Because I actually have the time today...

( Heroes 411, 'Thanksgiving' )

Wanted to give one more shout out for HOLIDAY CARDS, and then I'll probably go buy some and start on them on Monday or Tuesday. ♥

In other news, wow, app_this_plz makes me way too excited. I know chances are that most things won't actually come to fruition, but I did get a Nathan through it, so I have some faith in the system. And it's just fun to poke around it in general.

Already got my work done today. I'm totally half-assing this Greek Civ paper, but oh well. Our professor basically told us that if you wrote to a prompt and had good grammar, then you'd get a good grade, so I can't be that motivated to do a super good job on it. It's a lower division class, okay.

Going to see Inglorious Basterds tonight, so I'm excited about that! Other than that, I'm just kinda chillin'. Life seems so empty now that I beat 358/2 Days, pfft.

So, after some thought, I've decided that I'd like to do some...

HOLIDAY CARDS

This was largely influenced by going into my school bookstore and seeing the cute cards they have there. Ahem.

Anyway! If you would like a card from me, please leave your address in a comment here! (Comments are screened.) I will, of course, not share it with anyone else, and no one needs to feel obligated to send me a card in return or anything like that. If you are on my flist, you can have one! I'll also try to make sure to leave my address for anyone else who happens to be doing this.

I'll do my best to get them out before Christmas, though I'm going to buy a non-denominational set of cards to be safe. Since I know not everyone celebrates, blah blah blah. UMM, YES. Honestly, the amount that I tl;dr in them depends on how much free time I end up having, but I'm big on personalized messages, so it'll be more than just "Have a nice holiday." 8D

But yes! Feel free to comment. I'm looking forward to writing these up 'cause I'm a dork. ♥

LEECHGRAVE WENT DOWN.

Bed now.

I HAVE INTERNET AGAIN. \o/!!!!!!

My computer is wiped cleaaaan, so weird. It also has all these programs on it that I don't really want, so I need to go through and uninstall those. I downloaded Avast! first thing since I don't want that to happen again, and... yeah. I'm running Google Chrome as a browser right now since that's what it came with, and it's weird. Will probably have to get Firefox soon since I don't think Chrome supports LJ Login, fff.

But yes, I should be around from now on, whew. This is going to feel really weird until I have all of my stuff back. BAW, POOR LAPTOP, YOU GOT GUTTED. :(

Days update: The bosses are kind of annoying, aren't they? I ended up giving up on beating the Halloween Town one last night. I know how to do it, it's just a matter of having patience. But I'm on Day 257 or something so I've been making progress.

Now to go catch up on everything and work on an essay, boo. But I have the day off tomorrow so that's fun!

Oh, and Heroes last night was loooovely. I'm so psyched for next week! And I have to pimp this gif from last night just 'cause I can.

( Sort of spoilers? But it's kind of worth looking. )

Update about the whole internet situation. I ended up coming home this weekend since I needed to find my start-up disc (which I did, to my immense relief) and then back up all of my stuff with the help of evildrew's external hard drive. (Thanks again for that, Andrew!)

So tonight I'll go back on the train and then I'll take my computer in tomorrow and it'll hopefully be all reformatted by Tuesday. Then I should be around a lot more. I'm glad this seems to be working out, since I was beyond frustrated about it for a while.

Anyway, here's a meme that I was tagged for by lady_angelina:

FIRST: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.
SECOND: Tag eight sexy people. Don't refuse to do that like a pansy.

( snip snip. )

I apologize if I tag someone who's already been tagged: bondofflame, continuum, endless_abyss, evildrew, famira, nest, otakara, and wyna_hiros, you're up!

While I'm irked about my internet situation, I've been somewhat cheered up by the fact that I just bought a leather jacket off of eBay with the purpose of using it for a Dean Winchester outfit.

I'm... not quite sure how this happened. This is the result of going to a convention and missing dressing up so damn hard.

I will be the smallest Dean ever. Holy crap, why am I doing this.

Last night I had a dream where I hugged Luxord. Except it was also kind of Mary? But definitely Luxord. He was wearing boxers under his Org. coat.

I think this is my brain telling me that it wants to just play 358/2 Days and RP. I couldn't agree with it more.

I'm somewhere in the 150 Day region, by the way. For anyone who might have some reason to want to know my progress. Wink wink, nudge nudge.

Having to read 211 pages in one day for school fucking sucks. Oh my god, at the end there I just felt like my eyes were going to close on me while my brain turned to mush.

At least I have internet back. Yeah, it was down since like Friday or Saturday and I had to shell out $40 for a wireless adapter to get it working again, and of course the connection is crap, but it's better than nothing. (Oh, and my laptop bluescreened earlier on top of it all. THANKS A LOT.)

I just want to... sleep. For a long, long time. But I should read this four page thing before, and AUUUUUUUGH I have a ton of reading tomorrow, too. Not as much, but like... 77 + 14 + 15(?) + 21 = 127 FUCK ME FUCKKKKKKKKKK and I have to go through and read some stuff for that literary magazine thing and I KNOW I'M JUST WHINING BUT THIS FUCKING SUCKS. That 77 is for Oedipus Rex, though, which I've read at least twice before not to mention it's quick reading, but wow, the fact that I'm even making words on a screen after looking at so much typed text is kind of making me want to just... die.

Well, exaggerating, but fuck I need this weekend already. I WANT SUSHI AND UMMMMMMMMM okay going to stop before I get any more incoherent. BYEEEEEEE.

Okay, a real update! I'm making one.

School has been going fine, which is partly because I'm only taking 12 units, so my workload is generally manageable. Sometimes the reading gets heavy, but there are also some times when it's pretty light, so it's been good so far. I'm sure I'll be singing a different tune when my papers are due, but that's kind of the norm, so.

I've been trying to get involved in other stuff that will help boost my resumé (that doesn't... actually exist yet, OOPS). First off is that study abroad internship I mentioned. In fact, I have to leave to go do my "office hour" in 25 minutes or so. That part is just chilling in the office one hour a week and answering questions for anyone who walks in. I also have to do other stuff, such as giving presentations, participating in a photo contest, etc. It's pretty chill, though, so that's nice.

Secondly, I turned in an application to my college newspaper to work as a copy editor next quarter. I'm really hoping I get that since the hours aren't too bad and it actually pays. *__* In fact, I should email them and make sure my app made it into the right hands.

Lastly, I'm an editor for a literary magazine that my major is putting out. At this point all it involves is reading over the submissions every week (poems, stories, etc.) and grading them. It's actually kind of fun, though that might be because I'm used to doing this sort of thing due to reading damned apps, ffff.

Speaking of which, I've read almost all of those, so now I'm going to attempt to power-play through Days so I can read those four apps. I'm not sure how well this plan will work, but it's worth a shot, right?

Oh, right, and I had my birthday! On the actual day I had a lot of class, but still made it out for some Italian food and was surprised when some of my friends who I went to Japan with were there as well. It was really sweet of them to come. Then I returned to the apartment and ate delicious German chocolate cake. The following Sunday my parents, my brother, and my brother's boyfriend came up and we went out to lunch with some of my friends, so that was nice. Oh, and Erin was up here all last weekend and we had a great time. We went to a lemon festival, saw Zombieland (which we both loved), played Arkham Asylum, and watched Heroes together on Monday night before she left.

My haul:
- $200, half from my mom and half from my dad
- Hat, scarf, and Halloween candy from my mom
- Two years of paid LJ time and 1 year of extra userpics from my brother
- Friendship bracelet from one of my friends who I went to Japan with
- Half of the price for the Heroes doujinshi I bought was paid for by Erin, plus she came up to see me

I think that's it. I'm probably going to use some of the money I got to pay for y-con, since yes, I'm finally going! Only for a day (Saturday, AKA Halloween), but I'll also be chilling in San Francisco for the weekend, which I'm really looking forward to. But yeah. ANYONE GOING TO Y-CON? Zalia, I know you are, at least! We should meet up. Erin's going too. ♥

( Heroes 406, 'Tabula Rasa' )

Someday I will talk about something that isn't Heroes. Today is not that day. orz

I am so backlogged on posts, but I just had to talk about this episode.

( Heroes 404, 'Acceptance' )

Slightly unrelated, but pimping this site because it is putting up some niiiice Heroes promos that I have never seen before. Like this one. MAN OH MAN. And this. BRB FANNING SELF.

Aww yeah, S4, treating us rite. ♥

I usually leave the Supernatural reports to continuum, but I couldn't resist this time.

( Supernatural 504, 'The End' )

In other news, I've had a headache all afternoon/evening. Finally took meds for it, SO GO AWAY. And fuuuck, I hope I get to pick up Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days tomorrow. I might just buckle down and take the bus if I have to.

CRAP.

I thought it was just last week since they both had 2 hour premieres, but... Heroes and House are going to be on at the same time every week now?!

Why would they do that? ;____;

All right, so a week or so ago I did something very stupid. I SOMEHOW MANAGED TO DELETE MY BUDDY LIST. Or, well, I deleted my main "Buddies" group. The "Damned" group is intact, but a lot of Damned people still got deleted because they were in "Buddies" even though they're part of damned because I knew them before Damned existed, or I just placed them in the wrong place by accident, etc. etc.

The point is...

Please leave your AIM screen name for me in a comment!

If you want to be on my buddy list, that is. If not, take this as a way to get away from me. 8(

You might not need to respond if you're a player at Damned, but on the other hand, you might. FFFF I FAIL AT BUDDY LIST ORGANIZATION. Umm, if you want to be safe, then go ahead and do it anyway.

Also, if we never exchanged SNs in the first place and want me to have yours, also feel free to respond, of course. Anyway, I'm so sorry for the huge inconvenience. Feel free to throw tomatoes at me.

Comments are screened, of course.

In other news, I'm struggling to get a fourth class because of the budget cuts and it's driving me a little batty. I just want into this Social Psych class, is that so hard? Fuck the fire marshal and his insistence that you can only pack so many college kids into one room.

It's that time again!

( Heroes 401 and 402. )

All in all, I was pleasantly surprised! It's a good feeling to be happy with this show. ♥

POKEMEME

I figured this was appropriate since I've been playing Pearl lately. ♥

ALSO, I AM JUMPING FOR JOY BECAUSE MY BROTHER FINALLY FOUND MY COPY OF TALES OF THE ABYSS. Basically, a while back (probably over a year ago) I was using my brother's PS2 to play Abyss because my PS2 has disc read errors most of the time. He then ended up taking his PS2 over to his friend's house with the game still in there and it got lost in the house and has been lost until yesterday. OH GOD, SO HAPPYYYY. ;__;

In light of that post I made a few days back, I have a poll!

Poll #1455499 Tearjerkers
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: Friends, participants: 35

Has a video game ever made you cry?

Is yes, which one(s)?

Feel free to comment explaining which part made you cry, so long as it's a game I've played so I'm not spoiled. (Though I might not even care depending on the game. I'm more concerned about ones I do plan to play in the future.) Of course, you could always be vague! In my case, all three times it was at the end of the game.

For the most part, my Labor Day was very nice! I went to the beach with my mom and got to go embrace my inner sea creature. Seriously, I love being in water. Why did I ever stop doing that in the first place? After that, we picked up a crapload of fruit and then I helped make a fruit salad while my dad BBQ'd. I talked with my parents about some family drama involving my cousin, but yeah, it was a pretty good day with tasty food and cupcakes.

I also finished Cecil's chapter in Dissidia, which I enjoyed quite a bit! Cecil's voice really grew on me, actually, and it's making me want to start my DS copy of FFIV already. Actually, I should probably check that it's the same VA first, but y'know. The battle system is a lot of fun, but it made me tear my hair out a few times, such as when I decided to take on a level 15 Sephiroth even though Cecil was level 7 or something. HE DODGED EVERYTHING. I eventually did it, though.

But aww, Cecil and Golbez were so cute! (They weren't that cute in the original game, were they? I actually didn't get to see interaction between them because I got stuck at the freakin' Four Fiends battle. AUUUUGH.)

I've been loving the game battle remixes in it, too. I like being nostalgia-bombed, so I was eating that up like candy. I feel kind of fail that my chocobo never seems to get anywhere, though, and I'm thinking I should do quick battles instead of just jumping into story mode since I want to level up the characters some. I also need to unlock the villains and all that...

All in all, I've been enjoying it so far! Oh, but does anyone know why it says that Cecil's chapter isn't 100% even though I finished it? Is it because I didn't get all of the bonus items at the end?