~MaruHatesGravity

Rehearsal:

Well thanks a lot, grandparents.

Two minutes before you guys went to bed last night you told me I was supposed to be up at 9 AM to help clean the house in preparation for lunch with complete strangers (to me at least) who also happen to be missionaries or something. As far as I know.

You fail to wake me up at 9 AM. I was up late last night anyway because I couldn't sleep because I slept in late yesterday since I went to a midnight showing of The Dark Knight. I stumble out at 10:30, attempt to help with some things sleepily, and then learn that you managed to buy every food that I hate all at once for the lunch so I'm going to look like a picky little brat in front of these people. Then said guests arrive at 11:00 when we were expecting them at noon.



I hate potato salad. You know this. It makes me ill- no, seriously. I get sick to my stomach. That's why I hate it. You've known this since I was old enough to talk. Don't look at me like this is some huge shock.

But then again, you still think I enjoy nasty old canned green beans, so I guess this shouldn't come as some huge shock for me, either.

Ugh!

I haven't had a shower or brushed my teeth, Mom hasn't had a shower, we're both pissed at you and this is going to be extremely unpleasant for the both of us because you didn't friggin' tell us about this. It's our house too and if you want us to join you, give us a heads-up more than like twelve hours before something happens!

I had plans today!

I saw it at midnight.

If it were a cake it would have been a friggin' delicious midnight snack.

So a few days ago Jordan invited me to go goof off with the Journalism crew down by the riverfront. That's what we did today. It was pretty awesome.

Notable events:

-The first bottle of Dr. Pepper I opened immediately exploded and I was sticky for the next half hour, until I washed off in the drinking fountain.

-There were tons and tons of little kids!

-Tom got attacked by ladybugs.

-All of us suck at frisbee but it's really fun anyway, and I actually made some good catches.

-We saw an osprey. Or something. It was some kind of bird of prey. Dylan's only contribution to said scientific research was "BIRDS GO 'CAW.' EVERYTHING GOES 'CAW! EVERYTHING!"

-People were actually swimming in the Willamette river and we joked about them coming out with extra arms. Or ending up like Dylan.

-We ran around on this really deserted bank with a lot of rock and found the following items: an old shopping cart (the frame, anyway), several pieces of driftwood, a really big sock, and the dried and mangled corpse of a fish (took us a while to figure out what that one was).

-My favorite quote of the day: "HEY GUYS, WE FOUND A DEAD FISH, WANNA SEE?"

-I successfully skipped a rock for the first time ever (two skips).

-David successfully skipped a rock for the millionth time ever (five skips).

-Jordan bought me a snow cone.

-I'M TAN! SORT OF!

Oh yes indeed, it was Dumb Teenagers At The Park day. Adults looked on with suspicion as we wandered around being completely harmless but kind of dumb.

I realized something tonight.

Half the reason I pretty much fail at interesting poses is that I can never think of any, and I never decide on one before I start drawing a sketch for TRAOM or whatever I happen to be doing. On the rare occasion that I pick one and plan it better and maybe use a reference, it usually comes out better.

I bet you're thinking, "Well I'll be darned, Sherlock, who woulda thunk it" but it honestly took me this long to come up with that...

Anyway I need to get more dedicated with my PoseManiacs routine. I keep forgetting to go there and draw stuff every day. I've done it like... twice this week.

So I'm gonna whip my mind into shape here.

dA, you ruined it. v6 was pretty cool and now you've gone and ruined it.

NO, redirect ads are not a good strategy. They are in fact the crappiest advertising strategy I can think of, although pop-ups are very close to tying with them.

Ads should draw the eye and make you interested. They should not be placed so you accidentally click, and they should not in any way pop up and get in your way and irritate you. That's counter-productive. Why on earth can't anyone figure this out?



BAD dA. Time-out. Go to your corner.

EDIT

I'm pretty sure this is not supposed to be happening. Check this thread in the advertising forum.

"This post is to reassure the community that deviantART continues strong policy against popups and redirects."

I think something exploded in the advertising lab, or something...