Before I commit the rest of my life tonight and tomorrow morning (I still consider that 'tonight') to studying, here's a deep question that some of you 2am-philosopher-types might be wanting to tackle.
Does slashing Three Kingdoms figures fall into the domain of RPS (real person slash)?
Happy Halloween to y'all, I am going to be my regular old boring self today and study study study instead of doing actual cool things like dressing up. The good thing about being in LA is that it's warm enough outside (the high was supposedly somewhere in the 80's) to wear most of my costumes, the bad side is most of my costumes were thrown away/disassembled when I moved. I suppose I could have worn Luffy, but that would've made me cold during lecture, and I also supposed I could've worn Sol, but I didn't want to be making the 30 minute trek to school in 80 degree weather in all vinyl. I am one of those unfortunate asians who sweats bucketloads...so no. :/
I'm just dressed regularly today. Haven't seen many people in costume around here at UCLA, I guess they're all saving it for later tonight or maybe they're just boring. I think the funniest thing I've seen is Alex dressing up as Jeremy. Not a big stretch since all you need to dress like Jeremy is a hawaiian shirt but...I was amused. X3
Anyways, it's my week of hell this week so I'll be busy trying to pretend I don't have work, and actually working when I realize I can't pretend anymore. X3
Everytime I hear the word "cleft" I think of asses. And everytime I hear "synaptic cleft" I think of asses first before I think of synaspes. That is, if I ever get to thinking of synapses at all, after asses.
...I think I have a problem.
My Xiahou Dun pin fell off. ;________;
My life is over. Is there anything worse that can make this already shitty week even more shitty? No.
It's either in Andy's car, or its under the chair at the stupid mandatory neuroscience retreat I wasted all my study time on today.
I'm in a shitty mood. *sigh*
{EDIT}: The pin was found by Andy on the staircase up to the loft. How I managed to miss it while runing downstairs for the shower, I don't know. I'm oblivious. But at least I'm still loved.
And I'm still in a shitty mood, because the wireless on my desktop just randomly cut out, and the paper I have to present for Tuesday sucks major balls. And the girl I'm doing it with is a total bitch and snagged the easy part, leaving BUSY OLD ME with the hard part.
Thanks.
Watching the Pegasus episode of BSG still scares me.
*crawls into bed and hides*
And I wish Evan, the roomate from buttfuck nowhere Indiana, would stop talking during shows. :/ It really annoys me.
I miss Boston. I genuinely do. Boston was a great place. All my old favorite hangouts are still there (still don't have a place I consider mine in LA yet), all my old favorite people, the wonderful house I lived in for my four years of college...
The only thing I don't miss is the weather. It's the 28th of October, and I absolutely love being able to put my backpack down on the grass, lie down, and take a nap in the sun for an hour at this time of the year. Napping in the sun, if you guys remember some of my posts from April and May earlier this year, is one of my favorite things to do. I love naps. More than anything else, actually, in my current sleep deprived state. :3 The ability to wake up and feel your clothes warm and heated from the sun is one of the most comfortable feelings ever. ^_^ I am full of love.
Should've been working on my presentation for Tuesday...but oh well. I guess I can get that done later tonight. =___=;; I think I'm going to be pulling an all-nighter on Sunday night or something. *gurgles*
Thank god for /b.
What did I do this afternoon to make myself feel better over this shitty week? (Cause the Japanese sensei wouldn't give me an extension on the paper. ;____; She did say that she'd accept "only 3 pages" though. *sigh* I'm so sick of the words "ganbatte kudasai." I'm going to kill the next person who says it to me.)
I went to Victoria's Secret and blew $50 on panties and pajama pants.
And now, I do feel better.
:)
I have so much work and I'm so miserable right now...
I might just drop Japanese.
I have spent 15 hours on this paper and I am likely to spend about another 9 or so more on it in order to hand it in by Monday. That's just ridiculous, especially since I am now a grad student and simply cannot afford that kind of time when I've got two midterms and a presentation shortly after said paper is due.
If I don't get that extension, I might just drop (at least to listener status) because I am damn sick of that paper. I love the topic, I love writing about it, but I just DON'T HAVE THE FUCKING TIME TO DO IT THIS WEEK.
I'm going to take a nap. I've been so miserable today, if I don't I think my brain will either explode or I'll just start crying.
I can't stop listening to Tally Hall's "Spring and a Storm."
I LOVE THIS BAND. :3 Their style really makes me hark back to my childhood days. ^_^ They give me a warm, happy feeling. Their new album is going to be released soon.
I also did something incredibly silly while going for Ma Chao's fourth weapon in DW5 today. *grins* One of those classic "idiot!Skuld" moments where certain things just never occur to me until after they happen. (You know, like knocking Cao Cao off his horse and then deciding to kill him 'cause you right there anyway...and having the stage end before you pick up your weapon. Oops! :x)
Despite being hosed tonight, and for the rest of the next week and a half (whimper), I'm enjoying myself. I've practically been working for over a week straight, but for some odd reason I'm liking life. Maybe I was made to be a scientist after all. ~<3
I am going to die sometime in these next 10 days. Or be very miserable. One of the two. Everything big for my classes is due between October 31st and November 2nd. Life is extra bad for me that weekend because I have an all-day retreat the weekend before on November 29th that's required for us Neuroscience kids. That cuts my study/work time in half.
*cry*
October 31: 4-5 page Japanese paper (yes, it's in Japanese)
November 1: Presentation on 20 page paper about SHH signaling in Zebrafish development
AND
2nd test in Neurobiology
November 2: Test in Neurophysiology
:/ I am going to be getting no sleep, no exercise, no food, and working around the clock to prepare/write/study for my presentations/paper/exams.
If you don't see me around at all, you'll know what happened to be. I've been sucked into the void of grad school.
I am going to drink so hard on the night of the 3rd, you won't believe it. Drowning sorrows/misery in alcohol = good.
I'm not a stalker. I have no stalky tendencies. >_>
I am not checking this Japanese girl's cosplay site every other day for new pictures. *cough* (Her fault for updating twice a week. And...like...just barely today.)
I am not going to e-mail her, tell her how incredibly hot she is, and how much I want to s3xx0r her. Or ask her any specific questions about her cosplay.
Nope. Nope. *shakes head vigorously*
Good thing she's in Japan and I'm in L.A.
...I think I need a girlfriend. Or a boyfriend. Or you know what? I just need to fucking get laid. Any takers?
...your Moment of LOL.
"WOW, FOR A BUNCH OF ANGRY CHINESE PEOPLE, THEY SOUND AWFULLY AMERICAN."
This one's courtesy of Alison. If you've ever played the Dynasty Warriors dubs...you'd get it.
I think I got a B on that test. I also happened to be the first person outta there.
WIN!
And here are 10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal. Thanks, Craigslist.
I have my first neurobio test tonight. UGH.
6-8pm.
Thankfully at a time of the day when I am awake. =_=;; (Unlike now.)
Anyways...If you don't see me at all tonight, you'll know that all I did was go home, crash, and sleep.
And here's .
..your Moment of LOL.
"So there's this guy...his name's Sephiroth. Let's say Sephiroth really likes to eat vegetables or something. But since he's at home, you'd have to use the construction, 'Sephiroth wa supaa ni ikimashita' because he's going to TO the supermarket.
Then you have Cloud, this guy, and he likes to sleep. He's at Healing, that's the name of his Inn, and since he's already there you'd say 'Cloud wa Healing de nemashita.' You can use 'de' because Cloud's already there, and that signifies where the sleeping took place.
...okay, that's it."
SEPHIROTH LIKES VEGETABLES. Or so according to Tony, from Japanese class today.
EDIT: since my friends requested, you can click here to see a full FF7 example of the uses of the particles ~place ni/de/e
Hanging out with Rather Bright Red was an absolute joy. :3 We headed down to Damon and Pythias for dinner and had chats about what nerdly thing we both did on our Ph.D programs. ^_^ Then we went home and proceeded to talk all throughout Kingdom of Heaven, mostly about how much we disliked Orlando Bloom as an actor (we're sure he's a great person, but he needs to get a new set of expressions onscreen. Namely, MORE!) and about gross sexy things to do with certain body parts that might have fallen off whilst one has leprosy.
We're scary and pervy fangirls. o_O;;
Anyways, I spent all of today studying. Ha ha, no surprise there. I'm hosed this week. And I still have about...5 more hours or more of studying to do. I could theoretically most of it to Tuesday night (all nighters yay?)...but I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. Ugh. My schedule this week feels as bad as fall term of senior year or fall term freshman year. *dies* At least I haven't cried yet, mostly because at least it's work, and not math/physics type work where no matter how hard you study, if you're stupid you just won't be able to figure it out on the test.
The clone cheered me up today at odd intervals, because we talked about weird cloney things. :3 They'll probably never happen (*sniffle sniffle*), but I can still daydream about it. ^_^ *happy grin* ...when I'm not studying for an exam. *headdesk*
Back to the grind, friends.
Watched a whole shitload of BSG yesterday with Andy. We're now on episode 9 of the first season, and he is absolutely in love with the show. :3 Yess! Another convert.
Andy has also kindly informed me that "Adama" in Hebrew means 'earth.' How interesting.
So what's Skuld doing today? Because she has massive amounts of homework due for EVERY SINGLE CLASS she has?
Hmmm....lesee...
-Study
-Watch Kingdom of Heaven with fellow leprosy fan (Yay, I love meeting people I know online!)
- study study study study
This Neurobio test on Tuesday's gonna kill me. I have two labs and a problem set due on Wednesday for Neurophys. I have a quiz and a paper proposal to write for Japanese by Monday.
WHY GOD WHY?
I really wish I was in Japan. ._. *hangs head*
Sangokushi Taisen is undergoing a huge update. They're bringing out new cards. You can now play as Yuan Shao's army (ain't that awesome?) as well as the Xi Liang army. KICK ASS.
And they're having the players fill in a questionnaire for the chance to win prizes (I personally think that it would be interesting to be the token gaijin playing the game), but of course it can only be done via cell phones, so as usual I am SCREWED.
*sigh* I still can't believe I don't have the Xiahou Dun uncommon version. I think I need some bars of "No more failure." (That's like "cans of whoopass...but instead of whoopass its 'no more failure.' No, not viagra as previously mentioned.) I really wanted the uncommon version of him because it reminded me a HELLA LOT like his Dynasty Warriors version, for which I am perpetually filled with love. (Could be filled with something else but -- *cough*)
I think I'll have to deal with his rare version in which he looks...like a rather frightening version of Sanji (from One Piece.) Different artist, I know (Mashima Hiro, not Eiichiro Oda) but damn...he's even got the little Sanji-chin-hairs. Might've gone a little overboard with adopting Nami's tattoo though...but then again, Sanji's always been a little overzealous about his Nami-swan like that.
If it weren't for the fact that the card said the art was done by Mashima Hiro, I could've FUCKING SWORN that was Eiichiro Oda. Oh well. WEI IS SUPERIOR anyway. :p
...I should stop blogging when I'm braindead.
I'm sure none of that made any sense.
Dude. One of my friends is an extra on the Pirates of the Caribbean movie they're shooting.
He gets to rub shoulders with Orlando Bloom (as well as apparently wait in line for sushi with him and talk with him) as well as almost swing a sword into Johnny Depp's head.
...
...
I'm so freaking jealous.
:(
No fair. *crawls into corner and weeps while studying for Neurobio test*
EDIT: And now your moment of LOL...
I just got a spam mail for viagra with the subject "No more failure."
XD Hahahahahahahaha.
NO U
I am just spamming the blog today.
I just geeked out over Japan. :3 Sometimes I think that what I'm really meant to do is sociology and anthropology, and not neuroscience at all. But I have to pick one over the other, cause there aren't enough hours of the day for me to do both and sleep. :p
I now have over 20 books on topics I'm interested in for my 4-5 page Japanese paper.
Topics range from Japanese feminism, cyberculture, male homosexuality (Mark McClelland has more books out!), the Takarazuka (I still haven't seen one of their shows!), fan culture and language. I really don't think I'd ever be able to do field work in these fields, but reading about them is damn interesting. :3 Even if I never get to write a paper on half of these things, just holing up in my room and reading these books would be damn cool. I should do that over some break or something. ^_^v
*jumps up and down* I love being a nerd! I love being on a college campus! ...and I am so glad I went to UCLA. ~<3
I'm shamelessly plugging my favorite band of the moment. I think they've been my favorite band since spring term earlier this year. These guys made me wish I had actually bothered finishing my application to UMich all those years back. Oh well, MIT was an awesome place anyways. UMich seems like it's an awesome place too.
This is verified by my roommate, Andy who knows a couple of these guys.
TALLY HALL is coming out with their new album, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, in two weeks.
You can hear a re-recorded, studio version of "Greener" at myspace (if they make it big with this album, this'll probably be their chart-topping pop hit).
There guys are the next They Might Be Giants. Only cooler, because of college geekery.
My Guan Yu pin fell off my backpack.
You know what that means.
DISPWNED!
But...but but but but but...
the Xiahou Dun pin has stayed on. :D :D :D
LOVED!
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
I can never concentrate on schoolwork when I am on campus even vaguely near a computer.
ARGH.
And I have a test in a week.
A WEEK.
And I haven't even had two weeks of classes yet.
This is uncool, UCLA. Just uncool. Quarter systems totally blow. Making us blow through all of Neurophysiology in ONE QUARTER?! I'm lucky because I've taken the MIT versions of all these classes before, so I know my shit. I can't imagine what the poor kids who don't know this stuff are going through. Also, "Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Neurobiology" in ONE QUARTER?! I took separate semester-length classes for all three back in my undergrad days. And yeah, I'm lucking out here because I majored in this shit. I feel really bad for the kids who came in as Comp Sci and Physics majors because they don't know this and they have to learn it all...IN THREE MONTHS. Scratch that. More like two and a half months. Yeesh.
AUUUUUUUGH.
I think I just hate doing work or something.
I've barely had a week of classes, and I'm hosed already. No surprise there, I think. Urgh.
I'm starting to work out with Andy at the gym, doing some weightlifting and some running/biking on the machines. We're trying to go three times a week, and I am sore as hell today, as I have been for the past three days. FUCK. OW. Somebody should start a betting to pool to see when I give up on the staying fit thing.
I punched a wall on Friday afternoon, and now two of my knuckles on my right hand are bruised. I thought I was punching the wall right, but I suppose even with the correct technique, punching a wall has gotta do SOMETHING to your hand. I was really pissed off at the post office for failing to deliver my books I ordered from Amazon, and I was even more mad that the lady at the post office (who was dumb as a brick) couldn't find them when I went there. She made me call the phone number of the post office I just went to when I got back home, and then they told me to call them back at 8-8:30am next the day. I just lost it then, look off my class ring, and punched the elevator wall. It felt good, but typing still kind of hurts.
And of course, I called at 8:30 the next morning and nobody answered the fucking phone. How typical. If it wasn't for the fact that I was so frustrated I hurt myself (something I do very rarely), I would laugh.
Man, I miss having that punching bag in the Fenway House bikeshed. I've wailed on it pretty hard before. God.
Watched a lot of football yesterday. This is what happens when you've got roommates who are from Big 10 schools (Purdue and UMich). I laughed at both of them for losing and dropping out of the rankings, and then I was astounded by UCLA's win over Cal-Berkeley. WTF? UCLA is one of the sloppiest teams (we'd get creamed by any Big 10 team, and totally stomped on by USC) I've seen play, and yet somehow we always manage to win when it comes to crunch time. Some teams are like that, I suppose. I can't believe we're undefeated. We've jumped up in the rankings quite a bit, too. Now we're 12th, with (of course) USC still leading. I wonder when someone's going to put us in our place.
And the lesson of the week is:
- don't fall behind on your reading
- get more sleep
- don't punch walls, punch people
- the USPS sucks
I am full of soreness today. So much so that I could barely move while brushing my teeth this morning. That's because I did a pretty intensive weight-lifting workout yesterday, which made me pretty unhappy because I am still full of t3h weak. I can barely do a set of benching the bar (not so much of an improvement over the last time I really lifted weights in junior year of high school), I can't even do a set of pull-ups of half my weight, and every single muscle above my pectorals (including my biceps and my triceps) is intent on rebelling.
And I have to do this all over again (hopefully more of a lower body workout this time) on Saturday. :3 Oh, the pain we go through for vanity.
I'm so screwed for work this weekend. So much homework. They're really loading us down this year. :/ Bleh. Apparently we got screwed on neurophys instructors cause last year they had the coolest and nicest guy possible. This year we get the hardk0r guy who wrote the book, and has basically been telling us to go fuck ourselves for not remembering how to integrate or do differential equations.
It's hardly even a week into classes, and I'm back on a 6-6.5 hour a night sleep schedule.
Some things never change.
Whoever designed Cloud's sword gets major points in my book. Major points. If somebody ever makes a working model, I hope you got a mechanical engineering master's thesis out of it.
Somebody's obviously done the analysis, so one of you guys should step up to the plate and actually do it.
Come on, people.
It looks like I'm going to be about as busy this term as I normally am at MIT. Though thankfully not as miserable as I was freshman year, I still feel like a little froshling because I have to relearn all the ropes of UCLA. Argh.
I got into the advanced Japanese class after taking the placement test (and seriously freaking out that I was failing incredibly miserably), but class yesterday showed me that the advanced Japanese class is only a 3rd year class, and I have already taken a goddamn third year class. I know way more than though kids, though I am incredibly out of practice. I could probably, if I wanted to, jump up to the 4th year class, but I figure I'll take my first year easy. I don't want to lose any more language proficiency than I already have, so I'll chill with the kids in the 3rd year class. *shrugs* I'm not in that much of a rush to be incredibly Japanese fluent anyway.
I graduated MIT really feeling like I didn't know very much, but now I've really come to appreciate how hard MIT classes are, even at a non-hardcore neuroscience level. I'm taking a neurophysiology class this term, and I've already taken a neurophys class. My other class is a cell/molecular/developmental neurobio class, all of which I am familiar with. Winter quarter is an anatomy class which I have already taken courtesy of sketchy MIT Dr. Schneider, and Spring quarter is a systems class (visual, auditory, olfactory, etc.) which may be on the only thing vaguely new to me. :3 I think it'll be a fun, mediumly stressful year like all my other non-frosh MIT years. Huzzah.
I've already met a couple of friends here at UCLA, some in places like Enigma (the Sci-Fi/Gaming group), QuizBowl (which I kind of sucked up), and Japanese. Seriously, if somebody shows up to class in GaiaOnline T-shirt, you know she's a fangirl. She even got up in front of the class during self-introductions and listed "cosplay" as one of her hobbies. WINXORS, shameless fans! Another girl I was paired with commented on my FF: Dear Friends shirt and we spent a couple of minutes talking about the awesomeness of Advent Children.
Anyhoos, this is a notoriously boring real-life update. I'm off to Japanese class now (I don't have the dictionaries, the workbook, or anything yet at all. Hooray for preparation).
Catch you on the flip side, yo.
Sometimes, /b just totally rocks. There's no way in hell this thread would've gotten stickied ever...but well, I'm glad I have the screencaps as evidence that it happened.
/b turned into an FF7 roleplay tonight. I don't have all of it, but I do have the best parts of it. I should have been in bed two hours ago, but some experiences are worth losing a little bit of sleep.
Peruse the large image /b screencaps at your leisure.
And Rude, you rocked me so hard that night. Over and over and over, baby. It was so good.
UCLA vs. Washington game was awesome fun. UCLA is unfortunately a very sloppy and shitty football team (how the hell are they 4-0 now?), but nevertheless we somehow managed to pull off a win. Combination of luck and making the right plays at the right time, I suppose.
My first football game. :3
I want to go to more. ^_^v
I just watched The Boondock Saints again last night (while drinking beer and smoking a cigar) and I really miss Boston. ;_; A lot. It also reminded of me of cute underage ex-girlfriend, Mel-Mel, and I miss her too.
I will squash my longing for my alma mater and my alma mater's city by going to a football game. UCLA vs. Washington. I hope UCLA wins, I think we're better. :3 Time to get some school spirit going, I suppose. And I've never been to a football game before.
I really ought to be working on more important things...you know, like reading and homework, but I'm a tad bit too lazy for that. X3 I'll bust my ass on Sunday. Yay procrastination.
FUCK. I forgot to register for the Society for Neuroscience Meeting this November in DC.
FUCK. FUCK. FUCK. :(
