Once The Dinner Bell Rings

Went to Seattle today to check out a big Japanese shopping center there... Uwajimoto's? I think? Anyway it was good. The majority of the place was a huge Japanese grocery, but there was also a food center and a book and music shop. Very extensive; I found Choco-Baby, which I'd gotten to try at Fanime back in '08 and fell in love with. I'm well stocked on instant soups and Japanese snacks now, though I held back on spending as much as I wanted. Apparently every person in the house has their own soy sauce bottle, which I think is silly and we should just share, but hey if they don't want to I might as well have my own. There was also a lot of intriguing "learning Japanese" books, but it's hard to know at a glance which of those'll be actually useful. But man that manga collection is ridiculous. They're up to volume 54 of One Piece over there, apparently. Yeesh.

While I was there, I just kept thinking, "man, I'm sure there are a million things I should think to buy here, I just can't remember any of it..." but it matters not, for I still got a good haul. Yaaaaay!

Aaaaaand no there's no real substance to this post. XI opens in four days augh gotta get those icons done...

You know, after that year of community college, I forgot how nice it was to have the feeling of accomplishing some homework. I mean, like, there was homework, but it was all really easy, and I didn't feel like I had to put any effort into doing it. Most days I could just finish it in class before the teacher collected it, and essays were done the night before at late hours. One time, I even managed to type up an essay I'd done no research on before, starting it at the beginning of class and turning it in at the end of the two hours. Still got an A.

Right now things are easy, but I know that this class is going to start challenging me more and more to get off my ass. And it feels really good to have the incentive to do work before the last minute.

Every week, along with other work, we have to complete a finished work that expands on something we wrote in our journals the week before. Since I mentioned how simultaneously I'm ending the era of being in a familiar place, and DC is ending, I thought it would be good to expand on that. Thought about doing a spiffy piece of art but... well, I put it off too long. Instead I did a Spin-style rhyming reflection. I may put it up later.

I'm mere chapters away from finishing One Piece. I think because I've been reading them all as a cluster, rather than waiting for each chapter to come out, I don't mind the lack of Straw Hats besides Luffy as much, but I know that waiting on end now is going to get old. Needs moar SH hilarity.

...I totally know I opened up this post with something specific to say in mind but I have completely forgotten what it was. Ah well.

So daisychainrpg is Ending as of last night.

I. I don't know. I have felt so much anxiety and worry and sadness over this approaching moment, and now that it's here, I just don't have the energy to get into it. So many people have already. I honestly feel bad for not having it hit me harder, even though it was making me panic a little just a couple days ago. Maybe I'm just too tired; not enough sleep on this first week of classes, I'll tell you that for sure. Maybe I've gotten it out of my system.  Maybe it'll finish hitting me tomorrow. Maybe not. But either way...

Have a chat log instead.
( Queen lyric themes )

So now I am an official college student.

Today was a big day of ups and downs.

Down: the first milk carton I tried this morning was spoiled and smelly like whoa. I should have seen it coming but it was mildly irksome.
Up: I'm pretty sure this is the right class for me. It's got heavy emphasis on writing and self introspection, which is something I'm good at. It also requires acting, which I'm decent at, and drawing, which... well to be honest, I'm only good at one thing, which is not charcoal drawing, so I'm nervous but hoping this will give me the opportunity to balance out.
Down: At first I thought I could nab a job working for the teachers, running about copying papers and setting up stuff for class speakers, but then it turned out it was a job only available for students with financial aid.
Neutral: The woman who did then get the aforementioned job thought I was queer |D I don't mind, I just thought it was funny. It's been a while since that last happened--out loud, at least.
Up: I did, however, get an application to work with the school cafeteria. It's in my expertise, after all.
Down: Because of all the running around job business, I was late getting to the bookstore and picking up the art supplies I need. All the other students had rushed in and nabbed the ridiculously large newsprint pads.
Up: The bookstore owner told me there was a place at the nearby mall where they'd have what I need
Down: She called the store, and said there were only three left. I got nervous, rushed to the bus, and then got to the mall and could not find the place there, and forgot the name of the store. I knew I'd recognize it when I saw it, but...
Up: People did try to help me, and though none actually gave the directions I needed I appreciated it nonetheless. (A janitor stepped out of his way to approach me and make sure I was okay. Am I a total dork for thinking of Uriel?)
Up: I finally found the place, which was not actually in the mall but within walking distance. There were two of the art pads left by then. Yay!
Down: I've been needing to go to the mall and get a small variety of things, but I did not want to lug around that ridiculous big pad. Waiting tomorrow won't kill me, though.

So it evens out to neutral! Yay?

Also please tell me How's My Driving?

Okay yamikonumber7 remember how earlier you were like "man your campus is a techbane"? Yeah well. Shortly after you said that, the whole freaking college had a blackout.

People who were in classes didn't have too much of an issue, some people apparently didn't even hear about it until after the fact, but in the apartments the lights didn't just go out. Oh no. For some unknown reason, some sort of high-pitched siren went off in all the fuseboxes. I have no idea why. Oh, and our apartment is the one closest too our building's fusebox. Fun times.

Anyway, it got fixed up in like half an hour. And I got to meet a cute puppy anyway because I decided to walk around =D

The first real-real meeting of GRAS was today; usually meetings are Wednesday and Saturday, don't know why they did it today instead. Apparently Wednesday are "Sub" days, where we watch lesser-known anime with subtitles: Last Exile, GTO, and Gundam (I forget which one, it was old though). Saturdays are "Dub" days, with more popular dubs that most avid animelovers will already have watched: Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, something else idk. Dunno how much I'll like any of the shows, but it seems like a decent crowd of clubgoers. There's one girl who's kind of the dorky cliche, wearing a Yugioh shirt and a Naruto jacket and calling some character 'smexy' in all seriousness, but she seems like a really nice person and I should stop being a judgemental jerk.

God that puppy was cute.

Here's the meme, of role play theme
It makes me wanna tag and scheme
When it comes I wanna scream

( Meeeeeme )

In other role play news... Well now I am looking at xi_rpg and feeling really bad for dropping so fast, especially since now they've got other Psychonauts. But I honestly just didn't have the muse and shouldn't have rushed in. I was resisting the idea of an AU Spin, but you never know. I may get talked into it yet.

First off:

HEY GUYS, want to help me think of a Halloween costume? I like to have an idea of what I'm going for a while in advance, so as to accommodate for my addiction to procrastination. I tend to do really obscure geeky things, in outfits that wouldn't be hard to buy the bits and pieces in various stores. Past examples include the TF2 Engineer, a Reaver, EBA, so forth. If you guys can help me think of cool things then I would appreciate it.

Moving on.

Still getting used to things, but it's more or less going well. One roommate isn't going to officially move in until tomorrow for some reason, but the rest are here, and two of them are proving to be pretty cool people overall. We've already done some hanging out in the few days we've gotten, and bonded over missing buses. One's a bit on the hyperactive side, so I worry that I may grow weary of her over time, but I'm crossing my fingers and hoping we'll work it out. The fact that she's a Twilight fan is something I'm going to have to grin and bear.

The Club Day and Academic Fair happened this afternoon. Signed up for a bunch of stuff that sounds cool; circus club, hip-hop club, gaming, video gaming, anime (called the GRAS, Giant Robot Appreciation Society), folk dancing, steampunk/victorian/somethingororther, writing, and maybe even a spot on the radio station. Who knows how much I'll follow through with, but I was told to sign up for anything that sounded maybe cool, so I did.

Still hoping I'll be able to have enough balls to make friends besides the roomies. Hope so, not worried about it.

College internet sucks. And the weather jumps around.

Oh man. I forgot how much I loved... jeez, two different things. It's weird to be reminded how much you like stuff!

Firstly, Psychonauts. It's a brilliant game, and I've known this all along. Quirky and silly and creative as hell, with amazing little bits of attention to detail and full development even for the most minor of characters. Unfortunately, I have the loser tendancy to never finish any game that requires full-screen use on a computer, so I never finished the game. Recently, I was prompted for some reason to look into an LP, and while the LPer himself is dull as hell, the game remains just as vibrant and fun as ever.

Also, Stardust. That movie is brilliant. I watched it recently, like a month or two ago, and still loved it, but today I watched it for the first time since I've seen it with people who hadn't seen it before. It's always great, to do that, to see them go through the same emotions you did that first time. The ending had a couple cheesy parts, but it does a great job making you care about the characters, feel for them, enjoy their development. And man during that climax scene, seeing one friend squeal with the horror of WHO WILL GET THERE FIRST was just brilliant. Such good times.

EDIT: Also @ Daisychain: SPIN WITH ANTIDOTE MAKE ME SO HAPPEH 8')

ICON MEME

1. Reply to this post and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post including this info and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending circle of icon glee!

( Colin picked a few. )

GOD DAMN IT

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO

I know we find out tomorrow but fuuuuuuuck