O.o Nearly couldn’t figure out how to update!

And yeah…In the process of doing this, Choji’s picture went somewhere…Hopefully I can manage to keep in at the end of the next entry.
 

Today’s Horoscope:
Today your mind is able to focus like a laser and your energy will be nearly unlimited — so it’s a great time to do some cleaning, either in your mind or your physical surroundings. Whether you want to organize your closet, pick up around the house, or refresh your attitude after a recent misunderstanding between you and a friend or coworkers, you can do it quickly and effectively. This is a great day for new beginnings, and by this evening you will be able to look back at a very productive day.
O.o *pokes at it* *pokes at it some more*
Yeah…Um…Okay…That could explain it. *laughs*

I don’t know what started it…But after Creative writing I took my stuff down the hall and deposited it in the general area of Photography class. [There is a class right before ours, so a group of us has taken to hanging out in the hallway prior to class…*thinks about it* Hey, I started that! *laughs*] Well, then I decided to head down to the ‘little girl’s room’…Started skipping…Started thinking *I could do a cartwheel*…Did a cartwheel. Went to the bathroom…Came back out…Going down the hall…Did five more cartwheels in a row. *laughs* It was insane! But it was fun!
Nearly fell over with the fifth one, right outside the Creative Writing classroom. So I stopped there for a minute and talked to a couple of the people who had been lingering (they do that on occasion).
Anyway…Got to talking to a couple of other people from class…Who proceeded to ask me what I was on. Did some more cartwheels, attempted to do a round off. That wasn’t nearly as successful, as I ended up lying on the floor looking up at the ceiling.
There was also…’climbing up & across the wall’ of the Photography room…I actually boosted myself up on the one pipe, and used it to go across probably half the distance of the room. This a couple times, in front of a couple more people from class, those that had missed the cartwheels.
Added to this…[Yes, there is more!] Was two running trips up & down the three flights of stairs.
All of that, and I still felt like I was bouncing off the wall, and had all kinds of energy to spare. In fact…I still feel like I have some excess. I would really love to find out what the heck triggered it, and how to tap into it when need be.

Other things from the day…
Finally finished off the film that was due today. Got it developed. While waiting for the 30 minute drying time of the negatives, I decided to use the time to print some pictures from the Value assignment. The teacher had expressed an interest in one of the negatives…A sheet of paper that I had taken multi-coloured sharpies to, and wrote all the names of the colours on it.
Ran the test print (the one that would have the projection scale on it). Picked out the best time, adjusted the numbers to make a 10 second exposure time. [10 sec. is that she wants us to aim for as an exposure time.] Printed one off. The paper which was suppose to be white-ish was more grey-ish…Changed the filter from 3.5 to 4. Printed the picture again. Perfect! It was beyond sweet. Printed a second copy of it.
Decided to try the picture of all my shoes piled up together. Ran the projection scale one. Picked out the time, adjusted it to 10 seconds. Printed one out. Beautiful! It was gorgeous! Printed a second, just because I was so happies with it. *laughs*
Make a couple more prints, from a couple more negatives…With fairly decent results.

Went to Creative Writing…Already went through what happened after that.

Photography went fairly well. We had a demonstration on how to mount our pictures. I had a bit more say in the process than I would have liked…As the picture she decided to use was the copy of the picture I had taken of the sharpies that I had give her. [Said picture which is ‘paid for’ with six sheets of photo paper.]

One another front…

I’m feeling better as far as things with Todd…If you can call it that. Not sure what to call it. Anyway…Over the last couple days I’ve spent some time thinking…Sorting things out…What not. I still love him…But it’s hurting less with the way I’m thinking about it now. We had some wonderful times, that I will always hold dear…And hopefully we will hang out in the future and still be friends. Also I know, as a boyfriend, in all reality…He really sucked. *laughs* We never actually went out on a date, in the whole 6 (9) months we were together. The closest thing was the day we ended up at the mall…Which only happened because I had to take the Critters to Traverse City. The last month we were ‘together’, we didn’t see each other, and spoke, maybe, for five minutes. It wasn’t the first instance of going a month without seeing/talking to him.
It’s true, I felt a connection with him that I had never felt with another…And I still don’t know if I ever will. Thing is, I did feel it, and the experience of that is the important part. It was something new, something special. Something I will never forget.
I miss him…But it’s not consuming me. It’s not worth letting it. I will survive. My mind still goes to him often, and probably will for a while, after all, thinking about him was habitual. He was a major part of my thought process for nearly a year. But…When I think of him now, I can do it with a smile, albeit, occasionally it may be a sad sort of smile, but then I can tell myself to think of something else, move on to other thoughts.

OMGs…Sometimes I wonder about my brain. *laughs* Things I should pick up on a lot quicker suddenly pop up out of, seemingly, nowhere…And I’m left wondering…‘What took me so long to figure that one out?’
Over the last couple days I read the last for of the Naruto mangas that are currently out…So my mind was set off in that direction.
Been seeing a lot of deer on my way to and from school…Which got me to thinking about what lesson deer wants me to be learning currently, and totems in general.
I’ve got a book (Yesh…We all know and adore that line, I know. *giggles*), Earth Medicine, by Kenneth Meadows. Like in astrology, we are influenced by when we are born. They way it’s broken down in the book, you get four related totems by sake of being born: Birth/Animal totem, Elemental Clan (which has an element and an animal relation to it), Influencing wind/Direction totem, and a Polarity totem.
In that instance, two of my totems by birth would be deer and butterfly.
Deer=Shika in Japanese — Cho=Butterfly in Japanese
Shikamaru & Choji…Two characters, who for some reason or another, I hold near and dear…And they are connected to two of the totems connected

to my birth.
I just find it amusing is all. [And with all the thinking of the last few days…Am feeling quite Shikamaru-ish. Though with today’s energy, I was a lot more active than he tends to be if he can help it. *laughs* He is a slacker…I try to be on occasion.]
I don’t know…Maybe I’m the only one that finds it thoroughly amusing. *shrugs*

Anyway…Tomorrow is Black & White day. My nails are already painted for it. Though I am thinking (as the tips are already chipped in places) of tipping each colour with the opposite. The white is thick enough to cover the black, I believe. & black, of course, will (hopefully) easily cover white (though that may take two coats…It is a thin black to start with after all).

Mica, from Creative Writing (who also knows James & Reese from previous classes), thinks our colour coordinating days are cool. She said something along the lines of wishing she had people to do that with. *laughs* *has somewhere/somehow along the lines become a trend setter* Yeah, not really, but the thought is just too bizarre.

Oh…And a brief mention of OD 6.0
*pokes at it* It’s going to take some getting use to.
Though I am quite happy to see the drop down menus return.
NOW…If we could get our bloody colour back for our notes…I would be a happy.
*growls @ OD* Just had to go through this…TWICE…To get it all fixed, as the majority of it ‘disappeared’ when I tried to add to what I had pasted in here!
AND…As the title states…It took me a bit to figure out how to get to the page to update on!
Bloody hell…All this, and they can’t give us back our coloured notes! *growls some more*