Jul
31

Websites

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Ehhhh this has been a weird month.

I’ve been working quite a bit, and it’s ~killing~ me. But I got a mini vacation the other day when I went out to see Greyson Chance in concert again :D I recorded two of the songs he did, you can see them on my YouTube account.

 

But other than that, I haven’t really been doing too much. I recently reread the entire Septimus Heap series, and have really, REALLY been itching to work on The Magykal Network… but haven’t had much luck in the layout department. I tried mucking around with the GRN layout, but it didn’t really seem to work. I need to ponder on how to do the navigation.

 

I did, however, work a bit on GRN last night. AMAZING, right? It’s been absolutely forever (two years…) since I’ve done anything on there. I made a new style, and updated the Caption pic. >_> Not much, but hey. I also updated the sidebars, getting rid of all the dead affiliates and stuff.

 

Today I worked on the Snowpig weather page. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t feel bad. :P It’s a weather page… basically for my family. We’re kinda spread out during the school year, existing in 4 different places at any given time, so we have all it together. You can see it here, if you’re interested.

Also, since I recently got myself a new phone (with 3G :D) I made a mobile version of it for myself. Haha, I’m that absurd. But hey, it’s nice to have a smaller version when you’re under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning and driving down the highway~~

 

I still haven’t done much more with that half-done chapter for that random story I am writing. I had the oddest dream regarding it though, where I was making it an actual book, and it was kinda cool.

Just Creepy was the first chapter, and then the rest of the little stories I’ve been doing were there, and they had Polaroids put in, so it kinda looked like a scrapbook. I was taking pictures of the guys for it and it was awkward, cuz they knew what the story was +O+~

 

Oh well. I work 6 to close tonight.
Greyson’s CD comes out on Tuesday. <3<3<3<3

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Jul
06

Half-way

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Everything seems to be half-way lately. Not quite sure why, but that’s the way it’s been.

I am about half-way through two translations, and half-way through a couple short stories, and half-way through another chapter of those awkward moments between whatshisface and his boyfriend.

Dunno why, just haven’t felt like finishing anything.

I did update the blog today to WordPress 3.2. I am currently writing this on their new “zen” poster thing, which is really creepy because it is a white screen and nothing else.

Seriously weird.

Not sure if I like it.

Oh well, maybe I’ll post some stuff up some time. Life has kinda sucked lately. I am ~covered~ in poison ivy.

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Jun
17

i’m home

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It’s been over a month since I last updated this thing.

Well, one big thing: I moved home! :O

I had a crazy Australian chick stay with me for a week.

Yeah, that’s about it. Not too much excitingness. I shall have to blog about Greyson soon tho~ :)

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May
09

I still can’t decide

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…if I should do Linguistics or Creative Writing. It’s far too hard. ;_; I love them both. I suppose I’ll figure it out next semester, when I’m taking the 300-level courses for both. Ahhhh!

Today I did stuff for both tho. :O I had an essay for Linguistics that’s due tomorrow. If by some odd reason, you want to read it, you can here.

But for Creative Writing… well, I’ve been doing some thinking.

Remember my FAIL (notice the caps) attempt at coming up with a sequel story for Ryan and Brandon, and how it just WASN’T working? Well, I may have solved it: I’m not gonna pressure myself into making it a story. I seem to have problems with *stories*, but not so much *short* stories. Sooo… it’s just gonna be a bunch of short stories.

It’s been retitled too, from “A Creepy Anthology” to “Those Awkward Moments” as I feel that fits it better. The four chapters from ACA were freshened up a bit, and inducted into TAM. And the one two-parter that took me a year and a half to write? Well, I combined them together. :P So you have the full story of Justin, all in one. Oh yeah, go me.

AND (yes, that’s not all!) I also wrote a new one for it, to commemorate the change. Actually, it’s what prompted the change, and you’ll see the reasoning behind the name in this story, but I thought it was ~aww~ and so I had to write it. When the inspiration comes, it comes, ya know? You can see the new portal for TAM here. The new one is the first one – it’s actually a DIRECT sequel off of Just Creepy, and happens like, 30 seconds later. =O

And I also ~finally~ added two stories that I’ve had done for ~ages~ and just never posted.

Just Beyond Your Sight is a het (!) gooey-gooey story that I actually wrote for class. See it for more details.

Airplane House is a little unique project. The idea came from something Caleb (this guy in my class who is beyond awesome – amazing poet, too. If you’re nice, I’ll link you to his stuff) kinda said off-handedly. But I think it turned out pretty good. It’s a little macabre, and not as fluffy as most of my recent stuff tends to be, but it’s a cool piece.

And it got much fanfare when I posted it on Facebook. Huh.

I think that’s it for now. *yawn

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Apr
13

Still alive

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Don’t worry, my faithful visitors, I am still alive.

I have a few books to review:
Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List
Boy Meets Boy
Reservation Blues

And those will come soonish. I have little to no excuse for not making any posts recently, except that my sleeping schedule is totally screwed up. I sleep at like 9pm some days and 1am others, and get up at 9am sometimes, 4:30am others. Totally and utterly fucked up, yo.

But hey, I got an A+ (yes, that means 100+%) on my Linguistics project, so that’s cool, yo.

And I also have a few new stories to port over here. There will soon be one in SPANISH too! My first Spanish story :)

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Mar
26

Translational work

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Since I’m home for the week, and didn’t feel like working on fansubbing (someday, I will, I promise, I suppose) I ended up doing some translation work :-D

To celebrate the fact, erm, kinda, I spruced up and organized the translations page a bit. It is now separated by language, and in the case of Spanish, by what they’re for. Tick Tock has their own section, as well as the songs for El Desafio.

You will notice a new section though – French! Yes, I actually attempted (and I think did well) at a French translation. You can find a translation of Grégoire’s Toi + Moi, as well as the music video, by clicking here. :)

The other new song is another on the El Desafio list. This time, I took care of the weird rugby (I think it’s rugby?) song, Siempre Juntos. It was oddly easy to do. Oo Check it out.

I’ve also been learning a LOT of stuff in my 301 class. Like how to deal with infinitives and stuff… especially subjunctive. One song I KNOW I need to take a look at when I have my class notes (for reference) is Cara Luna. So, I know this is wrong. :S

But in regards to revisions, I did go over Yo Sabía and made a few changes. One of the biggest is the translation for “La respuesta me la dio tu corazón”… I had it kinda backward :S Also fixed all my incorrect past participles of “dreamt” to “dreamed”… not quite sure how I got it in my head that dreamt was a word.

…I do think it sounds better though :)

If you dreamt with me the same answer
vs
If you dreamed with me the same answer

Who’s with me, changing the past participle to dreamt? :D

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Mar
20

Tonight at work

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@o@ Tonight was a kinda crazy night at work.

First thing I should note is that we have Inventory on Monday and Tuesday. Anyone that has worked retail knows what a nightmare inventory is… and well, we’re gearing up! That means we have to go through everything and get it all pretty and shit. Make sure it has tags and whatnot.

So, there was a pile of stuff that needed to be marked out of stock/to be thrown away, and I didn’t know how to do it. (I’ve yet to be taught and I kinda disagree with the practice) so me and the 27 (POS Supervisor) made a plan at the beginning of the night: she would come back to C/S and do it, and I’d play the role of 27 for a bit.

Well, then one of the POS closers called in. Uh oh. Looks like the 27′ll be on register for the last 2 hours.

Then the Shoes person called in. Uh oh. Thank goodness we had multiple people in Misses tonight, so we’ll move one person over to Shoes.

Then the other POS closer goes home sick. She’s puking. Uh oh. Now what do we do?

So what ended up happening is that, at about 9:00ish, I went up to POS, Christin (the 27) went back to Customer Service, and Laurel the manager took over the other side of POS, cuz we couldn’t afford to pull anyone from the department.

So, yeah, it got weird. What should technically be 5 positions was covered by 3 of us.

The poor openers are gonna be horribly confused, because:
@ c/s: I closed one drawer, Christin closed the other 3
@ pos: I closed 8 of the drawers, Laurel closed 4
@ jewelry: Christin closed one drawer, and Laurel closed the other

It was kinda crazy fun. :-)

When we wrote our “Smile” counts on the sheet, Christin put for her position “27(ish)” and I wrote “C/s(ish)” hehe :)

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Mar
20

Webhosting

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So, earlier, Jedi_Amara sent me an e-mail saying that she was dropping out of the server.

Well, I guess that doesn’t make a big deal – but it does get me thinking even more seriously about something.

Do I really need a dedicated server anymore?

Initially, it was grabbed basically for fansubbing purposes. Over at DATS, we used it quite a bit. Hell, we still have probably close to 100GB worth of fansub shit on the server. Well, the group is dead. I’m in school, Ryan’s gonna be in school soon… it’s kinda a moot point.

What I basically use the server for, now:
1) This blog / rest of the random stuff on my aRM domain (old websites, etc.)
2) Wikimon
3) Golden Sun Universe
4) DATS forums

Yeah, that’s pretty much it. So I should be theoretically able to drop down to a VPS, or something. Something that won’t cost me at least $55 a month.

I dunno :s Webhosting is so expensive, and I feel like I’m putting out so much and not getting anything in return. I’m only $30 into my next Google Ads… :(

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Mar
19

Blog Updates

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Hey, nothing *really* big, but I thought I’d make a few mentions here:

We have the official Twitter button, and I’m going to try and make it more useful. For instance, on the I Am Tama, Lucky Cat, I’ve done it up so that when you tweet, it’ll say
Review of I Am Tama, Lucky Cat by @PeachtreePub http://t.co/k6oyzGz via @aredmoon
Instead of just
I Am Tama, Lucky Cat http://t.co/k6oyzGz via @aredmoon

And it also suggests to follow them. :) So it’ll hopefully make the aRM Twitter experience more useful! I’ll try and do it for all of the new reviews in the future.

And though it doesn’t matter so much on the front-end, I’ve added the “Jetpack” plug-in, which gives me better stats and whatnot. It also has some other toys, but I dunno what all will be of use here. :S

My current reading isn’t going to be correct, tho. I do plan on starting up Naomi and Ely’s soon, but first I want to read another of my galleys :) They’re pretty cool!

Here’s what I have to read… Let me know what you think I should read first!
Bumped by Megan McCafferty.
Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber.
Mercy by Rebecca Lim.
The Goddess Test by Aimée Carter

It’s spring break so I wanna get at least two of them read! :-D

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Mar
19

I Am Tama, Lucky Cat

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So, if you follow me on Twitter (which you should!!!) you probably noticed this tweet, a few weeks back:
Just read a galley of “Tama, the Lucky Cat” to be published by @PeachtreePub – absolutely gorgeous!!!!! :):):)

It was through this really cool service, Netgalley where people in the book business (reviewers, book sellers, etc.) have a chance to read early editions so that we can write reviews. Since I review (not much, but I want to do more!) and work in a bookstore (The school Bookstore!) I decided to sign up.

You go and request various titles, and the first one that I got accepted into reading was I Am Tama, Lucky Cat by Wendy Henrichs, illustrated by Yoshiko Jaeggi.

It is at this point that I encourage you to look to the left, and see the cover on the Amazon listing. There’s your first taste of this piece of beauty.

It’s based on a Japanese legend, where a cat finds a broken down temple. He lives with the priest there, and they’re quite content. However, one rainy day, the cat goes outside and sits on the porch. Up comes a samurai, who upon seeing the temple, decides he’d be happier (and drier!) staying under a tree.

Tama, as he had been christened, raised his paw up, beckoning the samurai and his horse forward. The samurai comes forward, and right then, lightning strikes the tree and a huge branch falls down – right where the samurai had been.

In essence, Tama saved this samurai’s life. In thanks, the samurai restored the temple and helped it to prosper.

The writing is gorgeous, and the illustrations complement it PERFECTLY. I’m no art guy, but I’m pretty sure they are watercolors, and each page is full of this full-color, gorgeous pictures. I’d post more from the book, but I’m not sure if it’s legal. You’ll just have to wait ’til August to see them!

Yeah, we’re going to have to wait until August for the book to come out, but you’re welcome to pre-order on Amazon. Link’s above :)

But continuing on, each page is full of these spreads, picturing each sentence, bringing each and every line to life. And it all fits under the Japanese legend. When the lightning strikes, it’s said to be thrown by two Gods in the sky, and we’re shown pictures of these gholish characters.

It’s being published by Peachtree Publishers and is due out on August 1, 2011. Tweet at them and let them know you’re looking forward to it! :) They replied to me!

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