i'm a little teapot

1. This is the 1000th entry I've posted on LJ! *\0/*

2. After all the whining I've done over the required philosophy courses I had to take in undergrad, it's a bit ironic that one of the things that got me through the 7-day exam-taking spree that I just finished was this thesis statement for my Ph 102 orals:

Anguish makes us realize the unachieved status of the self. The threat of non-sense necessitates hope.

3. Time to catch up on the fics I've passed over the past week! *goes off to read*

*eyes tags list balefully*

One of these days, I'm going to re-tag every single entry I've posted on this LJ. This disorganized clutter will soon come to an end!

But not today. No, today is Shopping With My Mother On A Sale Day. Which basically means that she'll enjoy herself while I won't, since I will end up carrying more than 75% of the things she'll buy. I can't wait 'til my brother grows up so my mother would foist her shopping onto him. I'm getting tired of playing the Male Child Substitute, especially since my parents now have a Real Male Child.²

Also, several hours' worth of sleep still isn't enough to erase my self-recrimination re: QPI. Damn it.





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¹ Assuming arms have tear ducts. Unless the 'weeping' done by arms are symbolically accomplished through sweating? Hm. Must ponder more on this.
² If you managed to understand this sentence, I salute you. Reading it again, I'm not sure of what I'm trying to say here. Please, enlighten the ignorant (i.e. me), and inform said ignorant personages what you think I meant when I wrote the aforementioned sentence.

I don't like the little snapshot things they have on external links in the journals. And the easy-to-navigate-in customization area was RUINED. It's too inefficient to use now! GAH!

Am staying over at Banzy's house tonight, because we went to the Lantern Parade over at UP, and thought that we'd stay there 'til late.

But it turns out that there weren't any lanterns in the parade at all, and there was a rally going on. Blegh.

On the plus side, I met up with Bet sandinyoureyes earlier. xD

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The new LJ update page made me squee. xD

Changed my moodtheme from Sandman to Gambit/Rogue. All credit goes to elvishdesire, I'm just borrowing her work for a while.

Um, I changed layouts again. S2, Flexible Squares, no fancy CSS blah because I'm on a public computer, and I'm in no mood to write code. I still refuse to make an S1 layout because dealing with raw HTML to be lj-ized frazzles my nerves.

The moodtheme is still the same, although I might - might - make my own soon. Haha.

I was forcibly separated from the Internet by the absence of my mother's laptop and the disappearance of the friendly internet card-selling neighbors.

But now, I AM BACK.

*evil laugh*

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On a more serious note, during my brief hiatus from the internet world, I decided to draw Gambit. But the result was an unholy cross between Gambit and Lord Morpheus from Sandman, so I scrapped that sketch and started to draw Lord Morpheus by himself instead.

Unfortunately, I haven't scanned it yet, so I'll post it in a few days or so. Hehe. XD

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We'll be in Baguio from Saturday 'til Monday. Then it'll be ORSEM on Tuesday. I'll be wearing a YELLOW shirt for the first day, which is not a very good idea, as illustrated by the following equation:

Yellow shirt + Val = jaundiced-looking!Val = not a pretty sight

My dad's currently trying to remember how to play Bach's Minuet in G, which is very amusing. XD

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I fiddled with this page's css code again. I must stop being compulsive!

Hopefully, there's nothing wrong with the looks this time...I completely forgot to check the other pages when I wrote the first draft of the code, so I guess I wouldn't change anything anymore... (But, knowing me, I'd edit the code again for no reason at all...)

I'm currently working on a new layout here on lj, based on an old layout of mine.

The problem is...Photoshop won't cooperate! The computer kept on saying that the "scratch disk" for my brushes, patterns and gradients were full, and then gave up on me entirely... *cries*

Help, anyone? Please?

New layout, by littlekfru @ freelayouts. Image © littlekfru, although I edited it a little, as well as the CSS overrides she provided.