mipeltaja: (JUMALAUUUTA)
Sigh... three years later, I'm still pathetic.

Art History. I went through this same course in Vocational three years ago. Same lecturer and everything. Back then, I stayed up until 2 AM writing an essay because it was due the next day and I hadn't had the good sense to, you know, start while I still had plenty of time.

This time I'm allowed to skip the lectures, but since we UAS students have an assignment the Vocational students didn't, I still need to do that to pass. That assignment is due tomorrow.

Now, logically thinking, I would have at least started on it sometime during the week I've had. But no, I didn't really start until six in the afternoon today, despite having the entire day off. It's nine o'clock now and I've got roughly a page written. The minimum is five pages. I'd probably have it done before midnight if I didn't keep wandering off to do things that realy can wait until tomorrow, honestly, just because I don't feel like just doing the damn assignment.

So basically, instead of just behaving like a sensible person and sitting down for a couple of hours and getting it done, I've wasted most of today putting it off.

And now I'm writing a journal entry about how I should be doing something entirely different. Procrastination FTL.
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So technically I have Internet connection at the flat, now, but that particular operator's broadband is down in basically the entire country. Thankfully it seems that my school has a different operator so I can get online here.

I will readily admit that I am addicted to the Internet. I and my roommate (my cousin) have been passing the time playing Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble. At least now I have someone who will actually play Trivial Pursuit with me. My family never felt like it and most of my friends are under the impression that my knowledge is so vast that I will win effortlessly every time. Which is not true; I suck at the orange questions and frequently get stuck in the blue ones.

I'll get back to talking about fandom and posting drawings soon. Peace out.
mipeltaja: (Macarena)
Whew.

The apartment is slowly starting to look like a home. In fact, it looks really comfortable and cozy and I love it. I'm still not entirely over the freakout phase, but as long as I think of it as moving to a place of my own and not as leaving home, I'm mostly really excited.

We moved my desk and bed there today. (It's only in the neighbouring city from my parents' place, so instead of renting a truck we're taking my stuff there one carload at a time) My paints, scanner and pen tablet are there, too. Basically all that's still here at home is me (sleeping on a spare mattress now that my bed's gone, heh), most of my comics, and a load of less important stuff that I have to shift through. You know, to determine which items will be going with me, which will be left behind and which will be mercilessly thrown out.
Oh, and my computer, which will not be moving until I am, owing to my sad, sad Internet addiction (I'm stocking it up with interesting offline stuff for distracting myself with while I'm without Internet access).


And thanks for everyone who commented on my previous entry, those comments really helped me come to grips with the situation. I tried replying to you guys but I couldn't come up with anything but pointless babble. Sorry.
mipeltaja: (Nathan: Expressing myself)
I have found an apartment. I'll be taking this weekend to pack, clean the flat and move in. I'm not sure how long it'll be before I get Internet access, but I think it's a safe bet that I won't around as much for at least a week or two.

Oh, and did I mention that I'm fucking terrified of this? It's the first time I've moved anywhere, with or without my parents (not counting that time when we moved to the current house when I was less than a year old). I've felt really anxious for most of the day and when I got home, I burst to tears when everything decided to sink in at the same time.
I feel like such a wuss. I've got friends who've done this much earlier in their lives.


Also, I updated Firefox and now it looks stupid and my Winamp toolbar is gone. Is there a way to make it look like it used to?
mipeltaja: (OMGYES)
Beginning studies at the University of Applied Sciences tomorrow (or.. today, since it's already past midnight). I hope I've got everything I need ready. I even laid out the clothes I'm going to wear. I never do that, I just raid the closet in the morning for anything approximately appropriate for the weather.

So. Yeah. Pretty excited. I'll be able to hang with some old classmates, possibly even befriend some of my new classmates. Even though I'm horrible at making new acquaintances, haha, being kind of embarrassingly shy around new people.
mipeltaja: (JUMALAUUUTA)
There's a fly in my room and I swear the fucker has mastered the art of teleportation.

I can't manage to swat it and it refuses to go outside. Someone call the Terminator. D:
mipeltaja: (Nami: ew)
Huomenna autokouluun ajelemaan toisen vaiheen arvioiva ajo. Sitä en tiedä mitä tolkkua siinä on kun kuitenkaan eivät korttia voi multa viedä tässä vaiheessa. Säästetään sedät luontoa ja mun rahoja ja kuitataan toinen vaihe valmiiksi ihan puhumalla, jookos?

Ja nyt kun kesän työttömyystuet on melkein kaikki tilillä pitäisi KELAa ilahduttaa opintotukianomuksella. Samat paperit pitää laittaa uusiksi asumistukihakemuksen kanssa jos ja kun saan kämpän hankittua. Ihq.
Onneksi sentään on varaa olla nirso kun voi käydä koulua kotoa käsin siihen asti että löytyy kohtuuhintainen asunto inhimillisen matkan päässä ammattikorkeasta. Käännös: Suensaaresta jos ei kämppää löydy niin en muuta mihinkään.
mipeltaja: (Default)
It must really suck to be a prosecutor in Phoenix Wright's town. The guy ruins perfect records like nobody's business.

Though to be fair it's because he's always representing an innocent person.

In other words: OMFG I'M ALMOST THROUGH THIS GAME WHERE CAN I GET MOAR?

Also, my computer mouse is apparently about to click the bucket. The cursor keeps stopping at inopportune moments and it's probably only a matter of time before it ceases to function for good. I've all but given up WoW and Sims 2 as a result. It's probably just as well that I have a shiny new DS and PW and Pokémon to keep me occupied.

Plus, I'm going to see Dark Knight tomorrow. Excitement!

Oh, yeah, and I need to make a sketchpost sometime soon.
mipeltaja: (Geek)
Attention, duelists Americans of my friendslist! (and why not everyone else too, if you feel like it)

I want to ask you something.

Let's say you're having a conversation with someone. They don't use your name once during that conversation. Will you notice? Do you consider this impolite or offensive?

I'm asking because I once noted to my mother how, in Hollywood movies, people seem to sprinkle their sentences with the names of the people they are currently talking to ("Well, Dave, I better get going now."), and how odd it seemed to me. She said that it's an American thing and that over there, people would consider it rude not to keep saying each other's names every now and then.

Is there any truth to this?
Because I know that here in Finland Ican bluff my way through entirely natural-sounding conversations with people whose names I can't for the life of me recall. People don't notice, because they don't generally expect to hear their own name in the middle of a conversation. Overall, I usually only have to resort to calling people by their names when I'm trying to get their attention, not when I'm already talking to them. As it can, at worst, take me up to two months to learn new names, this is a relief. Would that strike an American person as rude?
mipeltaja: (Sideshow Bob)
Oh, brilliant.

I've missed this inexplicable feeling of being worth less than dirt, of offending everyone with my very existence.

And you know the really stupid thing? It's not because I've recently done something very wrong - though it certainly feels like I have - or because someone has expressed a negative opinion of me or my work. Nothing has happened. My life is as it always was, and I'm fine. Except I feel... anxious. Not depressed, exactly, just uneasy and a somewhat guilty for no apparent reason.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm entirely mentally stable. Other times, I figure that since none of my eccentrities prevent me from continuing to function like a normal person, I'm probably all right on the whole. I should probably go see a professional about this someday, but there's this part of me that's always telling me I'm overreacting, and I'm inclined to believe it.

Well, writing this entry has made me feel better, at least. Perhaps now I can get some sleep.
mipeltaja: (Macarena)
Just got back from a little weekend-holiday with my mom and my sister. Left on Friday, flew to Helsinki and sailed to Stockholm overnight, spent Saturday there, sailed back to Helsinki the next night, spent most of today in Helsinki before flying back.

Things of note:

We had a bus tour of Stockholm on Saturday, and that city is so beautiful. It was all gorgeous architechture and well-tended parks and gardens and wow. Helsinki has its share of cool architechture (the central railway station comes to mind) and even the occasional park, but somehow it's not half as coordinated as Stockholm is. However, I'm inclined to think that Stockholm doesn't have quite as much charm as Copenhagen.

We went to Linnanmäki (=an amusement park in Helsinki) while we had the time, and I was brutally mandhandled by one of the newer rides. No ride has ever made me nauseous, but damned if that thing didn't try. It left both of my shoulders sore and quite a fetching bruise on my left one. Never getting on that one again, thanks.

Also sampled octopus at the ship's dinner. It was like eating a piece of rubber and it didn't really taste like anything.

I spotted a Toys R Us (from a distance) in Helsinki on Friday. I had no clue we even had those in Finland. Granted, that could've been the only one there is, it being Helsinki, but still. A bit of a "wait, what?" moment, there.

I'm not much of a shopper, but I did score Terry Pratchett's A Hat Full of Sky and a WoW game card (three euros cheaper in a certain gameshop in Helsinki than what I usually pay for them). Also, my mom bought Making Money, which I read through on the way back home (great book), and my sister bought Good Omens, which I've read in Finnish some time ago, but have been trying to find in English for a while now.

And. Um. I think that's it.
mipeltaja: (DC: WHAT)
Just got back from seeing Sex and the City (shut up, it's a guilty pleasure of mine, much like Eminem's music [shut up]).

It was exactly like the TV series, which means that, for a Sex and the City movie, it was perfect. Not the best movie I've ever seen, no, but quite enjoyable nevertheless. It was also longer than a movie has any right to be. Of course, that seems to be the case with pretty much every movie I've watched in the past... 4 years? Not that 4 years' worth of movies amounts to all that many in my case.

I noticed they're still showing Iron Man in the local movie theatre. I wonder if I should go to see that, too. I'm pretty meh on the comics, but I've heard that it's a really fucking amazing movie.


ETA: Oh, yeah, also paid a visit to the local emplyment agency today, since I am now officially unemployed (at least until I find out if I got into that school). And I had to bother the folks at KELA (Social Insurance Institution) because they couldn't word their forms could any less clearly if they tried and I won't get a dime in the way of unemployment benefits unless I fill them. So I went in to have a few parts clarified for me.
mipeltaja: (Geek)
...So apparently not everyone associates colours with numbers and letters.
Not only that, the tendency towards doing so has a name. I've been convinced of the redness of 3 and the yellowness of T for as long as I can remember, but I never realized that was out of the ordinary in any way.

Well, you learn something new every day. Is there anyone on my friendslist who's like this as well?
mipeltaja: (Geniuses)
Hokay. I have graduated. Sweet, sweet summer vacation.

I now have a Vocational Qualification in Visual Expression. I am also an "ylioppilas", which, apparently, doesn't have an exact equivalent in the English language. So suffice it to say that it basically means I passed the Matriculation Examination and was declared a graduate today. I got/had to wear the student cap and it gave me a slight headache. I hate that hat already, lol.

I also got a scholarship/grant/thing of 75 euros from my vocational school. It doesn't say what I've done to deserve it, just that it originates from some electronics company. I can only assume it's because I do well with computers. The Upper Secondary gave me recognition in the form of a book, for having the best grades out of all this spring's double-graduates. I also got a book from "Suomi-Amerikka Yhdistysten Liitto", which, oddly, doesn't seem to have an English name, but translates to something like "The Union of Finland-America Associations", for being good at English.

I guess that's all for now. Back to slacking off by Monday, haha.
mipeltaja: (Nathan: Expressing myself)
Busy busy.

To summarize the past week:
-I'm working towards tying up all the loose ends so as to graduate with some semblance of dignity, and I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I'm actually going to do this!
-I got an invitation to the entry exams of one of the two polytechnics I've applied for. Haven't heard from the other yet, though.
-My "rage" installation was on exhibit at the school today and I was actually kind of pleased with it. It went through a lot of changes, omission of video material being among the most significant. I loved how one review by a fellow student said it was kind of irritating to listen after a while. That wasn't my main goal, but it's getting the right kind of feeling across. Someone else said it kind of made him feel good by venting his anger for him. I'd agree. I haven't felt angry since I started the project. I must've pre-emptively channeled all my frusration into the thing.

Oh, and did I mention I passed the matriculation exams? I need to go buy me a cap.

And now I'm off to pick up my parents at the airport.
mipeltaja: (JUMALAUUUTA)
Any suggestions for sounds that could be associated with rage?

I'm doing an installation that, fore the time being at least, I've labelled "Rage". Basically it's my way of venting my frustration over having to take this course, lol.

Anyway, it involves sounds of anger, and I've already recorded sounds of breaking glass and clanging kitchenware, as well as screaming (mine and [livejournal.com profile] tuinen's) and a series of more or less anxious sounds produced on a syhthesizer (and occasionally accomppanied by more screaming, lol). Problem is, the ideal situation would be to have at least an hour's worth of sounds (preferrably longer), and I can only scream so many times before I go hoarse. I guess I could always record some crocodile tears - I can actually be pretty convincing - to include the more fragile side of anger or something. I don't know.


Incidentally, for the video part, suggestions of violent actions executable by a single person (and that don't involve actually hurting anyone) are also welcome.
mipeltaja: (Default)
Huhuhu, I've been spending like a rich person today.

I bought 3 movies: My Neighbour Totoro, Millenium Actress and Tyttö sinä olet tähti (a Finnish movie). Here's to hoping they're good.
Ok, so I know Totoro is, because I was just getting the DVD to replace the old worn-out partially recorded-over VHS version I have. I love that movie.

I also bought Flogging Molly's Float. Listening to it now ♥

Add to that the (admittedly cheap) cell phone I bought earlier this week, and it adds up to about 100 €. Ughh I usually don't spend that much in a month ahaha.

I got a pair of winter boots as well (they're comfy and only cost 9.90€ 'cause they're last season), but my mom paid for those so they don't really count.

I've also climbed out of my art slump. There'll be a sketchdump as soon as I manage to scan these babies.
mipeltaja: (Geek)
Snagged a meme fom [livejournal.com profile] darylchan, who left her flist to tag themselves.

Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 random things, facts, goals, or habits about yourself. At the end, choose 10 people to be tagged, listing their names & why you chose them. Don't forget to leave them a comment (you're it!) and to read your blog for instructions. You can't tag a person who has tagged you. Since you can't re-tag me, let me know when you've posted your blog so I can read the answers!

Gee, am I boring or what? )

I'm not tagging anyone, either. Nyah.
mipeltaja: (Default)
Happy 90th independence day, all you Finns on my flist.
mipeltaja: (Nathan: Expressing myself)
Something I've been wanting to rant about for a while:

So, one or two years ago, there was an ad campaign in the finnish women's magazine MeNaiset (the name can be translated as WeWomen or UsWomen) to raise awareness of breast cancer. The ad features a picture of a shirtless woman dressed in pirate garb and wearing a large "eyepatch" over one missing breast.

Now, when I first saw it, I thought it was creative and powerful and would make people stop and think. But get this, apparently there were people who just plain missed the point and complained about the other breast, which was bare. I saw some discussion about it on the 'net some months ago and all I could think was: "We're FINNS, for God's sake! The average woman reading this magazine is between 25 and 60 years of age and must've seen thousands of boobs belonging to other women she's never even spoken with, thanks to public saunas and whatnot. Bare nipples in women's magazines are not unheard of, and the ad was not a sexual one, so I fail to see the problem.

I'm including the picture here for those of you who are interested:

As much as I want to not cut it, I realize that not every country would consider it worksafe, especially taken out of context )

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