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Liesel Sylwester  

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Journal Entry: Sat Mar 22, 2008, 6:15 PM
Winter term is finally over, thank God, and this is the part where I fill you in on unnecessarily explicit details of my personal life. Because I like to.

Last term was downright strange. Around midterms I started having these fits where I would suddenly feel like I couldn't get enough air, which sent me to the doctor for the first time in years. It felt like a heart attack, but I guess it was really more like a panic attack without the panic. She told me to go sleep it off, but that never really happened. I was probably the most depressed I've been in a long time, but I didn't really feel it... there was just a strange and terrible nothingness. After about three weeks of this, everything suddenly felt completely amazing for a week. Difficult to explain, but I felt close to something. And then the panic attacks came back. More recently accompanied by nausea. ...I'm hoping spring break will be enough rest to keep me from completely destroying myself.

I'm finally done with all of the required basic art classes, which is good because the last one I took just about made me crazy. We made plywood chairs, which would have been fun except the working conditions were frustrating beyond words. I'm still not quite done with the chair, but it should be done before too long. I'm still working on my embroidered dress, too... which should also be done soon. In theory, anyway.

Organic chemistry is hard. College is lonely. I don't know anyone in the chemistry department yet and I don't feel like I really fit-in in the art department. I'm not artsy enough, I guess... I feel like I'm too practical. I haven't heard back from the product design program yet, either... which is sort of lame but oh well. I'm going to try and take it easy next term. No art classes, which should give me a lot more time for my own projects. Emphasis on "should." Anymore I'm just hoping I'll survive.

  • Listening to: The National

Devious Information

  • Current Age: 19
  • Current Residence: Mostly in my head (Oregon)
  • Interests: Making things, fine shoes, festive jewelry, Chemistry, Physics, survival, power tools
  • Favourite movie: Waking Life, I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pan's Labyrinth
  • Favourite band or musician: Fiona Apple, Beck, the White Stripes, Van Morrison, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cat Power, The National
  • Favourite genre of music: Rock & Roll, anything funky...
  • Favourite artist: Mark Ryden, Yoshitomo Nara, Tim Burton
  • Favourite poet or writer: Joseph Heller (Catch-22) and Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)... sometimes Paul Celan
  • Operating System: My brain and a few choice organs.
  • Skin of choice: Leather.
  • Favourite game: Tetris, Kingdom Hearts, Super Smash Bros., Scrabble
  • Favourite gaming platform: PS2 and N64
  • Favourite cartoon character: Brak from Cartoon Planet, Daria Morgendorfer, the Ventrue Brothers, Ren & Stimpy, Southpark
  • Personal Quote: "I'm not afraid of you and I will beat your ass"— YoLaTengo
  • Tools of the Trade: Anything I can get my hands on, my hands included.

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*Miss-Minerva-Sage:iconMiss-Minerva-Sage: Apr 20, 2008, 1:23:47 PM Mood: Joy
Am I a dork if I faved like half of your clothes? :O_o: :giggle:

I seriously love your style and your designs, and your woodworking is amazing and your drawings are really cute! :heart:

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"How can I create positive change in my life? Let someone pass in traffic! Start with that!"
- Serj Tankian
:handshake: :teamwork: :highfive:

~creepy-craft
*ArtisanCraft
*matthewwwilson:iconmatthewwwilson: Apr 6, 2008, 7:38:03 AM
You have some jaw-droppingly fantastic work.
~KingNapoleon:iconKingNapoleon: Mar 30, 2008, 8:27:53 PM
It's navy blue velvet. Completely ridiculous, but it works. Hahaha. My earliest class is at 10, too. I still have a big 'ol bundle of balsa wood if you get hungry... Hahaha.
~Kodako:iconKodako: Mar 28, 2008, 8:08:26 PM
OOOOooo that color is the seat??! i wanna paint mine a dark brownish red when i get it home hehe~ So glad the class is finally over. My earliest class next term will be at 10. hopefully i'll have the common sense not eat to balsa wood anymore haha.
~KingNapoleon:iconKingNapoleon: Mar 28, 2008, 6:51:00 PM
Hahaha. My chair is sitting in the living room waiting for me to finish sanding it and oil it. I did finally upholster the seat, though. It looks somewhat respectable now :D
~Kodako:iconKodako: Mar 28, 2008, 1:51:18 PM
Nice work! your style is very vintage like. I love it haha! plywood chairs haha, mine is currently a tv stand haha... and im bringing my ps2 and it shall fit in the shelves :P
~Vakoto:iconVakoto: Mar 27, 2008, 11:12:22 PM
Cool stuff, good ol' UO art classes huh? (And stuff before :P)
I know somebody you know!
~bvandenbroeck:iconbvandenbroeck: Feb 11, 2008, 9:48:55 PM
great job, keep it up!

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Let me speak out of context for a minute to say that maybe, just maybe, youll need to buy a sink. yes a sink. i see it in your near and/or far future (you never know, you might have to get 2 or more sinks in your future. one could be soon and the other mo
~KingNapoleon:iconKingNapoleon: Jan 9, 2008, 9:49:58 PM
Wow. That will either be really good or really bad. I think I would get a lot more done if I didn't spend so much time on the internet, but it's the only way I really talk to people anymore.... I'm all starved for social contact this week and it's getting ridiculous. I miss my old schedule :(
~Nikandedd:iconNikandedd: Jan 9, 2008, 12:07:32 PM
You know what makes that even better? He's almost right about all of that :P

The standard internet code that we have right now is due to run out of addresses in about ten years. hah.

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-NK
~KingNapoleon:iconKingNapoleon: Jan 8, 2008, 11:09:16 PM
Haha. According to my father's paranoid internet sources, the entire internet is going to crash in ten years or so if no one upgrades some secret and mysterious core piece of it. And then the world will end because hoodlums like us will have no idea what to do with ourselves sans internet. So we will burn things in the streets. Because that's really the only option when there is no internet.
~Nikandedd:iconNikandedd: Jan 7, 2008, 7:29:13 PM
hahah, awesome!

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-NK
~KingNapoleon:iconKingNapoleon: Jan 5, 2008, 5:59:11 PM
Tiiiired is no fun. I've been trying to stop staying up all night before school starts, but it's not working very well.

I think we sort of killed the comment function on DA, by the way. I can see the comments on my homepage when I'm not logged in, but when I log in it says there are no comments whatsoever. Hahaha. Hurrah for overloading the internet!
~Nikandedd:iconNikandedd: Jan 5, 2008, 3:35:33 AM
Yes.

God Im tiiired

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-NK
~KingNapoleon:iconKingNapoleon: Jan 4, 2008, 9:25:33 PM
If you're not doing anything Monday afternoon, we should SO go and get passes!
~Nikandedd:iconNikandedd: Jan 4, 2008, 3:29:48 PM
I still see that as being a good plan, yeah.

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~KingNapoleon:iconKingNapoleon: Jan 3, 2008, 3:05:00 AM
I suppose it's all relative... I was totally going to get my dress put together today, and then I totally didn't. Yay for me! I'll do it tomorrow. Are we still going to dominate the craft center come next term?
~Nikandedd:iconNikandedd: Jan 2, 2008, 11:18:06 PM
Well uh, hanging around at home watching TV is, uhm, cool. I guess :P

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~KingNapoleon:iconKingNapoleon: Jan 2, 2008, 7:32:02 PM
Uuugghhhh. I'm jealous of your fun. Last year my friends and I dressed up and went tango dancing, which was awesome, but that was all the way last year so it doesn't really count.

I need to get out more... like, really.
~Nikandedd:iconNikandedd: Jan 2, 2008, 6:15:53 PM
Oh hell yes. Was a fucking success. Near on 20 people at my house 13 of them them brought tasty foods, every one was incredibly well dressed. Was rockin!

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~KingNapoleon:iconKingNapoleon: Jan 1, 2008, 9:11:32 PM
Did you have a fun new years fiesta? My new years was a joke. I sat at home and watched paranormal junk on TV while eating cake and drinking champagne. Hahaha. Exponentially lame compared to last year.

Anyhow, I'm completely free on Sunday after late morning. I'll call you tonight/tomorrow or somethin'.
~Nikandedd:iconNikandedd: Jan 1, 2008, 5:01:56 PM
Sounds good. Give me a call when you know whats down.

Hope you had a fun new years event!

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-NK
~KingNapoleon:iconKingNapoleon: Dec 31, 2007, 1:51:00 AM
If you're up for Sweeny Todd, I'm all for it! Either way, I'm sure we'll see it eventually. I wanted to go when it came out, but none of my friends in town are keen on bloody movies involving cannibalism. No idea why.

Lunch/brunch would be dandy. My grandfather may be having a birthday party that weekend, most likely Saturday or Sunday evening, so I may or may not have to be home 5:30-ish. I'm thinking his birthday is Saturday, which would be ideal, but I shall have to find out for sure.