Friday, April 7, 2006

Ups and Downs, Highs and Lows

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Greetings all! This week has had it’s highs and it’s lows. What better way to start a post!? Heh heh. When I can post about both good and bad stuff, it makes the post so much more interesting. All good is really boring but all bad is really depressing. Both good and bad make for a good balance. Heh heh.

Now that I got that out of my system, it has been shown that ending on a high note is much better for a writer’s audience. Therefore, I shall start with the bad news. It’s not too bad, but it’s bad enough to make it bad. I was supposed to be going on a ski trip with my college group from my church back home. I was really looking forward to it. But, unfortunately I was unable to. It just turned out to be a rather bad decision. I would be missing two classes of a course I’m already doing rather poorly in. So, I chose not to go. It really bummed me out too. I could be snowboarding down a mountain RIGHT NOW *cries*.

Also, bad news on the lack of internet. My roommate actually has internet capability. So, Thursday night while he was out making out with his girlfriend, I hooked my laptop up to his cable just to make sure that is was in fact an internet problem and not a laptop hardware problem. My laptop wouldn’t work on that cable. I still couldn’t get on the internet. So, I think what happened is the surge from the lightning bolt fried my Ethernet card. I think I needs to be replaced. I’m still going to have the maintenance guys come out here to check up on it, but I worry it won’t help any. Anyway, that’s the last of the bad news

The good news! YAY! And, there’s a lot of it today. First off, I got my schedule for next semester all laid out. Thursday morning at 7:30 I was sitting in the middle of the hallway on my computer trying to beat everybody else to the classes I wanted. I had mild success. I was literally half a second away from making it into the one and only section of Western Civilization II. I got onto the web page and it said there was one spot open. In the time it took me to move my mouse over the “Add” button and click it, someone else got the last spot. GAH! Thankfully, this means I am the first person on the waitlist, so I’ll probably get in anyway, but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating. If I don’t get in, I’m going to go to the professor and perform a phenomenal display of groveling. I need that class, badly. Another bad thing about the fact that there is only one section of the course is that it exactly falls on top of another class I really wanted to get into this semester, Photography. It’s one of the hardest courses to get into here, so I probably didn’t have much of a chance anyway, but the fact that Western Civ. II fell right on top of it, pretty much cancelled out that class for me. Grr… Everything else went well. I enrolled in 21 hours, but will probably only take 15 – 18 hours of that in the end. I enrolled in the NT class that I’m not doing that well in right now just in case I fail it. If I really start cracking right now and study my butt off I can easily walk out with at least a C. The class I just enrolled in is just a contingency plan. Mom, Dad, if you want to see my schedule, just email me or call me. Just know that what you see is not final.

All right, so the schedule thing was both good and bad news all wrapped up in one. Makes for a good seguay. The next little bit of information is all good. Over the spring break a week ago, I was in a car accident. I originally didn’t post about it because, to tell you the truth, I was embarrassed. It’s humiliating to say that I was in another accident. I know I’m a bad driver, but I hate announcing that to the world, ya know? Well, you’re probably thinking, “How is this good news?” Allow me to clear it up for you. The accident wasn’t my fault! HAHA! I was so worried it was too! Yup! This is actually a gain for me. The passenger side door panel, mirror, and fender all all bend up and need replacing as well as the back passenger side fender and panel. It was going to be a costly repair and I didn’t want to have to pay for it, or have my insurance pay for it. With the fact that it isn’t my fault, it means that the other guy’s insurance will pay for it. So, not only am I getting all of that replaced, I am getting a new paint job because we are going to be purchasing new parts (they aren’t painted). The previous owner of my car was apparently not all that bright and used some kind of odd polish which scratched the paint job all up. It looks like someone took some fine sandpaper to the entire thing. That will be covered up in the new paint job. Yay! I can also choose to paint it a different color if I wish. Not sure if I want to or not though. I kinda like black. I’ll have to think on that one for a bit. Anyway, it’s all good. So, yeah.

Lastly, a little news about what has been going on this week on campus (and the reason why you see a cute soldier woman for the pic of the day). My suite and a women’s suite have been playing two games all week. The one that the entire campus saw played out and witnessed was our week long game of capture the flag. Everybody on both teams wore flags all week and tried to steal the other team’s. At the end of each day points were tallied up. For every flag of your own team’s color, you got one point. For every flag of the opposing teams color, you got two points. The other game was a game of mafia. It wasn’t so apparent to the rest of the campus and was kinda played under the surface. Every morning there was a card placed on our doors. Depending on what card you got, you were a killer, doctor, or bystander. The two killers on either team would get together and talk about who they wanted to kill on the opposing team. If you made a successful kill you got three points. If you killed the opposing team’s doctor, the opposing team got the three points. Then at the end of the day, we would get together and guess who the killers were on the other team. A successful guess got you three points and an unsuccessful guess got you nothing. At the end of the week, the points from these two games were tallied up and whoever got the most points won. The prize was a desert prepared by the other team. I personally didn’t think my team would win, to tell you the truth. We were playing horribly and the women were clearly better strategists. Thus, I was prepared with a recipe for peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. But, lo and behold, we won. We won by only 3 points, but we won. It was a close game.

That’s about the extent of things for the week. It was a rather eventful week for me. I’m glad it’s over though. I can now go and start my wonderful Friday ritual of vegetating in front of the television for an hour of five. Have a great day and a great weekend y’all!

Caesar1280's Anime Ticker

.hack//Legend of the Twilight, Air, Air: The Movie, Akira, The Animatrix, Appleseed, Aquatic Language, Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror, Beck, Black Lagoon, Blame!, Blood the Last Vampire, Bokurano, Burst Angel, Castle in the Sky, Cowboy Bebop, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Digimon Tamers: The Runaway Digimon Express, Egao, FLCL, Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shambala, Gankutsuou, Gatekeepers, Genshiken, Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society, Gin-iro no Kami no Agito, Grave of the Fireflies, Grenadier, Haibane Renmei, Hellsing, Highlander: The Search for Vengeance, Hikaru no Go, Howl?s Moving Castle, Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Jyu Oh Sei, Karas: The Prophecy, Last Exile, Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, Midori?s Days, Milennium Actress, Mushi-shi, My Neighbor Totoro, Naruto, Naruto: The Movie, Nausicaa, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death And Rebirth, Ninja Scroll: The Movie, Other Worlds, Paprika, Perfect Blue, Pet Shop of Horrors, The Place Promised In Our Early Days, Prétear, Princess Mononoke, Read Or Die, Read Or Die: The TV, Samurai Champloo, Samurai Seven, Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal, She and Her Cat, Spirited Away, Steamboy, Tide-Line Blue, Tokyo Babylon, Tokyo Godfathers, Trigun, Voices of a Distant Star, Witch Hunter Robin, Wonderful Days, Wrath of the Ninja, X

Anime I've Seen - .hack//Legend of the Twilight - .hack//Sign - 5 Centimeters per Second - Air - Air: The Movie - Akira - The Animatrix - Appleseed - Aquatic Language - Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror - Baby Blue - Beck - Black Lagoon - Blame! - Blood the Last Vampire - Bokurano - Burst Angel - Castle in the Sky - Cowboy Bebop - Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Digimon Tamers: The Runaway Digimon Express - Doorbell - Egao - FLCL - Fullmetal Alchemist - Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shambala - Gankutsuou - Gatekeepers - Genius Party - Genshiken - Genshiken OAV - Ghost in the Shell - Ghost in the Shell: Innocence - Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society - Gin-iro no Kami no Agito - The Gokusen - Grave of the Fireflies - Grenadier - Haibane Renmei - Happy Machine - Hellsing - Highlander: The Search for Vengeance - Hikaru no Go - Howl's Moving Castle - Innocent Venus - Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade - Jyu Oh Sei - Karas: The Prophecy - Karas: The Revelation - Last Exile - Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi - Midori?s Days - Milennium Actress - Mushi-shi - My Neighbor Totoro - Naruto - Naruto: The Movie - Nausicaa - Neon Genesis Evangelion - Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death And Rebirth - Ninja Scroll: The Movie - Other Worlds - Ouran High School Host Club - Paprika - Perfect Blue - Pet Shop of Horrors - The Place Promised In Our Early Days - Prétear - Princess Mononoke - Read Or Die - Read Or Die: The TV - Samurai Champloo - Samurai Seven - Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal - Serial Experiments Lain - Shanghai Dragon - She and Her Cat - Spirited Away - Steamboy - Tekkonkinkreet - Tide-Line Blue - Tokyo Babylon - Tokyo Godfathers - Trigun - Trinity Blood - Vampire Hunter D - Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust - Voices of a Distant Star - Witch Hunter Robin - Wolf's Rain - Wonderful Days - Wrath of the Ninja - X Total: 93

Anime I Haven't Completed - .hack//Roots - Ah! My Goddess - Angelic Layer - Avenger - Baccano! - Bamboo Blade - Basilisk - Binchou-tan - Black Cat - Bleach - Blood+ - Boogiepop Phantom - Case Closed - Le Chevalier d'Eon - Chobits - Chrono Crusade - Code Geass - Coyote Ragtime Show - D.Gray-Man - D.N.Angel - DearS - Death Note - Dennou Coil - Desert Punk - Digimon - Dragon Ball Z - Ergo Proxy - Eureka Seven - Excel Saga - Fighting Beauty Wulong - Final Fantasy Unlimited - Flag - Freedom - Full Moon - Gantz - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Gintama - Glass Fleet - Great Teacher Onizuka - Gundam Seed - Gundam Wing - Hayate the Combat Butler - Hellsing OVA - Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Ikki Tousen - InuYasha - Jigoku Shojo - Kage Kara Mamoru - Karin - Kino's Journey - Love Hina - Loveless - Lovely Complex - Lucky Star - Makai Senki Disgaea - Marchen Awakens Romance - Meine Liebe - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Mononoke - Monster - Moon Phase - Mr Stain on Junk Alley - Naruto Shippuuden - Negima?! - Negima! - Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion - Nerima Daikon Brothers - NHK ni Youkoso - Night Walker - Ninja Nonsense - Noir - Peacemaker Kurogane - Pokemon - Prince of Tennis - R.G. Veda - Ragnarok - Rec - Red Garden - Robotech - Romeo x Juliet - Rosen Maiden - Rurouni Kenshin - Saikano - Sailor Moon - Samurai Deeper Kyo - Sci-fi Harry - School Rumble - Scrapped Princess - Shin-chan - Shingu - Shion no Oh - Shuffle! - Shrine of the Morning Mist - So Long, Mr. Despair - Solty Rei - Sousei no Aquarion - Speed Grapher - Spice and Wolf - Super Milk Chan - Tales of Phantasia - Tenchi Muyo - Tenjhou Tenge - Texnolyze - The Third - Tsubasa Chronicles - Urusei Yatsura - Venus Versus Virus - Welcome to the N.H.K. - Winter Cicada - X-1999 - Xenosaga - XxxHolic - Yu Yu Hakushou - Yume Tsukai - Zero no Tsukaima - Zipang Total: 116

Manga I've Completed - Cowboy Bebop - FLCL - Manga Messiah - Manga Metamorphosis - Q*Ko-chan - Saiyuki - Shirahime-Syo Total: 7 Manga I Haven't Completed - .hack//Legend of the Twilight - Black Cat - Blame! - Chobits - D.Gray-man - Darkside Blues - Death Note - The Demon Ororon - Desert Coral - Disgaea - Eureka Seven: Gravity Boys and Lifting Girl - Fruits Basket - Getbackers - Hayate the Combat Butler - Kamunagara - Legal Drug - Love Hina - Loveless - Megatokyo - Naruto - Negima - Read Or Die - Rurouni Kenshin - Tactics - Trigun Maximum - XXXHolic Total: 26

Anime I'm Currently Watching
Samurai 7, InuYasha, Samurai Deeper Kyo,
Boogiepop Phantom, and Shrine of the Morning Mist

Manga I'm Currently Reading
Read Or Die, Hayate the Combat Butler, and Megatokyo.hack//Roots, .hack//Sign, 5 cm per Second, Ah! My Goddess, Angelic Layer, Avenger, Basilisk, Binchou-tan, Black Cat, Bleach, Blood+, Boogiepop Phantom, Case Closed, Le Chevalier d'Eon, Chobits, Chrono Crusade, Coyote Ragtime Show, D.Gray-Man, D.N.Angel, DearS, Death Note, Dennou Coil, Desert Punk, Digimon, Dragon Ball Z, Ergo Proxy, Eureka 7, Excel Saga, Fighting Beauty Wulong, Final Fantasy Unlimited, Flag, Full Moon, Gantz, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Gintama, Great Teacher Onizuka, Gundam Seed, Gundam Wing, Hayate the Combat Butler, Hellsing Ultimate, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Innocent Venus, InuYasha, Jigoku Shojo, Kage Kara Mamoru, Karin, Kino?s Journey, Love Hina, Loveless, Lovely Complex, Lucky Star, Makai Senki Disgaea, Marchen Awakens Romance, Meine Liebe, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Mononoke, Monster, Naruto Shippuuden, Negima?!, Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion, Nerima Daikon Brothers, NHK ni Youkoso, Night Walker, Ninja Nonsense, Noir, Ouran High School Host Club, Peacemaker Kurogane, Pokemon, Prince of Tennis, R.G. Veda, Ragnarok, Rec, Red Garden, Robotech, Romeo x Juliet, Rosen Maiden, Rurouni Kenshin, Saikano, Sailor Moon, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Sci-fi Harry, School Rumble, Scrapped Princess, Serial Experiments Lain, Shingu, Shuffle!, Shrine of the Morning Mist, So Long Mr. Despair, Solty Rei, Sousei no Aquarion, Speed Grapher, Super Milk Chan, Tales of Phantasia, Tenchi Muyo, Tenjhou Tenge, Texnolyze, The Third. Trinity Blood, Tsubasa Chronicles, Urusei Yatsura, Welcome to the N.H.K., Winter Cicada, X-1999, Xenosaga, XxxHolic, Yu Yu Hakushou, Yume Tsukai, Zero no Tsukaima, Zipang

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