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:bulletpink::bulletpink::star: HALEY: :star::bulletpink::bulletpink:
Ugg, we've been busy. =_= No time to reply to messages or have much free time.

Our desktop needs to be repaired. It had all of our 3D programs and tutorials for it so we could make backgrounds. (That's why we haven't been making anything lately-- we're incubating.) We might lose everything that wasn't in Dropbox <--Seriously, get Dropbox to back up your stuff, artists! T__T

I've been replacing my coworker who injured his leg. I work 3:30 pm til midnite, so those work days are pretty much shot. I just try to cram in as many Japanese notes as I can before/after work to put on my cleaning cart, my "office." I'm glad I got to work on commissions for people on my days off, though.

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:bulletorange::bulletorange::star: HOPE: :star::bulletorange::bulletorange:
I'm currently learning to write Devanagari, which is a script that you write Hindi with. If you don't know, Hindi is the official language of India (English is second). I want to learn vocabulary words for Hindi after I learn Devanagari, which will probably take a month to do. You can write Hindi with English letters, but I want to learn it in this order for some reason. I really like Bollywood songs, so I want to be able to understand them and eventually watch the movies they're in.

Eventually, I plan to learn Urdu (it's orally similar to Hindi, but its written in Perso-Arabic script). Urdu is the official language of Pakistan (English is second). Finally, I want to learn Punjabi, which is the official language of Punjab. Punjab is geographically in both India and Pakistan. Punjabi is written in Devanagari, Gurmukhi, and Shahmukhi script. I dunno if I'll just learn to write the last two scripts, too, but I'll figure it out later.

It might seem like a lot of languages, but you can't tell the difference between Urdu and Hindi when they're spoken because the vocabulary is very similar. Bollywood movies use Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi in them, so that's why I want to learn each one. I also want to learn about India and Pakistan, because I feel sad the countries don't get along. I have to research more, but I know religious differences might be one of the problems between them.
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HELP FOR REAL

4 min read
This is Hope, and I got into a bad situation today. I don't know what to do and feel like I messed up bad. This is kind of long, but I'm begging for help in any way.

At work today, a guy started talking to me and he was sounding like he wanted to go out with me. He asked if I had a boyfriend, but I said, "No, I don't want one." I actually wanted to tell the truth that I'm asexual, but I didn't.

Last time I hinted about it to another guy who was just asking about me as an acquaintance, but he thought I thought I assumed he was asking me out and that I was trying to decline him, but I wasn't. After explaining, he ended up saying I was weird and at first thought I had high standards. So, I didn't want to have that happen again, but I just should've said it more clearly. But me saying I didn't want one should've been a sign to him!

He ended up asking for my phone number and I told him because I thought I couldn't lie about it or give some fake number. He also said stuff like "Hope, a beautiful name for a beautiful girl," and I was cringing inside but was blushing from embarrassment and was just like, "Durr, thanks, hyuck," and being bumbling like usual. He asked if we could be "friends" and said he's 29.

I told my parents to say I'm not home if he called (which I was doubting because I thought I scared him away from being too shy and bumbling). My mom answered the phone and said it must've been her friend who recently married, so I believed her because I didn't know the last name of her new husband. But then she said I was home so I think she did it on purpose because they were unsympathetic to me when I told the story. I don't think they believe how much I never want to have a relationship with others because I don't feel anything for anyone, which they could barely wrap their minds around when we argued about it a year ago.

This is bad to say, but I know my parents would disapprove of me being on a date with him because they're racist (Haley and I vehemently aren't, though). They were saying, "That's not bad!" about my situation, but if they knew otherwise (because I never say people's races/talk about how people look out loud, only allude to it vaguely at most), they would be upset. So this is why I feel a bit hurt by my parents for their obvious double-standards.

He called a bit ago and he said he was bored and wanted me to come over. I didn't want to because I've only been to my best friends' houses a couple times in my teenage and older life because I'm like a hermit. Being in a place around "normal" people is something I know nothing about.

Now he wants to call tomorrow and to eat out at like a pizza place or something. I don't want to go because I have a fear of eating in public, and he wants "to get to know each other." So, I don't know if he really just wants to be friends or if he wants to try to make it a date, which I'm feeling sick to my stomach about.

I can see me weirding him out if I have to eat by him because even my parents get mad about how I act in public. I'll probably have to go out to lunch with him, which I haven't even done with my friends, and I don't know what to expect. Also, I can't believe he really would want to date me, because I look so shabby and he doesn't. In the past, Haley and I were picked on for our looks and had several guys make fun of us by touching us and saying suggestive things. Now, I talk monotonously because I get too afraid to talk to people and can't even muster any emotion in my voice. I feel skeptical about this new guy because of my past.

I wish someone had some advice for me, I'm really worried. I know I obviously have to try to get it through to him that I'm uninterested, but after saying that probably soon into the lunch, it probably'll be awkward if dating me is what he had in mind.
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Thank you

3 min read
Ahh, thanks everyone for helping us deal with our emo slump last journal. @///@;;; We ended up each finally starting our own projects instead of being sad and not doing anything productive.

Hope is working on storyboard sketches for a one-shot comic (it's from a movie script about time stopping vampires) and I'm making a dress up game in Flash. XD; So, we feel really motivated, we work on them all day when we aren't at our jobs. ^-^

Though, we know we still need to practice drawing/coloring/anatomy/other stuff. We were thinking we should learn how to use our Adobe programs and basically go through "art home-school training" that we schedule ourselves to do. *doesn't want to be so rusty at art*

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We forgot to mention this earlier, but our friend, :iconsagomekitsune124: , made us each a plushie for Valentine's Day.

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o__0; We've been drawing weird/random stuff lately (well, weirder than usual). *cough* And most of it's been pink.

I just don't know. Like, what exactly is our direction/desired artistic message? e___e; I feel like we don't really have a niche. It's embarrassing, really. What a shameful collection of miserable-looking things that is our gallery. :I

We've been slowly chipping away at our comic scripts/designs, but were thinking of drawing a couple scenes from plays as short comics. We really like comics, so maybe that would be something "better" for us to spend our time on. We'd get to draw expressions and backgrounds and it'd make our strangely designed characters seem more believable. :shrug:

Don't get me wrong, I'm not like curled in a corner, wallowing in depression about all of this, it's just something we've been neutrally thinking about. 7_7; We don't really draw pictures with messages or wonderfully funny things. *can't ever think of ideas like those*

I just look at all the stuff we've drawn over the last couple of months and think, "Geez. I feel sorry for the people that watch us having to look at this strange stuff." (We're just "drawing for the sake of drawing cause we're bored".)

Bahh, I'm just thinking out loud. Thanks for reading. I'm not fishing for comments like, "Oh, I like whatever you draw, even if it is random, weird, and pink! Keep on doing what you do!" I don't really know what kind of advice I'm looking for.  (.-.) Maybe if anyone felt inclined, they could say if they have similar experiences or have any ideas about becoming more artistically-focused.

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This is kind of random, but we're re-opening our commissions. It sort of solves our previous journal's problem about wanting an art job, we guess. o__0;; We like drawing for others when we aren't sure what to draw for ourselves and like working diligently on them.

We've raised our prices since last time they were open, cause they take a lot of time for us (with the pre-sketches, different line art layers, and 3D modeling involved). Our gramma kept getting annoyed at us about our prices. *cough* >___>;;;

There are 2 total slots open: 1 for Hope and 1 for Haley. We dunno if anyone really wants any, but send us a note or email (hopeandhaley@yahoo.com). As a warning, we like sending a lot of WIPs and progress updates pretty much daily.

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