Nenshin! Gattai! GO, Aquarion!
I got my financial aid letter in the wall and it is sweet, but seriously, it's only been a few days since I got it but it's already nailed my fiscal responsibility to the wall and uh... yeeeeaahhh. I spent $50 on incense last night. I might also buy myself a computer chair and a cot pad. (Dunno if I mentioned this before, but that cot I bought during the evacuation is now my permanent bed. The cotton bedroll makes it comfy, but a proper mattress under that would make it even comfier...) Double bonus: most of the books I need for my classes are ones I already own. Difficulty: Tulane is attempting to charge me three times the tuition they're supposed to, and nobody is answering my emails. >.>
Classes start tomorrow. Dialectology, morphology (again lulz), computational linguistics, and sociolinguistics.
I need to go get my ID replaced, again.
My 22nd birthday was a couple weeks ago. Didn't do much, baked cupcakes for myself and chilled out.
Other housemate has moved in.
I'm looking forward to learning some shit during the day instead of doing the same repetitive task an ape with a sheet feeder and a shell script could do. Also, dining hall! Shuttle! Friends back in town!
Suddenly I'm really into incense. I bought a package of basic Japanese-style cedarwood incense and I love it so much. The stuff I ordered last night is mostly the same brand, but in sandalwood, vanilla, jasmine, chrysanthemum, cypress, lotus, and uh... wine/lotus cones. I wanted to get some coffee-scented, but they're strangely more expensive for the same amount...
I think my plans for the future involve postponing the transition from shabby student to respectable professional for as long as possible. Well, in my head that's the ideal, but I'm not even thinking of a Ph.D program until I hit thirty-five. Now that it's classes time, I should be starting to work on applications for JET, Fulbright, and the Peace Corps. I should probably also think about other stuff to apply for. And invest some of my loan money in a suit...
I've been stewing over the big final arc in my Wellspring 'verse timeline. At this point, a good quarter of my named main characters are going beyond the impossible and kicking the weathermaker power classification to the curb. Even the lesser ones are achieving all-but godhead now because, well, this is where the story needs to go. Completely off the fucking rails of history and into legend. :D (Also, hee hee, I rewatched Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann this week and um I'm definitely going to throw in a few minor nods here and there, in unexpected places.) Right now I'm taking a break from hard-hitting plot points, mostly because I made and misplaced a timeline that reconciles what exactly happens during the postwar crisis, and musing about characters going about their quiet-but-endearing daily lives. I need to type up some worldbuilding sheets (note to self: the House of Talliser, the Yoke Cultures, the matriarchal culture of Phoenixwell) so expect those sometime soonish, or not soon at all if the week gets busy.
I did a write-up on TVTropes about a side-story idea I had in the spring. It has tentacles. I ended up calling it The Silker Family Saga for lack of a more awesome, RPG-esque name which I'll have to come up with later if I actually write it.
It's kind of amusing how my two favorite characters in Gurren Lagann are the most complicated guy Rossiu (I am addicted to morally ambiguous protagonists; also, I love his pre-timeskip character design THIIIIIIIS MUUUUUUCH and post-skip almost as much) and the least complicated guy Kittan. Also, Leeron is a close second especially during the run-up to the final battle when he takes a few levels in hot-blooded awesome too.
I watched Genesis of Aquarion before that and it's... superspecialawesome! Mecha anime drops a lot of acid then realizes it has a crapload of readings to catch up on for its sexual psychology class. I knew I was watching a keeper when I got to episode four, which is a thinly-veiled love letter to foot fetishism. And by "thinly-veiled" I mean "Nope this episode is about feet and none of the production team is going to apologize for it". It's kind of too bad there's next to no fandom for this show.
Classes start tomorrow. Dialectology, morphology (again lulz), computational linguistics, and sociolinguistics.
I need to go get my ID replaced, again.
My 22nd birthday was a couple weeks ago. Didn't do much, baked cupcakes for myself and chilled out.
Other housemate has moved in.
I'm looking forward to learning some shit during the day instead of doing the same repetitive task an ape with a sheet feeder and a shell script could do. Also, dining hall! Shuttle! Friends back in town!
Suddenly I'm really into incense. I bought a package of basic Japanese-style cedarwood incense and I love it so much. The stuff I ordered last night is mostly the same brand, but in sandalwood, vanilla, jasmine, chrysanthemum, cypress, lotus, and uh... wine/lotus cones. I wanted to get some coffee-scented, but they're strangely more expensive for the same amount...
I think my plans for the future involve postponing the transition from shabby student to respectable professional for as long as possible. Well, in my head that's the ideal, but I'm not even thinking of a Ph.D program until I hit thirty-five. Now that it's classes time, I should be starting to work on applications for JET, Fulbright, and the Peace Corps. I should probably also think about other stuff to apply for. And invest some of my loan money in a suit...
I've been stewing over the big final arc in my Wellspring 'verse timeline. At this point, a good quarter of my named main characters are going beyond the impossible and kicking the weathermaker power classification to the curb. Even the lesser ones are achieving all-but godhead now because, well, this is where the story needs to go. Completely off the fucking rails of history and into legend. :D (Also, hee hee, I rewatched Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann this week and um I'm definitely going to throw in a few minor nods here and there, in unexpected places.) Right now I'm taking a break from hard-hitting plot points, mostly because I made and misplaced a timeline that reconciles what exactly happens during the postwar crisis, and musing about characters going about their quiet-but-endearing daily lives. I need to type up some worldbuilding sheets (note to self: the House of Talliser, the Yoke Cultures, the matriarchal culture of Phoenixwell) so expect those sometime soonish, or not soon at all if the week gets busy.
I did a write-up on TVTropes about a side-story idea I had in the spring. It has tentacles. I ended up calling it The Silker Family Saga for lack of a more awesome, RPG-esque name which I'll have to come up with later if I actually write it.
It's kind of amusing how my two favorite characters in Gurren Lagann are the most complicated guy Rossiu (I am addicted to morally ambiguous protagonists; also, I love his pre-timeskip character design THIIIIIIIS MUUUUUUCH and post-skip almost as much) and the least complicated guy Kittan. Also, Leeron is a close second especially during the run-up to the final battle when he takes a few levels in hot-blooded awesome too.
I watched Genesis of Aquarion before that and it's... superspecialawesome! Mecha anime drops a lot of acid then realizes it has a crapload of readings to catch up on for its sexual psychology class. I knew I was watching a keeper when I got to episode four, which is a thinly-veiled love letter to foot fetishism. And by "thinly-veiled" I mean "Nope this episode is about feet and none of the production team is going to apologize for it". It's kind of too bad there's next to no fandom for this show.