Well, sort of. It's actually more an amalgamation of friending policies, journal credit, what you can expect to read about here, and a whole lot of random facts about me.

( Cut for various space-consuming things. )

I just registered for courses & got in to almost everything I wanted -- I accidentally registered for the fall half of a course I wanted to take in the spring, but when I realised the mistake (about ten minutes later) the one I wanted to take was full with 11 people on the waitlist. Whatever, I've kept the fall section as backup as well so we'll see.

My timetable so far:

DRM230Y1Y - Concepts of 20th Century Theatre (Tuesday 9-11 AM, Thursday 10-11 AM)
ENG215H1S - Canadian Short Story (Monday 6-9 PM)
ENG280H1F - Critical Approaches to Literature (Monday, Wednesday & Friday 1-2 PM) <-- here I wanted the spring section, on Tuesday 6-9 PM instead
VIS205H1F - Drawing (Tuesday 6-9 PM)
VIS206H1S - Print Media One: Relief (Wednesday 6-9 PM)
VIS211H1S - Works on Paper (Wednesday 2-5 PM)

The Drama department has to register me in DRM254Y1Y - Production (Tuesday 1-4 PM, Thursday 3-6 PM) and I can't register for DRM100Y1Y - Form & Style (Monday, Wednesday & Friday 10-11 AM) until August 8th, so for now I have two extra spaces.

I just have to decide between VIS206 and VIS211 - any thoughts? Here are the course descriptions:

Print Media One: Principles and practices of Relief Printmaking. Projects in single and multiple block edition production.

Works on Paper: A studio based course which explores the potential of paper from drawing to object making, in the context of contemporary art practice. <-- here I keep thinking of Peter Callesen's amazing paper stuff, idk

Sidenote: I'm sitting on Stephanie gorthead's sofa with all the lights out, only my laptop up, and I just saw something moving out of the corner of my eye on the floor. I looked closer, thinking at first that it was an animal (she doesn't have pets) but then I saw myself lit by the computer screen -- I freaked out a little, wondering what the hell was moving on the floor that could reflect me perfectly, reached out and touched... a balloon. I almost screamed, dear god, it was definitely not what I was expecting!

So after my last post about real-people fic (to which my conclusion was basically that I have no idea how I manage to justify it to myself or why I enjoy reading it), I've come up with another question, from a slightly different angle:

How would you personally feel if you found fanfiction pairing you and someone else?

Not necessarily explicit, though that's obviously the most extreme case, and for the sake of simplicity let's say it's paired you with someone you know but don't necessarily see yourself lusting after.

Personally, I honestly don't think I would mind (I have actually been written into something with someone that I suppose could be called RPF, but that was someone I knew and our names weren't actually mentioned and er anyway that's another story). One major reason is that I already know about RPF, so I would know at least some of the reasoning behind it, as well as what to expect. Whether I'd actually read it is another matter except I totally would and you all know it.

P.S. Saying "I wouldn't mind" does not mean I'll write porn about u & me bb, no worries.

FANFICCERS VS FANARTISTS v3 - WHO'S HOTTER?
Here I was in 2005 & 2006

Yeah I'm a bit late to the party, whatever.

SPEAKING OF PARTY (lamest segue ever) Stephanie gorthead is having a Brit-themed going-away-for-the-summer party and I'm trying to decide which British person to dress up as. Kate Moss? Anna Popplewell? Harry Potter? (lololol jk)

We're safely in Toronto with all of our luggage, happily stealing internet from someone in my grandma's highrise. Eventually I'll get around to contacting everybody I want to spend time with, but for now I'm going to head out shopping with the family (I actually don't own a single whole pair of jeans anymore). Hope you're all well! ♥

Off to Alexander edaindirith's cottage for the shortest cottage trip ever, back tomorrow night. Leaving for Toronto on Monday, though, so I might not be around much. ♥!

OUR POSITION IS COMPROMISED

ABORT MISSION

REPEAT ABORT MISSION



Translation: "I'll replace this! Mum :)", attached to our block of milk chocolate we were saving.

Update on The Boots: wore them to a Leonard Cohen concert on Tuesday* along with dark denim shorts and a blouse with capped sleeves and an embroidered scarf slung around my neck, so combined with the VIP pass I was wearing I felt very much like a rockstar. My feet didn't hurt even after several hours of walking and standing, too, my calves just felt like I'd been working out. Win all around, in other words!

I wore them again yesterday and got a blister on top of my pinky toe, but that just means I can't wear them without socks. Still in love with them. And they make my butt look FANTASTIC

*Which was AMAZING, by the way. I was kind of worried, given that older touring artists I've seen in no way lived up to my expectations, but as my brother & I reasoned, the guy sounded like he was 70 when he was 30, so being 74 now can only be a good thing. The band was fantastic and really well put together, not just a bunch of twentysomethings whose sole function it is to make the old singer seem younger (I won't name names) and who can't really sing/play at all. The arrangements were new & fabulous as well -- I'm running out of adjectives here -- and I got honest-to-goodness chills at several points, and started crying at the end. Yeah. Pretty fucking incredible. He played Hallelujah near the end, of course, so now I've seen two renditions of it in less than a month (Rufus Wainwright in June ♥).

Because it was on Canada Day, too, the embassy had arranged for Canadians to get VIP passes (shiny ones we hung around our necks, I felt super special) with access to a separate area with food and wine and then some of the best seats, surrounded by Canadian flags. SO COOL. The ambassador herself had a V-VIP area along with the prime minister and his family right next to ours, yeah mum & I were fangirling him a little. So that just made the evening even better.

Also I am sick of having six icons, I'm just going to stop rotating them & you'll all have to see this boring one repeatedly.

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Wooo summer school and/or an extra year of uni! \o/

scarletautumn is where I post all of my art & occasional writing stuff, and I don't always mention new posts here so PLEASE OH PLEASE feel free to friend me over there! I post pretty rarely so it shouldn't clog up your friendslist.

P.S. I bought the boots. :D

Come to Tusenfryd on July 7th/8th/9th, bring people, have fun & sexytime y/y?

Since Julie riddled hasn't posted any art and it's past midnight, I hereby declare myself the WINNER of our five-bits-of-art-by-Saturday challenge (here are my five ++).

So Juliebutt, in accordance with our agreement, you now owe me "a sleepover with lots of chocolate etc [...] except with MORE SHAME". 8D

EDIT: APPARENTLY I WAS TOO HASTY WITH MY JUDGEMENT. Julie claims she has the art, she just hasn't posted it yet. I remain skeptical.

I'm the last person who falls in love with shoes -- I have unusually large feet, and have been shown to the men's section enough times to make shoe shopping an experience akin to how most women feel about bikini shopping -- but today it finally happened: I am completely obsessed with what I've begun to refer to as The Boots.


This photo is a little off, they're dark grey in real life.

They're 1000kr (about $200) and they're high-heeled (see the shoe in the background for an example of my usual footwear) so I'm really hesitant about buying them, but I've been wanting some proper going-out shoes of the ankle-high boot variety for a while now, and I've been thinking about them constantly since I got home.

Is this what being a shoeholic feels like?

( Last week's )

♥ Go for a short bike ride once a day.
Yeah, I'm slipping with this one (and by slipping I mean I haven't had any sort of exercise for a week).

♥ Start sketching ideas for my HP Art Project assignment.
Even if I can't find the damn book...

♥ Complete five-art-things-by-the-28th challenge with Julie riddled.

Anybody going to Norwegian Wood today? I want to see Alanis Morrisette but maybe not if I have to go alone. :/

EDIT: Nvm, Dad's going with me. 8) How appropriate that it's Father's Day in North America, too.

( Last week & a half's )

♥ Write another article for the Lexicon.

♥ Floss every day.
Another thing I am so, so bad at and really should do more often.

♥ Start my HP Art Project assignment.
It's not due until the end of the summer, but I know I'll be agonising over it forever so I might as well get started.

♥ Post seven drawings.
Not necessarily one a day, but there should be at least seven new drawings up at scarletautumn by the 16th.

In other news, my nose stud fell out overnight and now I can't find it. o_O I've put my ring back in but I can't attach the ball by myself, so I'll have to find some other replacement soon.

Godfuckingdamn, I just wanted to play around with a new layout but when I tried to change back to my old one it turns out it was a paid theme. Now my friends page looks like shit. >:|

EDIT: Nevermind, I worked it out. Just so this post isn't entirely meaningless, a sitting-on-a-yoga-ball update: I've only been doing it for a few hours, but my butt & lower back are already getting kind of tired. On the plus side, it's basically impossible to not sit up straight, which hopefully will outweigh the muscle stiffness I'm expecting tomorrow morning. X(