Randomnesses

I threw fishes at Joe.

Is it really that hard to pronounce homogeneous? Come on, Mr. Math Professor.

Fun convo with random guy I know:

ME: benson says "ooh ooh... can I tell him he's a fucker and I hate him?"
HIM: because of my mac bashing?
ME: mostly ;)
HIM: is benson a girl?
HIM: and is she cute?

I am an extremely lucky girl.

Also, I can kill you with my brain.

Played DDR with Joe for like THREE HOURS today, and had a grand time. We get to play lots this quarter, as we both have 11-12 (and occasionally 10-12) off every day. Yay for not being lonely and bored.

I was cleaning up folders on vash today and came across a couple files regarding Mike (i.e. boston boy). Old convos, e-mails, the like. It still bothers me, because he still won't talk to me. Benson looked into my room and saw that I was not looking particularly happy, and came and gave me a hug, and I felt much better.

So... in case you didn't notice, my blog now talks almost exclusively about apartment, classes, rose, benson, nathan, and joe. That is because this is about 85% of my life right now (because there's also nifty-awesome things like katina coming to play with me). And this is good. :)

Settling in

To a semi-normal routine. Need to work on budget. So I don't have to go... well nevermind, there's not really anyone I can go to begging for money. I'll just have to budget :)

I really love audioscrobbler. Today I was talking to three separate people about music. They go "what kind of stuff do you listen to?" I go "well, I like a little punk, a lot of rock, a little heavy me.... nevermind, here." Then I show them my audioscrobbler site. Actually it's now last.fm, but I still call it audioscrobbler sometimes. Even though last.fm is easier both to say and type. But regardless of what I call it, you should check it out. I blame benson for turning me on to it.

On a related note, I can't find my ipod. This makes me angry and sad. I shall look more, and then I shall call my sisters and see if any of them know something I don't know. It really makes me wish I'd been more careful about where I packed what.

Busy bees

We picked things today. Blackberries, two kinds of apples, and a few spices. Had fun hangin' with peoples. Now I'm supposed to be doing my math homework... but it's not required, and it's reviewey stuff... so I may just do it really really slapdash and call it good.

The circuit analysis class... I may need to actually work at. By the end of the quarter you may hear me calling it anal a lot more often.

I feel kind of bad because I'm not at all sure I'm doing my share of the kitchen work. Unfortunately I tend to just... forget. I clean up fine, that's no problem. But if cooking is left up to me I often just don't eat.

Now it's time to stop ignoring my diff eq work. Lata homes.

Shiny Foo!

I get to make nifty toys in my design engineering class. My project team has all the interesting people in it, too. The deaf guy, the girl from Taiwan, and some guy who takes all his notes on his arms.

Ran into Joe this morning and it was exciting. Poor guy was half-dead, or at least wishing he was. 9 AM is no time to be awake, it's just vulgar.

I need to do my math homework, even though it's not technically required, and it's all review... it's just that I haven't done it in three years, and I think I'm getting rusty :(

Plus my math teacher is kind of terrible... he has an accent, a lisp, a soft monotone voice, and doesn't explain things very well anyways. I almost feel like if I don't do all the work on my own, I'm not gonna learn much, and I won't do well in the class. Grrrr.

Fun-ness

Wonderful day today. Classes went nicely, as they had no reason not to. I missed seeing joe like everyone else got to, because I split off for my class before they ran into him :(

Have lots of homeworks tomorrow probably, need to get more books than just the three. I find it odd that I have four classes in eight different rooms. Six separate buildings.

Anywho. Got home and went shopping with rose for more stuff for our apartment, and found a nice coffee table. It's got some scratches, but it looks nice in the apartment.

After that we had a nice dinner with everybody (rose, benson, nathan, lyz, myself), then went downstairs to watch firefly, and benson and I put together a new server to replace the one that went crappo on him. It's a pretty hot machine. People were nice to him and gave him lots of money for it. Now I'm installing tiger on his powerbook, and tomorrow I'll inflict the same upon rose's ibook. Don't know why I didn't think of this earlier.

Benson and I also talked about what it would take to rebuild my computer. Actually I don't think the word rebuild can be used in this situation, since the only two things I'd be taking from my computer are the case and the video card. Nothing else is really worth keeping. Of course, this is all assuming that my computer is really being shipped back to me, and at this point I'm not 100% certain of that fact.

Now logically I should be going to sleep, seeing as I need to be up in 7 hours so as to get to my first class.

Am I ready?

The answer is probably no, but there's no real reason that it should be. At least not that I can think of.

I'm trying really hard not to be freaked out by the prospect of going back to school. I'm trying to be excited, and tell myself it's going to be different this time. It'll be better this time.

I don't think I'll ever stop having back-to-school dreams. I bet 30 years from now some random night, I'll have a back-to-school dream that has nothing to do with anything that's going on in my life at all.

At this point however, I'd say I'm pretty decent at starting in new schools. I've only done it nine times (counting western). It's always the same feeling, like when you realize you've just done something Irreversibly Bad. In this case however, it's really a feeling that I'm about to do something Irreversibly Bad but I don't know what it is or how to stop it.

Guh.

I heart thinkgeek

It sent me nice shirts that I like lots, as well as a couple other widgets.

I'm sure eventually I'll do a little more with this site than just store my blog on it. Maybe I'll even use it for school projects and junk like that. I've got the domain for a year, and the server space for life. I can renew the domain for as long as I want as well.

It does feel slightly lame to realize I now pay good money to keep a shiny journal and show it to people.

Nathan has finally admitted that his sole purpose in life is to serve my every whim. Now I can hatch all my evil plans and he's the one who'll get arrested.

Switching.

I'm attempting a change-over to shinyfoo.com, following the purchasing of server space from textdrive.com, and that domain name. Hurray for lots o' space and cheapness.

It shouldn't mess things up here, at least not for a while. We shall see.

I need a sleep schedule that's less like joe's and shayna's and more like a normal person's.

Nostalgia

On the ferry today there was a man playing a harp. It was the same man who was playing the same harp about 13 years ago when I rode the same ferry and made my mommy buy me a cd of a man playing the harp. It's still very enchanting music.

I'm in sequim for the weekend, so I can go to victoria with two of my sisters (the two closest to me in age), and so I can sing with my old ensemble on sunday morning.

I'm sorry to say this, but I really just don't like the new stargate SG-1. It's not the same without Jack, and they've suddenly invented a new super evil. It's a different show, and I don't feel any of the same sort of attachment that I felt to it before. Atlantis, however... I never liked Ford all that much, and the new battle-hardened native guy they picked up is really quite cool. Too bad the season is already ending tonight. That's just silly.

Oh well, I suppose I'll just have to be satisfied with Firefly and various netflix.

I approve of the blog redesigns of both tyler and nathan. Especially now that I can see the background images on tyler's :o

uh-oh

A problem was found, and it applies to probably most of you, but not me. MUHAHAH. So you should probably go fix that.

I've been told that buffer overflow basically gives full access to your computer :(

Perhaps it's not as bad as I've been told, but some of you with more knowledge of what that little article actually means could shed some light. I just thought it might be good to blog about it, since I keep telling everyone and their brother to use Firefox.

Ice Cream!

I like it. A lot.

Anywho, I need to do laundry, and so do some of my roommates, so that's good. Laundry will get done this way.

Nothing much is really happening. People are eating ice cream, and this is good. I will have to spellcheck this blog later because I don't have my contacts in right now so I'm doing all this by touch type. I might be doing it right, but who knows.

RaR, benson's going to bed, and now rose is going to bed, which means I should probably go to bed.

I'm not vague. Wait, yes I am.

Grrr Arrrgh

Watched much Firefly tonight. Will watch much more tomorrow night, I believe.

Contacts a bit blurry. Haven't taken them out in a couple days. Should fix that.

Have registered for all classes. Will check on buying books tomorrow or day after.

Roommate came back and left again. This might become routine. Hope not.

More later. Will not slack. Will... not... ooh, shiny. *wanders off*

Lazy Me

Okay it's a little bit less ridiculous, because they're actually replacing the ipod mini with it. And it comes in all black. None of this crappy red click wheel stuff.

Apparently the U2 ipod is still selling, because they haven't replaced it with some new promo yet. Either that or they have a contract that says it has to run for a certain amount of time.

I'm not really a big fan of itunes 5. It's still buggy, and it's uglier than 4.7. I have yet to see anything that makes it really worth updating.

I've got two apartments to myself this weekend. Three actually, if you count lyz's, where I'm fish-sitting. As a result, I will wallow in my geekdom and hold a tournament on TAO, where I am now one of 7 game moderators.

Okay, this is getting ridiculous

iPod NANO??? -.-

I would rant about it, but... there's just no point anymore. I will just.... ipod flea!

Anyways. It's been an eventful week. Moreso for rose than for me, because she has all her stuff here, and a bit of furniture that people have given her for the apartment. We now have an almost home-looking place, and it already feels more like home than my apartment in LA did.

Yesterday I fixed Vash because he had a little bump in the frame that was interfering with the power adapter staying plugged in. While I was doing that, benson made me a lock-picking set to play with. I opened a couple of his little locks pretty quickly. It were fun.

I talked to a very nice lady in the cs dept. today, and she made me happy because she was so excited about the prospect of me getting a cs minor. I have yet to talk to the head of the eet department, but I have a feeling he will not object to my choice of major :)

If you'd like to see pictures, I will direct you to the site of the lovely rose. She's much better at the whole picture-taking-ness than I am. Plus she's got a camera :)

I'm Home!!

New home, anyways. Much more permanent home than I've had in a while. I told a friend today that I was busy moving and he was like "again??"

My stuff... may eventually arrive. Luckily I packed about all of my clothes in the suitcases, along with day-to-day essentials... because I knew I'd be spending two weeks in sequim with just those.

The new apartment building rocks. I've got some scary roommates downstairs (nathan and benson) but I think I'll survive. Rose and I are already IMing eachother from different rooms in the apt. She's done awesomely with the whole furniture collection thing. My contribution to the kitchen utensils will be a pizza baking stone. Also very useful for giant cookies.

I'm extremely excited. And very happy to be able to hang out with nathan and benson again. Especially since I haven't seen nathan for more than a year. I forgot how awesome they both are. :)

Evil Watch

Apparently my watch has been making tiny scratch marks on the left side of my computer as I type. I always try to pull it down, because I've been afraid it would do that, and I guess I was right to be afraid :(

Now I'm thinking about just taking it off and sticking it in a drawer somewhere. I mean, I have a cell. It's more accurate anyways. Only advantage to the wristwatch is that it's easier to glance at my wrist than pull my cell out of my pocket and open it. It would just mean I have to stop being so lazy.

Plus I like my watch. It's purple.

The tips of my fingers hurt. I think it's because my fingernails were rather long, and then I cut them off, and suddenly a little patch of skin on each finger that normally never touched anything is touching lots of things.