Well, my tablet's fixed. Not exactly sure what happened, but I have a lot of techy friends and I run crying to them when my computer starts being funky.

In other news....Liz has more time to work! Yay! Because Liz got cockblocked out of her classes because SJSU decided to up their tuition and everyone came running to the CC's.....Boooo. Yeah, I'm being forced to take a semester off because I couldn't get into any of my classes. I thought, "ooh I'm high on the waitlist, I'll be good to go." Nope. I got royally screwed over. Yeah. Fun times. And I don't even know if that teacher will be teaching the same class next quarter. So my plans to graduate have been pushed back even farther. Yay. Lots of things hinge on me graduating, and I'd like to do it as soon as possible. But with 8,000 extra people to fight against....my chances are getting slim.

Well, I'm fucked. And unless someone can tell me how to fix the problem with my tablet I can't color much anymore. It's like the pen is constantly on the tablet even when hovering. I reeeaaally don't have money for another one. *Sadface*

Update! Almost done with it, I have pretty much everything drawn. Now I just have to learn how to wrap text or find some other creative way to do it. Then put them all together.
First one
Took advice from the wrong shoulder
Took a lot of everything
[link]

Second one
Black and blue, suffering fools
By the age of seventeen
Still working on it.

Third one
Right or wrong, never too strong
Friends became my enemies
[link]

And the fourth one
Halo--I'm complete
Halo--with me underneath
Halo--I'm reborn
I can do no wrong
[link]


So, I was driving home, listening to my iPod (don't worry I had one of those tape thingys that you put into the tape deck) and a song called "the Worm" by Audioslave comes on. And some of the lyrics hit me. So I'm going to do a series of pictures that go with these lyrics, that also follow along with a character I play in a forum and her life thus far. Some of you who watch me know her and others don't. Though I do seem to draw her a lot. That's right, it's Rose "Ravager" Wilson. Now, she's not technically my intellectual property, but her life will go along with the comics to a point and then it will take inspiration directly from what happened in the forum. So, these pictures will be explained but they will draw from these lyrics:
Took advice from the wrong shoulder
Took a lot of everything

Black and blue, suffering fools
By the age of seventeen


Right or wrong, never too strong
Friends became my enemies


Halo--I'm complete
Halo--with me underneath
Halo--I'm reborn
I can do no wrong

So, the first two will draw directly from the comics, though I will explain every picture, the last two deal with major events that happened in the forum I belong to. Though I do like Rose, I like our stories a bit better in the forums and they fit better for what I have in mind.

SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 films, you have no life.
Mark the ones you've seen.
There were 239 films on this list at last count, but this Meme's been around for nearly a decade and probably added to more than a doaen times. So I added a few more...

To participate: Copy this list, pate in your Blog/Journal or paste this as a note. Then, put an "x" next to the films you've seen, add them up, edit the footnote so you can keep count as you go...
and have fun.
(add some more if we've missed any)

-START-

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At Worlds End
(x) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
(x) Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane

Total: 11

(x) The Princess Bride
(x) AnchorMan
( ) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) Labyrinth
(x) Saw
( ) Saw II
( ) Saw III
( ) Saw IV
( ) Saw V
( ) White Noise
( ) White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
(x) The Princess Diaries
(x) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Total so far: 19

(x) Scream
(x) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
(x) Scary Movie
(x) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
(x) American Pie: The Wedding
( ) American Pie: Band Camp

Total so far: 26

(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
(x) Harry Potter 5
(x) Resident Evil 1
(x) Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse
( ) Resident Evil 3: Extinction
(x) The Wedding Singer
(x) Little Black Book
(x) The Village
( ) Lilo & Stitch

Total so far: 36

(x) Finding Nemo
( ) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
( ) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
( ) 13 Going on 30
(x) I, Robot
(x) Robots

Total so far: 41

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
(x) Deep Impact
( ) KingPin
(x) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) Joe Dirt
(x) King Kong

Total so far: 49

( ) A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
(x) Halloween
(x) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber

Total so far: 53

(x) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (aka: get the Munchies)
( ) Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
(x) Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
(x) From Hell
(x) Hellboy
(x) Hellboy 2
( ) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
(x) The Whole Nine Yards
(x) The Whole Ten Yards

Total so far: 62

(x) The Day After Tomorrow
(x) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
(x) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
( ) Gothika
(x) Nightmare on Elm Street
(x) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
(x) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
(x) Son Of The Mask

Total so far: 71

(x) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
(x) Lucky Number Slevin
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
(x) Ocean's Thirteen
(x) Bourne Identity
( ) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Bourne Ultimatum
( ) Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
(x) The Fog
(x) Ice Age
(x) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
( ) Curious George

Total so far: 81

(x) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(x) E.T
( ) Children of the Corn
(x) My Bosses Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
(x) War of the Worlds
(x) Rush Hour
(x) Rush Hour 2
( ) Rush Hour 3

Total so far: 88

( ) Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(x) She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
(x) The Terminator 3

Total so far: 97

(x) X-Men
(x) X-2
(x) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
(x) Spider-man 3
(x) Sky High
(x) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
( ) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
(x) Freaky Friday
(x) Reign of Fire
( ) The Skulls
(x) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2
(x) Shrek the Third

Total so far: 113

( ) Swimfan
(x) Miracle on 34th street
( ) Old School
(x) The Notebook
(x) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
( ) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
( ) The 40-year-old Virgin

Total so far: 116

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(x) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Total so far: 123

(x) Baseketball
( ) Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses
( ) Devils Rejects
( ) Elf
(x) Highlander
( ) Mothman Prophecies
( ) American History X
( ) Three

Total so Far: 125

( ) The Jacket
(x) Kung Fu Hustle
(x) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(x) Shaun Of the Dead
(x) Willard

Total so far: 132

( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
(x) Hulk
(x) Dawn of the Dead
(x) Hook
(x) Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
(x) Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
(x) 28 days later
( ) 28 Weeks Later
( ) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
(x) Waterworld

Total so far: 139

(x) Kill Bill vol 1
(x) Kill Bill vol 2
(x) Mortal Kombat
( ) Wolf Creek
( ) Kingdom of Heaven
( ) The Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave (aka: the Day of the Woman)
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
(x) Army of Darkness

Total so far: 143

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor

Total so far: 149

(x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
( ) The Matrix Revolutions
(x) Animatrix
( ) Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
(x) Army of Darkness
(x) Team America: World Police
(x) Red Dragon
(x) Silence of the Lambs
( ) Hannibal

TOTAL: 156


Wow, I truly have no life to speak of. Wait.....that's not true.....I just get stuck at home with nothing to watch but movies on TV. Or I go out with friends and watch said movies. There really isn't much to do where I live.

Life in retail. I could write a book about life in retail. I'd name it "Life in retail: A survival guide." And under the chapter titled working for commission, there'd be one word; Don't. You get pushy if that's all that you depend on for income and then you scare away customers. So, if you have to work for commission, make sure there is an hourly rate attached to it.
I'm pretty sure, some of the most prominent racial stereotypes come from people who work retail. We see a lot of people. And a lot of traits do seem to be carried by certain ethnicities. But I'm not gonna repeat those here. I'm sure I could expand the subject matter and make it "Life in the service industry." but then the book would be never ending. So, life in retail. Dealing with people. Fun stuff (not). I'm sure most people who go into retail for work have parents who understand the crap you deal with, because one of their first jobs was as a cashier or something similar. Not mine. I can't gripe at her about it because she doesn't understand where I'm coming from at all. And she drives me up a freaking wall when we go out and she gets really impatient with the service people. So I usually tell her to zip it and let me handle it. After I take over, we get a much more pleasant experience. Okay, I'm done ranting for a bit. I may expand on this later.