....traversing the portals of reality...

UIC! What the hell!

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:36:35 GMT

Yeah, so it's been a long time since I last updated. But yes, today is very worthy of a rant. I've finally begun "real" university and it's pissing me off! I don't know if it's just my professors, or if it's the 5AM wakeups or if it's the three hours spent commuting each day, or the combination of the three, but I'm irritated as hell. This week I have three exams, two quizzes, I had a lab practical this morning, a lab report, four math assignments, and one chemistry assignment. WTH! This never happened at Harper! I understand that this is "real" college work, but it's insane. I know every student says this, but really, do the professors actually believe that we have no other class that requires work but their own? In retrospective, this isn't a lot of work, or even hard work, for that matter, but it is time consuming. I simply don't have enough time to complete everything, or even study.

Also, the Chem prof is a bitch, and the math disscusion TA is useless, and a condescending bitch.

Also, no matter how enticing that outdated DVD player may be, no I do not want to join the Army, and no I do not want a new bank account, or a new credit card and I don't want whatever flyer you are trying to hand me because I don't want to have to make the effort to find a garbage can so I can throw it away.

2 Days And 14 Hours

Sat, 16 May 2009 23:26:39 GMT

Is how much time I have left to study. I think I'm screwed. The chapter on Potential Energy is killing me and I have barely even studied the new material yet. How the hell did I find time to prepare last year?? I'm also very irritable, cranky, annoyed and an ecetera of bad emotions right now.

Feeling Much Better

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:46:10 GMT

Eep! I still have a lot of studying left to do! At least I don't feel as awful as I did yesterday.

Anyways, in order to pass Physics class, I'm going to need to get a 51 percent on the final exam...Trust me; this is not as easy as it sounds. It's those damn conceptual questions that will be the end of me. If worst comes to worst, I'll have to come back to Harper this summer and beg the physics teacher to let me in her already full class. Well, I'm keeping my fingers crossed and I have 3 containers of sugar-free pudding in my fridge so maybe things will turn out okay.

Edit: 1:32 PM

Um yeah, I've just realized that Harper College has a mighty fine surplus of crazy people and or creepy people. Most of me finds this disturbing, but the budding psychologist within also finds it fascinating. I have a feeling my instinctive method of asking "What the hell is wrong with you!” will not produce good results for a thorough psychological evaluation.

Off to class!

No More!

Wed, 13 May 2009 21:55:53 GMT

Oh God, why must my brain meats hurt so fiercely? Also, what's with the chronic neck, shoulder and back pain I've been experienceing lately? I'm almost finished with the semester, can we lay off on the pain for at least six more days?

Rant - The Dragonball Evolution Edition [No I'm not basing the movie!]

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:16:25 GMT

Since Dragonball Evolution came out, I've been seeing this comment a lot. "OMG WHY IS GOKU A SKINNY WHITE BOY!"

Ugh, I hate it when I see things like this on the internet.

Seriously people, nowhere in the manga does it say that Saiya-Jins are from planet Japan. Goku is pale skinned; sometimes slightly tan, with black hair and black eyes. He can be played by any actor of any race, who shares those same features. There is really nothing about Goku that screams "I look Japanese!"

In most manga and anime, several of the characters do not look Japanese to begin with, even if they are supposed to be Japanese. Sailor Moon anyone? Apparently the creators don't care that their characters do not look Japanese, so should we really care if the actors who portray them don't look Japanese?

There are plenty of things wrong with Dragonball Evolution. Of all the complaints people have made about this movie, Goku not being Asian is the stupidest one. He is Saiya-Jin, who knows what a Saiya-Jin would look like if they were real.

Oh by the way, I enjoyed the movie. It had A LOT of problems, was marketed towards people under 10, but surprisingly entertaining enough. My husband and I went in with really low expectations and we came out feeling that it was better than we thought it would be. I think that fans shouldn't really take this movie too seriously and they might enjoy it. I do hope that someday a good Dragonball movie can be made, I really think that with enough money, a brilliant writer and director, it could be great.

Bestest Friends!

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:01:16 GMT

I get really bored during school.

A Round Up Of My Amazing Day!

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:06:21 GMT

Life is pretty bland when you are a student

- Was woken up at 6:30 by husband who had to get ready for work.
- Fell asleep again and woke up again at 9:30.
- Exercised and showered.
- Watched an episode of Dragonball Z (Yay! I found a website that hosts all of them!)
- Studied for an hour and did online Physics assignment.
- Went to Target and purchased this just so I can give a demonstrative speech about how to make different espresso drinks on Tuesday.
- Went to Starbucks to buy coffee beans, vanilla syrup, mocha powder and shot glasses.
- Went to grocery store and was clawed and hissed at by a two year old. (Not kidding, it was freaky)
- Got home and thought it was only noon but finds out that it is actually 2:22 PM.
- Put away groceries, washed dishes, marinated chicken.
- It is now 4:00.

This is an average day in the life of me. Rejoice and kneel before its excellence. I have no idea why I just wasted 5 minutes typing this up, oh well. I AM SO BORED!

Why can't I finish anything?

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:27:24 GMT

I have tons of unfinished artwork and projects lying around, but for some reason I felt compelled to go to Hobby Lobby to pick up material to start a new one.

First I went to look at their craft wood selection. I really want to make a bed for my still unamed Blythe, but even though they were having a sale on the wood and I found a lot of pieces I could use, I decided to skip it. I was going to need a lot of wood, a saw, wood glue, small nails and a way to clamp down the wood to saw it without having to have one of those huge saw...things. Anyways, it could be an expensive project and I still don't have the bed completely planned out yet and I mostly don't know what I'm doing, so I better not risk it. My dolly will just have to settle for the shoebox stuffed with felt that I gave her.

Of course I can't go to the store and the not purchase anything, I wasted precious petrol to get there, so I bought a felting needle and wool. Now my fingers are raw and bloody from trying to make a dumb bunny.

Sparkle Sparkle

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:21:06 GMT

So what are all the fangirls fangirling over nowadays??? Twilight (obviously), Supernatural (sure) and what about in the Anime department. Is it still Naruto??? I’m seriously out of the geek loop and I’m trying to figure out what appeals to the masses and why.

Actually, no, what I’m really trying to figure out is a good way to waste time. I just finished my super hard Physics test on electricity and after being sick and studying for a week, I want soak myself in some non-cerebral TV or literature.

I could read the last Twilight book, but it is a frightening prospect. The third book proved to be the retarded stepchild of the first two and I’m afraid of what defects the fourth one will have.

I actually have a tummy ache so I may just go to bed.

Amazing Update: Read about 130 pages of Breaking Dawn….. Mostly horrible and I feel so sorry for Charlie. I’m curious to know if her parents ever figure out that she became a vampire. That would have to be interesting...I guess, the last time I checked Wikipedia didn't mention anything about it. I may have to Google it.

I don't have patience to read books to find out what happens. When Deathly Hallows came out the first thing I did was go to Wikipedia and read what happened. I'm a bad fan.

Conundrum

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:19:17 GMT

Hmm. It seems as though my Blythe is evil... She's too cute and it's keeping me from studying!!!!

I spent a large part of yesterday trying to sew her a tiny bunny out of felt, but it proved to be too difficult because the bunny pattern I made is too small and it comes out blocky when I turn it inside out.

Her dress is coming out nicely though. I'm going for a Gothic Loli style but she looks a little more like a French maid. I just have to finish sewing on the pockets and add velcro to the back and I'll be done.

My doll still needs a name but I can't even begin to think of one. Suggestions???

MY DOLLY!!!!!

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:43:46 GMT

My dolly is here!!!!! I will be posting a picture of her soon but I'm going to wait until I finish her dress, which I would say is about 50 percent done. I'm trying to find a way to embellish it a little more so it doesn't look so plain.

She is also in desperate need of a name and I am blank.

This Is Very Important.

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:26:16 GMT

Yay I got my Re-Ments yesterday! I bought the Fairytale Mugs and the Alice in Wonderland Tea Set. My Doll is still MIA.

2:33 PM

My doll is in Jamaica New York! Maybe I'll have her by Monday!

Re-Ment Splurge

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:23:43 GMT

What the hell did I do to my back? I just got home a little while ago and I sat down, checked my daily stuffs, stood back up and AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Oh my poor trapezius. I think I need to change my sleeping position.

In other amazing news, I went to Mitsuwa today. They had Re-Ments! But not good ones. ;_; They had the Sushi series, which isn’t very cute so I only bought one of them. There was also these “Lucky Dip” Hello Kitty purses. They looked pretty small on the box so I was hoping that they would be small enough for my doll (which still isn’t here yet!), but alas they are too big. To complete my shopping spree I also bought the Re-Ment Café Table, so my doll has somewhere to sit when she gets here. I plan on going back to Mitsuwa at least once a week so I don’t miss out on any new Re-Ments. I was really hoping they would have the Flirty Pink collection.

3:22 PM

Well I just spent more money. I bought liquid Sculpey, Super Glue, 4 bottles of paint, a box for my sewing thread and 5 skeins of thread. NO MORE! I did “need” the stuff.

Where is she!

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:21:10 GMT

My Blythe still isn’t here yet. I ordered it on the 25th of January and now it’s the 3rd of February. I know it is coming from China, but still….I need it now! To live! I even bought some Re-Ment dishes for her and those haven’t arrived either. So to hold my over until my stuff gets here, my husband and I went to Toys R Us and Target to find it some Barbie clothes. FAIL! There was barely any selection and it was all really skanky. Why do all Barbie clothes still look like they are from the 80’s??? Seriously, there was nothing for Barbies, Bratz either for that matter. What do little girls play with then? I guess when I was little I didn’t play with Barbies either, I played with Littlest Pet Shop toys. Those have made a big comeback but the selection is still pretty small compared to when I was a kid.
To make up for not getting anything last week, I tried to go to Mitsuwa today after class to buy some more Re-Ments. FAIL again. I realized that my front left tire was too low so I’m going to have to put that trip on hold until tomorrow. Now off to take a much needed shower!

Finals

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:33:12 GMT

So I've been gone for a little while. Studying for finals, which won't be over until Thursday evening. Tomorrow at 8:40AM I take my Physics final, then Thursday at 5PM, I take my Bio final. Then on Thursday evening I'm not going to do anything but lay in bed. Then Friday I'm not going to do anything but lay in bed all morning watching TV, playing with my DS and knitting.

Then I'm going shopping for a new purse!

Squuuuuuuuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiiiid!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:06:57 GMT

Squids are awesome. They just are. And in an effort to waste your time and mine, I present to you...

THE ELBOW SQUID!!!!!!!!

More on the awesomeness of this squid here.

Seriously, it looks like those aliens from Independence Day.

BTW, in case you were dying to know, I did not get that glorious snow day that I so very much need. I finally got my Illinois Driver's Liscense though ^_^!

It's Snowing!!!!!!!!!

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:18:52 GMT

Maybe I won't have lab tomorrow morning.....ahahahahahaha. I HATE PHYSICS LAB!

Red Velvet Pics on the way!

This was mostly a pointless entry.

Pissed Off

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:36:17 GMT

I hate Harper College.

Yesterday I registered for the Spring Semester. I wanted Physics 122, Chemistry 121, and Abnormal Psychology.

Woot! But noo, no woot indeed. I could not register for Chem 121 because apparently the database said I did not meet the requirements. "Oh, that's okay," I thought, because when I registered for the same class last year (I had to drop it), all I had to do was get an override because I did meet the requirements and the school's database is retarded.

So I finish registering for the classes that I could take and planned on going to the registration office to show them my High School grades and prove that I can indeed be in this class. FAIL.

First I get to the Registration Office, and explain my situation and the guy says to me, "Registration is actually downstairs". Fine.

So I go downstairs to the "Registration Room" and the lady at the door tells me to sit at a computer and someone will show me how to register for courses. I sit and I wait and I wait for one of the obviously clueless middle aged women to come help me. They decide to ignore me and go to students who came in AFTER me. I had already been there for at least 20 minutes by now and I'm getting impatient as I see people coming in and leaving before me.

Finally after what seemed like forever, a woman comes to help me. I explain that no, I'm not a noob, I know how to register for a course, I just need to show my grades to an administrator so they can override me. She says "We'll, you haven't taken Math 80, and you need that before you can take Chemistry, " and then she flies off before I can tell her that the pre-req is Math 80 OR HIGHER.

So I sit and sit not sure whether she was going to come back so I can show her the problem, and finally a new women comes and asks me if that lady was coming back to help me. I tell her that I have no idea. So this lady tries to help me and I show her that I've taken Math 165 and my math score is high enough and my high school chemistry grades are high enough for me to register for Chemistry. She leaves without telling me anything! I'm about to go back to the Registration Office to complain that no one is helping me, when finally I overhear the lady explain my problem to someone else. Yeah, I'm happy that she's helping me, but I would like to know that I'm not being abandoned, jeez. Finally she comes back with another lady and they tell me I need to take Chemistry 110 before I can take Chemistry 121. I tell them that I was previously enrolled once in Chemistry 121 because my high school grades were good enough to allow me to bypass that pre-req. They tell me no, they can't do that, they changed that.

I was told by another woman that maybe I could try speaking with the instructor to see if he can try override the pre-reqs for me, but the problem is that this section doesn't even have an instructor yet.

Hopefully the instructor will do this, but another problem is that I cannot reserve a spot in the class, so if it is filled up before they even find an instructor, I'm screwed. This is the only section I could take for this class without screwing everything up.

What pisses me off the most about everything is just how long I had to wait and how poor the communication was and how badly everything was set up. I just can't figure out why no one would help me in the beginning either. I really did have to wait quite a long time. No one else had to raise their hands to get someone to help them. So I decided to enroll in 110 and see what happens. If I really do have to take 110 I will be super pissed because it means that it's going to take even longer for me to get my stupid associates. I was hoping that I could have it by the end of next summer. How DARE they inconvenience me?

Then I went to the grocery store because I require food stuffs, mostly soup because my throat is hurting muches, and I was in line behind some lady with tons of food and she and the women checking her out obviously knew each other, and they were talking and talking and very little grocery checking out was getting done. I swear it was the longest I have ever had to wait in line at a grocery store. It really really was. I learned all about some stranger's church, thanksgiving plans and apparently their cancerous ferret and tons of other crap.

I have a feeling the spectacular 3 hours of sleep last night didn’t make any of this any better.

Ah well, at least I feel better now. I was seriously cringing with rage as I was driving to the grocery store.

Cheese Filled Alert!!!!!

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:38:43 GMT

I have 10 different kinds of cheese in my fridge.

Amish Colby-Jack
Colby
Pepper Jack
Cheddar
Chipotle Cheddar
Asiago
Fontina
Parmesan
Mozzarella
Feta

I also have two kinds of cream cheese, one tub of cottage cheese, and exactly one slice of Kraft processed cheese. This is all the Food Networks fault!

BOW BEFORE MY CHEESE!!!!!

Why am I watching this????

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:16:26 GMT

I'm currently watching Desperate Housewives and doing homework. I have descended into hell. Obviously my own personal hell is occupied by Physics problems and Teri Hatcher.

Irk. I should go to the mall; I need to get some face cream now that the weather is all wintery. Every winter the skin on my face decides to peel off in big blotches. I use an Aveda Night Cream as in an overall face moisturizer to keep my face from looking all gross.

Ooooh, If I go to the Aveda Spa at Streets of Woodfield I can get some Starbucks.

I would rather just stay home. Maybe go to Barnes & Noble and get this book I've been wanting about famous cemeteries in the Chicago area. I think pictures of famous people’s graves would be kind of cool.

On Wednesday my husband and I went downtown to do some important stuff and on our way back home, we got totally lost and ended up in Indiana. We went through this area that was filled with factory buildings, cool machinery and industrial stuff. I took a lot of random pictures so eventually I'll post a few of the best ones.

Dreams Are Cool

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:58:58 GMT

I had a dream about my kitty Christoph. And in the dream my brother and I invented some sort of magnet thingy that will point to the direction of where he came from. A Christoph Origin Locater.

We started walking around pointing the magnet at things and then the magnet pointed itself right up to the sky. Then we looked at each other, then we looked at the sky, and we said to each other "Christoph came from outer space!!!!" That was the end.

I have the coolest brain and I'm running late for school.

I think it's important to let the blogosphere know that....

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:16:41 GMT

I don't wanna study.

Also important, the wind sounds so pretty when it is blowing through the tall trees and tall buildings that make up VIP apartments.

Needs Sunlight

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:51:27 GMT

I don't know why I'm having such a hard time concentrating right now. I feel so lethargic and distracted. I'm usually a night person, but I think the lack of light in this apartment is really starting to get to me. We get about a few good hours of sunlight a day, and when it hits noon, the sunlight disapears over the top fo the apartment leaving the whole room a shady grey. Ideal for sleeping and watching TV, but wrecking havoc on productivity. It feels so absured to close the blinds and turn on aallll the lights on in the apartment so it doesn't feel like the day is completely over yet when it's only two in the afternoon.

I honestly don't know where I'm going with this post anymore, I think I'm just bored. Well, I'm off to get ready to go back to school!

Best Quote Ever.

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:59:41 GMT

We went to see Max Brooks Zombie Survival Seminar last night. It was awesome. Best line of the night was "Oh my God! The Crips have Imperial Walkers!"

Woe is me.

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:28:54 GMT

Grrr. I'm all emo right now and all I want to do is sleep. It's becoming harder to pull myself out of bed in the morning especially, when the only thing I have to look forward to is studying, and then failing despite of said studying. My last Biology test was horrible. I studied everything on the study guide, I had tons of crap memorized; I was like a walking majestic Biology Wizard. I got an F. Hurray. I don't know what to think anymore, I really really don't. I am retaking this class because I got a C last time, and for someone who wants to eventually get into Med-School, a C is really not good. I got a C last year because I didn't study because I was really unmotivated, and now this year I am studying (mostly out of fear) and I'm getting an F. How does that happen!?!?!?!? Conspiracy????? Probably.

Then my little brother had to taunt me by showing me YouTube clips of Silent Hill Homecoming. Now he is happily fighting these pants-less demony thingys with axes for heads and I'm watching reruns of That 70's Show. I probably won't get to fight pants-less demons until I go back to Iowa in January! JANUARY! I need to see my family and kitty cat now!

....*traversing the portals of reality*...