I upgraded my computer to OSX Tiger today, which was a bit of a hassle. I had to do a lot of rearranging of folders onto the standalone because I was left with under 3GB of disk space, which wasn't good because I like my computer to run reasonably well, even if it is old. I've got it up to 5GB now, which is better.

A couple of applications don't work now, unfortunately: Software Update (which is sort of important,) and Bittorrent (I promptly went and downloaded Tomato Torrent because I couldn't live without a Bittorent client!)

So yeah, I was flicking through Garnier's micro-site for their so-called 'manga hair' gel thing. Not impressed. They obviously didn't do their research properly, and made a really stupid mistake: they said shoujo manga is for boys and shounen manga is for girls. (Yeah... just a little error when you consider the fact that 'shoujo' is the Japanese for 'girl' and 'shounen' is the Japanese for 'boy.') Plus their examples of 'manga hair' looked more like stereotypical 'punk rock' hairstyles.

And they said: "so coooool, and so kawaii...!" What are they, pre-teen, hyperactive fangirls? It's stuff like this that makes the anime and manga fandoms look bad.

Two More Days
I have a streaming cold. Yay... I did the last part of my art exam today, though, and I managed to get it all finished on time. Now I just have to finish off all the preparation work for Tuesday.

The prom's tomorrow (not that I'm actually going) so while the morning will be pretty hectic, the afternoon should be nice and peaceful with half of year eleven having 'dentist appointments' and the like.

Just in case anybody actually reads these entries (doubtful ^_^) I'm going to post the first few paragraphs of a story I'm working on. Any comments/constructive criticisms are welcome. You might need to adjust the text encoding on your browsers to read this (I had to put mine on Unicode (UTF-8) before I could see the speech marks and brackets.)

“Great… what did I do this time?” I muttered to myself as I strode up the corridor towards the head teacher’s office. It was unremarkable, as far as corridors went, I noted to myself as I walked, despite the ominous door waiting at the end. The cheap, bottle green carpet crunched softly under my shoes with each step I took, and the walls were mocking me with their deceptively calm, dull shade of magnolia white.

I had trodden this corridor many times before, and knew it was bad news, but I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why the head teacher would summon me on that particular day. I knew when I had done something wrong – hell, it happened often enough. It wasn’t that I was a badly behaved kid (no, seriously,) but I had that uncanny ability to attract trouble like a magnet. There was something about me, and I didn’t know what it was. It didn’t help, of course, that I wasn’t exactly weak, and although it was an advantage at times, it usually meant I got the blame in a fight, even if I didn’t start it. But I learnt to put up with the constant trouble from teachers. I wasn’t about to let myself get beaten up just so I could get a bit of sympathy.

Reaching the end of the corridor, I found myself faced with a dark wooden door, upon which a brass plaque proclaimed: ‘R. T. Johnson, Headmaster.’ Gingerly, I knocked on the hard surface of the wood, the sound echoing down the empty corridor. I had barely let my hand drop, when the door swung open smoothly and soundlessly, and my eyes met a cold, unfamiliar face.

Ill...
I feel like crap! I think I'm coming down with some sort of cold/throat thing, I think it's partly because I haven't had nearly as much Vitamin C as usual, since until yesterday there was only moldy fruit in my house (not even a packet of dried cranberries.)

Right, I'm going to stop procrastinating and go work on Fragile Hearts (my manga project.)

Computer Fangirl Ramblings
OS Tiger (the latest Mac upgrade) is so damn cool! The Widgets (mini applications) come up onto the screen with this super funky rippling effect (as if your desktop is liquid) and they display all sorts of things like the weather, and lets you translate things. Now I just have to get the disk off my dad so I can put it onto this computer.

New Layout!
Another Itachi--themed layout... although not an ANBU one this time. The Sharingan background was a bitch to make... I experimented with so many different combinations of reds and black before I found one that worked. I wanted it to be black-on-red, like the actual Sharingan, but it was too overpowering.

I think I might do a layout of Envy from Full Metal Alchemist next time. That could be fun, and I could do a background with the oroborous symbol.

But anyways, I'm happy with this layout, even if it's a little angsty!