Psychic-MoonShadow

Yep, time for my single annual journal entry!

I graduated university with a BA in English in May, and you know what that means - singalong time!

What do you do with a B.A. in English,
What is my life going to be?

That said, I have a useful minor in Professional Writing/Editing, so I'm not entirely stuck! I've been taking the year off and recently returned from a five-month stay in Israel, where I interned for a series of leading youth magazines, took Hebrew lessons, attended lectures, and went on wonderful trips to different parts of the country. It was a really terrific experience - maybe I should post some photos eventually...

So now I'm back in Canada and looking for work in my field! Whoo! In the meantime, I'm back to making fun desserts for friends, and drawing Pokemon here and there. I'll try to not be lazy and keep posting things.

In other news, a "new" Pokemon related to Mewtwo has been announced - because heaven forbid an old Pokemon feature in a new movie without some kind of gimmick - and I'm not in love. Mewtwo's pretty much my favourite Pokemon (battling Mew for the position, incidentally) so I'm really hoping they do him justice. I don't like the idea of giving him a new form, and I really hope it doesn't turn out that "oh btw he's been able to change form for 15 years but he just never bothered lol" or something like that. We'll see.

Otherwise, I'm looking forward to Pokemon X and Y. The 3D graphics are more than welcome (much as I'll miss sprites and spriting) and so far the new Pokemon designs are interesting, for the most part. Again, we'll see.


Stay classy, deviants.
~Psychic

And here's my annual update! Once again over a year after my last one. At least I'm consistent.

I have been doing more cake and cupcake decorating! You can check out stuff like my video game cupcakes and My Little Pony cupcakes, and I have lots more where that came from! Keep an eye out if you like Legend of Zelda, Harry Potter, Pokemon and Mass Effect! Hopefully I won't be too slow about it.
Also in keeping with tradition, I made another lovely rubber duckie cake for 's birthday which I'll upload eventually!

Final semester of uni, whoo! Hopefully, anyway. XD I'm planning on taking a year off school to travel and hopefully work abroad. Nothing is finalized yet, though if I happen to stop by your area, gimme a shout!

These days I'm really into the tv show Community - it's about the only thing I follow religiously. I've been reading a bunch of novels by local writers for one of my literature classes, which have had some pretty perspectives on my city and whatnot. I first saw and then read the Hunger Games and had a good time, though I had some issues with plot holes and the writing style. I'm hoping to finally read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo once classes are over and I have proper time for leisure reading.

I discovered Pinterest some time ago, and it is wonderful. Check out my boards at pinterest.com/PsychicMS

I still have my friend's borrowed DSi, and another friend gave me his unwanted Pokemon Black version - you can bug me for Friend Codes. I have also randomly started loving Reshiram since my last entry, and have a soft spot for Latias/Latios out of nowhere. Clearly, this means I need plushies.

~Psychic

Once again waiting over a year between journal updates on this thing. o.O

I'm in uni, majoring in English lit and minoring in Professional Writing. I don't make a lot of time for drawing or writing, but I still grab the chances I can get.

I've started to get excited about cake-decorating, actually, as you can tell with my rubber duckie cake. It was really fun to make for 's birthday, and the great reaction it's received has inspired me to keep going. I also did a cake for my sister, which I will upload soon, and I intend to make more for my good friends in the near future. Keep watching for those!

In non-art news, my friend is lending me his DS so I can play Pokemon SoulSilver (the last handheld game I played was Crystal lol), and I'm loving it! I don't intend to get Black or White since I just don't have the money or the time. Doesn't help that my parents hate handheld systems so I have to keep my gaming a secret.

I do really like a lot of the 5th gen Pokemon, though! I've really fallen for Snivy and Purrloin. Maybe someday when I have the games I'll play, or when Grey or whatever comes out. I started off preferring Zekrom by a long shot, but I'm starting to take a liking to Reshiram, too. ^^

I've really gotten into Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch series, and I am LOVING the new NBC show Community. I'm tempted to get into the fandoms, but the former seems small and the latter might be a bit overwhelming lol. We'll see. Chances are I'll just continue being lazy. Either way, they are definitely both worth a read and watch, and I would highly recommend them!


Anyway, that's really all I've got to say at the moment. Have a good one!

~Psychic

Considering my last journal entry was from over a year ago, I thought I'd update, if only for the sake of it. I don't use dA much anyway. So slightly random entry ahead.

Haven't been drawing or even doodling nearly as much as I used to, and I feel that it's been showing whenever I do try - I struggle with facial structure and expression more than you can imagine, and generally just have to go with the flow of whatever the heck my hand is churning out. It's been quite frustrating, especially since I can no longer make a feline or canine head at will, which was nice. I also can't seem to make wings as well as I used to, or so it seems to me - whether feather or leather, they never turn out like the image in my head. Either my standards for my own work have risen significantly, or I'm just really, really rusty. *sighs*

I do have some decent bits of fanart made for other people which I'd like to post, but my internet access on my personal computer has been taken away, and I can't upload my stuff from anywhere else. Sort of sad, really, especially considering my computer is absolutely awful; it's about eight years old, is getting short on memory and is incredibly slow, whether with surfing the internet, editing an image or hell, just opening a Microsoft Word document. We're talking about getting me a laptop (for school, really), but that may not be happening too soon.

Having gotten into cosplay over the past year or so, I also have a ton of pictures that I could probably upload. I participated in some neat photoshoots last summer with some very skilled cosplayers, and have some very nice shots of them as well as myself both as Umbreon and the pink and white Captain Falcon (also known as Captain Fabulous who is totally not gay). Actually also have a fair few self-taken photos I find very nice, but I always have been reluctant to post pictures of myself on the internet, so I'm still undecided. I have a whole bunch of nice pictures, both of people and places, but in the end laziness generally prevails.

I think I want to start posting some pieces of prose. I've seen Sam and Sammy posting them, and it seems like a good idea/excuse to write more. I took two creative writing classes back in CEGEP (coincidentally having first met my now-boyfriend in the first) and now in university am taking one course called the Creative Process, which is sort of like a CW workshop. Except we write a lot less, workshop less due to being about 80 students, and get lectured far more on the stupid mistakes my professor's spotted in my classmates' pieces, such as then/than, there/their, using conjunctions in dialogue and other ridiculously rudimentary practices. I've been happy with my work in it so far, but have been incredibly dissapointed with the lack of feedback on what I've written. I just need to write more and get opinions ot it, really.

Currently, I'm glad for two other things which have really kept me writing. For one, there is my LiveJournal (psychmoonshadow.livejournal.co…) which, in truth, is really nothing but me blogging about what I did in the past week (so probably not very interesting to you), though I'd say it's better to write something than nothing. The second, far more important one is my personal writing journal, which I had begun near the start of my first Creative Writing class for a story I never actually got through, but used for some ideas and rough work, and was then encouraged to and marked for using it in my second CW class, and words cannot describe how thankful I am for this baby! It contains more ideas, perceptions, quotes and thoughts than my mind can hold, and having them all together in one place is a godsend! I would absolutely reccoment that any aspiring writer get one asap!
Unfortunately, if I forget to bring it wherever I go I need to write down anything that comes to mind on scrap paper, and then I always get too lazy to recopy it until I have a page of a week's worth of notes that need to be transferred! I've been even more reluctant to carry it around with me recently due to it getting bent out of shape and a recent Coke spill in my bag, though I do suppose that also shows the love and use it's been through, haha.

Anyway, what it all amounts to is I still don't write enough, and I really do need to work on that since I want to get out of my current program, Literature, and reapply to my university's hard-to-get-into Creative Writing program. I also want to study abroad for a semester, an opportunity my university makes readily available, so I'd need to get in fairly soon so I can start that entire process. In all honesty, I have no idea what I'd do with my degree, whether in Lit or CW, but right now I just want to focus on getting through university doing something I enjoy, and Literature is not really on the top of my list. I took some personality tests at a workshop with my friend over the summer and found that I'm fairly suited to more social activities/careers, so I may look into that was well - I just need a bit more of a direction there.


Well, I think this journal entry is suitably long and ranty enough to make up for the last year, even if it's not very broad (but trust me, you don't want me to get into anything else and bore you further XD). Hopefully I'll actually get off my ass and update with a picture or piece of writing sooner or later, but my level of procrastination should not be underestimated.

So with that I bid you good night, good luck with whatever you are currently involved in (like mid-terms!), stay classy and keep fucking that chicken. *salutes*

~Psychic

  So Friday was my birthday - thanks to Sammeh and Skeith, the only people who wished me a happy one over dA - and it was pretty nice. Since school ended on Monday (<3 summer vacation) I've been sleeping in until noon lately, and I awoke to cards/notes on my desk, and then went out for brunch with my mother. At about one thirty. ^^

  Dinner was with the family, my choice, and since the awesome Japanese place closed we did Chinese, and then my other legal friends, Sam and Geordie, took me to the comedy club to celebrate. Apparently Sam wants the main comedian, David Acer (who you may know as Doubting Dave from the show Mystery Hunters) very much. o.O

  Since I have no idea what the frell I want for gifts, I just got cash, and then yesterday (while I was still half-asleep) my parents went out and got me my present.

NOW PSYCHIC FINALLY HAS A SCANNER!
  No more using a digital camera or running to use my school's scanner, oh no! While this baby does take up a great deal of precious space on my computer desk, relocating my plushies was worth it for this wonderful scanner/copier/printer.

  Now I shall scan things, and it shall be Good.

~Psychic