Yesterday was wierd. I went for a run, so that’s what all the talk of running is about. (I didn’t go today; I slept in. So L doesn’t need to worry about her doctor’s appointment. And I’m not too disappointed because there’s salsa tonight to rest up for.) Then school happened, as usual… In Latin class we talked about that treasure trove that was found in England. That was pretty cool. They abbreviated Domine as DNE. Then there was rehearsal, and we tried the Creston Sax Concerto first movement up to speed, and it was wicked. There was a Latiz quiz, and I was almost late because of the ME students’ music sale, but I think I did well on it. The Music Ed students were having a sale of… stooff. I’m not sure where it’s from, but they had five or six large bins of LP’s. I bought about a dozen, including World’s Most Famous Concertos, a Czech Christmas Mass, Smetana String Quartets, and Haydn Divertimentos. I mean, Mozart’s Divertimentos are just so fun; Haydn’s must be good too. They even had a record of Brothers in Arms, but Dad already owns that on CD so I didn’t get it. I ran into Dr. Syer and he saw the records I had and one of them was of a Bach multi-harpsichord concerto that Dr. Syer has someone doing in the Collegium, so he asked if he could borrow it sometime. Cool. The sale also had a lot of old books, but they weren’t nearly as interesting. In my piano lesson, May Ling was pleasantly surprised that I played certain octaves LOUD. And musically. Which made me happy because that’s been my focus of the last week! Then I came home, made a new friend on the bus (I recognized one of the first years and struck up a conversation) and found out the internet was practically dead so I couldn’t fix a mistake I made on Flaer’s character page. I mean, I put Dvorak instead of Smetana. How dumb can you get? Anyway, I fixed it just now. Chorus made me tired, but we got the Misa Tango.
September 30, 2009
September 28, 2009
Break time
« Doodles Year 2 Part 3 ... I Came, I Ran, The Internet Was Slow »Hi! In the interest of usefulness on my part, I’m going to take a short break from posting images on the main site. I’m going to spend my time practicing music, instead. This will last for the next week at most.
Don’t fret too much. I’m having a lot of fun with the character pages, so those will be going up pretty frequently. I haven’t made any pictures for them yet but you can bet they’ll be up in the next couple months. But I have two compositions and a piece of fanart to work on – with deadlines! Nov 16 and Dec 25 – so I might wait a bit on portraits too. Oh, and the ever-present birthday cards that I find so fun, I have to do those. Although those take about 15 min now so I can’t use those as an excuse for anything. Anyway, cheers!
September 27, 2009
Doodles Year 2 Part 3
« Doodles Year 2 Part 2 ... Break time »Well, we’ll see how many I get done today. This should be the last of it, covering the scribbles in the last bit of Music History and all my Linguistics. Just one term of Ling because I had theory during second term at the same time.
Esgalwen, ‘maid of Mirkwood’, MH, Feb 6 ’08. Not bad, actually. Also someone’s head. No one in particular.
Warning! Picture has nekkid lady! About the only nekkid lady I ever drew! Click for full image. Okay, now this one has a strange story that I wasn’t going to tell you yet but I will. MH, Feb 10, ’09. Once upon a time, Flairé had a friend from the Dragon-lands that he suddenly found out one day that, to his shock, she was in love with him. Enough to forego modesty and pin him against a wall. I think he dropped like an eel to escape and ran around the room in circles before jumping up to perch on an arch near the ceiling, and because she was a weaver, not a dancer/acrobat/warrior, she couldn’t follow him. They… stopped being friends, though he did save her life shortly afterwards from something monstrous. Apologies to all who are offended by this picture.
A tiny scribble of dancing maids, same class.
First attemped portrait of Jalril ‘Mui-id’, MH, Feb 24 ’09.
Flairé, looking rather smug. Or something. MH, Feb 27, ’09.
And again, same class. Hmm, I didn’t have to take many notes that day. (Note: drawing often helps me listen better somehow. Sometimes. Not always. In History it always seemed to. Does not help with listening to younger brothers.)
Braden, shortly after he had an ad placed on Shaw TV about playing the Mozart D- Piano Concerto. It was pretty cool, and Stephen Brown said lots of nice things about him. And Mozart/Haydn. I didn’t manage to get to the concert with the concerto, but I did get to his solo recital, and it was good. And L was with me, which made it even better.
Flairé fanservice! He looks happy, but he’s not. Don’t let appearences fool you! MH, Mar 10, ’09. …I just like drawing manly shoulders and chests under very pretty faces. (Flairé: *sob*)
I’m not sure whether I was dating this guy or not at this point, but I certainly had a crush on him. So he gets a floral background. MH, Mar 13, ’09.
MH class, Mar 17, ’09: L wrote on the edge of my notebook: “Bolshevik Revolution – B.S. Revolution?” I replied: “yeah, pretty much”. Such political wit. : P
Flairé, looking grim, MH, Mar 17, ’09.
Flairé, again looking grim, even positively alien here. MH, Mar 20, ’09
Esgalwen again. MH, Mar 27, ’09.
SUPER TOMATO MAN THING!!! Drawn by… oh dear. I’m ashamed to say I forget. I think it was AlexR. Anyway, I love it. Same class.
Faces, MH, Mar 31, ’09. Link, with built shoulders, Some human girl I don’t know, and then Flairé, again looking weird.
Flairé, MH, Apr 1, ’09. Class began with a short biography of Dee Snider. LOL APRIL FOOL’S. Though I don’t know who Dee Snider is or who he turned into. Anyway, this is a lovely shot of Flairé, I think. Also a swirly thing with a shadow.
And now, Linguistics sketches!!
Flairé for teh pickel shurt, Ling, Sep 5 ’08.
Someone’s face, partly. Sep 9, ’08.
Youngish Flairé, pouting, and some incredibly long hair, Oct 1, ’08. Also a rather haunting face that was the result of a failed sketch so I scribbled it out.
Chibi Flairé heads illustrating my tiredness in class: SO CUTE!!! *stare* *WHUD* *zzzzzzzzz…*
Some guy, Oct 15 ’08. Apparently Woody Allen once said “Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.” Which has nothing to do with the picture, it’s just funny.
Glorfindel, I think. Oct 17, ’08.
A cool looking guy, I think. Oct 22, ’08. A bit squished but great hair.
Ummm… not sure who this is. Bayn? Lyrestan? Gyoriing? Oct 24, ’08.
Sad elf, also not sure who. Oct 28, ’08.
Random elf, and Rana looking very happy, Oct 29, ’08. And Link on the reverse side of same sheet, same class. You can see both of them!
I believe this is MichaelG but I could be wrong. That’s his sweater, though. Nov 4, ’08.
Flairé, MichaelG, Kylyraless not very good. What happened to Flairé? “I got prettier”, he said. XP Nov 18, ’08.
Flairé, Nov 6 ’08. Also Kalmaeiring phonemic minimal pairs: f and ff (ff is pronounce bilabially instead of with the upper teeth touching the lips), sh/hc (hc is like ch in Bach but much more air and less consonant). A minimal pair is when you have two similar sounds that, when used in otherwise-identical words, change the meaning. Like ‘same’ and ‘shame’, or ‘same’ and ‘sane’. Or ‘fwei’ and ‘ffwei’. (‘love’ and ‘angel’)
Flairé pointing with his sword (through a verb construction matrix). His other hand is on his hip but it wasn’t done very well. Oh well. Actually it looks like his hair parts on the side. Oh well again. Nov 18, ’08
A leaf, in a discussion of connotation vs. denotation. Nov 25, ’08.
Flairé AND MichaelG, this time. Still trying to find out if they look similar or not. Nov 28, ’08. Dang it, guys! Either look more like each other or less like each other! …Flairé’s prettier.
Then, at the very back of this book, comes my kalmaeirin piece Yale sha Milihcin (Song of Innocence), discussions on kalmaeirin music, music notation, and a rough draft of the first section of the score-scroll for the Yale sha Milihcin.
Not sure who this is; could be Flaria. No date.
“What good is singing yourself into tranquillity and then dancing yourself into estacy?” demands Flairé, attempting to explain why it is rare to have a slow song and fast dance together in the popular song/dance form. “I said that!” he said proudly, pointing to it, after I wrote it down. “Good fer you…” I replied sarcastially.
DONE! It only took me all day! Good thing I didn’t have anything else to do. Though three hour long naps on Sunday are great. 
You now have Zela’s bio up in the Characters page! I like doing these bios. They’re fun. Flairé’s is coming shortly.
The stupidest spam message ever: “Thanks because of sharing. The battle-cry on the at one waffle is genocide me.” It’s exactly the same as another spam message I got once, except the first one was in plain English.
September 26, 2009
Doodles Year 2 Part 2
« More Stalling ... Doodles Year 2 Part 3 »And here is my history/Ling notebook from second year… Today is just Music History. Tomorrow will be more Music History, and possibly Linguistics as well. But for today here’s a bunch of sketches. (MH stands for Music History)
The famous I LIKE PICKLES Flairé, Music History, Sep 3 ’08. Elbows too high, but otherwise the first sketch of my concept for a t-shirt.
Nieril Kylyralessa sha Nunathoemlen, MH, Sep 30, ’08. Bit too much hair around her face, actually.
Nieron Flaer Flaré sha Lilemlen, same class. I like Flaer. I really do. He’s often overshadowed by the more dramatic members of his family. But he’s a nice guy.
Zela and Flaer, same class. More terrible attempts at drawing kissing! Actually, this was my go-to picture for kalmaei. “Which one’s the girl?” Only 50% of questionees got it right. Meh.
Little Flairé heads, MH, Oct 6, ’08. So cute! Three different expressions for your perusal. ‘not amused’, ‘?’, and ‘so there!’.
Sometimes L scribbles cute little things in my book, too.
“Juliet Mitsuaishi”, a character I have no memory of creating, MH, Oct 14, ’08. Or what franchise she was for. I’m guessing something Japanese.
Just thought I’d mention the Felix MENDELSSOHNNNNNN!!!!!!!-Bartholdy that I put in my book… MH, Oct 21, ’08. Also on Nov 25 we listened to Mussorgsky’s song In Four Walls – Sleeplessness and apparently the text is similar to a kalmaeiring song (which is considerably less depressing, however). Here’s what I wrote: -dark sleeplessness -dark dark dark -time is rushing on yet the night is endless
MichaelG, Linguistics101, Nov 21 ’08. Fellow student with very nice black hair when it’s not chopped off severely. Drat the military and their haircuts! Also Flaer, next page. AND lx-sama and MichaelG’s hair, MH, Nov 21 ’08. SO SHINY. (pokes hair)
Little Flairé luv!! And different people’s hair. MH, Dec 2, ’08. Flairé’s hair, someone else’s hair, someone who is apparently not Bob, and lx-sama’s hair.
Vaguely chibi people, MH, Jan 7 ’09. Flairé is watching me exude a heart.
Not very good scribbles of MichaelG, same class. Sorry, Michael!
Ceniro looking awesome, not-Ceniro looking not-awesome, and humans in the 21st Century according to evolutionists?! MH Jan 14 ’09. Love that middle shot of Ceniro.
Looooommming Sunken Cathedral. MH, Jan 16, ’09. Well, we got to Debussy!
Someone’s face, same class. Looks to be drawn from an actual person, but he’s not labelled.
Flairé looking coy, same class.
Flaria swooning, Flairé’s ear, MH, Jan 21, ’09
Zela, same class. Nose way too long.
Rainy Flairé and random kalma, MH, Jan 27, ’09. I like Flairé here.
Nieron Marteth (sorta) sha Lilemlen, and Esgalwen, I think, though I’m not sure. Same class.
Wozzeck is the villain to whom we are sympathetic in Berg’s opera of the same name as the title character. So who is the hero? asks my teacher. “I am,” says Flairé, with his nose in the air. : D MH, Jan 28, ’09.
A flower and wind spirit. Same class.
Tiny tiny Ceniro! MH, Feb 4, ’09
So that takes us partway through second term, and through the first third of my notebook. More tomorrow.
Am very tired today. I accidentally worked an extra hour at work today because their clock was wrong and I didn’t know it was wrong because they don’t close at the end of my shift like they used to. They have a ‘restaurant’-type deal going on, with menus and formal waitresses and alcohol and everything. But I got to show around their new evening dishwasher, who’s really really cute, so that wasn’t too bad today. I forgot to tell him about the squeegee for the floor, though, and I have a feeling he might need that. But he catches on fast.
Yesterday I went to the performance of .t’s show The World Outside. It was pretty epic. I didn’t like the beginning, but I did like the music with the clip of the waterfalls. And I have the DVD, so I can listen to it (on lower volume : S ) as much as I want! : D And I liked the end, of course. The pretty sparkly bits. Meh, you know me. Of course those would be the bits I like. Oh, and the very very very beginning, with the title, that part was epic.
Last night after the concert, I went out with friends to a drinking establishment for the first time in my life… I didn’t drink myself, though the fruity drinks don’t look as bad as, say, beer. But I don’t need alcohol to get drunk. Just ask Kira, who took me outside and calmed me down after I went into hysteria. That’s what happens when I’m up for more than 16 hours and the atmosphere is excited. …It was pretty surreal. That might have been Kevin’s fault, though.
Then I felt bad for not doing much besides all that yesterday so I came home and wrote down the bit that .t’s show inspired in me, a bit of Zela’s story with Zela and Gullac…
And yesterday morning I bought a laptop cooler pad, so that’s good. It’s a little noisy, but now my table won’t catch on fire.
September 25, 2009
More Stalling
« Doodles, year 2, part 1 ... Doodles Year 2 Part 2 »Hi! In the interest of getting useful stuff done today (which I didn’t yesterday, I’ll have you know – besides the three hours of piano) I’m not going to put up the university sketch dump part 2. Instead, I’ll post a character profile later today. Perhaps not as interesting, especially as it’s probably going to be of Ceniro, whom you’ve most likely already read about, but it’s better than nothing, right?
I’m playing in Fridaymusic today, with Christine, and going to Thor’s show The World Outside this evening. And I need to practice the second variation of the Dutilleux and draw three portraits. Good times.
Btw the days of my flab are numbered…
And due to a fascinating discussion on the True Magic forum about The Silmarillion (touching on Glorfindel (<3), Fëanor, the Silmarils, Mandos, filial love, who died first, im/mortality, and what constitutes tragedy), I’m going to be digging up and posting a poem I once wrote about one of these subjects. I should also totally draw more Glorfindel art. But not today. Maybe tomorrow.
