Aaaahhhhh!!


Life is a fucking rollercoaster. Wells Fargo sucks ass. Dirty juicy ass. I hate them. Max's mom is fucking awesome though. (So is mine, but she didn't just give me a ton of money to save me from the evils of Wells Fargo's ass suckage)

A couple days ago, I noticed that the newt egg has hatched. I'm not really sure when it hatched, but it's a few days old now and looking strong. The tank had time to cycle while the egg developed, so I think we may be past the dangerous nitrites and nitrates spiking thing... (Can you tell how little I know about aquarium cycling? )

My favorite frog died several days ago. Isaac, the Amazon Milk Frog, is gone. I'm very upset about that. Besides him being my favorite, I really want to breed Milk Frogs, and I can't afford to buy more at this point.

I graduate in a few weeks. I'm not sure how to feel about that. I'm inviting my parents and pretty much no one else... I don't want people to feel obligated, and most of my friends are out of state anyhow.

I'm happy to be graduating, but soon I'll have to pay off student loans, and get a new job... The job thing kinda sucks. I mean, I -want- to get a job in multimedia, but I don't really feel qualified.

Speaking of which... I have class bright and early Saturday morning and my homework isn't going very well. Turns out, I don't really know how to complete the assignment, since it didn't really go as planned. Oh well. I'll just make something up I guess.

I need sleep. I never get enough. I'm sleep deprived. My eyes have been twitching for two weeks because I haven't gotten any sleep.

Starbucks. Doesn't stop eye twitching, but it keeps me awake.

Sleep...

That's what I'm gonna go do now.

Someone send me some good dreams.

New Friends and Watchers


Thanks everyone.




Newt


Unfortunately, the newt shipment didn't go so well. I still have one egg, but I'm not expecting it to reach maturity. I'm probably going to order a couple morphed juvies with a friend next month, but we'll see. It's a little frustrating when they all die, despite your best efforts.


College and Graduation


I'm FINALLY nearing the end of college. Just about a month left before graduation. I'm looking forward to that. I'm planning on staying at my current job and doing freelance on the side until I have a decent portfolio. I will, however, be sending out my photography portfolio shortly. I'd like to take some photography classes as well, but that's kinda hard to do when you're broke.

Contest Winners


Congratulations to the First Place winners:


by =leocbrito and ~Allerlei

Second Place:
by ~CookieWolf

Third Place:
by ~Portokali

Admin Pick:
by ~HippieOtter


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MCR


I was totally not planning on seeing MCR, since it would cost me over $70 to get in, but my brother got us in for free last night. For the record, my brother has the best music connections EVER. He's friends with a chick who works for MCR's record label, who gave us the tickets.

They didn't allow cameras into the show, unless you had a press pass. I did get my roommate's little camera in, but it's the most craptastic thing ever and couldn't deal with the low light, so I've pretty much got nothing as far as photos, except a couple blurry colorful blobs, and the back of some asshole's head.

After the show, we went to a bar next door to MCR's hotel and waited for everyone to decide what they were doing. I guess most of the band just stayed in their rooms, but we went and hung out with Ray and a bunch of the stage crew at a different bar until sometime after 2 am. Ray is pretty much what I imagined he'd be like. Laid back and friendly like what you see in interviews and stuff.

After the bars closed, we went to a diner with my brother, the record label chick and their friends. My brother is fucking hilarious when he's drunk. He was cracking up at everything, then was nearly in tears when he thought they forgot his eggs.

We got home about an hour before I was supposed to get up for work, so naturally I called in instead. Definitely worth missing work over.


For those of you that like MCR quotes, I've got a couple new ones for you.
"Did you hear me coughing? I was burping up Redbull smoothie!" - Gerard at the end of a song

"Oh!... Oh wow! It's Bob's foot pedal!" -Gerard, after stopping in the middle of Headfirst for Halos when Bob kicked his foot pedal into the middle of the stage.

A couple minutes later... "Ray, did you see that? It's Bob's foot pedal!"

Max remembers more than I do, so I'll have him add to the list when he gets home from work.

Frog FAQ


I've been answering a lot of frog questions lately, here on DA, and on other sites as well. So I figured I'd throw this out there. Do you have any frog questions? Or reptile/amphibian questions? Or, hell, any question at all for me. I feel like being a little more interactive this weekend. I've been sick for the past 4 days, so all I have to entertain myself is my computer. So ask away.


Some Favorites


Here's a few of my latest favorite deviations. Enjoy.