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So she sayeth...
Monday, November 26, 2001 03:08 p.m.
Finally saw the ending of Cowboy Bebop last night. Brilliantly done...but did they really have to do that? I think I wouldn't be so upset--well, ok, my jaw was kinda hanging there in shock through the credits--if not for the star at the very end. Damn. Just damn.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "Life is just a dream you know...that's never-ending...I'm ascending..." -- "Blue"
Friday, November 23, 2001 10:10 p.m.
Wha, lazy day. Lazy day. Haven't been up to much since the last blog, but that's what vacation is all about. I'm slagging and slacking now because I'm forgoing three weeks of my break to returning to school to do research for my project. So I'm leaving Sunday afternoon which means I have a day left to waste having fun. ^_^ Or whatever. o_o Anyhoo, I've been playing Xenogears like a mad woman--not today though. Today has been the viewer's choice X-files marathon on FX, so between doing actual constructive things (like grocery shopping), I've been catching episodes of the X-files. I've forgotten exactly how much I love that show. XD And I've realized why I'm not thrilled with the latest two seasons. It's not the addition of Dogget and Reyes. It's the absence of Mulder, and not simply because he's not there. It's because the Mulder/Scully chemistry is gone. They lost a lot of subtle humor, cuddly feelings, and plain good character relations when he left. I'm willing to bet almost all the shows I saw today reflect a lot of that. Also, I think the show has just stopped doing the quirky episodes. They're so deep in serious canon now that there's less room to be playful and just have fun with the show and the characters. -_- Meh. I'll still be watching the new episodes, just with a bit of reserve that wasn't there in the past. Sad to say.
So yes, I've been playing Xenogears too. I'm at the part where Fei won the Battling Tournament and is ready to get out of D-Block. I met Rico. I kicked the butt of some weird killing monster. Citan is getting more mysterious and perhaps unlikeable because of his loyalties. I don't know yet what happened to Bart and Siggy. ;_; And Elly and friends are going to attack the country I'm in to "purge" it because some old guys in a computer decided It Would Be So. Probably won't have time to play anymore tonight since there's one episode of X-files left that I want to watch, and after it's over it will be Late. But who knows. I slept Late today, so I may not be tired. ^^
Oh yeah. And there was a thing called Thanksgiving yesterday. It was just like your average Thanksgiving, only a little more boring. I swear, once the football game comes on all the guys in my family tune out everything else. >_>; I guess it keeps them out of trouble during the winter...? Anyway. There was turkey and such. Cake, rolls. Yummy. Next holiday will be Christmas, which is shaping up to be a real winner. o_o; Here I am complaining again about family get togethers, but hey, I know I need to prepare for the worst. Extended family will be here this year and some of those people aren't too happy with some people here and vice versa, so, eh. What can I say? Hopefully nothing come the end of the month. :D Anyhoo. Now onto happier things. :D!! Like nostalgia and good writing.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "That's essentially exactly what happened. Essentially... Except the part about the buckteeth." -- Fox Mulder, The X-files
Wednesday, November 21, 2001 06:27 p.m.
Ok, I promised a Xenogears response in this here blog, so here it be. It's not going to be a recap of the plot since many people who read my blog probably have either played it and thus know the plot or haven't played it and don't want it spoiled. So! Regardless, there are probably spoilers in here. I tried to make it so you could highlight the text, but I can't find the bg color, so, just avoid this section if you don't want spoilers.
Xenogears or How I Learned to Stop Worry about My Dead Friends and Love my Weltall
Yeah. So that's about the plot thus far, only with Judeo-Christianity references, a bunch of messing around with the throne of Ahev, a slew of cool characters, a mysterious bunch of folks from Solaris who like to call earth-dwellers "Lambs." And I'm not putting it like that to mean that I hate it or think it's dumb. Actually, quite the contrary. I really like this game. It's a little to text-driven at points, and I'm annoyed that I can't manually click through the text faster, but that's ok. I've gotten used to it after 12 hours. Right now my party is divided up and assulting the castle, the front lines, and the western garrison. When Naison-ojiisan rescued Bart-tachi I was like O_o; the whole time. It was funny, but odd. Right along the lines of that cat who rescues you in Ozzie's lair in CT. I'm currently with Fei and kicking Solarian butt in Weltall. I laugh in the face of your naval cannon. HAH HA! You may also want to hear responses to individual characters:
Fei: I despise Fei. Well, he at the very least annoys me and at the worst makes me want to smack him and tell him what for. Most of the yelling at the TV during Xenogears is directed at Fei. Miang calls him handsome. He's not. Of course, I don't value her opinion. She IS sleeping with Ramsus. Blech. So everyone else in the game is pretty (except for the Navy gun-obsessed guy and Grahf) but Fei is not. He's overly-angsty about the deaths of his friends, and thus for awhile got really depressed and didn't want to fight. Here's where the want of smacking him started. Yeah, it's sad and upsetting that he caused the death of his friends, but it wasn't totally his fault and he should get over it enough to fight for the common good and save the children. Grar. And he was just overall bratty when we were on Bart's ship for the first time. I especially wanted to smack him when they said Bart was all lonely and stuff and Sigurd asked Fei to be his friend I was like:
Me: :D OK! C'mon, go be his friend, Fei.
Fei: ...
Me: o.o Fei. Go.
Fei: ...
Me: >.> come on, Fei. Haul your skinny butt over there.
Fei: ...
Me: >_< DAMN IT FEI, YOU BITCH! He's lonely! You're his age and without family. GET YOUR ASS OVER THERE AND HUG THE MAN!"
Fei: ...
Me: ...
So that's me and Fei for now. He's getting better though. He volunteered to fight on the front lines without anyone prodding him, so he's less Shini-like now. And he's nice to Elly. Good for him.
Elly: Well...Elly hasn't done much so far. Since she looks like Sophia AND Sophia has that same cross the woman in Fei's dream had AND the painting looked like it was done in Fei's style AND Fei knew Elly's name I think it's safe to assume she's carrying quite the heavy plot load on her. I think she's interesting. I really would like to know more about her, but she keeps running off because of her duty to her people/army. Yeah. Sure, Elly, that's right. Be nice to those bunch of morons who insulted you and disobeyed your orders and then got their asses kicked by Fei. They're WORTH being loyal too. @_@ Anyway. Her's is the gear that annoys me the most in the game. Why in the hell does the only female main character have to have the only PINK gear in the game that makes freaking pink hearts when she punches or kicks something?! I swear, if I have to rescue her later in the game, I'm going to scream.
Citan: YAY! It's Citan! As Matt told me, everybody loves Citan. Me included! Well, he hasn't done much fighting, and Matt's good opinion of Citan was based on his fighting abilities. Well, sure he's good at that. I guess. I haven't used him much, but he was pretty good. I like him as a character too. ^_^ And not only does he wear glasses, but he's good-looking and OLD. A whopping 29 years! Woo! That's pretty good for a main character, although I guess Sabin/Edgar were 27 and Locke was 25, but that's an older game. Nowadays we have the SeeD kiddies and what not. BTW, the thought of SigurdxCitan makes me go O_o;. I know I've seen that written before, but honestly, I see where people get it, but dammit he's married! Besides, they don't really go together in my eyes either.
Bart: Ok, yeah, I didn't think much of him at first. He seemed like your average character, but then, yes, I admit it, when they said he was lonely and had ugly *scars* from protecting his little cousin coupled with the fact he's a good looking prince/pirate captain the fangirl radar went off. ^_^; And now I really like the boy. Typical girl reaction that I had: "Awwwwww.... ;___; He's so nice and cute and lonely... Oh... I'll hug you, Bart-kun!" Aspects of him do annoy me though. I don't like the name "Bart." I don't like his weapon of choice. I don't care how many kings and SeeD instructors before him used whips, it's a silly weapon. He really doesn't seem the sword-type though either, so...hmm. Ah well. It's a minor point. It does annoy me, however, that Citan and Sigurd call him "the young one." @_@ He's 18. Yeesh. He's not that young. Don't call him that.
Dan: Yeah, he's a side character, but I'd just like to point out here how much I dislike the little spore. Yuck.
I'm not too fond of the rotatable 3-D world. It would be all right if the upper parts of the scene didn't obstruct the view when you rotate it certain ways. I'm getting used to it, however. It still tends to get in the way though. I'm intrigued by the plot. I mean, that's what Xenogears is all about, ne? Heh. I'm slowly getting through it, making connections, but of course there's a ton of game left, so I'm probably wrong on a lot of things. I really like the battle system, but it kind of annoys me I'm not allowed to attack multiple times per turn while I'm in my gear like I can when I'm on my own. I really like the deathblow things too. :D I'm slowly learning all of them for Fei, but the others haven't even registered many at all. I think Bart has three. Oh, my final point. The dub of this game SUCKS. It's not the voices really that annoy me--they're just typical dub voices, but Fei's voice kinda annoys me--but the actual dubbing of words onto lips. It's HORRIBLE. There were several times where the character would actually move their lips for a few seconds before the voice even started! I can't believe they got away with putting out this game with the dub like that. It's so bad it's stereotypical! @_@ Gah. Stupid people.
Anyway. That's it. I'm going to play some more right after I do some important application work/beginning work, and maybe some reading for next week. Happily I found my old articles on Japanese women's speech that I used in my language and culture class two years ago. I also found my textbook for that class on all sorts of basic linguistics stuff. Now I can remember the exactness of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and whatnot. :D Yay!
Wednesday, November 21, 2001 11:36 a.m.
Katherine: Just a suggestion, but you guys could stay at a youth hostil in Osaka. The one I stayed at was very nice and a lot cheaper than a hotel. I can't remember the exact price, but it was around, but less than 3000 yen for one night per person.
Ok. Rule #1. If you want an unbiased opinion of your writing, never EVER ask your mother. I know this is a given because really, it's your MOM. She's going to say it's good even if it sucks (unless she's an English major type. Then she could give you criticism). But here's what my mom said to me today after reading my stuff from last spring's workshop. "Wow. I remember when you writing stories in third grade about your stuffed animals where you kept using "said" all the time when your characters spoke. You've really improved since then! Since high school even!" O_o; Yeah, mom. Thanks for the encouragement. I no longer write like an eight year old. This is a good thing...X_X;;; And yeah, I wrote stories about my stuffed animals when I was a child. Stifle your laughter! I even created an entire world where they lived. It was quite epic for an eight year old. :P
Well, finals are over and done with. Can you believe I only have two more terms left of my undergraduate career? I can, but it's still odd. ^_^ Anyhoo, I spent the bulk of Friday and Saturday working on my last paper. I finished it, but I wasn't 100% happy with it. Usually my standards for stuff is pretty high (or at least that's what people tell me...) but when I encounter a professor who's standards are even higher than mine (like my Woolf professor) my perspective of how good my paper is and needs to be just gets blown out of proportion. But I'm done. And that's what matters now.
I came home on Sunday where upon I proceeded to lay around in a tired pile of me. I only got four hours of sleep Saturday night due to our little adventure to try and see the meteor shower. It was cloudy that night. So, we wandered around campus trying to find some place dark and with holes in the clouds, but failed, so I went to bed around 5 a.m. and got up at 9 a.m. to edit my paper one last time. After some quick packing and cleaning I went home. Monday and Tuesday were mostly dedicated to Xenogears. Yes, I have never played it, and Matt handed it to me a week ago after a year of saying "You should play Xenogears" saying "Play it over break." So I said "Ok." o_o; And now you all get to read about it! :D
... After lunch. ^.^ Back later.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "You've really improved since then!" -- my mom
Friday, November 16, 2001 03:09 p.m.
Karen, wants Fox Trot? Well, >clickie! I like this site. It gives me my daily Garfield. :D
Well. Two classes down. One to go. This is the tough one though. Yeah. No updates lately because I've been buried in homework and studying and paper writing. For some reason this paper I've been working on is really tough. It's kinda a confusing topic (it's about reality o.o;) and it's for a prof who loves her student's papers to be extra clear and very pithy, so I'm all paranoid about sounding good too, and not just writing the stupid thing. I took my Romantic lit final today. Tsk. I haven't taken a final in an English class for a long time. o_o Usually it's just a paper and we're done--we had to do two papers and the final for this class.
Anyway. Nothing much to report. Hopefully there will be game reports next week as I will be on VACATION. XD I'll be home in Marion sometime Sunday. Of course I have a bunch of work to do on grad school stuff because I ignored it this past week or two. ^_^; Ah well. It shouldn't be horribly hard as doing it and class. And Thursday is Thanksgiving. Woo! Then it's back to Knox the Sunday after so I can start my research. Anyhoo. That's all. Sorry about the boring nature of my blog for the past few weeks. I'll fix that...I think. ^_^; I'll try at least.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "I wish I was a heartbeat that never comes to rest." -- Run, Lola, Run OST
Friday, November 9, 2001 01:30 p.m.
Is it really November? O_o; No, really, we DID have October, right? If anyone else missed last month too, let me know. I'd like it back.
Well, my monitor is officially dead. Dead dead dead. >_< It just HAD to wait until four months after the warrenty expired too, didn't it. Grr. Anyhoo, I'm still ill. I hate being sick. It's so pointless. Being sick as a kid you could get benefits like staying home from school and having someone tend to your needs (thanks, mom! :D), but now it's no use getting sick. It's worse to skip class now because there's a lot more emphasis on being in class rather than simple homework. Well, all my classes are lecture (with weekly quiz) or discussion based (which is part of the grade) so it behooves me to be in class. -_- Even worse is that I'm on that borderline of sickness. Not well enough to feel good, but not bad enough to stay in bed and ignore the world for a few days.
Maybe I mentioned it before, but it's Asian Week here at Knox. Woo! This means fun and exciting Asian-related activities that I didn't take part in. o_o This year, they were all movies, which I don't have time to take off to see. I had to skip the calligraphy because I had class at that time. I'm not going to the progressive dinner tonight either since I have several meetings during the prep time. I AM, however, taking part in the entertainment for tomorrow. Per the usual, we're doing a skit of a Japanese folk tale. More on that after the performance.
Yesterday was Matt's 21st birthday. (Yeah, 21, quite the young'un, ain't he? XD) We celebrated in style by buying and eating chicken soup for dinner--he's sick too--and parking ourselves in front of the TV to watch the Tick. Live action Tick. Wow. That was certainly interesting. XD They certainly kept the air of the original show. Tick is as clueless as ever. One thing that did bother me was the stiffness of the guy who played Tick. It looked like the body suit prevented him from at all moving his neck. o.o It looked odd, but he was still funny. He hasn't said "spoon" yet though. ;_; They changed the names of their superhero friends too. They're generally the same from what I remember, but their names are different.
Not much else. Just the tri-annual frantic running around for a week before classes end. ^^ So with that, I'm done.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "Don't stand too close to the squirrel, Billy. You'll catch his stupid." -- some random cartoon on TV
Tuesday, November 6, 2001 1:37 a.m.
Well, my dad lost his job today. -_- I've been assured, however, of the covering of my tuition. I guess they saw it coming for awhile and set aside money. Still, it's obviously not a very happy thing. It's causing troubles at home, which, I've essentially been cut off from having any chance at improving since I can't do anything but sit here and hear about it. I'll get to go home right before Thanksgiving which will be an interesting time. As a kid I always looked forward to holidays. They were great. But it always seemed like every holiday, no matter what happened, they always ended up going sour because people got mad at each other. Lately, well, as lately as an annual holiday can be, they've been improving, but still, now I can clearly see unrest over this holiday season. Joy.
Anyway, o.o no one cares about that, so I'll shut up and move on to interesting things. Like pretty lights! Yup, I saw the aurora borealis today--right on campus! It was really weird. I went outside onto the huge lawn between academic buildings with J-Club people after play rehearsal and there it was in the sky. It was pretty bright--like some spotlights were shining on it and there were green and red splotches like clouds in the sky, but then they kept shifting and forming other shapes like a rainbow or a dome. We had no idea what it was since considering we're in Illinois, how likely IS seeing the Northern Lights? So we just watched, and noticed how many planes were flying overhead too... Which was unnerving, but then we remembered it was Galesburg. ^_^; But we found out later that it was the aurora borealis.
And to reply to you, not begging to be called a great writer (because I'm not) but having been in several workshops myself, I guess I can offer advice. o.o Yes, you should always comment on the good and the bad. I always construct my criticism as "I like your blah. But here's what you can improve on." I tend to be very walking on eggshellish when writing my comments. I usually write in forms like "Perhaps you could..." or "I think it's better if..." unless it's real crap and then I say "You need to change this." Me, being the fuzzy wimp that I am, usually don't get that far. ^^ Criticism itself has always been an issue in my workshops, but I've managed to learn that if you can say something tactful and constructive about something that's bad but yet make sure to comment on the things you believe they did well, do it. Screw their feelings! XD (oh, wait, I said be tactful... ^.^ Right.) But seriously, you know you're not going to get anywhere on fluff talk. I hate it when people just nod at my work, smile, and say "It's pretty. I like it. ^_^" I want constructive things. And if it's a cliche, just write "cliche" next to it. If the sentence structure is wrong, just write "sentence structure" and the like. And don't feel forced to say more than one good thing about a piece if it's not worthy of it. Criticism is meant to be critical, not flowery and ego-boosting. But you know that. Well, anyway, maybe I'm spoiled by my writing classes because most people who are in my them are the English majors who have about the decent to great writing, but I know I've encountered writing in class I considered bad. They got the same happy comment and then criticism. Just more criticism than usual. ^_~ My professors aren't shy about doling out the criticism either. If they think it sucks, they'll let you know.
As far as simple stuff like spelling and grammar mistakes, personally, I just mark everything. I've ceased to feel bad about it too. I know that you know you don't need to write "hey, idiot, that's not proper English!" everytime they make a mistake :P (even though you can get to the point where you feel like it!) but just pointing it out never hurts. It's tough love. XD Anyway, and as to this comment --> "if it were a friend or an online person honestly asking for criticism, maybe I'd give it to him/her." Please! Is this the same person who pointed at the computer screen and laughed at my grammar and the silliness of my stories in high school. And that scathing 18 or so point critique you wrote about that one story I did...what about that hmmmmm? You've grown soft, woman! XP j/k
Anyhoo. I just realized I never did summarize my research topic for honors/whatnot. o.o Well, I'm researching the ways non-native speakers learn gender differences in Japanese inside and outside the classroom. Inside the classroom of course meaning senseis, books, dialogues, learning videos, etc. etc. Outside the classroom meaning manga, anime, TV, songs, etc. Guess how that topic came about? ^_^ I'm not sure how all this is going to come about, but I'll have fun doing it. Either that or I'll get extremely frustrated... Last year I wrote a paper about Japanese women's language and did a mini study on how the main characters of three manga and anime used feminine speech. I used MKR (manga) and Escaflowne (shounen manga version and TV version). That was really interesting. Anyway, I'll probably be asking Japanese students I know about their experiences later in the winter. ^_^ But now...I should wrap this up and go to bed.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "We have destroyed something by our presence...a world perhaps." -- The Waves, Virginia Woolf
Saturday, November 3, 2001 07:44 p.m.
Katherine: Glad you had fun in Kyoto. :D I loved running around Kyoto--even if we didn't stick to the uh...touristy places. ^^; Kyoto actually was one of the last places I got to outside of the Center and Hikone with the JCMU-gumi, so it's stuck in my head as some Romantic image (yes, capital R)--which leads me to be overly fond of it even if some aspects of it really weren't fun. And yeah, never ceased to amaze me that things actually closed and stopped so early. ^^ Around 9 p.m. everything useful (like buses and restaurants) just stopped. ^^
Priya: Koyasu on crack! Good lord, that must be awesome. XD The only reason I didn't stop watching SMJ was to hear exactly that. XD
Karen: I'd be amused with your blog, even if I didn't know you. :P And dude, if I end up going to Iowa, I'm seriously going to drill you U of I Nihongo-sei about the Japanese department. o.o I feel as if it would be nothing close to boring.
Well, I'm a spreader of disease this week. >.> I caught a cold of some sort on Tuesday morning and have somehow spread it to my apaato-mate and possibly Matt. Funky. So I'm all yucky and stuff. I think I've passed into the coughing part of the cold, which is usually the last part, but always the most fun. I've been comusing juice by the glassful though, and that seems to be helping.
Well, some stuff I did this week. Hmm. I fenced Thursday when I should have been at home reading Emma. Bad, bad me. I'm caught up now though. I just have to finish the thing for Monday and then no more Romantic lit for me! O_O Oh, joy! (Ok, well, I still have class, a paper, and a final, but hey. No more reading.) Now I can sit back and enjoy Woolf. I've been reading The Waves which is a very experimental and very cool reading. Some parts of it can drag on, but mostly I really like it. It's on my level of interest--figuring people/characters out. Basically, the book is about six characters who are very distinct from each other, but also very alike, who are friends and went to school together, and all have this thing in common with this guy Percival. The book outlines their lives (in rotating monologues of the six characters--no other text is in the book) from childhood, till I think death. I haven't finished it yet, so I can't say for sure. It's a good read though.
Friday I finally went to a J-Club movie night. I haven't been to one since last year. Basically this has been because they've been showing things I've already seen at least twice (all within the last year) and don't really care to see again for awhile. Last night we watched Oh! My Goddess! I love the sweetness of that series. ^_^ The art is always so beautiful, and well, it's just so cute and sweet. We saw five tapes of the TV/OAV/whatever those tapes in the pink boxes were. After that Matt finished loading Unreal Tournament and TacOps on my machine. o.o ... Yeah. We'll see when I have time to play that. My computer isn't very powerful when it comes running that kind of thing, but hopefully it'll be ok. Oh, and I played some Mariocart yesterday too. ^^ That's fun.
Today I ate lunch with Matt and his family--they're here for his birthday which is this coming week--and shopped for food and sat around reading. That's the life, eh? Anyway, I've been putting off getting back to reading long enough.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "Percival was gone." -- Virginia Woolf
Wednesday, October 31, 2001 02:40 p.m.
Happy Halloween. O_o; Ok, another week has past between entries. The time between now and the last entry has been anything but non-time consuming. o.O; Thurs/Fri my monitor up and died for no good reason. My computer is fine, but the monitor displays nothing but black. Even after I hit it a couple of times. :P So I had to haul that home this weekend. Friday I saw Memento. what a cool movie! Go! See it now! O_O It's all about how a guy who has no short term memory. He can remember everything before The Incident, but since then, he can't form anymore memories. So, he takes pictures, writes notes to himself, and tatoos information on his body. The story follows how he hunts down the person who killed and raped his wife and caused him to lose his memory. Only thing is, it's told backwards. You see him kill the guy in the beginning. Then scene previous to that is shown all the way to the end of the movie until you find out what happened in the first place. It. Kicked. Ass. :D
Saturday I went home because of the *grr* GRE. My parents picked me an hour late since my dad had to go to emergency care to get stitches for his hand. He cut it on a falling ceramic duck. o.o; Sat/Sun was spent preparing for that and dealing with being at home. It's not fun dealing with being at home for reasons that I won't put here. o.o In other reasons I don't like going home during the school year is that I can never get anything done. My parents don't see me much, so that means they descend upon me with questions and stuff to do. Frisky has developed a habit of DEMANDing that I play with her. She will run in my room, mew at me until I get up, then she leads me down the hall into the living room where she runs around, not letting me pet her until I start tossing a string in her direction. ^_^; Then she can never stay occupied for more than thirty seconds and finds something else interesting so I give up. Then the cycle starts over. Psycho cat. :P
I didn't end up getting my monitor fixed because Gateway only deals in providing people with new monitors either as new or replacing if you're under warrenty...Grr. They also tried to sell me a whole new system because it would be "cheaper in the long run" but I declined since I just updated my old (3 1/2 year old) computer just last year for a good chunk of money. So no new system for me for awhile. Of course, the monitor is another thing all together... I don't WANT to be spending upwards of 200 bucks on a monitor, even if it's a nice, snazzy new one. That money is going to application fees.
So Monday was carted down to Iowa City to take the GRE. It was the most painful thing I have done in awhile. >_< My head hurt and was very swirly for the rest of the day afterward. I'll take the time to state here that I think the idea of a two or three hour standardized test on a computer is STOOPID. I loathe the idea of not being able to read things on paper and go back and check my work, change my answers, or whatnot. I hear the SAT is also computer-based now. I'm glad I got out when I did. o.o; Quite frankly, for as much time as I spend at the computer each day, I still can't sit in front of a computer and read things and think and do whatnot for that long. My eyes/brain began to not be able to handle it half way through the test, and I almost burst into tears I was so frustrated. I also missed the nice breaks between sections. Anyway, I managed to do very well in two sections, but only average in the other. Which really got me depressed. Average? BAH! But I'm not taking it again. Really. I don't think there's enough time, and I have no desire to spend the money, and I don't think I could beat my analytical score again. Wow. That was a good section. ^_^; Anyhoo. Enough of this!
In other plans, I've decided to stay at Knox over the mini term. Which means another three weeks at school--but no class--so I can do my project in peace. I get a week off after finals, but then I'm back here until mid-December. I know I've hindered my chances of getting a job once I go back home by doing this, but I know now from going home this weekend that I couldn't live at home, work, AND do my project. o.o; Speaking of which. I don't think I ever blogged about it. Ah. Well, something for later. ^^;
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "There was no denying that those brothers had penetration." -- Emma by Jane Austen
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