I'll start with the other frustrations first. I'm currently writing this during a mental block during my all-nighter that I'm pulling to write THREE papers for my philosophy class before my math test tomorrow morning, followed by a speech in my Public Speaking class and an in-class essay in my College Composition class. In addition to this, I have a bit of catch-up work to do in my genetics class while I attempt to get the teacher fired for teaching the HIGHLY outdated concept of Darwinian evolution, which was conclusively disproven within a few years of Darwin actually positing it as an idea. I also have to finish making up work from the two times in recent history when I was sick, as it appears that I didn't get the regular flu in with everything that I got when I had con crud.

Now on to the main topic of this journal: Girls. And how they can eternally frustrate men without actually doing anything.
(Imagine the following conversation read in British accents. It somehow makes it WAY funnier)
Girl: "Well, I would date you, but you live halfway across the country"
Guy: "What good does that do me? Now I'm stuck wondering what might have been with you in ADDITION to these other women."
Girl: "Other women? I'm not the only one you think about?"
Guy: "What does it matter? It's not like we can date anyway, since you don't want to do anything long-distance and I can't just move up to live with you."
Girl: "It's the IDEA of things. You're not supposed to like more than one woman at a time."
Guy: "The whole lot of you are bloody mad! Where in the six bloody hells and three not-so-bloody-but-equally-unpleasant hells is that written?"
Girl: "It's not written, you're just supposed to KNOW it instinctively."
Guy: "All I know about women instinctively is that my wahoo goes in your hoo-ha and together we go whoopie and then we get a baby. Everything else I have to figure out, and you do NOT make it easy."
Girl: "You don't have to be so damn vulgar."
Guy: "Congrats on the oxymoron there, by the way. Now please excuse me while I use this jigsaw to cut the top of my head off, I'm sure it'll be less painful than trying to figure out what exactly you mean."

That conversation is a bit of a composite of several that I've had with various females recently. With a bit of added sarcasm and humor, but just a bit. Women seriously are that dang complicated. Currently, there's seven different women who have been bothering me to some extent, and why I can't date them right now.

And sadly for them, I'm calling the ones I can out (in other words, if you're on dA, you're getting called out on here)

Jessica (Era): Ex-fiance. She's dating someone else and is more of a friend than anything else, but there's always just a bit of a spark there, and I don't know if there ever WON'T be.

Jessica : Informed me not too long ago that the only reason she's not interested in a relationship with me is because I live too far away. Granted, I DID ask, so I can't really whine about her telling me that.

Stephanie : Oog. This is one of those complicated ones, where her family doesn't really like her and I talking because I'm FROM TEH INTERNETZ OMGZ LOCK TEH DOORS!, but she and I sorta still talk anyway, and there's definitely a "click" there, but neither of us is sure if it's enough of a "click" to try to do things anyway. Plus she lives across the country from me (in a north-south version of across, not east-west).

Kara : Ex-girlfriend, lives COMPLETELY across the country from me (in both a north-south AND east-west variety), and I'm still not sure if she's sane enough to be safe yet. But there's definitely some chemistry there.

Remi (no link, no alternate names): Met at Dragon*Con. There's "click" and there's "CLICK" and then there's "wanting to kiss as soon as we met". The inclusion of the third should explain most of it. But she lives 7 hours away and is sorta dating someone else and neither of us can really figure out if it'd actually go anywhere long-term or not.

Larissa: : This one's honestly one of the most frustrating ones on the list: She's batting for the other team right now. Not really any other reasons that I know of, but that one by itself kinda rules out anything else.

Ashley (also no link or alternate name): Also lives across the country (over by Kara), is dating someone else.

Vera : Talked for a while before D*Con '09, met at D*Con '09, and I got a bit of a crush on her. That's about it there, but I just felt like including her on the list for the sake of covering my bases.


Now for the really frustrating part? If any two of these wonderful women decided at any time that they both wished to date me... I wouldn't know who to pick. They're all "#1", so to speak, on the list of "Who I want to date". So that gets VERY frustrating at times.

On top of that, I've been incapable of coming up with anything new to draw or color or anything recently. I've been so busy with my classes and with WoW trying to de-stress from class that I haven't put any time into any of my costumes or artwork, though I finally got around to starting work on designing my Jedi costume (I'll be posting sketches and design mock-ups once I figure out how to have my printer/scanner and TV occupy the same physical space). And I'll be finishing up the soft goods for my Mandalorian soon, even if the armor itself takes another ten years. (I hope not!)

Oh, and I bought a kilt. Woo manskirt! I'll post a few pics up when I get it, which should be next Monday, if not sooner (I hope sooner... I want my kilt TODAY!).

Now I suppose I should get back to working on my papers...