Geez... I still got tons of messages to respond to...
But that's because I hadn't been able to go online much in the past week 'n a half. XD
Anyway, I'm still going to be busy for awhile, and that means more messages (it never ends, but it's all good to hear what you all think ).

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My Illustration project's is lagging a bit, but I'll try to get everything transferred and inked by Monday so I can hurry up and color it and get started on the next project.

The next project is a book cover (front, back, and spine), and so far I got a few ideas in mind: Manny Pacquiao (he just won his 7th world championship title in boxing ), military uniforms from various historical time periods (sounds like another APH project in the making XD ), cultural costumes (another APH project in mind XD ), or one of my stories that I hadn't been working on for ages (Kasper's Farewell, Sang: the Song of Blood, Total Peace With Forbidden Love, etc. ).
Of course I still have that APH - Inglorious Basterds montage that can be made into a WW2 book cover, but I'm not so sure about that...

You can let me know what you think which one should I do for the book cover.
(personally, I kinda leaning towards the military uniforms and cultural costumes )


For Intermediate Drawing, I really need to chip-chop on some more master copies.
I tried making one yesterday, but it's not as good as the Sargent's sketch of a lady I did earlier (it's another Sargent drawing). XD
But I plan on redoing it, so hopefully I can get it right next time.

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As for Microbiology... *sigh*
I got a paper to write on the 'Unknown Organism' experiment that my lab partner and I had been doing for the past few weeks that's due this coming Tuesday before lecture starts @ 8:00 in the morning.
And it turns out that our 'unknown' sample got contaminated on the latter half of the experiment (the professor told us Tuesday), so ja...
(we don't know how it got contaminated - at one time we were missing a test tube, so probably somebody had accidentally grabbed it and then placed it back after tampering with it, or one very sneaky organism got inside via trapped air [which is probably the most likely case]; that explains the strange sea blue-green color in a few test tubes )

But some of the tests prior to the contamination were valid, plus we were able to obtain some of the original sample, so all wasn't lost.
Well, it'll be harder to confirm the identify the organism - this is done by looking in this huge book called Bergy's Manual which lists out different genre (plural for genus) and species with charts based on chemical test results.
We think it's Enterobacter aerogenes, but there's a probable chance it might be Enterobacter cloacae or Enterobacter dissolvens.

My paper's going to be quite interesting...
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Now, let's talk about something else.

Since I got my driver license now, my father finally got me insured so I'm driving all by myself to college - whenever the car is available.
And the car he put my name under... it's his crappy 10-year-old Toyota...

So just how crappy this car is, you ask?
Just one glance would make a German cringe (I've read in cultural notes that in Germany your car reflects your social status - simply put, regular people own a Volkswagen while the rich own Mercedes-Benz ) : the silver paint's practically peeling from sun damage, the rubber sealant on the windows are flaky, the windows, mirrors, and locks are manual, the inside cloth lining is coming off, and not to mention really dirty with dust outside and black grime inside... and I had to drive this thing to class this morning (a few guys saw me drive in the parking lot, and I can tell they were talking about me... oh the shame... -_-''' )

Ja... now I can't wait to get a job so I can get my father's car ' pimped out' and repaired 'cause it's embarrassing to drive a car in such a condition when in reality I'm much neater and cleaner than it looks, but I've heard recently that employers nowadays send out people to check out the condition of potential employees' vehicles and use that to determine whether they're worthy enough to work for them, so there goes my employment (I'm still not joining the military!)

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Thanksgiving's next week, so hopefully I'll get enough time to make holiday cards for my professors and work on extra projects (there's so many in mind I can't sort through which ones I want to do ).

Also, my mother's going to the Philippines to visit and check up on her family soon since the four typhoons practically in a row a few months earlier, so that means my father's mother from Iowa is coming over to stay for the meantime (my mother will be gone for about a month).
Since my mother's going to the Philippines, I'm going to ask her if she can find any APH stuff for me - PI's just south of Japan, and stuff there is cheep too (let's just hope it's not like the fake Yu-Gi-Oh! cards she got last time ), plus she's going to miss my birthday in December.

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Well... that's all I have to say for now...
Until next time, Tschüß.

__FrauV8


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Help Anna-Chan learn these languages for fun!

1. German
2. Japanese
3. Tagalog (Filipino)
4. Dutch/Afrikaan/Flemish
5. Swedish/Norwegian/Finnish
6. Russian
*Other languages not included in the list are welcome too!
Aussi, je parle un peau Français (Also, I speak a little French).

Just send in some basic words and grammar in my dA inbox for me to learn so I can use them for "Kasper's Farewell" and APH fan art.