December 2004 Archives

Still need my friggen artist.

I would like you all to know I saw pictures of Leianne, G, Boim, Dave, that black girl from connections whose name escapes me, and others in pictures on my friends computer in hamilton. W.T.F.

Decemberween is over. I managed to backdate all of my old entries from the other blogs onto LJ. It was a huge pain in the ass. I pulled an all nighter the first night I was home. I dont want to blog anymore.

IT'S DECEMBERWEEN ALREADY?!

Happy Decemberween Everyone!

Oh crap! It's Decemberween already?

Sigh. Logically, someone with an exam in less than 24 hours would be studying. I'm not actually sure I've started studying yet. To be totally honest, there's not actually much I can study. I mean. I'm going to go over UML diagrams. Wait no I'm not. I'm going to look at all the GUI stuff. I'ma taking a quick glance over the Robots Methods, and I'm going to read chapters 11 and 12, which I don't think I have previously read.

I can't wait for school to be over. I really can't. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I get home tomorrow night: Sleep, drink, or play WoW. Maybe a combination of all three? It could be fun. WoW has turned out to be alot better than I had expected after the reviews I had gotten from DAoCers (Well duh, nice work Elmo). I got it last night. Interesting story. I went to the mall to buy presents for my brother and sister. Bascially I picked out my sisters gift, and then two copies of WoW and two Catacombs. Technically this WoW is supposed to be part of my christmas present from my brother. I'll use Catacombs when I get home to play a Frostalf Warlock on Guin.

But yes, I am in deed playing WoW. I'm on Stormreaver with Eluamos, my gnomish mage. So far I'm loving it. There's a few things that I would have implemented differently, but on the whole there are so many other things that you forget about it. I had originally wished that you could have been a Night Elven mage, but I'm glad you couldn't have been because those things are hideous. Over all though, the graphics are really good. I just don't think Blizzard knows how to make Elves attractive. Or maybe the designers had a thing against elves, so they made them ugly. The capital human city (who's name escapes me right now) is absolutely gorgeous. It blows Camelot away. I didn't stop to talk to people in the city, but just the fact that there were people to stop and talk to was amazing. On top of that, every third person seems to want to give you a quest (or five) so I'm sure there would have been tons of things for you to do in the city. Riding the tram from Ironforge (the Dwarven capital) to the human capital was tons of fun too. I was expecting more from the scenery, but just the fact that they have that was amazing.

Wednesday is Eugene's Super Happy Fun Time Christmas Party, and fitting of Super Happy Fun Time Behaviour, I plan on getting tanked. I need a good drinking. The last time I was drinking was that weekend way back when at Mels when I didn't even have enough to get drink (which was surprising because normally beer hits me extremely hard). Before that it was probably something with the S3 people (who I never see anymore).

That's an interesting story. Not seeing the S3 people anymore. I think it has something to do with the fact that I get this strong feeling that Marc doesn't like me. I guess he has a right not to like me; I disagree with alot of what he does. Par example, swtiching into Psych late but still getting all his courses exactly when he wants them because hes the "famous Marc Hall". Hell, if I had known people would bend of backwards for me left right and center, I would have been the biggest whiney bitch about bringing a boy to prom (Notice I still brought Heather; no she's not a boy and NO we did not have sex that one time in the movie theatre). Having a small secular group of Christian Whackos is worth being seen as a martyr (even though I always thought you had to die for your cause to be a martyr). Oh well. I'm glad that's out of my system.

I've noticed I'm having tons and tons of trouble understand people nowadays. I used to be able read people like books. Now I'm just like: I don't understand what thought process you followed to get to where you are right now. That happens a lot too. I've noticed more and more people are going crazy. People are being mean to other people; people are dumping their problems on other people (or in their faces); and on the whole, I fail at relationships. I guess on the bright side, I did get 10k on the VN.

Oh ya, before I forget: I am this cool.

EDIT:
I forgot a whole bunch of things. I can't fucking WAIT for Malanka. You have no fucking idea how much I want to go for this. I'm going to get all sexied up and get good and drunk with a bunc of Ukrainians. So fucking ready for that. It's going to be so much fun, I don't think there are words in me to describe it.

I'm going to live. I swear. It makes me sing Daniel Beddingfield. *goes to download the song* I was considering what other language course/courses I should try and work into my schedule as electives. I made a poll on the Guin boards that came out like this: Spanish 24%; German 20%; French 20%; Mandarin 14%; Korean 10%; Russian 10%. So if you guys want to give your own input on the languages I'm willing to hear it. I'm surprised French did so well, considering it's useless unless you want to work in France (I don't), or you want to work for the Canadian Government (Which is even more useless because the type of french spoken, and the french taught aren't exactly the same. For actual differences just attack Phil with questions). I'm going to probably come up with some crazy algorithm based on that, input from other people, and my personal preferences.

I've noticed studying Japanese is killing my english. That and math. It's a bad news for your english language skills if you're a math student at Waterloo, and you're in Japanese. Math people like to use words that aren't actually words ("The sequence is bounded at (sqrt(4)epislon)/3. Bounded?!). I've also noticed that I'm replacing the harder sounding "C"s (guh, I can't even think of how to describe it) from words like crazy and craft, with ks. I blame the fact that there's no actual "c" in Japanese.

Ok. Back to copying notes. I'm no longer capable of processing thought.

I survived UWaterloo 1A Math! I think. I did decently enough on 135 for me to be confident in saying that I'm going to pass the course. I've definatly learned my leassons for next term. I'm not going to sleep through class anymore, no matter how appealing it is. I'm not going through this again. My notes sucked. I'm going to arrange them, and try and fill in gaps that I had photocopied or scanned for me. It's part of the process I'm going to do over Christmast Break, first to ensure that I don't forget the stuff, and second so that my binders will be in working order and I can get next terms binders ready. If anyone wants to make pretty sticky things, let me know! So that's my first thing I've learned. Actually, that should collectively fix most of my problems. However, I'm still going to actually attend tutorials next term (even though this term's tutorials were a waste of my time) and I'm going to put more effort into doing the assignments, and getting the assignments handed in instead of having them sit around with me (happened 4 times).

So I have two exams left. Japanese tomorrow, and CS on tuesday. Basically I'm studying tonight (as soon as I get my wits back about me, and this headache goes away) and tomorrow. The exams at 2:00. After that, I'm probably going to take a big break for Saturday night. Float around and do nothing, or clean. Maybe a little of both. Sunday my parents are coming to help me clean up my room and suite, and take stuff home for me in prep for my train ride home on the 22nd (I have no idea how I'm going to get to Eugene's party yet). Then Monday and Tuesday will be spent on CS. Maybe I should study sometime over the weekend instead of having to cram it in. Guh. Oh well. Less than 5 full days left to go.

It's a depressing, and scary thought really. I'm halfway through first year at Waterloo. Despite all the stress (I appologize to everyone for being such a prick over the last week), I think we're going to make it out alive. I still don't really know my roommates though. I don't have anyone to compare to though, so I'm not sure if I'm above or below the bar. People are going off to coop already. I have one more term before my summers as I knew them are officially dead.

In other news. I just took a nap. I'm still tired. Boo.

For those of you who didn't believe me, I told you so. There are service tunnels throughout UW. Unfortunatly they're not for regular public use. Which sucks. It also looks like I will be unable to wander through the tunnels since they seem to be locked. It also seems to have a security system installed now. That sucks.

I managed to download the IME for Office XP which means I will now be able to type, and it will come out in hiragana, katakana or kanji depending on what I want. It is probably one of the coolest things I have come across. I can't find one that works with MSN messenger though. I'm going to try and get it to work though, so I'm excited. I'd be in heaven if it worked.

I think I'm going to take Korean sometime through university. Or Mandarin. I'm not sure though. Mandarin would probably be the more useful of the two in the business world, but I think I would like to speak Korean more. Maybe it's just me. I think it's a language I would enjoy speaking more. And I mean if I'm going to go into the gaming industry (assuming I pass my exams) Korean would be just as useful as Mandarin.

Speaking of exams. I think I've finally got my nerves under control. I'm going to do some hardcore studying tomorrow and wednesday for Calculus. And then hardcore studying Thursday and Friday for Algebra. And then attempt to memorize some important things for Japanese for Saturday. I think I'll do that along the way. Theres tons of little things that you need to know that you can't learn by any other method other than memorization. I should hopefully maybe make it out alive. I'm not looking forward to it though.

Im still upset that I will be unable to have someone draw the comics. I love Mel, but I don't think she'll ever have enough time to do the comic. Which sucks. I'd really like to have someone to draw them. I'd like to get three out a week. Basically I'd have to dump scripts on someone and have them churn out like 50 on a big period of free time, and then just slowly post them. That way it would allow for more writing of comics, and the later drawin of said comics. Oh well. One can dream.

I can't do math. This isn't working for me. I've been attempting to drill it into my brain for the last four days, and I'm not sure if any of this is sticking. I'm not sure what else to do. The exam is in just under 48 hours, and I'm no where near ready. I think I'm going to talk to the professor tomorrow, and ask him what he thinks I should do because nothing is being retained by my brain. It's just floating around for a little bit and then blowing away.

Luckily, thanks to the Japanese thing I know almost exactly what I need to study for the final.

Please God, let my life be like Love Hina.

Well it's 2:00 and I'm up. My stomach was bothering me, and I felt really really dizzy. So I pointed the fan at my bed (which never turns off by the way) to cool it down, got some water, and took some pills for sleeping. Mmm. Until they kick in, I was writing down more brainstorming for the comic. It makes me really really sad. I'm not trying to criticize people, but I have come to accept the fact that they will probably never get drawn. Why? Everyone is busy, so they don't have the time, or they can't handle criticism (which doesn't happen if you're working with me, or doing anything that's going to be published), or both. Sometimes people have trouble maintaining something. I don't know what it is, it's an art term. Three people have used it. They can't keep drawing the same thing over and over, with it looking like the same thing? I'm not sure. But it's so sad. I probably have the brainstorming for at least 50 comics done, nevermind the ones I didn't bother to write down. The first 10 comic scripts are done completely. And what do I have? Nothing. It makes me so sad.

Ow ow ow my brain. I have such a headache. I've also come to a few conclusions. My sister should not be allowed to touch any computer other than her own. That way I won't have to deal with a huge mess when I get home and attempt to use the computer. Somehow, in transfering the computer from my moms office downstairs to my room upstairs, the internet stopped working. The card was done. I don't know how, or why. It might just have been a virus. I'm not sure. So I went to get a wireless router and a wireless card. Cost me a bundle. It almost worked. Not really. It was a huge pain in the ass to get going, and Davey had to come over to help set it up. But it worked. Then the rest of the viri kicked in. So as we stand right now: the wireless network doesn't work properly, the floppy drive doesn't register as being installed, and it doesn't want to cooperate in attempts to save my mothers files. This is where all the fun starts. Saving my mothers files. Her work files. I can't just format, because that would erase her files (and be way too easy for me). So tomorrow I'm going to attempt to take my sisters internet card out of her computer, put it in the broken one, hardwire it to the laptop im working on, transfer the files, then destroy everything. Sounds like a plan.

I hate studying. It takes effort, and I tend to hate things that take effort. Its made worse by the fact that I have games here to tempt me. I didn't take that into consideration. I also didn't consider that I would have to spend a huge chunk of my time fixing computers. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll be good to go on the computer. I guess it's not that big a eal if I'm not though, because it means I'll be able to devote my time to studying. Sigh. Studying.

I find it really hard to sleep in my own bed, which is incredibly uncool. This morning when I woke up both of my arms hurt. I mean hurt all over. Generally my shoulders would hurt. Occasionally my elbow would hurt, but only on one arm. This time both arms hurt all over. It wasn't fun. They bothered me all day too, from my shoulders right down to my hands. Suffice to say I didn't enjoy it very much.

Today, after not falling asleep until like 3:00, I had to wake up at 7:00 to drive my brother to school, and then to drive my sister to school, and then to drive to Best Buy to buy the router and card. After that I wasted most of my morning trying to get the router to work (with no success), and then I decided to take a nap before I had to continue my day. The continuation of my day included get my brother from school, going to the mall with Matt (peas_and_corn) and Natasha (anawiel), before coming home and attempting again to fix the computer. Sigh what a waste. Luckily I did get to go to Tim Hortons with Matt at like 10:15 after he go off work. It made me feel better about wasting my day.