| Beloved books turning into movies left and right! This is madness! |
[Jun. 13th, 2007|12:23 am] |
So they're making a Golden Compass movie. And it looks good. I mean.. they've got Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter, Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel... it looks beautiful and epic! Now I need to reread the books, but seriously exciting.
In other news, two finals down, two to go, on tomorrow at three and one thursday at three. I'm mostly worried about the thursday one, but I think I might actually be on track, if a little behind, to actually be ready for it. I'm about halfway through the reading and problem sets, hopefully will finish in time to go over the practice final and sum it all up for myself and then pray that I remember enough of it to pass. Maybe even get a B! or a B+! in an Ochem class for cryin out loud!
yeah.. I wasn't supposed to go on my computer at all until afterward, but I've had about a ten second clip of a song from a movie in my head all day despite attempts to dislodge it, so I decided that, if my brain's going to keep it on eternal repeat, I might as well have the actual song and learn the whole thing. which required imdb. which told me that there was a golden compass trailer. Seriously exciting! |
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| Wow I'm awful |
[Jun. 6th, 2007|07:41 am] |
Well, I knew that already. I'm terrible at keeping track of people, even people I care about. Well, I guess that's what happens when you spend 25% of your time sleeping, 30% at school, taking notes, 5% on homework, and 40% on the internet, manga, television, homework, and drawing (in that order). There's a 5% glassblowing in there too somewhere. The point I'm trying to make is that I found out this morning that one of my favorite high school friends had a baby recently. A baby. I didn't even know she was ,pregnant and that covers almost a year of her life that I've missed. Don't get me wrong, I don't expect her, or really anyone from high school to call me and tell me of changes in their life, even big changes. Just.. I'm feeling incredibly guilty right now for not reading her livejournal more. It's right there. She even writes just nice little recaps of every day: her life in brief synopsis instead of the big long whining things you usually get with me. Then again, I don't really want to update everyone about my life. That's what my diary is for. Also, I don't do anything worth talking about, or that I'm willing to talk about. Went to class today and took notes (doodled in the margins, of course, should be up on my dA eventually). Took a quiz, did pretty well. Got home and wasted three hours waiting for a post and chatting of inconsequentialities through pm with people I don't know and will never meet. Considered doing some homework but didn't. Had a mood swing later and ended up punching some stuff. Got some nice bruises but nothing permanent. See? Not the kind of shit you want to share with everyone indiscriminately. That's pretty much every day for me, except for the punching part, that's just on special occasions.
Also, been avoiding live journal because of planet. Most of my journal would be the monologuing "conversation" that takes up most of my day (as I walk to and from class, as I sit here and type, as I eat lunch or whatever). It's one of the reasons I'm so fond of reading: I can't talk to myself while I'm reading something interesting. Well, it isn't so much talking to myself anymore. That isn't to say that it isn't, just that that isn't how I think of it. It's become way more of a theoretical conversations thing. I'm monologuing, but it's to a specific person, usually in response to something that I think they would ask me. Yes. I know how crazy it is. Crazy as it is, it comprises most of my human interaction these days, swamped down as I am with studying and studying and studying. Finals week looms like a train on the horizon when you're tied to the tracks with absolutely no hope of getting away in time. You can struggle, or you can lie there and just let it kill you. Me, I'm struggling. It's useless and futile, but I'm struggling.
Well, I'll work harder on keeping my journal up to date. If the planet folks don't like it, they can take me down and more power to them. This conversation is over. (you get extra friend points if you recognize where that quote is from and comment about it ^_^)
edit: geez. gaia has ruined my lj html maaad skillz. Gaia uses [...] which is different from <...> thus resulting in irritatingness when I previewed and none of my mods appeared. Also, size is modded with font size in actual HTML. curse you Gaia's limping form of this!! |
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| -mildly hysterical laughter- |
[Mar. 18th, 2007|09:56 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
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So.. been making and studying biochem flashcards all day, working from the study lists that Zhao puts up for us. Got to the 23rd lecture and realized that I did not yet have the study list for it or any of the successive ones. Just went to the class site to get them and snagged the list for the abbreviated list of what information we need from the lectures before the first midterm. Most of them fill the pdf page, but this one is way shorter, but.. well.. see for yourself:
I mean.. usually it's
which is about 20 very specific points from the slides...
this one is basically saying.. know everything. Yeah, so to help you out and make sure you just focus on the important stuff from before that midterm.. well... just know everything. ever. easy.
Looking at it again, yes, it is very helpful and it is much less than I would have had to cover, say, the weekend before the second midterm, but it's still really a lot. Just to go from, oh, it's only like.. 10 lines to actually reading it and then saying oh, it's only like.. 10 lines.. that pretty much say, know EVERYTHING was a pretty big jump that overloaded my brain for a bit.
I laughed maniacally for about five minutes. Just thought the world might like to know. |
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| krel, you were so effing right |
[Jan. 5th, 2007|01:31 am] |
tomorrow I go out to buy the rest of this series. thanks very much krellian, though I hate you for cursing me to not sleep for the past couple of nights due to my inability to put the book down when I pick it up before I go to sleep.
ah well, it was read or play more gba, so the not sleeping was a given. |
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| Dead Man's Chest |
[Dec. 29th, 2006|09:08 pm] |
Mom (on returning from a Costco trip with her sister): We got the third "Pirates" movie! We couldn't find the second one.. but we have the third one now!
Stephi: There've only been two Pirates movies.
Mom: Oh.. Then I guess we have all of them.
Janis: You know, when you told me that you couldn't find the second movie, I didn't even catch that..
Stephi: Well.. theres going to be a third one.. eventually...
(Mom and Janis walk off and laugh together for about ten minutes)
Stephi: sheesh.. |
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| it's a small world after all |
[Dec. 1st, 2006|02:32 pm] |
it's a world of laaaughter
a world of tears
it's a world of hopes
and a world of fears
there's so much that we share
that it's time we're aware
it's a smalll world aaafter allllll
So, funny story, my Japanese TA is reall awesome, as is my section. We have a real good time, have this plan to stay together and claim one of his sections for next quarter (Paul, though, would be cool to come, we have openings for at least two new members of the best section EVAR). To demonstrate how much he likes us/how awesome we are, he invited the section to his barbeque next thursday, at his house.
It had come up previously that both of us live in Playmor (uchi wa doko desu ka.) but, until today, never thought to wonder where exactly he lives in Playmor. Turns out, he's pretty much next door (meaning, I can walk to where he lives in about a minute, and that includes me walking downstairs and getting shoes on). Small fucking world, neh? |
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| Communication is never perfect |
[Nov. 26th, 2006|11:27 pm] |
Problem resolved to some satisfaction. It has at least reached a conclusion, boundaries delineated, etc. Namely, I was partially correct. He thought I was way more serious than I was, and he had in no way intended the casual level that I wanted. Stupid boy, to include me in long term plans based upon flimsy pretenses at best. Never assume you're in a serious relationship, it rarely ends well. If you think you want one, you need to be up front about it. The longer you wait to ask a direct question, the harder the fall.
On a lighter note, yaay finals coming up! I have a chem lab one at 9am on friday, japanese at 11:30 on monday, and genetics at 8am on thursday. All in all, not a very stressful finals week I don't think. Need to do reviewing for japanese, but otherwise I should be alright. Need to finish up (ie. start) on the practice problems for th emost recent genetics chapters, not that I'm overly worried about genetics. I keep getting objective A's on the tests, when the averages have ben objective Cs. Its making me a bit arrogant, but since I have until thursday, I think I'll be alright. I figure I'll use the interveneing days to work on some of my art projects, get some glassblowing done maybe. I have a variety of gifts I need to make for family members, also want to look into buying a few things, diamond shears, other tools and leisuretime tools, armature wire, more sculpey, maybe some instruments to toodle about with. Looking at mumbojumbo's sculptures on deviantart inspire me to work up some models for the various characters that I have mostly set in my mind to give them a little more consistency. Would be nice to finally have things set in clay as it were. Have to see how that goes. Have a bunch of boks to read, fun books, not just school books, foremost shadow puppets and shadow of the giant (books three and four of the shadow series of ender's game) and a Game of Thrones. Just finished up Magic Knight Rayearth and the most recent installments of Negima and Mar. Plan to swing through kinokuniya over winter break, pick up a few of the manga volumes that I have translated and read them in their original format, work on my fluent reading. So, lots of projects to get through, and some time to do them in. |
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| people want to answer questions, you gotta start with... |
[Nov. 23rd, 2006|09:50 pm] |
the thing about humans is that communication is never clear. It's pretty much impossible to know precisely what another person is thinking. Even if you could read their mind, that doesn't mean that your brain will be able to deal with their information in the same way so, even with the same raw data, you still don't know what they're thinking because you aren't them. After all, if it's so impossible to understand yourself, how can you hope to understand someone else?
if there's someone your'e just talking to casually, playing with a bit, some casual flirting, at what point are you supposed to delineate the boundaries of the relationship. Me, I saw casual chat with a guy that I don't see myself ever being romantically interested in. We don't share interests on any of the levels we tend to talk about, his life is not one I am on board with sharing, and then, just before we said goodbye last time, he said 'or, you could just call me, seeing as what we mean to each other' which, to me, set off a damn lot of alarm bells. Last time something like this came up, I asked and he backpedaled, and I thought I had quashed it then... but he said it so casually,, like we're dating. Honestly. If that's what this is, this is the third damn time that I've been 'dating' someone without being aware of it until a couple of weeks in. I dunno, but I always thought I had to be aware of it for it to be considered real? Am I wrong? Damned if I know. In any case, once I've actually gotten enough sleep to coherently deal with an argument, I'll have to do some damage control. Wish me luck! |
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| here's the thing |
[Nov. 15th, 2006|12:47 am] |
I'm beginning to have an inkling that I might be spending too much time at the hot shop. For example, today, I spent a grand total of... 7 hours there. I got up at 7 so I could get there in time to turn everything on, then went to classes, then came back at 5:30 to help set up for the beginning class, and usually, I'd stay till 11, maybe 11:15 because I TA for the group after the class. Today, however, I got to stay an additional hour and a half to 'batch' (restock the crucible). All well and good, but tomorrow, I'm spending a minimum of... 5 hours, not counting turn-on and clean-up time there tomorrow... plus I went in for five hours sunday evening to do a reorganizing of the shelves. This just might be too much time in the hot shop, since I still need to do pretty much all my studying for my japanese midterm tomorrow.
also, managed to effectively gouge my right arm today during the complicated maneuver needed to extract a fresh propane tank for the blowtorch.
All in all, I could use a good night's sleep, but instead I'm gonna stay up, study, and get up early tomorrow to spend another day blowing glass.
current project: jars with fitted lids
lids are deceptively simple and quite interesting. Tomorrow, I hope to add a colorful knob. |
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