I'll Keep this Short

Life is sad. I cannot concentrate. I would work on my website, but I keep telling myself that I don't have any time. And then I go waste it some more. Hm. Well, I didn't fail the orgo test, though I came pretty darn close. Better luck next time, I guess. Fred Gallagher of Megatokyo fame is coming to MIT on Thursday to give a talk. I'm definitely going! ^_^ I'm so mad that I didn't have time to go when the guy from Exploding Dog came by. -_- Yep, 6.170 is still sad. My p-set 5 still has issues. And I haven't really started on p-set 6. Screwed as ever. There's a 6.004 lab as well, which looks annoying. And 5.12. And a Japanese lesson quiz on Thursday. Ugh. You'd think I'd be used to this by now.

Happy news. I scanned things, and I am too darn lazy to put them online. But I submitted a couple to Fanart Central, so you can see them there if those admins ever get off their lazy bums and approve 'em! It's so yay - I taught myself to draw Chrno's adult form (from Chrno Crusade) and it makes me so happy. I doodled him in 6.004 lecture today, and Vikki seemed very interested, but when I wrote out an explanation, she looked confused. Looks like that's another series that I have to get her hooked on. >:D Ah, so I got annoyed at how huge the font in my sidebar is. Well, same for the rest of the blog text, but I was too lazy to go and fix that up too. So I gave my sidebar a bit of a facelift... And now it has links! Mostly webcomics though... I'm so sad. But they are good! Otherwise they wouldn't have been worth the trouble of reading. :P

Tonight, instead of doing 6.170, I ordered books off of Barnes & Noble.com. It's really stupid... You can only use one gift card per order, which means I have to make like, three seperate purchases, and still buy over $25 for the free shipping. It's all part of their evil plan, I know. They want me to spend more real money. Oh well, I still got interesting stuff - D.N.Angel 1, Galaxy Angel 1, Megatokyo 2, and Windwalker (a book I've wanted for ages, but it only just came into paperback). And I used Ant Kone's gift certificate and it was yay! I need to write her an email sometime... I'm so bad at keeping in touch with people. Jikan ja arimasen nee.... (There is no time). Or, I just can't handle my time wisely. *peers at herself writing in her blog still* Bwah! I am going to go make that stupid 6.170 p-set work. I will prevail!!!

Quick side note: Vikki! Using the phone is NOT as scary as you think it is!

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: Peacemaker Kurogane ED - Hey! Jimmy
Current mood: Sad that I'm so pathetic

Spring Fever

Ugh, I know it's been quite a while since I last wrote in this. Many many things happened in between, and every time I wanted to write something down, I kind of couldn't. And now I don't feel like writing, but here I am with nothing better to do. o_o; So, MIT security finally figured out that my laptop was virused and they shut down my network drop on me. It was so sad - I couldn't get online. Not even on wireless! So I had to wipe my harddrive and reinstall and everything. Then I asked for my network drop back, and it took them a week to respond. A whole freaking week! In that time, I had to do all my 6.170 p-sets downstairs in the dorm's computer cluster. It was really upsetting, and I don't like being down there. It's too cold, and the glare hurts my eyes. So I slaved down there for a week. And I slaved and slaved, and you know, this class wouldn't be so bad if all my efforts paid off in the end with like, a good grade or something, but NOOOOOO.... I just got my auto-graded part back yesterday, and I think I passed 4 tests out of 20 or something. It's too depressing to go back and look. -_-; So yeah, my grade is not quite dead yet, but it's thrashing around on the floor in its death-throes, I think. I'm supposed to be working on p-set 6, but every time I look at it, my heart fills with despair and I cannot make any headway at all. Yes. Deepest darkest despair. I kid you not.

So. Anyway. Yes, this week is MIT's spring break (thank goodness!) and I've been home for the week. Have not done any work, except for Japanese, because Japanese is the only source of joy in all of my classes. I totally failed the organic chem exam on Friday, and well, 6.170. Yeah. Anyway, I am so glad to have my laptop working again, and without viruses even! Everything works great, and the wireless network at home is just... yay. I finally got to work and scanned in all the sketches I brought home. I'm wondering what happened to all my Thraxxin and Jesper gothified doodles - I suspect they're all in my 6.004 notes, which I didn't bother to bring home. So I've been enjoying the food, and I went out shopping at Goodwill yesterday because I needed to find a coat for the Hinata costume which I still have to make. I found one, and it was only $5! I thought it was perfect, albeit much too brown (her coat's really pale tan), but hey, $5, right? And then I watched more Naruto last night and realized that her jacket is really much shorter than the one that I got and I felt stupid. I'm going to have to find a good pair of scissors.... >:D Shoot. I was supposed to go to Ben Franklin and buy faux fur today for the jacket. Silly me. Sigh. I need to go to the mall to buy all sorts of things - VHS tapes for the club, and a semiformal-type dress for Ring Delivery. Looks like it might not happen though. Saturday is really busy - there's a karate promotion in the middle of the afternoon, grr. My sister has the SAT to take Saturday morning as well. Good luck to her on that - I hope she does well.

Ah! Back to cosplay. I went and got a haircut yesterday, and my usuall hairdresser was out, so I had to settle for another one. I thought she cut it awfully short and close, but I didn't get the full impact of it until I came home, showered, and dried my hair. Aaaaahhhhhh!!!!! My hair!!!! So I've been depending on my hairstyle when picking out possible characters to cosplay, because I have this weird, fluffy hair that sticks out, much along the lines of Hinata from Naruto, or Kosuzu from Dokkoider. And ah! It's gone! My hair looks so stupid now, I've never been so upset about it before. You know, everyone always complains about their hair, no one ever seems satisfied. But I've always been rather fond of my own hairstyle because it is rather distinctive. And what else are you going to do with so much hair? I'd refuse to grow it out. But too short is even worse than too long. I've got 2 weeks for it to get back to normal, but that won't happen because the layering is too extreme, so it won't get back to normal 'til I next come home and get it cut again. Well, it's a relief that hair grows out and you can change it again, but AAAHHHHH! I have never been so upset about my hair before.

Hah. So I made this vow that I would not talk to Mike until he mailed me the package that he was supposed to send me for Christmas. I mean, my friends and I had our Christmas party on the last day of January, but now it's near the end of March....! So yeah, I know I'm an evil person, but it was sort of convenient since I was much too busy during the week before spring break to really put up with much of anyone. The end result though, is that Mike has not sent the package, and I am still not talking to him. Not that it matters to me right now - it's spring break for me, and I'm not online all that much, but I know it's driving him nuts. I'm actually faintly amused, heh, well, what else can you expect of me?

Kristen and I got together on Tuesday and went out, and it was great. She's still wasting her life away, playing D&D, which annoys me to no end, but I've kind of gotten to the point where I can't bring myself to care about it too much. I mean, I think our friendship was really strained by the end of high school, and even through last year, but I've kind of calmed down together, and when I don't fret about what she's going to do with her life, we can actually have a good time. And it's even better if we don't go over her house and get stuck in front of her PS2, which always drives me nuts. So we went out, and we went to Borders and Barnes and Noble over in Nashua, and it was great. Borders has such an amazing manga collection - it makes me sad that all I have are B&N giftcards. Relatives need to make the switch! :P We also went to the Pheasant Lane Mall, where I haven't been in ages. We went to the pet store! There were hamsters, and they were huge and cute, and I couldn't touch them. ;~; I miss having hamsters so much. There's nothing small and fuzzy to cuddle anymore - the guppies are not exactly up for being petted.

I went to karate and couple of times and got blisters on my toes and it was sad. I've forgotten so much! Anyway, all of my friends must be enjoying the nice weather at their respective homes, but it's cold and rainy up here. Oh well, a good day to stay in. Huh, I've written way more than I meant to, but that's typical, right? Especially since there was a lot to talk about and I couldn't even get to all of it. I just scanned in pictures - perhaps I should work on those. Otherwise, goodness knows when I'll find the time for it. Never, probably. Why is life so busy?!

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: Wave Race 64 OST - Castle City
Current mood: A little depressed

I'm Amused by the Strangest Things...

I had about half an hour to kill after I finished up my work at work. And conveniently enough, my last book to reshelve happened to be the 1951 volume of Consumer Reports, so I stood around and read it. Oh my goodness, the most amusing thing ever. Did you know that both Starkist and Chicken of the Sea tuna have been around for more than 50 years?! They rated pretty well too, even though I prefer Geisha tuna myself. It wasn't in the report though - guess it's too recent. ^_^ I browsed through the Consumer Reports for both 1951 and 1991, just for kicks. In 1951, they were all about tuna fish, tomato soup, and pressure cookers. In 1991, they were more interested in potato chips, fast food breakfasts, and umbrellas (heh, I think I must've had food on my mind). And of course, both contained many articles about cars. Actually, what was really interesting was that there was an article comparing airlines, and Southwest ranked pretty well in comparison to others - it topped American, United, and US Air. What's really amusing is that I didn't know that Southwest was that old. But if you looked in the 'destinations' column, it was still a western US carrier... Guess it hadn't expanded beyond the 'southwest' part yet, heh. I eventually made myself stop reading because it was 5:00 and time to go home, but I could have read it for a lot longer... So cool! Way cooler than the stupid Time Magazine. Man, I used to love reading that thing, but it's become so... empty recently. There's hardly ever anything that manages to catch my interest. *sigh*

Anyway, as for the rest of my life... This week has been so much better than the past two were. That's because the usual 6.170 p-set-from-hell was pushed back to being due on Tuesday instead of Thursday as usual (we had a test on Monday, which I did really badly on). I haven't started it yet, but at least I've had plenty of time to do the rest of my work for other classes, and it's really good that I had time for it all, because my 6.004 lab took a really long time. Ugh, it wasn't fun... The orgo p-set was easy... again. I went to a different recitation today, and it was good, although the TA didn't write that much on the board, and when he did write stuff, it was almost unreadable. But this girl there, she complained about the p-sets being so easy! Aaah! I wouldn't complain - I like that I can do the p-set in 3 hours unlike my 6.170 p-sets which take about 30. x_X; Hm, speaking of 6.170, we had to fill out mid-term evaluations today. They left lots of space for comments, and I used most of it. That class...! I feel no incentive to actually go to lecture! The lecture notes are way more informative than the lectures, and I don't fall asleep while reading them. I don't think I've ever felt that going to class was such a waste of time. It's that class and 6.004.... Yeah, for 6.004, I go to lecture, and I don't understand a single word that the lecturer says, and then I fall asleep and don't even hear that. Then I go to recitation and learn everything, 'cause lecture has no bearing on the rest of the class. At all. Agggh! So frustrating! You would think, that with Electrical Engineering/Computer Science being the biggest major here at MIT, they could find some competent professors?! It's all a LIE! Don't come here people, not if you're Course VI (EECS), it's so not worth it!!! Of course, if I were at Carnegie Mellon, would I be saying the same exact thing? :P

Woot! The anime club got free .hack trading card game decks, and I'm going to get one! I'm also getting one of the two free Black Rose posters that came along with the set 'cause I'm an officer, and I am on the officer's list and stuff. Mwahahaha! I am so excited. ^_^ Oh yes, I am also the club's 't-shirt bitch' now, so I have to figure out final designs and 'color swatches.' Never mind that I don't know where to go looking for said color swatches. Some club members have done t-shirt stuff before, but haven't given me URLs or anything. That sure would be handy... I better remember to ask. So hey, even if I don't win the McCormick t-shirt contest, I can still have an anime club shirt drawn and designed by me. ^_^ Hahaha, yeah, McCormick t-shirt contest... Like I'm ever going to hear from those social chairs ever again. My goodness, do you want to hear again how much this dorm sucks? *sigh* So the deadline for the contest was the 28th of February or something, and I had absolutely no time to think anything up until, like, 11pm of the 28th. So then I sat down and started working, and I finally got preliminary designs done around 4am or something. I don't know why it took me so long - it's not like they're complicated or anything. It's just clipart. o_O I sent it in late, but I never got a reply, so I don't know if they accepted it or not. You know, they could've at least let me know, right? Oh, if you want to see, I did a butterfly and an angel design. I did the butterfly one first, just because I wanted a shirt with a butterfly... And the angel one, heh, well, that was inspired by some of the clipart on Custom Ink's website. I went out and made my own. It's appropriate for the dorm--soooo appropriate! Because this place is dumb and has no personality. As generic as a bathroom sign. Uh, yeah, I'm hoping that people will just think it's cute and go with it. >:D But I don't even know how it will all be decided. I was thinking maybe there'd be dormwide voting or something, but I haven't heard anything from the t-shirt folks. So maybe we just decide. And we'll never know what other options we had. I'm kind of curious... I'm interested of course, because there's a Cheesecake Factory gift certificate involved, and well, I'm into stuff like that. Sarah says that I have to win so that we can go to the Galleria and splurge, since she got that gift certificate at Ring Premiere, heh. I guess it wouldn't kill me to have someone else win (I'm so generous, aren't I? ;P), but it better be a good design. None of this silly, "Use the clipart on the website that Amy made because we are lame and can't stand the thought of being different." That's not a dig against Amy - it's a complaint of using the same logo. It went great with the old shirt because it was a parody of the Volkswagon commercial, and without that, it wouldn't make much sense. Hm, I feel like I've said this before. o_o;

Ah! Ah! I bought my Brass Rat the other day! For those of you not familiar with MITspeak, the Brass Rat is what we call our class ring. That's because it's got a beaver on the bezel and I guess it kind of looks like a rat. Mine's not brass though - I got a white-gold ring because I never wear gold, and I much prefer the color silver. I'm pleased by how much depth is on the ring - there's a lot more contrast than you would expect by just looking at the artist's pictures. I hope I got the right size - a 6 1/2 was a bit too big, but there wasn't a 6 1/4 to try on. I got a 6 1/4 - I hope it's okay. And those frat letters! Phi Theta. Sigh. I really wish they weren't there. A lot of people thought so too, but Ring Comm refuses to change it, so we're stuck. A bunch of people (Jim's floor :P) think that we should make our own Phi Theta fraternity. I think it would be amusing - Sarah's even designed shirts for it! So the natural course of affairs was to transform Jesper and Thraxxin from their newly gothified selves into frat-boys! Aaah! I feel bad for them. I think they'll be going back to normal soon, once I get over this Phi Theta kick. ^_^;

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: Street Fighter III - Let's Get It On (o_O This song is so weird)
Current mood: Hot! Why is it so hot on my floor? I am going to dieeeeee!!! Death by overheating is not a cool thing. o___o