Happy Thanksgiving!



My name is Colleen, and I’m a sophomore working on a Biological Science major along with a Single Subject Teaching credential at California State University, Fullerton. Here are 46 photos illustrating my November 19th– a day full of Biology, pancakes, hamsters, and WoW. (Previous ADIML: Oct 19.)

( November 19th, 2009 )

Some of you guys have been here for years. These are probably familiar days for you. There was a time in high school where I didn't have time for anything, and this place was mostly deserted. Then for senior year, things got reeeeeeally chill (I was basically on top of the world that year-- so were my friends, too actually because guess what seniors really do rule the school and even if that's retarded bullshit it actually happened whoa!) so I spent a lot more time doing things on here and twiddling around. This continued for the first semester of high school, then after that I started the classes for my major. And boy, they are loooong classes.

I just wanted to say this because I know I am incredibly distant these days. I know that I'm slow with reply and I'm a vacant head, and I know that most people friend this journal for the art-- not me. No hard feelings. ;3 It's just how it is. So I wanted to say that it's okay. I don't take offense. And I'm thankful for those who are still here and interested. I can't make any promises on updating more than I do now. Most of my life entries, as mentioned previously, are private now-- and things that do pop up here about my life are either written out of stress or happiness.

But I wanted to tell you guys these things, because they are important to me-- and so are you. Yes, you, dear reader. I appreciate you taking time out of your life to acknowledge the existence of a little person like me.

This journal is so old. I started it when I was ten years old, and I am turning twenty next year.

Thanks for sticking around after all this time. :)

I scanned these a while ago but decided not to post until I've accumulated more drawings. But I might as well post them now since I don't have much going on. :,3 I want to try something with my camera later this week, and I hope to redo a bunch of face-ups on some dolls that have been here for months that you guys haven't seen yet. Seriously, there are a lot more dolls in this household than people know since a lot of them are sitting around naked without faces. They're all Ty's, though. I still just have my two, since I finished selling the two extra Unoas.

( I went back and colored some of these pages later with colored pencils... but I think it'd be redundant to rescan them so I guess you guys will only see the sketches. They were just colortests so you're not missing out on anything pretty! Ho ho ho. There is more words than art here, by the way. I feel talkative. There's ONE page that has some familiar characters in fanart. )

Thaaat's all for now. :o I have a bit more, but I'll save it.

Filling this out because of narcissism the fact that I private most of my life entries these days. I started doing that because it's kind of a pain to write two entries-- one "public" and one "private." (AWWWW I love Fantasy. Lou is watching Pagemaster and I forgot how CUTE she is oh man anyways.) It's not like there's anything super juicy in private. It's just some things are... more sensitive to talk about. It's no secret that money is often a problem due to my stepmom, but more has happened in the past few months. So that kind of stuff, yanno? Anyyyyyyways!

You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out. (:

( LET'S GO! )

I have class on Fridays again. :,3 But at least it's in the morning. In the beginning I had it set up so I only had Chem lecture on Friday, but then I realized I would ditch it a lot if I did that-- and I would be getting out around noon. But if I'm more diligent and go to the earlier lecture that has activity right after, then I'll actually be getting out earlier since I go to school so early. That way, I won't miss lecture or activity either-- and if activity has quizzes like this semester, then I'll be more prepared since I just learned it in lecture.

It looks like I'll have two hour lunches on MoWe. I don't think I have any classes with anyone but it'd be nice to share that lunch. :) Mostly I'm just really happy that I'm not doing night classes anymore. It'll be nice to get out while the sun is still out...! I love morning classes. I think I want to see if I can petition for something earlier for History, too.

Edit: Yep, found something earlier. Now I have a pretty long day on Fridays... but I have a shorter day throughout the week. It should go by pretty quick anyways since it's only three hours of pretty light stuff. I also get tired of history pretty quickly (even though I do find it interesting) so I'm happy to have it for only fifty minutes instead of seventy-five minutes. I haven't been in the Humanities building for a long time. This entire semester was spent in McCarthy Hall. I guess I'll find parking for sure next semester. Yessss I can't wait to come home before three.

BIOL 273 - Genetics & Molecular Biol
10595 05 Lecture MoWe 1:00PM - 2:15PM MH 264 - Lecture Room Michelle Navarro
15923 06 Laboratory TuTh 11:30AM - 2:20PM DBH 104 - Biol Teaching Lab Nikolaos Nikolaidis

CHEM 120A - General Chemistry
10949 04 Lecture MoWeFr 9:00AM - 9:50AM MH 536 - Chem Computer Lab Staff
15966 05 Activity MoWeFr 10:00AM - 10:50AM MH 587 - Computer Lab Staff
16126 06 Laboratory Th 8:30AM - 11:20AM DBH 261 - Chem Teaching Lab Staff

HIST 110A - World Civilization to 16c
12780 01 Lecture MoWeFr 8:00AM - 8:50AM Hum 509 - Lecture Room Staff