Elquin

Dismantle

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:19:58 GMT

Hey everyone, although I haven't posted here for a long time, I've decided to abandon the account completely.

I might start a new one - haven't decided yet.

If you want to be added to my friendslist of the new account, or contact me in general, send me an email - crayonpaint3@hotmail.com

10 Hobbits...

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:32:32 GMT

...

I mean 10 Habits

RULES:
People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names.

1. I am always ready for a fight. And I mean always!

2. When I'm concentrating on something I block everything else out, and sometimes my mouth hangs open due to not paying attention to it.

3. I tend to count the things around me. (bricks, tables, sides of an object...)

4. I imagine my everyday situations to be like a plot from an adventure movie or novel. Rather than walking to the train station to go home after school, I'm on my way to face a great challenge and save the world.

5. When I cross a big road I tend to run, or at least speed walk

6. I make sound effects. For example: when i go around a sharp turn with my car. I go "de de de de deeeeee"

7. I'm very messy when it comes to rooms in my house.

8. I dance when I'm in my house and skip/sprint down hallways at school.

9. I sing in my car. (does this count? i think everyone does)

10. I secretly fear that the elevators at school won't open or will plummet. Only the ones at school.

I TAG anyone who reads this.

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:47:49 GMT

OMG! Not quite an all-nighter, but almost!
hi everyone!

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:50:38 GMT

Bye all! I'm off to Cleveland for 4 days!

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:12:36 GMT

Happy Birthday P-Chan!!

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:45:59 GMT

Lastnight I had a frightening and vivid dream about being in the sharp centre during a storm of epic proportions with fire in the sky and dark clouds. When I left the building, the school building across the street (the original building which was detached from the sharp centre for some reason) had been hit by a large meteor and had a gaping hole in it with bricks strewn about everywhere. It was a disaster!

This morning I checked my school e-mail account to find that Fall/Winter registration is on July 4 and the course listings are already posted up.
I'm pretty happy right now and really excited. I've picked all of my courses (with the exception of clearing up a couple of confusing queries I have) and am really looking forward to next year.
Looks like it could be a lot of fun (and a lot of work).
Admin. are allowing 4th year students to choose a 2nd year core course as electives, so I'm almost positive I'll be signing up for Illustration 1 and 2.
In addition I plan to take packaging design, motion graphics and editorial.
I wonder how difficult it would be to change courses for winter semester during the fall. If I really like packaging I might try for level 2 in the winter.

I wonder how much time I'll have for work next year. I love my job, but I want to give my all to my classes. Hopefully I'll be able to achieve a good balance.

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:41:15 GMT

Your Inner European is Dutch!

Open minded and tolerant.
You're up for just about anything.

Who's Your Inner European?

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:25:05 GMT

If I could, I would spend my entire life reading, drawing and travelling.

That is all...

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:20:41 GMT

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIN!!!!!!

Rin!!!

Sat, 20 May 2006 20:12:21 GMT

I need your contact info so I can get you my cell #.
An e-mail addy would be good. You can e-mail me crayonpaint3@hotmail.com

NEW PHONE!

Wed, 17 May 2006 23:27:24 GMT

I have a new phone!! Its pretty! It has a colour screen!
Its bluetooth compatible!
HURRAY!
It's the same phone number as before! DOUBLEYAY!

(anyone who wants my number, but doens't have it, let me know)

Stolen from tzallyn

Sun, 07 May 2006 17:20:39 GMT

YOUR PORN STAR NAME
(name of FIRST pet + street you grew up on):

Phoebe Somerville

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME
(grand parent of same gender's first name + favorite snack):

Anna Salsa (cause salsa with melba toast and cream cheese is too long)

3. YOUR FASHION DESIGNER NAME
(first word you see on your left + favorite restaurant):

Aliki Nikko

4. YOUR "FLY GIRL/GUY" NAME
(first initial + Last three letters of your last name):

E. Ell

5. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME
(favorite animal + name of high school mascot):

Velociraptor Eagel (wtf)

6. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME
(middle name + city where you were born):

Alexandra Oakville

7. YOUR OPPOSITE SEX NAME
(name of sibling/parent [opposite sex] + cell phone company you use):

Gary Telus

8. YOUR DRAG QUEEN NAME
(name of favorite fruit, and current street you live on):

Pear Somerville

Nearing end of year 3

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 05:15:00 GMT

Its true and a little hard to believe.
Unfortunatly I've been giving myself a difficult time this semester over projects, as in I haven't been putting in enough to do the best I can do. I've passed all of my assignments thus far, but I'd like to do much better.
I'm more creative than this and I know it.
I've given myself a few half hearted peptalks throughout the semester but its time to kick myself in the but and get engaged with the work.

Heres the lowdown

5 projects
2 weeks
1 student

Organization will be key here.
I've finally snapped my brain into a few good things today as far as those projects go.
Now its time to initiate those good things and figure out the rest.
Design is fun but its hard work.
Distraction is the enemy.

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:50:04 GMT

I want to be the next Chip Kidd.

snowfall

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:06:04 GMT

This heavy snowfall has really thrown me for a loop.
I wasn't able to make it to anevent I was going to go to lastnight and right now I really don't think I want to drive into Toronto tonight...
Maura, if you're reading this, I'm really sorry if I don't make it but I promise to take you out for lunch next semester!

P.S. I hope you're feeling better from the other day!

the first sentance posted in every month this year: stolen from p-chan

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:48:25 GMT

Jan: Happy 2005 everyone!
Feb: I said the update would come later, so thus, later it comes.
Mar: There are a few things I intend to purchse
April: Wadda ya know, I actually did some HW tonight!
May: perhaps its the spring season, or maybe something else, but I'm looking around me at the volume of stuff I've managed to accumulate, and I just want to be rid of a lot of it.
June: OH yes, I'm finally done the project!
July: I have just come to the end of my first week of summer camp.
August: I know I haven't posted in a while but I feel so accomplished that I just had to! =p
Sept: I just signed up for 10 sessions of Yoga with the Health and Wellness Centre at my school.
Oct: Some people are real assholes and have no respect for life.
Nov: I've decided that I want to hang work in the artist's room at AN this year and perhaps get a table.
Dec:

Sat, 26 Nov 2005 06:13:37 GMT

I always seem to feel the need to journal when I'm comming to the end of things. Perhaps it just helps to organize my thoughts when I write them down.
This time I am comming to the end of the semester. It is my 1st semester of my 3rd year at OCAD.

I have completed my final assignment for my core graphic design class.
I have arachived my files and burned the work to CD for future reference.
I have yet to print out the files (a job for monday) and mount them on presentation board (another job for monday).

I have a 12 page doccument to typeset/design for my Typography2 class.

I have an essay to write on two Kafka texts for Understanding Modernism.

I have business forms to plan and design for Business Practices.

I have a week and a half.

Mostly I am feeling elation over the results of my core class assignment. I am quite pleased with the results and will be using it as a piece for my portfolio.
I feel as if I am finally beginning to make something out of myself. Slowly my designer being is emerging.

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 05:47:05 GMT

I've decided that I want to hang work in the artist's room at AN this year and perhaps get a table.
I've been quite happy this semester to note an improvment in my drawing skills and may beable to be ready for AN this May.
Perhaps I can convince a few of my friends to get tables too and we can encourage eachother.

I will make it my goal to complete at elast one sellable piece for the con over christmas holidays.
We'll see how I do with that goal first.

Also considering creating a new costume for cosplay.
One thought - Umi or Fuu (MKR)
may come up with something better tho.

Sat, 08 Oct 2005 06:28:15 GMT

Some people are real assholes and have no respect for life.
Tonight Rob and I spent the afternoon and evening in the city to celebrate our 3rd anniversary.
After dinner and on the way to the Panasonic theatre to see the Blue Man group Rob pointed out a mouse running along the sidewalk. I have a soft spot for animals and exclaimed that it was cute.
Just as those words left my mouth a foot descended with sharp accuracy extinguishing the mouse's life and leaving it in the form of roadkill to be pecked at by whatever comes along once the people retire to their beds.
I was so angry... and sad at the same time.
I wanted to track down the guy and plant my fist firmly in his gut but I was soothed by the thought that karma will one day come back to haunt him.
Incase you hadn't deducted this by now, roadkill makes me shudder.

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 03:37:43 GMT

I challenged myself today, and I came through.
My challenge was to keep my sketchbook out with me for the entire day.
Its always in my bag but it tends to sit there and travel around rather than comming out and being enjoyed.
So I began drawing at the GO station while waiting for my train, continued on the train, drew a bit in class, drew between classes and drew during my second class and on the way home.
I managed to lave my mark on 9 pages. I think thats a record!
They may not all be pretty drawings, but they're drawings and thats what counts.

My tutorial session this afternoon focused more on HTML and we broke into Dreamweaver.
It was fun but I had a mini panic attack about my future. It was based on the fact that I have
so much left to learn before I'm ready to be a designer... or whatever it is I'm going to be...
Talking to a friend of mine really helped. She's an illustrator and she assured me she gets the same
panic attacks I was describing.
I just need to take it one day at a time and take up new challenges.

Try something new

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:59:54 GMT

I just signed up for 10 sessions of Yoga with the Health and Wellness Centre at my school.
I've never tried it before but I figured why not?
I'm always looking for new forms of excercise that I don't hate (like running =p).
My only concern is that I'll like it so much that I'll want to take classes on a regular basis along with my 3 fencing classes per week, school, work, and when I find one, life drawing classes.
I need to retire so I have time for everything.

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:51:00 GMT

I'm going camping for a week!
I'll see you all when I get back!
BYE!

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:41:08 GMT

Today will be the last day of my Summer Sizzler's summer camp for 2005.
I'm a little relieved and a little bit sad.
Today is the last day of my first job in managment.

To those of you going to the con tomorrow;
I'm sorry but it doesn't look as if I will be able to make it after all.
Enjoy yourselves regardless and say hi to Mr. Kasman in artist's alley for me if you get the chance.
Its probably for the best because I'm just dhort of my goal for what I wanted in my bank account to start school and the con would have been like a car bomb to my savings.

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:30:02 GMT

1. Go here.
2. Pass it on.

1.~How did you meet nayth_san? He was dressed as Sanosuke at Anime North many years ago and a friend of mine took interest.
2.~What would you do if you had never met ameliorite? Probably not go to the Fall Nationals which would eb a sad thing indeed.
3.~What do you honestly think of makaris? Big teddy bear from NY who thinks he's tougher than he is =p
4.~Would or did toronto_maura and taikoubu go out? They never have and I don't think they would, although they're both artistic.
5.~Have you ever liked nitrophilia? Not in the 8th grade crush way is that is what is being implied here.
6.~If mikiyuu died tomorrow, what is one thing that you would need him/her to know? It been too long since we've hung out and I miss chatting.
7.~Would nayth_san and tzallynstories make a good couple? No, although they remind me of eachother a bit.
8.~Describe nayth_san in 3 words: dacephreak, car-obsessed, only-eyebrow-ring-I've-ever-really-liked
9.~Do you think nayth_san is hot? in ways
10.~Would mikiyuu and bluecanuck make a lovely couple? Not at all
11.~What do you think of when you see taikoubu? Drawing!
12.~Tell me something humiliating about tzallynstories: He ripped his pants at work last week
13.~Do you know any of isdoo's family members? All of the imediate family, most of the step family, and I've seen one cousin on TV
14.~What's nayth_san's favorite color? blue?
15.~On a scale of 1-10 how cute is aint_no_venus? 7.5 (cute isn't really a meaningful discriptor)
16.~What would you do if otachi2 just professed their undying love for you? I'd slap him
17.~What language does toronto_maura speak? Her own
18.~Who is prince_david going out with? don't think he's dating anyone, but he lives with Eric
19.~Is spamsama a boy or a girl? Girl
20.~Would fiestyrogue17 and otachi2 make a good couple? nope.
21.~Who do you think charcoalfeather would be great with from this list? Allanah
22.~When was the last time you talked to nayth_san? a few weeks ago for about 5 minutes online
23.~What is nitrophilia's favorite band? orgy?
24.~Does nayth_san have any siblings? sister
25.~Would you ever date isdoo? don';t think so. she's too hung up on Kirby
26.~Would you ever date nayth_san? No, too much like a sibling
27.~Is charcoalfeather single? not sure
28.~What is nayth_san's last name? don't recall =(
29.~What is fiestyrogue17's middle name? *shrug*
30~What is makaris's fantasy? to kidnap me.
31.~Where does spamsama live? Florida!
32.~Would you make out with nayth_san? No, same reason above
33.~Are ameliorite and isdoo best friends? no, although they both live in the states so that should count for something.
34.~Does nayth_san like nayth_san? Yep! He thinks he's a fine pice of ass.
35.~How did you meet fiestyrogue17? Elementry school.
36.~Is nayth_san older than you? Yes!
37.~Is bluecanuck the sexiest person alive? Obviously!

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:30:05 GMT

It is the 16th.
This day feels ominious for some reason.
A lot is going down as we speak.