Summer Plans

Work. That's about it. I'm going to work and go home and do nothing. We might have a party somewhere in there. I'll be doing whatever I want to do aside from work.

Technology

How does technology affect me and how has it influenced our culture?

For me personally it's been wonderful and at the same time...annoying beyond belief. Video games for example have always been a part of my life and have made it fun, provided me an escape from reality (which I've often found I need) and has inspired me to create my own characters and stories. Television shows and some movies have also influenced me the same way. The internet has been one of the most valuable tools as well. Instant access to almost any information I could ever need has helped me on numerous occasions. I've been able to share my artwork and even meet a lot of new friends via certain websites. I've also been able to attempt digital art with my tablet that I got for my computer this Christmas.
However I'm a bit behind and I don't really care to move forward as fast as we're going. I don't even have a real cell phone yet and soon enough the entirety of the internet seems like it's going to take place on there.

I think technology has had both positive and negative effects on society as well. It's made our lives convenient. It's helped us find all sorts of information and connect us in a whole new way like it has for me...yet it's also been a big problem. Amongst the useful websites there's tons of crap that we don't need. Tons of bad and illegal things. In some ways I wonder if technology will be our downfall because we rely so heavily upon it. Banking is even done digitally most of the time now. What happens if the internet crashes? Doesn't that mean we could lose all our money if everything is internet based?
Besides that, technology is growing at far too fast of a rate. Every time I buy something or anyone buys something for that matter, there's something better to replace it in a year or so.

In short...technology is both a good and bad thing.

Book Talk: Dewey

Title: Dewey
Author: Vicki Myron

Dewey is about a library cat named...Dewey. He was abandoned one day, dropped in a library drop box in the middle of the night in the freezing cold weather. He almost died until the librarian saved his life. He became a big sensation with the people of the little Iowa town of Spencer. The town had been going through an economic crisis and this little cat has been cheering people up.

This is about as far as I've read into the book though so I don't know what else happens.

So far the book's alright. I chose this book because I like cats and I didn't really feel like reading some totally depressing (like most of the memoirs to choose from). But it's a decent book. There really isn't any excitement but I enjoy reading it and I can relate to it in a way because I own six cats. Just reading about this cat's antics reminds me of mine in so many ways...even though some of mine are slightly more evil than this one.

Discussion Question: If you found a little freezing kitten outside, what would you do about it? Save it? Keep it? Give it away? Leave it be?

Greatest Accomplishment

I hate these questions.

I never really know how to answer these questions. It's all a matter of opinion and my opinion is that I can't pick one as the greatest. So I'll just pick one to write about.

I guess one of them would be a gradual one, and that would be my art. Over the past several years of high school I have been drawing, sketching, doodling towards becoming a better artist. Over time I've grown to have a better understanding of the anatomy of my characters, different techniques with a few different medias and several other things. I've developed my own cartoon-y style that I've come to love and have developed many characters and worlds that I plan on using in the future for writing comics.

So I feel one of my greatest accomplishments is the continual growth of my artistic ability. However despite what anyone (or myself for that matter) thinks, I have a long way to go. So I will continue to hone this skill and work toward my ultimate goal of publishing a graphic novel of my very own. And that will truly be one of my greatest accomplishments.

Favorite High School Memories

Hmm...well...not too many.
I can say almost all of them were from this year.

First and foremost was The Wiz. I had never been in a high school drama production of any kind so this was my first. It was stressful going through all the play rehearsals several days a week sometimes lasting even six hours the closer we got to the show. But finally when we performed...
High light of the year. I was so happy on stage even though I had a couple of small parts. It went so well and it was very emotional when it was over.
Plus it gave me a new appreciation for the Wizard of Oz. XD

The other greatest memory of high school would have to be the Winter Carnival Dance. I normally hate dances but one of my friends, Linda, had invited me and she wanted to dance with me too. Never had danced with anyone before...and I never partied like that before. Holy crap. I was freaking out.
Best part of the night though was when I asked Linda out. Now I have my first girlfriend. Took me long enough XD ;

Yeah though. High school hasn't been much fun but there were a few memories like that. I could think of a few more but I don't want to write too much more.

Spheksophobia (Childhood Memory)

Well okay that's a bit of an exaggeration.

That's the phobia of wasps. I had quite a bad experience with them...

It was 2000 I think. I might have been 8 or so. It was a great day. We had the Mulkigians over (this is when I hung out with Ben Mulkigian all the time) and my Dad was over too. We were all out in the backyard and were playing some game. I think they called it Bloody Murder (odd name for a game). There was an "it" person who covered their eyes and counted while everyone else hid. There was a designated home spot and when they were finished counting we had to sneak around and try to make it home without them tagging us. Well it was going okay. I was hiding. Everything was normal. I stood still in the middle of the clearing in our backyard looking for a hiding spot. It was going good...well that is until I noticed something weird. I first felt an odd stinging sensation on my leg...one...two times. What? I looked around and saw several yellow-ish flying insects and then it hit me. I was standing on top of a hive of yellow-jackets hidden in the ground. I freaked.

"BEES!!" I was screaming...well...they were wasps but I didn't care at the moment. I stood there waving my arms like a lunatic.

"Run!" Dad was shouting. "Run!" he shouted a second time. Finally his message reached me and I took off across the yard as fast as I could. They started to chase me, my Dad was yelling ", Okay! You can stop running now!"

They finally caught up to me and were brushing wasps away and throwing off my shirt and everything and trying to find all of them. They brought me inside and counted the stings. There were ten, most of them on my legs. I was terrified.

Mrs. Mulkigian felt bad and ran out to Irving or somewhere and bought me a pack of Poke'mon gum. They had pictures of Poke'mon on them. Ironically one of the ones on the gum was a Beedrill...if you couldn't guess that's a bee like Poke'mon.

So yeah, ever since then, wasps and bees have scared the crap out of me. I hate them...with a passion. I can laugh at all that now but I still hate them. >:C

Yo!

Yellow. This is Jesse (or if you know me on deviantart, mrsaturn123) and...this is my blog. Yeah.

As you can see, I'm a geek. Everyone who knows me knows this by now I'm sure. I've been obsessed with video games (particularly Nintendo) my entire life and I spend an awful lot of time playing them. My favorite is by far Mario.

However this is not all I do. I'm also an artist...or more specifically cartoonist. I draw and doodle practically every day both in school and at home (though I haven't actually finished anything lately). That picture you see in the corner, I drew that. I plan on being a graphic novelist in the future and hope to publish some comics. Yeah. I'll try and post at least a doodle or something that I liked with every post I do but if you want to see more of my art you can see it at mrsaturn123.deviantart.com.

I also write things on occasion too...lately had a few poems.

I'm also obsessed with music, particularly rock. My favorite bands being (in order) Coheed and Cambria, System of a Down, Disturbed and My Chemical Romance. If you haven't heard them, I highly recommend you look them up.

Despite all of this geekishness, I'm not a total weirdo. I lead a fairly normal life. I live with my Mom, my brother Emil, my step-brother Tyler, my best friend Nick (he rents a room from us), and my six cats, Nin, Spaz, Amber, Claude, Scratch and Steve (or as we call "the demon"). I'm also a Christian, I go to church and I believe in Jesus. If you have a problem with that then I'll...uh...pray for you.

Well that's an awful lot of info for right now but that gives you a pretty good run-down of who I am...though I think most of you know me by now.

So now I must leave you with a discussion question...cause Mrs. Innes asked me too:

Um...if I start writing a webcomic...how many of you would follow it?

(lame question I know but I wouldn't mind getting an idea of how many people would)