Could you whisper in my ear...

This has probably the longest I've been online in a while now. I guess it's kinda nice to end the year in a sort of old way. I can't remember the last time I stayed up till 3 am just chatting with one person on AIM.

That one person happens to be Paul. We managed to figure out that we've known each other for approximately four years now, and who knows...maybe we'll figure out some way to meet in 2011. He'd be the last one, and hopefully that meeting will go well. I'm fairly certain it will. I might end up going to Anime Iowa for the first time to make this happen. Alas, all that planning will take place sometime in the new year. Trying to figure out when we first started talking brought up some dusty old memories. Not bad, just dusty. The one person linking us has melted out of both of our lives. That part is a little sad.

2010 has been...really pleasant, to say the least. I suppose the world came crashing down with a dreadful amount of drama at the end of 2009, and then some surprisingly good things started in 2010. It doesn't seem like January 2009 was that long ago. Sometimes I'll still lie awake at night and feel guilty about how all of that played out. That will pass in time though. I hope.

Overall, it's been a fantastic year as far as years go. It was eventful, but all in the good way. There weren't any major tragedies to get hung up on in these past 365 days.

Looking back on my calendar from January to April, I cannot believe the insane amount of stuff I managed to cram into 24 hours. I would totally go back and do it all again if I needed to too. I'll have all these happy memories from this year to think about now. Through all this, I've started wearing more colors and my face now does this automatic thing called "smiling." Those are all good signs, right? Sure, I've become distant with one or two friends, but most of them are still around and I've made new ones along the way.

I suppose I'm mellowing out now that it's drawing closer to four. I don't want to sleep in my bed tonight. There's so much empty space. It's the first time I've really considered sleeping out on the couch in this apartment.

My parents are coming down later today and we're going to some sort of party for new year's. All I remember is my mom getting super excited about an Elvis impersonator. I'm not entirely sure how this is going to go. Hopefully there won't be too many drunk people running around, but I don't have my hopes set very high.

Anime wise, there's just so much more to look forward to. There are still boxsets to buy and shows to watch. I'm not sure what's coming up on Netflix next. I just finished Clannad tonight. Apparently Clannad: After Story is a Masterpiece according to 1000+ votes on ANN. Too bad you can only save the DVDs on Netflix at the moment. I hope they become available soon. Started watching Miracle Train earlier, but I got bored with the first episode halfway through. I vaguely remember reading about it when it came out and I thought it sounded kinda stupid. My first instincts were proving to be right. I know I shouldn't judge a show by the first half of the first episode, but if the tagline ends in "will you fall in love with a train station?" then there has to be something wacky going on. It was quickly becoming another generic bishounen-help-lovely-ladies-solve-their-problems type of deal. Maybe I'll go back and watch the rest of it another day.

Listening to Pandora. Have been for the past few hours. I'm either very easy to please in terms of music, or they're just really good at picking songs I like. It's probably more of the former than the latter.

I think I will sleep in my bed tonight.

Happy new year's (eve) everyone.

Summer turned to winter,
And the snow turned into rain...

Kirisumasu

Hetalia Axis has an app on the iPhone. Dang. That's kinda weird.

Christmas seems to be right around the corner and I still feel like I'm missing a lot of the excitement I should have this time of year. We had snow, I've gotten two presents thus far, and there's plenty of hot chocolate...yet...I just don't feel excited about it.

I remember when I used to count down the days and hum little Christmas tunes to myself. I did the paper ring count down thing almost every year. Cut out snowflakes. Really wanted to put up the Christmas tree. Decorate. Look at lights and houses. I dunno what's going on with my head this year. I suppose it has something to do with the radical changes that have taken place over the year.

Hm...I just don't know. I do know that it will be nice to spend time with my family. Definitely gotta bring my PS3 up there though. Need all my LBP data. Teehee.

Ruka spilled all the papers on the floor. They weren't in any particular order.

Cold, Dark...

Blargh. It's cold. I don't want to go back outside cause it's so freaking cold. It snowed in Clarkesville this past weekend. Super pretty.

...oh, kitty!

Zumba tonight. Ah. It's cold. Don't wanna go. I should go though, right? I should. I probably will. But it's so cooooooold. *sighs* I guess I will venture into the cold so I can be semi-social.

Dunno what to do this weekend. I suppose that's all the way at the far end of the week. Between now and then, I get to work 4 hours of overtime. That'll help balance out the whole Christmas shopping thing. Even though I haven't really done anything like that.

Time to go.

Would You

He holds her in his arms.
Would you? Would you?
He tells her of her charms.
Would you? Would you?
They met as you and I,
And they were only friends.
But before the story ends...

He'll kiss her with a sigh.
Would you? Would you?
And if the girl were I
Would you? Would you?
And would you dare to say,
"Let's do the same as they."?
I Would. Would you?

And would you dare to say,
"Let's do the same as they."?
I Would. Would you?

This movie always makes me smile.

Fanfiction anyone?

I haven't actually sat down to read fanfics in a couple years now, and this totally reminds me of why: HERMIONE AND GINNY VERSUS THE SPACE WIZARDS

It's as if Sailor Moon were to meet Harry Potter. Wow. Just wow. Thank you Questionable Content.

A new Glee episode came on tonight! Better than last week's ep. The preview for next week's episode explains that mysterious "Christmas episode" they have that CD out for. That looks interesting.

I tried to continue on with my Rurouni Kenshin season two discs, but I think I've gotten them out of order. =/ It's going to take some time sorting them out.

It's been raining nonstop all day. There was light drizzle this morning, then a monsoon to drive through after work, and now it's falling at a steady pace. It makes for great book reading weather. Which is what I'm probably going to do now.

Hurray. Grocery palooza! Tomorrow's the middle of the week.

Yoshitoshi ABe

After a very, very long hiatus, I have decided to finish collecting Haibane Renmei. Randomly found volume one almost six years ago in some tiny video game store with an anime section. Watched it, loved it, downloaded the rest, and decided it was worth owning. I got distracted by other shows somewhere along the way and that one just slipped through the cracks.

Rewatched it this past weekend, and realized that I shouldn't have given up on that project in the first place.

Just looked up the price of Haibane Renmei on Amazon. Apparently a boxset of volumes 1-4 goes for approximately $200.

Blast.

Time to start searching for single volumes at a much more affordable price...

Skins vol. 1, Episode 2

Anwar: Quiet Cas, I'm trying to pray to my God.
Cassie: Oh. Is he listening?
Anwar: ...I hope not.

I re-watched an episode of Skins tonight. I forgot how crazy all the kids were in the first two seasons. They were so personable though. And they weren't screwing each other and getting f*cked up every five minutes. It's such a mesmerizing show.

Anyways, Harry Potter midnight showing tonight. w00t! That's going to be fun. Michelle and I are leaving kinda soon-ish for it. I think. Not too sure.

I haven't been able to eat this week. I don't really know why. I guess it started last Friday after the zumba master class. I felt really hungry, but I just couldn't eat. The feeling hasn't dissipated much since then.

This week's been pretty monotonous.

Want you to make me feel...

Ok, Sam got a new song stuck in my head tonight. *sighs*

I've spent the past few hours cleaning up the apartment. People came. Brought presents. Cooked. Used general...stuff. Built a playground for Ruka. Left a mess. Huzzah. I spent a lot of time running between the dish washer, washing machine, and the new 5.1 surround sound system dad got me as a birthday gift. Cords, cords, cables, plugs, and all sorts of fun! It really is easier to sit down and organize it all when there's no one else here. I guess it was about time I rearranged a bit of the apartment anyways. Hehe. Now I can watch Glee tomorrow night in hi-def with awesome sound.

Oh well, it was a TON of fun. What a great/amazing/awesome/super/excellent/fun/happy/bubbly/exciting/fantabulous/funtabulous/splendid birthday & weekend. At least, I had a fun time. Can't really speak for the other three people involved. Hehe.

Plus, I now have cheesecake! Meep!

Fly away, fly away...

I now remember why I hate taking naps. Too bad I took one right after I got home from work today. Hm...time to think of dinner, but before that!

Work was kind of slow today. I don't know if that's because I was tired, or if it's because there was point in the middle of the day when I had absolutely nothing to do. Josh and I blame the Raising Hope episode on Tuesday for making us both aware of just how slow time can be when you're working. Hehe.

So, birthday on Saturday. I kinda want to visit Toccoa Falls (since I haven't done that, yet), but iunno if that will really happen. Matthew's not really getting here till 12-ish (probably later if I really want to be pessimistic) and it sounds like Jaclyn suddenly wants to do something. It's kind of funny how my birthday seems to get planned around other people's schedules every now and again. *smiles and shrugs*

Can't wait for tomorrow though, cause there's a zumba master class. Huzzah! Gotta get some real sleep tonight.

Ok, so why am I so tired today? Because I went up to Newberry last night and saw Benise in concert. It was awesome! The Newberry Opera House is a cute little place. He came out after the concert was over to sign autographs and stuff, I was standing there was my tickets, (my newly bought) The Spanish Guitar CD, and a couple of 5x7 posters they had on the table. He was right in front of me, and the original plan was to tell him how cool and awesome I thought the show was and smoothly ask him to sign all that stuff.

What happened in reality: I froze, got tongue tied, and barely managed to offer him my sad stack of things while simultaneously mumbling something along the lines of, "will you sign my...stuff?" Which he smiled to, said "sure" enthusiastically, and of course did. He even wrote my name on the CD. w00t w00t! Honestly though, I think he was surprised to see someone under the age of 40 there and super excited. =^.^=

It was painfully similar to when I met Vic Mignona at AWA back in 2008 after standing in line for over an hour. Blagh. Some things never change. If I had known he was going to come out after the concert, I would have brought my camera. But then I guess my dad would have had to ask him if I could take a picture with him, which would have been EXACTLY what happened when I met Vic. *sighs* Super failure on my part. =/

Anyways, last night was a super amount of fun. It was kind of intense for a while there in the middle of the evening when I had to get home by 6:30 pm and I ended up taking this loopy, crazy detour at 6:15 pm cause a huge section of North East St. was closed. It was the most ridiculous detour I've ever taken. There weren't any signs once they made you turn into a side street. I think there was a lost and confused snake of 25 cars going through the windy back roads of some random neighborhood. Overall, it was a great night! I didn't get back to Clarkesville till 2 am, and I was dead tired. Something about driving always makes me feel tired when I'm done. Not when I'm driving, but when I get home and sit on the bed, it hits me. Then I got up at 6:30 am went to work.

Right...dinner.


EDIT quite a four hours later:

1) eating brought my mood up by a tremendous amount. Yay for food!
2) Baccano turned out to be awesome. I'm only two episodes in and it's hilarious.
3) This news makes me happy: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-11-11/efron-not-starring-in-akira-mandate-nixes-oldboy-rumor (...Akira live action = awesome, Akira live action + Zac Efron = not so awesome. Except...there's already an Old Boy movie, so that part's confusing.)

The Japanese made a stage musical out of Wuthering Heights.
Really?
Weird.

I feel like I should have read that some time in high school or college, but it never made it to the required reading list in any of the classes I took.

Webcomic ---> Book?

How did I manage to miss the fact Questionable Content published volume one sometime in October? Oh well, just another thing to add to the list of things to keep in mind should I ever feel the crazy urge to buy a book. Hah...that does remind me that I need to collect the rest of MegaTokyo. Geez, it's kind of crazy to think about how popular webcomics can actually get. Ctrl+Alt+Del has figurines.

I spent the night watching Toy Story 3 and some of the extras that come on the discs. It's such a good movie.

Baccano volume one came in the mail today. w00t w00t! I think I'll watch that tomorrow. I heard it's supposed to be a really good series. It'll be a change of pace from the reality/spiritual world of Moribito. Speaking of, Moribito turned out to be completely different from what I initially thought. I was under the impression it was another show that had this cheesy strong female lead surrounded by overdramatic characters in near impossible situations. I don't remember how I got that impression, probably from the few 30-second commercials on Adult Swim. What it turned out to be was detailed, action packed, and hypnotizing. Those half hour episodes flew by in the blink of an eye.

Blah, so much anime to watch and so little time. I haven't updated myanimelist.net in a long time. I guess I was never really keeping track on their website anyway.

So my life in a snapshot. Things at SR are fun. Sometimes there's a lot of urgent stuff, but most of the time it's all pretty manageable. It does seem like the most urgent orders come in between the hours of 4:00 to 5:00. I guess it's because I leave at 5:00. C'est la vie, eh?

Zumba is a ton of fun. I'm going to a zumba master class on Friday night. Hopefully I won't feel too sore on Saturday to do anything fun. I don't know what I'm going to do on Saturday though. Matthew's probably coming over, but even if he does I don't know what we'll do. I guess I can turn to the internet for suggestions. Yeah...

It makes me kind of sad that I have trouble remembering how to write my name in Chinese. I guess I should really work on that. If I can't remember how to write or read much of it, I should be able to remember my name.

There's no Ruka this week. It's kind of quiet, maybe a touch lonely. My parents are bringing her back down on Sunday. I drove up to Greenville on Friday night and she had an "accident" in the car halfway there. Hopefully Febreze will work as well as advertised.

I guess I'll hop into bed. Still gotta work in the morning. Ciao.

Impersonations

I might be watching too much of The Office. I come home, sit down, watch something like three or four episodes, and then I make dinner and watch more episodes.

Right now I am super hungry, and I have been super hungry all day long. I have no idea what I'm going to have for dinner...

"Turn around, turn around, turn around..."

I have a song stuck in my head and that's all I can really remember from it. Ninety percent of it isn't even in English. *sighs*

In other news, Moribito vol. 6 is still sitting in front of my TV waiting to be watched. I can either watch it or play Metal Gear Solid. Decisions, decisions. I got the DVD on Monday, but I haven't had time to watch it. I also feel as if I should pick Cowboy Bebop and Rurouni Kenshin back up sometime soon, but that would still seriously cut into LBP and MGS time. And don't even mention Still Life (a computer game)! Perhaps I have too much time to be thinking about this stuff. It's not even serious. I miss the days when I had something serious to think about, or do I? It's kind of nice being able to care a little less. The lack of pressing decisions is probably making my indecision worse.

I don't experience this sort of thing at work. I guess indecision has never really come up when it comes down to projects, school, and jobs. That's a good thing, right?

Today was fun in an average way. Work was pretty steady today. There was some juggling in priorities at some point or another, but it still felt better than waiting around for someone to send me something to do. After work was good too. Zumba was quite a bit of fun, as usual. We did a cha cha/flamenco song and I started thinking about nights at the American Dance Club. It's too bad the place is gone now. I would have loved to drop in on one of their Thursday night "parties" again.

Jekyll & Hyde keeps coming on my iPod. I feel like I should read the original story one day, I know the general premise, but not all the details.

Flip!

flajiofejaiofjeoiafj

I was in a great mood when I got home from work today. Then I had to talk to my mom about something business related and now I feel like punching something.

Hopefully this feeling won't last longer than 15 minutes.

Anyways, the weather report said there was a 60% chance of rain this evening. I hope it rains. That would be really nice. I'm also on the last 30 or something pages of the book I'm reading. Can't wait to finish reading that before I go to bed tonight.

Ok, back to Illustrator.

"Please review and advise..."

It's officially been over a year.

Maybe this is just a bad habit left over from high school. Looking at things in retrospect makes me wonder...nevermind.

Someone said I'm really good at enjoying life, but I might have to disagree with that.

Work was quite frazzling today. Hopefully tomorrow will be better! Yes!

Vacation Time

So, I finally looked at my calendar this afternoon and came to the sudden realization that I have vacation time coming up. I am the last person on the rotation to schedule vacation, and pretty much all of November and December were filled up. So, I unceremoniously dumped two and a half vacation days on some random week in October. Which happen to be the 13th (half day), 14th, and 15th. Perhaps I will be able to catch up with people. I guess I will just be playing it by ear, as usual.

Today was fun. I went to Oktoberfest with Michelle and her parents. It was in Alpine Helen, GA. A cute little Bavarian town with a bunch of mini golf courses and a really nifty glass blowing store. I couldn't resist the $1.68 grab bag bin sitting right in front of the door, so I bought one. Now I have this teensy, tiny, cute pig to add to the figurine shelf. I think I will put them next to the tiny kittens Daniel got for me as a birthday/x-mas present a couple years ago.

Michelle and I split a beer since she doesn't really like beer, then I got something called a Peach Wine Lushie. It was surprisingly good. Unfortunately, it had ice in it, so I had to drink it slowly. Then we walked around the town and popped in and out of a couple stores. I know it's a tourist trap sort of town, but I would really like to go back there one day and see all the goofy stuff they have.

I was also awoken by a text message and then a phone call. The text message was informative, but the phone call was depressing.

Oh well. Life has its ups and downs, eh?

She's Hotter

Something about this song is strangely addictive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhlxkVzNa2k

We do it in zumba class and it always gets stuck in my head. Michelle wants to do something scary for October, and we were thinking of going to a haunted house. I don't know which one we're going to go to, but there's apparently a really scary one in Atlanta called The Netherworld. It definitely sounds interesting.

I spent the first half of this past weekend in Clemson/Greenville. Friday night, got to hang out with friends. Played Appleletters. That was pretty awesome. I really wish I could play that game with people more often. I'm not sure what the next theme of my solitary game should be. Suggestions? (I ask even though no one actually reads this)

Talked to Edna (movie theater owner) about when they're going to put the Harry Potter tickets on sale. She said probably at the end of the month. w00t w00t! Definitely got to get tickets to that.

Guess I gotta figure something out for dinner and figure out which book I want to read. I got Soulless, Revolutionary Road, and 1984 to choose from. Two of which are from the Pines library, so I should probably start in on those. I started 1984 last night, and it's kind of addictive. Soulless looks like it's going to be hilarious. And I know they made a movie out of Revolutionary Road, but I haven't seen it.

Hm...why must pretty clothes always be so expensive? *sighs*

Blog?

I sat down to write in this thing, but now that I'm here I'm not sure what I should say. I guess I should admit that I have been thinking about the past a lot lately (which is nothing new). The past couple of entries were written on a whim, or during some serious anime marathons and zumba highs. Hehe.

It's funny that I have issues writing in this blog when I look back and come to the conclusion that quite a few of my good friends come from that other blogging era in my life. Now that I think about it, the few that I still find to be very close friends with do not update either. We stick to the phone, AIM, or Skype these days. It's just interesting how the gateway of communication changes over time.

Clarkesville has been good. I'm still loving this little town. It's been raining a lot down here this week. The rain makes me remember a lot of things. October is coming again. It'll soon be a year since the disaster last year. Time flies when you don't look back.

I'm still none too certain about this whole working and no school thing. Sometimes I feel like I should be coming home and working on something that's due for lab, but I end up playing LBP or piano instead. I guess it's nice in one sense, but still slightly disconcerting in another. At least I never have to really worry about my job outside of the eight hour work day. Weekends are also reserved for doing fun things; like going to AWA or A Taste of Clarkesville.

Zumba is still quite a bit of fun. There's just something really refreshing about jumping around and dancing twice a week.

Ok, so there isn't really anything exciting going on at the moment. Life's just really comfortable for me right now. I don't have much to be sad and angsty over, nor do I really have anything to be super excited about. I can feel myself changing again, but I really think it's for the better. It'll be interesting to see how things turn out.

Hey Nana,

Why are dreams coming true and achieving happiness two different things?

-Hachi

What would it be like to be more emotionally expressive?

Xibom Bombom

*sambas away*

Phone

My phone has strangely become much more active. I credited it to being a part of several group projects during that last year at school, but alas, people are still calling me. I guess it's a good thing?

I will soon be seeing someone that I haven't seen in seven years. It's going to be a little weird. I don't know if I should be excited or not. Things are going to be great though. I've already been assured there won't be a roasted pig this time.

People grow up so fast.

One Week

I've been in the new apartment for a week. It's still sort of a mess. The unpacking process is moving rather slowly. That is totally my fault since I've been avoiding coming straight home from work. I found the local aquatics center. It's on the way home, so I'll probably stop by there two or three times a week. Guess that means I really have to start looking for a new bathing suit. >.>;; Oh joy.

I also found out there's a zumba class across the street. I've never done it before, but it seems like quite a fun alternative to an aerobics class or actually motivating myself to go to a gym. Guess I'll find out next week.

Anime wise, got the first disc of My-Hime. Probably going to watch it when I'm done cleaning up a little bit. Matthew came over for a visit. That was quite fun.

Ruka's moving in today, tonight. Whenever my parents get here. They're swamped with work, of course. More work, work, work.

On the other hand, I've officially had my first full week at Standard Register. I like it so far. Gotta get stuff to decorate my cubicle with. Yep, yep. I get a three day weekend though since it's Memorial Day. Which is just kind of funny to me.

Ok, back to cleaning. Huzzah!

Raindrops on Roses

I finally started packing stuff up today. Got some boxes. Been working at it for the past few hours, and now I have a bunch of necessities and fun stuff packed away into neat little brown boxes. Something about this just makes me feel very sad. I decided to take a break and work on a computer "floor plan" for the apartment. I tried to redraw what I have in the brochure in reverse by hand, but something got all messed up with one line here and there, and then I realized it didn't look like that at all.

Moving makes me feel rather depressed. My life in boxes. Click. Click. Click.

Moving

I've only been home for a little over a week, and I'm already bored with the whole "nothing to do" routine. I miss being on campus (strangely), and I miss the normal routine of classes (ok, that's not surprising).

Before graduation, I managed to settle a lot of things. I got a job, managed to find a pretty nice apartment, and stayed on top of quite a few personal affairs. Now I have to think about moving, and I realize I have no idea what this is going to entail. I guess my best bet would be to make a bunch of lists, which still doesn't seem like such a bad idea. Maybe I'll start working on that in a little while.

I could also theoretically build my apartment in the The Sims just for the heck of it. I might end up doing that sometime after the move. Hehe. Then I could drag and drop furniture with ease! Right. Too bad moving in real life is going to require a rather large expenditure.

Went to B&N today. They have a stand set up for the Nook right in front of the entrance. It's a pretty nifty thing. I've tried the Sony e-reader before, but I think I like the feel of the Nook better. The iPad was pretty neat too. I wonder what one of the new Kindle's is like. I think I'll hold off on buying an e-reader for a while though. It'll be something to look forward to getting in the future.

Anime wise, I finally watched Hellsing Ultimate volume 3. It was pretty good. I think four is coming in the mail. Currently have Darker Than Black volume 2 sitting out on the coffee table. Probably going to watch that tomorrow night.

I can't wait for Thursday. Not only does the new season of Royal Pains start, but I want to see if the LBP store still gives out free stuff! Man, I wish I'd known about that a couple years ago. I could have gotten sooooo much stuff. Oh well. Hopefully. *crosses fingers*

Graduation

I am an official Clemson graduate. Counted as an alumni. Whee!
And I didn't trip on stage. Yay!

Packing

I've finally gotten around to packing my stuff up for dorm check out. Blah, I get to go home and start looking for a new place to live in another state. Geez, I don't know how I'm going to do it, but things have always managed to work out in their own way. My dad said not to worry cause he and mom have got this whole "moving thing" down.

I guess this is more like a mini move compared to the big move that's coming up. I'll have to fill an apartment to myself. Probably. I don't really know if I could, would, or want to find a roommate down there.

There's something really sad about packing all your things away.

HiFlex

I'm in Godfrey on a very pretty Sunday afternoon.

Two of the four HiFlex computers aren't working.

I think this assignment in cursed.

Fizz.

Netflix + Wii

I really wish I hadn't brought my Wii home last weekend. Netflix suddenly decided you could stream instant with the Wii. That would mean I could watch instant on the TV in my dorm. Which would be perfect for times such as right now.

To top things off, if I activate this awesome service within the next 7 days I get a 10% discount on my fee for next month.

Of course I'm not going home this weekend. Blargh.

Sim Heaven

I have just realized I never bought Sim Agents for the Wii. What a shame. I shall have to correct that oversight sometime after graduation. Sadly, I have not turned on my Wii in months, which means I'm still somewhere in the midst of Muramasa. That game I was supposed to finish over winter break, but ended up leaving in Clemson for the entirety of it. Yes, I am a genius.

This feels so weird. I don't feel tired because I took a nap earlier, but I know I should go to sleep. I look at my iCal and I don't feel extremely anxious. It all looks quite manageable at the moment. I can scroll back up to February, and go, "how did I even do that?"

It's 1:30 AM and I really want to play the piano right now for some reason. Unfortunately, I will just have to wait till I go home tomorrow. My roommate is strangely not here, and I'm sitting here listening to iTunes cycle through my random collection of 2000+ songs.

I watched volume 2 of Ghost Hunt today. There were six episodes. I watched the first four with Matthew sometime ago, but I finally found time to watch the last two today. They were about a boy's spirit that was trapped in a game of kakurenbo (hide and seek). Something about that game is just creepy. Not surprisingly, I really want to watching Kakurenbo the (anime) movie right now. That was pretty good.

It's my mom's birthday this weekend.

"Dream big kids." - Dr. Ingram

Capital Exp---what?

I want a paper moon. A BLACK PAPER MOON.
Ok, not really. I just want Soul Eater. All of it. Impossibilities aside.

One week and one day till CEP presentations.
Two weeks left of regular classes.
Two weeks and three days till the GAA conference.
22 days until my final exams.

This is going to be a crazy last 22 days as an undergrad, but I bet it's going to be quite a bit of fun.

It's late at night,
Just the music on the radio,
No one's coming and no one's gonna telephone...

There's still something nice about the 70's flashback on 102.5. It's just a great way to start off a Saturday.

This is the first weekend I've had that isn't TAGA crazy. There's no InDesign party, no Photoshopping to be done. I'm quite confused. It's kinda weird. We got people to fill up the time slots for selling t-shirts at the FIRST competition, so I'm glad I don't have to physically be there to take care of that.

It's nice to take a weekend to myself. I predict piano practice, ISDA write ups, book report re-writes, a little bit of research in the library, and a good bit of Solidworks-ing between now and tomorrow night.

There's another episode of FMA coming on tonight at midnight. Yay!

Last night was great. Craig and I played DDR. Then we had dinner with Melissa and Ben at Five Guys in Anderson. Afterwards it was back to Ben's place for some SSBB and FFIX. It's been a really long time since I've seen FFIX, I forgot just how pretty all the attacks are in that game.

Over 'n out.

Attendee's Choice

Our book won the 2010 TAGA Attendee's Choice award! Yay!

Because I knew you. I have been changed for good.

Finally finished packing for San Diego. Yay!

Throw it away,
Forget yesterday,
We'll make the great escape.

Break?

So I unexpectedly punched about four and half hours of my Sunday night out of the time I would have done schoolwork or TAGA stuff. Instead, I ended up hanging out with Matthew (we did do homework together at one point) and played Cosmic Encounter. Surprisingly, I won one game. wat?!

Sorry my semi-responsible self, but I was really burned out from bad days, midterms, and staying up super late to do school/TAGA.

Now I feel totally re-energized. Yay! I guess taking a break every once in a while can be a good thing.

This year in midterms...

The GC448 one was quite terrible. I knew the information, but I just couldn't reach it in my mind.

Piano, I had to backtrack in the middle of my piece. Not that it was difficult, I just lost focus on what I was playing.

Bad test taking day in general. *sighs*

One more midterm on Friday.

TAGA stuff is going to drive me crazy. Just a couple more weeks.

School

There are 21 days left till the book deadline for TAGA. I really feel like this is putting a damper on my Senior year. Not that I really mind, because I know there's a lot of stress in that final stretch of TAGA stuff. It's just that until that book is printed and bound I feel like I'm going to be on edge.

Add in all the 448 and 444 assignments and you have one really wound up kid. I've been having trouble sleeping. Didn't go to bed till 4 am last night because I tried to fix the TAGA group photo. Dern green screen issues. Oh well, more knowledge to file away for the future.

Already discussed an alternative to the group photo with Lani. I think we're both pretty on board with the idea. Just gotta grab the individual members and work it out. Whoo-hoo.

I don't even know how I'm keeping all of this straight in my head anymore. There are just so many things to do. *sighs* If we could get all that done in six days last semester, then we should be able to do this in 21, right?


Valentine's Day is coming up. Here we go again.

Lemons, and apples, and pears.

Oh my!

Wicked was amazingly good.

Presentation Time

First presentation of the semester in 448 at 2:30 today.

"Bring it on. Boo-yeah."

Ethics

They make my brain hurt.

Stand By

Ok, so I should be asleep. Really, I should be. Why am I not?

I took a shower, sat down in the front the computer with the full intent to shut it off, and basically had an anxiety attack over schoolwork.

Blah. Things are so. Grr. I just gotta get through the next two weeks and hopefully the anxiety over EVERYTHING will disappear.

Wishful thinking, right?

Moon Rabbit

It's a lovely rainy afternoon. Perfect for learning new things and doing impossible jobs for my mom in Illustrator.

Just another day...

The walk between Godfrey and Brooks is annoyingly long.

Wine

I discovered tonight that I have trouble finishing a full glass of wine. It took me three hours to finish off one glass. Mind you, I never got tipsy, just a little sleepy. For further alcohol related news. Mythbusters tested the myth "beer and liquor makes you sicker." Turns out, it doesn't. Hehe.

The new years is off to a good start. We're going to Atlanta tomorrow for dim sum and walking/shopping. Then we're going to have an amazingly good Chinese dinner and come home. Just like any other trip to Atlanta. I hope it'll be fun. It's been a while since I've been there.

Finally got around to watching The Princess Bride tonight. It wasn't too bad. Then dad and I streamed Boondock Saints.

Oh Netflix, I love you.