Hello, all. G-star here. View stats are at nine hundred and ninety-nine, so this is a landmark event! (I admit a couple of those were probably me checking the layout on different computers, but it's still kinda cool.) After you read this (or even before; I really don't care) comment below and the first comment (AKA view if you do it right) gets their choice of a blog dedicated to them about the topic of their choice (well, it has to be appropriate) or a hand-drawn picture of them. So get commenting! (I think I may prevent MC from participating.)
Speaking of drawings, I finished the one I was working on for the background. It turned out great and I think it represents the blog pretty well. ^_^ The only problem I have is how I'm going to get the color scheme of the page to work with the colors I used in the picture...ah well. It'll all work out. How odd that if I'm working on my comic or just some random drawing I rarely get it finished, EVER, but if it has to do with my blog I'll finish it in two days. There's my dedication for you.
Now that the background's finished I'll (probably) be working on editing the site all day. It may be offline if I can figure out how to make it so, and oddly, I hope I can because I have this cool picture I found to put up when you can't access the page that I doubt anyone's gotten a chance to see. I don't know exactly why I've been so impatient to change the layout, but one reason is probably because I just got bored of looking at it. While it looks decently cool, I need change once in a while. (As long as it's not moving or going bald or anything.) Another reason, however, may be that, if I get my blog looking better and put my own art up, it might get more popular. I want to put up Adsense as a part of the new template but I don't have a credit card, much less spare change, so it'll have to wait until I get a job...or something. Until then, do you think any of you may be able to mention or advertise it on your various social networking sites? I'd do it myself, but the only ones I use are roleplaying sites that I only use one of at a time and G+, where my posts are already published regularly.
If you can, then thank you.
A substitute teacher has been overseeing my basketball class this last week, if you can even call it that. He has no authority, and even if he did he's not very threatening so I doubt anyone would listen to him. While we were supposed to be doing drills half the class was just wandering around and shooting randomly. A few just stood and dribbled in the middle of our Rush drill, and it was annoying BEYOND BELIEF.
For the last twenty minutes of class (T-T Twenty minutes....that's too long to do one repetitive thing!!) we played Blitz. The teacher has an amp setup at the back of the gym and has someone play music the whole class. For some reason during Blitz the person always plays rap.
This combination of a repetitive game I hate and repetitive music I despise nearly makes me crack. Every day. I had an odd Nagato-like urge to go up to the substitute, say in a monotone voice "Request to destroy. Permission?" and then go bust up the amps until I couldn't hear that boring beat and incessantly fast swearing.
Yeah, I wish.
I really do hate rap music. It can't even be called music, because music, by definition,
Speaking of drawings, I finished the one I was working on for the background. It turned out great and I think it represents the blog pretty well. ^_^ The only problem I have is how I'm going to get the color scheme of the page to work with the colors I used in the picture...ah well. It'll all work out. How odd that if I'm working on my comic or just some random drawing I rarely get it finished, EVER, but if it has to do with my blog I'll finish it in two days. There's my dedication for you.
Now that the background's finished I'll (probably) be working on editing the site all day. It may be offline if I can figure out how to make it so, and oddly, I hope I can because I have this cool picture I found to put up when you can't access the page that I doubt anyone's gotten a chance to see. I don't know exactly why I've been so impatient to change the layout, but one reason is probably because I just got bored of looking at it. While it looks decently cool, I need change once in a while. (As long as it's not moving or going bald or anything.) Another reason, however, may be that, if I get my blog looking better and put my own art up, it might get more popular. I want to put up Adsense as a part of the new template but I don't have a credit card, much less spare change, so it'll have to wait until I get a job...or something. Until then, do you think any of you may be able to mention or advertise it on your various social networking sites? I'd do it myself, but the only ones I use are roleplaying sites that I only use one of at a time and G+, where my posts are already published regularly.
If you can, then thank you.
A substitute teacher has been overseeing my basketball class this last week, if you can even call it that. He has no authority, and even if he did he's not very threatening so I doubt anyone would listen to him. While we were supposed to be doing drills half the class was just wandering around and shooting randomly. A few just stood and dribbled in the middle of our Rush drill, and it was annoying BEYOND BELIEF.
For the last twenty minutes of class (T-T Twenty minutes....that's too long to do one repetitive thing!!) we played Blitz. The teacher has an amp setup at the back of the gym and has someone play music the whole class. For some reason during Blitz the person always plays rap.
This combination of a repetitive game I hate and repetitive music I despise nearly makes me crack. Every day. I had an odd Nagato-like urge to go up to the substitute, say in a monotone voice "Request to destroy. Permission?" and then go bust up the amps until I couldn't hear that boring beat and incessantly fast swearing.
Yeah, I wish.
I really do hate rap music. It can't even be called music, because music, by definition,
"an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color." Rap does not contain melody or harmony. Color, however, it has in abundance. - _ - Yes. It's very colorful. It's colorful like a war zone.
Topic change time. In IHS Literature we just finished the book we've been reading, The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency, and now our end-of-book project is a choice: an essay on theme, an essay on character, an extra chapter for the book, or a short story about the detective of our choice.
A "short" story. Right.
I, of course, picked the short story, which seemed the best choice, especially since I already had a detective character from a story I started in middle school (but didn't save or print and so lost to an end-of-year computer wipe T-T). Originally he was based off the main character of my comic/previously posted half-story (hence the name Zane White), but ended up being much different than the original. And for the better. I centered him around the classic PI characteristics. Technically I'm not sure if they're "classic" per say, but they were in Calvin and Hobbes and that's good enough for me.
Understandably, my Lit. teacher doesn't want to sit and grade twenty novels, so she put a word limit on the short story of 1,500 words. At first glance it seems perfectly reasonable...until you start writing and realize how unrealistic that goal is. White has just found clue 1/5 and I'm already a thousand words in.
Yeah, THAT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN.
I don't want to have to make the teacher read a novel in two days, but no amount of cutting and editing is going to get my mystery anywhere near her limit. It's a bit worrying, but she said to just write and then work that out later. Right.....she's going to end up having to read my 4,000-word book.
Once it's finished I'll post it up here, because it's actually pretty good, at least so far. I might end up having to take out several parts, but I'll put the full one up here, possibly with a continuation if I can't fit in absolutely everything I want to write.
The rough draft's due next Monday, so I should have it up at latest by Wednesday. I'm considering doing it in chapters like my previous story for shortness's sake, but you tell me what you want. I'll be updating the site for the rest of the day and possibly longer, so don't wait up. Until then (or tomorrow, if I have a reason to post), this is G-star, signing off.
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