Raven Mysterium

New Location, also Comics

2008-03-17T13:16:00.000-07:00

Me and Adam are presently renting a nice little apartment 3 blocks south of his work or 98th Ave and 104th St. We've got a 3 month lease on it, and will be getting phone and internet on Wednesday.^_^

It's nice to be one 20 minute busride from school, cause I have SOOOO much work to do. IF I can manage to get off my lazy butt, this week, I will be going insane from working.

Also, Saturday was 12 Hour Comic Day. It was basically a 12 Hour Comic Jam and was a lot fun. I even got my picture and a quote in the Edmonton Journal. Yay!

Can't wait for May.

Endless Ocean

2008-02-04T15:29:00.000-08:00

Adam messaged me the other day with "Do you like the ocean?"

I said yeah, and asked what's up. "Just curious," he replied.

Next day: "I bought a game about the ocean."

What's it called?

Endless Ocean. It was $30.

It's actually a pretty fun game, and quite relaxing. We spent a good chunk of the weekend diving in various places, taking pictures and petting fish, penguins and polar bears. You can even get dolphin friends to swim with you. I named mine Namor and Zeus (though I should have named him Poisidon or Neptune).

As you interact with fish (poking, petting, feeding), you get more information about them. Some of them will give their info with a couple pets, and then follow you around for the rest of your dive, wanting more affection. Other fish won't give up their secrets so easily, especially in the deep sea crevace called "The Abyss." One fish down there that we can't get any info out of, we simply call "Dick Fish." Cause he's a dick.

There are also missions you can do, but you don't have to do them if you don't really want to... you've got about a week to complete some missions, so it's a pretty chill game.

If you like fish, this game's for you.

Ice on Whyte

2008-01-22T06:43:00.000-08:00

So this week, I'm singing at Ice on Whyte, and yesterday was my first night singing. I got the adress, checked which buses tooks me there and went on my way. I took a 7 down to City Centre and took the LRT from there to the University. I knew I needed to take a 4 or a 6 to get me to 104th street. I ho on a 6.

It's dark, and the bus is really crowded, so i can't see any street signs. All I could tell was that the bus was going very south. South was bad. I got off the bus. I had no clue where I was, so I started walking till I could find a street sign. It was a little after 7, so I called Jack to tell him I'll be late, if I make it there at all. Afew minutes later, I realize I'm on 113th street and 67th ave. NOT where I wanted to be, so I turned around and started hiking back toward 82nd ave.

Fortunately, a 6 comes by, and I'm able to take it back to the university. I didn't want to take my chances with it going the wrong direction again, so from the university, I WALKED to 85th ave and 104th street. I also just missed 2 buses that would have taken me most of the way.

I finally got there around 8 o'clock. It had taken me 2 full hours to get there from my house. Needless to say, I wasn't looking forward to the adventure of finding my way back home. Fortunately, a very nice lady drove me home.

Let's hope things will go easier on Wednesday and Thursday.

Happy Christmas and Merry New Year!

2008-01-03T21:25:00.000-08:00

Little late, but happy holidays anyway. I've been busy with stuff, and been hanging out in St. Albert a lot.

Adam's Project is Finished!

2007-12-08T20:16:00.000-08:00

So yesterday was the day of Adam's project presentation. I think it went pretty well except for Sean's part (that was pretty brutal). We headed over to Boston pizza afterwards then went to The Globe @ 7 for the CST grad party. I made Adam stay in his penguin suit the whole time cause he looked nice in it. ^_^

We ended up being 15 minutes late to The Globe due to sucky Edmonton bussing, but oddly enough, no one else was there except for Kyle. He was the only other person there that I had met before, cause Sam and Sean didn't come at all. People starting showing up later and there was a lot of constantly moving around to different tables.

I had some potato skins there. They were GREAT! I need to have potato skins more often.

We ended up leaving early cause I guess it wasn't so great of a party as Adam hoped it would be. He also said he had "things to do"??!? O_o

We watched some IT Crowd and cuddled a lot. It was a good night. ^_^

Hopefully, he might already have a job... so horray!

Also, we got Matthew and Serena to play some more Guitar Hero. They're starting to get the hang of it now! Soon they'll be better than me. :(

Ouchie.

2007-12-04T05:28:00.000-08:00

I had to get a needle yesterday. It huuuuurt!

I guess mumps has been going around, so everyone was encouraged to get immunized. There were notes in our boxes and posters everywhere. I really didn't want to go, as I had nightmares about it the night before. I'm terrified of needles, and of course, being all tense only makes it hurt more. I ended up being dragged down with Ceima and Amanda, so at least I wasn't alone. The worst part was being told to wiggle my fingers as the needle was jabbed into me. My arm was sore for s few hours after that, but I'm fine now.

At least I won't have to worry about getting measles, mumps or rubella anytime soon.

Got a Boyfriend

2007-11-28T19:08:00.000-08:00

Well, me and Adam (from the drama club) have become involved with each other for the past week and a half or so, when he came to have a Firefly marathon with me.

We've been spending a hell of a lot of time together recently.... but I don't mind.:)

NAIT's on Fire!

2007-11-12T13:03:00.000-08:00

Well, not anymore...

In the first half of my English class, we heard the alarm and thought it was just another silly fire drill. We head outside and complain about standing in the cold for forever when there's not even a real fire.

Then we hear the firetrucks coming.

A little while later, we're allowed to head inside to the nearest hallway, but we're not allowed to leave that hallway to enter the E-wing. Probably cause the E-wing smelled like burning. After some standing around, we (me, Steven, Nicki, Alex, Sheldon and Reba) headed over to the HP centre, where I took some pictures on the pedway.

After that, we headed to the South Lobby to see if we could back to our lockers. No such luck, but there were people playing Guitar Hero. Pretty soon, Ceima and Jesse and Alex find us and tell us we need to go to the gym. George is at the gym and he tells us afternoon classes (except the field trip) are cancelled. i didn't HAVE afternoon classes, so it didn't really affect me.:/

Someone opened the door to tell us that it would be another half hour to an hour before we could go back to the E-wing. Me and Steven head off to get some food in the Common Market and run into Rosalee, Daina and Dolly. They were able to sneak back downstairs to grab their stuff, but by the time we went to where they went, it was blocked off by another teacher.:/ We strolled around the sports area for a while until we were finally let back in E-wing. I grabbed my coat and keys and headed home.

I was supposed to get out of school at 10:10 this morning. I didn't end up getting home till 2:00.:( Oh well...

Apparently, the fire was caused by a small torch in the denturist section on the second floor. Not a lot of flames, but tons of smoke and water damage, leading to about $100,000 in damage. I was actually sitting next to some of the dental students on the bus, and one was saying, "I wonder if we can just have smoke-flavoured dentures?"

Anyhoo, here's some pictures I took:

PS2!

2007-11-11T15:17:00.000-08:00

So, I finally picked up a PS2 today. I got the white one that's bundled with Singstar. I'm pretty eager to see how Singstar compares with Karaoke Revolution. I'll also be able to play Guitar Hero II as soon as I get it back from Dean.^_^

I was able to play some Guitar Hero III at Adam's place the other day. It's fun, but definately harder. I may have to pick up the first Guitar Hero too, just cause it's easier.:p

I also played with the iPod Touch at Futureshop for a little bit. Wow... I really really want to get one.

Across the Universe

2007-11-11T15:12:00.000-08:00

I got to see this movie a week ago at Silver City (or Scotiabank Theatre, as it is now called.@_@). If you like The Beatles, then it is a must-see movie. It's awesome, and the best musical I've seen in a long time! My favourite songs are probably I Want You, Hey Jude and Strawberry Fields Forever. Just amazing all the way through. The movie basically writes itself.

Five Stars

More Halloween Pictures

2007-11-01T21:19:00.000-07:00

I stayed in and watched Evil Dead II last night. We got about 30 Halloweeners.

I saw very few people at school dressed up, and since I was a pirate, people kept yelling, "Arr!" "Harr!" and "Yarr!" at me.

Here's some pictures of my costume, decorations and the vampire stakes and silver bullets I made.

Also, the drama club finally has a couple people willing to help out with filming and editing, as well as another female actress. They seems like pretty cool people.:)

Happy Halloween!

2007-10-31T12:19:00.000-07:00

I've been quite busy doing my Halloween decorations and preparing for my English presentation on monster slaying. The presentation went really well, and everyone seemed to enjoy it.^_^

I carved my Jack-o-Lantern last night while watching some Big Wolf. (Veoh will let me watch them on the site now! Yay!)

I'll take more pictures of stuff later.

24 HCD pictures!

2007-10-27T00:03:00.000-07:00

Here's some pics and a couple pages of my 24 hour comic that got posted on the Facebook group.

24 Hour Comics Day

2007-10-21T13:27:00.000-07:00

24 Hour Comics Day was this weekend. It was a blast, but I am soooo tired. I was sitting by Rob all day, so I was able to borrow some of his art supplies and he drew me some awesome gun and werewolf references.

I finished my comic in good time, but I think my content was a bit of a disaster. I ran out of story ideas and ended up drawing dancing art supplies and a giant, crying Sharpie. Then I drew a monkey punching a cobra. my creative pools had gone dry by that point.

Regardless of my sleepiness, I had a great time and really wanna do it again, next year.:)

On another note, I have been making Big Wolf on Campus videos with iMovies.^_^ http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Xgirl1251

I also had to order the City Drive cd on HMV's website since even WEM didn't have it. I've got 5-15 more days of waiting to go!

The City Drive

2007-10-11T13:42:00.000-07:00

Remember that old show Big Wolf on Campus? The one with the jock who turns into a werewolf and has to team up with the gothy Merton J. Dingle? I looooved Merton. I'm a dork, I know, but I loved that character and he was so cute.

Fast forward to the present day. I check Wikipedia on the show to find out more about it. (Gotta love Wiki). The actor who played Merton is a guy named Danny Smith, who is not only an actor, but a singer/musician. He's in a band called The City Drive. They've got a few songs on the band site that automatically play and I was quite happily surprised with the quality.

Malifluous.

There's one song in particular, "Runner" that's sooo good. I really wanna sing it myself if I can get a good backtrack to it. I was gonna pick up the bands' album at HMV yesterday, but they DIDN'T HAVE IT! X_X I guess I'll have to check out the big HMV in WEM, or get them to order it for me.:/

They also made a couple podcasts which I found through their MySpace page. So funny and awesome. I nearly choked on my popcorn. (Yes, I was actually eating popcorn at the time.)

Anyhoo, this is my new favourite band right now. You better check them out. Or else. Or else I'll beat you over the head with a guitar. I do own a guitar, y'know, even though I don't know how to play it.

Ok, maybe I won't beat you over the head with a guitar, but I WILL constantly show you pictures of Danny and shout "ISN'T HE PRETTY?!" like a teenage schoolgirl.

NYAH!:P

Golden Rice Bowl

2007-10-11T13:35:00.000-07:00

So on Sunday, we were going to go to Dynasty for my birthday, but since they were closed for an hour and completely booked for the evening, we headed to Golden Rice Bowl instead. They were planning for a wedding reception at 6:00 but let us in anyway. The woman at the restaurant even ordered for us. It was soooo good. I only wish there were more veggies and scallops so that I could've had some.

At the end of the meal, the waiters came over with a candle in a mango pudding and sang me happy birthday.:)

Oh, I also got about $290 in birthday moneys, a couple arm warmers, a sweater, a vegetable ivory necklace from Ecuador and a few comic related products. Pretty good score for my 20th.B)

Drama Club

2007-10-05T15:16:00.000-07:00

After filling out a survey about potential clubs, I got an email about the Drama Club having their first meeting on Wednesday at 5:00. Since I didn't know if any other clubs in my interest range would start up, I decided to check out the meeting.

A whole 4 people(including me) showed up. One other girl and two guys.

Surprisingly small, but I actually hope it doesn't get much bigger, since I'm more comfortable in smaller groups. It would also enable us to do some group writing for some awesome comedy sketches.:)

Guess I'll also be making posters for the club, since I'm the only one with Photoshop skills. Horray!

Happy Birthday to Me!

2007-10-01T14:15:00.000-07:00

So, as of today, I am no longer a teenager.

So far, I've gotten 90 bucks in cash, a glass necklace and a supergirl necklace, and hope to get heat in the house later today.

Not sure how I'm going to celebrate, as I'm all alone this year.

Invalid Serial Number

2007-09-26T07:14:00.000-07:00

There has been some added tension to the relationship between myself and Adobe. I spend nearly $400 to buy a product of theirs and they choose to not validate my serial number when I try to use it.

I'm gonna try a reinstall, and if that doesn't work, my last resort is to call the help desk and talk to some guys in India for who knows how long on my cell phone.:(

Talk Like a Pirate Day!

2007-09-19T07:09:00.000-07:00

Yarrgh! It be Talk Like a Pirate Day, today mateys!

Hoist yer anchors and set sail ye pirate ships! Raise the jolly roger and go searchin' for burried treasure, ya scuvy dogs!

Yaarrgh!

iMac set up.

2007-09-17T19:02:00.000-07:00

Woo hoo! Got my iMac all set up! I couldn't get the iPod deal at the tech store, but I was able to get a free scanner/printer/copier deal instead, so that's cool too. I plan on buying an iPod Touch in the near future anyways.

Fortunately, the cool Tobey Maguireish guy at the tech store carried my iMac and printer outside of the school for me.:) The day before, he had noticed my headphones and said they looked more like $3000 headphones than $50 ones. He may have been flirting with me, but I'm not sure. Anyway, he seems cool, so I'd like to talk to him again sometime, maybe find out his name.

Now, all I need is the Adobe suite, and I'm all set!^_^

Settling in.

2007-09-13T10:25:00.000-07:00

Haven't posted in a while, but I've been fairly busy with school and stuff.

NAIT is really cool. I've started getting used to the bussing and school schedule and the layout of the place. The comic shop and my singing studio are only about a 15 to 20 minute walk away.:) The sucky thing is that I still don't have heat or hot water. Thank god the girl's locker room is in the same hallway as my classroom. Hot showers are a luxury.

Hopefully, today is the day that I get a brand spanking new iMac and iPod Nano. We'll see...

Hectic, Busy Busy

2007-09-03T07:19:00.000-07:00

I did nearly all of my moving this weekend. I've got everything except my tv and dvd player, my other dresser, some clothes and my long box of comics.

My room is set up and tidy, the kitchen in looking cleaner and smelling nicer than it did before and the bathroom still needs to be cleaned more. The bathtub is spotless, but I doubt I'll be using it soon. Did I mention there's no heat or hot water here?

Yeah... because of the previous tenants not paying the rent, the heat was all shut off, and could be this way until the new tenant comes in at the end of the month. The electricity might go at any time too.:/ Fingers crossed. I'm praying for an Indian summer.

Despite the lack of heat, I had quite a cozy night here. At least, I was when I was actually sleeping and not kept awake out of the fear of someone breaking in and trying to kill me. I kept the hallway light on, just in case.

I might not get any sleep tonight though, cause I'll be too nervous about tomorrow. I just hope I can learn my bus route easily.

Drumheller

2007-09-03T07:06:00.000-07:00

A week ago, we took a day trip to Drumheller as our 1 vacationy thing this summer. We went to all the usual places we go. Reptile World, gift shops, the Royal Tyrell Museum and The Fossil Shop.

At the museum, they did a lot of cool redecorating. Before, when you entered the museum, there was a big spinning globe with a spotlight as the sun and a narration talking about the earth in space. Everyone used to just walk right by it, so they got rid of the whole thing. Now, when you come in, you're put in a Jurassic Park-esque rainforest with several Albertosaurus, complete with painted backgrounds and soundtrack. I tried to take some cool pictures of it. We'll see how they turn out.

I ended up coming home with a salad/pasta fork shaped like a velociraptor arm, a fossilized ammolite in a bit of rock, a fossilized shark tooth and a tiny stuffed utahraptor. I wanted to look for another opal necklace, as I had gotten my current one in Drumheller, but it's very rare to see opals set in jewelry, and the ones that are, are always $600.:/ The white opal in my necklace has cracked, which is common for opals. Maybe I'll have to buy a $50 opal and then take it to a jewlelers to have it made into a pendant.

NAIT Welcome Week

2007-08-23T01:24:00.000-07:00

So Monday was the start of NAIT'S Welcome Week.

First off, there was an ice breaking thing in the gym where I got to briefly meet some people. One girl who I became friendly with, Andrea, noticed my henna tattoo and that became the starting point of our conversation. I REALLY need to get myself a henna kit, especially if it helps make new friends.:)

After the ice breaking thing, we were put in groups and were taken on a tour of the main campus. It looks like a really great campus and there are lot's of places to eat and study. There's a coffee shop, a Mr. Sub, a Pizza Hut, a Common Market, and even a campus bar, The Nest, located next to the swimming pool. It'll be free to go to the pool, so I think I might end up going there quite often.

When the tour was finished, we headed over to the Shaw theatre for a comedian presentation about managing finances. I ended up getting 5 bucks for being "the smallest freshman."B)

After that, there was a free hypnotist show at The Nest with Damian the hypnotist. It was pretty fun. I was laughing so hard I was crying.

The next day, I went in early for the free pancake breakfast and registration. As we were having breakfast, some French guy asked us to sit at his table and we talked alot about politics, since he said he was going to be a polititan. Very friendly though. The registration went quickly so we were out of there pretty soon.

Afterwards, we went to Surf's Up! at a cheap theatre. The movie was really great. The only downside was that a daycare brought 196 kids to it and completely filled it up. My dad, who was late(as usual) couldn't get in to see it with us.:/

Anyhoo, it's been a very exciting week so far.:)