End

This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: Huge success.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

My name is Andi.
I do what I must because I can.
For the good of all of us

EXCEPT THE ONES WHO ARE DEAD.



So anyway.
The school year is ending. This week is my last week. In fact, today is my last zero-period class and I couldn't be happier. (UGH Don't take AP Comp Sci at Westmont guys, it's not fun)

Just kidding I could be happier. :b

Finals are this week and I have projects for my finals and I haven't finished all of them yet. D: And they're due tomorrow.
In fact I haven't even started one.
Oops. :/

Blogging

Blogging is fun. It's hard, but fun.

I often cannot find things to blog about, and find inspiration at the same time my friend Sarah is blogging. Currently she is blogging about nerds and fandoms and all this stuff I completely understand, being a nerd in many fandoms (lewl im cool :b) but I figured I wouldn't copy her.

I find blogging fun because I can type out exactly what I'm thinking and publish it to nobody who cares, because I have no followers and who ever wants to read anybody else's rantings anyway? I find blogging fun because I can create posts and save them for later.

Also I love tumblr. :b

And smiley faces. :U

Or just faces in general. :I

I find blogging hard because there are lots of things to talk about but I don't know which one to choose for what time. When I blog, my inspiration usually comes in one giant burst to blog about one topic, and then later I want to blog another topic but I figure one post is enough for a day.

Or a month.

Or three months.

Damn I don't blog enough. :I

Addictions

Before I start, are you the kind of person who gets addicted to things? And by things I mean anything, not just drugs or smoking or something. Do you get addicted to television, music, videogames, et cetera?

I'm the kind of person who easily gets addicted to things. Once I began watching Supernatural, for example, I didn't want to stop watching it. When I started reading The Dresden Files, I couldn't put the books down. Last year when I listened to Coldplay again, I didn't want to press pause for anything.

Well, things come and things go. I've caught up with Supernatural, I've got too much other things to continue reading The Dresden Files as religiously, and Coldplay is now just a pastime. But that doesn't mean I'm not addicted to them still, or can't get addicted to anything new.

My friend Julia introduced me to Imagine Dragons.

Now, before I give all the credit to Julia, I have to admit that I found the song "It's Time" to be rather good and I had a bit of interest in Imagine Dragons but not enough interest to follow through and listen. But last Saturday she introduced me to the rest of Imagine Dragons and I found the songs so much of an earworm that I downloaded Night Visions and PLOP! Imagine Dragons is my new Coldplay. In fact, as I type this, I'm listening to Night Visions right now. First it was "Tiptoe" and now I'm listening to "Amsterdam." Both of those are two of my favorites.

I think that I find Imagine Dragons so intriguing to me because the sounds are pretty similar to other bands I like. "Hear Me", for example, sounds similar to The Killers, and I like several of The Killers' songs. Some of the songs have a similar sound to Muse as well, not quite the same but a similar feeling to the phrases and stuff. There's even some parts that sound a bit like Coldplay. In my opinion.

I love music, and when I find good earworms I latch on and listen the crap out of the music. I listen to my music so much that my family gets tired of how much I listen to my music! And while I do love my other addictions, I'm currently addicted to Imagine Dragons, and loving it. :)

Messing with my friends

I love messing with my friends. :b

Shoutout to Sarah Rock!

Talking To Sarah

I've already said that I created this blog because half of my friends are in AP Language and they had to make a blog. Well my friend Sarah's blog was due today and she was asking about a "social issue." So me and Vivian, who also happened to be there, started thinking, and I mentioned talking to the people you like. And then I added talking to the people you like WITH the people you like.

Now isn't that a hard thing to do?

Photography

I've always been an artistic person. In first grade, I created a horse character that sounds completely preposterous now but was one of my best ideas ever back then. Between second and third grade, when Neopets was the "big thing," I drew the Neopets and Petpets I was most interested in.  In fifth grade, my friends and I drew little figurines we had as characters and put them all in a balloon chase.

In sixth grade I fell into another petsite that had a lot of artists on it, and as a young person I looked up to those artists. I found deviantART, and created an account in seventh grade. Before my deviantART account, however, I commissioned someone to create a fursona for me. I had since changed my fursona, but it was because of that website and my fursona that got me to be as artistic as I am now. It's because of that website and my fursona that I have decided to follow a career in art.

So when I started high school and learned about the photography class, I decided that was something I was going to take. To be completely honest, I didn't want to wait for junior year to start photography, but patience (and the school district) allowed me to complete my first two years without it.

And then junior year began.
And I began Traditional Photography 1.

 After the basics and a "pinhole camera," we moved into Photograms. I did several, but only one turned out well (the others were kind of experiments and not as good). Photograms basically are the silhouettes of objects you place on top of the photographic paper. In this Photogram I used plants that I encountered on my way to and from school.

Next we moved onto cameras. Actual, physical cameras. I felt so proud of myself, holding that camera and taking pictures with real film and everything. Sure, I'd done it before with disposable cameras, but this time was for real, in class, and not just messing around.
The purpose the first time was just to take pictures and develop the film. Our first assignment with the cameras, though, was to develop an image on half of a piece of photographic paper. That's what the above two are. The one on the left looks so odd because someone accidentally poured Permawash into the Fixer (Permawash cleans the film after the Fixer fixes or makes the images on the film permanent, and mixing the two does not help fix the film) so it looks a bit polarized. But the second image is what I turned in. It's pretty obvious that it's a broken basketball hoop. :b

After that, we moved onto prints. The first assignment then because "bike parts" -- to take pictures of parts of bikes, develop the film, create a print, drymount the print, and document the print. Woo. That's where this bad-boy comes in. I took a camera home and took pictures of my own bike for this. I am soooooo proud of this print. Except for a few dust spots (which photoshop helped me erase, heehee), this photograph turned out pretty spotless. I got a 12/12 or 100% on this project. Yay for A+ in photography! :D

Today I turned in our next project, "reflections," and I hope to have it back in a couple of weeks. For that project, I took a picture of the sun reflected in a puddle, and that picture turned out pretty good too.

Eventually I'll bring my developed film home and scan that too, and those photos might manage to make their way here too. :)

Birthday

Me and my new necklace!

I celebrated my 17th birthday on January the 11th, and one of my best friends gave me a TARDIS necklace. It's made of wood, roughly half an inch wide, and has a blue jewel on one door.

Birthdays are fun. Sometimes I expect too much, though, especially when it comes to presents. I believe presents should be as good or better than the years before. Last year, my parents bought me four tickets to see Coldplay live at the HP Pavillion, and it was the most awesome experience and the best present I'd ever gotten. So, with my belief, I thought this year would be just as awesome as last year.

Like I said, my expectations are sometimes too high.

Kioru, my fursona, celebrating my birthday!

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As an artist, one of the necessary components of art is the subject. Since I joined deviantART, I fell into the "character" phase, and I admit that I still have characters. In fact, I have a fursona, which is an animal version of oneself. That would be Kioru, my dog with a mohawk, to the right. And I drew him, on my birthday, wearing a party hat to celebrate. :)

Happy birthday to me :)