Isn't it weird when someone you knew (or at least knew of) online suddenly goes quiet and you have no idea where they went? For example, I have a DA account (which I never use and am kind of embarrassed* of, tbh) and I was looking through my favorites today and, well... long story short, one of my favorite artists from a few years ago has totally dropped of the face of the interwebs . From what I can tell she hasn't done anything online under the name she was using for at least a year and a half. I've had this happen before with DA people, LJ friends, etc, and it always kind of leaves me with a strange, unsettled feeling. Has this ever happened to anyone else?

* To clarify, I'm not embarrassed because it's DA, but because it reminds me of my geeky HS days.

"Edward in the sunlight was shocking. I couldn’t get used to it, though I’d been staring at him all afternoon. His skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterday’s hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface. He lay perfectly still in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare. His glistening pale lavender lids were shut, though of course he didn’t sleep. A perfect statue, carved in some unknown stone, smooth like marble, glittering like crystal."

1) If something is normally white but currently flushed, it is flushed, period.
2) Thanks for clarifying that it was literally sparkling, instead of... metaphorically sparkling? WTF
3) "Scintillating"? Seriously? Are we just thesaurus.com-ing the word "sparkle", now?
4) Unknown stone → Marble → Crystal ???

In summary, Stephenie Meyer is an awful writer. I don't know how else to put it.

Steve Blum (aka the voice of Spike from CB) was at Kawaii-Kon last year???

I normally really dislike conventions, but I'm so sad I didn't go to that one （；へ；　）

I would begged him to record my voicemail message or something embarrassingly geeky like that, srsly.

Steve Blum should be the voice for live-action Spike, haha. I'd be down for that.

Apparently Barak Obama is here, making a mess of traffic.

Weird.

These stupid freshman girls are making it hard for me to write my emo poetry. I only have half (8/15) the poems done for my chapbook tomorrow, plus I still have to bind it ;_;

Well, maybe I'm not that fat. According to the not-super-accurate skin fold test I'm 15-20% body fat, with a BMI of 19. Not bad. At first I was doing my calculations wrong, so I thought I was 40% body fat, hahaha. I think that's not even physically possible. Anyways, the skin folding really hurt. My friend/partner Kenny was merciless! I guess I deserved it, though, since I really pinched him when it was his turn. My thighs and stomach are going to be so bruised tomorrow. Hmm...I wonder if it was easier for the more athletic girls who have a lot less fat? Some of them are super toned D:

Anyway, I guess you were right, Lisa!

We have to take one of those skinfold measurment things for my Nutrition class next week Tuesday. I'm pretty slim, but I'm composed almost entirely of fat. It's really sad, and I'm going to be embarrassed when we have to do it, haha. This is an Exercise Science class, which means my classmates are all in-shape athletes, boo. I'm actually considering working out now...

On another (but maybe related) note: I love Lotte 小梅 candy.