photos for snagging?

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*coff*

Androgynous You scored 56 masculinity and 60 femininity!

You scored high on both masculinity and femininity. You have a strong personality exhibiting characteristics of both traditional sex roles.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on masculinity You scored higher than 99% on femininity

Link: The Bem Sex Role Inventory Test written by weirdscience on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Trying to get back into the swing of this

Time was that I blogged daily, hefty little entries of teenaged angst and frustration. Then there was the phase where I blogged less thoroughly and personally, and posted links instead.

Ultimately, both of these tacks panned out because I didn't have a clear sense of purpose of where they were going. And now? I blog erratically, but the recent slew of longer-than-normal entries is me trying to get my rusty bloggy wheels going again. I do have a point with this, promise--my goal is to get back into the habit of posting something of worth every day--perhaps not an entry, maybe just a photograph or a sketch, or little blips of my notes, but at least a coherent thought that could be something of a larger whole.

Lastly, that won't be here. It may take ages for me to get off my butt and work with the people I need to be working with, and submit graphic designs and all, but that's the final goal in mind. And while my goals, being the ridiculously grandiose things they are, tend to require several years before they actually start moving (developing, blooming, whatnot), in the end I generally end up with a product that I am decently happy with plus quite a few side benefits. Case in point: keen interest in martial arts has now translated to a fair level of athletic fitness, but has also spawned a minor social circle of friends, quite a few mentor figures, a Boy (hi snuggly!), a greater appreciation for physical achievement, and most surprisingly, career connections.

To get back to my original point, I'll move eventually, and when I do move it'll be into some nice new digs and hopefully for good. But for now, keep checking here. I'll announce the move and perhaps transfer a few of the more notable entries over. We'll see how it goes.

As always, thanks for reading along.

Comic-Con 2006 Posters and Swag

Having culled the things I know are going to people I know who would appreciate them, as well as those things I wanted to keep, here's what I have no particular attachment to and that you may have as soon as you let me know.

Posters
The Iron Giant
The Boondocks
Both Pan's Labyrinth Posters (really gorgeous, just a tad spooky for me)
Lady Vengeance (theatrical size)
Star Wars 2-sided Knights of the Republic and Rebellion foldover poster
Hellsing foldover poster
2 Full Metal Alchemist cardstock posters
Brave New World (DC Comics) Quarterfold poster
Lebron James' King James Quarterfold poster

Random
14-day Trial Edition World of Warcraft CD-ROM
Superman Returns/Superman II Richard Donner Cut keychain(s)
Spike 2006 Scream Awards keychain
Superman 3 Sticky Toy--the kind you throw at a glass window and it teeter-sticks its way down
Number Two car air fresheners
Final Destination 3 portable fan
Inflatable Hobbyhorse
Guitar Pick on a Chain from Tenacious D's Pick of Destiny

Finally, check back here every so often. I may soon be going through Comic-Con 2004 stuff and putting up the items I no longer particularly want or have space for. (I fully intend on keeping the poster Mike Mignola did for The Incredibles. Be off w'ye.)

This is just to say...

Quick Comic-Con report.

Costumes: rather "meh" this year. Nothing spectacular. However, I did get a few good shots of an Elvis Stormtrooper posing with Kevin Smith (!!!) Cosplayer; Buddy Jesus; and a halfway decent Batman (who bore a rather odd resemblance to the fellow with yellow fever that I met at Grimm's Costume Ball).

Celebrities: While I managed to get much nicer shots of the giant display screens this year, the interesting encounters ruled. Sole exception to the panel-giant projection screen photos were of Judd Winick and the Virgin Comics panel (Deepak and Gotham Chopra, and Grant Morrison). However, I do have one rather impressive photo of Quentin Tarantino within minutes of the Convention Hall being "locked down"--as in, no more tickets being sold--and a human barricade preventing me from wandering any closer. This was also seconds after I passed the Wayans at another booth. And Gerard Butler, Frank Miller, and David Wenham for 300 made for the BEST PANEL EVER (Avi Arad must have felt like a babysitter). Plus, Kirsten Dunst is an idiot and can't answer questions properly, but Thomas Hayden Church made up for it by making faces during the entire panel.

Spoilers: Yummy. Ask me if you want specific movies; chances are I didn't attend the one you wanted to see, but I went to a lot of them. Skipped Snakes on a Plane.

Loot: Fantastic! Although I missed out on the one I really wanted (Spike nylon bag), I can't complain about the Hogwarts crest keychain from the Warner Bros. panel, nor the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles poster (which turns out to be of Leonardo, not Donatello). There's also a Bone one-sheet, a Star Trek teaser poster, Transformers posters, plenty of tattoos, two or three t-shirts including AFRO-SAMURAI, bwahaha, a few other random keychains. Oh, and bookmarks from Dark Horse. Ask me after this weekend.

Comics: Managed to get Flight Vol. 2 and 3 signed. Bought Digger Vols. 1 and 2 and got them signed by Ursula Vernon. Also, Daisy Kutter (of course it's signed. you think I'd skip a chance to talk to a cutie like Kazu?). Also picked up Maria Snyder's Poison Study for free. It's half decent. I thought I'd hate it, but it does stick well. Would put it in the Young Adult level, though. Not a lot of depth to it. Even though it covers Rape and a Transgendered individual.

Art: Intense Overload here. Considered buying a Loter print (Roanna bought one) but the desire wore off a day later, so I refrained. However, did buy a Gagne print. Rex is fuzzy and cute. Me like. Not half as much as the mushroom print, but that was sold out already, pooh. Although I did consider one of the Insanely Twisted Rabbits....

Enough for now. Maybe photos later.

A bloom! A bloom!

The sunflowers apparently didn't get the memo about opening fractionally. Unless it does this at 6AM, and tough luck for you guys seeing it then, cause I will still be in bed. :P



Take a look at my blog to see the ladybug vs. aphid war unfold.

Sunflower diary, entry #2

So Mom says she grew these babies from seeds, and thanks to the hot Merced sun beating down on us, the biggest ones are now taller than me and could very well grow taller than my dad.

Yup, these have definitely grown since last time. See that shed in the background? I helped put that together, LOL, and used my freshman year scene shop experience to guide me. The most important lesson: if it doesn't fit, smash it in! Mwahaha....

Um...getting a bit too hard to photograph this one since it is still growing, so I turned to the shorter sunflowers by the fence...

This looks almost alien, LOL.

I can't wait until they start opening! w00t w00t!

And obviously, I have inherited Dad's old digicam. But I still dragged my old manual SLR to Yosemite so I could do things like take pictures out of the car window. Yay for no shutter delays. :D