I'll Make This Quick...

Ahah, I fixed up the stupid counter on this page that keeps breaking, and I republished and got all my old archives back! I'm so excited - I thought they were gone forever when I switched from weekly to montly archives. But I can access them once more so that is happy. ^_^

The anime club is trying to come up with a new t-shirt design. Different people have been asked to come up with a design and stuff. Maybe we should have a contest. Actually, one of the members suggested drawing a parody of the MIT seal. And I was sitting here and was bored, so I actually started doing that. I turned the guy on the left (with the hammer) into Himura Kenshin about to pull out his sword. The lamp on top of the books is now Mokona. And the sign that says "Science and Art" has been changed to "Science and Anime." I'm trying to figure out who the second person person should be - I need someone 'intellectual' to fill in the Mind part of "Mens et Manus" (mind and hand). I want to change that motto to something else... Like "Sittus et Watchus." I don't know. I'll probably never finish anyway and if I do, it will look stupid. Ah well, if I never tell the club about it, they won't be sad when I fail. :P Plus, I'm sure there's waaay better artists out there with more original ideas anyway. -_-;

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: Nobuo Uematsu - Gun Hazard OST - UNEASY
Current mood: More or less happy

Oh, the Pain...

Sarah and I have recently figured out that she, Vikki and I are essentially one person stuck in three bodies. This is a very disturbing revelation, but one that seems to be very true. Last night at the 6.001 lab, we were working with Brett on 6.042 (evil math!) via Zephyr (Athena's version of instant messaging), and one of us would ask him a question, and he'd answer someone else. So then another one of us would respond to that. So we're interchangeable. Whoa, look, we're an equivalence relation. To proove this, we need to show three things: Ever element is reflexive, symmetric, and transitive. Now, we are all reflexive, since I am myself, and Sarah is Sarah, and Vikki is Vikki. But we're also symmetric because talking to Sarah is just like talking to Vikki (or even me), at least with Brett, over Zephyr. And we're also transitive because if Sarah sends a message, and then Vikki sends a followup to the reply, and then I send something further questioning or clarifying afterward, it's quite the same as one person doing all the talking (okay, maybe that one's a bit of a stretch there). But anyway! We are an equivalence relation! (Heh, 6.042 is really getting to me...) We are really one person stuck in three bodies! I am very disturbed - especially since this means that because we're so dependent on each other, when we take our 6.042 test next week, each of us is only going to get a 33%. :P Ah, I lead such a sad existence.

Anyway, enough for the deep thoughts. I'm tired and there's no reason for me to stay up even later, writing silly pseudo-6.042 proofs. Yeah, I have no free time in my life, unless it cuts into my sleeping time. I'm amazed at how busy I am this year - I'm almost never in my room. I guess that's good since I can't study well in my room anyway. Better for me to be hanging out downstairs with my friends I guess. More productive, plus there's people to check answers with. ^_^ Blah, I haven't updated my website in forever and I feel really bad about it. I'm such a slacker.

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: Motoi Sakuraba - Star Ocean the Second Story Arrange Album - Lavender
Current mood: Pseudo-intellectual

Arrgh...

Ugh, right now I am so depressed. The day started off fine - I survived Japanese, snoozed through the 6.002 lecture... Same old, same old. I even finished off my 6.002 lab, which made me very very happy, and 6.042 went pretty well because we had the good lecturer today. But then, after that class, my friends decided that they wanted to go to the Career Fair today. So I went too. And now I'm really really sad. Yes, the career fair was very depressing. I feel quite worthless now, and I was going to rant on about it for a while, but I really don't know what to say. So. Hm. I need food. And I need to finish off my 6.002 p-set (and probably start the 6.042 p-set *shudder*)... I've got karate tonight (karate gym class = yay). Ach, I guess what I want to do much is turn up my Lost Child OST really really loud (I need angry music and that is as good as it gets, heh) and draw. I really want to draw. I've been itching to sit down and draw something nice for several days now. Unfulfilled as usual. Argh, and the music that I'm listening to right now really sucks. It sounds all midi-ish and FF7-like. It insults my ears. I think I'll just delete it all. -_- *ramble ramble* Okay, that was all very random and stupid. If you actually went and read this, I apologize. I think I'll just shut up right now and crawl off into a corner to die.

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: Bahamut Lagoon OST - Ballroom Dance (I suggest you don't listen to this stuff - it's not really that good at all)
Current mood: Very unhappy

All in a Day's Work

So far, life is going pretty good. It's pretty hectic but it's not uncontrollable. Not yet.

Ha, I am taking this karate gym class, and while it's a good deal of fun, it's also painful. My legs hurt so much... Because it's two hours long, we have a lot of time to stretch out and our sensei makes the most of it. I'm just hoping that I heal up before the next class! The sensei is the most gung-ho sensei that I've ever seen. He gets all excited about everything and no one can understand him because his accent's so thick. I like it though - better than aikido because in that class, we never got verbal instructions - we had to copy the instructor's movements which was insanely difficult. Oh well, this is karate - it's what I've been doing for years and years so I'm naturally much more comfortable with it. But now I have to remember to chamber low for my punches - I got corrected a few times last night. Hanshi would be so sad that I am now struggling to chamber badly. It's hard to do though, so I must have been well taught!

Anime club is just crazy. I am amazed at how many new materials make it in every week. I spent most of Saturday finishing up checkouts and adding new items to the library - it took hours and I didn't even catalogue everything! But it looks like we practically doubled the size of the audio library which is kind of interesting. It's so sad that I haven't checked anything out of the library yet... There's so much stuff that I want to watch, but I have no time for it! I still have a ton of my stuff on my laptop that I need to watch too, so that's kind of in my way too. At least I'm forced to go to the weekly showings so I get to watch some stuff (but not the first feature, which makes me sad). I'm glad that I get to see the semester series though because they look good - we're showing One Piece (shounen comedy about pirates) and Last Exile (war and airplanes - very serious, very pretty) and I like them both, so that's great.

So, you might be wondering why I have no time to watch anime this year, when I watched so much this year? Well, now I have to do all my homework at night because during the day, not only do I have classes, but I also have a job! It's at the RetroSpective Collection - one of MIT's many libraries, and I start there tomorrow so that's kind of exciting. I'll be reshelving and cataloguing all the unmarked items. Looks like I'll be pretty busy with that, but at least I'll be earning money for it. ^_^ This is my first real job (sad, ne?) so I'm rather excited. Well, that's going to take up all day, so night is for homework. Friday is anime club, so that's all taken up there. Saturday is anime-club-library-upkeep-day and Sunday is 6.042 day (evil evil math). Oh, and I volunteered to help refurbish computers to provide to needy people in an attempt to bridge the Digital Divide. So community service too, yay! Uhm, yeah, so now I get to have no life whatsoever and I'm really really sad that I can't do a UROP because that's something that I should be doing... I need to see if bioinformatics is really the field of study that I want to involve myself in. But if I don't UROP in something in that area, how am I going to find out before it's too late?! Aargh... Well, there's always IAP. And next semester... *crosses her fingers*

Well, well, I must go to bed now. I have Japanese at 9 in the morning (eek!) so no more of this staying up until 2am thing for me. @_@ I am a changed person. At least until the work really starts piling on. So for now, I'll take sleep when I can get it. Also, something that I've learned over the course of a year at MIT - you're never going to get enough sleep so don't underestimate the power of the nap. ^_^ Ja ne.

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: Balligomingo - Marooned
Current mood: Sleepy

Back to the Daily Grind

Urrgh, I've been meaning to write for the past week, but I've been too busy doing other stuff... o_o; So yeah, I'm back at MIT again. *sigh* I've already got p-sets to work on (the 6.002 one looks really scary) and lots and lots of stuff to read. Japanese is pretty cool although the class is too big. I'd kind of like to switch to the 9:00am class because it's guaranteed to be a whole lot smaller, but I'm wondering whether I'd be able to wake up on time to actually go to it. I've been trying to get to sleep earlier this year - so far I've been doing pretty good at turning off the laptop around midnight, though last night was an exception. Ashdown (grad dorm next door) was having this terrible, loud party that went on until about 2 in the morning, and I couldn't even think about going to sleep with noise like that. So I slept late today, and it made me sad. I don't want to get back into that old routine! If I can get to sleep by midnight and wake up by 8, I'd be doing great. Of course, you know how late-night p-setting goes... *aarghs*

Besides all that, vacation in California was great. It wasn't very hot because I guess the heat wave had just broken or something. LA was smoggy as ever, but I got to see my grandparents again, eat great Chinese food, and see their new apartment (looks like it'll be nice). After LA, we drove to San Diego. It's a two hour drive normally, unless it's Saturday and you're trying to get to San Diego. Which is exactly what we were doing. It took us four hours instead! Oh, that was no fun. Neither was the two hour wait for the rental car. All the waiting was a pain. You can't get anywhere fast in southern California. -_- Anyway, we finally made it to San Diego, had a party with some relatives at the condo place where we were staying (that was fun, except for when everyone started pulling out the guitars and singing :P), went to the beach a lot, and stuff like that. My mom and my sisters had to go home early because my sisters had school starting up before me (and I get out of school before them, hah!). I feel bad for Mom - she didn't get to do much of anything since she doesn't swim, and there wasn't room under the pier for her to practice karate. When they left, Dad and I were staying on a few days to get in some diving. I can't believe it's been two years since I last dove. So after we drove everyone back up to LA to get them to the airport (two hours each way @_@), Dad and I went to a dive shop and rented out some gear to do some diving over at La Jolla Cove. We forgot the air tanks at the dive shop. And didn't realize it until half an hour after the shop had closed. So that was not so good. Instead of doing an early dive at 7 am, we had to wait until 8 for the shop to open so we could get the tanks. Well, we finally got into the water, and the visibility was terrible. As in, less than ten feet. More like five. We lost each other more than once when trying to go under. And there wasn't much to see underwater anyway because there was a lot of kelp covering everything. But there were plenty of Garibaldis, which look like giant goldfish and they are very pretty, especially the juveniles which have neon blue spots. We decided to give up beach diving after that and so the next day we went to the San Diego Zoo, which was excellent. I loved the aviaries and the naked mole rat display. Heh. But yeah, it's a great zoo - they even have some giant pandas, which were really neat to see. The day after that, Dad and I did a boat dive over at the Coronado Islands. Visibility wasn't very good unless you went down pretty deep (at least 50 feet), but then it got really cold. And there still wasn't the great diversity that you see when you dive in tropical locations. Give me warm water diving any day! There wasn't much else besides that. And here I am now, back on the east coast. -____- Such as it is.

Oh yeah, I am settling into my new position as anime club librarian, and so far it's going all right, though I didn't get much work done during my office hour, which is not so good. I don't want to have things piling up for me there... o_o; Maybe I should spend some more time there. *shrugs* Anyway, I'm going to sleep now so that I can get up bright and early tomorrow for school!! Feel the sarcasm. ^^;

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: Last Exile OP - Cloud Age Symphony
Current mood: Hungry