Black+Any Bright color = Dark that color.

Dark Strawberries = black + #ff2e73

Strawberry Juice = #8a0000 + #ff246c

Fuschia Brilliance = #8a0085 + #ff75a3

A Bright Blue = #010075 + #a8dfff

Blue-Violet = #8a079c + #a8dfff

Another Bright Blue = #001d9e + #a8fff5

Dark Blue = #0b2237 + #3bb3f1

Violet = #9700ff + white

I lack it. Once again.

I've been sick for the last month, and trying to go to my classes where I'm told to speak up and be louder. I finally went to the doctor today and he said that it was 'probably' laryngitis. Well. That answers why I can't talk.

So I've missed some of my final classes--and a fun fact: apparently the thing that most of my professors are doing where they schedule everything for the week before exams is NOT kosher. One of my other professors expressed astonishment at this fact, and said that they weren't supposed to be doing this. Well. If only they were doing what they were supposed to.

Anyway. I need to go to my classes and be unable to breathe well or speak and have nothing really to drink. And turn in a shitton of late assignments and hope that the professors will accept them (as some of my professors won't take the "I'm sick" excuse without a doctor's signed note, I'm really not sure whether or not they will).

[I][FONT="Book Antiqua"][SIZE="3"][COLOR="DarkOrchid"]Trying to keep up in multiple threads at once is tiring! I could probably stop expending the effort, because not so many people are posting now, but still! :feesh:[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/I]

[SIZE="3"][COLOR="DarkOrchid"][I][FONT="Book Antiqua"]I hadn't noticed that. XD :feesh: It's especially lovely. <3 Anyway.

I just made tacos... And they were a little too salty. Unfortunately, I'm not sure why--although I suspect it was because I used too little meat/fake meat. Sour cream should help, though--I'll grab some tomorrow.

My art. <3 It's getting better, which always makes me happy. And I have some lovely ideas for pictures--some of them we can't take until summer, but some we can take in the winter, and that pleases me. (I prefer the winter anyway, of course.)

Religion exam tomorrow--I really need to get motivated for it....

Yeah. That's not working.[/FONT][/I][/COLOR][/SIZE]

This isn't a fanfiction as such--but it is inspired by songs (although I intend for it not to become a traditional songfic, or at least what I've seen most often as "songfic").

Ever since I first heard Grand Theft Autumn by Fall Out Boy, I've wanted to do a story around it. Headfirst Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet fits into that same little niche--I want to do a story, probably based around those two. And I have no idea what, or how it will go. Ugh. I'll probably just start writing at some point and see where it flows to. It's just a bit frustrating that I have something blocked up--not like the normal writer's block that I experience, but more like a river that's dammed, because it's trying to get out but it won't.

Is that what writer's block is usually like for people?

Anyway.

Also, school. It's much more intense than it was last semester--which makes sense, because I currently have five classes, three of which are art classes which require a lot of outside work, I have two jobs, and another class that will start in a month and a half. I'm just hoping that I can hold up under all of it. I really might take a vacation in winter if I can--I never do over the summer, and it bit me in the ass freshman year and the first half of last year.

I realize it sounds bad--but I hadn't had a break, any sort of vacation, since my sophomore year of high school. My mother insisted that despite the fact that I was taking piano lessons, dancing in various locations, and doing band camp, I needed to take summer classes so that I wouldn't be "doing nothing". Senior year didn't have band camp, but did have college preparation. And piano. And dance. And summer classes. By freshman year, I really wanted a break--and I didn't get one; there was also a lot of stress (my father's parents both died over the last two years, my senior year was INCREDIBLY stressful, and both my cat and my boyfriend's cat died). And then I worked while still trying to force myself to pretend to be happy happy cheery cheery (because the school here is big on that), have time to myself, and do things that I didn't care about on a schedule that didn't work with professors who I didn't like. (I did like some of them. Part of my schedule was good. But overall, it was a mess.)

Then I did something last year that could have turned out phenomenally bad, but didn't.

I realize that there's the "When you get out into the real world, you don't get vacation!"

But you do. You can take vacation days, sick days, etc. Some jobs will even pay you for the vacation days, depending on how long you've been there, etc. Not ALL jobs, no. And how crazy stressed do people get when they don't have some down time once in a while?

Anyway. This turned into a ramble, and it wasn't meant to. But it was something that I was thinking about, and now it's out, so I suppose that much is good.