Yeah yeah... so I'm guessing you, my faithful readers, know that I've got a thing for Batgirl (and that Falcon Girl is based off her), so the Count, in his ever-thoughtful way, gave me Batgirl Barbie for my birthday! She is very cool, though I wish her mask wasn't stapled to her head. Anyway, I'll post a picture as soon as I get a chance.

So my class schedule this semester will be light, though my work load certainly won't be. I'm going to drop my Digital 2D Animation Production class before my head explodes from boredom, which is kinda sad since he met up with me last Friday to try to scan my huge stack of animation drawings. Argh.

Help me I'm procrastinating!

I made an alien tanker character on City of Heroes, and here she is flying... really slowly. 

If there's one thing I hope to never do again in my life, it's this: asking for letters of recommendation. Argh! Of course, my having stalled cuz I don't like asking for these letters have only made me look even more incompetent by waiting until the last minute. But hey, if I can get any scholarship money out of this deal, it will all be worth it. After getting stranded in Chino cuz my car blew a fuse and mechanics not being open on Sundays, my mom mentioned my needing a new car. Heck yeah, I need a new car. But I was hoping my current clunker could wheeze on for another year while I try to get a real job. Argh. It sucks being poor.

I'm really glad I qualify for the BOG fee waiver (free tuition, discounted parking) cuz it saves a few hundred dollars, at least, but I found out that I can't get more money (i.e. free textbooks) through EOPS cuz I'm not "academically disadvantaged." I mean, I oughtta be glad... to be that I would have to first of all, not gone to college, but have done horribly in high school math and/or english to begin with, but when you're scraping together every last penny to pay for rent and food... well, that $65 textbook just hurt. I know, I know, it's pretty good considering that people routinely spend hundreds of dollars in textbooks each year....

Alright, must buckle down. I've got a reel to work on!

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On a different note, my birthday was decent. I mean, I had two classes and work in between (and a killer of a traffic jam whereby it took me 40 minutes to go 25 blocks... about 3 miles), but that night, I had an impromptu dinner with some classmates, which reminded me a lot of my Berkeley days. And after church on Sunday, a buncha ladies went out for dessert... which was really fun and also made me feel really guilty cuz we certainly haven't celebrated anyone else's birthdays like that, or else I wasn't present for it. So overall, turning 26... hasn't been too bad. I'll probably rant more about this later.

...and pretends to be a Bond Girl while the Shadow Falcon pretends to be James Bond. 

Falcon Girl gets a big gun...