Okay, I know, I suck. XD
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.
☁ 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. - 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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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
☁ 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.
☁ 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. - 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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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