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Currently bored and nothing to do.

Sadly, I also need to be dragged since I was the biggest lazy bum in the Midwest today. I spent the whole day in bed. Not because I wasn't feeling well, not because I was too tired.....I was just plain LAZY.

Tomorrow is going to be a whooooole other story. No more lazypants Cel! 3nodding

Got invited to go to my sister's house for dinner Sunday. I get to meet my niece's Thai friends and have Thai food. The number one thing to not bring up around them, the latest coup. They're probably worried to death as it is the Junta would cut off more of the only ways they use to communicate with their families back home even on a temporary basis. They've already cut their parents off from Facebook for a brief period last Wednesday. While, according to one of my niece's friends, coups are routine with this one marking number 12 it's not a routine coup from the way the military is going from interim government to possibly military dictatorship with all the censorship going on lately. Yep, going to be a fun and interesting time Sunday.

Today I almost died crying It's frickin humid at school, and THERE'S NO AIR CONDITIONER. I wonder, in all of the 40 or so years this school has lived, has anyone ever thought of building an air conditioner? Like damn.

I'm four episodes behind on Sailor Moon. I can so catch up on that by next Monday if I watch one episode a night.

I finally have some professional art materials ^_^ No more crappy mechanical pencils, and hello to actually good graphite pencils.

Not all mechanical pencils are bad. For my art I use a professional Sakura127 mechanical, straight from Japan. I never have issues with the lead snapping because this pencil holds it securely. It sure beats the typical pencils that you have to sharpen. 0.7 lead is the best for general drawing. One of my "how to draw" books covers pencil lead weights and which ones are best.

If you want to go really professional, I would suggest Micron Pigma outlining pens. They are both water proof and fade proof. They almost never smudge. Interesting fact, they also happen to be Sakura brand like my pencil. You can find all of these at your local Hobby Lobby, or whatever craft store you have in Canada. Failing that, look online.

One other trick is to use those erasers you put on the ends of pencils for the more delicate erasing jobs. They also work really well for creating highlights on areas colored dark with colored pencils. For marker you'd need a Prismacolor Colorless Blender, but it only works with other Prismacolor markers, Copic markers, or a brand similar to Copic that is called Neopiko (this brand is specifically geared toward manga artists).

Copic and Neopiko are refillable, alcohol-based markers; Prismacolor markers are not refillable. However, Prismacolor seems to have a very wide variety of shade choices.