Isn't this ALWAYS the way? I think I'm good for catching up and then I get hit with other things. But at least the "other thing" was rather exciting this time: I'm working on putting together my first class. I'll be teaching Consumer Behavior both semesters next year and get to decide every element of the class from the chosen textbook to the syllabus design. Exciting! Also exceedingly terrifying!

In any event, it has been quite an experience contacting the publishers to get sample copies of their textbooks. I wrote to one company asking for a single edition of a the most popular CB textbook. Two hours later the area representative replied to me and said she was putting together a package of multiple textbooks, case study books, workbooks, and anything else I might find useful. Glancing at their website that's something like $600 (retail) worth of goods being expressed to me for free.

And then I heard from the other publishers doing much the same.

Huh! Quite the experience.

Dreamwidth Stuff

Hey look, a bold header to get your attention!

1. I'll be using my Dreamwidth account to post only art stuff. If that's all you care about, there's a RSS feed button over there to conveniently use. Handy! HAY GUYZ IT'S AN ART ACCOUNT


2. I have two Dreamwidth invites if anyone would like one. Just leave a comment with your email. (I've screened comments on this post because of this, so no one needs to feel iffy about posting their email out in the open.)

Holy crap I posted my comic to wow_ladies and wow.com linked to it. :O

Ha ha, someone's totally nerdraging at me on DeviantArt. Awesome. IF YOU ARE GOING TO JOKE ABOUT SOMEONE THAT WAY YOU HAD BETTER OFFER SOME CANON SUPPORT FOR YOUR OPINION YOUNG LADY I AM NOT AT ALL AMUSED.

Anyway, thank you to everyone who offered the kind words about two posts back! I will respond individually this weekend, as I am about to go off to another meeting, but wanted to give a big pre-emptive :D to all involved parties.

Also, hello Photobucket over-bandwidth journal layout graphic. I thought I had saved these files to my own account; suppose not. That'll teach me to do so as soon as they come back up!

Here I present my first half of the book review of the Arthas tie-in novel, in which I attempt to communicate what I believe to be the most important thematic elements of the rise of this villain who has affected so many within this fictional universe.

It is a very serious response to the book, as you will see.






Thrilling conclusion to follow.

UGH, I had planned to be all creative and stuff this week, but then my Grand Telus Saga suddenly resumed. See, I had set up an installation appointment with them before I ever moved to Canada. My account info fell into some black hole of a glitch that left any of their systems unable to interface with each other regarding my status, meaning that no appointments were recognized by the dispatcher and attempts to cancel the whole process just melted away. Furthermore, they somehow activated the phone number at someone else's house, and then proceeded to charge me for an "early cancellation" along with the long-distance calls made in that stranger's house. He'd been calling Poland.

It took about five months for them to fix their systems enough for me to be properly credited and for my account to be properly closed, which meant that the last contact I had with Telus was in January or February of 2008.

This past week I got a letter saying that due to my unpaid account balance they would be turning me over to collections on July 1.

YOU'RE A SUPER-SWELL COMPANY, TELUS.

I got it all straightened out on the phone earlier today, but am expecting to have Telus stormtroopers suddenly swarm my house the day before I finally leave Canada, asking me why I never paid for my calls to Poland.

But! In the end, it is all okay because



(Hells yeah that deserves non-cut glitter text.)

GO ME.

And also I know people liked watching these, so here is another Artpad drawing. http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?klv7sl1h2y4w

This time, it was "Paint your WoW experience in Artpad."

http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?klmsh2yz5bk

miggy: I made it through this entire thing.
miggy: Once.
miggy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smUCdkx-YGQ&feature=related
jrenken: Augh no D:<
miggy: And now nothing can harm me ever again.

Next Saturday is the Proudmoore Pride Festival, which is an excuse to have a gigantic (color-coordinated) parade across Kalimdor, leading into a giant party in Booty Bay. They're holding contests, giving away prizes, and have people stationed to help any lowbie alt rerolls safely follow the route to party headquarters.

I <3 my server.

I want to have some silliness waiting for me to tackle after I take ZOMG MY COMPS on Thursday, so!

In the comments, leave a request for a fanfic scene, short, etc. that you would like to see. Only ask in fandoms that I'm familiar with, please, and don't be overly specific. (Those fandoms I'm familiar with should be apparent by what I've babbled about.)

The forum thread is going on for a while, so I've wound up drawing some more in Artpad.

Firstly, GAME NEEDS MORE JETPACKS: http://artpad.art.com/?kkyahn1987ic

Then I was lazy and just copied a picture from the comic, which I really need to get in TPB: http://artpad.art.com/?kkzf3j14fbtk

And then I got asked for a Horde picture, so I did a natural followup to the picture above: http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?kkzge61dnfj4

Yeah, minor brain break from studying. There was a thread on drawing characters in the free Artpad setup, so rather than do my own I was lazy and sketched Arthas.

http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?kkxmh81n5yh0

Go to a blank page and paint your own picture of anything and leave it as a comment! Fandom, or whatever! Wheeeeeeeeeeee it is time to procrastinate!

(To get the link when you're done, click "save & send" on the left, then click on the red link for "if you'd prefer not to email this but would like a link, click here.")

I finished drawing out my current Proudmoore (main server) alts for my Warcraft forum sig.



Posting the Imageshack link I use for there, because I want to make some changes before I call it "done" and stick it up at DA.

Why hello! I am posting this from Dreamwidth! And seeing if the auto-crosspost feature works! LET'S SEE.

I figured an easy topic to discuss, and thus test with, would be the fairly awesome guild page I set up for my main World of Warcraft guild. We may not actually do anything, but darnit, we deserve to look spiffy!

And The Holograms

My default answer to people who whisper me to ask "Where's Jem?" is "She's off being truly outrageous." They never seem to have a response.

So, let's check this:

1. Named after a girls' 1980s cartoon


2. Has a playlist filled with songs that could work as gay anthems


3. Serves mostly as a social hangout


4. Has an overwhelmingly female avatar list


5. Has an overwhelmingly Draenei skew, otherwise known as "the race with a giant holy disco ball chilling in their city"

Yep.

Proudmoore works just fine.



Edit: HOT DAMN IT WORKED. That is a nice feature right there.

Bride of Edit: Oh, and I'm at http://miggy.dreamwidth.org/ there. Shocker!

Scroll! Scroll! Scroll!

Before: human paladin, draenei hunter, draenei mage, belf warlock, draenei shaman
Added: draenei paladin, belf hunter (not a rogue, despite the look; she is just in some good-looking leather right now)

( 2000+ pixels wide by now. )

Before: human paladin, draenei hunter, draenei mage, belf warlock
Added: draenei shaman

millenia: moustache argh
miggy: :D :D :D :D :D :D
miggy: THAT IS THE BEST THING
millenia: He looks like robert goulet!
miggy: :D :D :D :D :D :D

( It's getting pretty wide by this point. Still many alts to go! )

Indeed, soon I will make a real post... BUT TODAY IS NOT THAT DAY.

I have my comprehensive exams coming up and once those are past then my summer will become so much more open. After all, I do have two half-completed fics sitting here that I would very much like to finish. Eventually.

Anyway, ( I've been occasionally plugging away at a picture to link in my WoW forum sig, of my different alts. )

In Icecrown by ~illyria on deviantART

I MADE IT THROUGH CLASSES.

Like, the last classes I am ever required to take. Now it's just studying for my comprehensive exam, ho ho ho ho oh dear. Even so, my life will be so much more pleasant, now.

I leave you with this note from the Proudmoore realm forum. (Proudmoore is (in)famous for being gay-friendly, to the extent that people will ask if a guild is not explicitly designed to be a GLBT guild.)

"We actually had an applicant that thought it stood for (G)ruul's (L)air to (B)lack (T)emple raiding."

I picture every possible followup to this and proceed to laugh and laugh.