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Okay, first things first- I'm alive. Some of you know that I've been in chat/available on AIM/commenting on things every once in a while. I'm here. I'm reading. I'm just not writing much outside of school work these days, and that apparently includes journals. Whoops. On the upside, this means you get a more general overview instead of a play-by-play. Which is good, because chances are you missed my angsting about basically every test ever, ESPECIALLY the Art History midterm which I was absolutely convinced I failed. I was completely prepared to drop the class. (C, btw- I'm starting to think that he's a very generous grader. XD)
Other stuff:
☁ Midterm grades are in! A's in everything except for Forum, which is pass/fail (Passing, obviously), and Math/Art History which are both B's. Sooooo looks like I have a 3.56 GPA as of this point. Not bad for my first semester back to school after ten years. ^_~ Now let's see if I can keep it up through finals.
☁ Apparently, my ability to completely bullshit a halfway decent essay from very little information is quite intact from high school. Still can't make up an essay out of absolutely nothing, though. Always good to know what your limits are. :P
☁ Lesse, classes... art history SUCKS. There's just a massive amount of information covered and guh. The professor says we should be studying 2-3 hours a day, and I'm like. O_o Dude. I have five other classes, are you kidding me? SO not happening. Math is okay (is it sad that when we got to the sin/cosine/tangent stuff, I was like, YAY STUFF I CAN DO! XD Yes, it's trig, but it's also geometry, and geometry makes much more sense to me than algebra does.). As I said, Forum and English Comp are a waste of my time, but could be worse. Sociology is fun and an easy A. Short Story is interesting, though I can say I've honestly liked only one story all semester (Amy Tan). All in all... a little of this, a little of that.
☁ Birthday was pretty low-key. It was one of my late days, where I don't even get home till 8pm (after being up since 5:30am) and I'm a zombie. Plus it started to POUR halfway through the day, and it was windy enough that an umbrella was pointless- I watched more than one umbrella get destroyed- so needless to say, by the time I got home, I was soaked through and through. Like dripping all over the place soaked, like I have a couple of books that are a little water-damaged now because the contents of my bookbag also, understandably, got wet. Urgh. Basically I changed into dry clothes, ordered in Italian food which I followed up with a piece of peanut butter/chocolate pie I'd bought over the previous weekend, and did NOTHING the rest of the day. XD
☁ Speaking of- the lack of food is no longer a concern. By far. I really need to cut it the hell out. My jeans are getting tight and that is NOT COOL.
☁ It is now near the end of October, and it really feels and smells like fall now, which is awesome. I love fall. <3 A little cold first thing in the morning when I'm waiting for the bus, though, not gonna lie.
☁ I'm a little past halfway through Saiyuki... it's interesting, though the animation gets a little wonky sometimes, and I'm not such a fan of that. Hakuryuu is by far my favorite character. Come on, he's already win because he's a dragon, but on top of that he's totally freaking beyond adorable. So cuuuuuute~ Need to actually sit down and blow through the rest of that. I haven't, because people have made efforts into getting me to pick up Persona 4 again. And also, uh... I may have downloaded Sims Medieval this weekend.
☁ I've heard lately that Rhodiola is good for anxiety, so I stopped at GNC to get some. They had a buy one get one half thing going on, so I grabbed a bottle of St. John's Wort too. Might as well. I've been meaning to try that for forever. Dosage on the Rhodiola is a little unclear, though, and research shows that it can actually increase anxiety in some people, so.... we'll see. I don't want to start them both at the same time just in case I react badly to one or something doesn't work, because obviously I'd like to know which thing is the problem, so I started the St. John's first. I think it has helped a little with the anxiety, though I really need to be a whole lot better about actually taking it. We'll see how that goes once I'm actually not being a tool and taking it consistently for a few weeks. ^_^;
☁ I apparently did something to my right knee, so I now have a stabilizer brace for it. I suspect it's the bus that's doing it, actually. For part of my trip every morning, I end up standing on the bus for about a half hour- and often I have to do it again in the afternoon/evening going home. Now, I don't mind standing really (unless I can't grab a vertical pole and have to try to hang on for dear life on one of those strappy loops, where you're falling all over everyone, those suck)... but I think the problem is that I end up getting jerked around for a half hour to an hour a day, and I must've pulled or twisted something not meant to be pulled/twisted. And of course I continue to aggravate it five days a week. The brace seems to be helping though, which is good. Previous to that I was literally limping off the bus in the morning.
☁ I knew I had to take phys ed- the joys of being in a liberal arts program- but I was seriously bummed when I realized that 2 credits of phys ed means TWO classes. Of gym. Ugh. On the upside, apparently some of the health classes count toward that requirement, and there's a new class offered in the fall that's like... women's health issues or something, for 2 credits. SCORE.
☁ Speaking of, I have my schedule next semester here. I think I'll likely enjoy this semester more than this one, generally (No math! No Art History!)... though the Biology is still a big question mark, and we're still mucking through mostly stuff I -have- to take. Buuut I made sure that I still have some spaces between classes where I can do my work, because I've discovered that once I get home, chances are, I'm done for the day. I also wanted to make sure I didn't have any 8am classes if I could help it, because there is ONE bus that gets me there on time, so if I miss that (or there's delays because of snow), I'm screwed. And also nothing after 5pm, because of the way the buses run. I -can- push it until 6:20pm, but it just takes WAY longer to get home and I'd rather not.
☁ Somehow I'm one of the co-chairs for Pride Alliance. O_o HOW DO I ALWAYS END UP DOING THESE THINGS? My high school didn't have any sort of GSA (*laughs forever*), so I've never done this sort of club before and I'm pretty much flying by the seat of my pants, but it's not going too badly so far. ^_^
☁ Now. Hopefully it won't be another two months before you hear from me again- partially because that's a long time even for me, and partially because I plan on trying to do NaBloPoMo again this year (one of these years I will finish it, dammit!). I've also talked to Lish about giving me a kick in the ass about writing fic. I would LIKE to be able to finish one fic a month, at least. I don't think that's unreasonable. We'll see how that goes, though. XD
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This has been crossposted to my DW account. You are free to comment either here or there, if you'd like to comment. Preferably here, but it doesn't really matter. Whichever one works for you. :D
Other stuff:
☁ Midterm grades are in! A's in everything except for Forum, which is pass/fail (Passing, obviously), and Math/Art History which are both B's. Sooooo looks like I have a 3.56 GPA as of this point. Not bad for my first semester back to school after ten years. ^_~ Now let's see if I can keep it up through finals.
☁ Apparently, my ability to completely bullshit a halfway decent essay from very little information is quite intact from high school. Still can't make up an essay out of absolutely nothing, though. Always good to know what your limits are. :P
☁ Lesse, classes... art history SUCKS. There's just a massive amount of information covered and guh. The professor says we should be studying 2-3 hours a day, and I'm like. O_o Dude. I have five other classes, are you kidding me? SO not happening. Math is okay (is it sad that when we got to the sin/cosine/tangent stuff, I was like, YAY STUFF I CAN DO! XD Yes, it's trig, but it's also geometry, and geometry makes much more sense to me than algebra does.). As I said, Forum and English Comp are a waste of my time, but could be worse. Sociology is fun and an easy A. Short Story is interesting, though I can say I've honestly liked only one story all semester (Amy Tan). All in all... a little of this, a little of that.
☁ Birthday was pretty low-key. It was one of my late days, where I don't even get home till 8pm (after being up since 5:30am) and I'm a zombie. Plus it started to POUR halfway through the day, and it was windy enough that an umbrella was pointless- I watched more than one umbrella get destroyed- so needless to say, by the time I got home, I was soaked through and through. Like dripping all over the place soaked, like I have a couple of books that are a little water-damaged now because the contents of my bookbag also, understandably, got wet. Urgh. Basically I changed into dry clothes, ordered in Italian food which I followed up with a piece of peanut butter/chocolate pie I'd bought over the previous weekend, and did NOTHING the rest of the day. XD
☁ Speaking of- the lack of food is no longer a concern. By far. I really need to cut it the hell out. My jeans are getting tight and that is NOT COOL.
☁ It is now near the end of October, and it really feels and smells like fall now, which is awesome. I love fall. <3 A little cold first thing in the morning when I'm waiting for the bus, though, not gonna lie.
☁ I'm a little past halfway through Saiyuki... it's interesting, though the animation gets a little wonky sometimes, and I'm not such a fan of that. Hakuryuu is by far my favorite character. Come on, he's already win because he's a dragon, but on top of that he's totally freaking beyond adorable. So cuuuuuute~ Need to actually sit down and blow through the rest of that. I haven't, because people have made efforts into getting me to pick up Persona 4 again. And also, uh... I may have downloaded Sims Medieval this weekend.
☁ I've heard lately that Rhodiola is good for anxiety, so I stopped at GNC to get some. They had a buy one get one half thing going on, so I grabbed a bottle of St. John's Wort too. Might as well. I've been meaning to try that for forever. Dosage on the Rhodiola is a little unclear, though, and research shows that it can actually increase anxiety in some people, so.... we'll see. I don't want to start them both at the same time just in case I react badly to one or something doesn't work, because obviously I'd like to know which thing is the problem, so I started the St. John's first. I think it has helped a little with the anxiety, though I really need to be a whole lot better about actually taking it. We'll see how that goes once I'm actually not being a tool and taking it consistently for a few weeks. ^_^;
☁ I apparently did something to my right knee, so I now have a stabilizer brace for it. I suspect it's the bus that's doing it, actually. For part of my trip every morning, I end up standing on the bus for about a half hour- and often I have to do it again in the afternoon/evening going home. Now, I don't mind standing really (unless I can't grab a vertical pole and have to try to hang on for dear life on one of those strappy loops, where you're falling all over everyone, those suck)... but I think the problem is that I end up getting jerked around for a half hour to an hour a day, and I must've pulled or twisted something not meant to be pulled/twisted. And of course I continue to aggravate it five days a week. The brace seems to be helping though, which is good. Previous to that I was literally limping off the bus in the morning.
☁ I knew I had to take phys ed- the joys of being in a liberal arts program- but I was seriously bummed when I realized that 2 credits of phys ed means TWO classes. Of gym. Ugh. On the upside, apparently some of the health classes count toward that requirement, and there's a new class offered in the fall that's like... women's health issues or something, for 2 credits. SCORE.
☁ Speaking of, I have my schedule next semester here. I think I'll likely enjoy this semester more than this one, generally (No math! No Art History!)... though the Biology is still a big question mark, and we're still mucking through mostly stuff I -have- to take. Buuut I made sure that I still have some spaces between classes where I can do my work, because I've discovered that once I get home, chances are, I'm done for the day. I also wanted to make sure I didn't have any 8am classes if I could help it, because there is ONE bus that gets me there on time, so if I miss that (or there's delays because of snow), I'm screwed. And also nothing after 5pm, because of the way the buses run. I -can- push it until 6:20pm, but it just takes WAY longer to get home and I'd rather not.
☁ Somehow I'm one of the co-chairs for Pride Alliance. O_o HOW DO I ALWAYS END UP DOING THESE THINGS? My high school didn't have any sort of GSA (*laughs forever*), so I've never done this sort of club before and I'm pretty much flying by the seat of my pants, but it's not going too badly so far. ^_^
☁ Now. Hopefully it won't be another two months before you hear from me again- partially because that's a long time even for me, and partially because I plan on trying to do NaBloPoMo again this year (one of these years I will finish it, dammit!). I've also talked to Lish about giving me a kick in the ass about writing fic. I would LIKE to be able to finish one fic a month, at least. I don't think that's unreasonable. We'll see how that goes, though. XD
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This has been crossposted to my DW account. You are free to comment either here or there, if you'd like to comment. Preferably here, but it doesn't really matter. Whichever one works for you. :D