My blog is finally calming down; thank you! I’m happy that I’m no longer getting 100+ hits a day. Now I feel better blogging. Okay, so I don’t know where to start.
I finished reading Breaking Dawn. Not my favorite, at all. There’s so many things that I kept picking on that really bothered me, especially the biology stuff. Ugh, I hate these “miracles” that keep happening in the books, they’re so annoying. It’s not a good plot if you keep having exceptions to everything just to get what you want! The first seven chapters was honestly just horrid to read. I enjoyed reading Jacob’s part more than anything in that book and I wasn’t a big fan of Jacob. Seriously, a baby? No. Edward calling Jacob his son? NO! That just ruined Edward Cullen for me, it did. No epic battle? Fail. Love shield? Lily Potter did it better. Calling all this negativity the “Rob effect”? FAILFAILFAIL. I’m not going to love this book like how I love Rob. Just saying.
Band practices started! So far, I’m liking it more than any other year. The weather isn’t that extreme yet either, so it’s pretty bearable even though I still do sweat so much. I’m liking this whole thing about getting the band more involved by playing all these section vs section games for points. It’s really bringing out the best in everybody and if you disagree, then I don’t care. We’re doing drill downs every too, which I love doing so much. But I’m slightly bummed that I haven’t actually been winning even though I make it to be one of the last ones standing almost every time. But I do have some complaints. Mostly about people and how my legs are so sore!
As for everything else in my life, there’s no such thing. I haven’t started my summer assignments nor have I been doing any other things whatsoever. I’m still pretty into using LJ at the moment, but not for blogging. Just to keep track of resources (mostly textures, I seem to love those) and to post my icons. The other day I posted 132 icons. :/ I’ve been working on my cropping in Photoshop! I’m actually pleased with some of the results I’ve been getting, though sometimes I would look back at it and think that I should have done it another way. Maybe that’s why I tend to make about 3 variations of an icon because I can’t decide which cropping is better. I did 6 for a Rachelle Lefevre one. Look:
graphics community: emptyserenade
That just made me realize how much I prefer having the picture sided on the right, hah! And I haven’t been doing anything too fancy with icons either. I just do very simple colorings and then I use a black & white ‘grungy/cloudy’ texture and then set it on screen. Seriously, I’m going through this “i love b&w texture” phase.
Jack’s Mannequin came out with an EP! I’m liking the new stuff so far. It’s different, but lovely. The sound is really attractive. I’m honestly very excited for the Glass Passenger to come out September 30th. :)
