Happy seriously belated Halloween guys! (But when it comes to Samhain I'm only a day late hurr.)

For the next two weeks we have printmaking with woodcuts, and after that we'll have a week of graphic designing. I've pretty much loved everything we've done here by far but now we are really getting to the topic of my main interest.

I had problems with my Internet connection for most of the weekend, but luckily it was only temporary and everything's fine now. I better get used to this happening from time to time, lol 3G connection.

ALSO TODAY I GOT THE SEXIEST SNAIL MAIL EVER. farelle DO YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT!?!?! I BET YOU DO, OH MY. NOW IF YOU'LL EXCUSE ME I'LL BE IN MY BUNK FOREVER. G-god the book is so small and has that unique hand-made look it's so cool. Nnnngh I love you bb thank you so much for being this good to me. ...But I must admit I guessed it would be this, although you shooped the cover really well I still recognized it from the author's homepage. BUT GUESSING IS NEVER THE SAME AS KNOWING FOR SURE SO THIS WAS STILL A HUGE SURPRISE FOR ME. And the drawing was so adorable god girl your letters are always so moe.

What the fuck I slept until 4 pm today. Twelve hours of sleep what is wrong with me. I didn't even wake up when my phone's alarm went off, no matter how loud it is. Or then I shut it without even really waking up. That has happened before. :'D

I felt so guilty for missing such a great amount of working hours. I only managed to finish sculpting the statue's hand, although at least I've now finished this part. I have to remember to take a picture of the statue before I make the cast because when it has hardened I have to break the clay sculpture to get it out. And I'm not bragging, but it's pretty good for the very first srs bsns sculpture I've made (although it does have some anatomy fail). Could've sleeked the surface but our teacher said it actually looks just fine as it is.

But seriously I've felt like shit for the past week and it's still not getting better. My throat feels like somebody's been punching it and I get random headaches which in turn make me dizzy (BUT I DON'T HAVE FEVER WHAT'S UP WITH THAT). This is fucked up, and as much as I want to just shut up about it and work I realize I can't get anything done when I'm like this, or at least not in the pace I usually would. I've decided that if I'm not feeling any better by next week I'll just take it easy and try to get over it.

UNRELATED but I downloaded a bunch of the classic LucasArts games. I've been playing the first Monkey Island and it's just so glorious and nostalgic. The last time I played it was in elementary school. The same goes for the Indiana Jones games, and I can finally play Grim Fandango as well. But there's no way I'll just settle for the downloads, I must actually own these games and I sure as hell will.

I just got back from working on my clay sculpture. It must be ready until Monday because then we'll begin making a mold out of it, but I think I can finish it easily tomorrow. I was supposed to work on it all day today, but instead I slept until 3 pm, dicked around some until 7 pm and THEN begun working. Still, only five hours instead of the planned...well, much more than just five hours, and it's looking pretty good.

I bought Black Lagoon's first volume in Finnish the other day, and I should've read this manga earlier because at least the first volume was really good. Yesterday I also bought Loveless vol. 5 (it's really been some time since I bought the fourth!), Monster vol. 4 (oh god must buy this more often asdhhasdfh) and 20th Century Boys vol. 1. I still haven't read the latter two, though. I've often had a serious urge to just finish reading Monster online but I can't because it's way better to read book by book.

OH AND yesterday I also bought more vidya from GameStop. I wasn't supposed to buy any more games until I got PS3 but I can't help it that I'm a sucker for their 3 for the price of 2 offer. :| And they had the first Project Zero for PS2 for 7,90€. Whereas I bought it from England for 20+€. Hahahaha fml. ANYWAY, I found the first Ratchet & Clank and Ratchet & Clank 3: Up Your Arsenal (it's really just R&C3 in Europe but I like the full title) and they were included in the special offer so of course I had to get them. I don't like platform games very much at all but that series is just awesome. :Db Well, had to find a third game because SRSLY FREE VIDYA, but they didn't really have any other games that would interest me. They did have Clock Tower 3, and a part of me does regret not buying it just for the comedy value (I mean damn that game is kind of batshit) but instead I settled for Alone in the Dark. I don't even know if it's any good but I guess I'll see when I try.

MSN problem seems to be solved! For now at least. I tried to log in with my main address (it's somewhat new so I hadn't done it before) and I could actually stay logged in with my status as online. What the- what kind of amazing logic is this. WELL NOT COMPLAINING THOUGH. I was going to start using the new address with MSN anyway.

The address is seltsame_maschine@hotmail.com, add me if you like. Although I'm the kind of creeper who rarely says anything, so. Yeah. I'm bad at starting conversations with new people okay.

Ever since I got the USB-modem I've been having trouble with MSN. I can log in but only when I've set my status as offline. As soon as I set it to online or absent I get logged out. MSN tries to reconnect but as soon as it does the same happens again. This repeats itself over and over. I don't really mind it, at least I can log in in some way, but it's still pretty annoying when I don't know the reason. Or rather, I know it must be linked to the USB-modem somehow, but not the exact reason why. After all the Internet connection itself is working just smoothly. I spent over an hour today trying out all kinds of little tricks to fix it but so far it's been useless.

For the next two weeks we'll be having a sculpting course. I haven't done any sculptures since middle school - well there was this one little thing I did in high school but it was so shitty I don't really even want to mention it. I'm really pumped for this, the teacher seems great and the subject matter as a whole is just very interesting. We were supposed to have a live model but then the first one cancelled pretty much at the last minute, and the second one had to do the same due to school. I don't know what our main teacher (I don't know what to call him, he's in charge of the whole Art study line, though, including us and the Sequential Arts guys) will come up with now, but I guess we'll see tomorrow.

God I'm so addicted to ginger ale how did this happen. Also my throat is so sore you don't even know, and for some reason when I have a headache or a sore throat my jaw starts to hurt. So. Yeah that was useless information.

I finally got fed up with my pukey layout and picked this up from freelayouts. I'll have this until I can think up a layout I can make myself.

I don't know what's up with that white border, though. It shouldn't be there, and I sure as hell did everything right. D: FIXED. )o)

Other than that....nothing. Well I went to a bar with Marica and Petri on Wednesday, first we went to to this Czech-style bar that had the most delicious beer I've ever tasted. Budvar Dark, I love you. And motherfucking blackcurrant beer nnngh. I didn't order that but I tasted it, seriously it could've been spiked blackcurrant juice.

I was supposed to post about something but then I noticed Stephen Fry is on TV so I forgot what it was.

Stephen why you gotta be so awesome.

But I can't watch this because Marica and Petri will pick me up soon baw.

Kind of random but I just read this (and this, no idea why they are separate files) for the first time. And. HJHFDJHHFHS. DAMN GIRL YOU SO CRAZY. Makes sense that she's Russia's sister. :| (O-oh lol that scarf she's wearing is too cute though.) Lol for Porando being jealous.

Ugh Mom's watching some document on...fishing? Idk but it's totally guilt tripping me for liking seafood. I'm definitely not a vegetarian and I don't really even oppose hunting or fur farming, but damn I like animals so much I feel really bad for them when I see stuff like this. I GUESS I JUST AM A SOFTY THEN.

Managed to finish organizing my stuff in the closet. There'll be a weekend course held here and the people will be housed in the students' rooms, so I had to get my stuff out of the way. Anyway, I was supposed to vacuum but didn't have the time OH GOD CLEANER LADY I AM SO SORRY I WILL NOT DO THIS AGAIN. My mom's a cleaner and I know the wrath of their kind. No but seriously, I felt bad for not managing to complete everything I had planned to do and although the cleaners are supposed to go through every room, well, I could've made it at least somewhat easier for them.

Buuuuuut anyway. Now I'm just waiting for my uncle and aunt to come pick me up. AND I'M STARVING BTW I missed breakfast. I've missed breakfast every morning this week. Which means that...oh god I haven't had coffee for the whole week. NO WONDER I FEEL SO SHITTY. Ahh, but it's lunch time soon.

...Was there an actual reason for me to post? Most likely not, I guess I'm just killing time.

I decided I'd at least sleep for an hour in the morning. I had a dream and I'm pretty sure Oyanana was in it. I can't remember any details but he was there. This is the first time in a while since I've had a fandom related dream. I think the last time was when I saw a disturbing Kazuya/Kaiji dream of which I can remember hardly anything at all. Only the fact that it was seriously disturbing and when I woke up I felt like I just had a nightmare.

I just noticed the comissioner sent me e-mail about my illustration and she seems very satisfied with it. :Db

THIS IS A BIT LATE BUT STILL; WELCOME kafkaexplosion, kuzco, lintwhite AND modern_prufrock!! )o)

Just finished reading the current scanlated chapters of Kongou Banchou (a new chapter was up at OneManga just yesterday sdjsdjk no sir not a dead project) and then continued over to the raws.

OH GREAT THERE'S NOT JUST HEARTWARMING ANYMORE NOW THERE'S BAWW AS WELL.

And more heroic!Oyanana which makes me very happy in my pants. ...Annnd more epicfail!Oyanana as well which just sort of makes me really, really amused. Nice shota shorts. I really feel like picspamming the hell out of some of the chapters but I think I can't be arsed to do it right now. I mean it's already 4:28 AM WHAT THE FUCK. HONESTLY LAST TIME I LOOKED IT WASN'T EVEN PAST 3:00. 8| Oh lol I can't go to bed anymore, I'm supposed to be up at least at 7:00 and if I go to sleep now I won't wake up until 11:00 - no, I'd wake up around 9:00 when the cleaners would come in and kill my sorry ass for not finishing my part of the cleaning.

I'm going home for the project week, my uncle and aunt who live in Southern Finland are coming over for the weekend at my grandmom's (father's side) place and they'll pick me up on the way. Yaay no need to ride a train this time around. I love trains but usually I don't have much stuff with me so the traveling is easy, unlike now when I have to take more than usual with me since I won't get back here until a week later. ...Well technically I still won't be taking that much stuff with me, the most difficult part would just be carrying my PS2 around while having to switch trains on the way. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT, I CAN'T PART WITH KRATOS FOR A WHOLE WEEK.

Kind of unrelated but I also read the newest Drifters chapter yesterday. I have a feeling I'll really come to love it. I just hope Hirano won't make the ending so fucked up like he did with Hellsing. I swear I love Hellsing, it'll forever be my favorite manga but damn if it wasn't retarded in the end. Or...rather, it was always kind of retarded but SHUT UP THAT'S WHY I LOVE IT SO MUCH. But yeah, the story in Drifters is really starting to progress. Oda Nobunaga, Shimazu Toyohisa and Nasu no Yoichi taking over a land inhabited by enslaved elves and other demihumans and the slavemaster humans. I wonder what the hell will eventually come out of this.

( My Halloween party and your...interesting costumes )

Also this. This may just be my favorite strip yet. And lol Himaruya that doesn't look anything like a heart. :')

This week didn't start so well. I'm in a good mood and all but I'm so tired and groggy I can't get anything done. For instance, today I overslept until 11 am and didn't accomplish anything but doodles of Hetalia characters (maybe it's because their design is so simple that drawing them is so relaxing). I've been saying it a couple of times before without it happening, but I think I'm getting sick. WHICH MAKES TOTAL SENSE, after all we'll have our autumn vacation (= project week, as we are supposed to work on something) and of course it's only natural if I'm sick during that time.

Because I feel so unwell I had to miss MUCC's concert again. It was held this evening, but no can do. There'll be another chances, they seem to like coming over here every now and then. BUT I GOTTA SAY I'M PRETTY PISSED THAT THE TICKETS TO THE DIO CONCERT HAVE BEEN SOLD OUT. I WAS SUPPOSED TO BUY THEM THIS WEEK AND NOW THERE ARE NONE LEFT. Or I'll just try and get them somewhere else but still fffff. There are still plenty tickets left for the concert in Helsinki but I'm not sure if I want to go all the way there (I don't know if I could get back here on the same day, I'll have to find out).

What else...oh, I did manage to finish the commission in time, it turned out okay. I inked it with my new nibs, man I love them nnnnnngh. Although I'm being totally neurotic about them, I go all "DID THE EDGE BEND" and tweak them all the time.

So I have accomplished something at least. Other than that for the past couple of days I've mostly been reading Kongou Bancho during my free time. I LOVE IT, IT IS SOME EPIC SHIT. I'm reading it really slowly though, I mean I keep rereading some parts right when I first finished them. When I usually would by now be at around chapter 30 I'm still at chapter 11. :Db But this manga turned out to be a bit different from what I had expected...it's so heartwarming. I'M TELLING YOU KONGOU IS SUCH A GOOD BOY. Although at the moment Oyanana is my favorite character lmfao. I love douchebag characters who get beaten a lot and I thought he would stay like that, but ffff he turned so goddamn adorable so soon it almost pisses me off. OYANANA WHY YOU GOTTA BE SO PURTY AND HAVE SUCH AN AWESOME HAIRDO.

LOL oh my now that was an epic fight. Goddammit you lot stop being so freaking adorable.

Oh god I know I will become so fucking addicted to this.

WELCOME alistaere, chibi_saru11 AND tastesliketuna!!



Uh idk either I guess that's supposed to be some sort of an introduction. I don't even know where it's from, I only know that I like it.

I finally got to see Inglourious Basterds yesterday evening and. Oh god Tarantino you're my favorite director and I know I'm totally biased about you but still ASDHSDHNNNNNNNNGH. I fucking loved that movie so much. But I noticed a lot of things that were different from his previous movies. The way how the story is divided in chapters is familiar, and there's just the Tarantino look and sound all over but something feels new and different. I can't put it in words but I'm almost retardedly excited about it.

If Wednesday's bar night was boring then tonight (much much later tonight...man it wasn't even past midnight when I started writing this post, how slow can I be) should be far from it. I'm going to a fetish party with my frands. I'm also retardedly excited about that. I can't wait, I've so been wanting to attend a party like that, you know? I'm really curious to see how this'll end up...

TOTALLY UNRELATED but I really, really want to play the Pop'n Music games. I love the character designs and the music, and okay totally predictable of me but my interest stems mostly from my budding obsession in Goku-Sotsu-Kun and Koku-Sotsu-Kun, the latter being just the blond 2P version of Goku-Sotsu-Kun who possibly has a fan-given name, but I digress. I don't know anything about him, only that he is like some deranged Japanese politician and he's in Pop'n Music 14 as a boss of some kind. Some of the fans seem to interpret Koku-Sotsu as darker than Goku-Sotsu who just seems crazy but more happy. Man I really wish I knew more of him, and the game itself. Too bad the series isn't localized outside of Japan...OR IS IT? I really do not know shit of this so why am I getting so obsessed in it. :|

( Some clips from Pop'n Music 14 )

OKAY SORRY NEW (AND OLD) FRANDS RIGHT NOW I'M REALLY TIRED, I'M NOT USUALLY THIS RAMBLY AND DON'T POST BANDWIDTH-KILLING STUPID GIFS OR TALK ABOUT FETISH PARTIES AND NEW OBSESSIONS AND OTHER THINGS I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT. No wait oh shi-

Just wrote and deleted a retarded post. All you need to know of it is that there was a mention of me having gone to a bar and leaving much sooner than expected because I was so immensely bored there, which was then followed by a lot of bitter drunken introspection.

INSTEAD OF ALL THAT SHIT ( HAVE A MEME WITH SOME PRETTY SHORT AND BORING ANSWERS. )

Oh yeah, I thought there was going to be a concert by the Music students in the evening where they would play the set list of Leonard Cohen's concert in London in 2008 but actually it was just a showing of the live DVD of the concert. Which is not a bad thing in the least, on the contrary. :Db

GUESS WHO FINALLY GOT HIS OWN INTERNET CONNECTION~~~~~~~.

FINALLY

Ffff I sound like such a no-life when I say this but it feels so good man. Then again what the hell if I sound like a no-life then it's just about right.

Also I just HAD TO TRY IT RIGHT AWAY but. A USB modem isn't the best possible option but damn this connection is totally fast enough to downloads torrents way faster than the one we have back home.

And God of War. I just. Nnnnngh. *makes sweet love to it* I can't decide if the number of simultaneous enemies is fucking awesome or not. In a way it's great because you can kick SO MUCH ASS in it, it's probably the best stress-relief game I've played in a while. In a way it sucks, though, when you get in a situation where you've got like a 17236671234 respawning enemies on your ass, your health AND your magic is running low, you can't use THE RAEG OF GODS!!!1! yet and there are no more unopened chests in the area (yes, I do save them for upcoming fights if I don't need them right away). Although it turns to fucking awesome again when you just get tired of that bullshit and fuck everyone up.

Also boobs. All over the place. And don't get me started on Kratos, I'm so gay for him it's ridiculous.

Guys I'm so tired I don't even know what I'm typing hagsdhgas.

Every now and then we are informed about certain voluntary (but paid) assignments completely unrelated to school that might be relevant to us. A while ago there was talk about this project that required us to do several works that are intended to be used in preschool-age children's workbooks. Because the assignment contains so many separate works we split them up between the five of us who were interested in doing this.

Of course I had to get the most difficult one because I wasn't present in the meeting where we were supposed to discuss it. In a way it's a good thing because all the other works were just plain boring, but the bad thing is that it's, well, kind of big. Not like fucking huge or anything, just an ordinary A4, but to that A4-size paper I must draw a map of a town with several details, so that there are clear routes to be followed. Luckily the person who assigned this stressed that it must be rather simplistic, otherwise I would've tried to stuff in some painstaking details that are way over my skills. And I have until next Friday to finish drawing this, so basically outside school and this assignment I can't draw anything else. Which blows because I had several things in mind, something that honestly hasn't happened very much even after I started here. WELL WHO CARES maybe I can do something about them as well. And hey, after all I'm getting paid for this, so.

Yesterday I hung out with this one girl who's in Sequential Arts pretty much all day. Mostly we just talked, dicked around the campus area, played some vidya (oh god those karaoke games - I can't sing and most of the songs on the list sucked but screw that it was fun) and had an hour long walk in the middle of the night. She's really fun to be with, you can be all derpy with her and she won't mind. :Db She made us dinner and I did the dishes, to which she commented that I'm a gentleman. LMFAO HARDLY, but it was amusing.

OH AND GUISE I WATCHED THIS RLY GOOD MOVIE WHEN I GOT BACK TO MY ROOM IT'S CALLED WATCHMEN I BET NONE OF YOU HAVE SEEN OR EVEN HEARD OF IT BEFORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

..........................Honestly, late much? I wanted to see it like burning when it came out, and now it's been over six months since then. :| Man I guess I just never get to go to the movies. But anyway, it was fucking glorious and I loved it.

I recently made myself a new Last.fm account, so now when the site stopped being a dick and actually lets people accept and send friend requests I had the idea to add all those of you who I can see have accounts there.

SO WHEN YOU SEE SOMEONE BY THE NAME OF STRANGE_MACHINE HAS SENT YOU A FRIEND REQUEST, KNOW THAT THAT SOMEONE WOULD BE ME.

I don't give a damn about ~*~musical compatibilities~*~ so I added you even if our compatibility is low. IT'S YOU GUYS SO WHY SHOULD I CARE. Also, you don't have to accept the request if you don't want to. Obviously.

Lmfao I don't know when I'll be able to add more plays to my library, whenever I get that damn Internet access I guess. God I hate that you can't listen to the radio for free anymore, only for the free trial and that's just a measly 30 songs. >:C

Miyavi's concert was good, not as good as last year's but good nonetheless. It was really different than before, last time he was a flirty diva and the show was really energetic but this time he was a...more humble flirty diva. He talked much more than he did the last time ("I'm a rearry rearry happy to be here" bwahaha) and the were a lot of ballads (like a really nice ballad version of Ku.Ku.Ru.). There were some big moments of heartwarming, especially when he talked about his daughter. He said the usual things about her birth making him realize how small we all are and that we're all equal. It was nice because he sounded totally honest. And the girls love him even more now when he's so sensitive. WELL DONE MIYAVI. A-AND NO MY EYES DIDN'T WATER AT ALL BECAUSE OF THE NICE SPEECHES IF YOU THINK SO UR A FAGET.

The younger fans get all fucking crazy just at the sight of him, as usual the people in the front row had to do the best they could to not get crushed against the barriers. The concert security was having a tough time keeping the front in order, and Miyavi looked at it for a while until he got all serious face and asked the fans to give each other space. That's the first time I've ever heard an artist say that, lol. He even asked one girl in the front row if she was alright because to him she looked so tired. I was somewhat close to the front row and I could hear the girl go "NO I'M FINE" sounding all flustered. XD The fans didn't back down at first, they just whined about it. Then Miyavi got that mischievous smirk of his on his face and said something along the lines of "Give them space, otherwise their boobs will get crushed" (I'm not sure at all though because I couldn't hear him very clearly) and did this gropey motion in front of his chest. Lmfao those girls backed the fuck down pretty quickly at that, giggling like it was the best joke ever. Man it was pretty lulzy, and yeah, adorable too.

I got to the club the concert was held in about two hours later than I had planned because I missed the earlier train, but at least I didn't miss the concert. The walk from downtown to Orivesi station took me about an hour instead of the 30 or so minutes I had predicted, and when I got back after the concert I had to walk all the way again. It wasn't too bad now when I wasn't in a hurry, although I'm a bit worried I might get sick. It was raining when I was waiting for the next train to Tampere (of course there was a canopy at the station but the rain still got in) and it also rained when I walked back to the campus. I felt fine yesterday but today I've been feeling a bit groggy. Of course the fact that I've been breathing in turpentine vapors the whole day might have something to do with that, too. XD

- Wake up at 5 am and get in the 7:12 train to Tampere
- Realize I forgot a map of the record shops that sell concert tickets
- Roam around for about half an hour and manage to locate two of the shops, then realize that obviously neither of them won't open at 9 am (the other opens at 10 and the other at 11)
- Realize that I forgot to take down the number of the ticket shop so I could call them when the tickets are released
- Try to think of a way to manage to kick off my own head
- Realize I can just call a directory assistance so I get that fucking number
- Dick around downtown and then end up loitering in front of one of the record shops so I'll at least be the first in line there
- Try to not get soaked by rain
- Call the ticket shop EXACTLY when the clock hits 9
- "We're sorry but all lines are occupied, please call again later" x 23465346546306

When I finally get through at 9:40 the only thing I can say is "RAMMSTEIN TICKETS" and the operator answers me with "Sorry, the tickets are sold out." ...Yeeeeaaaahhhh. The good thing is I didn't miss my train back to Orivesi because it would've been pointless to wait for the shop to open. :Db

The tickets really are gone. Sometimes there's a chance there are a few left somewhere but this time it seems there's absolutely none left. The first cancelled tickets will be released next week but there's never more than a few of them. Stalking online auctions is an option as well, but it's really rare that anyone sells single tickets, there's always like three of them and the price is 300€. Goddamn the people who always buy six tickets at a time.

Actually there are tickets left but they're all for the disabled places. QUICKLY SOMEONE BREAK MY LEGS.