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On Sunday dunx and I went to see AdamBalm to talk about the awesome tattoos we want to get. I hope he spruces up my drawings a lot. My style is sorta bland and is just outlines for the most part; I hope he gives it a lot more personality. I'm super stoked. I haven't been inked in a few years and I'm really excited to get something big and colorful and meaningful that I designed myself. I also can't believe that dunx is actually going along with it, too. See, when he and I were writing our theses we shared a desk in the library. We spent many a long hour at that desk trying to get each other to throw shit off the balcony and dropping large books on the floor and doing stimulants and so on, and often I would get bored and draw up "tattoo designs" on these notecards that I had in my area. They were always that sorta classic Sailor Jerry style with banners and roses and barbed wire and so on. They usually involved words like "cool and tough" and "fuck yeah forever" and took up one note card. Well, one day I decided to make one that encompassed both the "cool and tough" man and the "easy and fun" woman, and it took up two notecards that I had to tape together, and it had my name and dunx's name, and a heart and a rose and a skull and... well, all the things a good tattoo needs. And dunx saw it and was like, "dude, I'll totally get half of that if you want to get the other half" which was totally unexpected, because usually he'd just tell me how retarded my latest design was. It's been over a year since I drew it, and now we're finally getting around to getting inked. This is going to rock. I want to get mine on my calf, but at the same time I sorta wanted to get stocking seams someday... but this means more to me than some black lines. I'm having a hard time thinking of what colors I want, but I'm sure I'll love whatever I end up getting. I totally can't wait two weeks for him to draw stuff up. I suppose I can after waiting over a year already (I can't believe I even hung on to the drawing this long) but before now it was more just something we talked about, not something we're actually going to do. I can't wait. When we put our calves side by side the design will be whole. *slides glasses up nose* God, I'm such a nerd.

The last time I was getting tattooed (it was the big piece on my hip) I remember very vividly telling myself that getting tattooed really hurt and I didn't want to ever get one ever again because it hurt so much and I was tired of sitting there and having someone jab needles into my skin over and over and over and over and... but here I am, getting ready to walk right into the parlor this month and have someone do just that. For honor and glory, I guess.

I like how you guys thought I was leaving or going to kill myself or something with my last entry. It was very sweet, but can't someone express deep gratitude without people thinking something's wrong? It's like that time in high school when I was getting rid of all my stuff because I was tired of having so much and everyone thought I was going to kill myself. Dude, I'm not retarded...

Okay, I need to get to bed. I've been staying up way too late lately and it's bad for me. I need sleep. I need a lot of sleep so I can stand to look at all the fucking retarded help requests you guys have sent me about your password not working and yet you didn't use the "password troubles" form, possibly because you can't read, or maybe you can't login and yet the username you've provided me with can't be found, and you didn't put your password in the password field, and you misspelled your email address so I can't find it in the database OR send you email back, and you probably only put your first name or even a pseudonym in the "name" box. Or perhaps you wanted to reactivate your old account but instead you started a new one with a username that was the same as your old alias and now you don't understand why you don't have all your old stuff back. Or maybe you can't post a picture to the boards and insist you've read the FAQ but you're still trying to post the gallery page the picture is on rather than the picture itself. Or you can't figure out how to remove someone you've bookmarked as interesting, or you can't figure out how to cancel your account, or you "only signed up for a one month trial membership for $4 and clicked the no rebill option so why are you billing me $9 every month" or you don't know what a browser is.

N'night, kids.