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Yes, I know, it's been ages. I think most of you have seen me around, so you know I'm still alive, at least. I initially had an excuse with finals, but uh, that was a while ago, so... basically since then it's just been good old fashioned laziness. Yep. ^_^;;; So let's get this over with, shall we? XD
☁ School- Some of you already know this via other sources, but I somehow pulled a 4.0 completely out of my ass for spring semester- which makes my cumulative GPA a 3.87. Not too shabby, and I might be able to turn that into cash monies for a transfer school. Just. Yanno. Need to figure out wtf I'm doing for that. <_< Also need to finalize my schedule for next semester. It's more or less set, I just need to really decide whether I want to do statistics or another bio, you know? Since I actually kind of hate both of those options. XD Oh, I thought this might amuse some people- so I have to take 2 credits of phys ed, right? Which kind of makes me want to die. There are a couple of health classes that count towards it, so I figured I'd do that instead. It turns out what I was going to take, women's health issues, is online only. No go. That leaves first aid (ew) and... weight management. So yeah. I'm taking a class in weight management to get out of taking gym. Oh, the irony. XD
☁ Haven't been doing much since the semester ended, to be honest. I've mostly been laying around like a blob. I've done a little cleaning/writing/reading/gaming, and I'm trying to catch up on some anime watching, but other than that, I haven't been very productive. Of course, the fact that I've felt like crap the last week and a half or so hasn't been helping (I'm okay, I was just -MILD TMI ALERT- quite late for my period and my body was/is having a tantrum, but we're on day 2 now so it should be easing soonish. I hope. -TMI ALERT OVER-) Also not helping is that whenever I have a significant time off from work/school, I tend to get really depressed. I need to start making myself go to the library or something a few days a week just to DO something, god.
☁ One of my goals for the summer that I have actually been consistently working on- for the last week, anyway *sheepish*- is the weight thing. In 2010, I lost 50 pounds (I said somewhere else the other day that it was 40, but I was mistaken). I still had plenty more to lose, but had more or less been maintaining that... until school. Yeah. Between the stress of school and the crappy options for food there and the "coffee" addiction I managed to get over spring semester, the freshman 15 was more like 35. Whoops. Soooo I've been taking my fiber gummies again and drinking more water and actually watching what goes in my mouth. I can't say I feel any better, but remember the feeling-like-crap thing. XD And anyway, I have to do this for myself. I -have- to. It's not even an option.
☁ Speaking of anime- because they're both about the same length, I'm currently alternating between Kuroko no Basket and Planetes. Of course, I could've been more or less done with one of them if I hadn't decided to do that, but I'm roughly halfway through both now. Kuroko no Basket is... you know, if someone who likes it could explain the appeal to me, that would be great, because I really want to know. I liked it to begin with, but now it's annoying the living hell out of me- I'm so sick of hearing about the Generation of Miracles I could fucking scream, Kuroko actually manages to have less of a personality than "Toast" in Persona 4, AND THAT'S FUCKING SAYING SOMETHING... I dunno. I never drop anime, so I'll keep watching it, but it's. Ugh. Planetes, though, I'm enjoying, even though it's... uh... pretty weird. XD
☁ Gaming! You know, I had commentary regarding some games, ages ago, but now I forget. Whoops. XD Okay, so the most recent thing I've played is surprising- The Walking Dead (the Telltale one based on the comic, not the one based on the show. Same name, totally different game). Now. I really don't like either zombies or vampires, as a general rule. I find them boring and unnecessarily gross as a plot device. But even though this is a zombie game... it's amazing. Seriously. Because the bottom line is that it's not about the "walkers", it's about you and your relationships with your group and the decisions that you make. And there actually isn't THAT much zombie killing really, so there's that. It's much more RPG than action. Kind of like a choose your own adventure, a little, but with some actiony elements to it- you get a limited amount of time to make choices, for example. Sometimes they're like, okay, you have to choose between helping two people, the one you don't help is going to die, you have five seconds, GO. XD And the game actually remembers choices you make and it can help you or hurt you later on down the line. It's just. A fabulous game, and I can't wait for more of it. I highly recommend it. I got it for my 360 because crappy computer, but I do know it's on Steam. :P Just sayin'.
Before that, I was also playing with Dragon Age: Origins some more, with my female Dalish Elf... Zevran is a lot of fun to flirt with, Alistair continues to be highly amusing, Leliana is still crazy and she gets even worse after you seduce her... I'm a little confused on some of the romance interactions, though, I've gotta say. For example- like I said, I enjoy flirting with Zevran. I was flirting with him, innocent-like, and then all of a sudden, BAM, soft porn scene. Kelly was watching me play, and we were both like, "er.... what? Where the hell did that come from?" And then there's Alistair, which is a whole other level of fucked up. I've been bros with him the entire game, right? I maybe flirted with him a teeeeeeny bit just because it amused me to tease him, but he teased me back about dating Leliana, so it was all good. He knew I was with her. Or so I thought. There's that point in the game where you have the option of trying to marry him off to another woman, right? I decided to work with that, because it seems like it might work in my favor. Win/win, yes? Apparently not. Alistair was livid and demanded to know what was going to happen with "us". This was in the same session where Kelly was watching me play, and again, we were both like O_o SINCE WHEN IS THERE AN US? I don't understand this. I really don't. But anyway.
I was also playing with Sims 3 quite a bit for a while there. I got Dragon Valley because DUH DRAGONS, and it's the cutest thing ever I swear to god. Totally worth it. Origin also had a good sale, so I got a few expansions. University is... buggy. That's really the only commentary I've got on the EP's. I also discovered that apparently adding EP's fucks with Sims that are saved to the bin, so even though I recently made a bunch of Hikago sims, I'm going to have to redo all the clothes and stuff, which is incredibly annoying. Blah.
☁ Plans for the rest of the summer include:
- I really do need to figure out what my options are for transfer, and how much money I can get, because obviously a lot rides on that.
- Writing- both fandom and original (Stef got on me earlier this summer about original stuff. Heh. ^_^; )
- Classes start August 26th. I'd like to have lost 18 pounds by then (that's two pounds a week starting from last week's weigh-in, so I'm not being unreasonable here).
- I'd like to catch up on Hourou Musuko. I did -finally- get around to watching the anime (so pretty), but that doesn't really tell me what's going on NOW. Unfortunately, that more or less requires restarting it altogether, because I don't really remember anything that was happening. Whoops.
- I think we'll set the anime goal low here and say that it'd be nice if I could complete four series by the time fall semester starts (obviously I'm thinking short ones here XD).
- Need to get my sleep schedule back to sanity. It's completely out of control right now.
- Get my room clean. Seriously. It's the worst it's ever been EVER, which is really saying something, and it's driving me absolutely up the wall. This has several positive outcomes, actually, but the two biggest are that I will have an actual space to do work, and I recently downloaded an app for my phone where I can scan my books and keep an actual catalog of what I have. SO much fun, and it will be SO useful once I get everything in there as far as not accidentally buying doubles of things. Unfortunately... I can't GET to the vast majority of my books right now. Oops. <_< So that needs to change, obviously.
- Forgot to add- I really should finish that last Eragon book once and for all. I've had it for years now and haven't actually read it. XD And I read quickly, so it's not a huge time investment or anything. TIME TO GET IT OVER WITH.
So we'll see how much of that actually happens by the end of the summer. ^_~ Knowing me... ah, let's get real, I'll be lucky if I can cross anything off my list. But again, we'll see! Now, I'm going to make myself finish this episode of Kuroko (ugh *whine*) and get in the shower and maybe like... do stuff, I dunno. Maybe. My head hurts like fuck, so I might just sleep or something, who knows. XD
☁ School- Some of you already know this via other sources, but I somehow pulled a 4.0 completely out of my ass for spring semester- which makes my cumulative GPA a 3.87. Not too shabby, and I might be able to turn that into cash monies for a transfer school. Just. Yanno. Need to figure out wtf I'm doing for that. <_< Also need to finalize my schedule for next semester. It's more or less set, I just need to really decide whether I want to do statistics or another bio, you know? Since I actually kind of hate both of those options. XD Oh, I thought this might amuse some people- so I have to take 2 credits of phys ed, right? Which kind of makes me want to die. There are a couple of health classes that count towards it, so I figured I'd do that instead. It turns out what I was going to take, women's health issues, is online only. No go. That leaves first aid (ew) and... weight management. So yeah. I'm taking a class in weight management to get out of taking gym. Oh, the irony. XD
☁ Haven't been doing much since the semester ended, to be honest. I've mostly been laying around like a blob. I've done a little cleaning/writing/reading/gaming, and I'm trying to catch up on some anime watching, but other than that, I haven't been very productive. Of course, the fact that I've felt like crap the last week and a half or so hasn't been helping (I'm okay, I was just -MILD TMI ALERT- quite late for my period and my body was/is having a tantrum, but we're on day 2 now so it should be easing soonish. I hope. -TMI ALERT OVER-) Also not helping is that whenever I have a significant time off from work/school, I tend to get really depressed. I need to start making myself go to the library or something a few days a week just to DO something, god.
☁ One of my goals for the summer that I have actually been consistently working on- for the last week, anyway *sheepish*- is the weight thing. In 2010, I lost 50 pounds (I said somewhere else the other day that it was 40, but I was mistaken). I still had plenty more to lose, but had more or less been maintaining that... until school. Yeah. Between the stress of school and the crappy options for food there and the "coffee" addiction I managed to get over spring semester, the freshman 15 was more like 35. Whoops. Soooo I've been taking my fiber gummies again and drinking more water and actually watching what goes in my mouth. I can't say I feel any better, but remember the feeling-like-crap thing. XD And anyway, I have to do this for myself. I -have- to. It's not even an option.
☁ Speaking of anime- because they're both about the same length, I'm currently alternating between Kuroko no Basket and Planetes. Of course, I could've been more or less done with one of them if I hadn't decided to do that, but I'm roughly halfway through both now. Kuroko no Basket is... you know, if someone who likes it could explain the appeal to me, that would be great, because I really want to know. I liked it to begin with, but now it's annoying the living hell out of me- I'm so sick of hearing about the Generation of Miracles I could fucking scream, Kuroko actually manages to have less of a personality than "Toast" in Persona 4, AND THAT'S FUCKING SAYING SOMETHING... I dunno. I never drop anime, so I'll keep watching it, but it's. Ugh. Planetes, though, I'm enjoying, even though it's... uh... pretty weird. XD
☁ Gaming! You know, I had commentary regarding some games, ages ago, but now I forget. Whoops. XD Okay, so the most recent thing I've played is surprising- The Walking Dead (the Telltale one based on the comic, not the one based on the show. Same name, totally different game). Now. I really don't like either zombies or vampires, as a general rule. I find them boring and unnecessarily gross as a plot device. But even though this is a zombie game... it's amazing. Seriously. Because the bottom line is that it's not about the "walkers", it's about you and your relationships with your group and the decisions that you make. And there actually isn't THAT much zombie killing really, so there's that. It's much more RPG than action. Kind of like a choose your own adventure, a little, but with some actiony elements to it- you get a limited amount of time to make choices, for example. Sometimes they're like, okay, you have to choose between helping two people, the one you don't help is going to die, you have five seconds, GO. XD And the game actually remembers choices you make and it can help you or hurt you later on down the line. It's just. A fabulous game, and I can't wait for more of it. I highly recommend it. I got it for my 360 because crappy computer, but I do know it's on Steam. :P Just sayin'.
Before that, I was also playing with Dragon Age: Origins some more, with my female Dalish Elf... Zevran is a lot of fun to flirt with, Alistair continues to be highly amusing, Leliana is still crazy and she gets even worse after you seduce her... I'm a little confused on some of the romance interactions, though, I've gotta say. For example- like I said, I enjoy flirting with Zevran. I was flirting with him, innocent-like, and then all of a sudden, BAM, soft porn scene. Kelly was watching me play, and we were both like, "er.... what? Where the hell did that come from?" And then there's Alistair, which is a whole other level of fucked up. I've been bros with him the entire game, right? I maybe flirted with him a teeeeeeny bit just because it amused me to tease him, but he teased me back about dating Leliana, so it was all good. He knew I was with her. Or so I thought. There's that point in the game where you have the option of trying to marry him off to another woman, right? I decided to work with that, because it seems like it might work in my favor. Win/win, yes? Apparently not. Alistair was livid and demanded to know what was going to happen with "us". This was in the same session where Kelly was watching me play, and again, we were both like O_o SINCE WHEN IS THERE AN US? I don't understand this. I really don't. But anyway.
I was also playing with Sims 3 quite a bit for a while there. I got Dragon Valley because DUH DRAGONS, and it's the cutest thing ever I swear to god. Totally worth it. Origin also had a good sale, so I got a few expansions. University is... buggy. That's really the only commentary I've got on the EP's. I also discovered that apparently adding EP's fucks with Sims that are saved to the bin, so even though I recently made a bunch of Hikago sims, I'm going to have to redo all the clothes and stuff, which is incredibly annoying. Blah.
☁ Plans for the rest of the summer include:
- I really do need to figure out what my options are for transfer, and how much money I can get, because obviously a lot rides on that.
- Writing- both fandom and original (Stef got on me earlier this summer about original stuff. Heh. ^_^; )
- Classes start August 26th. I'd like to have lost 18 pounds by then (that's two pounds a week starting from last week's weigh-in, so I'm not being unreasonable here).
- I'd like to catch up on Hourou Musuko. I did -finally- get around to watching the anime (so pretty), but that doesn't really tell me what's going on NOW. Unfortunately, that more or less requires restarting it altogether, because I don't really remember anything that was happening. Whoops.
- Get my room clean. Seriously. It's the worst it's ever been EVER, which is really saying something, and it's driving me absolutely up the wall. This has several positive outcomes, actually, but the two biggest are that I will have an actual space to do work, and I recently downloaded an app for my phone where I can scan my books and keep an actual catalog of what I have. SO much fun, and it will be SO useful once I get everything in there as far as not accidentally buying doubles of things. Unfortunately... I can't GET to the vast majority of my books right now. Oops. <_< So that needs to change, obviously.
- Forgot to add- I really should finish that last Eragon book once and for all. I've had it for years now and haven't actually read it. XD And I read quickly, so it's not a huge time investment or anything. TIME TO GET IT OVER WITH.
So we'll see how much of that actually happens by the end of the summer. ^_~ Knowing me... ah, let's get real, I'll be lucky if I can cross anything off my list. But again, we'll see! Now, I'm going to make myself finish this episode of Kuroko (ugh *whine*) and get in the shower and maybe like... do stuff, I dunno. Maybe. My head hurts like fuck, so I might just sleep or something, who knows. XD
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Date: July 1st, 2013 06:16 am (UTC)From:DRAGONS! ♥
Whenever I add EPs, I first make a copy of the sims I have (there's a folder in My Documents and you eventually get to "Saved Sims".) I do this without fail. Haven't lost a Sim yet! I also change clothes a lot, because. I don't play like you, though. My Sims are Ai and Doug. ^_~
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Date: July 1st, 2013 12:28 pm (UTC)From:Seriously, Ai, the dragons are so freaking adorable. They make little chirping noises, and they ride around on your shoulder, and they puff out smoke when they sleep! (Okay, at least the red one does, I don't know about the others. XD) I just about died of cute. I wish you could control it more like a pet, but eh, I guess you can't have everything. XD
Yeah, typically the only time I play with a Ver Sim is if I'm testing something, usually a new EP or mod. Otherwise I play characters or totally random Sims. :P
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Date: July 1st, 2013 05:53 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: July 1st, 2013 01:14 pm (UTC)From:That being said, the feelings didn't really hit for me until fairly late in the manga. (Compared to Chihayafuru, which I started watching this weekend: that managed to hit me with feelings on episode 1.)
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Date: July 1st, 2013 08:58 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: July 1st, 2013 04:09 pm (UTC)From:Also, I need to play like all of the Dragon Age games. Even if the romance is as weird as that :)
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Date: July 1st, 2013 09:07 pm (UTC)From:I've only ever played Origins and not anything else, but I like it. I figure I should finish that first. XD And I don't know, it's probably my own fault for flirting with them, but the only relationship that I actually sought out was Leliana, and that took work. The other two were just. Whoops? I plan to actually romance them properly in other play throughs.
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Date: July 2nd, 2013 06:53 am (UTC)From:OH THANK GODS SOEMONE ELSE WHO DOESN'T LIKE KUROKO NO BASKET HAHAHAHA. Um I hated it. lol. And yet I actually watched like 16 episodes (some of those were parts of episdoes, so I watched through the whole series but skipped some episodes and in some episodes I only watched parts of them), because I KEPT HOPING IT WOULD SUDDENLY GET BETTER but no. Sooooooo not the show for me at all hahaha. I guess hate is a strong word maybe b/c it was more like dislike for most of the aspects, it just got upgraded to hate in my ~feelings~ b/c I watched so much of it hoping I'd start to like it better, and I ~wanted~ to like it. but no. so then that made me angry and resentful. XD I disliked the plot, I disliked the characters, MOST OF ALL I HATED HOW IT'S ONE OF THOSE SPORTS ANIME WHERE PPL HAVE ~MAGICAL TECHNIQUES~ THAT AREN'T REALISTIC AT ALL. I am just not into those, though I know that's ttly a personal preference thing. haha. (and since you say you like prince of tennis, which I haven't seen but I've heard is similar in that regard, that part prolly wasn't a problem for you lol.) The one thing I guess I liked was that I thought there were some interesting possibilities for character dynamics BETWEEN characters, but then they didn't do anything really interesting with those in the show. and I went and tried to read some fic b/c I thought, "ok maybe I'll be more into it in the fic," but no, I disliked all the fics I tried too. so finally I was like, I GIVE UP, WE ARE INCOMPATIBLE, KUROBASU.
YOU SHOULD WATCH OOFURI NEXT OOFURI OOFURI OOFURI OOFURI!!!! you could ttly watch both the first and second series and count them as two series toward your goal. ;D ;D
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Date: July 2nd, 2013 08:53 am (UTC)From:Yay, someone else! The thing with Prince of Tennis for me is that it's not REALLY about the tennis. I love the characters and the crack and the chibi and the fact that it's constantly making fun of itself. Yeah, you have a bunch of ridiculous stuff going on, but they KNOW it's ridiculous and the physics defying tennis is kind of a running gag through the whole thing. As a matter of fact, it's the "filler" that I enjoy MOST about the anime. Kurobasu is... completely NOT that. XD It's all the ridiculous plays that I roll my eyes at but deal with in PoT, but without the FUN stuff. You know? Like I said, I don't hate it and there are some things I like, but I just generally find that it's trying top hard to be PoT but without the stuff that makes PoT =good=. At least in my opinion. But again, we'll see. I'm doing the same thing in hoping that at some point I like it more. If I -had- to rate it for MAL right now, I'd probably... eh, say a 5 I think.
LMAO I will look into it. Have to look at what I have downloaded, because there's a BUNCH on my external that I just haven't watched yet. XD (It does look like I have Chihayafuru though, if that helps? XD)
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Date: July 2nd, 2013 09:10 am (UTC)From:CHIHAYAFURU IS GOOD TOO I GUESS
but oofuri is better lolXDalso chihayafuru is longer haha. series 1 and 2 = 25 eps each = 50 eps total. OOFURI IS ONLY 40 EPS TOTAL, 26 for series 1 and 14 for series 2 (including the ovas)
AND OOFURI S1 IS ACTUALLY ON FUNIMATION'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL SUBBED FOR FREE U KNOW, U WOULDN'T EVEN HAVE 2 DL IT!!! XD (altho i prefer downloading things anyway haha. plus i watched teh fansubs first and still like them best, altho funimation's subs are mostly decent i think. the dubs are bad tho.)
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Date: July 2nd, 2013 09:40 am (UTC)From:Okay, okay, I'll think about it. Gotta get through the rest of the two I'm already watching, in any event. XDDD Then we'll see.