I know, I know, I know. All I’ve been writing about lately is this contest and my foul moods and even I think it’s getting old, but that’s why I’ve been writing here on my site, rather than annoying the people of Live Journal.The truth of the matter is, I don’t have a whole lot going on in my life right now besides this contest and immersion therapy angst, so that’s what I have to write about. But have no fear! This weekend is Elmvale’s Maple Syrup Festival, which my mom is in, so there’s at least one forthcoming post that isn’t all “cube cube cube immersion therapy”.

Plus, pretty soon it’s going to be time to plant my garden, which I know a lot of you look forward to, so there’s that.

Anyway, during the first part of the contest, a small community formed on Twitter around @thehypercube and everyone in that community right now are all voting for each other. Just to keep things straight, a few people have been posting on their blogs and Live Journals who they’re voting for and I thought I’d do the same – with full disclosure that it’s almost 5am and I’m probably going to miss one or two people.

First up is Blake, obviously, otherwise known as @4bit4, whose category is “go-to” because he’s an IT geek.

Then comes @gunandagirl (creative license) and @heartsandclefs (sampler) who Blake & I met at the online tweetup shortly before the 500 finalists were chosen. They are both from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and are lovely people so I vote for them

Up next is @thaPHLASH (creative license) from Montreal who’s probably one of my favourite people on the internet these days because he’s a great artist, a good person and I just dig the hell out of him. Plus his canvas rocks.

Then there’s @tswizz (side stepper) from Toronto who was the first person I “met” in the contest and whose website I posted about in the very beginning, called I Heart Cube.

Next is @JDollin (creative license), also from Toronto, who I don’t know very well, but he seems decent, I like his canvases (he changes them often) and he’s a friend of a friend I’ve known online for a long time so voting for him seemed like the right thing to do. Currently both of us (and Blake) are being pimped on one of the NSFW forums I go to so I figure we’re both in this together.

Then there’s @sandbarmark (go-to) from Prince Edward Island and @Tylersdaytoday (wordsmith) from Toronto who gets my vote just because of the picture of him and his stick.

Next comes @mariapetersen (creative license) from Surrey, BC who I have a voting pact with. She votes for me, I vote for her. So far the system’s working.

After Maria comes @qubicmx (sampler) from Calgary who’s just a nice guy and whose canvas I like.

Then comes @annakarenine (runway), from Gatineau which I’m pretty sure is in Quebec (I’m sorry, I suck at geography and don’t speak french…I’m a horrible Canadian :o/) and who I talk to a lot on Twitter. Plus, she makes really cute Cube-themed wallpapers, one of which I’m currently using. :o)

Next up is @willeagle (sampler) from Toronto because he’s just a cool guy and he’s polite, which is something I like to reward, especially when we’re all in competition with each other and certain folks HAVEN’T been polite during this contest.

Then we have @BeCircle, the King of Drupal from Toronto with his bouncing Cubes, who I so rudely forgot when I wrote this the first time even though I vote for him every single day. (Again, I’m sorry!) And new to the mix is my first and only “action jackson”, Michel Savoie, who promises to take a roadtrip to see all of Ontario’s tourist destinations should he win.

And last but not least…how can you not vote for Thornhill, Ontario’s Cube Man, @Seandubb?

And I think that’s it. Every other day or so I go through and look at each and every canvas and vote for the ones I like because as I said, the only really exciting thing I’ve got going on these days is this contest so I tend to spend a lot of time chatting with the other contestants on Twitter and looking at canvases.

Recently the little community that formed around @thehypercube has kind of strayed a bit as the contest progresses, so @gunandagirl has started planning an online tweetup for next Monday night which should bring us all back together. I hope so anyway.

Also recently, people from the contest have been contacting me, wanting me to plug them or do a vote exchange with them and I’ve mostly been ignoring them because…where were you during the last 4 weeks while we were all networking with each other, making friends and creating a community? I mean, if I happen to see your canvas while I’m flipping through and I like it, I’ll vote for it, but unless you were part of my posse from the beginning and actually interacted with me prior to the voting portion, I’m not about to make any deals.

Oh…and? If you’re this far in the contest and you still think you’re trying to win a “hypercube”…just…ugh.

I’m sorry of any of that sounded snotty, but it’s just the way it is.

Oh and one more thing? It finally happened. Some french dude got a Cube tattoo. I don’t speak french, so I don’t know what he’s saying and I’ll keep my thoughts on this to myself…

So that’s my contest update for today. Not all that exciting, I know, but this was more for my hypercube homies than anything else.

And now I’m going to go make myself crumpets and peanut butter and read some more of In the Night Garden, which, in case I haven’t mentioned it, I’m really enjoying. I would kill to have an imagination like that.

Instead of a fansign tonight, because I’m too tired to edit one, I’ll leave you with a little playlist. Enjoy!