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

Winter quarter went by so fast...and yet now is the time when ALL the work is due. Tonight I have to write 2 grammar questions for my Korean final test, which really isn't a huge issue except it's just a little busy-work I really could have done without. The only bright side to it is the fact that I'll know what's on the Korean test next week. Then I have my Korean skit lines to translate for next Thursday, and I have to write...10 Korean lines on this "GoPost" thing that I should have been doing the last 10 weeks of the quarter but haven't been because....well, because it never comes to mind for me. My Saturday (3/8) is completely shot, because I'm doing the Hansee Hall Ball thing, so I really have to do all that either today, tomorrow, or Sunday, on top of preparing for this last week, which is going to be the true death of me....

Monday:
A) 1 page Korean translating project. As in, I have to take a Korean article and translate it fully, and explain the parts I couldn't translate.
B) 2 page film reflection.

Tuesday:
A) Korean test on vocab and grammar, takes the full hour.

Wednesday:
A) 10 pages of Weather homework.
B) Korean test on diction and reading, takes the full hour.

Thursday:
A) Korean skit, ~14 memorized lines. And no, "Hello" lines don't count.

Friday:
A) 5-6 in-depth film analysis paper.

And then my Weather final during finals week. Blegh.

In other news not me whinging about schoolwork, the Dalai Lama is coming to the UW. I dunno if I'd go, but it'd be cool.

I've told myself time and again to go to bed early, because I wake up tired after 6 hours of sleep, but when 12AM rolls around...I always manage to find something I want to do. Read fanfiction, listen to just that one last song, read really awesome quotes (...yes, I do manage to waste an entire hour just reading quotes....*whistles innocently*), so much so that I've been hitting the sack by about....2AM. *sigh* Spring break...that'll be my time to catch up on sleep. Yeah, that's my excuse....

I bought a new pair of shoes for Hall ball and some really cheap Claire fishnets. ^.^ And they're really cute shoes, too. Though, apparently at DSW I am mostly size 5-5 1/2, but managed to find and buy the one pair of size 6 shoes that fit me. Hmmm. Yes, I'm getting really dressy for this ball thing, which is okay because it's the first time in about...3 years. So, it's okay. And I have now discovered that, if I'm ever at Northgate for some reason and feel like ice cream (but randomly don't want to stop by the Baskin Robbins at Northgate.....) I know to take the 75, but the long-bus 75, which stops at the Baskin Robbins on 45th. And then, when I'm done with my ice cream, I can hop back onto the 75th which takes me right up to the HUB and I can avoid the Hill of Death. *wins*

Tuesday I went to the HUB, where some group or another had this contest going on where you guessed how many condoms were in the jar. I don't know what the prize is, I don't know who it was for, but I kinda shrugged and made a guess and submitted it. We'll see, we'll see. I doubt I'll win, I went for a slightly conservative answer. Hopefully the prize, if I do somehow win, isn't something crazy like being their spokesperson for a year. Or winning all the condoms in the jar. Because....really? Really really? I don't think anyone in the universe needs as many condoms as I guessed (except maybe Captain Jack, but he's a special case).

And, because I'd feel odd if I didn't have at least one fandom-related topic in my posts....it was nice to see the usually emo!Ianto be imitatingexplodinghead!Ianto. Whatever category that may fall under. Sarcastic!Ianto? Hmm...*ponders*

EDIT 11:12PM: News on EUReKA!! Somewhat old news now, but...well, the second one is March 5, so not quite old. But YAY!!!

First one is about the strike's effect on the show. A possibility of more than 12-13 episodes this season??? SIGN ME UP AS PRO-LONGER SEASONS OF EUREKA!

Second one has some (read: 3) bits about third season. "an awesome scene involving the ongoing rivalry between Stark and Carter that's going to knock everyone's socks off." ???? WHY AM I BEING FORCED TO WAIT UNTIL AUGUST/SEPTEMBER/LATER FOR THIS????? WANT NOW PLZKTHNX!!!!! Something further from the writer's blog entry (look near the bottom of this link's article for the link to it, 4 lines from the bottom): "That is, if the scene makes the show's final cut. It's pretty intense...!"

ALSDKHF;ALKDHSFA;LSHDF!!! *settles in for the wait, eye on the ball like a cat and a mousehole*


Toshiko: You said we weren't allowed to use that again.
Jack: It's just a mind probe.
Ianto: Remember what happened last time you used it?
Jack: That was different. And that species has extremely high blood pressure.
Ianto: Oh, right. Their heads must explode all the time.
Gwen: Jack, you can't do this. What if you're wrong? If she is human, it'll kill her.
Jack: I'm not wrong. We have to find out what she is.
Toshiko: Take it easy, Jack. Stop at the first sign of trouble.
Ianto: Or at the first sign of exploding.

[to Owen, who insists on using (phone) communication]
Ianto: Mobiles, landlines, tin cans with bits of string - everything, absolutely everything! No phones, phones all broken. [mimics telephone] Hello? Anyone there? [normal] No, 'cause the phones aren't working!

[about information on a random person]
Owen: How do you know all that?
Ianto: I know everything. And it says so on the bottom of the screen.

Ianto: It's all over.
Owen: [pauses] Let's all have sex.
Ianto: [deadpan] And I thought the end of the world couldn't get any worse. --Torchwood, Sleeper

(Hmmmm......Deadpan!Ianto....that works.)