Thursday
1. Turned in my final psych paper
2. My tutee seems happy I want to continue tutoring next semester :-)
3. Pretty snow (chilly though)
4. Kyle called all the way from Turkey!!!
5. Got a wonderful message back from a friend's mother
6. PASTA PASTA PASTA NIGHT with
7. GARLIC BREAD!!!!!

Friday
1. Thankfully getting to my trash bin quickly enough so I wasn't vomiting on my floor at 5:30am
2. Presented my book review in AI class
3. Attended an intriguing panel after classes
4. Finished a book
5. Knowing I'm going to luxuriate in a long, long hot shower after I finish this entry
6. The Monk series finale!
7. DOLLHOUSE!! (Kept flipping back and forth)
8. TGIF!!!!!

Current Mood: tired

So, first things first! I HAVE A JOB! (sort of). Long story short (because it is long and boring), I got an email asking me to ring a guy who works for a digital archiving company regarding possible work experience. Which I nearly didn't do, because I hate talking on the phone (apart from to my friends, obvs). But I did, and he said if I turned out to be the right person for the job, he might even give me a paid job (hence the sort-of-a-job). Anyway, I went in for a chat on Monday, and it sounds like this may possibly be the best job ever (I hope so, anyway).

After chatting to my job-advisor-woman about it, I rang him back and said I'd take up his offer. So I am going in on Thursday for some training. Got to talk to the job centre and see if we can wangle it as my New Deal placement (that way, they'll pay my bus fares - since I'm not being paid an' all).

~*~

Secondly, re-reading Guilty Pleasures has reminded me of why I liked these books in the first place. Anita is cynical and, above all, human; I'm able to relate to her better. (Mind you, now I'm more familiar with LKH's writing style, I do notice some clumsiness in the way she states things, but other than that, it's mostly all right. And no sex).

~*~

( blather about P4 - probable spoilers )

You are an Innocent Uke!

Cute and sweet, and most gentle of all uke, whips and chains are not for you - you just want someone to love you. You are often spotted in candy shops wearing furry kitty ears, where you are sure to be noticed by the Romantic Seme, whose protective instincts will kick in and will only want to take you home and love and protect you. And you, of course, will be more than happy to spend the rest of your life baking cookies for your seme.

Most compatible with: Romantic Seme

Least compatible with: Sadistic Seme, Don't Fuck With Me Seme

What seme or uke are you? Take the experience at SemeUke.com, or find merchandise here.

(I may be this way in Real-Life, but I'm Waaaayyyy different inside of my Mind.... Trust Me!)

Current Mood: hyper

Okay, I don't normally post quiz results, but this was too funny. Well, I think so, anyway.

( Clicky for quiz results, chicken nuggets! )

Also, OMFG GRABO DYED HIS HAIR DARK BROWN! I kid, I kid! His hair does look darker, though, doesn't it? That's because this is not Mikhail. It's actually his evil twin.

GIP.

Because it had to be done.

Image and text from here.

(Yoinkable with creds)

Tuesday
1. Got my Lifespan Dev Psych exam done!
2. A good tutoring session
3. Dinner with Mandy and Hanna
4. Benadryl working (though it unfortunately made me sleep 13 hours)
5. Warm room

Wednesday
1. Got an okay for my AI final paper idea
2. Took an awesome shower
3. An additional comment on a photo on FB
4. Touched base with Matt
5. Meat loaf for dinner

Current Mood: busy

I went "whaa?" when I read this article. I can only link to the article since there are links in the article as well an embedded video. A man basically marries his videogame ("Love Plus") girlfriend. A digital girlfriend in the videogame, not someone you met during Guild Wars or WoW or something. Not even an avatar in a game like Second Life. A digital girlfriend with no human behind her, controlling her actions or moods or dialogue.

Current Mood: confused

1. I went to the (female) doctor to complain about the Pill being a bitch with me and she's put me on a higher dose for the next three months. I'm not especially pleased about this, but I think I failed to explain myself properly (I always get tongue-tied around doctors). Also I'm convinced that birth control in general hates me (as in, implant didn't work and now I don't seem to be having much luck with the Pill. O BOY).

2. I am actually tempted to try an MMO. Yeah, you heard. This from the woman who isn't interested in MMOs. What is it? Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine. Well, it's free (or So I Heard). I don't know. I might. I might not. Like I say, I'm not really interested in MMOs at all.

It looks pretty good, but I really dunno.

(Also Megaten is totally taking over my life. I don't care, though).

3. I was going to make Xmas cards this year. Now I am not so sure. EH.

4. Dear interbutts,

FUCK YOU. Levelling up is not the be all and end all of gaming. In fact, I've heard it said that the SMT games rely more on you exploiting elemental/non-elemental/whatever weaknesses rather than fucking grinding. Except what do allll the walkthroughs ever say? Level up.

UGH.

FUCK. YOU.

( blah about P4 - may contain spoilers )

5. I should probably shut up now, right?

So, my hours have been cut. Good news is, I can still technically afford to pay my bills, I just won't have much if anything left over.

However, after this week is over I will probably not have a way to and from work. If my hours hadn't been cut I could afford to take a taxi, but now I can't.

Also I think some of the pipes may have busted.

Current Mood: stressed

1. My username is ______ because ______: amor_remanet; Well, back at the end of ninth grade, when I got my first livejournal, I'd been using Duanya as an online alias (still seen in my email address) and various forms of Sailor Moon-themed silliness as backups. Duanya came from a D&D character who got shot in the face and died; the Sailor Moon stuff was just me being an obsessive fan-nerd. Anyway, when I got to LJ, I wanted to do something ~different~ and ~new~… so I put my four years of Latin class to work and made up a Latin username. It translates to "love remains," which I thought was being Poignant And Cool… and then it just stuck and I'm too attached to change it.

2. My name is _____ because ______: "Kassie: a wild tl;dr monster" because, for ages, it was "Kassie, guardian angel of emo angsty boys" courtesy of something sherlock said on some snaps cup meme (I think it was a snaps cup meme anyway?) a while back, and as much as I loved that name, I thought a change was worthwhile. Also, I talk too much.

3. My journal is titled ____ because ____: "no, not the young people. they shall be spared." This is one of my favorite lines from the translation of Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata I read for Theatre History in my freshman year. Mostly, it's because I just really liked that line. Likewise, the subtitle is, "it could be worse! we could be stuck in the audience!" from one of my favorite lines in Muppet Treasure Island. (Statler and Waldorf are the figureheads on the bow of the ship. They're discussing how much it sucks to be stuck on said bow.)

4. My default userpic is ____ because ____: Linus and his blue blanket in A Charlie Brown Christmas, forlornly staring at the fail-tree. Because it's seasonal and I've been sort of feeling like the fail-tree lately.

Current Mood: pensive

This is one clip my AI professor showed during class.

The robot is soooo creepy looking! It's like two people stuck in the machine, one facing forward, the other backward! Or like goats... Bottom half, of course.

It is so impressive.



It apparently has no visual sensors, but since Boston Dynamics made it, they're not big on secrets of manufacturing.

Current Mood: impressed

Monday
1. Got an A- on my third Writing paper
2. Awesome clips during AI class
3. Chicken and corn during dinner, oooh, yay!
4. Questionable Content!
5. Getting advice on anti-histamines for my hives outbreak

Current Mood: annoyed

I have gift codes for World of Warcraft's:
(2) Lil’ K.T., the Littlest Lich pet
(2) Pandaren Monk pet
(1) Murloc Space Marine pet

I know a couple of you play. I also have free re-customization codes, race changes, name changes and realm transfers for anyone who is interested. I don't play, so I never use the free stuff Blizzard gives me.

I think I might also have a murky to get away.

"The Best Thing" by Relient K

It's been a year
Filled with problems
But now you're here
Almost as if to solve them
And I can't live in a world without you now

All my life
I've been searching for you
How did I survive
In this world before you
Cause I don't wanna live another day without you now

This is the best thing
The best thing that could be happening
And I think you would agree
The best thing is that it's
Happening to you and me

All I'm gonna have
Is all that you can give me
And I'll give right back
Everything I have in me
Cause nothing ever felt as right
As this does right now

I'll go back to before we met
Try and erase the past
Try harder to forget cause
Nothing will ever be as good as here and now

Cause when I looked into your eyes
And you dared to stare right back
You should've said "Nice to meet you, I'm your other half"

And this is the best thing
The best thing that could be happening
And I think you would agree
The best thing is that it's happening
This is the best thing
The best thing that could be happening
And I think you would agree
The best thing is that it's
Happening to you and me

Always knew
I'd find someone
I never dreamt
It'd be like this
You've surpassed
All that I've hoped for and ever wished
And I'm tryin'
So hard
With all my heart and mind
To make your life
As good as you've made mine

This is the best thing
The best thing that could be happening
And I think you would agree
The best thing is that it's happening to you and me

The best thing is that it's happening to you and me
The best thing is that it's happening to you and me

The best thing, the best thing that could be happening
The best thing and I think you would agree
The best thing is that it's happening to you and me

Current Mood: loved

Back home! I stupidly forgot my glasses, contacts solution and contacts case in my dorm room (had to buy new of the last two! GRRR, lost money). I've been wearing contacts about 12 hrs/day since Wednesday and getting monster headaches, so that's why I avoided my LJ/IJ and FB and other sites.</i> Well, essentially looking at my laptop. I used it briefly for listening to music or having hulu episodes playing in the background while studying. Even studying and reading were hard on my eyes.

Sorry if I've missed a lot of milestones or fun times or bad times in your life during my incommunicado days! *hugs to all!*

The bus was suppose to leave Midway at 4:30pm but ended up arriving at 5:15pm and leaving at 5:30pm. Then we had to detour to O'Hare to pick up overflow there so I got back to campus around an hour and a half later than expected. I shouldn't have been surprised, really.

Following is my list of gratitudes since Tuesday, which is kind of a list of some things I did each day, too.

( Gratitudes! )

Eyes tired...body sore...should go to sleep...

Current Mood: exhausted

In non-gaming related news, I dug out most of the Anita Blake books (1-10 because 11 and 12 are dross not as good from what I recall; also I'm missing 3 and 8, but I can request/get them from the library).

I've been meaning to re-read them because I can't remember anything about anything and I've only read them all once (the only exceptions being Blood Noir (library didn't get it) and Skin Trade. I had to stop with that because it basically made me want to vomit*).**

I was going to make a poll about if anyone wanted to hear what I had to say and then I thought, "Well, the three people reading this journal probably don't give a monkey's either way". And...I might not always remember to do it or get fed up. Or something.

As it stands, I am about ten pages into Guilty Pleasures (aka #1). I'm thinking of taking it on the bus with me tomorrow, but putting a post-it on the front that says something along the lines of "Stop judging me! I'm only reading it for the lulz!" But...that might not be so good of an idea. Also I might lose the post-it. And I don't tend to read so much on bus rides any more. And I doubt people on the bus give a shit, really (totally should've done this with Twilight, though).

By the way, you have lkh_lashouts (on eljay) to thank for this because they all know waaaaaaaay more than me about, well, everything (there's times when I feel like a casual observer to all of this - it's not the first time, either. Happened with Farscape, happened with Hellblazer, too. Occasionally happens with other stuff as well - if I listed all the fandoms that happened in, we'd be here till Xm-- oh, wait. The next millennium, then). I don't know what I'm going to do with my newly re-discovered knowledge, though. Probably be snarky. I like to think I'm good at being snarky.

~*~

*Dear Laurell, going on about how manly Anita is and has to be so the police listen to her doesn't make for good reading. Seriously, if you're that bothered (and we know you are), why didn't you make her a damn man to begin with? Oh wait, 'cause then you wouldn't get to write bad IKEA porn, amirite? No love whatsoever, Me.

**Also this totally reminds me that I quit a lot sooner with the Merry Gentry books but, then again, they lost all semblance of plot a lot faster than the Anita books did. I stopped after #2. I tried with 3, and 4 just made me want to throw it across the room just from the opening page (not a good idea since I was in the library at the time).

Ok so i know its been a while. HI FLIST! Um...i'm home on break right now and i head back to school around 1230 tomorrow. its been a pretty good break. I got to see just about every one for at least a few hours. I didnt get any hw done but that's kinda not surprising. When i get back to school i need to do sociology, psych, math, and communications. I finally think my issues with mike are resolved. He finally realized that something was wrong and he sincerely apologized to me which really means a lot. I think its going to be rough but if we both try we can work through this weird time that we're in.

I finally had a really good discussion with my mom. We talked for about 2 hour at like 1 am. We didnt fight or bicker or get mean. We really told each other about our lives and we really listened to each other. I think it was a step toward a better relationship.

I feel really bad about this whole lucy situation...i wish that for everyone's sakes, it would just blow over. I hope that lucy gets better. i dont know if she's really suicidal or just unhappy or if shes making the whole thing up but i hope that it gets squashed soon because at this point, its just hurting or annoying all parties involved.

I am still continually thankful for my friends and i always will be. I think sometimes though, I'm too supportive. I mean, like, I say things that are uplifting ALWAYS and i think sometimes people think its fake or like im trying to make every one like me. And thats true, i do wish that every one liked me but thats not why i always say nice things. I honestly just want my friends to know what high regard i hold them in. I never want them to think i take them for granted or that i dont need them around. I just hope that they dont think i'm just trying to be nice all the time.

I smoked a lottttttttt today. (cigs i dont do pot) I dont think i'll ever be ok with me smoking and i really do think that i'm just the kind of person who doesnt like to say no in those types of situations. And i do feel kinda responsible for Olivia smoking. I kinda feel like an outcast if i dont smoke...like, since all of my friends do but i do want to make a better effort to quit. I've done good up until recently but i know i could do better. I need to really reevaluate how important tobacco and nicotine are to me. I think if i found something else to do other than smoke when i join someone for a smoke break. or pick up an idle hobby to do instead of want to buy cigs. Maybe every time i attempt to spend 5.02 on smokes, i'll buy something else instead to show myself the money i could save. Right now im coughing to clear my throat....ugh.

I kinda wish that i wasnt going back to school until later tomorrow but i need to get stuff done too so earlier is prolly better. ughhhh i have stuff to get done.

We had a really good discussion tonight about life and religions and fears and all that. I hope that we get to have more of those...esp with Brandon. Gah, its so weird that i'll always hold a candle for him...i dont know how i feel about that. I wish i got this kind of intellegent discussion at school...its one of the things i miss most about being home. Ive also realized that i want to become the dot...and i hope i always remember what that means. I also hope that all of my friends find what they're looking for. I feel like we're always searching for something...answers to questions and stuff and i feel like we're not going to find all the answers but i do hope we find answers to those questions that are truly important. and i hope that we dont stop searching for answers just because its hard or frustrating because those are the answers most worth finding.

And now for some gratitudes which i wanna get back into because i've really been lax on that (and praying):
- friends
- family
- discussions that feed my mind and soul
- getting stuff off my chest and finally getting this mike situation a bit better handled.
- not hating being home
- my nephew
- my gram
- getting 3 thanksgivings
- sushi
- having money
- dressing up and feeling confident
- a potential internship if i dont blow it.
- talking....REALLY talking to my mom
- lucy being alive...even if shes scorned
- having rides places
- school even though its hard sometimes
- seeing alyse and ashley
- feeling more grown up and adult
- having a phone that has worked for months in succession.
- the cold...even though im a warm weather person
- makeup aka tribal paint
- feeling like a worth while and capable human being.
- getting this group project done sorta


ok. time to read a lil bit...look up some stuff for amy and get to bed.
good night and good luck <3

Current Mood: content

< brb > is not an acceptable HTML.

Using it whilst coding tables will not end well.

That is all.

Current Mood: sleepy

I think I am going to draw a fanart of the spacey girl and the errand boy from P4. Because they are sooooooo cute ♥

Meanwhile, spoilers. Also someone dumped a whole bunch of plot in my game today!

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Oh, and! I have now maxed Yumi's link, and also Dojima's (I loved the final scene of that, it was so cool and adorable all at once). Stats maxed so far are: knowledge and expression. I am level four on courage and understanding. This is a whole heap better than my stats were in P3. Ooh, and I aced the last two exams!

I am one link off maxing both Yukiko's and Yosuke's links, so I'll probably be doing that some time soon (although my priority's on the current dungeon because it's upsetting and disturbing and I just want to get it over and done with.