
>Connection refused.
>Proxy servers offline.
/*I'm here standing in the fog,
using semaphore.
Can you see me?*/
int heartbeat = 72;
int cyanide = 0;
bool life = true;
//Look at the camera.
//You'll be discussing this on Larry King Live.
//Self-snuff films are all the rage
//'cause you only love me when I'm slitting my wrists.
//You laugh!
//I bleed!
//Tonight! One night only!
//"We have this late breaking bulletin..."
//Violence is sexy.
//Death sells.
while (cyanide >= 0)
        if (heartbeat == 0)
                life = false;
                cyanide = -1;
                cout :thumb9462593:

Featured Fractal Artist:

Featured Photographer (ok I am a bit biased but so would you be if you'd cuddled these animals.):

Featured Poet:

Ok laziness decides that those are all the features for this particular moment.

I think it's really quite sad that all the DA administration had to do was to wait until August 7th was over and then everyone just gave up the whole thing about jark. I wasn't totally disgusted until I noticed that one of the people who was leading the protest had started submitting things, favoriting things, and all that. So you know what, forget this. There's no point in keeping up the protest when it looks like at this rate it's just going to taper off into apathy. I am not any happier about what is going on in DA than I was before, but I miss posting my artwork, I miss favoriting things, and I am not putting my page on hold for all eternity for the cause of a protest whose own creators have lost interest.

The person who gets the 3333rd pageview gets a photomanipulation, a frappuccino, a lemur, and a free lap dance, because NO ONE EVER GETS MY PAGEVIEWS except Ashleigh who has now been given the ultimate motivation NOT to get this one, so the 3333rd pageview will fly by without a notice, of course, as usual.
Whatever.

I am listening to good music and this makes me happy.

Now everyone go wish a happy birthday to our fellow NakedMoleRat enthusiast, shai-li, who turns 18 today.

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The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. –George Carlin

"That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all Is Truth Beauty and Is Beauty Truth, and Does A Falling Tree in the Forest Make A Sound if There's No one There to Hear It, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, Incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles."
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods