Ahem…  I mean Happy Valentines Day!  Still no boyfriend but that’s fine with me.  While I would like to have a special someone, I doubt it would work.  I mean, I have other priorities and have no interest in tying the knot in the next 5 years, maybe even 10 years.  I’d rather be financially secure first.  Besides, I’m rival romancing Fenris right now, can’t start feeling guilty

I’m near the end of act 2 in DA 2, and am still not used to playing a mage.  Part of it is I don’t want to draw aggro so I don’t use spells much and another part is the spells have such a long cool down that I keep thinking I’ll need them later.  Not to mention I still think that I’m doing decent damage with basic attacks.  I know this isn’t true.  But I’m not planning on fighting the Arishok one-on-one.  I need the rivalry points   Oh! But I must state, Varric is my favorite character!

It seems like school has taken over part of me.  Well, that’s probably a good thing, but I’m only taking 2 classes.  Anyway, I have a pretty good idea of how I’m doing in both my classes.  Passing both ^_^  Not sure which is the better grade (haven’t crunched the numbers, and probably won’t) but I feel much better about math.  Aced the first test!  Plus~  He gave 5 bonus points to everyone to offset that people genrally do poorly on the first test.  Soooo my score was perfect ^o^  Yes, I know it’s just pre-calc.  Lemme have my moment day of happiness  ¬_¬  And for art, I think he just grades easy.  But the art mid-term has been announced/assigned.  No idea what I’m going to do…  Pretty much you get to pick whatever you’d like to do as long as you fill the entire paper.  No direction + fill entire paper = lots of frustration and possibly a poor grade.  I like my white space too much.  So I spent an hour on deviantart trying to get ideas and I’ve still got nothing.  I feel slightly screwed.

Last night I made red velvet cupcakes.  First time using the cupcake pans and the recipe and they ended up over cooking…  I smelled them “burning” (they didn’t burn thankfully) with almost 2 minutes to go and just yanked them out.  I need to make them again because they don’t taste like red velvet T_T

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I really need a stress management strategy that works for me.  I always get so frustrated with the art class (a rant on that later) that I’m not paying much attention in math.  I’ve always had a hard time “quieting my mind” I guess you could say so I’m always thinking, not necessarily about what’s important though.  So when math rolls around I keep getting drawn back to my frustration and thinking about how I can fulfill the requirements of a project while making it look at least half-way decent.

So, rant.  We’re working with shapes now and the next project has to have personal meaning and be easily understood.  Black and white, with shapes cut out of a square.  A pain already.  So making thumbnails I put together 4 that are pretty much stand alone objects.  Come to find out, today he says it has to have objects interacting.  Ok, fine, maybe I missed that part.  Re-working things, I hear him tell another student something to the effect ‘make it a moment in your life.’  Wait.  He said last class it doesn’t have to tell a story and while this doesn’t explicitly mean “story” it means a period of time that probably pertains to a story.  So I’m back to square one.  I have a feeling that this is going to be a “basic requirements met, piece of crap” art piece.  Small tangent, with another assignment he had us each present it to the class stating “this isn’t a critique.”  It ended up being a critique.

Now that that’s out of my system, I was reading an article in Time recently about shyness.  Actually, it was about introversion but on the cover it had “Shyness.”  Anyway, I found it interesting being an introvert.  Not only interesting, but soothing too.  I hadn’t expected that a magazine article pretty much saying ‘it’s ok to be an introvert in an extrovert’s world’ to help me feel more comfortable in my own skin.  Being a loner doesn’t bother me as much anymore.  I still need human interaction, don’t get me wrong, but I guess I’m happier with less than the average American’s amount.

Found out that the pain I’ve been having in my ankles is due to my ligaments being too streached out.  No way to fix it, unfortnately, but I’ll be able to manage it by strengthening the surrounding muscles and tendons.  At least I don’t have to worry about it tearing.

Tonight’s a DA 2 night me-thinks.

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Happy Lunar New Year!  Year of the Dragon~  Hopefully this will be a good year for everyone, myself and other dragons in particular

Let’s see, I got my computer early, but the enclosure just came Wednesday.  I’ve been off and on transferring files to my new compy but there’s so much that I haven’t decided what I want on this hard drive.  Then again it really doesn’t matter, it isn’t like I could take a desktop on vacation  At least I have my pictures, save data and other files back~ Not to mention another external!

I broke down and bought the monitor

I’m loving this computer ♥ (I can do alt characters now!) Started a new game for DA2 and it’s sooo nice!  I’ll have to see how high I can set the graphics quality and have it run smoothly.  Wish I could afford Skyrim, but it can wait.  Been obsessing over Beat Hazard anyway.  Oh and Amnesia is so scary!  I made it to the desk with the note and had to take a break.  Haven’t touched it since…  Maybe tonight?  But it reminds me of a horror-based Myst, it seems like the player will have to make a decision at the end but there won’t be a “green book” to pick. Anyway, I have to keep a lamp on or else I can’t see the keyboard.

Ohkay. Classes.  Art, I still feel like I don’t know what I’m doing.  Just turned in our first project yesterday (we haven’t gotten the first assignment back yet) and did a class critique.  Apparently no one had anything they would change about mine, or criticism for that matter. But I probably looked terrified so maybe no one wanted to say that it needs work.  I dunno, just gonna try to make it through the semester. Math isn’t too much better, I understand the concepts, I can do the homework, but for the take home quiz I had to look everything up.  It seems like I can’t remember what I learned, maybe that’s what studying is for…

Now site related stuff.  I was going to make a new layout, but I think I’ll wait.  Seeing that the art class I’m taking it the pre-req for graphic design classes, maybe I’ll learn some stuff I can apply to a layout.  I’m not procrastinating updating the coding I swear!  But one thing math is doing for me is re-kindiling my desire to learn a web programming language.  Still have no idea what I’d use it for, but Javascript and PHP (and MySQL) are sure to come in handy.  Just need to decide which one to learn first and find some good tutorials.  Also gonna try and get that Sozai site up next month, I wanted to get it up before Chinese New Year and have some dragon stuff, but with my laptop dying and just getting my files back that didn’t happen.  Just need to figure out some Valentines Day (and SAD ) stuff.  I have the layout ready to go, but I really want to make it in frames.  It makes more sense to me, but professionally it’s a big no-no.  Not that I’m professional to begin with, but I should try to be.  Maybe that’ll be my pet project, where I can break as many rules as I want!

Long post is long. And my server time is 5 minutes slow >:(

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