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!

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? ;____;

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. ♥

So murasaki_kaze was nice enough to invite me along to go see Star Trek with her and a bunch of her friends. It was my first time seeing a movie in Japan, so that was cool, and the fact that there was no stadium seating didn't matter since... people in Japan are short, okay. 8D

Anyway, the movie was fantastic and you all weren't lying when you raved about it! I thoroughly enjoyed it, and this is coming from someone who is woefully ignorant about Star Trek for the most part. Seriously, I know so little about the original series that it's sad, though I've watched a good amount of TNG episodes. I just know I missed out on tons of references because of that, but oh well.

But yeah, the acting was good, the interaction was good, the action parts were good, and there were just so many well-done scenes. I was enjoying it the whole time and didn't want it to end, though at the same time it didn't drag on. It also helped that I honestly liked all of the characters, so no matter what was going on or who was doing stuff, I was happy.

Zachary Quinto was awesome and I'm so happy that he got such a big break. I look forward to seeing more of him down the line, since I really do think he's a talented actor. Seriously, after the first scene or so my brain stopped going SYLARSYLARSYLAR because he was doing such a good job.

( More vaguely spoilery stuff under the cut. )

Bottom line: A++, will watch again. Also, if anyone has any fic recs...

Dammit, I suck at getting to bed on time. I was much better at this back home for some reason. Seriously, I didn't even go anywhere today (other than school) and yet I still wasted copious amounts of time on unproductive things and now I should really sleep, but I feel obligated to do some app-related stuff and whatnot, and...

Gah. But I had fun doing non-productive things, and yet I still feel guilty! Also, I will regret this in the morning.

I'm sorry, guys. I feel bad that I'm failing so hard at being a proper mod and and and yeah. Will try to be better. Forgive me. :(

(In happier news, look! Peter mood theme!)

I just had to post this. Credit goes to stars_keeper for making the gif.



Also, I'm considering putting up a Peter mood theme since laverinth helped me find one.

Two papers and one final down! One paper and two finals to go. Though I'm hoping to get that remaining paper done tomorrow if all goes well. I am pumped up with inspiration all of a sudden! I think it's due to the fact that I'm actually really proud of one of the papers I wrote. I resorted to doing an outline for it, which I usually don't bother with, and it helped a lot. I'm really happy with the end result. (Let's just hope my professor feels the same way.) It's nice to be proud of something school-related, though.

Even though I'm also kind of pissed at myself since I've been pulling a lot of B's this quarter. Hoping that my papers and finals will turn out better. At least I've been doing well in my Japanese class, though.

I'm going home from Saturday through Tuesday so that I can get my Visa and take care of other Japan-related preparations -- and also to see my buds and watch Watchmen. Haven't seen it yet since I was busy last weekend. Curious to see what I think of it now that I've gotten an idea of people's reactions.

Me and my roommate got accosted by Mormons today. That was... interesting. They were actually pretty cute. What a waste!

I've gotten a lot of tasty new music recently. It's exciting. Although one of them is a BSB song and I'm dying of shame over here.

Anyway, onto the good stuff! By which I mean tonight's Supernatural.

( Supernatural 415, Death Takes a Holiday )

Gonna go shower and then the rest of the night will be for posts and Crisis Core. I'm up to chapter 5 of that game, by the way. Missions keep taking up all of my playing time. WHOOPS.

So, damned friending meme kicked me into gear as far as making another update. Hey there, new friends! Glad to have you. ♥

Anyway, this weekend was great. Since Monday was a holiday I went home and basically just relaxed since I had very little homework. It was really nice to just kick back for a bit, even though I'm back to the grind now, with some papers and stuff coming up.

In more exciting news, though, I have a meeting this Friday where I get more information about the study abroad program that I'm going on. I should get the chance to ask lots of questions, so that'll be good. Also, I meant to update about this ages ago, but for the record...

I will be in Japan from March 24th through August 9th. Those of you who are going to be there at the same time, we should definitely try to plan to meet up at some point! I also have my address there for anyone who might need it.

Fandom-wise, not much has been going on, seeing how Supernatural is on hiatus right now (and I'm taking a break from Heroes). I've slowing been working away at Phoenix Wright 3, at least. (The truth is that RP is my fandom these days, but you know.)

I will end this with a meme:

Pick 10 people and give them the "you make my day" award. If you're picked, you are charged with picking 10 of your own.
bondofflame
chaneystarr
continuum
evildrew
famira
lacidiana
leaute
nest
tinted_glass
wyna_hiros

And so many more. ♥ I LOVE YOU, FLIST.

Hello, 2009! You should be a pretty exciting year, so let's be friends rather than enemies.

Anyway, I'm back in Santa Barbara now, with classes starting tomorrow. Half of me is groaning, half of me is curious about how my classes are going to be. But more on that later. Break was awesome - a lot of traveling, a lot of hanging out with friends, and a lot of cold sport activites. I also took a ton of pictures, but I'm too lazy to mirror them here. Check Facebook?

Well, except for this one: ( My Christmas haul! )

But yeah, things in the apartment are going well so far. Mado, who I had originally planned to live with, is finally living here now that she's back from studying abroad in Chile. (She stayed there longer than originally planned.) She actually has season 2 of Dexter on DVD, so I might need to snatch that and start catching up if I find the time. And then her friend who she made in Chile is also staying here, incidentally. She seems nice so far. Her name's Saki (what's with me having apartment-mates that have names that are the same or similar to people on my flist?) and she's a bit older than us, so hopefully that'll make her easier to live with.

On another note entirely, a few days ago I picked up Watchmen because a copy of it was lying around the house. My brother had borrowed it from his friend. I only got two chapters in, but it was enough to intrigue me and so I bought a copy so I could keep reading. I hope to get on that soon...

( Now I guess I'll talk about upcoming classes for a bit. )

I guess that's about all for now. I hope everyone's doing well!

MY FINALS ARE DONE. Insert sparkly text here. I'm always too lazy to try and figure out how to do it for real.

I had to get up at 7:00 this morning to go take my last one, and it was so freezing biking onto campus at that hour. Auuugh, I thought my lips were going to freeze. At least it gave me an excuse to wear gloves and a scarf, though.

My friend Mado is driving up as we speak (or she better be) to come see the apartment (she's living here next quarter), see me and my roommate, and then take me home with her later today. And my other friend who used to go here but then transferred to another school might be driving down as well, so I hope that happens. I want to show her Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog because I showed her Firefly freshman year and so I'm pretty sure she'd appreciate it, hee. (She was the person who started me on Heroes, come to think of it. I mean, I had considered watching the show before, but when she visited last year she brought the first disc of the DVD set with her and it was all over after that.)

I need to go return my books, but it's very difficult to motivate myself to get on my bike again. Seeing how I don't have much else to do, though... I should probably get it over with before Mado gets here.

But yeah, I'll be back home tonight, and then tomorrow I have to get ready to leave on Saturday for Tahoe. YIKES. It's going to be fun, though. There better be internet there.

ALSO, anyone who is still watching Heroes but is losing faith in it (or already has, but is watching nonetheless): This article might make you feel a little better. (The spoilers are whited-out.) It certainly cheered me up. Oh, and this picture is great.

The up-arrow on my keyboard is dying. :(

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Finally started on these. elendraug asked me to sing, so I sang from Dr. Horrible and then talked about the Petrellis as per leaute's request. 8D

I'll do the rest tomorrow, maybe?

( Supernatural 310, 'Heaven and Hell' )

( And then some rambling about the possibility of Castiel at Damned. )

Also, because apparently I can't get through an entry these days without mentioning Heroes: this picture of Adrian and Milo pretty much made my day. (Very vague spoilers, but it's stuff that was shown in the preview for next week, so.)

Sorry I haven't done those voice post requests yet! I'll get to them, I swear.

( Heroes 308, 'Villains' )

It's been all Heroes, all the time from me lately, huh? Sorry about that!