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February 16th, 2025

Met with a friend 2 days before their vacation.

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February 15th, 2025

Happy National Stellizabeth Day!!!

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February 14th, 2025

I got a candy gram from a friend for Valentine's day!

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February 13th, 2025

I drew an anthropomorphic leaf ageing for class.

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February 12th, 2025

We got kicked off campus 9 hours early today because of the snow!

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February 11th, 2025

I played Google Snake.

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February 10th, 2025

My microchip petri dish embreyo smoking a blunt, for class.

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February 11th, 2025. 1:20AM ★—

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February 9th, 2025

I bought two large iced capps! I'm getting so addicted.

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February 8th, 2025

I showed up to extra life drawing late, and everyone left early! Empty donkeys everywhere...

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February 7th, 2025

I watched Brokeback Mountain with some friends. SOOOOO SAD!!!!!!

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February 6th, 2025

I drew a fish reading a book under a willow tree.

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February 5th, 2025

I went to Walmart and bought toilet paper (among other things).

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February 4th, 2025

My roommate and I drew each other dying.

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February 3rd, 2025

Watched Begone Dull Care (1949) in animation history. It means so much to me!

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February 2nd, 2025

Finished watching Mars Attack! (1996) for my Futuristic Narritaves elective (INSANE).

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February 1st, 2025

Feeling: fabulous (euphemism)

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February 5th, 2025. 3:46PM ★— Writing this as I wait for the bus to Walmart. I never have time to write entries at the end of the day!! So perhaps I should opt for these small in between moments where I simply have nothing better to do. But I'm not such a big fan of typing in the Samsung notes app (these days)...

Anyway, to do some post month reflection, emoji playlist business is going well so far! Buuuut there are some evil qualms...

1. There are some sequences that are just not as aeshetic as others, unfortunately!

2. My computer doesn't have as many emojis as my phone!! (they get turned into line emoticons). Pretty okay sometimes, but the coffin was DISAPPOINTING (January 29th used to be a coffin (i died)).

3. Also don't know when I'm gonna start doing repeats. I've been trying to avoid it but I know it's coming one day!

4. Sometimes, I really just don't know! I started typing these out during winter break, when my life was superbly thrilling. Though I knew once I got to school, it would be a bit more tricky to pick interesting emojis. Being at art school helps though. I try to choose things that are more specific to the day rather than what I mostly did to avoid repeats. Ex. My roommate makes really good pasta. Even though it's so so delicious and maybe even the highlight of my day, they'll probably make it again another day. Ex. I have a friend that I like to go on comically long walks with whenever we meet up (because what else can you do?), but I wouldn't just put a walking emoji because we do that every time! etc. etc. Although if it's ever reeaaallly reaaallly relevant, I'll put it!

5. First and last emojis of the month get SERIOUS! (because they're the title of the playlists). Felt influenced on January 31st to make it a mailbox because the white of the mail matched the white of the mask on the masked emoji. Curse my artistic soul. One of my favourite emojis I could've saved for a more mailful occassion. Alas.

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January 31th, 2025

My roommate is spreading propaganda about animating Jesper from Klaus for our head turn assignment and it's working! #JESPERNATION!!!

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January 30th, 2025

My roommate bought a Sheridan moose keychain from the school bookstore.

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January 29th, 2025

Woke up and went back to sleep and woke up and went back to sleep and started working at 9pm.

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January 28th, 2025

My roommate bought me green tea because they felt bad for borrowing my laptop! Well I'm not complaining...

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January 27th, 2025

Animation history was cancelled! So I went through the lecture with some friends and watched an excerpt from Fantasia (1940).

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January 26th, 2025

Finished reading Craphound by Cory Doctorow for my Futuristic Narritaves elective.

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January 25th, 2025

Watched Look Back with some friends. Gaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

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January 26th, 2025. 3:08AM ★— Had a fun couple of days since my last entry; going places and doing things (things = drawing). Still working on my walk cycle. Yeah okay we get it. Have been recieving so much help from friends! #ittakesavillage. Went to a cafe on Friday and to the bar/diner across the street today. YUUUUM! Was depressed for a bit about the state of my hair (see: January 23rd (sheer panic)) but I'm starting to get over it (not). Started wearing makeup again too. I just don't know anymore! #Whatever. My roommate has been playing the Rebbeca Black boiler room set again while we work and now I Want You Back by NSYNC is stuck in my head. Beueue euoe oo. Have to do a quiz for my elective tomorrow (today) so hopefully I don't forget that too. I'm just saying a bunch of random things and none of them are connected to each other. I don't know! Hey guys (guy)! Bye guy.

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January 24th, 2025

Bumped into a friend in the elevator and recieved a generous donation of mac and cheese! SO GOOD.

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January 23rd, 2025

In the absence of a straightener, I tried styling my hair with 2 side clips and a middle part. There was lots of backlash.

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January 22nd, 2025

Sat in for my friends' animation class and watched Monsters University while working.

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January 22nd, 2025. 11:11PM ★— It was my first time sitting in a class time slot that wasn't mine! Apparently that's just something you can do here (depending on the teacher). I wanted to show her progress of my walk cycle before my Friday class. It's going not bad so far! BUT IM STILL SO SCARED IT'LL BE UGLY prayers appreciated. It also happened to be the animation class 2 of my oomfs are in, which I only realized once I was waiting outside the door at 2:00pm! Yaaaaaaayy! Still feel pretty on top of things even though I'm technically secretly really not, but we'll see. Hoping to start a personal piece soon as well so I can complete it before the end of January... And blah blah blah. Listening to MCR right now. Life is so nothing. Life is so burger. 2nd semester is a lot less excruciatingly lonely than the 1st! But I hope something exciting happens in my life again soon. I can only draw for so long. Boooooooriiiiiinnngggg!

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January 21st, 2025

My roommate broke our butter dish while making the best salmon ever.

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January 20th, 2025

My roommate and I made tonkatsu for the first time! It was sooooo goooodddd!!!!

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January 21st, 2025. 1:35AM ★— My first short entry aside from a small emoji description. I want to start writing real entries under these but I simply never have the time! It's 1 in the morning right now and I still have to shower. Alas, this will STILL have to be brief. I just wanted to talk about cpop a bit. A bit of background (although my reader(s?) already know), I've been getting into cpop since August 2024 and it's seriously taken over my Spotify as of late. I'm always looking for new songs that have a combination of good singing, good chord progressions, and good production (code for: songs I subjectively like)! I used to actively seek out more upbeat and electronic songs, but nowadays I'm getting really into the ballads. I've always loved a good ballad, but I'm seriously feeling the emotions right now! (I'm just gonna be copy pasting the names I don't actually know Chinese) One of my favourites is 小城女孩(Small Town Girl) by 祁紫檀(Qi Zitan) — I don't know if it really counts as a ballad but OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS SONG! I've been listening to 我對不起我(Sorry For Myself) by 田馥甄(Hebe Tien) this month and its soooooo sad. The chords are a bit boring to me but it's soooo sad I can't help but listen. Same with 你今天要走(You Have To Leave Today) by 葉蒨文(Sally Yeh). It's the way she sings it and the violin that makes it SO SAD. I could keep listing songs but I'll hold back. The reason I'm writing all this right now at this very moment on this Tuesday morning is to express my love for 楊乃文(Naiwen Yang)'s 1997 album One. I think it's more rock than pop really, which makes me want to discover more Chinese rock (...crock...... ? ..) as well. But such a great album! My favourite songs are 星星堆滿天(Stars) and 不要說出去(Don't Say Go Out), especially the live versions! I'm so drawn to this album because when I listen to it, it gives me this immense feeling of leaving the past behind. Leaving past sadness in the past, leaving past happiness in the past, and the sheer melancholy of just moving forward. Wow! Well that's all I really wanted to say (since I've been thinking about it for DAYS (but have TRAPPED (in my COLLEGE ENCLOSURE))). I will probably come back... HOPEFULLY...In the future, and add some more details about the days of January! To #remember (especially today, with our TONKATSU JOURNEY). Let's count this as the first cute tiny baby step.

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January 19th, 2025

I designed a character for my walk cycle! They're wearing a looong scarf.

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January 21st, 2025. 9:14PM ★—



This the character I'm doing for my walk cycle assignment! Like many students in the past, I was inspired by the current weather... Today I made some adjustments for the actual assignment (more 3 dimensional for animation, more 3/4 pose, different persepctive).



I think I might need to get rid of the looong scarf! Because it would be difficult to animate in that perspective and I don't really need it anyway. Also apparently on the assignment sheet it says the character needs to be 4-5 heads tall! #oops. But I don't want to change it now because it's so cute... I didn't get a chance to converse with my teacher about the design because I was sick last class (and also didn't have it drawn). Just gonna make an animation attempt tonight and show her tomorrow before it's due friday. Have never successfully animated something in my entire life but I want this one to be good and if it's not I will be SO DISTRAUGHT!

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January 18th, 2025

I finished my Pink Panther inbetweening assignment (close enough to a panther emoji).

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January 17th, 2025

I threw up while disposing of spoiled milk.

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January 16th, 2025

I did the Sheridan bone test...

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January 15th, 2025

I downloaded Xiaohongshu in my quest for more cpop!

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January 14th, 2025

Watched my roommate get scammed and refunded $8 from our school vending machine.

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January 13th, 2025

Visited the second year lab with some friends and took turns trying to throw a tangerine into a cardboard box.

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January 12th, 2025

Had some particular discussions about a particular singer while standing in a particularly asmr-esque sculpture.

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January 11th, 2025

Played pool for the first time; still don't get it.

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January 10th, 2025

Watched Jennifer's Body with some friends. 1 million stars.

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January 9th, 2025

Went to Figaro Coffee House for the first time and had THE MOST AMAZING italian sandwhich.

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January 8th, 2025

Began the construction of a long awaited Drake cardboard cutout (it's a long story...)

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January 7th, 2025

My best friend's birthday! Happy birthday Stella!

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January 6th, 2025

We watched Gertie the Dinosaur in our first animation history lecture.

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January 5th, 2025

I went to a new figure drawing place in Toronto called AGA Arts, and I was pleasantly surprised by the cute little house it was hosted in.

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January 4th, 2025

I watched Squid Game season 2.

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January 3rd, 2025

I tried GAMBLING for the first time! I lost all my money.

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January 2nd, 2025

I tried pottery for the first time! (I made a bowl though, not a pot.)

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January 1st, 2025

I was sooooooooooooo sick the whooooooooooooole day!

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