Dear Die-ary...

I'm in a celebratory mood at the moment. Today was probably one of the best days in my life, as I managed to get Dreamweaver (the website-making software) from my IT teacher, and I found a 'The Art of Cartooning with Flash' book in the library... complete with CD!! And I've ACTUALLY made a pretty decent flash 'movie'!!! Wahey! I grasped how to use it very quickly (it's animating, after all...) and I managed to produce a few-seconds long 'cartoon' after about 3 and a half hours after getting it. If you think that's bad, I did it pretty quickly really, seeing as I had to draw the picture a few times, edit it, add sound, etc etc etc. It is basically Vampeep, with a sign, and there's lightning. Go here, if you dare:
http://img51.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vampeep2vq.swf . Try looking at the bigger version of it. It's going on the website I'm going to make for it later, but first I've gotta do a new Vampeep comic, as I've left it for over a month. Oops.

Well, about Romiet and Julio. Last night I went with some of my year-group to see the well-known Shakespearian play, Romeo and Juliet. I just have to say, it was one of the most boring things I've ever seen. I tried to pay attention, I really did, but I just... couldn't. We were all alert and listening when lightening effects came on, then we all lost interest after they started talking. I also have to say this: I never knew in those days they wore trainers, jeans, and I also didn't know that they had blacks in Italy at that time, and neither did I know that Juliet was an Indian. In case you were wondering, no, it was not a modernised version. My favorite characters were the Nurse and Mercutio. OK, Mercutio did incredibly dodgy things (too dodgy to mention here o_0) but he was funny and was cooler than the other gits....I mean guys. And the Nurse, everybody liked the Nurse. She also was dodgy. Very strange gestures. But I was quite amazed when the lights suddenly came on (evidently at the wrong time) and the stage was lit up with green and red. The actors took notice, but carried on from where they left. I am not capable of doing that myself, so that was pretty amazing. We also took great delight in shouting "He's behind youuuuuuu" when Juliet tried to find Romeo (who's dead), and before he takes the poison shouting, "Don't do it! She's not DEAD!!!!!"

Good times, good times.