Hunters aren't half bad.

I was not sure if I would like being a hunter. It is ranged DPS, just like a mage (which I was trying to get away from), now I just have heavier armor. Don't get me wrong, I like the leather upgrade, but I was not entirely sure if the hunter was going to be a fit.

Well after getting up to level 43, I can safely say that the hunter class is not bad at all. I wanted to be different and not have a cat pet (because for some reason it feels like everyone has a cat as a pet.) so I tried to think of a pet that I don't see a lot of. And after looking at WoW Petopia for a while, I decided on a turtle. Yep, a turtle. I'm sure that others have turtles because it is a good tanking pet (so I have heard) but I don't see a lot of them. And at this point, I was tired of looking at my dragonhawk. I'm not going to get rid of him. I think it might be a good rp pet. However, I won't be questing with it any more. Now it is going to be me and Boomer. (I think that is an awesome name for a pet turtle)

However, I have this feeling that my  heart lies with a warrior. It is time to stop being a ranged fighter and just run up and wail on things. Part of me wants to make something totally different aside from a BE, because I don't think I can do the same quests over again. That would drive me insane. I am thinking troll, just because they have an interesting look. Or I could go undead. I played a bit of their starting area and it was pretty awesome. Plus, I think roleplaying an undead could be fun. We shall see.

But for now, I am enjoying being a hunter and having a pet. Just that a turtle is more of a pain to feed than a dragonhawk. Really? You don't eat meat? It's good for you.

Doodles

Not quite sure why I always feel the need to draw something difficult. I don't see why I can't just sketch something simple. So last night, I tried to something that was just that. Simple and easy to do. I decided to draw a goomba. Ah yes, that brings back memories, doesn't it? Jumping on those little fanged mushrooms that must have hated their lives, seeing how much they were scowling all the time. It was quick, it was fun and it wasn't something that made me throw my pencils at walls. (Which I tend to do from time to time).


I recently went out and bought some ink and brushes. Not quite sure when I am going to get around to inking like that, but I am hoping that it is in the near future. I heard something from the webcartoonist, Spike (Templar, Az) that made a lot of sense to me. She is now doing ink washes for her strip and she basically said that she was prepared to mess up what she had drawn with her ink wash. I suppose my problem is that I hate messing up. But to expect perfection when I'm new at it, is sort of ridiculous. I should probably just make little sketches and play around with the inks. If I mess up, so what? If I do well, I can celebrate.


Still playing around in Photoshop. There are several things that I want to learn, like masks and stuff like that. I had been using Dodge and Burn for shading and highlights, but I heard that masks were much better. Problem is, I don't know how to make or use them, though I can see how they work much better.


Another frustration I am having is that I can't draw the same face twice and that is really getting to me. I want to put some drawings together for a small project that I am doing over at Unsung Heroes. But it sort of hinges on me being able to draw the same person over and over again with different facial expressions and at different angles. I seem to be incapable of doing this. No two faces I draw are ever the same and that bugs the heck out of me. And I have no idea how to fix it.

I Am Number Four

So, I just saw this movie last night. It was a toss up between this and "Unknown" (which I hope to see very soon). Going into it, I was a little worried about it was going to turn out. It had potential to be very very bad. The only actors I recognized were Timothy Olyphant and the guy from lost who shot Ben's daughter. Oh yeah, and he played The Blob on the Wolverine movie.


There was the high school stereotypes that were thrown in there and I personally could have done without it. However, I have no idea if that was in the book or not. If it was, then I can't really blame the movie for that. Those played out rather predictably, but it wasn't enough to spoil the movie for me. I suppose it gave a little bit of a Smallville vibe, in that here is this powerful alien who has to act human. He is powerful, but has to allow himself to be bullied around because he can't use his powers.


I couldn't help but ask questions about stuff that was totally irrelevant to the story. Such as, how much money was paid in order to see the AT&T logo on John's iPhone? (my brain just works like that) Or how come John doesn't have some sort of weapon by the time all the fighting went down? Only so much you can do with glowing hands.


I did find myself getting a little impatient about how long it was taking to get to the fight with John and the people hunting him down. But that fight was definitely worth the wait. Michael Bay, if you are reading this, I <3 U. Oh that fight was great.


So now I want to go and read the book and see all the things that movie left out. All in all, I liked the movie (though it seems many critics didn't) blonde haired protagonist and all.

Can't give up now

I suppose this blog is going to sound a bit more inspirational than most. Right off the top I will say, medical school is hard. Of course anyone who expected it not to be isn't in their right mind. However, I never expected it to be this hard. Not hard as in work load, but hard as in taxing mentally and emotionally. If I could collect all the tears shed by medical students in just the first year alone,  I could probably make a new ocean. But that is beside the point.


The point I am trying to make is that no matter how tired, how drained, how upset or hurt I become, I keep going. Sleepless nights, days where I thought I couldn't do it, points where I felt like I wanted to give it up and throw in the towel, I kept moving forward. Why? Why keep going? Because, this is my calling. This is how I can pay it forward. This is how God will use me in order to help others. I keep going because I can do nothing but this.


One of my classmates told me something powerful when I started talking about how tired I was and how I did not feel like doing this ish any more. His response was "You can't quit. There are people out there who don't know you that are waiting for you to finish and change their lives."


That hit me like a ton of bricks. What is this next to what I am going to do? So I keep my nose to the grindstone, because out there somewhere, someone is depending on me to finish.

Crazy nuts of House Silvacce (WoW stuffs)

So I got into the guild that I had applied to and that very next day they were running a guild rp event. I figured, what the heck. Might as well join in and show my face to my new guildies and see how things were done in this guild. Let's just say these guys blew my socks off and turned my world upside down.


Now this is not the first rp guild that I have been in and is certainly not the first roleplay event that I have attended. But these guys flipped the script on it's ear. Now, I know that I probably have a little bit of bias, but I am not going to tone down how I felt through out this entire thing.


First off, the event was run like a D&D game. Something happened and the entire group was clueless as to what was going on. We had to look and such and hunt for things. Whoever was in the right spot found the correct clue. When danger struck, you had to roll to see how bad you got it. And there were times when high numbers were great and low numbers were bad. Other times, it was just the opposite. 


And the story is being told in parts. Right now, a good part of House Silvacce has been locked up in an underground dungeon for a week waiting for death or someone to rescue them. So a time is picked where everyone can play out the story and during the week, people can get together and do non-story progressing rp. So far it has been really fun. I think the story is going to wrap up this weekend.


So what type of character am I playing? Not sure yet. She will probably be young, inexperienced, and pretty wet behind the ears. But as far as personality, goals for her life, likes and dislikes, I have not the foggiest idea yet. I figure that it will come together the more I play her. At least I hope it will.

Looking for Guild?

So after playing around on my hunter and getting a feel of my new server, I decided it was time to scope out the roleplaying scene and see how it was. Right off the bat, I could see a difference from my old server in the fact that player coalesce in the city. There are definite hubs were more players are than others, but still, it is not odd to run into pockets of roleplayers through out the city, any time of night. (Don't know about days, because I am not on)

And it seems like everyone has the MyRolePlay addon, which is neat, because most rpers on my old server didn't. Even though I have been rping on WoW for a while now, I still get nervous when I make new contacts. I'm not sure what to say. I am not sure how to strike up a conversation that is not boring, but at the same time is not overly dramatic. And I don't want people thinking that I'm a noob just because my toon is at a low level. So, I haven't really been doing much rping, so much as running around rpers and eavesdropping on conversations.

Well, I found a guild struck me as very interesting. I did some research on them and decided if I was ever going to join a guild, this would be the one that I wanted to be a part of. So I talked to an officer and then submitted an application (which is new for me, since most just add you on the spot). Now, I sit and wait. Part of me is super nervous that they will tell me no, since I don't have my character's story solidly hammered out. Or that my character is not a good fit for their guild. Or they will think I'm a noob. I haven't been contacted yet. I am thinking about whispering an officer when I get on the game again.

I actually rped with someone last night. It was a random occurrence. I was questing, some mage ran past me with an elite on his tail. I decided to shoot some arrows at it in order for it to go down after. Once the elite died, the guy bowed to me, I bowed back and then the exchange started. I had a lot of fun with him and decided to put him on my friends list. (Yay, first friend!) It seemed like he enjoyed himself as well.

I do have a person that I know from my old server on this server (one of the reasons I choose it), but I don't want to use him as my crutch. I want to make my own rp circle on my own first. I was able to make a name for myself before when I played my priest. I want to be able to do that again. What I would love more than anything is to become on of those legendary people that folks talk about on the forums. *sigh* A girl can dream, right?

Muse, don't fail me now.

It never fails. Any time I dive into academics with any type of fervor, my creative side just shrivels up and dies on me. I couldn't write a story right now if a gun was placed to my head. It is like I can only due one thing really well at a time. I can either write or I can pour copious amounts of information into my brain. I am not allowed to have both.


Of course the timing for this is poor, seeing how I cutting out extraneous things in my life in order to get more writing and editing done. But now writing just causes frustration, because I can't come up with anything good.


I heard from a friend that the way she improves her writing is by drawing. And other trick that another friend used was reading books. Maybe I will have to do that before I can get my writing mojo back.Nothing feels worse than wanting to create, but you feel like you have tapped everything you have and there is nothing left in your mind.


I need to make a list of writing projects and tackle them in order. Just writing a little bit on everything is not getting anything finished. I want to have something finished. Of course that means the painful job of editing. But it has to be done.


Hopefully my creative side comes back soon. Until it does, I guess I will have more time to finish my leisure reading.