"Oh you've heard of us? Rock on."

Two drawings from my sketchbook from last week or so, both 100% Dresden Dolls:


"IAMTHEGIRLANACHRONISM"
(it has to be typed like that, all caps and no spaces, because that's how it sounds when she sings it)


"Coin-Operated Boy"

Drawing seems to be where it's at right now.
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I can't believe summer is pretty much over. Were this any other year, I would be clinging to the dregs of freedom but for the first time, I'm not. Summer was really such a let down this year, as seasons go - I don't recall a day of sunshine, it was the most horrible weather, no warmth or nice things like that (of course I actually hate heat and complain endlessly in its presence, but you know). So I still feel like I'm waiting for summer to come, rather than wrapping it up. At any rate, I'm not actually going anywhere til mid-late-September, when college starts. So I'm still free for a while yet.

Speaking of which, I have been a bit absent, but with very good reason.
For one, I got my Leaving Cert results the day after my last post. Out of a maximum 600 points, I got 550. I never expected to do that well and I'm really delighted. My course only needed 335 or something. I had wanted over 500 points, but didn't think I was going to get it; in fact, 550 was pretty much my ideal amount so I'm really thrilled, it totally snuck up on me. What's more, I was really happy with all my individual results. I got the A1s I wanted in English, Art and French, an A2 in Bioloy, B2s in Irish and History (don't ask me how that happened, I hate history and wasn't planning on counting it [you only count six of your seven subjects]) and a B3 in Maths. So, hurrah.

Second reason...I got a DS. It's one of the new bright cherry-red ones and I luuurve it. I'm nearly finished The World Ends With You (which is a great game and I really recommend it) and I'm somewhere along in Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass too (which is also brilliant, I just want to pinch Link's little cheeks...)

Other than that I've just been contemplating miscellaneous things about my life, such as: I wonder if my diet of all cereal has finally passed into actual malnourishment? And when I'm older, will I regret that my wardrobe is full of almost exclusively patterned and flowery things and that I insisted on wearing them all together anyway?

Also someone should put Hey Arnold episodes online.
That's all for now, I hope you are well (move it, football head!).