frankly this round is a little less enthralling than the first time i got tagged for this meme, before the number was increased from six to eight facts. THAT one is where the good dirt on me is. [link] i ran out of interesting topics because in all actuality i didn't leave much out and haven't changed much in a year.

i enjoy all edible parts of a creature, living or dead, preferably not human, preferably some sort of sealife. eyeballs and spinal cords are novelty favorites.

i eat grapefruit peeled, segmented, skin-on. sometimes i eat too much and get the old dire-rear... but who the fuck cares i'll outlive you by fifty years. typically i steal this grapefruit from my neighbors' yards. no one has put up a fence yet. lemon or lime rinds however i find edible and very tasty.

love ketchup, hate tomatoes. also hate milk but crave ice cream 24/7.

i have a horrendous oral fixation and must constantly be either eating, smoking, chewing gum, or chewing ice. hence half of this meme's relevance to food items. i smoke about a pack a day but my most prevailing health concern is being a hypochondriac.

i firmly believe that post-secondary education in this country is a cash scam. Educational Institutions my ass; business is business, and the business of telling people they can't do something UNLESS they buy your product/service is as old as i am jaded. FUN FACT: i believe the same thing about the mental health system. and before your rebuttal, i have been cycled through both.

Law of Averages started in 2002 as a setting for SiLicon Half omake, where Jen and the other S/2 characters convened with myself as Director and Overlord in an official setting and were subjected to my wrath for their shortcomings. that is where the notion of numbered LOA characters' (those based off of real-life friends and acquaintances) treatment as indentured set workers and lackeys originated, and evolved into a somewhat nicer (if still martial) society. my best friends who inspired Sixtynine, Sixtyten, and Forty have accounts on DA (, , ), and Thirtyfive's counterpart is a dominating presence in my old photo submissions (second only to me). we haven't spoken in three years.

i hate video games. with a passion the world has yet to experience. all right, all right, i'm not totally inhuman; i hate everything that came after the SNES with few scattered exceptions (3).

THE HOT LIST: Davey Havok, Sascha Konietzko, Bettie Page, Motoko Kusanagi, Johnny Knoxville, Josh Duhamel, Jon Benjamin.
THE NOT LIST: did you know that Masamune Shirow looks like a fish? he's like an Asian Michael Moore.

THE LIVING - i'm finally nearing the end of employment hiatus. well i'm not, but my money is.

i have my car insurance for the month paid in advance, two job applications currently in processing, a possible 'in' with my dad's job (gratitude which words cannot express), and an account on a Florida job board gushing with my high school records and employment history highlights. too bad i don't want to do art for a living or work for another restaurant, or the damn thing would work like a charm. thankfully there are a lot of entry-level assembly and machining jobs in this area, and even a few that offer training.

it's also really too bad that i didn't decide to use the internets to search for a job until i was so low on cash. two weeks ago i could've had this done; it is really requiring no effort and i might've had a job by now and be a little more carefree.

i did iron out some of the problems with my friends at little expense, but it was shared; we will both stop talking about one another. but i only agreed under the clause that no apologies would be exchanged. i did nothing, and i refuse to forgive or indemnify her-- or anyone. as long as we got that straight, i can say hello and be friendly when we encounter one another. just no one get the crazy idea that i let shit like that get past me and no one has to be responsible. so much is over now and it can't come back; just like that, through someone else's actions.

SOMEBODIES - years ago my mother and i came very close to collaborating on an important project, but i got cold feet and backed out because i didn't feel i was talented enough. she was crushed and actively held it against me for a few months. i was not in a good place. eventually the whole affair fell by the wayside as i started high school and other things were going on.
well this year, for her birthday, i wanted to finally own up to the task and finish this project with her. save for my crappy-ass predesigns, she kept the original plans and having those to work from we are going to make a children's book together. my mother works with children under three with disabilities and before that, kids of all ages. the book is about responsibility around the home and consequences of neglecting them.

now you guys are my only audience so far... so i'm lucky there's even as many of you as there are. i'd like to ask you to keep an eye out for concepts i put together. as fellow artists, your opinions and advice are extremely valuable and as friends and not family, i know you can be objective. i'm not sure how much of the project my mother wants secret until completion, but i'd love to share what i can.


that's about everything... this was a pretty quick update, for me. but things are looking a little more hopeful. i'm still alone, still sweating money problems. and there are things that i will miss. things that a little reconciliation can't repair between myself and other people involved. but that's why i'd rather forget than forgive.



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The crowd on the street walks slowly; don't mind the rain.
Lovers hold hands to numb the pain,
gripping tightly to something that they will never own.
And those by themselves by choice or by some reward;
No mistakes-- only now you're bored.
This is the time of your life but you just can't tell.

I heard it's cold out, but her popcicle melts;
she's in the bathroom, she pleasures herself,
says I'm a bad man, she's locking me out--
It's 'cause of these things...
Let's make a fast plan, watch it burn to the ground.
I try to whisper, so no one figures it out.
I'm not a bad man, I'm just overwhelmed--
It's 'cause of these things...
It's 'cause of these things...

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