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Saturday, December 20, 2003 Today I am feeling: peaced out 
Books I am reading: The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World Verilyn Flieger Skipping Christmas John Grisham Games I am playing: Asheron's Call 2 Paper stuff is fun to make. Yes, I know what you're thinking, but hey, I'm off school now, too much time on my hands, so I'm making a paper tiger ... which is harder than it looks, I need tiny pointy fingers to do a good job. And better glue. A hot glue gun would probably work, ya need something quick drying and easy to get in small areas. Anyway, makin' this stuff took me back to when I was a kid, cuz there used to be this company that made a whole series of books of stuff like this where ya could put together entire towns and villages, and I had just about every one they made, and I got pretty damn good at putting those things together of course the big question is once you finish them, what do you do with them? In other news, I've been recently re-addicted to ebay. I've used them a few times over the last few years, buying cheap stuff like toy troll dolls for my cat or playbills to Broadway shows I can't afford to see, but now I've become obsessed with art supplies. Unfortunately, being a student I am poor and art supplies are expensive, so I thought hey, maybe ebay has some cheap! I started by looking for cheap Prismacolor pencils cuz those damn things cost like a dollar a pencil, and a set of them (the good jumbo set) is over a hundred dollars retail. A hundred bucks for colored pencils! So, I poked around ebay and found a few sets and bid on them but I'm not only poor but cheap as well, so alas I got outbid. But I found other art supplies for sale like those good "artist" quality (ie professional quality) watercolor paints that sell for $5 a tube and more at the art supply store so I bid on a few of those too but got outbid too grrr. So, so far no luck, but maybe after the holidays people will be unloading stuff cheap. I do wish people would sell smaller lots of paints on ebay though, most of the ones for sale are for lots of 50 or more and even if I only paid a dollar a tube that's still at least fifty bucks. Too much. I really only need a basic palette, like say a warm and cool of red, blue and yellow with maybe a purple and a green tossed in. I really don't need all those wacky colors (although if I can get 50 of 'em for say $20 then that's ok with me.) Oh, well, I guess I'll just stick with my cheapo Cotman watercolors for now which actually aren't all that bad, except for washes, cuz I compared a wash of Cotmans with a wash of the same color of the artist's quality and the latter was much denser and even. But I only have 2 colors of the artist's grade, red and blue hehe.
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Posted at the speed of blight by NONOBADKITTY!
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