Saturday, November 29, 2003 10:34 p.m.
Well. Just got back from a night of arcading. It was slightly nostalgic, but nothing like it used to be. I was never much of an arcade rat to begin with, but I've definately grown out of it now. I can have more fun DDRing and playing SCII at home. Now I'll have to find something new to keep me occupied while I'm down here.
I also went to Will's to play Karaoke Revolution. I was forced into it. It's an okay game. There really aren't a whole lot of songs on there that I like. Most I don't even know. They're all those pop songs that everyone insists that you know (no matter how much you deny it) just because they assume you listen to the radio. I knew bits of those songs from those Now That's What I Call Music commercials. There were a few classics... Like a Virgin, Son of a Preacher Man, Billie Jean and whatever else most people know by virtue of being at least 20 years old. Other than that, pfffffft.
Now, if that game had some Andrew W.K. or some Weezer.. I'd be all over that. That's what I sing along with in the car anyway. Or maybe some death metal. Ha ha. Or real punk (sorry, Avril... give it up). I'd be down with karaoke-ing Holiday in Cambodia. I've learned all the words on my trips between here and Columbus anyway.
I also realized tonight that there are some things that are definately behind me. Now I'm kinda stuck here wondering what's ahead of me. I kinda know where I'm going and who I'm going to be... I'm just wondering if I'm going to be alone as I'm going there.
How cryptic and deep. Woo.
Friday, November 28, 2003 11:26 p.m.
Thanksgiving was good. It was Atkinstastic. I probably overstuffed myself, though. But, it's hard to hold back when you've been eating salads and processed meat for a month... and you come home to turkey, ham, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, (low-carb) cheesecake... o.o Anyway, that should hold me til Christmas.
I went shopping today. Got a couple new pairs of jeans and a nifty new sweater. I also raided my closet looking for clothes I never wore because they were too small... and I realized that I threw out all those clothes a couple summers ago. Disappointing. :/ I did find another sweater, though. I hope it stays cold enough to wear all these new sweaters I have...
I think tomorrow will be FFX-2 (I'm getting frustrated over the fact that I might be missing so much...) and a quick trip to the Grand. Then Sunday I'll be back on the road. Hopefully the trip back will go a lot more smoothly than the one down here.
I'm anxious to get back to school and get to work. I've got a whole lot to do, and I'm ready to get it done.
I'm bored...
Tuesday, November 25, 2003 09:51 p.m.
The original plan was to leave at 1:00 and get home around five, hopefully avoiding driving too long in the dark. I ended up leaving at 1:30 and getting home at 7:00, spending most of my trip in the dark. x.x
I got away from school late because the RAs failed to tell us that we didn't actually have to be present at our check out time. Pfft. Oh well. I can get over that.
The big snag happened not to long after I left Columbus and encountered a big, nasty wreck. Well, I never actually saw it. Traffic was backed up for a couple of miles. I sat in my car for a good twenty minutes before traffic stopped moving completely. I decided I'd better take Daniel's advice and turn my happy butt around and head toward Starkville to take the alternate road. However, by this time, I was blocked by police cars, DOT trucks, and a dozen other things.
It was 3:00 by the time they cleared out and I was able to turn around. 3:00 and I was only ten minutes from Columbus.
I feel like I've been on the road all day. So very tired...
Sunday, November 23, 2003 01:35 p.m.
Alright, kids. It's party time. For seriously. As of this morning, I've lost 51 pounds. That was my first big goal. I think I'm going to go for another 25 right now, and when I get there I'll reevaluate and see how much farther I need to go. I need to go to the doctor over the Christmas break. I should get him to tell me how much more I need to lose. I have a feeling that if I base it on my own opinion, I'll never want to stop.
Anyway... it's been a good week for the fangirl. I got my latest eBay purchase in the mail. All four issues of the first Rogue limited series (in perfect condition) for less than five dollars. Woot woot. Then I finally got my hands on volume 15 of Mars. Yay! Insanely dramatic... and apparently there's an extra volume coming out as well. More yay.
Then, the big one... after a WEEK of stalking Wal-Mart... I finally got my copy of Final Fantasy X-2 in Tuscaloosa. So far so good. It's different, but I like it. It's definately got a lighter tone than FFX. The music is so frickin' bouncy all the frickin' time, and I like it. Brother is out of his mind, which is also great. Yuna's voice acting is better (I was worried about this one) and Rikku is even cuter. Paine is awesome. I have to admit, I like how she'll say "Turned on?" after defeating an enemy. >.>;;;
However, I don't like the battle system. I was all about the battle system in FFX. This time around I don't feel like I have much time to think. But, over all, I like it.
I'm sure I'll have much more to say about it later. >.>
Tuesday, November 18, 2003 06:27 p.m.
Actually, I don't have too much to whine about. I'm just trying to get off another four or five pounds so that when I go home for Thanksgiving I can tell everyone that I've lost 50 pounds. 50 sounds so much bigger than 45. And it's a nice round number too.
Anyways... these four or five pounds are stubborn. I am a little bloated thanks to being female... so maybe in a few days the scale will drop dramatically. I also need more exercise, I know. I need to find someone who will go to the gym with me. I also need to find time to go to the gym. Heaven forbid... I might actually need to get up earlier.
I'm also cutting out sugar alcohols. I once thought they would be my savior... they made for low carb candy. Yay. However, they are actually a manifestation of Satan himself. They do HORRIBLE things to my already vulnerable digestive system. Bleah. And they might be slowing me down.
I should break down and buy some more hair dye. I've got some serious blonde roots going on. I look like a trashy high school goth kid. I knew the black dye was a bad idea. Oh well.
I also seriously need new pants. Most of mine are seriously saggy. It's not very pretty. I'm going to look like a hobo by Christmas. (I hope.)
I'm not going to get a big head over losing weight. I won't be one of those chunky girls who thinks she's skinny. If anything, I'll probably be an average chick who insists that she's still fat. Just so you don't think I'll get arrogant or anything. I'm still going to be as neurotic as ever. :O
Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:16 a.m.
This weather makes me mad. I've got way too much to do today to be freaked out about the weather. Maybe I can convince someone to go with me when I run my errands in town today. I wouldn't go... but I seriously need photo paper. FFX-2 might have to wait.
This is one time I hope there will be people in the photo lab with me...
Monday, November 17, 2003 10:31 p.m.
I'm going to be pressed for time tomorrow, I think. My evening will be devoted to lab monitoring... so I've got to get photo stuff all done in the afternoon. But I've also got to go buy more paper, buy FFX-2, and get some gas in my car. I should probably get gas first.... I hope I've got enough to actually get to the gas station. o.o
I probably won't get to play FFX-2 til Wednesday night. ;.; I've waited this long, I guess I can wait a little longer. Sigh.
I also need to put air in my tires... and mail out my credit card bill. Argh. I'm getting poor.
Sunday, November 16, 2003 02:05 p.m.
I suppose it's time I wrote an entry that makes a little sense this weekend. It was an odd weekend. Little bit of the good and a little bit of the bad. But mostly good.
Friday felt like Saturday for some odd reason. I guess because my one class went by so quickly and the rest of the day was spent in the photography lab (which has the power to bend time and space, I've learned). A bunch of us went out for sushi that night. Took for-freaking-ever to get it, but it was very tasty when we did. Shouldn't have spent that money, though.
We were going to watch Kung Pow in the student center after that, but most of the group flaked on us. So we didn't get to see it. And Daniel really needed to see that. Seriously. But we made the best of it. We watched some Mr. Show that I hadn't seen before. That was great. Fo' shizzle. Then we watched A Clockwork Orange. And then sleep.
Saturday was the interesting day. Daniel and I went to the cemetary to take some photos after lunch. I wasn't feeling well to begin with, as I've said before. And for some reason I wasn't thinking straight at all. (I was saying and doing more dumb things than usual...) So I ended up locking my keys in my car. In the middle of a cemetary. Which is in the middle of da ghetto. My cell phone was locked in too. So I got upset and felt really dumb. Thank God Daniel was there, though. He kinda took charge of the situation. Called the locksmith and got me to chill out. (Thanks, seriously. ^^;)
Then we went to the video store. He rented Fusion Frenzy after I begged. I love playing that game with a group of friends. It's awesome. I'm not very good at most of the games... except the music ones. But I have to whine until everyone gets annoyed before we can play one. :/
Anyway... after dinner, I developed my film. I think I even fell asleep for a little while on the counter top in the darkroom.
Then it was Fusion Frenzy time! There were lots of people playing at first... but then everyone left. And only me, Daniel, and the annoying people were left playing. I was disappointed. :/ I'm getting better at that James Bond game, though... I think. Woot.
Now I'm sitting in the graphic design lab... and I really want to be playing Final Fantasy Tactics.
Saturday, November 15, 2003 03:14 p.m.
Daniel has forced me to pull out the insanely happy music. Not because he made me unhappy, but he trumped the happiness of Utada Hikaru. So I have to pull out something to trump that.
Bring on the Shinoraa. I remember now why I became a Shinorer in the first place.
KURUKURUMIRAKURU.
Oh yeah.
I had a bad morning. Cramps, tummy ache, and then I locked my keys in my car in the cemetary. But I got my car unlocked and made Daniel rent Fusion Frenzy. So this is going to be a good day anyway. Shinoraa says so.
Aka-chan mo DANSU odori dasu BABUBABU! Dakara SHINOHARA mo NORINORI yo!
Why has it been so long since I've listened to this? This stuff is great.
PAAFEKUTO! GUREITO! MASUTO! Kanpeki! ( You ARE number ONE!)
Shinoraa makes you a better person. She really does.
Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:36 p.m.
This time it's Photography again. Blah. I know that'll be okay. I'll get it out of the way this weekend.
Another thing is my credit card bills. Haven't gotten one in a long while. I just know it got lost or something and I'll miss a payment and my credit will be ruined and I'll never be able to buy a home. o.o And I can't find the stub for any of my bills other than the first. Argh. Something screwy is going on and I'm thisclose to freaking out over it.
Then there are other things that I KNOW I'm thinking about more than I need to be.
I should go to sleep.
Tuesday, November 11, 2003 07:06 p.m.
Arrr. Taking a much needed break from the poster I'm trying to design. I love graphic design and all... but it's nights like this that make me reconsider an English major or something. I need Quark. This computer doesn't have Quark. Or Pagemaker. I don't feel like bouncing from computer to computer looking for what I need. (This lab sucks booty.)
I'm trying to get this done in Illustrator... but I need that handy little column tool. I can never accuarately measure off stuff in Illustrator.
I have Quark in my room... but I don't have the same fonts that this lab has. Of course, every computer in this lab has different fonts so that's always a freakin' issue. Arr.
My stomach has been killing me for like... a week now. Bleah. I'm not sure my perscription is doing any good. Arr. (I'm going to bite someone soon.) I'm getting tired of hurting everyday. It gets so very old, you know.
The funny thing is... I'm still in a good mood nonetheless. Heh.
(Arr.)
Sunday, November 9, 2003 01:57 p.m.
Time for that long overdue update, I suppose. It's been a pretty uneventful week, though. Bored bored.
Friday was the ASL trip to Birmingham. That was enjoyable. Saw the art museum and had some awesome Thai food. Then we went to an art supply store and I bought a piece of scratchboard. I've been wanting to do another scratchboard piece since I did one last fall. It'll be a while before I get the guts to put anything on that board, though. It's going to sit on my desk for a long time. After that was the mall and the trip home. Whee.
Yesterday I was lazy. I just kinda bummed around when I should have been taking photos or doing SOMETHING useful. I hate when I do that.
Yesterday evening my runnin' crew and I decided to play some of the DDR in the student center on the big screen. I'm the only one who plays on a level higher than light or beginner... but we were jammin' anyway. Having fun.
We'd been playing for a while and these two MSMS (super-nerd boarding high school on my campus, for those of you not in the know) kids come up and ask us if they can play a round. And we're like sure. The more the merrier. They seemed cool. They were talking about the MSMS DDR team and all that. Suggested a tournament between them and "the Dubs." I didn't realize they had a silly nickname for us.
Anyway, these two kids kept taking turns one after the other. Daniel and I kind of raised our eyebrows at each other. But we let it slide. We eventually managed to jump in and get our turns.
It got ugly when one of the kids left and returned with the entire DDR team. I'm standing on MY pad which is hooked to MY FRIEND'S system that is running MY game. I am about to select a song and take MY turn. These two little kids (okay.. they're probably 17 or so... but I'm just being mean now) come in with their swanky Red Octane soft pads... unplug MY pad from MY FRIEND'S system during MY turn. At first I thought, "Okay. Cool. They're going to let us use their nice pads." I admit my pad slides on that carpet a whole lot.
I turn to put my pad aside and as I turn back... this kid who unplugged MY pad from MY FRIEND'S system is picking a song on MY game and taking MY turn. I thought, "Okay. Whatever. We'll just wait."
And we waited and waited and waited. These kids went one after another. Jumping up right after each other not giving the us a chance. Never asking if we wanted a turn. We were fuming at this point. (Keep in mind these kids aren't even supposed to be in the student center fraternizing with the college students.)
I think they were showing off. But they weren't even that good. Sure, they played on Heavy sometimes, but they were only doing 7 and 8 footers. And getting Ds. I can do that sometimes. And I'd be able to do it all the time if I were a skinny emo kid.
So, we did the mature thing. We took our stuff and left. Went to play fighting games in the guy's dorm. I'm totally rocking Ivy now...
Tuesday, November 4, 2003 06:58 p.m.
I've been being boring again. Nothing much of interest to write about.
I'm ready to cut my left arm off at the shoulder. (But it's too late to dress as Sophie Fatale for Halloween...) My shoulder does (and has been doing for a couple years now) this weird things where if I sit at the computer for too long or play a lot of video games, it starts to hurt. A lot. It's this horrible stabbing pain that shoots up my neck and down my arm. Not pleasant.
Last night I spent hours laying very, very still on my bed and watching tv. Today it's better, but I still get a twinge every now and then. I was useless in Pilates class. I tried to make up for it by DDRing to get myself moving... but my heartburn cut that short.
Bleah. I'm taking this body back and getting a replacement. I just hope the warranty hasn't run out yet.
Sunday, November 2, 2003 11:16 p.m.
Well, I had a perfectly uneventful weekend. Rented DDR Max2. It's pretty nifty. The song list hasn't impressed me all that much. There are a few of my favorites (Let's Groove, Long Train Runnin', Kind Lady) but most of it is just "eh." Lovin' You kills me... it's supposedly a club mix of the song.. but it's just a sample of the song... followed by generic dance trance or whatever. I thought the point of a remix was to change the song... not sample it and then replace the rest. That's what a lot of the music is.. generic dance trance. Pfft.
Anyway, I'm wondering how much of an interest the patrons of the Columbus, Mississippi Blockbuster are going to show in Max2. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll see it on the el cheapo used game shelf sometime.
Boring as some of the music is, it has gotten me DDRing again... which means I'm working up a sweat again. Which is good.
Bleah. I think I'm addicted to pork rinds.
Nothing else has happened... played lots of teh Dee Dee Arr. Watched movies. Saw Bend it Like Beckham. It was pretty good. Made me want to try Indian food. Indian weddings are so much more cool than WASP weddings. I'd love to get married in a red and gold sari with gold jewelry and bells and all that. But this white girl would look so dumb.
And... yup. That's it.
Background Noise: The Misfits - Hybrid Moment
I wish I had my mp3 of Mono Puff's "Tryptophane." It's become my Thanksgiving carol.
Well... I'm home for Thanksgiving. That was probably the longest trip home ever.
Background Noise: Tori Amos - Happiness is a Warm Gun
I figure by now you're tired of me whining about how much work I have, so I think I'll whine for a bit about the diet.
Feh. I'm missing class right now. The weather got scary bad for a while there. I had decided that I really didn't want to walk through that mess when they herded us downstairs anyway. So yeah.
Bleah. Busy, busy, busy. I'm almost done with stuff for my photo critique. Just a couple more prints to go. Yay.
Background Noise: Tori Amos - Caught a Light Sneeze
Background Music: Shinohara Tomoe - Kuru Kuru Mirakuru
Geh. I'm doing it again. That thing where I worry over stuff more than I should be ( at least I hope it's more...).
Harry Connick, Jr. - Change Partners
Background Noise: A Perfect Circle - Crimes
Background Noise: The RZA - Crane
Heh. That was an awesome ATHF.
