Tuesday, December 21, 2004

   Morality Lesson 220: How NOT to go about the end of the semester:
So, this'll be my last post before I finish off the second half of an essay which by all accounts should have been finished a couple weeks earlier . . . not good.

Add into account my Ancient History midterm which takes place at 3:30pm today - studying for which has been hampered by my need to write said essay . . . definitely not too good.

Going by my current pace, it's gonna be pretty late by the time I finish this essay . . . by all accounts not good at all.


Folks, finish assignments as soon as you can. It saves you a lot of heartache and loss of mind later. It's not a good feeling. You'll hate yourself less that way too.

So yeah, I guess I'll talk to you guys tonight or something, by which time I shall most likely be hysterical and not quite right in the head. Peace!


EDIT: Oh yeah, I changed the song YET again to YET another version of the GTO theme song, "Poison". It suits the mood right now.

EDIT 2: Well, it's 2:49am, PST. Essay's done. Now all I need to worry about is a final which I've had little time to study for in about . . . a little over 13 hours. Ohh, that's lucky . . . oh wait, no it's not . . .

EDIT 3: Well, it's 2pm, and I'm sitting in an internet lab at school instead of studying . . . but hey, I've been at it off and on for the past couple hours now, and my quick bathroom break was as good an excuse as any to walk around a bit (I've also come to accept that I dislike the taste of Starbucks coffee . . . tastes burnt to me . . .). Heh . . . the deep breath before the plunge indeed . . .
"I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse. " (Pippin, Return of the King)
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Sunday, December 19, 2004

   Procrastination . . .
The things we go through for a piece of paper that says that an expensive institution feels that we know a bit of stuff . . . gotta love legitimate education . . . . .

RotK:EE is beautiful. It made me cry at the end. Then there are the two short films by a New Zealand teen that died of cancer on the second extras disk. Those made me cry too - anyone who gets these DVDs MUST watch those.

Beck and Bleach are two relatively new animes that are both based on long-running mangas. They also both start with the letter B. I'm liking them.

Beck is a 'slice of life' anime about a guy and a rock band - there's lots of 'Engrish F-bombs' dropped in it, it's different . . . actually, the 'F-bombs' don't stay as dominant as in the first few episodes . . . after that, all you can listen to is the ridiculously cool guitar riffs. Oh yeah, there's a messed up patchwork dog in it with the title name for some reason too, and I think it might be important later on.

"Bleach" is about a shinigami who makes a teen guy sort of a substitute shinigami and then they beat up bad ghosts and save good ghosts. It's funny yet sentimental, and the theme song is done by Orange Range, who I'm really starting to like. In any case, it looks like it's gonna be one of those shows that blows up into wildly crazy life-or-death adventure later on, though A-keep's been busy and hasn't been subbing as quickly as Lunar, whose translation I don't like quite as much. Oh yeah, and there's a walking, talking, insane lion plushie too.

And let's not forget our loveable Enpitsu-kamisama Shanny who's sick and currently busy with her own thing right now. Everyone wish for her wellbeing, now!


A'ight dudes, time for me to pretend that I'm getting back to schoolwork. Peace, yo.
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Monday, December 13, 2004

   Not gonna be around for a week or so . . .
Yeah, it's time I stop running away from the work. Fact is I've got my Shakespeare exam today. Then a Latin exam on Wednesday. Then an 18th Century Literature exam on Thursday. Then a Classical Myth and Religion exam on Friday.

Then an Ancient History exam on the next Tuesday.


So yeah, methinks I'm gonna disappear for a little bit. Be back soon! Oh, and unless something stupid happens, I think I should be able to mail a whole bunch of little packages today. Just sayin', is all . . .


[EDIT: it's 11am, I'm at school, and I STILL decided to pop into a computer lab for a second. Well, mailing's done, though all of 'em are probably gonna arrive after Christmas by a few days (durnit). Likewise, international postage sucks, because you have to write out the customs form that gets stuck on the outside of the package detailing WHAT you've gotten the person and HOW MUCH it costed! How mean!]
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Sunday, December 12, 2004

   To answer a few quick questions:
I really don't know what the world would do without my world-saving. Most likely it'd do okay, as I'm not doing too much just yet (I need green meteor rocks to mutate me or something . . .)

This interesting person I spoke to is my best friend (among other things) who lives on the other side of the continent from me, three times zones away. Nice girl; I'd recommend her to a friend.

I think same-sex marriages are a good thing and am definitely for it. Why? Why not?

This isn't an answer to a question, but the sun's overrated anyway. I'll takes my certain peoples half-dead any time if it means I gets to takes my certain peoples period. And yes, I did shame myself with the grammar right then. That was deliberate for whatever reason. That's right, me is a bad English Major.

As a matter of fact, I did open up Final Fantasy VII a few weeks ago. I'm already on the second disk and am feelin' mighty guilty about every passing hour! Go procrastination!

I hope you're all having decent weekends. Goede nacht mijn vrienden.
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Saturday, December 11, 2004

   Well, today was interesting . . .
Again, wasted most of my time which could have been used for writing papers or studying. Meh.

Still wishing I could save the world, that's expected.

Spent a little time thinking about what I needed to get certain people for Christmas and how best to get it to them.

Spent a fair deal of time on the phone talking with a pretty neat person. She denies that she was interesting, but I enjoyed every second of it. She had a nice voice, after all.


In national news, Canada's supreme court gave constitutional clearance in favour of same-sex marriages nationwide. The actual bit of legislation is still in the works, but yeah, things are lookin' pretty okay up here . . . if my stance on this wasn't clear enough, I'll give a quick story about when I was reading the paper:

The Premier of Alberta Ralph Klein is dead set against it. However, this sort of ruling is a federal one, and the provinces only handle the performance of the ceremonies. Likewise, since only the Federal government can use Canada's "notwithstanding clause" to overrule Supreme Court rulings, Mr. Klein can't do a damn thing about it. As I read that part, I chuckled and my faith in our system boosted a little bit. Hehe . . . Silly premier, marriages are for everyone!
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Friday, December 10, 2004

Need . . . . super powers . . . . . . NOW!!!!
It dawned on me yesterday that I've been missing out on a lot of things happening in people's lives around here. And not just the "I got the Dodgeball DVD!" kind either . . .

We all know I have a bit of a hero-complex. I wanna be able to save the day and the lives of everyone I can, whether I have the ability to or not. And, well, it sucks that I can't. I certainly can't blame myself for that, especially since no one else is blaming me either . . . but still . . . . .

But yeah, it only took a couple of dear friends that day to remind me that we all have lives filled with hardship, frustration, and shock. And, as usual, here I sit over on the far coast of the continent, completely away from everyone . . . heh, why does British Columbia seem like it's its own island nation far off from every other part of the country/continent? It's just me, I know . . .

I'll find a way to protect and rescue you all some day . . . I'll moan and carp about it long and hard until then, but I will . . . you'll all hang in there for me until then, right?
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Wednesday, December 8, 2004

iiii don't wanna work, I wanna bang on me drum all daaaay . . .
Oi . . . feeling very very lazy these days . . . . . lazy and congested. Congestion's easing off, though, so I'm glad about that. I'm probably just not drinking enough fluids or something.

So everyone else is doin' okay? I know I haven't been poppin' around as actively as I usually do/was/would like to be . . . . . buuuut, it's okay. This site's just for fun after all, isn't it? I'm sure it'll still be here after the dust settles . . . or the snow falls . . . . . oh yeah, it snowed but didn't stick the other night . . .

So I may or may not be getting better from the sickness now. Woke up sneezing a lot, and other than a lot of phlegm and other sticky substances coming out of my throat and/or nasal cavity, I think I might be getting better. Of course, that's what I thought last week when BOOM! So we'll see . . . cautiously optimisic is the term, right?

Anyhoo, you all have a nice Wednesday, even though Wednesdays are inherently evil . . .
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Monday, December 6, 2004

   Meep
Still sick. Missed work. Still writing last essay. In the past while I bought Spider-Man 2, Dayquil, Christmas lights, and a panda plushie with a UBC t-shirt. 'nuff said. Bedtime now. Good night.
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Saturday, December 4, 2004

   University of British Columbia = University of Metropolis!!!!
Alright, so it's fairly common knowledge that the WB series "Smallville" films in Vancouver, BC, fair to say? Alright, that out of the way . . .

I came out of my first morning class yesterday and headed to my next building. There are a lot of trailers along the Main Mall of the campus. "Oh, someone must be filming again," I figure, since everyone films at my school for its, well . . . old school look. Anyway, I go past a stack of those "star actor" chairs . . . they say "Smallville" across the backs of them! I see a small sandwich board along the cement: "Smallville" is filming, sorry for the inconvenience" or something like that. Then there was the "building sign" stuck in the thing of grass that people usually just walk over to cut through the streets - "Univeristy of Metropolis" with arrows and directions and stuff . . .


Hehe . . . I was giddy. It really did make my day a little better (still sick and all, plus nosebleeds).

Anyway, during my first break, I had lunch, bought some Christmas presents (you know who you are), and sorta "drifted" back to that area again . . . this time, there were also two extra, mysteriously fake-looking newspaper vendor-thingies where there's usually only 2 - on one it had a logo for the Daily Planet (glee). Then all across this little ATM Messageboard was a big thing of "Metropolis Bulldogs" posters (more glee!). Then I saw the crowd lined along the tape near the Mathematics Annex . . .

So yeah, people came and went fast (remember, watching people set up and rehearse takes that only involve a guy walking slowly is in truth rather boring). I eventually got a pretty choice spot for watching stuff . . . . . and there she was! Lois Lane, wearing a big, long turqoise coat! W00t!!!!! I saw Lois!!! And she was talking to some asian dude with a backpack! And then some crewman with a big hat walked into my line of sight! Bastard!!!


So yeah, I was pretty happy about that . . . then I found a friend on the bus. She said she saw Chloe at about 3:30pm. Then I was sad because I missed Chloe (me loves Chloe too . . .). Ah, t'was good.


Not too shabby for a final day of classes, eh?
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Friday, December 3, 2004

An End to the Verse
Technically my essays should be done. STOP.

They're not. STOP.

Handing it in Monday hopefully. STOP.

No more verse until Christmas most likely. STOP.

Have a nice day. STOP.
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