I'm up waaay past my usual bedtime, but I took a nap after I got home from school, so it's okay.

I desperatly need to upload something. I've been trying to redo a character sheet for Mailenex (her element and most everything will stay the same, but I'm changing her weapon). I've just been pretty busy during school and with school and such. Mainly I've been trying to think of ways to get outta doing work in my IEM Shop class. It was fun at first, but he started me on this hammer head project, which is totally useless because of the type of metal we're using to make it. And whenever I have free time in my classes, I usually end up sleeping, reading the Terry Pratchett book I picked for our Enrichment period, or this week I've been practicing my stitching for Crafts. I got the chain down, but I'm having trouble with the single crochet. I think I'm doing it right, but it always looks like I'm doing it wrong, so I'll have to ask her tomorrow.

I hope I get really far in the Tekken 6 tournament on Friday. Well, Friday's just the qualifying rounds and Sunday is when the finals take place. I just hope I don't get defeated in the first few rounds or get my ass beat by a seven-year-old or something. I also hope that there'll be some good stuff at the dealer's room. Like, it's a long story, but when my mom and her friends when to Chicago a few months ago, they went to see the Harry Potter exhibit and the gift shop was disappointing. Like, I think she said that there wasn't a t-shirt that hasn't been in Hot Topic the past few years.

Well, after last weekend, which is when I had a few friends over for my birthday, I thought that the few weekends afterwards would be pretty silent, until my friend Victoria brought up that there's a gaming convention next weekend. And, not just any gaming convention, it's like, RIGHT HERE--IN ARKANSAS!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?!

Calming down. So, anyways, I'm probably going to be there, and I actually plan on entering the Tekken 6 tournament. I may not be able to win, but I hope I can at least get pretty far. My mom'll have to take me there straight after school on Friday for the qualifying rounds, though. I have Tekken 6, so I need to start practicing...that means that I still have to go through an agonizing five-day school week to get to it. Hope my teachers don't give homework over the weekend, or they will be quite disappointed in me.

Haven't posted a journal in two weeks, so might as well now.

I went to a party at my friend's house for Halloween, and it was pretty fun, but I didn't get a whole bunch of sleep the night before (at least not as much as I usually get on weekends), so I got tired pretty quickly and was ready to go home after about 3 hours.

I'm already thinking of my costume for next year. I want to be Magrat Garlick from the Discworld novels. I'm going to be her when she was wearing Queen Ynci's armor from Lords and Ladies. It'll mainly be paper mache and stuff, but I think I can pull it off. My paper mache techniques in Crafts and Pottery haven't exactly been the best, but I'm always so worried that I'll fall behind that I kinda rush it a bit. My main problem would probably be finding a place to do all the work because there'sn not enough room in the garage and I highly doubt my mom'll let me do it on the dining room table, no matter how many layers of newspaper I put on top of it. Oh well, I'll figure it out...

Alright, it's been awhile since I posted a journal entry, mainly because nothing interesting has been going on in my life. But it's gonna get busy really quick. Well, at least the weekends are.

Today is the day that my school decided to have this OktoBEARfest because of good ACTAAP scores. I mainly think it's gonna be like the yearbook-signing day where we're all happy to be out of class for the first 20 minutes and then we're bored and wanna go home. I think we're going to get stuck out their on the football field for the entire 2 hours and 45 minutes they gave us, and just how they magically pick the hottest day of the year to do yearbook signing, I bet it'll be colder than brass balls on a monkey during this little fiasco. Maybe my mom can pick me up before it starts...

Can you believe it? It's already the second nine weeks and they're still dicking around with everyone's schedule. Now, in an early journal, I've already explained how I got some of my classes mixed around because of my IEM class and I had to switch lunches because of it. Well, I may have to switch lunches back now because of the cafeteria being overcrowded during second lunch. Look, I don't care which lunch I have, but just make up your f**king minds already!

Well, as I said before, my weekends are about to get extremely busy. This weekend, we're going to my grandparent's house because of the Arkansas VS Ole Miss football game, and for some people, it wouldn't be a problem, but my grandparent's live in another state, so we'll be gone the entire weekend. And the weekend after that, I'm going to my friend's Halloween party, which will be cool, but I'm not sure what I'm going as anymore. My first thought was a witch since I've been reading the Terry Pratchett books, but then I found this cool jacket at the fair yesterday and I think I might wear that. I'm just not sure...but, I still have some time to decide. And the weekend AFTER that is when I'm having my birthday party since my actual birthday is on the following Monday. I still need to get a few things organized, but I think I'm pretty safe. I just hate that I was limited to the amount of people I could invite...

There's not much else to talk about besides Fallout 3. I've been a little slow as far as leveling up goes, but I'm gradually getting everything together. I already completed the fun quests, like the Survival Guide and the Superhuman Gambit, so now I'm getting pretty bored. I'm gonna wait until I have my barter skill up to 50 so I can buy Charon's contract for only 1000 caps, but it'll take awhile since right now my barter's only at 20. But, I'm pretty sure everyone knows the song and dance for Fallout 3, so I guess there's no need for me to talk about it longer than I have.

As far as my art goes, I've been making little doodles in my sketch book which I actually might upload, it's the the fact of having to scan it on my computer, transfer it to a flash drive or something, and then loading it on my dad or brother's computer so I can put it up here...

Alright, I took Matt's advice and got Fallout 3, and the controls and gameplay is a lot like Oblivion, give or take a few controls. It'll still take me awhile to get used to it, but I just had to stop for the night to mentally digest everything. I actually don't really like the hairstyle that I gave my character, so I'm already thinking about a new character in mind already. Blue hair...awesome...

The main thing that's hard for me to adjust to is the screen layout. The even though the "arrow guides" are kinda the same in both Oblivion and Fallout, I'm still having a little difficulty with the guidance on this one and I can't tell you exactly how many times I had to pull up the map.

Plus, I did kinda screw up my character from the beginning a bit. I was going to do a "stealth" character where she had high sneak and lockpicking, which I wouldn't mind, but I don't want to pickpocket anyone because that'll make my karma go down even though I want to be a good character. It's just not in me to be mean, even in a video game. Annoying, yes. Mean, no.

Another thing that's probably going to be hard for me is the fact that it's mainly a shooter game. I don't have anything against them, but my aim is horrible and it'll probably hurt me later on.

Well, I guess I better stop before I forget that I need to charge my phone and iPod. I hope to have something uploaded soon, but how many weeks/months have I been saying that?