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!)

A quick and easy way to show that, though I'm an English major, I have such a long way to go to be "well-read." And to also show that an obscene number of books that I have on my shelf are not read (even though a lot of them were required reading...oops).

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of... whenever this meme started). As usual, bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

( My Not-So-Impressive List )

Hmmm...there were quite a few books I'd never heard of...nor do I believe they'd be books I'd have interest in reading (Freakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything??? I think not).

In other news, one of my aunts in Korea sent an email to my MSN account, which I never use, and my mother wanted to know what it was. I checked, and discovered I had missed another email from that aunt, from way back on Christmas. The Christmas message was written all in Korean, so I had a time translating that. And I suppose it shows how much I've learned, because I knew most of the words. I just didn't know how to put them together. Seriously, Korean is like a jigsaw puzzle. If you don't have the right connectors, it ain't all gonna come together. *headdesk*

(Superman becomes possessed by the spirit of Deadman)
Superman: So I know this place where the milkshakes are so thick that I NEED YOUR HELP.
Wonder Woman: ....That's pretty thick.
(Much later, after Deadman leaves Superman's body...)
Superman: ...you have to eat them with a spoon! What am I doing in Africa? --Justice League

[Preparing guns before the shoot-out]
Ray Carling: Yeah, but can you hit anything?
Sam Tyler: You should see my Playstation scores.

Gene Hunt: Steven Warren is a bum bandit. Do you understand? A poof! A fairy! A queer! A queen! Fudge packer! Uphill Gardener! Fruit picking sodomite!
Sam Tyler: He's gay?
Gene Hunt: As a bloody Christmas Tree! --Life on Mars

Bought the dress for Hall Ball today, this one. In Navy, if the pic doesn't come up as such. It also becomes all sorts of other things, too, so it's not just a dress. Yay! Also my very first dress I've ever bought for myself, so I suppose it's some sort of milestone. I also got a slightly expensive bra to go with it, but it's the type of bra that's advertised as "100 ways" to wear it, so I'm taking it as an investment. Also discovered that I'm apparently not the size I've been wearing all along. >.< *sigh*

And there's a really, really, really long hill from UVillage to Hansee that is..ugh. Insane. I was red-faced and breathing kinda hard about 3/4 of the way up, and of course I'm facing all the traffic as they go down the hill, so I don't know how many Seattleites saw me like that today. Bugger. I've made the decision not to go up that hill again, unless I'm in need of exercise and have no energy to go to the IMA. I will do what Nikki did and wait an hour for the bus.

I got up this morning at 11am (though I woke up at 10 to my utter bemusement), and dinked around til about 1 before buying the clothes. Got back at about 2:30, had a nice little chat with Kathryn about dresses and other things, and went to see Nikki about going on my ice-cream 21-run. Kathryn, Nikki and I did that about 4:30ish, and Leah came with us as far as Haagen Dazs before branching off to Yunnie's Bubbletea. Yummy Bailey's Irish Cream Shake....mmmm.

Got back at 5:30, was waylaid near Nikki's where the sound of a dog barking alerted not only us 3 as to the dog's presence in a room, but the RA as well. It was such a cute dog! Or puppy. Couldn't really tell. It wasn't one of those breeds where there's the obvious puppy!form and the obvious adult!form. The reason I include this little mundane fact is because only fish are allowed in the dorms, so it was kinda sad that he had to face the RA over it.

Settled down for a little bit, til about 7PM, then Kim called! She'd been down at the UW for a debate-club thing for WWU for the entire day. We didn't get to hang out much, I'm afraid, but it was good just seeing her again.

Finally am here and settled for the night. Am gonna watch loads of Torchwood! Well, probably finish the 1st season of Torchwood. But then it's on to Life on Mars! Woo!

Another thing for my shopping list: Fray. I'm a bit scared, though, because I've looked on multiple websites and it's either out of stock, or $49! *headdesk* And I want to read those comics before Buffy Season 8 Issue 16 comes out, because apparently it's Buffy vs. Fray. *headdesk* I shouldn't have let myself get sucked into the comic book world.....

And now...TO TORCHWOOD!


Gene: "I think you've forgotten who you're talking to."
Sam: "An overweight, over-the-hill, nicotine-stained, borderline-alcoholic homophobe with a superiority complex and an unhealty obsession with male bonding?" (haven't seen this ep yet, but *shrugs* I like it)

Sam Tyler: I think we need to explore whether this attempted murder was a hate crime.
Gene Hunt: What, as opposed to one of those I-really-really-like-you sort of murders?

Sam Tyler: Because I loved her!
Gene Hunt: You great... soft... sissy... girlie... nancy... French... bender... Man United supporting POOF!! --Life on Mars