Wow, I completely forgot that I actually updated this thing a few times between fall 2008 and now. That shows how bad I am at keeping up with this thing. I'm planning to completely redesign this thing and my website sometime soon, so I figured I'd post something and try to get back into the habit of writing.

Every time I come back to write here, I feel like I've grown so much since I last wrote something here. It's surprising, and actually kind of scary, in a way. Who knew that I'd still have so much growing up left to do at 23 years old? I also know I'm still not even close to being finished growing, which is even scarier. Luckily I'm taking longer than the average student to finish college, so hopefully I'll be ready to grow up by the time I graduate. I hope I am, anyway.

To tell the truth, I've already grown so attached to Richmond and the people that I've met since I've been here that I'm absolutely terrified of graduating because graduating means that I'll have to leave everything I have behind and start fresh. While that might be good for me in some ways, I just don't know how I'm going to be ready to leave my family and all of the friends I've made when the time comes. I can't stay in Richmond because the fashion industry just doesn't exist here, but I'm scared to go to New York or California or wherever I end up having to go because I won't have anyone there. It's not just the fact that I won't have anyone that bothers me, either. I also don't know how I'm going to be okay without the people that I want and love and need to be close to me. It's just terrifying to me.

I also kind of wanted to write about some of the things that have happened to me since I've been at VCU, since I didn't really go over them the last few times I wrote here. So much has happened that I can't possibly go over all of it in a single post, and I don't really feel like going over everything in great detail, so I'll just highlight some of the important things.

My now ex-boyfriend and I broke up in November of 2008 (but we're still best friends!), and although I've been officially single since then, I've been involved in two things that were not quite relationships since then. I fell in love with one of them, and I was rejected by that person. Then I got used and betrayed by one of my so-called friends, but luckily I got out of that situation fairly easily. I'm currently still in love with the other, but that situation is complicated and I'd rather not go into it. For now, I'll just say that even though it almost seems hopeless for me, I'm not ready to give up on that. Meggi is an unstoppable force of love, bitches.

Although not everything has been great, I've met a lot of wonderful people and had a lot of wonderful experiences here. I went to my first concert here. I went out on Halloween for the first time since middle school here. I tried a kind of alcohol that I didn't hate for the first time here. I went to a club for the first time here, though I've since decided that I'm not crazy about clubs. I tried bubble tea for the first time here, and I've had so many other new experiences since I've been at VCU. I've learned a lot, too. I've learned how to crochet, bind books, sew, work with wood, make patterns, make animation and videos, and all kinds of things. It's been great.

Anyway, I'm going to go draw something now before bed, so I'll try to remember to write again later.

Labels: friends, richmond, vcu, website

I really have been meaning to write here more often. I keep meaning to write an apology and an explanation for my lack of activity here and then try to get back into the habit of writing regularly, but so much has happened over the past several months that when I start to think about it all, I get so overwhelmed that I just can't write it down.

My first year at VCU ended earlier this month, and I'm now officially a fashion design major. I still can't really believe that it's already over because it went by so quickly, but at the same time I had so many experiences and spent so much time there that it almost feels like that part of my life is the only life I can remember living. In a way, I feel like that part is true; I've never really had friends or a real social life before I came to VCU.

Unfortunately, I still don't have much of a life back in my hometown, and sometimes when I'm here I almost can't believe that it all really happened to me. It feels like a dream, and although I met many wonderful people and experienced some wonderful things, I sometimes wake up in the morning wishing that it had only been a dream.

Since I've left Richmond, I've been trying to get back into some of my old hobbies. I went on a shoujo anime binge right after I came home and watched Shoujo Kakumei Utena and Sailor Moon S again for about the millionth time.

I also played some videogames; I finally actually played and beat Clock Tower 3 and I nearly beat Space Channel 5.

Clock Tower 3 was really fun because it'd been such a long time since I'd played a videogame at all, and it had been even longer since I'd played a scary one. However, about halfway through the game it went from being legitimately scary to a bad fantasy-horror kind of scary. The first boss was terrifying, and the second one was still scary; the third one was ridiculous, but he was actually kind of attractive in a comic book super villain way, so I didn't have that much of a problem with him. The game just stopped being scary after he showed up, though. It was a pretty fun game overall, but I'm a little dissatisfied with it the same way I'd be dissatisfied with a B movie.

I got so close to beating Space Channel 5, too! I just can't get past that last boss, and when you have to play through the whole stage just to fight it, it's just too frustrating to try more than once in a while.

Another successful method of alleviating boredom I've tried over the past few weeks is listening to random Jrock bands: either ones that I've heard of and haven't actually listened to yet, or ones that have funny names like SHAKALABBITS and Convenience Store. Here are a few that I've really started to like:


Luna Sea is one of those legendary Jrock bands; most Jrock fans know (or should know) who they are, but I wasn't familiar with their music at all until recently. I really wish I had realized that they were awesome when I first heard of them, but for some reason I never really gave them a chance. I don't know why.


I had to listen to SHAKALABBITS just because they just have an awesome band name. It's fun to say. I'm not even sure I'm pronouncing it correctly, but it's fun to tell people I'm listening to a band called SHAKALABBITS. It turned out that they were really good, too!


I tried CHERRYBLOSSOM's music on a whim, and I'm glad I did. It's really catchy. They kind of sound like a combination of Naomi Tamura, Lee Jung Hyun, and the China Dolls.


EAT YOU ALIVE was another band that I tried because I thought their name was just too amusing to resist, but I was surprised when I actually heard them. They have such a refined sound, especially for an indie band. ;O I hope to hear more from them in the future.


I've actually listened to a little bit of An Cafe's stuff before, but not enough to actually consider myself a fan. That changed when I listened to this song. I don't know exactly why I like this song so much, but it's just so sweet and catchy.

Within the past few days I've also been getting into manga again. After I finished watching Utena again, I decided that I really wanted to see if I could find the manga online. I did find some scanlations of it, but unfortunately the group that was translating it dropped the project, and I was unable to find the rest of the translations. However, when I gave up on Utena, I stumbled upon Angel Sanctuary, which is a series that I'd been meaning to check out for a long time. The art style has always appealed to me, but the manga is very long, complicated, and kind of confusing, especially because a lot of the characters seem very similar in appearance at first. However, I think I'm following the plot so far and I'm starting to recognize the characters enough to pick them apart from each other. I'm not quite halfway through it yet, but I'm hoping to finish it sometime next week.

Anyway, I'm afraid that's all for now. Next time I'll write about my awesome new laptop. :3

Labels: an cafe, angel sanctuary, anime, cherryblossom, clock tower 3, eat you alive, hobbies, jrock, luna sea, manga, sailor moon, shakalabbits, space channel 5, utena, vcu, videogames

Last week was very busy for me, so I apologize for not writing.

My roommate actually didn't get here until the very last minute, and by that time I'd gotten so impatient and hungry while waiting for her that I left to grab some dinner on the other campus.

When I got back, she and her family had gotten here and they were unpacking their stuff. They didn't need me to help them unpack her stuff, but we had a chance to talk a bit and they seem like cool people. Her father is actually a Stephen King fan, and I thought that was really cool.

My roommate is also really cool. She's very outgoing and friendly, and I was surprised to find out that she actually likes anime, too. She does party a bit, but I don't think we'll have any problems. Actually, to be completely honest, I do want to go out and party a bit, though I think my definition of the word "party" is different from most college students' definitions. I know that most parties involve just staying out late and getting drunk with friends, but I just want to go out sometime, not necessarily to drink but to have fun.

My classes so far don't seem like they're going to be difficult, though I had homework in them all during the first days. I still haven't gotten around to starting my figure drawing for my fashion project class, but I don't have that class until Friday so I will definitely have time during the week to do it. I'm a little concerned about the drawing class because my professor wants me to work in HB pencil, which allows me almost no decent tone variation. :\ My first homework assignment in that class was a still life which will be due tomorrow, and I'm hoping like hell that mine won't look awful compared to the other ones.

I also had a lot of fun going to the events during Welcome Week, which is the first week of classes after move-in where a lot of the different departments and organizations around campus host a number of helpful discussion lectures and social events. I don't exactly have time to write about them in detail right now because it's about time for me to leave, but hopefully I'll get back to those later.

Labels: class, roommate, vcu, welcome week

I moved in yesterday, and so far it hasn't been too bad. I had some trouble setting up my computer because the monitor didn't want to work right, but that's probably the worst thing that's happened to me since I moved. Luckily it was just a bad driver and my boyfriend helped me fix it over the phone. It's working fine now, as you might guess.

I was expecting my bed to be uncomfortable, but I slept surprisingly well last night. However, that may have been due to the fact that I had gotten almost no sleep at all the night before and because I didn't get around to going to bed until after 1 AM. I was up that late organizing my belongings and making sure that everything was unpacked and put away. I probably should have gone to bed earlier and worked on it today because I'm kind of bored right now, but the girls in one of the rooms down the hall were so loud that I probably wouldn't have been able to fall asleep if I'd gone to bed earlier anyway.

The shower was also surprisingly decent. I didn't have high expectations for it, but it had pretty good water pressure, and it never seemed to run out of hot water. However, I did wake up pretty early this morning and I'm pretty sure nobody else was using the bathroom while I was in the shower, so that may have something to do with it. My only complaint is that it was difficult for me to shave my legs in the cramped space, but I think after classes start I'm going to start shaving my legs at night, when I won't have to be somewhere at a particular time.

Well, my roommate should be arriving soon, so I'll write more later~

Labels: dorm, vcu

I feel like I'm still playing the waiting game with VCU. I've been accepted and I've finished almost everything that needs to be done before I can go up there, but I still feel anxious and impatient. I probably won't feel comfortable about the whole thing until I actually get up there, but it seems like the summer is dragging on forever, and I don't like it. I feel like I should be relaxing, but I can't relax because I want things to get done, but I can't get everything done right away and I'm frustrated about that.

In addition to being impatient about starting at VCU, I've also been a little upset that my boyfriend will be leaving soon. I don't like being emotional or mopey, and I don't want those kinds of feelings to prevent me from enjoying my experience at VCU, but I don't really know how I'm going to deal without him. We didn't think we'd ever have to say goodbye again, and that's going to be the hardest part about it. I don't really want to think about it.

In other news, I finally got around to ordering the shoes that my mom promised to buy for me. I decided to just get the Converse shoes and not bother with the other pair. They're cute, but I looked at a similar pair by the same brand in Journeys and I just didn't think I would like them because they're made differently from the kinds of shoes that I'm used to wearing and I just don't know if I would be happy with them. Plus they're skate shoes, and I'm not a skater, so I don't know if I should even be wearing them if I'm just going to be walking in them. So for now, I'm not going to worry about spending the extra money on them.

Well, I have to wake up early tomorrow morning, so I'm going to go get ready for bed now. Goodnight! :3

Labels: anxiety, boyfriend, shoes, upset, vcu

It's been a while. I probably should have updated this sooner, but I finally caught the summer fever and got lazy about things. I've been stressing about things with VCU and the apartment situation, but I've also been playing a few videogames, which have been taking up most of my free time lately.

My orientation went well, and so did my brother's orientation. However, with him being a freshman and having the two-day orientation rather than the one-day session that I had, I think his orientation was slightly better than mine. That isn't to say that I didn't enjoy a few extra benefits by attending his orientation, though. I was able to get two free VCU t-shirts at his orientation (compared to the zero I received at my own), and I was able to attend the bus tour for parents and guests at his orientation, though I personally think that tour would have been more beneficial to the students than the parents. I was also able to walk around the campus and ride around on the shuttle bus to see how I would be getting to all of my classes while my brother was registering for his classes.

Well, I guess I've written enough about his orientation, but I haven't really said anything about my own orientation. To be honest, I think one of the most exciting parts of my orientation was getting to walk by myself from the art foundation building to one of the dining centers on campus. Of course, it wasn't my first time walking across the campus, but it was the first time I'd done so by myself, and it was pretty exciting to be able to figure out where to go by myself without having the help of another person or a group of people who already know where they're going.

It was also pretty exciting to finally register for my classes; it really started to give me a sense of being an actual student of VCU and not just an applicant. However, it wasn't a very organized process; I was expecting a one-on-one session with an advisor who would tell me what classes to take, but instead we got a computer lab full of students and maybe five advisors who didn't all exactly know what we should have been taking. I'm also a little concerned because one of the credits that should have transferred to VCU didn't transfer, and I don't exactly know why. However, the advisors recommended that I skip that requirement in case it transfers later.

I was impressed that my drawing classes at my community college both transferred, though. They transferred as credits for VCU's drawing studio and project classes, but I'm taking the drawing and project classes at VCU anyway because they'll help me keep full-time status and because I want them. My community college drawing classes were great, but since they were at a community college and not a full-blown art school, there weren't a lot of resources for models and other things like that (even though their new easels are quite nice :3), so I think that I would benefit from a drawing class at VCU.

After my orientation we drove around the neighborhoods where the apartments I was interested in were located, and surprisingly most of them weren't in such great neighborhoods. We ended up eliminating all of the apartments that I hadn't been able to make appointments to see prior to the day of my orientation, plus two of the four appointments I had already made.

The two apartments that we actually looked at were okay, but in the end I decided that the best choice overall would be to get the dorm. A lot of factors went into my decision, but in the end I think the two biggest things it came down to were the question of whether my boyfriend could keep up with his half of the rent without a secure job yet or any backup money, and the fact that I probably wouldn't be happy living in either of the apartments for the whole 3-4 years I'd be at VCU. The apartments only offered 12-month leases, and it would have been either very difficult or very expensive for me to try to find a better apartment later.

So I'm going to be in a dorm for my first year at VCU, and I'm going to look into getting an apartment in the spring so that I'll be able to grab one right as graduating or transferring students move out. If for some reason that isn't possible, I might try to get into one of the apartment-style dorms for upperclassmen for the next school year.

As far as other things in my life go, I'm really behind on updating my website, and I haven't really drawn anything since my last CafePress design. I just haven't felt like it, but it probably isn't such a bad thing. I'll be in artist boot camp starting on August 21st, so it's probably not such a bad idea to take a break so that I'll feel rested and ready to work when classes start. If I feel like it, I might draw my characters a bit before the fall semester starts because I'm not going to let myself draw them at all during the semester, but I'm not going to pressure myself to keep drawing just to stay busy. However, I will try to update my website to add my latest drawings sometime this week.

Oh, I mentioned that I've been playing videogames, right? Well, I put Silent Hill Origins on hold because I started itching to play Final Fantasy X-2 again. I started a New Game Plus, but I kind of rushed through it because I really just wanted to finish getting 100% (I had 99% previously) so that I could get the good ending, but for some reason I didn't get it. I got pissed off about that and started playing Final Fantasy X instead. I started getting really excited about totally owning Yunalesca this time around because she gave me so much trouble in my first game, and I beat her last night. Now I'm at the point of the game where all of the sidequests are available with the airship, but I'm already getting bored with it and I want to play something different. It's frustrating because I really wanted to get that AP trick so that I can over-level Yuna and make her hit harder than Auron, but I'm also impatient about getting the items that allow me to do that trick. I think I'll take a break and play something different and maybe come back to FFX when I'm ready to do that.

Well, that's about all I wanted to write today. I'll try to start updating more regularly. :3

Labels: apartments, art, dorm, drawing, orientation, vcu, videogames, website

I've had a rough week. Monday evening my mom and I went shopping, and I discovered that I'm too small to fit a size 2 or 4 in ladies' jeans, and an extra small in an Old Navy skirt is actually a little loose on my hips. That's pretty pathetic, considering I'm not that small. I'm short and petite, but I'm not nearly as tiny as some of the girls that I used to wait on at work. I think I'm starting to see why sizes like XXS and 00 actually exist.

I did find a cute pair of metallic pink flip-flops though, and my mom offered to buy me one of two pairs of shoes that I've been admiring online for a little while. It's either this one or this one. I can't decide which one I really want, though. I might have her buy me one of them and then buy the other pair myself.

Tuesday I started calling about the apartments that I wanted to look at, but only two of my original five choices actually had an available apartment, and one of those two didn't even set up an appointment with me because the apartments were going so fast and it was too far in advance for him to set up an appointment with me. I'm planning to call back about that one (and a few others) tomorrow and see if it's still available.

Two of the four appointments I managed to set up are for two-bedroom apartments. One of those two is almost surely out of my budget and it's fully furnished, but the other one sounds like a better value. One of the appointments is for one of the one-bedroom apartments from my original list, and it's actually the apartment that VCU's off-campus housing representative recommended to me as the best of my original choices, but it wasn't my favorite of the original choices. The other appointment is for a couple of different places, but judging by some of their online listings, I don't know if I'm going to want them or not. They seem kind of dumpy and they don't offer all of the features that I want, but I don't think it'll hurt to just look at them.

I might even end up in a dorm, if I'm not satisfied with any of the apartments I see. I applied for on-campus housing after talking to the housing representatives at VCU about my problems. They said that there was a lot of space left in one of the dorms on the MCV campus, which is about two miles away from my classes, and there's a free shuttle bus that runs between the two campuses. They also said that it would be a good idea to go ahead and sign up because it would be a good backup plan for me.

Living in a dorm might be a better option than an apartment, actually. At this point I think the cost of a dorm with a meal plan would be almost the same as the average costs of living in an apartment and buying groceries every week, and I wouldn't have to worry as much about going out of my budget because I wouldn't be buying groceries regularly. It would be a relatively safe environment for me, and living in a dorm might also make it easier for me to make friends. My boyfriend wouldn't be able to move with me, but I think that there'd be less financial stress on him if I lived in a dorm, too.

I guess I won't know what will happen with my living situation until after I look at the apartments, but I'm glad that I at least have a backup plan if I'm not happy with any of the apartments.

Labels: apartments, dorm, shoes, shopping, vcu

The third design in my current CafePress series was surprisingly quick and easy to finish. Here she is:



I haven't made a shop for her yet, though. I might do that later today. I'm also thinking about combining Em's design with Jade's design to make a group design, but I'm not sure if their sizes and proportions will match up enough for that. If it comes out all right, I might also make a combination of Hikari and Rose and maybe even a group design featuring all four of the girls.

I'm getting really excited about finishing this project. The only girl I have left to draw is Rose. :3 I'm planning on putting her in a yellow babydoll dress with a blue trim that will hopefully help connect her to Hikari's design. I might put off making Em's shop until after I draw Rose, depending on what I feel like doing today.

I'm starting to get anxious about VCU again. It's making me restless, and I think that restlessness is turning into frustration about other unrelated things, and somehow I think it's turned into frustration and depression about shoes again. However, I've made a list of things I need to do in preparation for my orientation, and I've planned out some other activities for me to do this week that will hopefully keep me busy.

On another short note, my gradual sunless tanner is already starting to work! :3 I'm not sure how I'm going to like the final results, but I might ask my mom what she thinks when I see her.

Labels: art, cafepress, characters, orientation, self tanner, vcu

I hate having irregularly shaped feet. I always find the cutest shoes online at really good prices, and my problem is always either that they don't have my size, or they have my size but I'm not sure if the shoes will turn out to be too long or too narrow due to size variations, and I can't buy them because the site doesn't allow returns on clearance-priced merchandise. Even if the shoes are only $7-10 plus shipping, I still can't justify that kind of waste of money if they don't fit. ;(

I guess it's better to spend a little more money on a shoe that I know I will be satisfied with or get my money back, but I'm still sad that I can't take advantage of some of the insanely cheap prices I've seen out there. I might try my luck sometime anyway, if I find a pair of shoes cute enough to be worth the risk. At least I could try buying them a half-size larger to make sure the shoes won't be too narrow and then get some insoles if they turn out too long.

I succeeded in finding some good lip products today. I bought a plain lip balm, a colored lip balm, two lip glosses, and a Maybelline lip plumper. I've tried the plain lip balm and one of the lip glosses, and I'm so happy with both of them that I'm thinking about throwing out my old tube of Chapstick, but I'll probably just put it away in a drawer until I run out of the new lip balm. I think I might try the lip plumper a little later tonight or tomorrow, and I hope it works and looks good on me.

I also bought some gradual self-tanning moisturizer for my pale legs. I'm hoping that it'll make them look less flabby because I've heard that tan skin doesn't show cellulite as much as pale skin. I don't want to use it on the rest of my body though, and I don't know if it'll look weird when my legs start to be a little darker than the rest of me. I guess if it looks too bad I can just stop using it because I definitely don't plan on tanning my torso, arms, or face. :\

I hope that by the end of the summer my long-term makeover will be complete. I've been trying to make a lot of little changes with myself in preparation for my new life at VCU, and I think that I'm nearing the final stages of my transformation. All I have left to do is to finish clearing up my skin and getting back into shape. :3

My orientation confirmation arrived in the mail today, finally~ I think I'm going to go start reading the handbook that came with it after I check my email and see how my dad's doing.

Labels: appearance, cosmetics, feet, lips, makeover, money, orientation, problems, self tanner, shoes, vcu

For the past few days my life has been fairly uneventful, for the most part. Tuesday I finished a drawing of Jade, as part of my new CafePress series:



I still haven't put her on my website or made an actual CafePress shop for her design yet, but I will probably start on those things later today. Now that I think of it, I forgot to add my signature, but I guess that's okay. The high resolution image is only going on the actual CafePress designs anyway, and in order for people to steal that they'd have to actually buy my merchandise. X3 I might go ahead and add a signature for the sake of putting her on my website, though.

Yesterday I drove my boyfriend to the optometrist because we thought that he would have to have his eyes dilated and need me to drive him home, but that didn't happen. However, my trip there wasn't completely pointless. I was able to help him pick out some attractive frames for his new glasses prescription. The optometrist is also conveniently located inside Wal-mart, so I was able to lurk around the beauty and cosmetics aisles while he was getting his eyes checked. I found a set of five colorful headbands and a hand-held bathroom mirror for only about $7 altogether.

I was also very tempted to buy some new lip gloss or lipstick at Wal-mart because I wanted to try something new after not being happy with most of the lip products I have at home. I really want to try a plumping lipstick or gloss because my lips are so small and shapeless and undefined, and since I'm clumsy and not good at applying makeup in general, I really don't want to try a liner. However, in the end I decided not to buy any of the cosmetics I looked at because a few of them looked like they had already been opened and used, and I didn't want to risk buying one of those. :\

To be honest, I'm still not sure what lip colors look best on me because I'm fairly pale and a lot of colors either wash me out or make me look old. I'm going to have to look into that later, but I think what I need is a subtle rose color, nothing too bright or too dark, but at the same time nothing too light, either.

After we finished at Wal-mart, I visited some of my former coworkers at Belk because my mom needed me to drop off her Belk card payment, and then we picked up some lunch at a local cafe. :3 I was a little disappointed that the cafe didn't have the mango smoothie I had the last time we went there, but the passion fruit smoothie I ordered instead was almost just as good. The food was pretty good, too.

As of today I still haven't received my orientation packet from VCU, but I finished reading my handbook for accepted students last night. Most of it was information I already knew, but I did find out a few new tidbits of information. I also looked at their art foundation website last night and looked over their course information to get an idea of what I will be doing in my classes in the fall, and to be honest I'm really hoping that I didn't transfer out of their drawing studio course because I want to do more drawing. Other than that, I'm just hoping that my general education requirement classes will transfer because I don't want to have to take more math and science classes. :\

And man, I hope the good apartments aren't all taken by the time I can visit them.

Labels: art, cafepress, characters, cosmetics, vcu, wal-mart

I wasn't able to register for Monday's orientation after all. Friday morning I woke up early to call about the apartments and start making the appointments to look at them on Tuesday, but I first went to VCU's website to see if my response had been processed yet. It had been, but unfortunately the only orientation date left to me was the July 7th orientation. At least I didn't have to go through the trouble of making the appointments in the first place and then having to cancel on them, but I hope that there will still be a decent selection of apartments for me to choose from by the time I get up there.

I also still haven't received my information packet yet. To say the least, I'm not surprised, but I'm very disappointed that my prediction, which was not meant to be a serious one, that my information packet wouldn't arrive before Monday came true.

To be honest though, I'm a little relieved that I wasn't able to go to Monday's orientation because this way I will have a little more time to mentally prepare myself to deal with everything. I will also have a little more time to actually receive and read my information packet and also an orientation packet, which is supposed to include all of the details about my orientation. I'm still feeling anxious about everything though, and I'm getting worried that I won't feel better until after I actually start my classes.

In other news, I've been kind of bored today, since there isn't really anything left that I can do about my orientation right now. There are a lot of other things that I could and probably should be doing, but I just don't feel like it. I don't want to be bored, but I just don't know what I really want to do right now, and it's really bothering me. I think that it might have to do with my anxiety, but I don't know how to get rid of it.

I know it's terrible, but I really want to go shopping again, and I don't know if I can wait for my mom to get home on Monday or Tuesday, but I don't want to go by myself or with my boyfriend because either way I won't get the opinions I want on the things that I want to look at, and now that I'm unemployed, I really can't afford the extra gas, either.

Labels: anxiety, boredom, orientation, shopping, vcu

Well, I got my VCU ID number, but unfortunately it didn't do me any good because I can't reserve a spot in an orientation session until after they've received my response form. So my mom took my response form to the post office, and VCU should receive it tomorrow by noon. Hopefully I'll still be able to register for the orientation session on the 23rd by the time they get it. I hope it doesn't take too long for them to process my response.

I'm still anxious about getting my information packet, too. It still hasn't arrived yet, but I've already printed copies of my immunization certificate and final transcript request form online in case it doesn't arrive in time to get things done. I went ahead and got the shots I needed today because I was missing about five of them, but I need to try to go to my gynecologist's office tomorrow so they can verify my Gardasil vaccine dates and sign the form for me.

At least I have Silent Hill Origins to occupy my time and help with my anxiety. I bought it at Walmart yesterday, and so far I haven't gotten very far into it because I haven't played a Silent Hill game in so long and I've kind of become a chicken for it. I really love it already, though.

Even though I've heard that Konami didn't actually make Origins themselves, I'm very impressed that they've brought back the original characters and a lot of very familiar places and situations, and the creepy atmosphere I've loved about the previous games hasn't suffered at all. As always, Akira Yamaoka's music and sounds are top notch as well.

The only thing I haven't liked about Origins so far is that almost all of the melee weapons break eventually, which doesn't really make sense to me because it isn't easy to break a hammer, and even if you do break the heavy part off of it, you still have a large wooden handle that wouldn't deal as much damage as the entire hammer would, but it would still probably make a half-decent weapon. However, I do like the grappling feature, which has helped me out quite a bit in the game so far, and I also like the idea of being able to fight without weapons, even though I haven't tried doing that yet. There also seems to be a wider variety of items that can be used as melee weapons this time around, which is fun. I really like the scalpel at the moment, but I'm really curious about how the IV drip stand that I picked up yesterday will work, especially since the scalpel probably won't last much longer.

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Sorry for the lack of updates; I've been working on my website almost nonstop for the past several days, and when I haven't been working on my website I've been working on the apartment hunt.

I'm currently uploading my website, and after I'm done with that, it's all a matter of testing it to make sure everything works okay, changing the links from my old website, and adding a few extra things (like a 404 error page--I've always wanted to make my own).

The apartment hunt has gone pretty well so far; I browsed VCU's off-campus housing website and found at least fifteen listings right off. I printed them all out and sorted through them, and I easily narrowed the group to my top six listings based on what I need in an apartment. I also called VCU's off-campus student services today because I wasn't sure if the apartments were in good neighborhoods, but the man I talked to said that they were all safe places. All that's left with that is to figure out which one is right for me and.

To be honest though, things are starting to pile up on me again. I haven't received my information packet yet, and I need it in order to do anything else because it contains my VCU ID number. I have to submit my response form to tell them that I do plan to attend VCU, I have to request my final transcripts, I have to take a math placement test (even though I already took Calculus >>), I have to get immunization records, and I have to register for orientation next week, and in order to do any of those things I need either my ID number or that information packet.

To add to the stress, the only orientation dates that are offered to students in the School of the Arts are June 23 and July 7, and I really want to do the June 23 orientation because it's better for my mom's schedule and because I want to look at apartments the next day. A few of my listings state that their apartments go very quickly, and I don't want to be stuck picking through the leftovers after all of the good apartments are taken.

I'm planning to call VCU tomorrow to see if they can give me my VCU ID number over the phone so that I can register for orientation and start calling the apartment owners to see if I can make an appointment to look at their apartments next Tuesday. Hopefully everything will go well. If not, I might be stuck ruining my mom's next big weekend trip. :\

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Today I finally got my acceptance letter from VCU, so I will be entering their art foundation program in the fall. :3

That's all I really wanted to say.

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Well, I just got off the phone with VCU, and apparently I'll receive my response by the end of this week. The lady I talked to said that it was sent out on either Friday or Monday and she told me to call back if I don't receive it by the end of this week. I also confirmed the address they sent it to out of paranoia, and it was the correct address.

Hopefully tomorrow...

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