Exclusive Insanity

Yesterday was my busy day... Fun times. I have four poems due to hand in next week. They're already written, since I intend to turn in the ones I brought to class, as he told us was probably a good idea.

I also have a program to write, which I've been slacking off on. Ah well.

And I have lab this morning... I typed up what I think I might end up doing in the lab - I really have no clue if any of it is right. Bleh. I guess I'll have to go in and see.

I did nothing of interest yesterday, other than figure out what I'm going to do with this new story I'm writing. Looks like it'll be seven parts long. I was hoping for a shorter one...

At least the parts seem to be fairly short. Part one is only 14 pages. Not like Game Over, which is about 25 pages each or something like that.

I feel like I'm disappointing people, but I want to write the new story.

I was supposed to go to bed early last night - I really was. I signed off early and everything. My sister and her boyfriend were watching a movie called Frailty. I decided I needed to know what happens.

It was a really creepy movie.

I'm sorry I watched it now... I wish I'd gotten more sleep. I hate morning shifts - I'll probably need to bring some Advil with me because I'm going to have a bitch of a headache by the time my shift is over.

Ah well...

I didn't do a hell of a lot yesterday... read some fanfic, watched some anime, did some bits of writing here and there... Nothing special.

Well, I'm working on a new story, but I'm not necessarily sure that's worth mentioning yet.

We'll see.

Okay, so I had to come to schooland type this entry in the last half hour before class... As it turns out, my sister is using the computer at home for some kind of homework that took forever and that is being done at the last minute. Heh. Ah well...

In any case, I have a new icon! Daisuke and Ken looking all innocent-like. Hah! Everyone knows that is a lie.

I like it, though. It's not new - I took it from icons I'd already made a while ago, because after talking with kessie a bit, I realized I wanted more Digimon icons. So... Daisuke and Ken. And you can sort of see Hikari's arm in the background. I doubt that SHE is up to no good, though.

Heh. Oh well.

I watched a couple of episodes of Hikaru no Go yesterday, and Digimon movie four. Fun times. Hikaru no Go is such a damn good show - it was great to revisit. And I always like going back to Digimon, of course. That's just one of my things.

I'm also playing around with a couple of ideas... not sure if I'm going to do anything with them, but it's fun to speculate right now. I really need to get writing again.

I got absolutely nothing done yesterday - but that doesn't surprise anyone, does it? It seems to be a habit.

Ah well.

I did manage to buy the fourth volume of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, which was absolutely fantastic. I think I like the new world they're in the best of any they've been in so far, just because now they've got a mystery going on. I love mystery stories.

Can't wait for the fifth volume.

I put in a pre-order for the first Fullmetal Alchemist DVD. Also, to get free shipping (because if I'm going to pay that much anyway just for shipping, I might as well get something out of it) I added the second Card Captor Sakura movie to it. Syaoran is voiced by Mona Marshall in this particular dub, which I think will be interesting. I'll be thinking 'Izzy!' through the whole thing, just like I did with Lucemon in Frontier and Bikky from FAKE.

It'll be fun, though - and it'll be nice to have the movie on DVD. It'll also be nice to have FMA DVDs that WORK.

The site says it isn't coming out until March 8... I hope that's a mistake, but it might just be Amazon.ca being backwards. In any case, I want my free shipping, so I can survive until March if I have to.

I've been listening to this song a lot lately... It's pretty. Very slow, but very nice. This anime has great music.

I never got as attached to the characters as I did with some shows, though... I don't know. I think it lacks a little in character-development. Not to say it's *bad*, but while I'm getting a great emotional sense from these people, I don't feel like I know them as well as some characters.

Maybe my standards have just been raised since shows like Hikaru no Go and Fullmetal Alchemist. Weiss had characters that were sort of angst-defined, too, and I liked that one well enough.

Ah well. Gundam Seed is a good anime. I'd recommend it, if you can work out after about nine or ten eps who everyone is that they introduce in the first couple of episodes. I was totally lost for the first bit; for a long time, the only names I really knew were Athrun and Kira.

But it all worked out.

At my evening class last night, my instructor had lost his voice, so we only had class for an hour instead of three hours. Basically, he got us to read poetry and commented on it with what voice he had. Then we went home.

I wasn't complaining.

Homework is all done for now. I'll have to write a post-report after this morning's lab, but that's later. Homework for Thursday is done and handed in. Homework for today was finished even before he told us we no longer have to hand in our pre-reports; we just bring them to lab as help now. I'll probably write a poem some time this week, but that's not so much a requirement as something I want to try.

Hopefully I can relax for a while today. I like that idea.

I have to work today... I don't want to. I hate work. But I'll probably have a paycheck waiting there for me to pick up, so that's okay. I will somehow manage.

And then a nice long day of school tomorrow... bleh. I haven't done my readings or the poem I have to do for tomorrow night yet. I suppose I should get on top of that, but I'm too lazy right now to want to try.

I've watched the first half of the commentary for Return of the King. It was interesting... I'll maybe watch the second half some other time.

Other than that, not a whole heck of a lot is going on.

Argh. Okay. I paid a trip over to yaoi_rants. And I really shouldn't have - all it's doing is pissing me off. I thought it'd be fun, really. Maybe I'd see some poking-fun at stupid cliches in bad fanfiction.

( Cut for language and the general irritation factor )

I can really bitch with the best of them, can't I?

Thank you once again to ice_is_blue for this song. So pretty! I love it!

So I was *going* to watch stuff yesterday, but my manga and the book I ordered came in, and I wound up spending most of the day reading. I managed to finish everything, and it's all good.

The book was "Pastoral" by Lorena Manuel, and very, very good. I recommend it to anyone looking for something interesting to read. It was sweet, it was sad, it made you think. If you've read her fanfiction, you know a lot of what to expect - she doesn't disappoint with this.

I'm very happy with the purchase. I knew it'd be worth it.

I did end up going to belly dancing last night for the second half. It was a good thing I didn't go to the first half, since my throat was pretty raw after even that much. But I'm glad I went, because I didn't want to miss out on the next steps in the new choreography (spelling? I'm too lazy to look the word up right now).

I have two shell programs to write for tomorrow. I've never actually written any shell programs before this class, and it's interesting. Although I'm getting error messages with the current one that are trying to tell me that "ls" isn't a valid command. Hmm...

Oh well, I'll ask the prof about it today.

Taken from herongale

( High School Meme )

Yesterday was my busy day... but somehow, I still managed to watch another five or so episodes of Gundam Seed. Five episodes to go! I'm almost finished the whole series.

It's really good, and I like where it's going. I have to say that I'm fairly impressed with Laccus, not just because she pretty well surprised everyone but also because she's such an emotionally strong character. The others just don't have that kind of surety of purpose and thought. I was thinking that it made her a very good person to have around to give them a sense of stability, even before she became a major plot twist.

Ah, anyway. I'm liking the series. Although... ( Spoilers ) I guess I'm over it, but still. It hits me every now and then.

I realized in class yesterday that I will never be a poet. I knew this already - now it's just confirmed. We did a surrealist poetry exercise where we sat and wrote out every thought, trying to keep the mind free. Now I'm supposed to make a poem out of those weird thoughts.

It'll be average at best, I can tell that for sure.

Kyou Kara Maou episode 30 is out! Hooray! Now I have two of them to watch...