Starshine

Just one more day...
If I make it through tomorrow, it will be essentially the weekend. Just have to get through a group presentation that me and the two goils I'm working with have already planned out. Then I can come back, relax, and only have to worry about finding copies of scenes for me and Megan to possibly do. Will call her tomorrow about those. All I have to do on Friday is watch other people do their monologue rough drafts. Yays. I went today and while I still need to do a lot of work on it, Todd says I seem to have a very good understanding of the character. ^_^ That is a very good happy-making memory to counteract the one of me not getting my work published in the school's literary mag. :/ And I thought I had good stuff, too. Oh, well. Maybe when I'm a senior, 'cause I don't know how I'm going to get into it next year when I'm on study abroad.

Elysaar, that was very evil of that person to steal your idea. Almost verbatim too. Hope they get punished by the Elfwood people. :(
Glad things seem to be going okay for you at work, though. You're lucky, getting to make stir-fry. They never let student workers at the cafeteria here make stuff like that. I know the feeling of dreading someone saying "just come whenever you can/want." I always feel like I'm imposing/bothering whenever I just walk in there.

Throat feels funky. Must read for Creative Writing, then sleep. Sleep good.

Wednesday, February 6, 2002,09:12 p.m.

Skipping my P.E. class...
'Cause I'm tired (even though I slept last night) and need time to work on stuff anyway. I seem to need a break from that class every few weeks. I've got one more absence after this before I get no credit for the class. Figure I'll save it for around 8th week when I'm going crazy trying to go to classes AND be light board operater for Twilight. O_o At least my presentation for Native American Lit. will be over with by then. I think that's this week...*checks schedule* Yup, it is. And we have really light reading in that class this week. ^_^ I's happy.

Fiction was fun today. Everyone had such good stuff, and I love my workshopping group. I'll be sad when we change groups around next week. There was much laughing this morning 'cause they started "insisting" that my scene be part of something called "The Magical Cookie Girl Story."^^;;; Normally I would have gotten embarrassed by something like that, but today I just laughed. We have fun in there.

Hmmmmmm...Scheduling starts in a couple of weeks. Let's see what classes look cool.
Advanced Fiction Workshop Was going to save this for much later, but I'm toying with the idea of going on ahead and signing up for it. If I don't, I could take care of my last literature requirement with Studies in 20th Century Lit. Or I could take a break from English classes, since I'm over halfway through with requirements for my major.
Designis something I need for my Theatre minor, but Intro to African American Theater might be a good class to fill my history of theater requirement for said minor. Both are taught by people that might not be here when next I need these classes.
Women and Goddesses in Asian Religion sounds really cool just from the title, but it's a new class, and I'm probably going to have to fight all the Women's Studies majors and seniors needing a religion class. ;_; This is one that, if it's open, I go.
Annnnnnd, last but not least, Chemistry and Society, for all my not-a-science-major-but-needs-a-science-class needs. No other science is offering any basic stuff next quarter that I can see. *needs to check again*
Out of all these classes I need to pick three. Or two from five, if I can get into the religion class. *crosses fingers* I've got to prioritize these over the next few days. Going to talk to advisor tomorrow. This isn't even counting a P.E. I'll have to take if I want to be in the play next quarter. Need to ask Todd and Alison about that.

Talya chan, I hear you on the whole "rather read a book" thing. People trying to force someone to be more social is evil. Some people just don't get that there's nothing wrong with liking to be alone. Though it could be that they're trying to be friendly and are annoyed at being upstaged by a book. Even if the book is infinitely more interesting than they are.

Tuesday, February 5, 2002,10:24 a.m.

Long entry ahead, please watch your step.
Is it only Monday? It is? Damn.

Saturday night was fun, kind of. We all had a good time at Olive Garden and I managed to get pictures of us in dressed up and ready-for-outdoors mode. I'll try to scan 'em so that people that only know me through the 'net can see what I actually look like, should they want to.
Anyway, after dinner we went to Meijer to pick up stuff and then went back to Alison's to take the aforementioned pictures and changed into more casual clothes. They went to play in the snow, I went to anime club. Unfortunately, the PS2 wouldn't read the DVD they tried to start an episode or so after I got there. I headed back to hang with the others, who had just fineshed sledding and such and were heading towards Jessie and Megan's room after getting out of damp clothes. We put in Shrek, but the evening went downhill from there. 'Cause everyone and their sister was dropping by Megan and Jessie's room either as they left for the Monte Carlo Night dance or just to gab. We had to turn off the video and deal with all these other people. Since I had been looking forward to a just-the-five-of-us evening, I was Not Amused. *growls a little* Might as well have spent that part of the evening by myself. I might have actually gotten something done that I wanted to get done.

Sunday was a little better. I had fun being a hermit despite the homework. Also found an earring that I had thought lost the night before. *sigh of relief* Normally a lost earring doesn't bother me that much, but the earring in question was from a pair my parents bought me while in Russia this past summer. So I was, understandably, upset when I thought it might be lost and very happy when I found it buried under some stuff in my room.

Which brings us to today. I'm all through with class for the day, which means that after I run some errands I'm going to be the mad story editor for a while. Luckily I got the assignment for tomorrow done last night and now I just have to spend a few hours trying to make already-written stuff better. One story I could change around really nicely if I changed the narrator, but I like it with the narrator it has so I'm making other adjustments. It's one of those stories I want to write from both perspectives. Then theres a bit of dialogue I want to make into a real story not much longer than it is already, and then there's the first story I wrote this quarter which needs a total overhaul. Whew. No, we're not required to edit everything we've written so far, but I'd feel kind of odd just changing around one thing to make it pretty and not do that for the others. So I'm gonna have my work cut out for me. :/ Woo hoo. I am SO crashing tomorrow night. When the worst of midterm stuff is over and I'm not bouncing off the walls from the stress.

Monday, February 4, 2002,01:07 p.m.

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Wow. It's actually sunny outside. ^____^ Been cloudy, cold and snowy for the past few days. Once again it looks like winter outside and the snow is already messed up from people playing in it and walking through it. Bet it'll be really torn up after the weekend. :/ Oh well.

If Alison calls me up about the "primping party" she wants to have before we all go out tonight, she will have a very annoyed Katie to deal with. I'm more than happy to help with make up and maybe even choosing outfits, but the concept of a gaggle of girls getting ready together is somewhat daunting. I think that went out with high-school dances. Anyway I wanna surprise people since nobody here has seen me get dressed up yet. I tend to have no pictures from dress-up occasions with me.^^;;; Well, one if them I need to get a frame for...Plus I'm not much of a go-all-out-and-wear-dressy-clothes person. Only for certain things.

Elysaar, like I said in the previous entry, I kicked that paper's arse. I think. I'll probably hear the results on Tuesday if Katanski is nice enough to sit grading papers for a whole weekend. It was fun to write, actually, cause I got to babble on about translating and what makes a Good Translation, and I'd really liked the book the paper was supposed to be about. Good luck with the new job.^^ Extra money is a good thing, and sometimes you meet a lot of people working for food places.

Harl, hope you feel better soon. Thanks for calling last night. ^_^

Yossha. Time to go get whatever food the cafeteria is providing for brunch, then get some work done before time to get ready. Andy~! Why must you make the midterm anthology due on the same day as new stuff? ;_; It makes the weekend before more stressful, yo. Even though we've only written three things so far.

Saturday, February 2, 2002,11:08 a.m.

*blinkblink*
It's the first day of February? Gah, that one sneaked up on me somewhat.^^;;; Happy Black History month to everybody in the U.S. Now if we can just give the other minorities a month...But that's a topic for People That Know Better Than Me. :P Yeah, right, whatever. But I refuse to get involved in all that political crappola.

Anyway, I kicked that Native American Lit paper's butt (or so I hope^^;;;), and am now free from that stress for a while and have a weekend ahead of me. ^_^ This is Kei-chan being very, very, happy despite certain issues she will not go into here 'cause to do so would sound like so much whining. Inspiration for projects go~od. Old things sticking around gathering cobwebs and not enough time to do things in ba~ad. I'll probably work something out.

p.s. Edited an earlier entry. Tickets to the Monte Carlo Night dance aren't bought.^^;;; We just have to go get one from the nice people on the Student Activities committee. Don't know why I said I bought one...And I might not go. We'll see how things are tomorrow.

Friday, February 1, 2002,10:29 p.m.

Randomness ahead, thank you, please drive through.
Listening to Megan's happy 80's radio show she has on our campus radio station. Du~de, the radio station on campus is messed up sumpin' good. It doesn't broadcast on the radio, you have to tune into the campus info TV station to hear it, and you have to turn up the volume WAY high to hear the DJ speak, but the music is audible at a normal level. O_o My TV's poor sound system, being made to have the volume go up and down constantly. But it's a fun show and I actually recognize some of the tunes, despite the fact that the 80's were my elementary school years, when I was watching more TV than listening to music. Oh, well. I do love 80's music, silly as some of it was.

Actually quite relaxed despite deadlines looming over my head. Four pages of my Native American Lit. paper left to do, but I know where I want to go and everything. Just need to force myself to sit down and actually write it. >_< That's always the tough part.

Things are starting to pick up in Fundamentals of Acting. We're starting to work on our big projects for the quarter, monologues and two/three-person scenes. Mostly monologues at the moment. Need to have them memorized by next Wednesday. :/ Meep! Hope I manage. Though my monologue I'm doing isn't too dificult, just a short on from A Raisin in the Sun. We choose scenes next Friday. I'm glad I'm working with Megan. At least I know she won't pull any rude surprises on me and we can work okay together. Here's hoping neither of us gets sick around finals time.*stocks up on Vitamin C and chicken soup*

Good lord Megan don't talk about us getting all silly and claiming characters! Especially not while on the air!

Thursday, January 31, 2002,07:09 p.m.

Just kickin' back.
Being lazy. Not working on the paper that is due Friday, but since as a typical college student it is illegal for me to start it before tommorrow night when I am in the throes of last-minute stress, thassallgood. At least I've got an idea of what I want to do and can maybe hash it out with the teacher tomorrow to get her take on it. They like it when you do that.

Feeling better since Monday. Been thinking a lot. Less hyper, though the turn in weather from warm and sunny to cloudy and cold might have something to do with that.>_< It snowed today.^_^

Really looking forward to the weekend. I get to go out with friends, and go to Monte Carlo night. Monte Carlo night is an event on campus where two bucks gets you a lot of play money to gamble with and earn tickets to redeem for prizes. It's followed by a dance, which I have obtained a ticket to with some trepidation. Oh, well. I can always leave early, right? Right.

Wednesday, January 30, 2002,10:20 p.m.

*dokidokidoki*
Meef. What was that about me actually working this weekend? I was far less productive than I wanted to be, especially since productivity meant working on more than just school stuffs. ;_; And that trend is holding, though I'm working on breaking it. I have a five-page paper due on Friday that's already making me nervous. And now that it's nearly midterm more work is starting to pop up. O_o I'll have to start managing my time better. Need to stop spending so much time on the net just plain surfing.

No Ally McBeal hangout ritual tonight. Not just because it's not on, 'cause we might have arranged something else. TrunksMike got a call during Boston Public that apparently gave some bad news, so we called it a night there. The suspense about what the news was is killing me though.

And I'm tired. Not enough sleep over the weekend and too much energy expended. I'm going to bed as soon as I get a couple of journal entries for fundamentals done. Or some form of work at least.

Monday, January 28, 2002,09:16 p.m.

Huh?

You're all happy-bubbly, highly optimistic and disgustingly sweet. Airhead? Maybe, considering you contain about 80% air.

I have no words, as I am doubled over with laughter. Just thought I'd share this one. If you wish to take the quiz and find out what candy bar you are, click on the picture.

Okay,I'm putting the blog down now and working like a good girl, really!

Saturday, January 26, 2002,07:02 p.m.

Somebody remind me what season it is.
'Cause today was/is all pretty and Spring-like. I'm walking around in a T-shirt and jeans with no jacket and am perfectly comfortable. Then again, I have a fairly high tolerance of cold.^^;;; But it was a nice pretty Saturday, and I wish I could have spent more time outside than I did. Had to clean up the room and all that. It was kind of messy since my roommate finished moving out yesterday. No arguments or anything, just difficulties in coordinating sleep schedules that led to some Issues. One of her friends was living alone in a double, so she moved over there and I've got this room to myself for probably the rest of the quarter. That's when we redo housing and I need to either 1)Find myself a roommate, 2)Find a single that has somehow opened up, or 3)Room blind with somebody. I'm going to do everything in my power to avoid 3 and manage 2. I was going to save getting a single 'till my senior year, since it's more expensive and having a roommate can be fun, but I'm starting to think I'd better off staying by meself. We'll see how the next weeks go.

Of course, working on my room and playing around outside(and on the 'net) mean that I've gotten nil homework done, but thassokay. That's what Sunday's for, right? *sheepish grin* 'Cause tonight's anime club! ^_______^ And we're either starting Fushigi Yuugi or continuing it from last weekend, I have no idea which. If we're continuing it, we should be starting pretty close to where the gaps in my knowledge start, so that's fine with me. If we're starting it, well, I like the first part, and TrunksMike is more likely to stay and watch and I'm trying to get him to take a break from his studying. >:)

Mo~u! I wish it WERE Spring so I could run around outside more after I eat (mmmm...Macaroni and Cheese....), but alas it will be dark by then probably. So I will have to work on CW stuff until Mike calls and wants to go to Meijer or time for anime club. Unless of course I get done with it before then.

Saturday, January 26, 2002,04:51 p.m.