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Archive for November, 2003

- ‘Play’ magazine is no substitute for Game Informer.

– Tonight is Cake Quiz night. Guess who hasn’t even -thought- about studying?

– I want to go back to Alki. _Now_. And despite popular opinion, I don’t really think it qualifies as a ‘beach’… But I like it anyhow.

– I miss hanging out with my aunt and grandparents and the silly silly cats already, but we’ve promised one another that we’ll get back together soon. Like, next Tuesday soon.

– I will be getting myself a brand-new top-of-the-line computer in the near future (read: between 5th December and 31st January) thanks to the incredible generosity of my mother. Now, all I have to do is figure out what I want…

*Grin*

Hysterical Mountaineering Monopoly has been played, the rolls were -perfect-, the turkey delicious, and the cats silly. Home may be best, but this Thanksgiving was better than anything I ever expected.

Or something like that, anyhow. A blurb about Picasso’s most famous and widely-recognized painting from the PBS site.

Status: Hungry, cold

I do have my knitting supplies, though, my Japanese and Webster’s Ninth dictionaries, and my first issue of A Woman’s Outlook, the NRA magazine for, surprisesurprise, women.

My cookbooks are in, too: Welsh Coastal Cooking, Edible Animals From A To Z, and Jewish Festival Cooking (And Crafts). (The books came from a Discount Cookbook Catalogue that a classmate brought in; I averaged about 5 dollars a book. Very cool.)

Um… I get to have Thanksgiving with my aunt! We’re going to watch movies and do the sleepover thing, so that should be fun. I’m making the rolls and the pies, she’s making the turkey and potatoes, and we’ll probably collaborate on the rest of the stuff.

Movies we plan to watch: I’m hoping to introduce (read: addict) her to anime, so I suggested Princess Mononoke — I think that Spirited Away or Kiki’s Delivery Service would be good choices, too. I’m trying to think of fun, relatively Light’n'Fluffy stuff that -isn’t- necessarily part of a series; not because series are -bad-, it’s just that the series I tend to like the best are the ones that span about a billion and a half episodes. (Okay, so not -literally-. But you know what I mean.) Hellsing’s too violent (at least for a short’n'introductory anime series); Rurouni Kenshin, YuYu Hakusho and Inu Yasha are too long (and incomplete…); Lupin III is… Not something she’d enjoy, I don’t think; Trigun is just too -sad-; FuriKuri is… Good God, it’s FuriKuri. I love the music, but since it -ends- just when it gets _good_, I’m not that big a fan of it. The first four episodes can basically just fall off the face of the Earth for all I care, it’s the last two that really have any kind of depth and interest — at least to me.

Anyhow! Burn-UpW is out (I think it’s pretty spiffy, but, again with the newbie issue); I haven’t seen Excel Saga (and I think you need to have watched a lot of anime to find it all that funny); Tenchi = too long -and- confusing with the different universes (… In Love, … Muyo/No Need For Tenchi, etc.); Ranma, same deal; I’m not going to subject her to Sailor Moon until we can watch the -original-, uncut, Japanese version… I’m tempted to show her Fruits Basket and Cardcaptor Sakura, because they’re sweet and funny, but we bump into the whole series issue again. I’m going to go poke around on Amazon or something and see if I can’t refresh my memory as to what -else- is out there. As always, suggestions from the gallery are more than welcome. *Grin*

I really need to start writing things down, because I had the most interesting idea while I was trying to get a last twenty minutes of sleep:

When Kessir and Dythnaali make it to the ocean, they end up a ways down the beach from Kelvath and Avrath…

I’ve gotten two new comments — on two totally unrelated posts, both of which are quite old. They say, in their entirety, “Interesting post.” and ‘…’. One was posted soley in hopes of getting me to embark on the Really Bad Idea that is the Atkins Diet, and the other… I think the person was going to complain or something and they changed their mind.

In other news, I didn’t go hang out with my aunt yesterday — she went home, laid down for a nap, and next thing she knew, it was like 9:00. So, we’re trying again today.

It’s raining. Unlike the past rains I’ve experienced, this rain is falling straight down — I haven’t bought an umbrella because it’s been a lot like being at home; an umbrella wouldn’t keep off the rain that was being blown sideways into you — so I got much, much wetter than I was expecting. (It doesn’t help that I forgot to put on a hat, either.) On my list for today: Large bowl, honey, yeast, umbrella. And perhaps another fuzzy hat, because I still have not found my brown one. I should really go back to the grocery store and the bank and ask them if I managed to leave it there…

And that’s all the news that I’ve got for right now.

Jim has a new friend.

Registration for next quarter, despite the programmers’ best efforts, is complete. The system is pretty much counter-intuitive, and the degree audit (the piece of paper that tells you which classes you need to take next) does NOT have the section number (which is technically a letter…) listed on it. Anywhere. If I knew where to go to complain, I would.

Aside from that… I got to spend some time with my aunt yesterday — and her silly kitties. We’ve decided that we definitely need to take advantage of our copious amounts of free time and see one another more often, so we hope to be getting together on a more regular basis. Like, she called me up and we have tenative plans to hang out for a little bit this afternoon. So that’s good — it gets both of us out of the house and keeps us off the streets. *Snicker* *Ahem*

…. This layout is still bugging, but it’s probably not going to change until my Vaio gets here sometime in the next week or two. I _will_ have it, and I _will_ change this layout! Oi.

I need to go look more like an official tutor than someone just using the computer, not to mention free up a computer for other people trying to register…

Two Good Things: I didn’t go to class last night and I didn’t meet my tutoring student this morning.

Those qualify as Good Things because in class, everyone was grouchy and our instructor has an eye infection that sent him home in the middle of everything. Also, we didn’t do anything requiring the learning of a new technique, so that was okay. And I just learned that my poor student had a bad nosebleed and had I shown up, I’d have been sitting there, twiddling my thumbs and waiting.

Two Not-Good-But-Not-Bad-Things: I can stay in my apartment while everyone else is gone over Christmas break (I -will- be going home, it’s just that I don’t leave until a few days after break starts), and we had a quarterly Health And Safety Inspection today. The Residential Director didn’t precisely -yell- about the stacks of cartons and bottles and cans on the table and the counter, but she definitely did NOT approve. But other than that, she was like, ‘yeah, you guys’re fine.’

Thanks: for all the good thoughts. They help. I’m still not exactly Miss Cheery 2003, but I’m certainly much less likely to scream ’shutupshutupshutUP!’ at people tonight. (That being the reason I was not at class -last- night — I was just…sad, and my classmates in the locker room were just so -inane- that I was thiiiisclose to snapping. It would not have been very pretty at -all-, so I went home. On the way, I stopped and got dinner and ice cream, because I really really wanted ice cream, but knew better than to eat nothing -but-. *Waves a hand* TMI Alert! The fact that I’m menstruating is _NOT_ helping, dammit.

Also, my new Docs gave me a blister and are quite possibly going to make my toes cramp on my left foot. I’m seriously considering returning them for a pair of Simples or something.

Yasminda died yesterday morning. Mom thinks she had a heart attack — before she could get her to the vet, she just stopped breathing.

I knew that this would happen, but I thought it would have been later rather than sooner, and that we would have had some say in it. I didn’t even get to say goodbye to her.

I’m okay, I think. Mostly I’m just sad that I didn’t get to see her one last time, and I’m sad for my family, because they were there with her.

I think that I’ll call my aunt next week and see about spending some quality time with her and her crazy kitties. I -definitely- need some creature comfort, of the sort that people don’t/can’t provide.

From The Onion — Mom Discovers Blog! World May End! *Snerk*