. . .

Sore throat. Hard to swallow. Phlegm. Snuffles.


Aaaaaand 4 hours of sleep.



I couldn't sleep until around 4, woke up naturally at like 8. Not terribly tired, either.


I did have six cups of tea yesterday, to try to soothe the scratchy throat, and then thought about caffeine content, but only one of the teabags - the 'Organic Chai' was caffeinated, so I don't think caffeine could have lasted until now, since I had it at about 11:00pm...

Goodbye, best summer of my life!

Hello, horrid horrid school semester.

o_o

Well, it's a mixed day.

Second day of JTA work, 9-5 spent mostly in a room of about 80 people. As expected, exhausted. It really helped to have Karl fawning over me. I tried really hard not to get grumpy, and I think I was overally successful due to his efforts.

After 5, we waited until 6 for a meeting for work, to which Dr. T brought pizza! I bounced back a bit to be doing something productive (and not discussing how priveledged* or opressed we are) with people who cared.

Walking back to his car, I didn't want to let go of his hand, so even as he opened my car door and I clinged to his arm and hand, he closed the door again, and said, "Come here," and led me around to his side of the car, where he unlocked his door, put away his backpack, all the while switching the hand that I was holding and doing all this while I was in possession of at least one Karl hand. He led me back to the passenger seat, and then told me to stay there. Whilst still holding on to my hand, he circled around the -front- of the car, opened his door, leaned down and reached out his other hand, so I'd grab that one with my free hand, and with hands clasped, we both got in the car! And never let go of my hand. I squeeeeed all the way home for that. It was adorable and uneccessary, I was just being silly clingy, and he indulged me. <3 <3

Got home at a little before 8. Checked my e-mail, find an odd message from an MMO that cued me into a problem. I text friend involving the oddity, and find out that she and her long-term boyfriend..broke up. After a few months of her painfully trying to get him to work through a bunch of problems they were having with the relationship (99.9% of them were his issues)- and him making promise after promise..and never delivering. Well, finally, last night, he decided that he didn't want to be in a relationship. "I do not have the interest, the motivation, the care, or the attention to want a relationship.", apparently. Well, fuck you, Aryte. You should have told her that before you took all that time of her life and trust and devotion. Granted, we were all voting that she break up with him because he was being an absolute douche, but he had no right to just flat out tell her he wasn't willing to try all of the sudden.

I'm pretty upset about it. She doesn't deserve it, and I don't know how long..or even if she'll bounce back from this. I'm not entirely sure how to help her, which is just as frustrating. She's a pretty private person, of the 'if you don't ask, I ain't gunna say nothing', variety, so it can feel like you're prying if you try to get to know her. Arglebargle. :/

On top of that, she got her car broken into and her radio broken, and got a text that someone she knew from Las Vegas was killed. Talk about...just..horrible. Misfortune comes in threes.

At least I feel more grateful for my position in life. It's easy to forget how fortunate you are.



*Spelled wrong. I know. Deal~



Music: Emilie Autumn. Her lyrics can be whack, but she has very nice music and vocals.

You are a Social Liberal (61% permissive) and an... Economic Moderate (50% permissive) You are best described as a: Centrist Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid

This is amusing, because Karl was just past my on that line in 'democrat', and I consider myself a Republican....as Karl put it 'Ur doin' republican wrong.' (On purposely silly.)

Remind me to talk about ossum aquarium yesterday!~

Whoosh~

So, I got a letter last night.

It was tiny.

And it made funny noises when shaken.


I didn't really recognize the handwriting.

No return address.

But it was from NY, by the postmark.

I opened it.



The contents:
Vast amounts of star confetti.
Thick orange lined paper, folded.


And, once I had carefully poured the majority of the confetti into the envelope and off and out of the folded paper:
Four words.
A drawn heart.


'Thanks! (heart)
P.S. I miss you'



I recognized the handwriting on the inside. It was from Dora~! :3 Heee~

My reply was a haiku, with the classic end of 'Death by Confetti.'

The battle of false anonymity begins!

Barcelona

I hate days like these~ Where I wake up not wanting to do anything (I kinda went to bed feeling the same thing, but usually moods go away in the morning. Sadface.) even though I have things to get done.

So I putz around distracting myself with things over than what needs doing, meanwhile the whole time mentally beating myself up and feeling guilty for -not- doing the necessary work and being lazy~ So, by tomorrow, I'll still be exhausted 'cause I didn't let myself not do anything even when not doing anything, until I breka down and do it in an unhappy puddle of I'unwanna.

Physical ailments are not helpful. My wrist is seriously hating on me today. D:

In other news, I bought an MP3 off Amazon! Karl linked me this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7deClndzQw and it inspired me to download the song. 99 cents. When you think about it, a 9$ CD for 14 songs is a good deal.


I should buy a new wrist brace. This one it years old, and prolly not very effective anymore. (Plus, when I slept with it on the night before last, I woke up with two fingers numb for the whole morning...)


Nothing else new. Over and out.

We've got no where to go, we've got nothing to prove~

So, Dad came out to stay for a week- there was a conference here he volunteered to go to, so I got to see him~ It was fun, and, as usual, sleep deprivative. (New word!)

While he was here, my cousin came and took her stuff, including her queen sized bed I'd been using. (sadface.) My new bed is a mattress on the floor until I bring Amy's old wood post bed downstairs. (More sadface, Ellen marked it up with a clip-on light.)

Turns out said cousin is preggers too, and is due like two weeks..before..or..after Amy. I forgot which. So at leas the kid'll have company.

Daddy bought me a real chair for my computer (an ACTUAL computer chair! OMG) and a plastic teefy floor mat for in front of the desk~ He also go a lot of other small things that make my life much more convenient. OH! And he fixed the busted bike that belongs to whi-knows-who that got brought from NY. So now I has a bike! I should really try to ride it once a day for 20 minutes, but god knows I suck at that kind of commitment.

In other news, it's shaping up that Dad is officially moving to Prague for at least a year. I want to take Karl out there! Penny and Kith should coordinate and come too, so they can meet my boy and see Prague at the same time!

I'm getting more and more into the music scene, it's odd. And by that, I mean I'm exploring bands more actively. My current new adoration is The Hush Sound. I haven't found a single song that I've skipped of theirs. My favorite song of theirs would be The Lighthouse.

I've decided I wanna try to systematically buy CDs of these bands I'm falling in love with, namely, She Wants Revenge, and Cobra Starship are the two on the immediate list. Though, I might just do the math and see how much a song costs per CD and just bite the bullet and buy the 99 cent MP3s if it's cheaper. But..but..the packrat/organizer in me loves CDs and their little booklets.

On the note of Prague, they has a free education system! I realized the other day just how many other avenues of knowledge I'd pursue if it was free. My job has really inspired an interest in a digital arts minor, and of course I'd take biology/zookeeping classes for personal EEEEE~. Karl and Kate moving to Prague is still a possibility, after we graddyate here. I probably wouldn't hate school if it was free and entirely my own desire.

Oh!~ Daddy bought me a Haworthia Retusa, or "white ghost". It's a succulant with semi-transparent water-filled leaves! It's ADORABLE. I love it. <_< I think my favorite plants are succulants. I was all "EEEEEE OMG CUTE" and petting them at the Home Depot.... ( http://www.karacactus.com/images/haworthia_retusa_EA1208_02.JPG )


And, uhh. What's left. This coming semester is gunna be busy. I'm grading for my advisor, and Student Teaching (both with Karl), and will still working for Peak Game Studios. I honestly look forward to those three extra-curricular activities more than the curricular ones. >_>

Ah forgot! I learned a neat key combo from a MAC USER, of all people, to bring up the task manager instantly in Vista. Control + shift + esc. Useful thing to know~

KAY~ Over and out. Time to work~

Karl and I have had this miscommunication issue for weeks about whether the ribbon harddrive cables were called IDE or ATA.


We looked it up today...and they are one in the same!


I was amewzed.

Things that Karl as linked me that I find enjoyment in and therefore share:

Protest on Global Warming:



And when this comes into production, I want to buy one for Penny:
http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2009/02/06/sharky-tea-infuser-by-pablo-matteoda/



I realized this morning that my alarm clock is 12 hours off.

I had a weird nightmare- it started out in like the third story of a huuuuge high school or college, I was in class, and what I thought was the hull (minus wings and tail) of a plane crashed down outside the window. We rushed to look...oddly..at the other side, into the huge stadium in the center of the school, which was wrecked and doomed'd, and oddly, full of large four-lane highway pieces.

So we (the classroom people) and I went out of the classroom to see what happened with the plane thing. At one point, I was trapped at the dead end hall as this large hulky greenblue thing, that seemed docile enough but you just KNEW it was bad, was coming towards me, and I tried to slide away, and discovered that there was actually an elevator there, so I escaped to the ground floor OK.

Oddly, the 'plane' was not on fire, and even more oddly, it turned out to be like a dud nuclear missile that was leaking nasty green gas. STRANGELY ENOUGH, people were starting to turn into monster like things, only I seemed to really be noticing, and I was fleeing through the city trying to avoid the half-human creatures that didn't even seem to realize themselves what they were becoming. (There seemed to be three types, one mostly humanoid but very wrinkly, deeply tanned or burned, and aggressive but still human, and that blue hulking thing with elongated limbs, and another scarier one that I can't recall well.)


Seeing as this city wasn't safe, I went to the exit gate (Apparently, now the city was surrounded in a very high cement wall with select windows and exits.) with the intent to leave.

And, as I looked out, I saw that the rest of the world around us had been decimated- there were no tall buildings, and everything else was buried in ash. Most memorable to me now, being awake, was seeing a schoolbus half-drowned in the brown grey ash. It was at this point that I felt incredibly depressed and not wanting to be here, and thereby forced myself to wake up. (A trick I have seemed to have mastered, now!)

I'unno if this was after or before I decided to wake up at the moment of realizing that the city full of monsters was the only city alive, but at some point, myself and one other person were like..using flying devices..to check out the world- it had become an adventure/FPS type game. We met wolves in the dust-snow. A pack of six wolves, white and grey, and pretty thin were quite happily living it up, and not mutated.

Following that line, later on (or maybe before?), I was apparently part of a large family, the youngest or so, and decided to run off. I was followed by an older brother, who..brought..boots? Because I had neglected to take any shoes with me. I think he could shapeshift into a wolf, or I could, or we both could... I was..going somewhere, dunno, and at some point acquired a car on a snowy hill and couldn't park it. So I was driving up and down hills trying to get it to slow down enough to stop, before I had to ram it between two trees. I dun really remember much beyond that~!




Star Wars Galaxies EMU is close to being complete, they say summer 2009- and it is summer 2009! There is much anticipation in the WH. The Nova Test server is up, which is fun to pal around on, but I don't want to get too much done 'cause the char'd just be wiped for Live. If Penny and Kith have any interest a free SWG MMO (It's Pre-CU, which means, before Sony fucked over a good sandbox MMO) they should pesker me for the files they need~

Summergale~

So, Karl and I did our first game work for the summer! I really enjoyed the brainstorming session, Nick and I are on the same page design-wise, I think, but different enough to make good tweaks.


It's gunna be pretty fun, even with a slightly painful one month two week deadline for two games.



I heard a remake of an apparently old song in a WoW video, I quite like the guy's voice, but the chick's is a bit lacking. The lyric modification was pretty clever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hgcy6bsg4g
I like this version better than the actual song: Timbaland - The Way I Are (Ohgodgrammar.)


In other band news: She Wants Revenge, and Cobra Starship are on my list of interest. Okay, She Wants Revenge is beyond my list of interest, I adore quite a few of their songs. <_<


LoTRO went back and renovated a lot of their lowbie areas- and it's -really- impressive. I'm once again struck by the quality of work Turbine turns out. They might just be the one big game company I'd like to work for. Mebbe followed by Stardock...


So, like, I turn 21 in like four months. I will buy me some Hard Lemonade~! Dunno why that came up.


Karl's house is the Moth Mecca. When we walked out to my car, it was like Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Moths.' There were at least one hundred of them. Karl was joking about bug spray and a lighter. <_< I wish he was impulsive enough to convince that it'd be way more fun than the dangerous idea that it is.


I'm currently running an experiment on a site Karl linked me, at alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve . The computer tries to create an image from randomly generated vectors. It's pretty sweet. I have a pic of Trauma running through it, and it's been 2d 3hrs 30 minutes, and if you saw the picture it was generating from, you could tell what it was...but..otherwise it's pretty abstract. We'll see how long it takes until I accidentally shut down my laptop. (Lappy is running it.)


Got my Terabyte harddrive. Turns out I only have two SATA ports on my mobo. (Even though it has SPOTS for 4, it's a cheaper made, so it only has two implimented.) So I had to buy a PCI thinger that gives me two extra SATA and an IDE port. For now, I'm living without a DVD drive~


Oh, bought Tales of Phantasia for the GBA used~ Ysssss.

Oh what the hell, she says. I just can't win for losing.

Uh, lessee. The final for my interim COMM 344 class is on the 26th. Interim classes are pretty nice, really. Just a few days of bulling through, and it's done quick.

The contract for the project I was supposed to work on this summer finally got approved, so we'll start work on that this upcoming Wednesday, at 15$ an hour.

The cat I'm babysitting got an abscess. Because it happened to Trauma, I recognized what it was. I ended up having to take Mia across town to her vet, since mine was booked- the same services that cost me about 69$ for Trauma cost 105$ for Mia, unfortunately. At least she has parents to pay for it. Annoyingly, the abscess was a weird shape, so it's still kinda filling up with fluid. Since she's already on antibiotics, I figured I could drain it just as well as a vet could, and have been doing so. (I did call and check with the emergency vet (weekend) to ensure that this was Ok, and they said yes.) So now I'm on cat-abscess draining duty. It's gross, and upsets my stomach a little every time I do it, but...well, what else can I do? Anyway, cat leaves July 1st ish.

Ellen officially moved out. Not really..super keen on getting a new roomie. Hopefully this 15$ an hour job can cover utilities...but not if Mother carries through on her threat to make me pay for my tuition. I miss Penny/Kith. They should come room again. <_<

Played four or so hours of Hunter: The Reckoning with Karl and Justin tonight. Surprisingly, I enjoyed it, even as it's an action RPG shooter type and Justin and Karl are way beyond me in skill. We even beat the vampire boss on our second try. My hands hurt. The original Xbox controllers suck.

Been doing a little writing, too. 

Justin gave me a pair of giant sausage things. Apparently he felt bad because I had been whining about money and then my usual sulk about not having any food- and so he shared a stash he picked up for super cheap at a bargain mart. It was amusing and odd. New thing to add to my collection of randomly given food! (Notably: french fries, skittles, and now two giant sausages.)

I have a new song to like: Rob Thomas's 'Her Diamonds.' A recent fave, alongside Hednoize - Loaded Gun, and, oddly enough, Lady Gaga's Poker Face.

Got my hair trimmed~ the stylist did a weird upwards cut thing that makes the hair 'move' or whatever. I was pleased with it. She also indicated that you're supposed to rinse your hair in cold water to make it shiny. So far, personal observation finds this to be truth, but it might be a placebo effect. Regardless, it's a surpringly nice feeling to rinse your hair in cold water just before ending a warm shower.

Still hating g-mail blogger formatting fiasco.

Oh! Penny/Kith! Apparently Amy's preggers. Or, so I assume. Kass sent me an e-mail with the words "Omedetou, Kate-oba-san!" only, which means, "Congratulations/celebratory event, Aunt Kate," roughly. But he didn't reply when I pressed for details. Harass my sister for me.

Kate, over and out. 3:30 am.

Doot doot~

So, I'd been having problems getting the motivation to leave the house to go shopping...for about a week now. Last night I said, "I'll go first thing tomorrow morning," just as I had the day before. Well, I didn't.

So tonight, I was like, "I'll go first thing tomorrow morning...no I won't. I'll just go now." So I got out out bed, got dressed, and drove to Safeway at midnight-fifteen. Safeway wasn't 24 hour, or if it was, not at the door I went to. So I went to Walmart.

I got the stuff I wanted, plus some, uh, extra stuff I didn't intend to, like beef jerky, and some food for when we do some 5v5 arenas upcoming. (I'm almost the level on Ritz where I can group with Karl and the rest of his friends for arena PvP.)

So, coming back, I got the mail, which I'd also been neglecting for like a week- it's okay, I can get away with that, I hardly get any mail anyhow. And I find my psyche eval has finally popped up after I'd been trying to track it down to get some sorta math disability thing for school.

So, munching on my impulse-buy beef jerky at 1:24 am in bed and reading, I found it -highly- ironic how it listed sleeping problems, impulsiveness, and extreme procrastination on things I felt were boring.

The eval was kinda..wow. I mean, I was 13, and all this stuff...there were some tearjerking lines from the shrink, too, like "Overall, there is a sense of an individual who has lived this way for a long time and does not know anything else." after listed stuff that is..kinda not so great, yeah? It was interesting, anyways. Reading this, and after reading my homeschool reports a few weeks back, I still feel that I've caught up to my mental age and am no longer as full of potential as I once was. A bit disappointing, that. It was fairly insightful, regardless. Will prolly let Karl read it.


The cat I'm babysitting, Mia, bit me so hard the other day that I now have this horribly nasty bruise on my ankle. She goes home soon, thank god.


Mother is borrowing 3k..again, (to help pay down payment on Amy/Kass new house?) without paying back the first 3k. And is now talking about having me split the cost of my tuition.

At this point, I'm not sure I'm remotely motivated to do it. I'm sorta in college for the ride. If I have to pay for it..I think I'd just prefer to get a part time job and rent out a room and do what I want with my life instead of slaving on a degree I prolly won't use.


On that note, I passed my programming class! Dunno if I indicated that I was concerned about not. Prolly didn't. But I was. First non-math class I worried about failing. I failed both the midterm and the final (final with a 33,) but apparently my work with the assignments was good enough to pull me through with a C.


Uuh..what else. Uh. I'm not taking calc over the summer, I was panicked too much about not having a break from school (fuck our public education system) that I couldn't handle the thought of getting pushed right back into the drivel without any time to myself. So I just settled for an interim 9-4:30pm class six times over the course of like five weeks taken with Karl. It's fairly interesting.

Dad got me an EEEEEEE PC. Been using it for class. Very useful, very small, solid state harddrive is a plus. Already dropped it once and it didn't even flinch. (It was on, even.)

Need to get a haircut soon.

Been feeling an urge to produce something, to -do- something. Will prolly result in lots of doodles or splurge writing.

Or maybe doing something crazier than going to the store at 12pm+. I liked it. I drove the speed limit, sang with my music, and just putzed with no pressure or stress and minimal people to deal with. There was no having to get someplace because of wasted time otherwise. Walmart is far less terrifying when empty.


I wanna move to Sweden.

Kate de Chocobo

(6:35:27 PM) Me: And I just had an epiphany!
(6:35:29 PM) Rhennic: Oh?
(6:35:39 PM) Me: My microwave, see?
(6:35:42 PM) Rhennic: Yeah?
(6:35:44 PM) Me: It doesn't have a minute button.
(6:35:47 PM) Rhennic: ...
(6:35:51 PM) Me: So I'm always doing 1, 0, 0, start.
(6:35:57 PM) Me: WHICH MAKES FOUR ANNOYING BEEP NOISES.
(6:35:59 PM) Rhennic: You oculd just type 60.
(6:35:59 PM) Me: And I just realized.
(6:36:01 PM) Me: I can..
(6:36:01 PM) Me: FUCK
(6:36:05 PM) Rhennic: xDDDD
(6:36:10 PM) Rhennic: That's adorable. xD
(6:36:12 PM) Me: ..T_T


Yeah, so, here I was all ready to post about how clever I felt, and RP Buddy #2 made it all moot.



I want a speaker in my shower where I can play music from my computer.

Or just waterproof cordless headphones.

Because it's so hard to leave a good song for a shower.



School is almost over for the semester.

Took on way too much work.


Flying at 6:00am tomorrow to see Dad in DC for three days. I fully intend to make him spoil me to hell. The past few weeks/months? have been awful.

Arg.

KIF strikes again. I haven't been in such a bad mood in a long time. I haven't mentioned it, but Mother is in town. Has been since the 22nd. She's unpacking all the crap from NY and Binghamton, so my house is a total cluttered wreck. I liked the empty spaces.

Anyway, mother is up much ealier than I am, so I usually end up getting woken up far earlier than I intend. Due to stress of my house being difficult to walk in, I've not been sleeping well, (staying up until 2, as opposed to my normal midnight,) so overall, my sleep level is at critical low.

Today, Mia and Trauma fought over my head, and I woke up several times in the morning before finally giving up and getting up, with a killer headache that I am sure is akin to a hangover, if only I'd ever gotten one to compare. I had intended to go to Karl's today, after I printed my coding assignment. Five minutes after I wake up, I go upstairs, and mother asks me to move stuff for her. Her reasoning: "Can you do this in trade for me carrying in the groceries this morning and putting them away?" Who's car did she borrow to buy food? Did I ask her to do it before I woke up? Well, at least she bought me food. So I decided to carry the stuff. But it was not boxes, which would have been easier, but stuff. Little tiny, akward, or really heavy things that needed about ten trips up the stairs. Oh, there was one box. A box very full of stuff that was too heavy and too akward for me to carry since the bottom was falling out. I let mother know, and she says, "Oh, just carry it up in peices, then." I do about four trips of that, then get frustrated and take the whole box upstairs. I tripped on the stairs, of course, but managed to keep the box upright and only damaged a leg.

Once that was done, I went to go print out the code I need to turn in tomorrow.

Well, turns out, my PC won't install the program I need to be able to open it and print it (I coded it on Karl's laptop,) and the only fix was to reinstall my OS. So I did. I decide to eat, thinking, "Well, mother went grocery shopping today..."

I've decided, this trip of hers, that mother isn't capable of being naturally considerate. She wants to be, but she just can't figure out how. So I wasn't surprised to find out that most of the food she bought wasn't something I'd eat, pretty knowingly so. I've never liked Spinach, and she knows milk makes me puke. At least there's one tortilla and a can of refries still from when I went shopping. So I have a burrito as I watch my OS install.

Three hours later, my new OS is in and installed. Except one of my harddrives is bad, since every time I try to move files off it, or move files around on it, my computer freezes and I have to reboot. By the way, my computer boots a lot slower now with the new OS, which is annoying in itself.

By that time, I'm in a pretty foul mood. Karl wants me to come over, but I don't like going when I'm feeling wretched because then I feel more wretched for making him worry and try to make me feel better. So I stay home. I get a message from Justin asking if I can make something for him in an online game, as I have that profession. So I log on, spend -two hours-, two gruelling boring stupid hours, grinding and buying materials to get enough skill level to make it for him, and spend 2 gold in the process. (Two gold is a lot at my level.) I finally get the skill level...and find out that I don't have the materials I need to make the damn thing. Frustrated, I just log off.

Now comes the most fun event of the day! I hadn't eaten for half a day, so I go up to get food. I open the fridge, nothing. I open my cupboard, thinking I had soup left- nothing. I look for tortillas in the fridge. None. I confirm with mother that neither items are here. I open the freezer to find tortillas...the ice tray slips out the door of the overly stuffed freezer and crashes to the floor with ice everywhere. I clean up the ice.

I open the door to the trashcan to throw out the paper towels I'd used- and find out that the trashcan is overfilled with stuff, like it always manages to be until I empty it. I start taking it out- and rip the handle. So I have to weasel it into -another- plastic bag so I can carry it out. I turn on the porch light to go out, open the door...and flick the porch light again a few times. The light burned out. (I had replaced it only a few months ago.) It's too dark to change it. I throw the trash out, my mood darkening even more. I come back in.


And as if I hadn't learned yet, I opened the fridge again, because I'm still hungry.

The other ice tray falls out and hits the floor, sending ice and some of the ice tray itself scattering.

I clean up the ice, again. And inform mother that her evil plot of putting full ice trays on the doors of the freezer where they slide off easily does not work. (I was -very- nice about it, too, see?)


I'm still hungry, I still have schoolwork to do (because no one else is going to do this part of the groupwork,), and I haven't even gone to my ridiculous Women Studies' class yet.


Dad comes tomorrow. I get to pick him up after class at 7:05.


This will be fun.

Lifedate

So, stuff.

1) Got a roommate: Ellen.
2) Babysitting a cat: Mia
3) Still in love with a boy: Karl
4) Mother's Might Be Coming: Jan 20th
5) Got free software through Comp Sci: Operating Systems
6) School starts soon: Jan 20th.

Elucidated Points:

1) Cameron's (Karl's friend,) girlfriend Ellen moved in on Jan...2nd? She has an upstairs room...and basically to entire upstairs to herself since I hardly go up there anyway. We have almost exactly opposite awake&do-stuff schedules, so we hardly see eachother. That suits me fine, but sometimes I worry a little. She's clean, quiet, has two birds (door is kept closed for the cats,) and easy to coexist with. I think not knowing eachother very well allows us to be aloof and politely distanced, unlike the affair with Stephie. Roommate Round #2: PASS~! Well..not entirely, it'll take a few months of punctual rent-paying to completely pass.

2) A family at Karl's parents' church are going to Spain on a missionthingy, but couldn't bring their cat Mia. Since they couldn't find anyone else, I volunteered to Miasit. Trauma and Mia are in the ignore stage of their relationship, with little bits of hissyfits, but no squabbles yet. Trauma is a better looking cat- Mia has the same colouration pattern (grey-brown tabby) as Trauma, but darker coloured, a little fluffier, and a bit mangier looking. Her tial also fails. While Trauma's tail is poofy all the way to the tip, Mia's tail comes to a narrow point.
It's funny to compare their voices. Mia is the schoolmarm, and Trauma is the high school girl. Trauma is, as I've suspected, fairly inept at cat politics as she is with most cat things, so she enters staring contests with Mia, gets distracted even though by catlaw they're stupposed to stare eachother down forever, and runs around playing with things in a 10 foot radius of Mia, as if she wants to pounce the elder cat. 

3) Karl is still wonderful~ He got me a cuddlerat for X-mas, which is a big blanket that zips up and you wear it like a dress! He also got me the common cold as a soap dispenser and comics~ His parents were kind enough to buy me a video game: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4.

4) Mom says she's coming out on the 20th, but a week or two ago, I heard from Dad she hadn't filed that plan with the government yet. So she might not actually make it out 'cause they don't do last minute flight plans. Her coming probably marks the end of my monthly From-Parents perdium forever.

5) I had asked my professor about it last semester since I heard about it from a Compy Sci major that the school offers free software to people taking CS classes. Last semester, I was technically only taking GDD (Game Design) classes, and even though it was programming, it didn't have the CS pre-fix thinger, so I wasn't eligable. My professor remembered for me this semester and already filed for admittance to getting the software, as I take a CS continuation of my programming this semester. I've already downloaded and am installing Windows XP Pro on my laptop, and am downloading Vista Business with SP1. Queued is a bunch of happy programming software~

6) School starts. Schedule looks decent. Only one class on Tues and Thurs, no class on Friday. Long days are 9:25-4:20 on Monday, and 9:25-7:05 on Wed. All my classes are with Karl, though he's taking one more than me. C#, Computer Graphics, Women Studies & Video Games (required by major. Boo.), and two Business/Innovation classes. (Booo.)

In other news, we're actually really enjoying D&D 4th Edition. It simplifies a lot, most notably the rules for a grapple(It comes up more often than one would think...), so we're not rule lawyering as much and therefore have time to do more plot. 

What do you do if you think your cat is stealing your underwear?

2009

Happy New Year!~

My front yard has an excellent view of the mountain fireworks for New Year's. It's always impressive to see the whole mountaintop light up with fireworks.

The year is no longer cool. Goodbye, 8!