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miss something? check the archives about me name: n/aaliases: kit, kits, kit kat, the smart girl, foxay, an chin age: 18 location: socal, usa hobbies: anime, manga, reading, writing, doodling, video games, french horn likes: all of the above, being lazy, mushrooms, cheese, animals, laughing loudly in public dislikes: nuts, stinging/biting insects, religious fanatics, violence, olives contact: coloredink@mailcity add .com wishlist playstation 2car summer job a good night's sleep money stress-free life trigun dvd box set cowboy bebop dvd box set realistic wishlist dayworld by philip josEfarmerkabuki by david mack long-term obsessions anime/mangayaoi/shounenai clamp music animals life and living video games current obsession(s) collegecurrently reading nothing newcurrently playing nothing newcurrently watching hana yori dango (20)utena (23) gto tv (39) witch hunter robin (18) naruto (42) get backers (27) rose of versailles (16) matantei loki ragnarok (15) scrapped princess (11) samurai deeper kyo (5) |
Monday, August 25, 2003 [link] 03:06 p.m. listening to: nothing First day of classes today! Visual Communications: Looks like a lot of work. Lots of tests and papers and auuuuuugh my textbooks for this class were a hundred dollars, used. Jesus. Fiction for Children and Young Adults Workshop: This class will make me write on a regular basis, which is a good thing. Granted, it is not the audience I'm used to writing for, but. . . yeah. And the teacher is very nice and she's a published author and I think I want her as my advisor. Tai Chi: The teacher is an awesome person and I'm sure I'm doing everything wrong, but the class is great anyway. I hope the class gets more people, because it needs a minimum of nine to fly and right now we only have six. This really makes no sense as Mills prides itself on small class sizes, but that's what the powers of be say. Tomorrow is going to be hectic, because I'm still not sure about taking Intro to Computer Science or Beginning Poetry Workshop. I'd rather take Intro to CS because a) it gets rid of a math requirement and b) I'm not really that into poetry. But, well, it's compsci. I'll die. I'd really rather take Intro to Logic, but it's not being offered this semester. >_< And if I can't get into the Bible as Literature course, well, I won't have enough credits this semester and it would be a disaster. And now I have to go to the M Center to see what has become of my AP US History credits, and then I have to find the music building to see what the hell I'm supposed to do about finding an instructor and/or playing in the concert band. Blarg. [Edit: And also, it is unbelievably hot and humid here right now. I moved here to get away from SoCal weather and it's following me. Argh!] Sunday, August 24, 2003 [link] 10:57 p.m. listening to: FF7 Reunion Tracks Went to IKEA, a 99-cent store, and Target today to get myself some necessities. I think I spent close to a hundred dollars outfitting my room. o_o;; But I have a pillow now! And also a little beside table thing that I haven't put together yet, and a telephone, and a Brita filter. I really, really want a fridge because I'm one of those people who desperately needs/wants cold drinks, but I'm holding off in case I can share someone else's fridge. The thing that concerns me about getting a fridge is storing it; I mean, it was a tight enough fit getting my crap here, I don't even want to think about when I have to take everything back. I've made quite a few friends here and they're already doing things like dragging me out for dinner when I'd much rather stay home and eat cup noodle. I've been so social these past few days, I hardly know what to do with myself. Class starts tomorrow. Waaaahh. But I have a meeting with my advisor in the morning, so we'll see what my schedule ends up looking like. . . . Friday, August 22, 2003 [link] 04:18 p.m. listening to: "Kaze ni Naritai" - Megumi Ogata I helped someone with a computer problem today! I feel so grown-up. Or something. Today's the last "real" day of orientation (IMHO); tomorrow and Sunday are filled with events that I'm not going to, so I can stay home and lounge around. Oh, and geek with people! I finally found some anime fans and they're all interested in Hellsing and stuff. The problem is that the big TV downstairs doesn't have a DVD player, so we might have to watch on my eensy weensy monitor, and that's no fun. Besides which, my speakers don't work right now because I'm a dumbass and forgot the power supply at home. Wednesday, August 20, 2003 [link] 10:40 p.m. listening to: nothing I'm alive! I survived the first day of orientation. I've gotten to know several people, although no anime fans yet. My Pilot told me that there is a healthy population of anime/manga fans on this campus, so I just need to find them. I must seek my kind! Tomorrow I need to run out and buy a power strip, because this room just doesn't have enough plugs. I'm currently music-less (OH THE PAIN) because, uh, there's nowhere to plug in my speakers. I also cannot plug in my desk lamp, and the light in here is pretty dim, so I shall go blind fairly quickly if I, well, don't find a power strip. Hopefully there'll be some time tomorrow in which I can run to the student store and buy one. I also need a pillow, of all things, because the "campus kit" that supposedly had a sham in it (which is a fake pillow), well, did not have one. I can survive without a pillow for a few days because I have various things in this room that can substitute, but not for very long. Hopefully the student store sells pillows, but I suspect they do not, in which case I shall have to find time to run out to Walgreens or something and buy a pillow. I'm kind of disgruntled with how orientation is run on this campus. It took me something like two hours to get the bloody keys to my room/dorm building for reasons I have yet to comprehend. I don't know why they didn't have all the keys there. Did they not think that, uh, all the freshwomen would be there waiting for their keys? Argh, the disorganization! We were told to wait fifteen minutes, which of course turned into over half an hour, so we (we being some people I had met in line and yours truly, of course) left to get our IDs and PO boxes. Even after all that, we went back, and they still did not have all the keys. Helen and I managed to get keys, but poor Catherine did not, and someone got a room key but no front door key (?!). Bah. And also, they do not provide nearly enough time for you to move in. I don't know if the freshwomen are supposed to be running around while the parents put all your stuff away or what, but most of us ended up skipping a few events so we could get settled in. I'm pretty much unpacked, but I have no idea where to put my stuff on the wall. o_O;; The posters can go up fine, but the wallscrolls. . . errrr. Wednesday, August 20, 2003 [link] 04:46 p.m. listening to: nothing I'm at college! I'm in one of the computer classrooms right now, going through their "Computer Approval workshop" so that I can set my computer up in my dorm room. They do have ethernet access in the dorms, thank God, not just wireless, so I don't have to run out and buy a wireless card. Tuesday, August 19, 2003 [link] 09:42 p.m. listening to: nothing I am safe and sound in Oakland (such as it is). We're staying in a very nice hotel on the waterfront, which not only has Internet access in the rooms (for a small fee, of course) but also in the lobby. I'm using the computer in the lobby, seeing as how we see no point in paying the small fee for Internet access in the rooms if we can use it for free in the lobby. ^^;; Tomorrow morning I'm going to Mills to be oriented, registered, and moved in. Huzzah. I love the Bay. I just wish I were living in Berkeley or San Francisco instead, as there are parts of Oakland that remind me rather of the unsavory parts of downtown LA. Monday, August 18, 2003 [link] 09:38 p.m. listening to: nothing Blogging from my father's computer, as mine is already packed. Probably the first thing I do when I get up north will be to set up my computer, but there's no telling as to whether or not I'll have Internet access right away. I'll also be busy unpacking, sightseeing, registering, etc. But there are labs in all the dorms, so I'll be able to check email and blog and such, I probably just won't be chatting much. But this is just to say: goodbye. Monday, August 18, 2003 [link] 03:21 p.m. listening to: "To Zanarkand" - Final Fantasy X OST HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEN! I'm so tired. Sunday, August 17, 2003 [link] 11:03 p.m. listening to: "The Kid" - Cry Cry Cry I am finally done packing. I have no idea what I'm going to do tomorrow, as, uh, the house is packed. The only thing left out are my toiletries and my computer. Rachel's coming over to hang out, so maybe we'll find something to do; otherwise I'll spend the entire day online. ^^;;; Most of my luggage consists of clothing. Bags and bags of clothing. Jesus. I had no idea I had so many clothes. I hope I have somewhere to put them when I get there. At least I won't have to do laundry too much. Friday, August 15, 2003 [link] 03:05 p.m. listening to: nothing Blogging from work again. Today is my last day. All told, I'm going to make about two hundred dollars, and my aunt's giving me some kind of bonus that I don't know the sum of, so. . . yeah. I don't know how much money I'm getting. Someone please tell me that spending my paycheck on the Trigun box set is not a good idea. [Edit: I just got paid four hundred dollars ha ha ha BUYING THE TRIGUN BOX SET IS NOT A GOOD IDEA REALLY IT ISN'T.] Wednesday, August 13, 2003 [link] 12:40 p.m. listening to: nothing Here I am, being a bad girl and blogging from work. I already feel ready to enter the work force. Ha ha. Work is tedious. It's not difficult, just mind-numbing. I finished reorganizing the files today, so now I'm entering data into Peachtree. If I tilted my head a little to the side you could probably see my brains dribble out. But hey, it pays. [Edit: I pruned my links last night--mostly blogs 'n things--so if I took you off my list, it's because you're an infrequent blogger. I saved them all to my bookmarks, so I will still be reading, I just won't be reading as much because I'll be checking less frequently. If you're horribly offended or need that link up there for some reason, drop me a line.] Tuesday, August 12, 2003 [link] 06:32 p.m. listening to: "Golden Slumbers" - Jackson Brown Reorganized my uncle's filing system today. It was previous kinda-sorta-vaguely in alphabetical order by last name, only some people ordered it by first name and nobody really bothered to make sure it was alphabetized. So now the employees are confused by the suddenly neat and orderly files. ("It was by first name before!" "NO IT WASN'T.") My aunt is delighted, though. She takes me out for lunch, which I can never finish. I just realized I forgot to clock out. Oops. Monday, August 11, 2003 [link] 05:13 p.m. listening to: "Agnus Dei" - Libera Finally went in to work for my aunt today. I ended up filing instead of doing data entry. Both are pretty mind-numbing, but I was frustrated with their current filing system. That is, uh, they have none. Well, things are supposed be filed by last name, but they aren't really, and some people file it by first name because they're stupid or something. But I started organizing it, kind of. Dad's sold my bunk bed, so today I pulled the bedding off of it and everything. That act, more than anything else, seemed to bring it home that I'm really leaving, and I'm not coming back. Dad says I can be a vagabond. Everyone else is talking about how they're going to decorate their dorm room. All I can think of is how scared I am. |
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