...Damn state. Honestly. Today is the second day of my much needed spring break and Illinois decided that we should have SNOW. This state: it's either Winter or Summer, there's no Fall or Spring. Take your pick, really hot or really cold. I want to move to California!!

Haven't posted up here in a good long while, so I thought I'd put something up today. News, news, news....let's see: My Birthday was two weeks ago, actually! I am now seventeen, which is a disgusting cross between really old and still too young for everything. I got a nice shirt, some cash, the Iron Man movie,and the Watchmen graphic novel, so it was a nice birthday. Because I was in the school musical "Peter Pan" throughout my birthday week and thus had no time to spend iwth my family, we had my birthday dinner on Friday at this wonderful restaurant in Chicago called "Gene and Georgetti". Steak is by far my favorite food and this place serves some of the best ribeye I have ever tasted, so I was quite satisfied with the meal....not so much with the pounds I put on as a result, but hey....

Let's see, what else has been going on out here....nothing really. Getting a few old fanfic ideas polished and honed and ready to go and a few new-ish ones in the beginnings of a first chapter. Pretty soon I'll have snippets posted up here, too.

That's really about it. This week is purely for my relaxation, therefore there will be art posted and a few pictures of Eitka to boot. In the meantime I hope that all of you have a wonderful, warm spring day in the outdoors.

-Sephora

...As a good friend of mine would say.

Christmas and Winter Break were wonderful and since I didn't update then, HAPPY NEW YEAR A MONTH LATE!!! Yes, I do fail.

Well apart form holiday joy that has (unfortunately) passed, I haven't been doing so hot. I did buy new clothes and two freakin' cute shoes for my dollfie, Eitka, with my Christmas money, but other than that nothing good has happened. I did go shopping and buy some cute underwear and socks and pants with my best friend yesterday, and that was fun. But I am terrible at math, and I mean TERRIBLE. I can't subtract double digits in my head OR on paper. So I'm having a lot of difficulty keeping my grades up in order not to get massacred by my family while dealing with my homo-phobe, ultra-Christian Geometry teacher who continually tells the class to come in and see him after school if we need help. "if you need help, you need to come in on your own time to fix the problem." So, in other words, when the entire class sans like two people fails the quiz, we'll just move on because he can't possibly stray from his lesson plan to help us not fail. I went in to see him about all this and he claimed that the source of my problem was not the actual triangles themselves, but solving with square roots, "which", he told me, "you should have learned in algebra". But I didn't. And every time I got something wrong he'd bang his head on the table and groan.

Plus the school musical is going on now. This entire year I put in hours of my free time in our other shows to build sets, organize props, and do whatever was needed so that our director would know I was dedicated. He kept telling me that the show, "Peter Pan" was going to be amazing and he'd often ask me if I'd cut my hair to be Peter. And by often I mean once a month. But the show is a mess and it turns out he wasn't even considering me for the role, just toying with me in order to make me strive to be awesome. And what did awesome and a lot of hard work get me? Nothing. I'm not even in the chorus: I'm the fucking crocodile.

People, I'm sure, are quite sick of me complaining so this is the last time I'll bring it up. But in all fairness, and I HATE bragging so this is not to toot my own horn; I'm a SINGER. That's one of the only things I'm good at. And I'm a good actress, too. I can't dance to save my life,or so I thought. But I was in the school dance show a few days ago and suddenly everyone says I can dance.

Back to the initial problem: When I asked the director why he made me a NON-DANCING, NON-SPEAKING, NON-ACTING, NON-SINGING GREEN LIZARD, he replied: "well, you're not Peter, and you're not Wendy, and you're not a good dancer, so you couldn't be an Indian but I needed you in the show; we don't want to waste your talent."

....But you're not using any of it!

I've been DEMOTED from Chorus, where I was put last year. How is that supposed to make me feel? I didn't have to be Peter, but a role would have been nice.




PHEW! There. There's so much more I could tell you about this show and all the reasons I hate it, but you don't want to listen to me bitch anymore, so I'll stop.

Th point of this whole thing is that my luck HAS GOT TO CHANGE. All of January has been shitty. Hopefully February will be better. BRING IT ON!!

took this one, and I thought hey: it's Christmas, why not? So here goes:


Type in "[your name] needs" in the Google search.
A: "...Ellis needs to do a little history reading". That's probably true.

Q: Type in "[your name] looks like" in Google search.
A: "Ellis looks like a winner" Woo-hoo!!

Q: Type in "[your name] says" in Google search.
A: "Ellis says 3-2-1-ignition!" ...alright.

Q: Type in "[your name] wants" in Google search.
A: "Ellis wants to expamd role with defense" Apparently my name is Greg and I play football for the Cowboys.

Q: Type in "[your name] does" in Google search.
A: "Elis does the Pee-Wee Herman"...What exactly IS the pee-Wee Herman?

Q: Type in "[your name] hates" in Google search.
A: "Ellis hates America"...Most of the time.

Q: Type in "[your name] asks" in Google search.
A: "Ellis asks a lot of questions" That is definitely true.

Q: Type in "[your name] goes" in Google search.
A: "Ellis goes cycling"...not in this weather, I don't.

Q: Type in "[your name] likes" in Google search.
A: "Ellis likes Kansas"...can't say I've ever been to Kansas.

Q: Type in "[your name] eats" in Google search.
A: "Ellis eats humble pie in Beijing"...humble PIE?

Q: Type in "[your name] wears" in Google search.
A:"Ellis wears all black" Au, contraire....

Q: Type in "[your name] was arrested for" in Google Search.
A: "Ellis as arrested for marijuana possession" Nope. Not gonna happen. Some kid probably stashed it on me at party.

Q: Type in "[your name] dances" in Google search.
A: "Ellis dances like there's no tomorrow"...well....

Alrighty! I tag

Go to it!!

...But I'm not going to get them. In less than 30 minutes I'm going to get my Wisdom teeth removed. I DON'T WANNA GOOOOOOOO!!! On the plus side, they're gonna drug me so that makes things marginally better. But still. And I have a problem.... (nodds to little box at the top of the page)

I haven't been on for a while, I know, and for anyone who cares to hear it, sorry! I still love you, I just don't have a life anymore and thus cannot be on DA all the time like I used to. But I'll be posting stuff soon and (hopefully; the camera cord has been misplaced) pics of my gorgeous new dollfie, Eitka! Well, she's not really new anymore, but still....

I'm writing again too, but it's taken a while to get back on the horse. Speaking of getting back on the horse, I drew people for months in my drawing class and didn't have the free time at home to draw horses, so I've regressed. Urgh. But I will post horses soon (and some people too). And I'd really like to actually get back on the horse, I haven't ridden in forever!

Sooooo, artist to be praised for this week = for being surely awesome and having a worship-worthy anatomical understanding of creatures that don't even exist. Yay for her; go visit her now!

I'll post stuff later, I SWEAR. Ta for now (and wish me luck!)

, Sephora

Obama is president-elect. YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!



...And that is all I have to say.