Once The Dinner Bell Rings

First Zombie Nerocalypse breakdown!

We had two games, about 40 minutes to each. In the last ten or so minutes, the humans needed to get to the dropoff point with all the flags, and defend the dropoff point until time ran out. We started with 20 people who showed up, plus one moderator who simply observed and could not be tagged (Another moderator was a participant). While we were prepping for the second game, four more people passed by and decided to join in. We were limited to the library building, which has a basement and four floors. The basement was off-limit to zombies. There was eight flags in total, in the form of teddie bears; two bears on each of three floors, one on the remaining, and one outside.

First round, I was a zombie. The zombies totally won, hands down, and I didn't even see anyone. Me and the other guy who were camping near a bear never even got to face off against anyone, and the humans managed to get five bears.

Second round, there were fewer starter zombies, because they obviously had the advantage of, you know, respawn. My aim is pretty awful, but sticking with a bigger group turned out to be a huge advantage. I managed to get a bear, and lasted until the final ten minutes, before getting zombified by one dude who was a goddamn NINJA zombie, he was so fast, I swear. Only five or so humans made it to the final drop point with all eight bears, and which point we had to crawl up the hill at them. While most zombies took the frontal route, I was a ninja and went solo up the side, managed to kill a guy who wasn't paying attention.

There was a group of vampire LARPers who, ironically, seemed to be looking down on us. Which is just plain silly.

Everyone had a really great time, and there was even talk about doing it again next weekend! Since the zombies have clear advantage, there's going to be some mixing around of rules, but overall it was a great time. And I think everyone found out how badly we need to work out to prep for next time XD Zombieland wasn't kidding, Cardio is important.

Paper is over, done, turned in, mission complete, dai sei kou!

I am going to celebrate by shooting people with toy bullets.

Saturday there's going to be a game of Zombie Capture-The-Flag, 10PM to midnight. I went today to Target to check out the Nerf selection. It's pretty huge, and Sarah is very very bad at making decisions when it comes to spending money.

So I am asking you guys for advice! (Especially you, anzila , you nerf warlord you) If you were in a zombie nerfocalypse for two hours, what would you go with? A huge tommy gun or belt-fed blaster, plenty of ammo and little accuracy to worry over, but cumbersome? A smaller dart gun, easy to move around and hide with but requiring more refills? A sword, requiring no reloading but a bit large and forcing closer combat? There's plenty of extra darts available purchase, though nothing to hold them with. Nothing costs more than $20 without tax.

Final order of business: HEY  katiebalatie   HAPPY  BIRTHDAY  I LOVE  YOU  I  MISS  YOU  I  AM  SO  CALLING  YOU  WHEN  YOU  GET  BACK  IN  THE COUNTRY  TOMORROW

Argh I wouldn't normally consider a game as freakin huge as Luceti but they have every Strawhat but Franky It is slightly too tempting.

Well, no considering things until Thursday, when this paper's done with. Got 16 pages out of the 20 I've set for myself, going to the writing center tomorrow for some help smoothing out and getting ideas.

Uggh

So on top of the essay I'm writing on Iron Man (coming along slow but sure, I think), we have to read one book a week, and then write two 'talking points' to bring in for seminar. It's pretty much all books based on music, with a few exceptions. And it has been getting harder for me every week to find points to go off about. I just... I love music, I think music is awesome. But I am not a scholarly analyzer when it comes to music. I listen to it, and enjoy it, but I couldn't tell you much about composition or genre or influences or how it connects. I just enjoy it.

I am looking at this book and staring at the pages and trying to figure out what I can say that I haven't already said in all the past papers I've turned in. It's. Not coming easy.

Hnarrrg having to use my brain is not as easy as it should be

So my time ticket for next fall's classes is in a week.

All the classes for next fall look kind of really lame.

This disappoints me greatly.

SO:

Iron Man 2 is awesome. It didn't give me the same High On Life feeling I got when I went to see the first movie, but it was still pretty freakin' sweet.

Super 8's trailer made me all excited, but according to what I've heard it's unrelated to my favorite monster movie ._.

Finally, I have caught my first cold whilst at school. Just snifflies and a slightly funky throat, but still unpleasant.

Soooo, had my conference with my teacher about my first draft, but it turns out that mine is one of the three that he hasn't gotten to read yet. Thanks, Big D. He gave it a glancethrough, though, while we talked, and commented that it looked pretty strong so far. I've got more sources to go off of right now, as well, so hopefully this won't be much of an issue.

And hey, maybe if I didn't procrastinate so much, I could get in a second draft that he could look over before the final is due and get more feedback.

I'm not sure who I think I'm kidding with that line of thought though.

My buddy childofthemoor  let me borrow her PS2 so hopefully I can pick up my Persona playing, which I am satisfied with. I maxed out my social link with Brosuke today. It was epic manly. Next in line, Chie. B|b

Ummm jeez what else can I say. I'm mostly updating just because it's been a while and Ma likes it when I do these things.

...it is so weird having Franky and Hajime as my most active muses. Enjoyable, though. Hopefully plot with the Ouenkid can start up within the week...?

...I think that's it.

Yay!

Man all last week I didn't have any inspiration for drawing stuff and then a bunch of memes happened in XI and I'm like "MAN NOW I HAVE DRAWING INSPIRATION" and then my class is like "PS DRAW SOME STUFF FOR YOUR ESSAY ON TOP OF ALL THIS OTHER WORK" and I'm like "CRUD SUDDENLY I HAVE LESS TIME TO DO THINGS I WANT"

Also

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1. Something random about you.
2. Which color you remind me of.
3. My first memory of you.
4. What animal you remind me of.
5. Ask you something I've always wondered about you.
6. My favorite thing about you.
7. My least favorite thing about you.
8. Challenge you to post this on your journal.

Class based: We watched Montreal Pop, a recording of an epic concert that made a name for a lot of the 60s musicians. Including the epic moment of Jimi Hendrix lighting his guitar aflame, then bashing it to pieces.

But shortly before he did that, when he was rocking out, he did a guitar riff of Frank Sinatra. I had to doubletake there, I thought I imagined it, but after it was over my teacher was like "hey who noticed that bit on Strangers In The Night" and I just geeked out like crazy.

Now to get to work on that annotated bibliography.

RP based: This latest plot is freaking the hell out of Spin. It kind of shocked me how bad he retreated from all this mess. J's invitation to Christmas turned out to be a bigger blessing than I knew, they've definitely left early to evade hearing about this and to keep Spin's brain from shutting down.

I am tryyyying to get Tanaka more CR and I really hope it works. And maybe I can finally do a fight with Franky! And Fawful... well. *ahem*