While I was there, I picked up my art final.  Waited around for 10 minutes because the door to the office was locked before checking the class room.  Still no dice so I went back and the door was open!  No idea who opened it or why but I got my final and got out before someone told me I wasn’t suppoded to be there.  Anywho, 250/250!  I think that made my day.  He wrote “good work ethic” on the back which made me giggle.  The second to the last day of class, my project was done so I played DS for an hour before he said we could leave early.  Ironic.

So, just figuring out trip stuff.  Because he’s stressed out, my dad’s stressing me out by asking my opinion and then demanding the logistics down to the hour.  Half the time I’m just the messanger and these are my moms/sisters ideas.  Fortunately we found out some of what’s going on the first leg of the trip last night.  The next leg should be more relaxed.  But there’s still a lot to do before we leave >.<

So, I spent my morning/early afternoon looking around for internet cafes and it seems like you can’t install anything on their computers/server which I completely understand.  It’s just that I found out that my sister’s computer can’t run games and her boyfriend’s so busy she won’t ask if his could run games.  So I’m stuck with hoping I can install the client on a flash drive and be able to run it in an internet cafe.  I mean, if they don’t allow you to install games, running somethng from an unkown source is equally risky.  So that’s doubtful.  Only other option is a cousin (we don’t get along) who has a Mac and I don’t know if his is able to support gaming let alone run something not designed for a Mac.

Point #2: A person I was friends with a couple years ago contacted me.  Lets just say he seriously pissed me off and probably didn’t realize just how bad at the time.  Prior to that series of events, we were really good friends.  What I want to do is be a complete bitch, but that doesn’t do anyone any favors.  I’m not sure how I should proceed.  My brain is telling me to stay away and break off all contact while I can, emotionally I want to rip him a new one (obviously), but it takes guts to contact someone things ended badly with and apologize, even though he didn’t at first, and I respect that.  And I guess part of me still wants the friendship that was lost.  But thinking about it, if I haven’t cooled off after 2 years, what makes me think I can cool off in a week or less?  Ugh, I hate myself sometimes >.<

And the third thing is my grandma called letting me know somewhere is hiring.  I had this crazy notion that I might want to find a summer job where my grandparents live.  How I am right now I don’t think I can hadle the summer over there.  No computer, no alone time, no car, and being thrown into family and work responsibilities with minimal experience.  Yes I have a job, but I don’t work much plus I’d have to get used to living there.  I don’t want to anymore but I feel obligated to try because I planted the seeds.  I really hate myself sometimes.

And finals.  Only 2, but I ‘ve felt my resolve slipping for a week now.  Well one’s out of the way and I had a giggling fit durring it >.<  It was art, and aparently my “design” was more disturbing than I thought.  I thought it was amusing and that’s probably what caused my giggles.  Math is next Thursday and I haven’t done the review packet and I have no idea how I did on the last test.  If I get it back, I better not look at it or else it could shake my confidence.

Wow, this is insanely long.  I can’t find a spoiler so this is how it’ll be :c

Korean Dragon Vase

Dragon

Knight Front

Knight Angled

They came out a little blurry but it’s harder to tell because they’ve been re-sized.  We also looked at the Impressionist exhibit a little bit.  I pretty much looked at Monet’s paintings ♥  Someday, I’ll have a print of one of his water lilly paintings.

After we re-grouped, we headed up to the Arlington Heights area.  My mom heard about Mont Blanc (a pastry shop) from a co-worker so we checked it out.  If you like Japanese style cakes and such it’s really good!  I’m guessing French as well but I’ve never been to a French restaurant so I’m not sure what French food is suposed to taste like ^ ^;  I still have to try the Tiramisu and Creme Brulee we brought home but the Green Tea Cake was very light and creamy~  Then we gorged on sushi at Sushi Station.  Well sorta.  You don’t eat as much (I think) because waiting for the kind of sushi you want to come around gives you time to feel full.  I was stuffed regardless   On the way out I tried my luck at the Gachapon and ended up with some Bowser & co. stickers.  Not too bad, I wish I would have gotten more.  Maybe next time c:

To add to that I looked over the syllabus again and it just says that everything has eaqual weight, no point values or anything.  And it says that participation is a factor yet there’s no way for the student to determine how much of their grade that makes up.  Honestly, I don’t participate much.  I would rather listen plus it takes me a long time to form an opinion and give reasons why I think that way.

Another thing that’s bothering me, we’re doing a research paper and I have no idea how many sources I need, how many of them need to be book and how many can be web, and how big “standard margins” are.  And yes, I procrastinated so I’m just starting now.  If I have time though, I’m going to figure out my grade with all the information I have substituting various point values for participation and the check marks on the back of in class assignments.  If things don’t work out to a B- logically, I’m ready to demand a more transparent scoring system in addition to grade corrections.

I’m getting an A in pre-calc though.

So this past week was like a blur.  Got together with a friend, went to Indy for sushi, made a Pie for Pi day, and pretty much wasted the rest of my time pixeling and online.  And I haven’t started my homework or taxes.  Procrastination is not the smartest idea.  What I did not do this spring break: read more than a page out of my new Javascript book, burn new CDs, play in the CBT for Spirit Tales (I hope to change this before Tuesday), clean my room, finish the Rilakkuma bento origami set.  More time please? ; -;

At the start of spring break, I started a thread on Vdex making pixel “Pokewalkers” and didn’t really expect it to take off.  So far I’ve made 22 of them (not counting 2 I re-did) and 2 other sprites (a trainer sprite and something using a base I made) plus “extras” for the Pokewalkers.  My eyes hurt >.<  Don’t get me wrong, I love doing it but I have other things I need and want to do.  I guess it’s just because I hate making people wait which is something I just have to deal with.

I’m dreading work tomorrow, we’re booked for parties and we usually get a few drunk people come in.  >.<  Well, I guess there’s a silver lining, I should stay at least 5 hours.  I need to find a better job :c

I hate to leave it on such a depressing note, so the pie I made is delicious!  It’s Sour Cream Apple with a crumb topping~

Anyway, I wanted to post today and figured I’d be in a bad mood after work so a quick one before work will have to do.  Art midterm went over pretty well, slapped a line of text on the bottom because it was empty and really didn’t care how it looked.  So it was sloppy and crooked but whatever, I just wanted to be done with it.  As for the math quiz, I almost got a passing grade one it…  I made some really stupid mistakes, memo to self: drink more coffee.

Getting back into pixeling a bit, stayed up till 11 last night working on something.  I need to figure out fur texture but it’ll do for a newbie like me I suppose.  Also started on the origami bento, I need more desk space…  And I still need to look for more avatars and burn new CDs.  Maybe I should have a to-do list running at the end of each post.  Nah, to annoying to bother with.

Went to Godiva as well and my mom got some chocolate.  We tried the dark chocolate with sea salt and didn’t care for it.  My dad thinks it tastes like orange chocolate so we’ll let him finish it

Then went to Sushi Station for lunch.  It was packed!  Waited for about 20 minutes but it was worth it.  The sushi was good (I’ve had better, but for kaiten sushi and the price it was better than average) and they had interesting combinations.  There was one with coconut even!  Had strawberries with sweetened condensed milk for dessert, which I will “make” when strawberries are in season.

Headed off to Mitsuwa, our usual stop, for unagi and pastries~  And picked up a few things when browsing the bookstore:

Saw this and had to get it, origami bento featuring Rilakkuma!  I’m not particularly fond of him, but origami + bento + kawaii = love~  Haven’t opened it yet, not sure where I’ll but the finished set…

Also saw these, I remember looking for them online a couple years ago and decided to pick them up.  I don’t really know what to use them for though ^ ^;

Another impulse buy.  I didn’t read the back when I bought it, just saw they were pokemon stickers and grabbed them.  Apparently, they’re for goals.  You set a goal (maybe 10) and every step you accomplish you place a sticker in that spot.  The more I’m thinking about it, the more I think there should be 10 goals…  Reminds me of a Daruma for easy goals.  But I’m not sure what my goal(s) should be.  Plus I’d want to reward myself for every sticker I put on seeing they say “prize.”  Need to think about that one.

I figured out what I’m going to to for my art midterm!  Well, I hope.  Haven’t done anything like it before so I’ll have to experiment first before I commit to it.  Also have a take home quize in math so I’ve got my work cut out for me this weekend.  Hey, those are goals.  Sorta.

I need to find new avatars =/  And burn new CDs for my car.

THE AXIS POWERS

North Italy (Feliciano Vargas)
[0.5] You were bullied a lot in your childhood
[1] You adore pasta, pizza, cheese, and fruit.
[0] You’re very happy-go-lucky
[0] You constantly have a dozy look on your face as if you’re always away with the fairies
[0] You have a long curly strand of hair that always tends to stick up (or can be used as an erogenous zone, so if someone twiddles it, you’d get very embarrassed)
[0] You’re a good artist
[0.5] You can be clumsy at times
[0] You have a friend you always depend upon if you mess up something
[0] If your life was in danger, you would do the typical Italian thing and say: “PLEASE DON’T KILL ME! I HAVE RELATIVES IN YOUR COUNTRY!”
[1] You would surrender in a war situation
(3/10)

Germany (Ludwig)
[0.5] You’re very stoic and serious (serious, yes; stoic, not so much)
[0] Sausages (in particular those of the wurst variety) are your favourite foods.
[0] You like to walk dogs/your dog
[1] Your boss/principal/tutor/home-room teacher is a nut-case.
[0] You love rules and think they should always be followed to a T
[1] You think the world would be better if everyone played by the rules
[1] You work very hard
[1] Your alone time is your ‘happy time’
[0] You can appear tough but be very considerate towards people
[0] You’ve had issues with money once or twice
(4.5/10)

Japan (Kiku Honda)
[1] You’re very mature
[1] You think everything over before saying it.
[1] You believe in ghosts but aren’t phased by the experience when you see one
[1] You isolated yourself during childhood
[0] You became very successful in a short amount of time
[1] You are somewhat inexperienced when it comes to the outside world
[1] You can seem cold/aloof to other people
[0] You’re good at practical tasks
[1] You need time to adjust to new people
(7/10 9) (maybe I missed one?)

THE ALLIES

United States of America (Alfred F. Jones)
[0] You love hamburgers
[0] You think you’re awesome
[0] You love to invent things
[0] You love going to the cinema/watching films/making films
[0] You can seem to be very brash to other people
[1] You have a tendency to stick your nose into other peoples’ business
[0] You’re terrified of ghosts
[0] You know aliens exist
[0] You tend to wear a bomber jacket all the time
[1] You wear glasses (contact lenses part time, yeah man!)
(2/10)

United Kingdom (Arthur Kirkland)
[1] You like tea
[0] You were quite tough and troublesome as a kid
[1] You’re very sarcastic and cynical
[0] Your cooking is awful (depends on what I’m making)
[0] You love spiritual magical stuff, such as fairies, ghosts…
[0] …But you refuse to believe in aliens
[0] You have tried doing black magic before
[0] You get drunk quite easily
[0] When you are drunk, you tend to be very unhappy
[0] You’re good at embroidery
(2/10)

France (Francis Bonnefoy)
[0] You’re very affectionate
[0] You think you have a great fashion sense
[0.5] You like wine
[0] You’re the master of whispering romantic things into peoples’ ears
[1] You love red roses
[0] When it comes to l’amour, you don’t mind men or women
[0] You’re very proud of yourself
[0.5] You love culture and the arts
[0] You’re very flamboyant
[0.5] You say you’re a gourmet
(2.5/10)

Russia (Ivan Braginski)
[0] You had a very sad childhood.
[0] You’re very tall
[1] You have a tendency to switch between personalities
[0] You wear a scarf all the time
[0] You love sunflowers
[0] You love vodka
[0] You can seem intimidating to other people
[0] You’re very strong
[0] You have a big nose
[0] You have a strange laugh that can scare people
(1/10)

China (Wong Yao)
[1] You’re very mature
[0.5] You’re very superstitious
[0] You’re very religious
[1] You love pandas
[0.5] You love cooking so much that you nag if food has a certain pattern of tastes (I love cooking)
[0] You love Hello Kitty
[0] You try to be a role-model for your brothers/sisters/whatever, but are never taken seriously.
[1] You work hard
[0] You’re good at drawing
[1] You like sweets (♥)
(5/10)

And now for some other countries!

Austria (Roderich Edelstein)
[0] You are very well-raised
[1] You’re polite
[0.5] You love classical music
[1] You like cake
[1] You have a mole on your face
[1] You dedicate your time to your hobbies rather than what needs to be done right away
[0] You are a virtuoso/play very well on at least one instrument
[0] You’ve composed music before
[0.5] You tend to call people ‘morons’ (does ‘idiot’ count?)
[1] You wear glasses
(6/10)

Canada (Matthew Williams)
[0.5] You’re often ignored by people (more like left alone and kinda ignored)
[1] You look younger than you actually are (so annoying)
[0] You love hockey
[0] You love polar bears
[1] You hate fighting
[0] You have one strand of curly hair, like Italy
[1] You often get mistaken for someone else
[0] You feel under-appreciated
[0] You’re bilingual
[0] You always carry a bear with you
(3.5/10)

Cuba
[0] You smoke
[0] You’re very physically strong
[0] You’ve won a lot of fist-fights
[0] In your social circle, there are two brothers – you get along with one, but not with the other.
[1] You have very strong emotions about a variety of topics
[1] You like hot weather
[1] You can be very friendly from time to time
[0] You look very tough on the outside
[0] You make a very nice role-model
[0] You don’t let people get a word in edgeways
(3/10)

Hungary (Erszebet Hédeváry)
[0] You have a potty-mouth
[0] You like to wear flowers in your hair
[0] You used to be a very tough kid
[1] You’re very reliable
[0] It’s better to have you as a friend rather than an enemy
[0] You’re very faithful (faithful as in what?)
[0] Your speech and mannerisms can be considered very unladylike
[0] You and your best friend go together like chalk and cheese.
[1] You are graceful one moment and grinning like a maniac the next
[0] If someone yells that yaoi is going on somewhere, you will drop everything to run off to go and see it
(2/10)

Lithuania (Toris Lorinaitis)
[1] You’re very loyal
[0] You feel like your best friend drags you around a lot, but you both have a great time together
[1] You’re very serious
[0] You have a lot of patience
[1] You think too much about philosophical stuff
[1] You get depressed when questioning the point of existing/the universe, etc..
[1] You’re not very confident
[1] You were quite rebellious as a child
[1] People tend to walk all over you
[1] You’re a born worrier
(8/10)

Poland (Feliks Lucasiewocz)
[0] You’re very flamboyant
[0] You’re quite hyperactive
[0] You can be quite goofy
[0] When you’re depressed, you tend to rise out of it like a phoenix
[1] You’re very wary of strangers
[1] It takes you ages to come out of your shell
[0] However, when you’re used to someone, you’re very chatty
[0] You’re very forceful and stand at one end of the argument when it comes to your opinions
[0] You love pansies and corn-poppies
[0] You get up to lots of crazy antics
(2/10)

Prussia (Gilbert Weillschmidt)
[0.5] You’re quite mean-spirited
[0] You’re a bit of a hooligan
[1] You’re very loyal
[0] You’re very good at tactics
[0] You hate Russia
[0] You love to fight people
[0] You can avoid marriages quite well (Not that I’ve been in that sort of situtation)
[0] You’re not always taken seriously
[0] You like drinking
[1] You want to become stronger
(2.5/10)

So I’m most like Japan and Lithuania, though Lithuania fits a bit better.  Back to brainstorming…

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

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.