queen heat ; 3:16:06 AM
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Good, someone is doing something for the rescue dogs at the attack areas. The poor pups are probably cutting there feet up left and right on the rubble. This company out of Canada is helping them out by donating doggie booties. We actually have a pair of these for the winter for Mr. Draw because his feet are so sensitive and he cuts them on the ice when the snow freezes over. Three cheers for the doggie bootie makers!

queen heat ; 2:09:22 AM
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Monday, September 17, 2001

For all you Tori Amos lovers out there, the new album, Strange Little Girls, is out tomorrow... as if you didn't already know if you're a true Tori lover. ;)

If you didn't notice earlier, I've basically been a day ahead of myself for week now, hence I'm sitting here thinking it's Tuesday, not Monday. My brain just isn't working right. I've been a total airhead & a half lately. So has my mother. I think it's something in the air.

(Thank you, Pete.)

queen heat ; 1:32:15 PM
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Kathy Boccella of the Philadelphia Enquirer just called me and interviewed me about the article she's doing about teen bloggers. Needless to say, I was nervous as could be and probably came off sounding like a total fool.

I seriously hope the article doesn't try and make me to look like I'm one of those "cam girls" that they've recently been doing the articles on. That stuff is nuts. I hope it's just a decent article on blogger itself and what a great tool it is. Not an "oh my God!" look at what these kids are doing type deal. I kinda got the feel from the questions she was more interested in why I was publishing what I publish of my personal life other than focusing on Blogger itself. For cripes sake, I've been posting a journal and stuff online since 97, BEFORE blogger even exsisted! It's kinda like the teen domain scene was just suddenly discovered and they think it's all blogger's doing. Sigh, the tangled webs we weave.

I certainly hope I don't end up regretting doing the interview. She seemed nice enough, but who knows what'll come out after the editing process. Now I'm nervous, hah.

Anyway, I'm going to go see American Pie II this afternoon with Stephanie. Then, I get to come home and immerse myself in the wonderful world of art projects, studying for art history, and all that jazz for school tomorrow. What a weird day.

queen heat ; 1:26:52 PM
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Sunday, September 16, 2001

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Saturday, September 15, 2001

The Fray: Missing Pieces

You can find my missing pieces towards the bottom of this page.

Where can I find yours?

queen heat ; 5:16:59 AM
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queen heat ; 4:08:19 AM
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Akk! The new yellow messanger bags being offered at Cafe Press are awesome as hell. I'm going to make a few graphics for a store on there. I've been thinking about doing that for like an eternity now. I better move my ass, they're only offering them til the 30th. I just don't know what to make, heh. If anyone wants to make a rainy.net graphic for me to use on it, go for it. I'd appriciate it, heh. Whether I use it or not, I'll post em' all (if I get any) and give you full credit and all that stuff. If anything, it might help to get your mind off shit if it's on it still. God knows the TV won't let us forget for two seconds.

*hurrys off to mess around with graphics*

queen heat ; 2:58:06 AM
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Friday, September 14, 2001

Then, you see more pictures and the harsh reality of it all hits you straight in the stomach again. These are probably the most prolific and disturbing photos I've seen so far. Maybe it's the inner artist in me, but the things seen in these photos hit me harder than the images of people jumping out of the buildings and the plane crashing into the tower did. I think it's the real, human aspects shown in them.

(Link via Suzen's livejournal.)

queen heat ; 8:37:36 PM
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Sometimes, it really does pay off to open up an email forward... this image made me giggle and smirk.

queen heat ; 8:27:45 PM
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queen heat ; 8:18:04 PM
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I did a charcoal/eraser drawing this afternoon during one of my breaks up at the PSU campus. I had been flipping through my art history book in dread of the class being next (and last!) on my 11 hour school day schedule and I spotted a drawing of a wedjat which is the eye of the Egyptian god, Horus. (Note: the one pictured on that page is slightly different than the one in my book.) I felt like doing something creative, so I set to work. Here's the finished project:


(note: clicking on the photo will take you to the directory where I've uploaded 2 large photos of this work.)

I used a charcoal stick, my sketch book, an eraser, and spray-fix so the damn charcoal didn't smudge all over the place like it tends to do for this one. When I was finished my hands were black and I had smudges of it all over my pants and my face. My shirt was black so I couldn't see it on there. I'm just really getting the hang of a lot of my media and to what lengths I can use them. I'm not a good drawer & never claimed to be one, so this little line eraser drawing thing made me happy since it came out looking like the one in the book.

You know, I'm really starting to like this whole poor art student thing, heh.

queen heat ; 12:03:08 AM
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Thursday, September 13, 2001

It's hard finding a balance of normalacy with all this crap lately. Personal problems, friend's problems, school work, and national tragedy are all building up together making life feel very surreal even still. It's almost like you feel guilty when something makes you smile or laugh when you KNOW there are people out there suffereing and grieving. I wish I could say that I was just going to move on, but I'm not. That would just be giving up.

I only have one class tomorrow morning which is usually fun and goes quite fast, so I consider my weekend to have already started. I talked to Stephanie tonight for the first time in about two weeks and we've made tentative plans to go out tomorrow after my class and do SOMETHING to get our minds off everything. It'll be just be wonderful to be in the presence of a good friend that I know I can count on, you know?

I have so much I want to get accomplished this weekend from studying for all my classes to making a Harry Potter website (don't ask, I have my reasons). Hah, we'll see how much I get accomplished.

What are your plans for this weekend?

queen heat ; 11:41:53 PM
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