Dawn of the New Whatnow?

HOME.

/passes out in bed
/sleeps forever
/sneezes forever

Oh boy, oh boy, I think I really am sick.

( Oh well. Words from the muses that I'm too lazy to make accounts for dear_mun for! )

... doesn't make much sense unless you know several of my old OCs. But, still, they wanted to speak up, and who am I to deny them?

My 5-7 canceled, but then Dominique just filled in the gap with another student.
Also I think I'm getting sick.

I can't wait to head home!

Nothing quite cheers me up after a period of hating my Journalism professor like opening my laptop and realizing that the page I left up was a picture of Baby Adolf Hitler. I am sorry, but that dictator had the cutest chubby cheeks.

Although, a fun note in Journalism... my teacher plays basketball, and usually gets hurt playing basketball. This week's injury? He got hit in the throat. So his voice was totally different. I was looking down when he started talking, and my head swiveled up so fast! "Did we suddenly get a sub in the last five minutes?!"

My entries have been vaguely serious lately.

So here's a drawing of a chinchilla and platypus fist bumping.

I'm doing that thing where I browse quotes pages. But, hey, sometimes you get something that's just the message you need.

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964)

Sometimes it feels like I'm doing so much in school, and trying to accomplish so much. Why am I doing what I'm doing?

I'm doing Journalism because I love designs that catch people's eyes. I hate the pessimism, the idea of "knowing all," and the fuzzy line of objectivity and subjectivity, but... There's still a passion. I just need some good teachers and good classes to lure it back out.

I'm doing Biology because... well, I'm not doing that entirely. I think I'm switching to Secondary Education: Biology. That's what this semester looks like, but I still have some room to switch back if it happens. But I want to teach Biology because of the lightness in my heart whenever I can connect facts. I love knowing facts from why the sky is blue to how kidneys function. I love explaining science and, if there's confusion, explaining it again.

I will be such an easily sidetracked teacher, but in a way that students are still learning.
"Hey, I know we're just on the cell cycle, but... now you know how cancer works!"

All the NaNoWriMo stuff sort of makes me want to just see how far I can write on things.

If November didn't involve so many midterms.

Maybe I'll have a self-imposed Non-National Whatever Writing Winter Break.
About the Guild itself or history of its members or etc...
Maybe write out the hostile takeover.
I'd get to write lots of shadowleader Wesley!

meanwhile I have class in six hours I should get some sleep, eh?

I was doing so well this PMS-cycle, too!

Like, seriously, I hadn't had any masculinity v. femininity issues, I acknowledged that my thighs were fat and yet this didn't compromise my overall body image, and I didn't feel a crippling need to escape reality!

... Then Journalism came!
And today in Journalism we were analyzing *~cultural themes~* that the media conveys.
And the teacher decided to go with an easy one to spot so we'd all get it.
And he went with feminine beauty.

Those of you who read that and facepalmed, thank you.

( and now I'll cut the rest to keep from preaching to the choir. )

but I can't be too mad when I look at this icon
I will always love this icon

Why is my idea of refreshing my Spanish... watching Vocaloid videos subbed in Spanish?

In real life news, Friday I did not get my paycheck, and most of my week so far has involved trying to find out where my damn $160 went. I have Friday off, though, bless Nevada Day.

while I do my pre-o.chem test PSYCH UP DANCE, a meme

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

Why are nightmares about school always the scariest?

ffffffffffffff guys I think I'm a vocaloid fan now
I'll try to keep it to myself, I swear.

Meanwhile, in other news, it's finally the weekend! My goals are:
school-related
-Write Journalism essay (1pg)
-Get sources for Biology report (need 6, have... 3?)
-Core humanities newspaper article
-O.CHEM O.CHEM O.CHEM (two chapters left to outline, hell studying for test)
my sanity-related
-go grocery shopping
-play some video games
-post with whoever suits my fancy at aooh
-post the halloween party info at frommanyone
-maybe write rezin or felix p.o.v. for alkhete
-maybe write more dnd stuffs

New icon!

Also I think I may soon be changing my major from Biology to Secondary Education with a focus on Biology. It seems to fit everything, and it'd work well, but I'm frightened of change, and I have two more advisement meetings, so I'll hopefully know by Friday!

... Hopefully!

I've also discovered I need to allot more time to eating. Because if I don't I end up an emotional wreck. I'm already a day behind on my self-imposed goal of O.Chem studying for the week... even though I got off two hours early from work because a student couldn't make it. I just need to hunker down.

I've seen really stressed lately, but I'll offer my belated birthday wishes to kyosukekusaragi.

This entry is probably less disjointed than I think it is. My mind's everywhere!
I should get some sleep. The main point of this entry was icon-bug-nerding. Orchid mantis, for reference, and I recommend checking out pictures. The pink kind is rare in the adult form, most females are white. In an excellent example of sexual dimorphism the males are PLAIN PLAIN PLAIN.

I have a folder in my music folder labeled "Happy Music Mix."

And I totally needed it today.
For reference

Black Horse and the Cheery Tree - KT Tunstall
Look of Love - ABC
Rasputin - Boney M
Like a Boss - The Lonely Island
I'm a Bitch, I'm a Lover - Alannis Morisette
Days Like This - Van Morrison
Ramalama (Bang Bang) - Roisin Murphy
Sharada - Skye Sweetnam
Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon

It always works for me. I can deal with all the things thrown at me now!

WHATEVER SILVIE SAYS,

I DID NOT SUMMON HER PERIOD.

So I am trying to power-level in Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness because I hate the EDF with a burning passion. I have discovered a disturbing habit of mine.

When I have combined enough monsters that they become a flaming omen of death, I try to instantly kill them. If I don't, well, shit, they're gonna rain murder on me. What do I do?!

... I have Gordon go and lift them. The sheer weight of the awesome monster kills him in a round, but then I can destroy it. This is okay in a tactics game, I mean, it doesn't even count as an ally kill, but.

I still think it's bad when you call for a sacrifice every time you do it.
"Sacrifiiiiiice!"

I'm sorry Gordon you just always come so late and I never want to use you. I'll level you never eventually.

So I just downloaded the Po pi po (Vegetable Juice) video.

I can have my daily dose of vitamin EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeee, even when my internet is down, now.

I also have the mp3 for EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee on the go.

Meanwhile there's an alternate universe where I'm a productive student.

DO AN EXPERIMENT
like a boss
PLOT DATA
like a boss
GET RESULTS
like a boss
WRITE A LAB REPORT
like a boss

Awwww yeah.

Five page take-home-exam essay due tomorrow that I forgot about ffffffffffff.

...
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MEANWHILE MY HORMONES ARE TRYING TO KICK MY LOGIC IN THE OVARIES. OR ARE THEY KICKING WITH OVARIES I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I have three days of hard work and am not emotionally prepared to deal with anything.

do not tag until wednesday
aaaaaaaaaaaaah

I finally saw this and now the feminist in me is sad.
Viral headbanging around 2:05 cracks me up, though.