Yeah, this didn't work yesterday, so this one is gonna be shorter. Basically, I was explaining why I hadn't been posting for ages. Alot of it was my involvement in 'Damn Yankees', as our performances were last week and we had obscene amounts of rehearsals. It was totally worth it, though- I had a great time, and the performances went great. I also went to prom the night after our last performance, which was fun (though I can't type in these f***ing fake nails...) A big reason I haven't been drawing much has been that I've spent the last couple weeks working on a project for my travel program- it was a set of historically accurate paper dolls showing the different clothing of the historical periods of Japan. It came out well, though it wasn't really post-able. I still have quite a bit of art classwork to do before the end of the school year, but at least I can post that stuff, and I should still have more time.

So in other words...if I haven't commented/answered your comments...I swear I still love you all!

Okaaaay...we'll just have to see if it even lets me post this damn journal...

Yeah. Sorry about the lack of replying to anybody's comments- I assure you that there is a reason for it. That reason is that I can't get into my messages page at all. Every time I click on it, a little popup comes up that says "something or other has failed. Operation aborted", and the second I press either 'okay' or close the popup, the messages page turns to a 'this page cannot be displayed' screen. Happens every time I try to go to my messages, even if I click back to it. I've very occasionally gotten it to work by clicking something on the page before it's completely loaded, but mostly...yeah. Frankly, it's really starting to get on my nerves, particularly because my messages have gotten above 600 again and I really hate going through them (and I just mean comments, journals, etc. Deviation alerts are now upwards of 2,100, but I can still get to that page fine. Go figure.) I'd said after the last time I had to just give up, delete all of them, and start over, that I wasn't going to let them pile up again, but I don't seem to have any choice here. Also, I discovered just a couple minutes ago that the exact same thing is happening when I try to access my gallery stats.

Anyone else having these kinds of issues and/or had them and fixed them? (And if so, how?!)

As for my life since the last journal, which was..sheesh...like, a month ago or something? Whoo...I'll talk about that at a later time.

You know what's awesome? I had a two-day school week this week. You know why? Because I'm leaving tomorrow for Savannah to do something that only a select few freaks like me could possibly enjoy- sight reading 65 to 75 pieces of music over the course of about 2 and a half days. ;D HEY, I THINK IT'S FUN, OKAY? D: Ooh, and my mom promised me that I could get my belly-button pierced while we're down there, so I'm hoping that goes well. Heh, thank goodness for independent chorus trips- Dr. Odom would have some kind of freak-out session if he found out that's what I was doing during my between-rehearsal breaks. XD

Haha, anyways. Kinda interesting day today... I succeeded in stepping on a sewing needle that was, for some reason, sticking straight up out of my carpet, so yeah. My heel is sore. And I napped for a while this afternoon/evening, which was odd, since I never nap... And I had a math test, which I actually think went pretty well (knock on wood). And now I'm just kinda spacey and spazzy at the same time.

But I have doughnuts. Doughnuts make life better. :3

And at lunch we gabbed about the new Star Trek movie that's coming out, starring Zachary Quinto's eyebrows- oops, my bad. ;D And directed by J.J. Abrams, which should be...interesting. AND THE SLASH LIVES ON, PEOPLE. IT LIVES, I SAY!

Be back Saturday evening! Bye, guys!

There is snow.

Sticking.

To the ground.

I'm so happy! We NEVER get snow here! And we may even have the day off tomorrow! *knock on wood*

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For me, for chem class:

Title: Mass to Mass Stoichiometry Lab

Purpose: To determine the amount of sodium chloride that can be produced from a known amount of sodium carbonate reacted with hydrochloric acid.

Materials:
-Sodium carbonate
-4M hydrochloric acid
-evaporating dish
-dropper pipette
-hot plate
-electronic balance
-spatula

Procedures:
1. Please wear goggles and apron for this lab!!!
2. Measure the mass of a clean, dry evaporating dish and watch glass, and record.
3. Add 1.45 grams of sodium carbonate to the evaporating dish. Measure the mass, with the watch glass, and record.
4. Slowly add 7.6 mL of hydrochloric acid to the sodium carbonate. When bubbling stops, add more hydrochloric acid by drops until you reach a point where no bubbling occurs.
5. Place dish on the hot plate using the watch glass as a cover.
6. Heat the dish gently on the hot plate until only dry solids remain. Make sure no water droplets remain on the underside of the watch glass. Do not heat too rapidly. If the product boils, it may spatter out of the dish.
7. Turn off the hot plate. Remove the dish and allow to cool. Determine the mass of the cooled evaporating dish/watch glass/product and record.
8. Clean lab station.

Pre-Lab Data:
Mass of dish, watch glass, and sodium carbonate: 91.384g
Mass of empty dish and watch glass: 89.979g
Mass of sodium carbonate: 1.405g
Post-Lab Data:
Mass of cooled dish, watch glass, and product: 91.703g
Actual yield of product (sodium chloride):

Conclusion:
1. 2HCl + Na

So yeah...I'm so bored. D: I've pretty much been just hanging out with people at various stores and/or the coffee shop since Christmas, which is all well and good, but for some reason I haven't even been able to make myself pick up a pencil. Ah well, I'll be fine once school gets going again. *knock on wood* And I'm going even more insane because I got a bad throat cold-thing and completely lost my voice, and I really want to be randomly belting out songs from "Sweeney Todd" AND I CAN'T. D:< ARGH. Not to mention I'm supposed to be practicing my honor chorus and All-State music, as well as my song and monologue for my audition for our school's production of "Damn Yankees." *sigh*

Remind me to quit buying clothes at Wal-Mart, because I don't sew very well and I'm getting tired of having to fix everything when the crappy stitching unravels. I got this amazing sweatervest/shirt thing the other day- it's teal, just like that fugly thing Constantine wears (...yeah, that's why I bought it *shot*), and I've worn it...what, three times? Giant rip down the seam of one of the sleeves. Did I catch it on anything? Noooooo. God only knows I've already literally resewn every stitch in a pair of FREAKING THREE-DOLLAR MITTEN GLOVES.

But on the upside...anyone remember this picture? [link] And the song I could never find? Well, the CD came in the mail today. After ONE AND A HALF YEARS of searching for it on the web and in stores in vain. I finally gave up and just ordered it off Amazon, since Mum said she'd get it and one other obscure Celtic CD for me as Christmas presents. ...So yeah, yaaaaay.
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10 Sketches Progress: 2/10 finished
1. Valentino for
2. Voltra for
3. Gallileo for
4. Brandon for
5. Bloom for
6. Toppy for
7. Ginta and Hakkaku for (I know, I said no fanart and only one character, but this is something we had talked about me doing ages ago and I never did it, so I made an exception)
8. Nia for
9. ??? for
10. Toro for
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