A few whys.

Borrowed from ashen_key I had my first late night shift at the grad library from 4 to 8 pm and it went really well. One of the printers kept being weird but part of the shift was with a fellow new SI student and she's now on my flist *waves to her*.

Then I came home and finally did more of my reading for my Children and Youth media course and augh, its a textbook kind of book that was clearly written by a teacher. Now this could be good or bad, sadly its not so good, I swear something about education textbooks just have a special sort of blandness to them no matter the subject matter.

My username is ceitfianna because Ceit is the Scots Gaelic spelling for my name and its one of the few languages that actually has just plain Kate instead of having it always be a nickname. Fianna is one of the werewolf tribes in old school World of Darkness and a group of famed Irish warriors. I love Ireland and have always found myself connecting with Celtic things so I stuck them together and ta da username.

My journal name is Thoughts on the Journey because when I really started to write in this journal, I was feeling very much in between. I still do and I like it since traveling and finding your way is very much a part of how I work.

I don't have a journal subtitle since I never found one that worked.

My default userpic is .

The image is from the Ace of Cups on my tarot deck which is the Faery Wicca Deck and utterly beautiful. I bought this deck my first year of college and thought I haven't used it a lot, I recently bought it its very own box and really should do a reading. This is also the very first icon that I ever made and I love how simple and beautiful it is. At the moment, my layout doesn't match it and that's okay, I just like this icon.

Graphics Envy

This week seems to be change your layouts week and I'm so utterly impressed by the gorgeous ones that are on my flist. So I've starting thinking that maybe its time to consider a revamp for myself and maybe try and make it myself.

I really adore the one that moofoot made for me and there never can be too much James McAvoy in the world, just that meme about journal names and such got me considering. I take a lot of beautiful pictures and actually have some wonderful collections of things that probably could be very striking in my layout.

My question for all of you far more graphic savvy folks is what's your inspiration and ideas for your layouts? Do you start with one image or with a person and go from there or is it something else entirely? Also what are the images that you associate with me since for my journal, I want something that reflects me and to get a good sense of that I'd really appreciate visual ideas and such from other people.

Also I just had my first reference class and I think the subject matter and assignments will be interesting but the lectures are going to be a mix. The prof clearly finds it all quite fascinating but she's not that great a speaker. In about ten minutes, I'm going to head off to my children's media course which I'm really hoping is more interesting than the horrible textbook. I'll update about that when I get home which will probably be closer to 9 unless the class doesn't run a full session. Sadly most of mine seem to be running for the full three hours.

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My children's literature class is going to be awesome, the first section we talked about what we read, a basic history of literature and what we're all trying to get from this class. It was fascinating and interesting and its going to make my Monday's rock.

Then I went to read fandomsecrets and yes, I'm weird and all, shush, there's an Alizee one. For those of you not sure who she is *points at icon*, Tiwa's face, she's a French pop star and quite an old duck, but she's also Tiwa. number 141 and I think I might snag that image for icon purposes. The internet is weird, seriously weird, but its made my good mood even better.