June 30, 2001

June 29, 2001

I guess that's the random thought of the day.
 5:51 PM | smovakia

I guess not. . .
 4:46 PM | smovakia

are you going to post? hello? blogger?
 4:40 PM | smovakia

*sigh* I was moving my winamp skins here, but now it seems I've reached my disk space quota. . . I liked that it let me use WS_FTP and the shorter url. . . I guess my winamp skins are stuck at angelfire. . .
 4:26 PM | smovakia

For the first time in three weeks I'm going to my dad's house. . . apparantly my cousin's going to be there, so I don't think anything too strange is going to happen.
 4:18 PM | smovakia

Why is it that even though I'm in pain, I'm relectant to take a pain reliever?
 1:33 PM | smovakia

**Sandman, The wake spoilers**

A couple days ago I read the Wake. I don't think it was as sad as the Kindly ones. I kinda like the new dream. . . but I miss the old one. I'd like to know what happened to the first desire and dispare. I really like the artwork in the wake. I think it was the prettiest artwork of all the sandman books I've read. I particularly liked the subdued colors used in the first part of the book.

**end of Sandman, The wake spoilers**
 1:14 PM | smovakia

 

June 28, 2001

*hugs Elfwood!!!!*

I don't know when it's coming back, but it is coming back, and that's all that matters.
 7:01 PM | smovakia

There are multiple odd search queries today!

 Hemingway bell tolls unprintable
 kilt pictures
 duchi girl
 4:33 PM | smovakia

I'm trying to make oatmeal cookies, but I made them too large, and I don't think they're cook correctly. Who thinks I'm gonna over compensate and burn my oatmeal cookies? *raises hand*
 3:34 PM | smovakia

I'm glad you're enjoying Brazil. Um, maybe you should buy candles, since you can't use the lamp all night. Er, well, if you're like me then maybe you shouldn't. . .

My mom's doing well. They only had to remove a small area of skin once. They told her they would remove some skin, and test the edges to see if they got all the cancer cells, and if they didn't they'd take off more skin, but they ended up getting it all the first time. She does have a rather large bandage on her nose though.

Bifrost is a group of elfwood artists (*gulp* I guess we're former elfwood artists for now T.T). Basically we would vote on project ideas and after two months anyone who's project was finished would have it put in a tour. A while ago someone suggested a thank you Thomas(the founder/owner of elfwood) project and everyone liked it. Now that Elfwood's closed down we've put most projects on hold for the thank you Thomas projects. I'm guessing once people have finished the thank you projects we're going to email it to him or something. . . we can't exactly make an elfwood tour without elfwood. ;_; The Bifrost owner Paula keeps saying that Elfwood probably won't be closed forever. Shinigami.org was closed for a while, but it did come back, so maybe Elfwood can too.
 12:34 PM | smovakia

 

June 27, 2001

I've finished my thank you elfwood piece. You can see it at http://free.freespeech.org/smovakia/art/anime/elfwood.html. I think I'll draw something for the battle picture. I like the picture Silva Noir submitted for it.

I hope elfwood doesn't stay down long. I hope the problems it was having can be resolved. Maybe people will just need to cool down. I don't know. It does seem like when and if Elfwood comes back it'll have to be broken up into smaller groups.

This morning when I found out about elfwood I was too shocked to say anything or draw anything. I didn't really see this coming. I knew Elfwood was having some problems from what people were saying, but I hadn't run into any of them myself. I only had a couple negative comment, and they weren't the worst negative comments those people could have given. I had more trouble with incoherent comments(I'm still trying to figure out why I should make uncle sam say hunky. . .). I didn't have much fanart at elfwood, and I took it down before ERB even noticed it. I don't really understand why people were getting so hung up about fanart. It seems to me that if you can do fanart you can do original artwork too.

In the afternoon when the shock wore off, I just felt so. . . lost. Elfwood was there almost as long as I'd been on the internet. The internet just seemed so lonely and isolated with out Elfwood.

Elfwood's giving me a lot. I wish I had more then that little picture to give back. I know I would not have improved much with out the comments and hints given to me by other Elfwood members.

I also would like to let everyone know how much I appriciate Bifrost. Without this group I would feel even more isolated and lost. This way at least I know there are a lot of other people who are upset, and we can try to do something.

Wow, I didn't mean for this to get so long. It's past one in the morning here, I'm probably not making much sense anymore. I should probably go to sleep now.
 1:17 AM | smovakia

 

June 26, 2001

My mom's having sergery today. They're removing some skin cancer from her nose. I hope it goes alright. It's the second time she's had cancer cells removed from that spot.

I'm still upset and depressed about elfwood. I'm trying to draw the 'thank you elfwood' project for Bifrost, but I can't seem to say what I want to say. . .
 12:11 PM | smovakia

*cries* Elfwood's down!! People threatened the lives of Thomas and the ERB!!! how could they do that!! I knew there was some conflict between certain artists and the ERB, but I thought they at least somewhat understood that it is Thomas' site and he authorised the ERB to determine if people's art wasn't what he wanted at elfwood. I'm in shock, how could these people do this to poor Thomas! He didn't have to make elfwood, he wanted to, and these stupid people hounded him into shutting it down!!!!
 11:09 AM | smovakia

 

June 25, 2001