Mistrunner

Well, another character of mine has gotten into Christmas attire. He's a wee bit happier about it than Aura.

Simple, aesthetically pleasing, and apparently drawn by you. Ten snowmen out of six square kilometers.

How. How can someone do something so barbaric, so horrific, so inhuman and justify it. How can they go to sleep at night without seeing the faces of the people they killed for no reason other than that they were not exactly like them, without imagining mothers and spouses and friends weeping over graves, without hearing the voices of children begging to see their parents again. How can they live with themselves, knowing the anguish and pain and anger they've struck into people's hearts and knowing that it was their choice to do it. How can someone possibly imagine that killing a busful of children is okay. How can someone, in their wildest dreams, think that this is for the greater good. Tell me how. I just can't. Not anymore. At first I was just sad when these things happened, and I still am. But now I'm also angry. I'm so angry at these lunatics. And on a different reason it's a bad day, my aunt is dying. She has a very aggressive, very rare form of cancer that's been steadily sapping away her life. They say she's got days. Maybe hours. She's an amazing person. She stayed strong throughout it all, even though she was fighting a horrible disease that was probably very painful, as were the treatments. She's such a wonderful example and I know she'll be going to a better place where she'll never feel that pain again. It still hurts for those left behind, though.

So I finally finish my homework. I go to turn it in on Google Classroom, and BOOM. Google is out again. It's been going out randomly lately and saying my "connection is not private." This is also the reason I couldn't finish this yesterday. It's due before class tomorrow. We aren't allowed to turn it in in class tomorrow. I'll have to get up early and pray it works. This is really, really annoying.

What about this, then! And so the late night avoidance of doing homework due tomorrow begins...

No idea what it is, but I like it. 12 squid out of 14 octopi.

You're a pony, and your avatar has an amazing mustache. You also started a bunch of really awesome threads. (No, not clothes- the other kind.)

On this particular thing, I do what is known as "hiding under a rock."

I have the same problem. Can't ever get to sleep at night, and if I stay up until I'm tired, it's technically morning. It's especially bad after moving, what with the time change and all. (Does anyone else say "what with" like that? Is that just a me thing? Family thing? Area thing? Worldwide thing I just haven't really noticed?) As for advice, try listening to this. The sound of rain is very relaxing.

YES. MUCH YES.

Those are hilarious! As well as slightly depressing...

This idea, I like it. Exactly. Unfortunately, the notes are on Google Docs, because this school is very into the Integration of Technology. Hey, I can add a few Google Drawings... I do something similar. It's especially annoying with the start of COMMON CORE, THE SOLUTION TO ALL OUR PROBLEMS IN EDJUMACATION. Everything has to be done a certain way, and you must have the outline this way... I've written many outlines after essays just because they require you to have one. Nice. It really just goes to show that people are not all the same when it comes to these things. Everyone talks about having diversity in everything, but in education you have to all be the same. You have to conform to what they think is the 'right' way to do things, even if it doesn't make any sense to you whatsoever. I found a good comic on the subject.

They're a major grade. It's really annoying.

If a teacher could possibly grade the final product instead of the notes leading to it, that would be great, seeing as the way I take notes usually makes sense to no one but me and when they're graded I have to write (and sometimes rewrite) them in a weird standardized format that leaves me staring at a computer screen in total frustration and eventually just giving up to go post on the Shard. Notes are personal. Just grade the stupid essay.

...what the heck was that. Even I know those stock photos were terrible.

I... I don't even remember. It was something like 16,000. Maybe more, maybe less.

Kobold is all fancy popular now! We can all say we knew him before he was famous.

I... I don't even know how to express how adorable that is.

Same here! I've got a ton of stuff due tomorrow and this week has been very stressful. I'm a mess. But cease your weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth! I've got pug puppies! Also, have you heard of David Tennant in Places He Shouldn't Be? It's fabulous. (Edit: The image got compressed. Drat. You have to click on it.)

I assume you mean Nintendo? Never the Kirby series, but I played him in Super Smash a good bit. (I'm boss with Pikachu, though. )

It was half pain, half terrified agony.

AAAAAAAAAAAH

Oh no, people have turned the conversation to really bad ships. Oh great spaghetti rhinoceros pugs, no.