Thursday, April 27, 2006

   Finals suck . . . I'm glad I never have to do them ever again
Hallo everyone! It's a wonderful Thursday to be back. I missed an entire weekend to exams, work, and more exams. I've been missing out on "Silent Hill", "Advent Children", MSN . . . I even friggin' missed "House" on Tuesday! Gickness . . . . .


So let's see . . . Saturday was Renaissance Drama at noon. I wasn't really looking forward to it, and it was probably the one class I was least prepared for. I probably sucked at it, but maybe I hung in alright. Anyway, I got my term paper back that day . . . the one that required seven pieces of research . . . . . have I ever mentioned that I hate research papers? Well, I get it back, and sure enough she comments, "You can't let the research dominate your paper. It should support your own ideas," and so on. Really, I can only find it ironic and funny. Whatever, that's the least of the worries . . .

Sunday, I worked. I had a tempura chicken teriyaki donburi for dinner. My uniform wasn't washed, so I febreezed it for the day.

Monday, Children's Literature at 3:30pm. I'd like to think it went alright. I mean, I read the books, so that helped. I perhaps did not think broadly enough about what kind of questions might come up on it, and the one I DID cover pretty well kinda went "blah" because the question itself wanted more broader points to the topic than what I was preparing. But meh, whatever. Done.

Oh yeah, I got my "Spirited Away" paper back. A. In fact, prof' wants me to e-mail him a copy so he can keep it on file. Certainly can't be a bad thing . . .

Tuesday, Beowulf at 7pm. I got to school at about 1pm so I could have lunch, buy some UBC clothes (something I have DEFINITELY not done enough of during my time there), and then meet up with another friend to study with (she had been there since 7:30am because of a morning exam - deathly . . .). I reread the poem, went over my notes . . . looked up some graduation info (seems I'll be graduating May 24th, at 1:30pm) . . . had dinner (meat panini) . . . and then did the final. I'm confident about 70% of the exam where we talked about a passage . . . though I totally blanked about the other 30% . . .

You see, this 30% should have been the EASIEST marks to get. It was a straight forward, "regurgitate the plot about..." question. However, he picked a part I couldn't remember quite so well (same with that friend I mentioned prior). He wanted us to reiterate "the fight between the Danes and the Frisians." I totally forgot what that was and was actually writing up some garbage story instead. Then at the last second I remembered! It was the Hildeburh story!

Of course, during the actual exam I mixed up my female characters and said it was Wealtheow instead . . . and I couldn't remember a lot of the details of the part as well . . . . . so yeah, "Damn you Hildeburh!"
For those of you who know "Beowulf", we'll say that that last exam was my dragon.

Oh yeah, and for whatever reason the vending machines on campus stopped stocking the chocolate cookies I always bought before exams. I had to make do with chocolate chip (which is also good, but breaks tradition nonetheless). I guess the change in cookie really does mark that this was my last semester ever. Indeed, I took a camera-phone picture of my very last exam cookie as I walked to the building.


In between there, I watched "The Chronicles of Narnia" with actor commentary (Georgie's adorable), took a couple webcam videos of myself playing with a LotR Uruk Hai crossbow toy, bought "We Love Katamari" because Panda kept talking about it, and . . . yeah.

So now I'm done, just waiting for my official grade report to come back so I can confirm that I will indeed in fact be graduating next month. Heh . . . the gown rental is $40. $40 for like, a fraction of a single day. Ahh, gotta love school . . . . . really, that's the least of the worries, though . . .




. . . . . So hey, um . . . anyone wanna come to Vancouver and be around for May 24th? I'm gonna have an extra ticket or two for people to bring to my graduation . . . turns out the 24th is the same day my parents leave town for England . . . something they can't exactly change at this point . . . . . I'll have an extra room here and everything, and I can pick you up from whatever airport or bus station you might choose to arrive by . . . . . if not, that's fine too . . .

. . . heh. I won't deny that THAT particular bit sucks . . . buuuut, it's not the worst thing ever. I'll still have my brothers, which . . . in a way, actually, is pretty darn cool in itself. I guess I should also call up my dad, see if he's free around then . . . I feel like he might not be, but I should try him anyway . . . . heh, he IS my dad after all . . . . .

Whatever, I'm done school and never have to go back ever again. I should be happy. I can go get Harry Potter 5 now and enjoy that, or something . . .


"Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children" has a pretty decent dub. I'll take the point of the minority, in fact, and say that I kinda liked the "dilly dally, shilly shally" line. Sure, it's kinda dumb, but hey, Tifa's the girl next door, she's allowed to say anything as unelegantly as she wants to make her point.

"We Love Katamari" is cute and addictive and I love the music.


So yes. I might have to change my info bar soon.
I'm not a student anymore.
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