Whew, Me So Tired...

Another week over, at last. It's exciting because maybe I'll actually get some sleep tonight, though I just got back from anime club, so I'm probably going to bum around a bit before sleeping. Tomorrow, we are probably going to Haymarket and the Boston Public Library (to study Algorithms in a different setting, boo).

The anime club lineup for this term is quite good - the two semester series we showed tonight were Kino no Tabi (a.k.a. Kino's Journey) and The Irresponsible Captain Tylor, both of which are excellent and have me quite excited. And next week's feature is Samurai 7! Yay! The club t-shirt seems to be quite popular, which makes me happy, seeing that I designed it and all. ^_^ I think we're going to have to reorder soon.

On Monday night, Sarah, Jim, Mimi and I went to the Museum of Science's Lord of the Rings exhibit, since it was College Night and tickets were only $5 each. It was a very good exhibit, and definitely worth $5. :P Seeing the costumes and weaponry was awesome. And the ring was there! Although totally encased in a column of plexiglass. The armor was of course, the coolest part. The wax dummy of Boromir was the most disturbing part (looked so real o_O). And the most amusing part was the scaling model where people would sit on different sized benches and look different sizes from each other. Jim and Mimi tried it out, and Jim was small and Mimi was big. And they sat there for like, five minutes because the attendants totally weren't paying attention and didn't realize that they hadn't turned on the cameras inside the booth so that Jim and Mimi could see what they looked like. So Sarah and I stood there and laughed. For five whole minutes. :D It was a really good night for a walk too, so that was good.

Okay, I'm going to bed now before I get tangled up in something stupid and end up staying up until 5. *wanders off and collapses on her bed*

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: Rammstein - Engel
Current mood: Sleeeeeeeeeepy

Punting is Bad for You

Ugh, it's kind of bad that I picked today to check out how Blogger has changed over the past few months. It's changed quite a bit, and I spent a while fiddling around with my weblog. It's kind of sad-looking. I need to make it modern and pretty or something. Like my website, haha. ;~;

Anyway, I got caught up in this silly idea for a new weblog. I have no idea if you know about my dark elf sisters. There're four of 'em, and I've been wanting to do something with them besides drawing random doodles in my class notes. I think that now might be the time introduce these girls to the world of blogging. I started up a new weblog with that idea in mind, but I'm still setting it up so it's not functional yet. But hopefully I'll be able to get some content on it soon... I think it could be fun. If this goes anywhere, I'm sure you'll hear about it sometime.

*coughs* I've spent way too much time on playing around with Blogger. Time to stop and go do my work. The prelab writeup thingy is going to take forever. *kicks herself* And here I thought I was going to stop procrastinating and be a good person this semester. ._.

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: Marc Van Dale - Sweet sinfony (quicksilver mix)
Current mood: Feelin' guilty

Adventures at MIT

My family came to visit last weekend. We went to Chinatown for Dim Sum. Yay. I love doing that. Especially because after that, we get pastries, and I usually get some egg custards and a moon cake. This time was no exception. ^_^ I also saw Saved! this weekend. It was funny, and not bad, but also kind of scary... And after that, we had Storytime in the Concourse Lounge, which was fun, but ran on for a bit too long. :P So yeah, this weekend was pretty good. It's probably the last time I'll have so much free time all term.

I decided to work at the RSC again this term. That's the library that I worked at last year (the Retrospective Collection - we deal with old books and archives). It was pretty routine (i.e. boring) until I went to go shelve the books that I had finished barcoding. The elevator in the library is a massive old freight elevator (the library used to be a warehouse), so it has two doors that you have to open manually - there's a gate on the inside and a door that you have to open to get out. Anyway, I rode it up to the 5th floor, reshelved the books, then decided to ride the elevator down to the 4th floor to say hi to Liz, who I hadn't seen yet. Unfortunately though, I had just missed her and she had left for the night. Now, the 4th floor of the library houses the archives, and it is locked after hours, so you can't open the outer door thingy. Usually, after the elevator stops, you have to open up the gate from inside, then the door, and then get out of the elevator. But there was a problem - the outer door had been locked! So there I was inside the elevator, able to open the gate, but unable to open the door... and with no way to get the elevator to restart, since you have to open the gate and the door, and then close them both again to make the elevator run again. Don't ask me why - the elevator is old and stupid.

I was stuck, and there was no way for me to get out on my own. I yelled a few times, hoping someone would hear me, but the elevator is in the far back of the library, as far from the office as you can get. Plus, it was closing time, so there weren't many people around. I finally mustered up the courage to push the big red ALARM button (after fiddling around with the gate for several minutes), and it would ring this loud fire bell-type thing as long as you held it down. I also tried the emergency phone, but it didn't work. <_<; So I went back to pushing the alarm button. About five minutes of fooling around with that finally attracted peoples' attention, and Moses ran up to the 4th floor and unlocked the door and let me out. After that, the elevator was stuck and wouldn't move... Probably because I had pushed every single button on the panel, and it was hopelessly confused.

Hah. That was a bit traumatic. I've never been stuck in an elevator before... At least the one at work is nice and big and had lots of collapsed cardboard boxes that I could have sat on, if necessary. :P Anyway, work was considerably more 'eventful' than I thought it would be.

I finished watching Chrno Crusade tonight. Man, talk about depressing. I sure hope the manga doesn't end up like that... Well, it better not, since I think it's still ongoing in Japan. Actually, speaking of manga, I read about thirty chapters of Death Note the other day (well, that's all that's been scanlated so far :P). Oh my goodness, L is such a hilarious character. He reminds me of Gollum, but in a good way. Something about the way he sits on chairs... Plus, the I-haven't-slept-in-a-week look cracks me up every time I see a picture of him.

Oh my, just checked the referrals of people who surfed over to my blog. People come here in search of "stupid people at MIT" (yeah, that's me, though I guess I'm only one person) and "DBZ anime music videos" (what the...?). Anyway, hi there to all of you who totally weren't looking for my random ramblings. And sorry, but no, I don't have any of those anime mp3s that you seem to be searching for. :P

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: Aurelia - when night is falling vampires song (2001 canarias mix)
Current mood: Sad ._.

A VII Sort of Semester

Wah, I'm back at MIT and just finished my first week of classes. Maybe posting will get a bit more regular now. Man, I keep saying that... :P Well, there's a lot to talk about since I haven't written in forever. Canada was great - Halifax is a nice little city. Canada is very scenic... Long car rides did get a bit tiresome there, although I was able to get a lot more of my cross-stitch project done. Yeah, the one I've been working on since sometime in high school. ^^;

Swimming at home was awesome as ever. I got a bit better at DDR over the summer. Hm, I even got to visit Mike once near the end of summer, which was cool, although it mostly served to drive home once again what a pathetic person I am in public. *coughs* Well, other than that, I didn't do too much for the remainder of summer. And here I am and back into the old routine.

But this term is going to be a bit different from what I'm used to. I'm taking my Intro to Algorithms class like a good little CS student, and it looks horrible and frightening so far, but other than that, I'm taking the opportunity to be an honorary biology student. For those of you unfamiliar with MIT-speak, I'm officially Course VI-3, that is, a computer science major. However, I'm also trying to minor in VII - biology. This term I'm taking Genetics as well as Bio Lab. Genetics looks like a pretty easy class, and a bunch of my friends are in it, so that should be fun. And Bio Lab actually sounds exciting. Time-intensive, but exciting. Plus, it gives me the chance to meet people that I wouldn't normally meet otherwise. I'd say that it'll give me the chance to meet people outside my major, but my assigned lab partner is a Course VI senior who has never worked in a lab setting before, so that's it for that great idea. :P I was really worried about getting lotteried out of this class, so I'm especially excited that I got in. It better live up to my expectations.

My fourth class, of course, is Japanese. It's kind of scary because I don't remember everything, and we kind of took off running. Well, there's going to be serious reviewing this weekend, I think. I'm also totally excited that I'm no longer the anime club librarian, so I will actually be able to do stuff on Saturday afternoons instead of slaving away in the club office. Ohhhhh yeah!!! :D

So I guess that's about all that's going on with me right now. Things seem cool so far, but you know how it is... I totally expect that I shall be whining miserably in my next post. ^o^;

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: Masterboy - Just for you (dj dolphin mix)
Current mood: Relieved