Wow... go me, submitting a journal without actually writing anything. Blondness strikes again. I think I'm seriously turning into Zip, though I don't thing that would be a completely bad thing. <3

Okay, oddball ranting aside, sorry for not updating at all recently. Life has been suckish lately. College eats time, and so do holidays apparently. I have had no free time for anything in the past month. A pile of random sketches is sitting beside the scanner, with a good number of TUGS pics mixed in, yet I haven't had the time to sit down and actually scan them. Homework and studying for final exams seem to really get in the way of everything.

On a more positive (and somewhat stranger note) I'm thinking about attempting to make a few TUGS themed avatars on Second Life. I figure it would be pretty fun to slide around on a public lot as one of the Zero Fleet. It would be amusing to say the least... I just need a floating AO of some sort...

And now back to the negative and highly depressing... My dear leopard gecko, Mezerael, passed away over the weekend. We think it was an internal parasite, but none of us are sure. She was happy and healthy when I got back home, her usual responsive self. Two hours later, I go to get her in order to feed her and find that she had died. She looked like she was simply taking a stroll around the tank and just died. The only sign of any sort of trauma was a small amount of blood leaking from her mouth. Could someone please tell me what could have caused this because I'm truly clueless.

Yay for public embarrassment! The other day I decided to take a walk to the local park just to blow off a little steam and get rid of some excess energy. The park is roughly a mile down the valley from my dorm, and I must say that since its fall time, it is rather beautiful. At the park I chose to sit down on one of those porch swings that was mounted in an A-Frame type setup. Not five minutes after I sit down, the entire support system for the swing completely collapses. o_0 I guess its natures sort of way of telling me that I need to lose a little weight. The sad thing is that I'm really not fat. Upon closer examination, I found out what really caused the swing to collapse. It turns out that all that was holding the frame together was nothing but three heavily rusted nails.

Luck was really not with me that day... On top of that, to add insult to almost injury, I look up to see that a small tugboat had pulled up to the docks beside the park. Inside the wheelhouse, I could see the captain laughing his ass off at me. Of course, chances are that he was laughing more at my facial expression then at what had happened. I really wish that I could have gotten a photograph of the tug itself. Her name is the Drew Scott, but the thing that struck me the most was that her livery was almost exactly like Sunshine's before he joined the Star Fleet. If I weren't so embarrassed, I probably would have fangirl squee'd right on the spot. ^^

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3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 10 people and post their icons on the same journal.
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1. I am currently Z-Stacks obsessed.
2. I currently live in a small town in southern West Virginia
3. College has been noming my spare time.
4. I have a crowntail betta named Zebedee.
5. There is a Zero Fleet flag hanging beside my bed.
6. I have more adopted then biological siblings.
7. I am an avid reader of sci-fi and fanfiction.
8. I'm really lazy.
9. Rootbeer is my favorite drink.
10. My dragon collection takes up every flat surface of my room.


I tag all you people who watch me and haven't been tagged yet.

So one of my friends and I walked into the Super Dollar Store (Yes, it actually exists) looking to buy some stencils for various projects. First of all, the creepy guy that owned it was having the place remodeled, yet the store was still open. o_0 Watch out for falling plaster? Anyway, we browse through some stuff that hadn't been moved around yet, but there were no stencils. Just some fishing bait, a radio playing the Old Testament, and some various party supplies that looked like they had been there since the 1980's.

After that, we go to the owner of the place who was busy yelling at his kid. Once we got his attention, we asked if they carried stencils. His reaction was to lead us around the store while mumbling that he didn't think they had any. Then he went up to a random employee and asked if he knew if they had any stencils. The employee was really overenthusiastic and responded by ensuring Michael and I that they did actually have some. He then proceeded to lead us to the back of the store where some of the merchandise had been packed and stored. Two baskets and a near spill later, he hands me a package of pipe cleaners and says, "Here are the only stencils we have right now."

I didn't want to insult him, so all I did was thank him in a rather unsure tone. I never did get the stencils, but now I have a pack of pipe cleaners that only cost me a quarter. o_0

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Later in, in the wreck room, which we fondly call the Z-Dock, our little cosplay group was playing billiards. At first, the conversation was aimed at our plans to get permission to repaint the place to look like Bigg City Harbor. Then, somehow, the convo turned to the subject of dirty limericks. I spat off a few of the more generic ones that I knew. After a couple particularly disturbing limericks, we started trying to think of some cleaner ones. One in particular turned out really well. The sad thing is that it ended up being about Izzy Gomez. Here it is:

There once was a tramper named Izzy
who worked himself into a tizzy.
He needed a tow
but wouldn't you know
all of the tugboats were busy.

One of my friends wrote one about the Star switchers, but I am not going to post it. I really don't want to offend anyone with it due to the fact that it really bashes Ten Cents and Sunshine.

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Well, I guess thats about it... for now... X3 Talk to you all later.

Second week of college has come to a close. ^^ I have an entire one problem of math homework. -_- If you ask me, that seems a little on the pointless side, but oh well. Easy grade as far as I'm concerned.

So the other day, I was walking down the railroad tracks with a couple of friends and we came across three railroad spikes laying in the gravel some distance away from the tracks. Yay for randomness! I'm going to paint mine so that I can use it as a backdrop for the Z-Stacks models I'm making.

Speaking of my excessively random friends, we decided that we were going to cosplay the Z-Stacks for Halloween this year. We just need two more people so that we have the entire fleet at one time. If anyone who lives near WV Tech is interested, please contact me here. We still need Zorran and Zak.

Somehow, I ended up as Zip, my boyfriend as Zug, and our other friend chose Zebedee. Other then a few height issues, these parts seem to really fit us, though we tend to get a lot of odd looks when we start yelling at each other during lunch with each character's respective accent.

Well, I guess thats it for now. TTFN.