50 Books in a Year Update:
( What I Have Read )

7. The Parliament of Birds by Geoffrey Chaucer, Transl. E.B. Richmond
8. Love Visions by Geoffrey Chaucer, Transl. Brian Stone
9. Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, Transl. Neville Coghill
10. Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm also now in the process of reading Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Metamorphoses, so 13 books read, only...37 more books to go in 30 weeks. Hmmm.......I need to rededicate myself to reading a lot more often.

I deconstructed my room, so now it's a little freaky and soul-less. I put up my posters and was nestled in the first day, if not the first 6 hours of moving in, so I never had time to notice how terribly white the room is. I really should've left my posters up until tonight, since I move out Wednesday afternoon, but....It was simpler to get most of my packing done now. Speaking of....I should really get to packing clothes, for all that it will only take 30 minutes once my laundry is done.

I finished my Chaucer paper (which turned out harder than it would have been if only books were posted online), and now I am going to be studying today for my Planets final. Since the final is A) in combination with the midterm, only 40% of my final grade, B) I've gotten consistent 9-10/10s on my labs which accounts for 60% of my final grade, C) is curved, and if one quiz section does insanely better than all the rest of the class and skews the curve (like my quiz section managed to do for the midterm) the prof doesn't take that section into account, and D) I actually know a lot of this stuff, I'm not that worried about if I study poorly for it. The only incentives to studying my brains out in order to 4.0 the test is self-satisfaction and the fact that he weighs the final more if we show improvement in the final. Soooo...yeah. Not worried.

And Naruto Shippuden: Why can't you come to the US faster?! Let's skip all the dumb fillers and get straight to the real stuff! I want to know what everybody's fussing about with Itachi and...well, not interested in Sasuke, but what's going on with him and Itachi?!? Same to Doctor Who, though since SciFi was kind enough to air the episodes only about 2 weeks behind BBC (the edited versions, to our discontent), I suppose it's less of a rant and more of a "please to be showing us our Doctor Who at the same time as the lucky British folk and without the 43-minute version."

7 Days Until I Go to Rome!!!!!!!!!! now if I could only figure out this stupid cell phone mess I'd be less stressed


I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

I went and tried this little pizza place called "Valarmos" which I'd read about in the UW's student newspaper. Supposedly their calzones are "the size of a football."

LIIEESS! It's a whole half-an-inch shorter in height than a football! Never mind that it's the same length and width, I declare false advertisement!

I got the "clucker calzone" which is marinated chicken, roasted red peppers, red onions and mozzarella. The crust I could pretty much eat by itself, the mozzarella is thick and gooey enough that you can pull, and pull, and pull and the cheese won't let go, and they don't skimp on the rest of the "toppings." Though, I sorta wish I'd asked to have it without the onions, because it tends to drown out the rest of the flavors. I'd finished a little less than half, not because I was stuffed but because I didn't want to run the risk of overeating and then having to walk in the heat down to the bus-stop (because there was no way I was walking all the way back to UW from where Valarmos is). The price is excellent, too. Less than $10 for what is now counting as 2 meals. It reheats pretty well, but definitely better fresh.

Annddd.....that's the end of my random food review.

I went to B&N earlier and got the last of my "required" texts for Rome, as well as a Moleskine notebook which fits nice and snug in my back pocket ^___^. I was going to renew my B&N membership, which is why I refrained from indulging myself with sci-fi/fantasy books, but found out my sister beat me to it. It's probably for the better; I've got enough to buy for Rome as it is.

Also went to Baskin Robbins. And bought a World Class Chocolate milkshake; not very original, considering I always have the same flavor when I buy shakes, but it's just oh-so-delicious. *mourns the fact that she has no more World Class Chocolate milkshake*

So, for Rome, I have to prepare this little presentation/talk(s) on something Roman. A site, books, etc. etc. I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I kept putting it off until a few days ago because I just plain didn't know, but a new email from the prof made me decide to actually research my choices. I went back to the list of topics, and one kept leaping out of the screen at me:

Via Appia.

I felt like I'd seen that before. So, I Wikipedia'd (that really, really shouldn't be a verb) it, and found that it was the Appian Way. And I recalled from a little earlier, when I'd been looking up Doctor Who quotes to put on my door, that there was a quote the Doctor said in Fires of Pompeii: "Yes way no way Appian Way!"

......I e-mailed the prof and asked to have that as my topic. Heh.

I have a Korean presentation coming up this Thursday *shudders* and I needed a topic on Korea, cultural, linguistic, historical, etc. I decided to do the 1988 Summer Olympics that was hosted in Seoul, and only after I realized the connection between Via Appia-Doctor Who did I remember that the Doctor was a torchbearer in the Olympics.

*is a sad little fangirl that manages to connect everything that happens in her life to her fandoms*

TOWEL DAY IS TOMORROW!!!!!!! KNOW WHERE YOUR TOWEL IS!!!!!!!! TAKE IT EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[in House's subconscious]
Dr. Cuddy: [Stops stripping and looks at House] I'm distracting you. [starts to get up]
Dr. House: No!
[Cut back to Cuddy who is now dressed normally and sits down next to House]
Dr. House: Dance, woman!
Dr. Cuddy: [Resignedly] You'd rather be diagnosing.
Dr. House: I screamed "no"!
Dr. Cuddy: And your own subconscious ignored you. I guess you'd rather fantasize about finding symptoms. How screwed up is that? --House, House's Head

That whole "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" thing? Yeah, unless they're talking about the Doctor, they're wrong. I bought some Fuji apples from QFC, ate them every day since Wednesday last week until I ran out Friday, and Saturday morning what happens? I wake up with a cold. So pooh pooh, apples-a-day people, pooh pooh.

There's apparently this "Greek Week" going on, and of course Hansee is pretty much across the street from the Greeks, so I've been hearing music, screaming, bull horns, and who-knows-what for the last week all day.

I went to bed early Tuesday night so I could fight off the stupid cold, like 11PM early as opposed to 1AM. What's my reward? A drunk someone (I know who, but no naming names) comes to my next door neighbor at about 2AM, has a conversation loud enough to wake me up, and tops it by somehow slamming into my door. Yeeeaaahh, was real happy about that. Thankfully I managed to go right back to sleep, but the rude awakening? Not cool.

On the bright side of things, I have a three day weekend ahead of me! Woo!! It's because, for second year, we don't really have a textbook because our teacher is still in the process of writing/publishing it. She gives bits and pieces of it when we get to the chapter, but... all the loose sheets get lost in the multitude very quickly, and it's really hard to keep track of what grammar is covered in what chapter so we can go back and review it for tests and such. So she's taking that Friday to work on it. Yay!

I'm kinda/sorta planning on going to Pike Place tomorrow (since I cancelled my plans last weekend to go due to the onset of the cold), mostly to go to the comic book store they have there to pick up the latest issue of Buffy. Hopefully the (second) latest issue and maybe even the final issue of Serenity as well. I looked at their website, and apparently they're also up to issue #4 of the Doctor Who comic, which I remember Nikki telling me about, but it sort of promptly flew out of my mind. Sooo...we'll see if there are any back orders of the other issues. Better yet, we'll see if I have any money to buy any of these issues *glances figuratively at Rome out of the corner of her eye*

I'll probably explore a lot of the Market aside from the comic store, and maybe I'll treat myself to a lunch/dinner there (I'm really interested in finding that Piroshky-Piroshky! place). I just need to make sure I avoid the cheesecake-place, because I'm going to all-too-easily convince myself that I deserve it after my injurous week+cold. And then I want to find the Elliot Bay bookstore, and if I find that I might be able to find that chocolate-dessert place I went to back in junior year of high school on a field trip....

*headdesk* I'm so terribly excited about Rome, and it's going to be even more intense when I get there, but....GAH!! I need money now.

Speaking of Rome, at the meeting last week (has it only been a little over a week???) when all the writers introduced themselves, they mentioned majors and the like. And I'm amazed at how many psych majors there were. Not even double English/Psych majors, but solely psychology. I believe there was one who was double-majoring in English/Psych, but I think about half of the ~26 who showed up were psych majors. Kinda makes me wonder if maybe the Psych department needs to step up their study abroad game. Biology was another major that was strongly represented, too, I think. 'Tis odd.

Oh, and just about a week until the University District Street Fair. *sigh* Money money money money....bwah. *headdesk*

And, random mention here that I shall not explain: I am not a photogenic person at all. =\


The Doctor: I'll have to get a house! With - with doors and carpets, can you imagine? Me, living in a house?!
Rose: [singsong voice] You'll have to get a mortgage!
The Doctor: No.
Rose: Oh yes.
The Doctor: No. That's it, I'm dying. It is all over.
Rose: What about me? I'll have to get one too. Or - it could be the same one. [uncomfortably] We could... I don't know... share. [The Doctor stares at her] Or not, whatever.
The Doctor: Anyway.
Rose: Yeah, we'll see.
The Doctor: I promised Jackie I would always take you back home.
Rose: Everyone leaves home in the end.
The Doctor: Not to end up stuck here!
Rose: Yeah, well stuck with you, that's not so bad.
The Doctor: [surprised] Yeah?
Rose: Yes.

Ood: The Beast and his armies will rise from the pit to make war against God.
Rose: I'm sorry?
Ood: [whacks communication sphere] Apologies. I said "I hope you enjoy your meal". --Doctor Who, The Impossible Planet

So. My Italian visa. Which I've been griping and moaning about and probably making a lot of you roll your eyes at me from all the melodrama.

But once more, with feeling: I HATE VISAS!!!!!!!!!!!

However, I recognize that had I been more informed and if I'd been made more aware of what all the components were and when they were all due, I would be less angry with the visa (yes, I'm speaking of it like it's a human being, roll with it!).

So, really, my anger is aimed mostly entirely at the IPE office. *fumes with the thought*

In order to obtain an Italian visa, I need to prove "financial security." The only way I manage to attend and live at UW is through financial aid. So, I submitted the document saying I'd show I have financial aid so the people at IPE could write a letter saying, "She has money. Let her go to Rome."

Admittedly, I dropped the ball a tiny bit on this part. I didn't realize I needed to have already applied for summer aid by the time I submitted my visa application so the woman working with us Creative Writers (we shall henceforth call her YoSaffBridge because I don't like either woman) could send the collective visa apps sometime in the last week, so that's my fault. But the financial aid office doesn't decide financial awards until May-ish.

Can we see the issue here?

I submitted my visa application the 10th of April. YoSaffBridge only emailed me about the problem on the 29th. I'm not even going to try and speculate what all she was doing in those TWO WEEKS she had it.

And now, comes the true source of my anger (because up until that point I was merely frustrated). YoSaffBridge's office hours are from about 8-11ish and then from 2-closing. I got there at 2PM, almost exactly.

She walks in about 2:15 from her break. Then proceeds to take about 15 minutes to do...something. I have no idea what. We talk, she says I need a visa even though the program directors said all we have to do is sign an indemnity form if we didn't get a visa and pretend we're tourists instead of students. I go down to the Financial Aid office, I burden a very nice woman (Lisa, her name was, who was MUCH nicer than the last person I went to about financing Rome) with estimating how much financial aid I would receive for summer, I go back up to IPE about 10 minutes later with the estimate....and YoSaffBridge is "out."

I get that sometimes "when you gotta go, you gotta go." However, YoSaffBridge was only available for....10 minutes out of the 45 minutes I was at IPE.

Mayhaps I'm at the wrong university. When your hours are said to be from 2-closing, you're supposed to be at your office at 2 o'clock NOT leaving wherever you took your lunch at 2 in order to get to your office whenever you get there. Isn't that how it works? Or am I just strange?

I'd heard that IPE was horrible, and you have to watch 'em like a hawk to make sure they don't screw you over, but from the few, brief instances I dealt with them before it didn't seem bad. The secretary/person in charge (she seemed to have more knowledge than all the advisors put together, but she was only greeting people and answering the phone...) was very nice and helpful. But after YoSaffBridge....yeah. *takes out her hawk eyes*

Blah. I don't even know how coherent some of that is. I just got onto the elevator to escape IPE and thought, "She is so going into my livejournal." Grrrr.

I went grocery shopping yesterday, and I now have some yummy French bread, pepperjack cheese, lunch meat, and apples. Oh, and Pepsi, too. *drinks Pepsi to make up for the bad, bad IPE woman* Also went to B&N to pick up a copy of issue 13 of BtVS for Freddie and the 2nd issue of Better Days, since B&N takes about 2-3 weeks to stock the new issues. But they didn't have Better Days, sadly. I'll probably go to Pike Place and see if a comic store there has it. *hopes*

And there'll be Korean food tomorrow! The KSA at UW is hosting a "Korean Food Market" on the HUB lawn. Thankfully the food is bought through tickets purchased at the Ticket Office, so I can use my Husky Card to buy food. *cheers* Since I don't have cash and I demand Korean food. I just hope it's good food, and not fast-food quality Korean food (though I will still buy it).

The Korean test I took yesterday was difficult. Thankfully, though, it wasn't difficult because I didn't know my stuff (though it was still a factor). There was one section where it says, "fill in the blanks to reflect the translation given." Problem? There was no translation. Just a sentence in Korean, a blank, and whatever the heck our brains could come up with. Kim-sunsengnim wasn't there for the test, too, because she had to survey her TAs or some such, so we had no one to ask. Then there was a part where we had to use a certain sentence connector and come up with a sentence based on cues given in English. I knew how to use the connector just fine, but the cues weren't working harmoniously.

Kim-sunsengnim noticed no one finished the test, though, so we get tomorrow to work on it after taking a glance at it today to refresh our memories what we had trouble with. We informed her about the lack of a translation to "reflect" from, so she'll fix that. I don't know what I'm going to do about the connector thing, but at least I'll have more time to B.S. it and get partial credit.

Had my Planets midterm today, too. I know I didn't get 100%, but I didn't utterly fail either! I'm predicting perhaps about a 3.0, maybe a little less if the TAs didn't get their coffee/chocolate/whatever. The labs are weighted more than the tests, though, and I've been getting an average of 9/10, so I'm not worried about my Planets grade (unless something changes for the worst in the class).

I'm feeling a little calmer now. Probably #11 on "You Know You're a Writer When" shirt: You write out everything that makes you frustrated/angry and you feel better afterwards. Heh.

And I gave Nikki her bday present, so now I can show the x-stitching project I did for her.
( David Tennant in sepia )


Buffy: You're right. Ooh! She's even affecting my work, now. She's the Titanic. She's a crawling black cancer!
[She brings her foot up, around and down onto a bench, breaking it in two.]
Buffy: She's... other really bad things.
Oz: On the plus side you've killed the bench, which was looking shifty.
....
Willow: [on the phone with Rupert Giles] Giles, I just talked to Buffy and, yeah, I think she's feeling a little... insane. [pause] No, not bitchy crazy, more like... homicidal maniac crazy. So I told her to come see you, OK? --S.4, Living Conditions

[takes place in the musical episode, so everyone's singing]
Anya: I've got a theory, it could be bunnies. [uncomfortable pause]
Willow: I've got a theor-
Anya [accompanied by rock music]:
Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes!
They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses!
And what's with all the carrots?
What do they need such good eyesight for, anyway?
Bunnies! Bunnies! It must be bunnies!
[Long silence. rock music stops]
Or maybe midgets? --S.6, Once More With Feeling, Buffy

So, yeah, er...here comes my inner English!geekness. I saw these icons and, well, yeah, needed to have them.

First one I got:


Essentially sums up every single pet peeve I have whenever I read fanfiction or, *facepalm* peers' papers or *facepalm harder* published works (i.e. newspapers, magazines, etc.).

And saw this one today:


Sadly....this is pretty much my rule of thumb when I write papers and I don't want to sound entirely stupid (whether or not using these phrases makes me sound even more stupid is up for debate). Is it sad that I laughed and thoroughly enjoyed these grammar icons? Probably.

So, here endeth my icon!squee.

I'm loving my Chaucer class, even though it's throwing me for a loop. I'm used to the teachers demanding that students speak up, that if we don't participate 'you don't get participation points, which is ZOMG bad for your grade!!1!1!1111!!' But Remley, he just kinda sits on the desk (I think it may have something to do with the fact that the chair's too low for him) and rambles on about the mechanisms of Med. Lit and about Chaucer's sources and parodies, etc. etc., and if there's ever a hand raised he lets them speak up when he pauses to take a breath. It's a new method of teaching an English class for me. I like it, since it doesn't penalize me for being a quiet person in class and for not being able to say my point before someone else does. And in spite of the fact that The Canterbury Tales is technically a poem, I love reading it. So, all's good in my English class as it should be. *waves a banner happily*

I got my pasaporte, huzzah. And..well, I opened it and saw the picture used for my identification.....*winces* I think I kinda forgot about how bad it was, and it was a huge shock to my system to be reminded. People at the airport are gonna look at it, look at me, and tell me that I'm a horrible person for stealing somebody else's passport, I'm sure. Or make some comment to the effect that I've changed quite a bit. At least in my driver's license the blonde is a lot more hidden; I don't even remember when the picture was taken.

I'm finding myself getting drawn back to Darkwing Duck, which is bad because...well, that makes one too many shows for me to be watching. True, DW--er, DWD is over (sadness) but there's still 91 half-hour episodes for me to watch (minus the....6-7 episodes I've seen now), on top of Torchwood (though I am 1 episode away from being caught up) as well as Life on Mars (5 episodes from finishing) and Doctor Who (3 more days before another episode, YAY!!!!!), and soon House will be back on (Monday 21st) AND I'm still doing the 50 Books in a year thing, and am still stuck at trying to finish #6 (which I think is going to switch from The Secret Agent to The Canterbury Tales [Beidler Ed.]). *headdesk* I'm not even going to touch on what I need to do for school/Rome.

I need to make a trip down to B&N sometime this week (probably tomorrow) to finally pick up the last of my Chaucer textbooks, and also to pick up Metamorphoses by Ovid for Rome, and then hopefully I'll be done with books and such! I love books, I do, but having to constantly go out and come back only to go back out again and repeat the process practically 6 times makes me a little weary. Of course, in addition to the Ovid Rome is requiring another book which is out of print! Why can't they pick a different book which isn't out of print which may still cover the same material is beyond me. The email the program director sent to us didn't say explicitly we needed to buy the books, just read them, so....maybe I can just check it out from the library and read it and do it that way, yes/yes? I'll ask him at the info session at the end of the month, and hopefully he'll be agreeable. If not....to Amazon.com/Barnes&Noble.com I go.

Which leads me to another point (sorry, sorry, I know my entries tend to ramble on): Why in pluperfect heck isn't this info session earlier?!?! As in, before the visa application is due??? It doesn't make sense to me why things are running late. Like the deposit? The application says the charge would show up a week after you send confirmation and you need to pay it then. That didn't happen. He later says in an email sent on the 4th, "but it is all straightened out and your deposit amounts should appear very soon". Um....no. Still nothing yet. *headdesk* He's done this at least once before, if not more than that....I'm not entirely certain why this year seems more behind. Did he do this last year, too? It doesn't seem likely to me, but....oh well. What happens happens.

I need to get out more, out to Seattle-proper and such. I'm thinking of a trip to Pike Place this weekend (not interrupting DW, of course!), simply so I can get out and about, but we'll see what happens. I tend to make plans and promise whole-heartedly that I will make good on them, but then it rolls around and I'm too lazy to get out. Maybe I need to drag Kathryn and Nikki and Freddie into it or something, who knows.

38% Geek

Col. O'Neill: I do appreciate that you were the one to come and see if I was okay. That... that means something.
Dr. Jackson: Ah... actually, no, it doesn't.
Col. O'Neill: No?
Dr. Jackson: Um... we, ah, we drew straws. I lost. --Stargate SG-1, Shades of Grey

Because I'm super-uber-totally-completely-withoutadoubt-insanely-indescribably excited about this:

DOCTOR WHO SEASON 4 BEGINS THIS SATURDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *FLAILS*

And because it cannot be emphasized enough:

21 EPISODES HAVE BEEN ORDERED FOR EUReKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SEE?!?!?!?!?! *FLAILS MORE*

Went to B&N and sorted out my book order and picked up the one they did have, and wound up....well, wound up spending far too much time there than I probably should have. I was sorta browsing through the "travel in Italy/Rome" books, and then I went up to the fiction section and was trying to justify buying more books, but....no. That road leads to my sister hitting me for overloading the car.

After B&N went to go get my lab manual for my Planets class, and passed by this used bookstore called Magus Books. I went inside to see if they might have the one Chaucer book B&N didn't have (either in stock or at their warehouse), and lo and behold....THEY HAD IT! The exact same edition, and from the UBookstore no less, so I'm fairly certain it was from someone who took my class previously. Heh. $4.50 instead of $11? Yes please.

Got my Planets lab thing, crossed the street to the STA/Council travel agency and got my ISIC (International Student Identification Card; it's for students and they get discounts and the like), then went to UTeriyaki and got some bibimbap. 'Twas yummy, but I think I may have added a little too much of the spicy paste, but it was still delicious, so it's all good.

All of that took about 3 hours, and when I got back I found I had apparently scared Nikki (and Alayna, and Freddie) with my April Fools message I left on my white board saying: "I am at Olympia indefinitely, call." Oops. *apologizes profusely*

Nikki and I watched another episode of Life on Mars (which you should totally watch even if you aren't into cop shows, because it is AWESOME), and about halfway through a friend of hers came to be given a tour of Hansee. She showed him around, he got to see hers and my room and Freddie's, and quite a bit of the rest of it, and he was bought. ^.^

Kinda odd. I make Hansee out to sound like an apartment or rented house or something when it's a dorm. But, it really feels like a house rather than a dorm.

One of the books I browsed through at B&N (which I couldn't for the life of me find again; drat!!!) had some really good information about traveling abroad, and touched on the subject of student visas. And, uh...well, let's just say my family's going to be tearing my hair out of my head when I get started on that process, because there's at least one thing that is down in Olympia that I need to apply for a visa that I chose not to take up with me because I didn't want to deal with my mother's fuss and bad temper. *headdesk*

I sent an email to the person in charge of the Rome program a few minutes ago asking if they received my confirmation that I am going to Rome (which I should have done way before today, probably....), because they say the deposit charge is supposed to show up a week after I'm confirmed, and....it's been more than a week since I've confirmed, and that little extra charge never showed up. *feels like she dropped the ball somehow*

Vincent: (about the customers looting Café Diem) First the utensils turned to gold, then the counters, then the silverware. And that’s when they turned against me. Like vultures. Greedy little genius vultures. I thought intelligent men were above such things.
Carter: (spots Fargo trying to swipe a gold cappuccino machine) Fargo! Really?
Fargo: It’s just so shiny. --EUReKA (go watch EUReKA as well if you haven't!)

Happy Easter (almost 22 hours into it...)!!

Spring break is great so far; making progress on my Looney Tunes cross stitching (which I've been working on for, I believe, 2 summers...) and a lot of other stuff. And I've discovered that, no matter what I try, I will never have enough space for all my books and DVDs. Just the few books I brought home filled up my bookshelf. *headdesk*

Oh! I believe it was on my birthday when my sister and I went to IHOP and I saw a car with a Doctor Who bumper sticker, but I discovered I didn't remember what the sticker read when I got around to posting. I was very disappointed in myself, to be sure, but then yesterday.....THE SAME CAR DROVE PAST MY MOTHER AND I!!! ^.^ And her bumper sticker read: "So many species, so little time." ^______^ I am now satisfied. Hurray for small towns, bwahahahahahaha.

And I noticed something today about one of the gifts a friend of mine gave me from one of her trips in Europe. She gave me a mug, and this was way back before I was even aware there was a Rome program, but the mug has "Italy" on it. ^___^ I was highly amused when I finally realized it.

My mother is watching a Korean variety show, and for a few seconds they were playing music from FFX. .......Yes, I recognized it. .........Yeah, okay, I'm a little bit pathetic and lots geeky.

Gideon: Plato once said that for everything that exists, there is a perfect form of it somewhere. A perfect Human being, a perfect chair, a perfect stick; so that everything is a Shadow of that one perfect form. Now, if we follow that train of thought, that means that somewhere in the universe there exists the perfect form of an absolute and perfect idiot. And he left here an hour ago. --Crusade

Really, this is the last time I will make mention of LJ business-related stuff...Promise! But....the article the second comment links to?? Um...No. Just...No. That tactic is not going to work. At all.

Here is a full translation of the article cited in the above link. The contempt the guy has in the article is just....disgusting.

Beware all Apple users! If you get a MacBook Air, you may want to hold off on getting on an airplane if you want it with you:

Pats her nice and obvious HP laptop

It makes me wonder what's going to happen 50 years from now, when the MacBook Air's technology becomes "old news" and all laptops are as thin as that, without losing capacity. What's going to be making the old people scratching their heads, then? And I'm totally shutting out the fact that in 50 years I'll be 71.

Turned in my Rome contract/legality stuff yesterday. I kind of want to wait to let the person in charge to send out an email with a timeline of things to come (meeting dates, payment deadline for the initial deposit etc.) but if the end of spring break comes and there's no word, I'll take the initiative I just really don't want to.

I'm slowly gathering stuff that will go home with me so I won't overload the car come June when I move out. But now my bookshelf is so sad, 'cause it's not full any more. *sad face* I've had to stick stuff that don't really belong on the bookshelf in order to keep what remains from tipping over, and now the top shelf is completely barren. I think it's official: I am an Ultimate Booknerd. But I understand the necessity (so no yelling at me, sister!); let's just hope I remember why there are so few books on my shelves, and don't get possessed with the insatiable "OMG I HAS SPACE, NEED MORE BOOOOKSSSS!!!" force.

I click on my 'fanfiction' tag and, aside from a rant that has nothing to do with posting and the DW xmas gift to tinuviel428, I haven't posted fanfiction here since October '07. O.O I feel like a terrible fanfic writer. And...all my WIPs? Haven't been worked on, in spite of the fact that I absolutely love them. I bring up the documents on Word to work on them and....no Muse. None. Period. And there are people waiting for them (maybe....it's possible I've lost all my loyal readers from my hiatus which I told them would end in January...oops).

Soooo....to make myself feel better, Chapter 5 of First Steps! Since it's really the only multi-chaptered fic that's actually finished. And I've determined to finish posting that story on LJ before too long, so my apologies to my flist. You'll be getting a lot of MK-fanfic updates in addition to nothingness rambles.


Title: First Steps
Author: me (ffjunkie42 or, on ff.net, sagdragon3002)
Genre: MK, general.
Rating: PG (K+ if you go by ff.net's thing)
Summary: The Defenders of Earth Realm first met Raiden two years ago, when the first official Kombat of their generation began...Or did they? Written in a series of ficlets.
Disclaimer under cut.
Links to other chapters under cut.

( Flattery and humbleness would be expected from a poor beggar, though Raiden was miffed he hadn't gotten the chance to scare the mortal brats. )


Cloud: All right, everyone, let's mosey.
Cid: Damn! Again! Stop sayin' it like a wimp! Can't you say 'Move out!'
or somethin'?
Cloud: ...Move out! --Final Fantasy VII

3 More Days until I'm 21.

The WGA-strike is (almost, I believe?) over! Yay! Lasted 3 months, and apparently cost SoCal's economy almost $2 billion, but I am glad that the writers got what they deserved. There was a mention in the article about how the showrunners lost a lot of money because their typical 22-episode season will be cut to about 12 to 13 episodes, but I think the showrunners are okay with that.

(And, btw Nikki, apparently Moonlight will have some new episodes produced for April/May.)

Now! Bring me back my EUReKA, House, and....and.....huh. Um.....that's it for American telly. Um....wow. I need more television in my life.

Season 4 of Doctor Who is coming to SciFi channel! It'll begin airing in April, along with The Sarah Jane Adventures. Yay!

Roy Scheider died Sunday. He was 75, so he had a long life, but it's still terribly sad. I'm frightened by how many actors I knew as a child are passing on (he's from SeaQuest, though if you're not a scifi buff you'd probably know him from Jaws).

I got the paperwork to change my English Lit major to Creative Writing Emphasis taken care of yesterday, and in addition to that the advisor I saw helped me so freaking much with figuring out the financial stuff for the Rome program. Bridget is the kind of advisor who makes up for all the really terrible experiences I've had with advisors in high school. I kinda hope I can still meet with her, since she's in the English office, and not the Creative Writing office, because she knows her stuff! Thanks for pointing her out to me, Nikki!

I don't actually know how precisely I'm going to afford the program, but....Bridget said she'd email me once the budget for the program is hashed out, and I can go talk to a financial aid advisor about it. I was actually taken aback a bit because she said she'd email me specifically. Like.....she'll actually remember me later. My high school advisor didn't, and my high school was ~950 as opposed to the ~40,000 that attend UW (though, of course, not all 40,000 are English majors.... but you get the idea).


You're gonna need a bigger boat. Roy Scheider, Jaws. RIP.

Um...Yeah. A Merry-Almost-Two-Months-Late-Christmas to tinuviel428. It's not the best quality Doctor Who fanfic, but....I decided to stop whinging about how not-up-to-par it is and let you finally have your Christmas gift.

Available to all who wish to enjoy a Tenth Doctor/Rose Christmas fic, though I apologize right up front for my atrocious British lingo. If you're British (or you have a better grasp of it than I) and want to point out words I should change, feel free! The fic does contain a tiny romantic Doctor/Rose moment, so you are warned.

And......enjoy The Fluff.

( Deck the Halls with Fluff )

I managed to lose my cell in my mother's car just as I was dropped off at my dorm and they headed back down to Olympia. *facepalm*

Not too much to update. My sister's birthday was yesterday, so the family and I went out to LittleCreek Casino and ate at the buffet. For some unknown reason my mother just loves buffets. And since my sister was apathetic, we went to a buffet. The food was good, but *shrugs* I think I prefer ordering entrees and the like.

I apparently have more mad skillz at the art of the claw-machine (the thing where you stick quarters in to use a claw to pick up dolls, etc.) than my sister (which still isn't saying much at all). She spent at the very least $2 trying to nab this green Taz doll, and missing it. I stuck in 50 cents and got it first try. I'd say "no problem," except when the claw returned to its spot it wouldn't release the doll. So I had to stick in another 50 cents just to hit the button on the joystick and make it drop the thing. *rolls eyes*

I'm about as prepared to face this week as I am to attend grad school, re: NOT AT ALL. At least I start out on an easy day instead of one where I have lots of work due. Except tomorrow (or maybe more accurately Wednesday morning) does not look to be a sun-shiny day in terms of homework.


[in an insane asylum]
Martha: Let us out!
The Doctor: That's not gonna work, the whole building's shouting that.

It kinda looks like greatestjournal is dying the slow, agonizing 404-death, so I went through and found pretty much just this one meme that I wanted to save. So...Random meme post!

( A Survey )

In other news, I'm thinking about doing the Classics and Ancient History minor (it's all one minor, in spite of the 'and' in the middle). The one downside of it is that I'd have to drop 3rd year Korean, and make ABSOLUTELY certain that one of those classes is a writing credit (which...since there's history classes I need to take, shouldn't be that hard to complete it) and also not eff up any of those classes. I suppose I could take 3rd year Korean alongside, but....it'd mean overloading on credits. And that is just a "hell f^(< no" scenario. Besides, I have to wait and see if I even pass second year with enough skill to join 3rd year.

I just know that my mother's going to be terribly disappointed in me for not pursuing it all the way through and "dumping it" for some other classes. If I stay here at UW for a Masters degree (*shudder*gasp*faint*), I'd probably move heaven and earth (and my courses) to take 3rd year if I hadn't, but that won't satisfy my mother. She'll just say, "Take it now. Take more later." (that is, if she doesn't say first, "Why a Masters? Get a job! You've done enough school!")

I'm not too sure why I'm obsessed with the desire to have a minor. I guess it's because having a minor sort of shows I have more knowledge in areas other than English, which is a major in a universal skill lots of people have (unless it's Creative Writing--if you don't think so, take a CW-class). I might've been an Earth & Space Sciences minor (which actually kinda freaks me out, 'cause I'm not a science-y person) but I realized the ESS classes were pretty fun too late. The UW doesn't have a Korean minor, and I really don't have time/credit space to do any other minor (prerequisites and all that). I've looked through the C&AH minor and I can plausibly do it, with the aforementioned conditions. There's even another minor that's just Classics, which is only 25 credits as opposed to 30, but I like History. It's tempting to do a History minor, but I can't do all three or whatnot. For one thing, it's not allowed (if you do Classics & Ancient History you can't have any other minor in the Classics and/or History field), and for another even if it were I don't have enough credit-space to fulfill all the requirements.

*headdesk* Why do I have to keep complicating my undergrad career? Why couldn't I have been a smart, dedicated little freshman and gone straight ahead with the English major, not screwed around with classes I didn't have interest in, and further explored classes that I did??? Oh, Doctor, where are you and the TARDIS and my chance to slip a little note to myself to go full-steam ahead with the English-CW plan (never mind the Reapers that might pop up from this slight alteration in time...).

I've decided that (teachers permitting) I'm going to skip out on my Korean and Korean film classes on the 27th so I can attend a "What to do with a Lit major" panel. Yes, yes, I'm making this huge hullaballoo about being a CW major, but I don't think it'd hurt to know what Lit majors can do, either. I'm sure anything they do CW majors could do, too. It's looking like my week of Jan 28-Feb 1 will be busy as heck:

Monday Jan 28: The Publishing World @ 3:30-5:20 (Don't know for sure if I want to do this one)
Tuesday Jan 29: Applying to Graduate and Professional School @ 1:30-2:30; Career Resources for Students in the Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts @ 4:00-6:30
Wednesday Jan 30: What Can You Do with a Literature Major? @ 12:30-2:20 (this is the one that forces me to skip class); Master in Fine Arts: How to Get There from Here @ 3:30-5:00
Thursday Jan 31: Nothing
Friday February 1: Careers in Writing and Editing @ 3:30-5:20

I'm going to have no free time at all that week. Ick. Luckily I don't have a lot of homework due in my classes. And there's the added headache of thinking about *cue scary music* Graduate School. A.K.A. "Life After Sheltered Undergrad Years" A.K.A. "Putting Off the Job/Career Search." Ugh. *headdesk*

Ummm, something more mundane than UniversityUniversityUniversity.....I thought I had shampoo still in my tote, but I got to the shower, turned on the water, looked in, and....no shampoo. Had to use my Satsuma soap in lieu of it, which isn't bad at all, but....that wasn't much of a pleasant surprise. Bought 6.8 fl oz. of Pert down at Ian's, but if/when I go to Target/QFC I'll buy a bigger bottle of shampoo.

Oh! And I finished the 2nd season of Doctor Who Saturday con Nikki! And... and.... ROOOOOSSSSEE!!! What they did was totally unnecessary. Completely. Just give Billie Piper enough money; she would've stayed on. Or else tie her up in the TARDIS and keep her there for the rest of eternity.

...Yes, the post turned to that which is FANDOM (specifically Doctor Who). Are you honestly that surprised?

Edit 8:36PM: IT SSSSSSNNNNNNOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEDDDDDD!!!!!!!! Nikki and I were watching Doctor Who and at the end the Doctor made it snow, and then someone came by Nikki's room and mentioned it was snowing, and IT WAS!!!! THE DOCTOR MADE IT SNOOOOOOW!

"...The people and the friends that we have lost, or the dreams that have faded... Never forget them." Yuna, FFX

I'm struck by how much moving back into my dorm feels a lot like moving back to a second home. It's definitely the people; I got back and Nikki was already there, so she helped me with a few things (thanks!), and then when I was escorting my sister back to the car I ran into Kathryn and it was wonderful to see her. Nikki and I hung out in her room for...gosh, I don't know how long, but it was just us talking and just hanging out, and it's ridiculous how great that was. We ran into Ally (she lives in my little nook of the dorm) and it was fun to talk with her, and Freddie was back and we talked and she's finally seen Firefly so now we can talk about that AND Buffy, and.....well, life at the dorms is really not as bad as people make it out to be. I can see how it does get that bad, but....honestly, if you put aside preconceptions and all the negativity, it's pretty damned enjoyable.

The fates seemed to decide that I needed to buy a Murder Mystery kit; I was all ready to make it a straight shot to UW from home (and the trip only took us an hour, when it's usually riddled with traffic, woo!), but my sister pulled into Mega Foods and said Mom told her to buy me another case of Pepsi (which, actually, I really didn't need another, but *shrugs*), so I deemed it as a sign from the fates that I'm supposed to buy one. I bought "A Murder on the Grill" and it's beginning to almost look like the entire floor is being invited for an 8-person kit ^.^ It'll be excelente. All the characters are gonna be Siamese twins or something, haha. And we'll have lots of barbecue food, and then possibly maybe watch Clue afterwards (and I got it for free! Thanks to me selling my soul to Borders, but they had a 3 for 2 DVD sale going on....so I had to...).

Nikki and I watched an episode of Doctor Who (yay!) and then watched Voyage of the Damned. Tux!Ten is....*spaces for a few minutes* sorry, what? Oh, Tux!Ten.................

....Um, yeah, we'll, uh, start this back up again. Next project!: Ten in a velvet tux. *taps fingertips against each other diabolically*

I was hanging out with Nikki and she was talking with people in her hall, and one of the people (who is a DW fan and watched VotD with us!) mentioned World of Warcraft and how he just recently got addicted to it. I admitted that I couldn't afford anymore RPG addictions because of Final Fantasy.

One guy whose room we were having this conversation in front of came out of the room and said, "Final Fantasy?" We all kinda looked at him askance, and he said, "Someone said Final Fantasy. I play Final Fantasy." ^_____^ YaY Final Fantasy Fans!

I don't wanna go to class tomorrow. UW really needs to institute something like a week where we don't do anything but "acclimate" to our surroundings again. Even if we had to come a week earlier, I wouldn't mind. Just having to jump right back in makes me feel achy. I realize this is more a fault of the Housing and not the UW itself, but still. Give us time, seriously!!

Tomorrow I start my day at 10:30, sitting in a lecture for my Weather class (a 101 class, for Natural World[science] credit), have an hour break, and then go to 2nd Year Korean (which I haven't studied at all since the first week of December...ick), and right after Korean I have to go to my Korean film class, which finishes at 2:30. Then I go to the UBookstore and buy my Weather book, and whatever coursepacks I need to buy for the other 2 classes. I'm considering a run to UVillage (B&N, really...) to see if Issue 10 of Season 8 Buffy has come in. Plus, there's this toy/game store and I want to see if they have this game called Crack the Case (from my visit to Jared's place over the break) for my friend Kim. Sometime this week, possibly the weekend, I need to make a run to Target because 1) I need clothes hangers, and B--no...2) I left my only other sports bra down in Olympia, and I really can't live without good support (Yes, that might have been too much info--tough luck). I may buy a desk-organizer, too; I bought one at Fred Meyer Saturday, but....I've got a lot of other bulky stuff that's free-floating in my insanely-huge drawer, and I'd rather keep them stabilized rather than letting them slide back and forth throughout and making a further ruin of my organization.

My water-heater functions properly now! Heat actually radiates from the pipes rather than just requiring me to put my hands on the pipes. AND it goes through ALL the coils, rather than just the first few. I am excited. I won't freeze to death this winter!


The Doctor [about a spaceship with the name...]: Titanic. Who thought of the name?
Host: Information: it was chosen as the most famous vessel of the planet Earth.
The Doctor: Did they tell you why it was famous?

The Doctor: Bad name for a ship... either that or this suit is really unlucky.

Mr Copper [an "expert" on the planet Earth]: I shall be taking you to Old London town in the country of UK, ruled over by Good King Wenceslas. Now human beings worship the great god Santa, a creature with fearsome claws and his wife Mary. And every Christmas Eve, the people of UK go to war with the country of Turkey. They then eat the Turkey people for Christmas dinner... like savages.

Mr Copper: [on Christmas] It's a festival of violence! They say that human beings only survive depending on whether they've been good or bad! It's barbaric!
The Doctor: Actually, that's not true. Christmas is a time of...of peace, and thanksgiving, and... [trails off] What am I on about? My Christmases are always like this! --Doctor Who, Voyage of the Damned

....Yeah, you won't get the subject header if you aren't a Doctor Who fan, or at least know what Daleks are and say.

It's 2:40 in the morning, but I figured I'd post now and save all of Sunday (...yeah, sure, I'll work all day Sunday....) for my short story/poetry writing.

Nikki and I made some marvelous Holiday!Daleks Saturday. They were very delicious. Need I say more?

( So people's flist doesn't explode in failure. )

We just baked cake mix in a mini-muffin pan, put it with a big-sized marshmallow, covered it in vanilla frosting and green icing (for the holiday-theme), and used cinnamon decorative pieces and Pocky for the miscellaneous stuff. ^__^ Very delicious. If you don't know what a Dalek is.....watch Doctor Who! Or...be dull and go do a Yahoo/Google Image search for "daleks."

Ummm...Yeah. Too tired. Will probably edit this later as I procrastinate from doing work.

Mr. Green: Why would anyone want to kill the cook?
Miss Scarlet: Dinner wasn't THAT bad.
Colonel Mustard: How can you make jokes at a time like this?
Miss Scarlet: It's my defense mechanism.
Colonel Mustard: Some defense. If I was the killer, I would kill you next!
Miss Scarlet: Oh?
[Everyone looks at Colonel Mustard]
Colonel Mustard: I said IF! IF! --Clue

So, y'know all that "oh, pity me, pity me, my week's been overrun by homework," blah blah blah stuff I wrote earlier?

Yeah. It's all better now. CAUSE IT'S FREAKIN' SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know how else to emphasize the WONDERFULNESS that is the SNOW, except to make the words nice red and white and green colors, and I don't know how to do that, so I'll leave it as is. ADKHFALSKHDFLADHALDHFLASDK!!!

Yes, Jan-jan and Mom: I'll stop whining about how I never get snow. ^_________^

PICTURES!!!!!

Yes, you'll actually get to see me, the real person me. And that's Nikki, and Hansee and our friend Ally. ^__^ We like snow. Edit: I put the pics in a separate f-locked post for the sake of privacy and so I could open this one to the public. If you're really that interested in seeing the pics, then *gasp* you'll have to friend me! (or else friend my friend Nikki [aren't I getting into the whole lj-lingo...using "friend" as a verb...])

I'd gotten up at about noon and there'd been no sign of snow, and then I looked back up again and THERE WAS SNOW!!!!!! I booked it outta my room and called up Nikki, and we had lots of fun in little courtyard in front of my room. We went to the Quad where we (meaning her with her camera and me with my phone) took lots of pictures while our hair turned icicle-y, went to McMahon to have food, and went back to Hansee (where it was even more obvious that Hansee IS Hogwarts).

I took an insanely long shower, and used my satsuma shower gel. The shower stall now smells like satsuma. Hehehehehehe.

In other (slightly sadder) news, Evel Knievel died Friday. Madeleine L'Engle, Robert Jordan, Evel Knievel.....who next? *sigh*

But then.....24 DAYS TIL DOCTOR WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!!!!! *dances* Nikki and I are gonna watch more DW later. And last night we were watching the episode School Reunion, and the Headmaster of a school came on and spoke and I kinda said aloud to Nikki and myself, "Man, that sounds and looks so much like Giles...." And then we got a close-up of the Headmaster, and I thought, "Okay, no, too much likeness...he's gotta be..." And Nikki remembered that, yes, Anthony Head IS the Headmaster, and my head exploded with fangirly-glee. 'Cause now that's a nice crossover-cameo exchange between the BtVS/DW-Verse. The Doctor and Rose were in the Buffy comics ("No Future For You, Pt. 1") and now Giles-in-Ripperish-form in Doctor Who!!! *flails*

I called my home today to let my family know that it was snowing, and the machine picked up first, so I screamed into the phone, "IT'SSNOWINGIT'SSNOWINGIT'SSNOWINGIT'SSNOWINGIT'SSNOWINGSSSSSSQQQQQQQQQUUUUUEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" Yes, that is literally what I did and said, right down to the lack of spacing and the SQUEE!. I am not lying. My sister could easily confirm it.

It's still snowing. IT'S STILL FREAKING SNOWING!!!!

[After arriving at Hansee after dinner, in the fork between McKee and Blaine]
Me: "So, Doctor Who'ing tonight?"
Nikki: "Oh, yeah, absolutely."
Leah (another nearby girl on our floor): "Doctor Who'ing?"
Nikki and I in (unplanned) conjunction: "Oh, yeah, it's totally a verb now."
Nikki: JINX!! --

(Which, by the way.....TARDIS is now officially in the Oxford Dictionary AS WELL AS Dalek! .....No, my fangirling is never done, and you can't make me!!!)

It's raining/snowing down in Olympia at the moment.

Focus on the second part of "raining/snowing."

Seriously. Every time I come home for the holidays or weekend or what-have-you and leave for Seattle, IT SNOWS!! It couldn't snow whenever I'm around, oh no, it has to wait until I leave 'cause it's just not nearly as funny if I stayed.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

In other news.....OMGAHKDHAFHASLDFHALFHD;ASDFHROSEISCOMINGBACKKALHDFHALKDFHALKSDFHALSDHFLKASHFD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, those who don't pay attention to the universe that is Doctor Who where in the world are you?? won't be entirely moved by that piece. But you should be. Because ROSE IS COMING BAAAACK!!!! It's almost as good as J.K. Rowling informing the world that she's going to write an eighth Harry Potter book where Snape and Dumbledore and Moody and Fred and Dobby and Hedgewig and everybody else she murdered killed off are brought back to life (and Ron jumped off a cliff, 'cause Hermione's too good for him). Except, y'know.....THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SQUEEEEEE!!!!!

(for the sake of my flist who don't pay attention to DW, I'll stop now and save the rest of my fangirling for my other friend's lj.)

Look at the comic-square at the right of this page. This is EXACTLY What Happened to me. I came back on Sunday and all of a sudden my classes birthed homework due this week left, right, center, top, bottom, corners, and every other surface known to only The Doctor!!! And, of course, I'm not doing my homework now when I should be......but that's a technicality.

I think House has become my prime show of the regular TV season. I just love me my snarkiness (and Hugh Laurie is an even better reason to watch it, even minus his wonderful British accent, though his American one is just as squeeful). Sadly, though, my interest in Grey's is waning. I get that Grey's is more focused on the relationships of the doctors, and I don't mind that at all, but they fired my one ship of the show (BANG, or Burke/Yang), they won't give me the lowdown on the one character I actually love to bits (Alex), they had all this drama about George and Izzie getting together because of one night of heavenly sex and breaking Callie's heart and now (from what I've gleaned from the last episode I watched, which is about 2 weeks ago) they're breaking up 'cause the sex is bad, and they just won't cool it with the whole Meredith-Derek thing! It's just not satisfying to watch anymore. *is sad*

There's this thing called NaBloPoMo, which is kind of a wimpier version of the NaNoWriMo. You post one blog a day throughout the month of November. I think I'll be doing this next year, since, y'know...November's two days away from ending this year.....

I coulda/woulda/shoulda saved this for my "first day" entry coming up in a few days...But by then I wouldn't have any homework to procrastinate on. Meh.

Now I'm gonna go watch America's Next Top Model and eat Chocolate Peanut Butter ice cream. Should I be doing the latter (or either, really)? No, but really, it's kind of like what bears do right before hibernation....I'll just consider the ice cream as "insulation" for the Washington winter.

Speaking of which.....enough of the freaky sunny weather we've been having the last few days!!! It puts our rainy July to shame! Let's keep this dreary rain, this is normal and I'm okay with normal.

Taub: (uncovers rabbit cage) Aha! Tularemia.
Kutner: (not looking) Nah, you'd have to have rabbits.
Taub: True. Maybe a tick jumped from a rabbit and landed on one of these white fluffy alligators.

Cole: You don’t seem to care if you get this job or not.
Thirteen: Yeah, I’ve been here for eight weeks ‘cause my subscription to Masochism Weekly ran out. --House

And I'm now sick. How fun.

It's better that I'm sick now instead of, say, next week, but I'd have preferred to not be sick at all. But hopefully with a lot of multi-vitamin downage, a variety of medicines, guzzling down OJ, and lots of sleep I'll have this beaten quickly. I have decided, however, that while Nyquill may be for everyone, it's not for me. I managed to take a full dosage of it last night and still wake up 4-6 times in the course of the night. To its credit, it wasn't because of the cold, but still...I expected to be completely knocked out. Grr.

Because of the aforementioned cold, I didn't get to watch Eureka, but my sister kindly recorded it for me so I'll be watching it tonight. I'm curious to see how the Eureka writers take on the whole religion vs. science debate.

I'm moving up to campus next Tuesday, which means I need to get crackin' on getting my stuff together. Also need to go out and get a water purifier, because I really don't want my options to be narrowed down to spending way too much on bottled water or killing myself with chlorinated water.

I have the 6:50-10:50 AM move-in workshifts both Thursday and Friday next week. Yaaaay....And I am one of 4 people working at that hour as opposed to one of 6-10 like the other buildings. Woooo.

The Doctor: [on video] People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect... but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff.
Sally: Started well, that sentence.
The Doctor: [on video] It got away from me, yeah.
Sally: OK that was weird, you're talking like you can hear me.
The Doctor: [on video] Well I can hear you.
Sally: [turns off TV] OK, that's enough of that!
......
The Doctor: [gets out a small machine] I tracked you down with this. This is my "timey-wimey detector". Goes ding when there's stuff. Also it can boil an egg at thirty paces. [Makes a face] Whether you want it to or not, actually, so I've learned to stay away from hens; it's not pretty when they blow...
--Blink, Doctor Who

Kim, Nicole, and Melissa came over Monday nite and we had a Jang Geum/Jewel in the Palace party. Kim wanted to do some cooking, so we met a few hours beforehand and got groceries. We cooked up some chow mein (which turned out pretty damn well, most probably because Kim handled most of the actual "cooking" portion) and my mother, after informing me that she refused to cook for my party, made japchae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japchae). So, we had a great time and I actually got to give Melissa her birthday gift only 7 months late, rather than 11+ months late like last year.

Loved last week's Eureka episode. With all the gratuitous Jack-nudity and the fun dreams that are absolutely whacky, and the Zorro dream that turned out to be Jo's dream instead of Fargo's like most people would expect, it was all just great. The only thing I have against the episode is that I instantly tagged the Efficiency-Woman as the one behind the majority of the problem, but I'll forgive the writers since they gave me nekkid!Jack not once, but twice. This week's Eureka episode was pretty good, too; I think the part I liked most about it was that the ramifications from last week's episode didn't instantly disappear into thin air. Jack was still angry with Stark (when isn't he, anyway?) and also with Allison (which kinda gives people a break from the whole UST/romantic triangle thing) for withholding information, which was far more believable than him being all "Oh, I'll be so wonderful as to forgive you without any reason whatsoever." And next week's episode? "Dumbest little town in America?" A Eureka in which Jack is probably one of the smartest people still residing there? Oh yesss, much fun abounds.

I've discovered a new show in which to take up another notch in my heart, which is bad. And while I discovered Eureka in July rather than August, I think I should really start avoiding watching television during the months of July-September, aside from my designated shows, because if this keeps up....well, I really can't afford to be fangirling over 2 bajillion shows. But yes...Doctor Who. 'Tis my new show. I just love the Doctor. I think that was the creator's intended purpose, really, but still the Doctor is definitely my favorite. And although I have only watched ~4 episodes and not one of them had the Master in it, I'm really liking the Doctor/Master archrivalry.

......This is what fanfiction does to you. It makes you hooked.

Although, I can't really blame fanfiction wholly. It was Wikiquotes that made me do it! I was bored and I went and looked and I found so many quotes that I absolutely found hilarious without even seeing the actors' expressions and whatnot and and and and.........Yeah. I got lost.

I move back to the University Sept. 19. Wooo! Internet connection to my laptop! Which means I can update fanfiction! Which means...I should probably actively write/finish my fanfiction, ne? I also need to bone up on my Korean, so I don't completely humiliate myself 1st day of class.

And lastly.....Yay for Neopolitan ice cream. ^_________^


[The (Ninth) Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty (re: zombie) children.]
The Doctor: Go to your room. Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross! Go to your room! [The children lurch away.] I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.

Jack: Okay, this can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic cannon, and a triple enfolded sonic disruptor. Doc, whatcha' got?
The Doctor: [pulls out the sonic screwdriver] I've got a sonic, uh, oh never mind.
Jack: What?
The Doctor: It's sonic. Okay, let's leave it at that.
Jack: Disruptor? Cannon? What?!
The Doctor: It's sonic. Totally sonic! I'm sonicked up!
Jack: A sonic what?!
The Doctor: SCREWDRIVER!

Jack: [incredulously] Who has a sonic screwdriver?
The Doctor: I do!
Rose: [to herself] Lights!
Jack: Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, "Ooo, this could be a little more sonic"?
The Doctor: What, you've never been bored?
Rose: There's gotta' be a light switch!
Doctor: [to Jack] Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?

The Doctor: Close the door will you? Your ship's about to blow up; there's gonna be a draft --The Doctor Dances

The (Tenth) Doctor (after regenerating; played by David Tennant [who most people (not including me; can't stand the movies) would probably know better as Barty Crouch Jr. from HP5 movie]): Now, first things first. Be honest. How do I look?
Rose: Umm... different.
The Doctor: Good different or bad different?
Rose: Just ... different.
The Doctor: Am I ... ginger?
Rose: No, you're just sort of ... brown.
The Doctor: [disappointed] Aw, I wanted to be ginger! I've never been ginger! And you, Rose Tyler! Fat lot of good you were! You gave up on me! [Rose looks annoyed] Ooh, that's rude... Is that the sort of man I am now? Am I rude? Rude and not ginger. --The Christmas Invasion, Doctor Who