This is an entry that will stay at the top of my page just so I have a list of books I need to read. List will be in the order that I out about the books, so no set order really. Well, I try to find the books as quickly as I can after they are released and some of these books have no set date yet, the author has just given this out as the title.

The Soldiers of Halla by D.J. MacHale
Nobody's Princess
How to Ditch Your Fairy by Justine Larbalestier
Cycler by Lauren McLaughlin
City of Secrets by Mary Hoffman
A Wizard of Mars by Diane Duane (if it ever gets published)
All of the Chrestomanci books by Diana Wynne Jones
Ruler of the Realm by Herbie Brennan (if my library ever gets it!)
Faerie Lord by Herbie Brennan
Skinned by Robin Wasserman
The Dragon's Lair by Elizabeth Haydon
Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
Same Difference by Siobhan Vivan
Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede
Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa Kiein (I think)

Great, now I'm jittery from too much caffeine, can barely concentrate, AND I'm waiting for the meteor shower to start at one in the morning. The morning I have an 8 am class. But at this rate I'm not getting to bed any earlier anyway because of the damned Pepsi. Going to try and work on NaNo and see if that calms me down, I have the urge to run shrieking through the halls though so I don't think it's gonna work.
Signing off, wwwwwweeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay how weird is this, I worked on both my English paper and Health project but have done almost nothing on my own stuff today! True I already cranked out a 1000 words for the NaNo and I'll hopefully get another 1500/2000 before bed but I haven't done any sewing either. Huh, hopefully I'll be in the mood tomorrow since my health class is canceled and the JCC is going to be meeting in the dorm next to mine (the one that has the less steep stairs I use). Not sure if I'll make it to knitting club tomorrow but I hope so, I don't have that much of my scarf done yet and I need some knitting only time to work on it. Almost makes me wish I rode the bus again since that was a lot of time I used for getting sewing projects done.
So again a quiet day, did a little bit of basketball, got a bit annoyed at my RA when she asked if I had fun with it (she didn't mean it meanly but I dunno, it seemed like a silly question to ask, plus I was really on a roll with my Nano and was about to hit 24,000 words or so, this was a delicate part of the operation) and dropped off all my Appalachian stereotype books at the library. Ugh, that was heavy, but I have more free space on my desk now! And now I'm only 700 or so words away from the halfway point of my NaNo so I'm really trying to crank it out. Hey, it's only a little past eight, if I work fast enough I might even have time for sewing later. BACK TO THE (more than slightly evil) WORD! Signing off!

I plan to add on a little more to my Nano before bed, work a little bit on my sewing, and then bed. But first this entry and a shower, yes, both of those are important. Well, the entry not so much since I didn't do much today but I did shoot hoops again and I'm sore. Did it for another 40 minutes and was thinking, ah, didn't work out as much, not sore. But then a few hours later I was like, opps, yeah, soooorrreeee. Gonna build muscle this way, I'd better! Just gotta remember to stretch afterwards as well to regain my flexibility, and to not buy cheetos again because I seriously can't stop eating those. X(
Okay, showered now and am just going to try and finish up a bit more of my NaNo. Going to make myself hit the end of the chapter because that means that I can finally start writing new stuff tomorrow and I love writing new stuff it turns out. I just like world building way too much to be normal so I love that for my first story I choose to just have my character running around one of the countries in my (main) alternative world. A little worried about the flow of the story but since the main thing disrupting the flow is all the explanations for how the world works (and, if this all works out, these will just be vote incentives on TWC that I draw up with my tablet, note to self, remember to bring the dang thing up so I can practice) so I'll cut them out anyway. And since explanations/scenery porn fill up the word count I have to add them in. XD Okay, back to work, signing off!

Since the weather was so nice today (and apparently this is still "below average" temperatures, dang November is nice in the south!) I finally got my basketball re-inflated but I had to walk to the gym closest to me (which is half way up THE STEEPEST hill on campus, no comparison, my legs started aching by the time I got up there) but since they didn't have the right pins for it I had to walk back across campus to the Rec Center (also on top of a hill but not so big, seems to be a rule that the gyms have to be in hard to reach places, the women's gym is on the third floor of the student union as well anyway) and they were able to blow it up. Then walked back to the dorm, played a bit of horse with some guys since they were already shooting on the hoop (I lost first but did a lot better than I thought I would after not touching a basketball in three years) and then did some free throws. I had forgotten how nice it is to simply dribble around and shooting, very active and fairly calming. I actually wonder how good I would be at sports these days, I was decent back in middle school and haven't played anything since so my reflexes are better at least. Plus I've been getting into, at least slightly, better shape with all the walking I have to do. So I'll probably shoot hoops again tomorrow and try to do it most days where the weather is good again. Plus I'll try to get in the habit of going to the gym in the winter, maybe I can figure out how to work a treadmill, need sweatpants though, and shorts that aren't ones I've outgrown....
Other than that and laundry I've done almost nothing today, I saw District 9 (which was alright, the plot still followed the typical story line but a bit more convoluted but it was better than some of the movies I've seen recently) with the gang tonight so that threw off my sense of time (that and the coke, really can't drink that stuff after 5:30....) so I haven't even worked on my NaNo, guess I'll marathon that, my English paper and sewing tomorrow. Could work, got enough Project Runway to bribe myself with anyway and I'm still just filling in details to the NaNo. Gonna need to churn out 3000 or 4000 words though, scenery porn time!
Yawn, signing off, gonna go to bed in a few minutes, zzzz......

Between headaches from the weather fronts moving in (seriously, how does a few hundred miles away hurricane give me an incurable headache?!?) and the following wet weather in general (blah, lethargic) I haven't done much writing at all over the past few days. Behind on the NaNo as well by a few thousand words, I plan to bribe myself tonight with the promise of Project Runway afterwards (and sewing but Project Runway is more of a reward, especially when the sewing in question is a pleated skirt).
Sooo, what did I do, Sunday I was just tired with paper writing and got outside since it was such a nice day. Did a bit of exploring around Boone with Olivia, managed to find the library on my first try with only a vague memory of seeing a library sign when my mom and I got turned around two years ago, yay me? But alas the library wasn't open on Sundays (I went in the afternoon thinking it was our best bet but nope, this is the south after all) and Olivia and I once again tried to find the cemetery. Still haven't found it and now I want to find it just so I can say we finally succeeded, may just go to Google maps now and get a overhead layout of the town....
On Monday it started to cool down and I had such a bad headache that I turned in early. I had two excederians to no effect and by the time four hours was up (I'm always super careful not to OD) it was too close to bed for me to risk taking what was essentially half a caffeine pill shot. I suspected it might be a weather system moving in since the pain was not going away but I wasn't able to confirm that until Tuesday morning when I woke up and discovered that the world was wet.
Aside from the Monday was pretty awesome. I was walking from health class to JCC when I saw a normal looking guy pop up from a manhole, turn around, and help a second normally dressed guy out. Sooo random, gonna check out that manhole the next time I walk by just so I can wonder some more what they were doing. And after JCC I was walking across Sanford and I saw a group of people and four of these people were running in a circle with a wide swath of cloth around them while yelling "RUN FASTER!" It reminded me of those elastic resistance bands we learned to use back in 8th grade P.E. It was all quite random and made my life feel suitably average. XD Knitting club was fun too, since one of the ear warmers I had my eye on didn't sell during the sale the club president (who made it) just let me keep it and I've been wearing it for the past few days since I don't really have any other hats to wear. Worked on knitting my scarf and man I forgot just how tedious scarf knitting can be, I'll probably try to start another project around Thanksgiving as well to keep me from getting too bored (actually found a hat pattern in the style I wanted, with a few adjustments, plus it uses the same sized needles I already have).
Tuesday started way to early for me, like, a bit before 2 am early. I had gone to bed around 10:30 since my head was hurting so much and my roomie went to bed not long after so it wasn't like I had just drifted off to sleep. But my crazy-ass neighbors were running around and yelling so loudly that I woke up (and was in a seriously bad mood since the headache wasn't going away, something about "I will cut those bitches five ways from Sunday"). Plus my roomie, whose an even heavier sleeper than me woke up as well, add that to the fact that we were probably both in deep sleep you can get an idea of how loud they were. Took me awhile to get back to sleep and when my roomies alarm went off around 7 I actually jolted awake and threw myself into an upright sitting position. I was so tired, plus the fact that I hadn't done any of the readings for English, that I just reset my alarm for an hour later and went back to bed. The extra hour really helped my head, my headache was essentially gone when I left for Global themes.
Anime club was interesting that night. Our theme for the week was "anime set outside of Japan/Asia" and since I had just loaned out Princess Tutu and wanted to save Eureka 7 for giant robot night I had nothing to bring. Apparently no one else did either so we ended up watching our last resort, this movie based on one of the Resident Evil video games (with TONS of previews) and, since it didn't have a Japanese language track, we also ended up watching it in Thai. XD Oh boy, we made no pretense of trying to watch the movie, mock as much as you like and we probably set a new record for innuendos, especially in the not subtle category. In fact, the movie was so loud that the group next to us couldn't hear their speaker (apparently he was a quiet man) so one of them came in and nicely asked us to turn down the volume. Shame since it isn't a zombie movie/game if it isn't at top volume, just doesn't feel the same.
Wednesday was wet and yucky. All the wet, dark weather has been making me lethargic and then it got kinda windy on Wednesday as well so I had to put up with that as well. I was still using my umbrella but I felt a little silly about it since it was only a light rain, but it was still heavy enough to mess up my glasses so I needed it. Also got worried about it blowing inside out but it's a pretty sturdy umbrella, it can take a few weakened hurricanes. Got some NaNo writing done (found some awesome pictures of Russia that helped keep me going but I think I need more music again) and was late to health class because my TA again. She's just not that good at explaining things, especially because I seem to be one of the smarter kids in the class while honestly some of this stuff is confusing the heck out of me (if you're a smart kid the teachers don't go step by step, they skip some since the assume you get it, nooooo you don't! well, if you're a wannabe smart kid like me and not an actual genius).
Today, Thursday, has thankfully been drier but the windy is still pretty nippy. Glad for that ear warmer but I'm thinking that I need to sew some fleece to the underside to make it even warmer. Kinda got my English paper reviewed, kinda since we were rushing a little, I had just read 3 pages single spaced with barely a pause, and my group just doesn't focus on a whole lot at once, usually just a few places. Plus we started getting into stylistic differences actually, two of the girls in my group always introduce their sources before they use and cite them while I usually try to work the quotes into the paper and make the authors a non-issue, I want to call attention to my arguments, not the studies that I base my arguments on. Also hard to tell if this is even a research paper, how do you even write an english research paper?
( Friend issues, again )

....and it's called WRITING. Seriously, I know that when I told my mom that I was going to switch from Creative Writing to Photography as a major she looked sad, as if she thought I was giving up on writing all together. I guess I'll wait until the end of the month to tell her I've written a 50,000/some good sized number word story. Trust me, just because I don't think I can make a living as a writer (at least not for a good while) doesn't mean I'll stop writing and dreaming. Hell, considering I respond to "DREAMER!" this would be a big problem. XD Realized that I'm going to have a tougher time than I thought at reaching 50,000 words though. Usually I write so much that I decided to think of a short(-ish) story to write here but since I plan on (trying) to turn it into a webcomic I've been omitting tons of descriptive details in there. All the technical details that won't make it in are there but there are almost no descriptions. In fact, I think that after I finish up this current chapter (so tomorrow?) I'll go back through the past chapters and just add in all the scenery details that I'll need for drawing later. I know the point of NaNo is to just write the story, no editing, but I think this doesn't violate the spirit of it. Already at 10,000 words though, hoping to hit 11,000 before bed so let's make this quick shall we?
So, on Wednesday night (the fourth) I went over and Chynna's copy of The Wiz on Richard's TV that Joe hauled out to the lobby on their floor and Angela was there as well (not Richard though, he's kinda part of a different group now I guess?) so that's part of the reason why I didn't update. It was okay, I'm a bigger fan of the original book than either of the movies (but Tin Man was freaking amazing, told Chynna about when we were comparing what details were put in and what were left out in the movies and she said she'll have to look into it, she remembers when it came on the Sci-Fi channel but she never watched it).
Lol, just went to click on the save button here, better keep typing before I really need to go to bed.
Thursday, ehhhh, can't remember doing anything important. Friday I did not see the movie with Chynna and the gang since it didn't sound that interesting. Helped out at the knitting club table trying to sell stuff but nothing sold while I was there. Almost finished the second hand-warmer however, after that I'll start in on my charity piece, a manly scarf for the migrant workers (because I don't trust myself to make anything more complicated for someone other than myself). Also attempted to use the school database system to look for articles for my English paper. Fail was involved, not only did I need helping finding them (since they are all in print, grr, what is the point of having an online database if almost nothing is online?!?!) but the articles I needed didn't seem to be in the journals, I checked the years and numbers, plus on journal I needed was missing. How does an reference book go missing?!?! Never figured that out while working at the library, gah it's so annoying. Shader's been having the same problem I am except that she has to use the online sources for her paper, we are planning to kill the database by poking it repeatedly with spoons. Violent poking too.
More plotting, one of my favorite fantasy authors of all time, Tamora Pierce, hell one of the ladies that got me INTO fantasy, is going to be in South Carolina both this October and January 30th. Naturally we started making plans for how to get there since it's less than a three hour drive from either of our colleges plus back home. Herr Ducky will be living at WCU next semester so he won't have a car but my mom will. But then shader will have no way to get to Boone (since we can get to my house from Boone) unless she does one of three things.
1. Buys an electric scooter and rides that to Boone.
2. (My idea) Uses her portfolio and a skateboard to fly down to Boone
3. (our best bet) She takes parts from every car on campus and builds her own. At that rate we could make Herr Ducky drive us down and they could just pick me up the day before, so I like this plan the best.
Any and all suggestions for how to get a car-less and license-less college student from Cullowhey to Boone in under six hours are greatly appreciated! Someone must have a good idea....
Today, Saturday, didn't go to the football game again, attempted to work on cosplay but was dissuaded since lifetime.com didn't like me and I couldn't get my weekly dose of Project Runway. And I'm behind too, wah. But I have managed to get over the recommended amount of words for the day in NaNo so I think it all ends on a high note.
Signing off!

And the writing spree continues, so far today I did writing in my English journal, wrote for my Global Themes test, worked on my English paper, worked on NaNo, AND did writing here. So many words, and I meant to start posting a deviation a day on deviantart in November so I'm going to have some back log tomorrow as I try to get that going. I don't lack stuff to post but I need to remember to put stuff together in photoshop/touch up in iPhoto before posting and those details can be time consuming. AND I keep meaning to do some of those 30 second pose drawings to work on my anatomy, plus I want to do some sewing this month and I'm knitting in my time between classes, aren't I a productive person? Oh and start to read through my backlog of YA fiction but I've got four years to take care of that.
So, right, JCC was brief last night but there was lots of non-Japanese history discussion at dinner. Yay for college and people with whom it is easy to hold intelligent conversations with! I've also found that the more educated the person the less they care about my personal view and the more they concentrate on the argument, not that I make a comment of starting political debates or such (just a bad idea in general) so this obviously makes me very happy. But I did feel so out of my depth when I couldn't recall a lot of ancient history, Will and Ariel Durant time?
Later when I was in knitting club (heh, I was sitting with the crocheters and they were teasing me for not crocheting, apparently since I can that makes me one of them, but then when they saw me pull my hand warmer off my needles it was cool enough to merit sewing XD) and one of the girls in there/in my Japanese class (El) said that she was trying to get together a group of people for a AZ hotel room and I said I would be fine with that. As long as I have a ride out to Raleigh (worse come to worse I find out just how nice this train is) and that she can vouch for the people I don't know that's fine with me. And she wants to get an AA table and (I think) I said I can help hold down the table for a little bit. Yay for con friends!
Today was fine, except for the fact that I had to get up extra early so I could print my outline out in the library before class (roomies computer was having issues and her printer doesn't like me, standard Mac vs PC issues). Was a little weirded out when I discovered that the author of one of my books is a professor here, although a lot of people who've written about Appalachian stereotypes either work/went to school at either ETU, ASU, or UNCA, not so many ASU but that's because it only became a general university in 1962 or so. Give it time and I'm sure we'll put out many well-balanced individuals.
Think I did okay on my global themes mid-term, finished faster than the test the other day since I only did two questions but I think I answered them fully. Math went better today, everything was explained and pretty much makes sense (which is about as good as you get in many math classes). Anime club was okay, we watched Big Windup (which I've heard nothing but praise for) but the person who brought it in seemed to be a bit annoyed at just how many comments we made. I'll admit there was some lively commentary at some points but come on, it's an anime about baseball, the jokes really do write themselves (plus we settled down in a bit, mostly).
And now I have been doing way too much typing and am still 2500 words behind where my NaNo should be, I foresee catch-up tomorrow, grr, need to finish my first draft as well. Too much writing!
Signing off.

Since it's November I have now started my very fist NaNo (National Write a Novel Month, also abrievated as NaWriNow or such). Gah, having to resist the urge to edit everything I write and to simply spit out all the events that may or may not be necessary in my story. Dear god editing this thing will be a beast, I do believe that I will spend December splitting my time between exams and editing this thing. XD Not sure if I'll have time to work on it tonight though, it's kinda late and I was busy writing my English outline. For the next few weeks I'll probably be writing three separate things each night, that paper, this journal, and that Nano, all in different voices. Boy am I going to have an identity crises, switching between formal, informal and then a combination of semi-formal and all out slang. XD
So, Sunday was spent holed up in my dorm doing some reading for English class, some studying for my Global Themes midterm (which is tomorrow....crap), and various other bits of homework. Almost had a full blown topic, my english paper was overwhelming me that much, but I finally came up with a thesis after skyping with shader for a while and things went better from there. Actually I shouldn't be too worried about my Global Themes midterm either, I saw the teacher today, clarified a few things (also went because I heard that's part of the way he grades class participation) and found out that I did very good on the last quiz/test so I've got an idea of how much to write (my normal amount, good to know that it's still a good measure) and an idea of how he grades. Plus I finally figured out the layout of the old Belk building, I had to wander around a little bit to find his office and figured out the method of how all the hallways are arranged, very important stuff to know.
Had almost no free time today, I stayed on East campus between my Japanese class and my teacher's office hours and then I had my busy Monday afternoon. Unfortunately my TA went over time again (and pretty much told us to do our homework without really explaining the examples, something about homogenaty principle which I still don't get) so I had to sprint to my health class. New record from one campus to another=9 minutes. Gah, I will be in awesome shape by the end of this semester. Oh, and as I was walking in another girl from my class was coming in at the same time (dunno who she is) and said "If they ask why we're late, there was a zombie attack." Unfortunately the teacher didn't believe us when he asked why there were so many people late, didn't even know what a zombie attack is. I know whose the first to go~
Um, better finish up tomorrow, it's almost 11 and I still need to shower. Crap, signing off! Nano will have to wait until tomorrow! Sleep > story, at least this early on anyway.

Funny, could've sworn I posted on the 29th but apparently I never did. Um, can't really remember what went down that day the, I remember I took the Calvinsism quiz and was totally suspicious of all the kids who turned in their green books in under half an hour (and was a little puzzled why the teacher waited a minute and then looked out the door after every kid left). Oh, if that was Thursday then that was the day that Angela offered to help me sew the sleeves on my shirt and my dorm had a mini Halloween party! Then what did I do Friday night? Nothing I guess, I know I did nothing Saturday night, okay I think I remember it all now.
After math on Thursday ("So the terminal velocity of a four foot long monkey is 15% greater than the terminal velocity of a three foot long monkey, what?!?") I was saying that I really needed to work on sewing the sleeves on my Kim shirt (I got the jacket sleeves done fine but the shirt sleeves were being ornery) and she offered to come and do them. I was a little hesitant but really couldn't think of a polite way to refuse her so I said okay and she was hanging out in my room for a few hours. It was a little weird since Angela (like two-thirds of the people I know) is not very socially adept and you have to be willing to have a few things you like criticized. I think I've mellowed out in the past year but it still feels awkward, gah, why can't I have intelligent, well-rounded friends who also like what I do?!? It's like, everyone who likes the things I do is also an introvert but they are an introvert since they don't know how to act! I'm an introvert because being around people all the time is exhausting but I'm normal! And it's so annoying to not have well-rounded people who share interests with me, it just, is.
Anyway, so I finish everything in time with her help (except for the hem of my shirt which I didn't discover until Friday) and then we find out my dorm is having a Halloween party so we have dinner and then go to her dorm so she can grab her stuff for the party. I grab Olivia later and my spoiler Kim cosplay (since it's just a poncho and hat, dunno why I have it up here but not complaining!) and we had some fun at the party. There was almost no one else here (I find it so ironic that some girls were all rah rah rah, dorm spirit! but never show up while I'm just the person going, hey this sounds like a bit of fun, I'll come). And since Olivia was a ninja and Angela was a pirate they had some fun doing fake fights (with me photographing of course. Hope we didn't annoy anyone too much but since it was just the RAs sitting on their bums on the other side of the room I think we were good. Got a lot of photos, filled up my memory card twice so it was 700 or so in all (and I ended up deleting about 615 of them, the lighting wasn't very good and I was having a hard time adjusting the shutter speed with the weird lighting) and a few photos were okay. It was really fun at the time but afterwards I was left wondering "God, why was that so much fun? We were making such big asses out of ourselves." My mom wasn't kidding when she said I get high off of life, another reason I avoid parties, they end up making do stupid things really fast. I pled tiredness and left Olivia and Angela to their own devices (and dear lord they are friends now, whathaveIdone?!?!) and went to bed a few hours later.
Friday was wet. Grr. I wore my Soul Eater outfit to class and was sad to see that almost no one else was dressed up, I guess this is another way that college is different from high school? Funny, I can count on one hand the number of weird outfits I've seen since I've come to college, actually, I can only think of one! Very odd, don't get it at all. And I got a few photos from a friend afterwards but yeah. >.> They didn't show off the details at all and somehow my legs looked fat too so I'm going to see if I can drag Olivia into taking a photo or two later in the week. My outfit looks pretty good to so I want photos, was actually hoping I could work on the skirt of my next one this week but it looks like papers are going to be keeping me busy for a while. Stupid english paper....
I was planning on seeing the zombie march that night but ehhhh, wasn't feeling quiet up to it and hammed up my cold for all it was worth to get out of it. I just, yeah, just didn't feel like doing it and made up an excuse rather than an explanation. Hey I'm human, we do this sort of shit, and I was feeling a bit out of it, I think I even went to bed early.
Saturday was wet, AGAIN. Went over to the library in the morning to get books for my paper, gah, stupid english paper. I had a hell of a time thinking of a general topic for a paper (I figured out my thesis literally a few hours ago, at least it's more specific but writing 7 to 10 pages on stereotypes in appalachia is gonna be a pain). I guess I'm used to more freedom in my papers but having more freedom to choose your topic makes sense! Means that the teacher won't be reading a ton of papers on the same thing and that the writer chooses something they actually care about (i.e. are willing to do research on and probably already have a background on it). And I just can't think of anything on the Appalachians that our library has a lot of books on, really I don't like these mountains a lot. Too isolated, very pretty it's true, but just to, not there.
Also stayed in my dorm for most of Saturday, had a chance to go to a party but decided that I didn't want to make my first college party be a 1000+ person affair with no one I knew . -_- Did run out to get milk at one point and, as luck would have it, Angela and her friends (including the Swedish guy form my Japanese class?!?) were in the store as well and it was too small for me to even attempt to ninja around. Thankfully I looked so out of it that nothing happened, then again I can fake sick so well that no one, even my parents, know that I've done it on occasion. I guess when you tell the truth all the time no one suspects you of lying, ironic but nice side effect.
And that was it for October, I'll just try to smush Nov 1 and tomorrow together tomorrow but ho boy is tomorrow gonna be busy, and I mean busier than normal, I might only be in my dorm for a couple hours tomorrow afternoon and then at night, this is gonna be fun... not. Signing off.

Gah, I have this test on a book I had to read for Global Themes tomorrow (The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World, the influence of calvin on five governments from the 16th through the 18th centuries, and I actually read the entire thing) and it is an impossible book. Trying to figure out if Toakville or this was more impossible, at least I managed to take good notes on Toakville, couldn't manage even that here. I even had to call my mom to get some info, she didn't know anything super specific (not surprising) but she did suggest some things for me to look up on wikipedia so I sent about a half hour just reading through tons of stuff there. Ugh, my plan for tomorrow is to try and impress my teacher with all the names/places/treaties in my essay and make some stuff up. Yeah, sounds like my best plan, at least it won't be complete B.S. And as a side note my english paper is kicking my ass, I just hope I choose the right kind of topic for it.
Anywho, the anime theme last night got changed from Sports to Halloween-ish and we ended up watching xxxHolic A Midsummer Night's Dream. I was sad that Angela, Chynna, Joe, and Richard all left in the first five minutes. I will admit that xxxHolic does not look that good as an anime (same for TRC) but c'mon, you really need to give it more than five minutes. Actually, Joe was just trying it out tonight, I have NO IDEA what Chynna's tastes are, Richard's are horrible, and Angela says she really doesn't like the animation (I know that anime has fewer scenes between the important stills or something but honestly I don't notice it) so I don't know why she comes at all. Kinda sad but oh well, I actually do get a little embarrassed that I hang out with people who leave after the first few minutes though. Been watching some Honey and Clover as I sew, should finish up all that's on hulu tomorrow and (hopefully!) everything that I can finish with my jacket and shirt. I really want to wear my cosplay Friday just for the heck of it (and maybe get Brea to get a photo or two...) so I'm working like mad to get it done. Not happy at how the fabric glue is butchering my sleeve cuffs but I think I can make it work with some sewing and ribbon, oh crap that involves more glue doesn't it? Better use hot glue this time...
Gonna trundle off to bed now, a little studying and then hitting the sack, maybe I can also finish my knitting as well as my cosplay tomorrow....
Signing off!

Let's see tonight's excuse *reaches into hat*. Ah, okay, I was able to talk to a friend for the first time in a week and we had a very long pokemon and Kingdom Hearts themed conversation. And OMG, the new trailer for the new Kingdom Hearts game (Birth by Sleep) looks amazing. I've heard reviews of the numbers game (358/2 I think?) and it sounded like a complete rehash/milking the franchise, Xion seemed to be the complete Mary Sue that everyone expected, no background on the Organization characters explained, and I was thinking "huh, maybe Kingdom Hearts isn't as great as I remembered...." So when I saw someone post about how awesome the new trailer was I had to give it a look, even though I wasn't expecting much. I swear, the first minute of that trailer restored my faith in the entire franchise. :D It had a plot that was like I remembered, the fighting looked awesome, ADAFDAERASDFDF HOVERBOARDS!, and it looks like backstory will actually be explained! So I showed this to shader, we both spazzed, and she even went so far as to print out some of the old KH promo art out and hang it on her wall. XD I'll admit that the only reason I didn't do that was because I have no printer, it is some pretty spiffy artwork.
So yeah, that's my excuse. Back to the rest of my life, let's see, I left off with Saturday right? Right, Saturday was warm in the morning but apparently 10 minutes after the football game started it just froze. My roomie came back in with her friends and they were just so cold, made me really glad I hadn't gone, and they gave me an interesting explanation for the drunk guitar playing I had heard very, very early that morning. Apparently when they came back last night (something about contra dancing and a hooka bar? I really don't get how those two go together but okay....) they were chilling in the lobby with some seriously sloshed peeps. One guy (a friendly drunk) was asking their names and one of the girls said her name was Tiffiany and he goes "Tiffany? Oh I wrote a song with your name! Let me go get my guitar and play it!" and then runs to the elevator to get a guitar. They totally weren't expecting him to come back but he comes back about 30 seconds later with a guitar and says "Okay, I don't know whose guitar this is, I just found it lying around, but I'm going to use it anyway." WTF??!?! AND there was also another drunk playing a guitar outside loud enough for the sound to travel up nine floors and through a closed window, what the heck?!?!
I spent my time Saturday doing some sewing and generally chilling in front of my computer. I think I may be able to complete the basics of my trench coat and shirt for Kim's outfit by Saturday. Can't get it all done since I don't have some stuff (instructions for a knife pleated skirt, a white belt, grommeter, and that's about all I need actually for the actual outfit). I chilled on most of Sunday as well, there were more drunk people wandering around Saturday night (Olivia has the horror of running into one as he was using the urinal in the girl's bathroom, ew) and the two of us went out on Sunday night for dinner since her birthday was the next day (today? the 26th? time is irrelevant) which was okay, not the best meal I've had from that place but certainly okay.
More drunk people on Sunday night, this time they were so noisy at one end of the hall that they set off Olivia's sound activated pumpkin lights at the other end of the hall. Granted the acoustics are AMAZING EVERYWHERE around here but that's a tad excessive....
Had a strange dream this morning (I think I defy nature, I can fall asleep and engage in full R.E.M sleep in under an hour, I don't think that's supposed to be possible) and had gotten to the part where my old youth group leader told to grab a gun, we were going to- and as I was grabbing my cell phone (WTF, my cell phone is a gun? I HAVE to use this scenario in a story sometime, it's just too strange XD) when my roomies cell phone alarm went off. And now I will never know the strange powers my phone has, maybe it's secretly a taser?
Day was normal, and it looks like Japanese has only two main verb conjugations. THAT GOD FOR REGULAR VERBS! After three years of Latin where it was regular to be irregular, gahhhh, this should be so much easier~ Really starting to understand why it's supposed to be easier to speak Japanese than to read it, also understanding why so many characters in the mangas don't understand what the old/important scroll/book says (thank god for English's single alphabet, it's such an ambiguous language to start with that we don't need any more complications....).
Nothing really happened in JCC or Knitting Club, actually there was one really amusing thing in knitting club. One of the girls comes in (the one who taught me how to crochet, it turns out she's the treasurer) and says that she has this awesome thing to show us from the library. It was so awesome that she burst in on her roomie in the shower (another Knitting Club executive, not sure the position) to show her. So we're all guessing it was a book as she runs off, but I do make the comment that the library where I worked this past summer had a big secret yarn stash. Why? Dunno, we just did. XD And so, five, ten minutes later guess what she comes back with. Awesomesauce yarn! Really fun sparkly stuff, I grabbed this super soft lavendar and am going to try to make hand warmers out of it, also gotta make a scarf for my service project since I can't really think of anything else to make. Ack, better transfer the projects to my other needles and just keep them with me at all times, when I head home for Thanksgiving I seriously need to get more needles since mine are the wrong size for almost everything....
Signing off, hah, I FINALLY CAUGHT UP, BOO YAH!

Tvtropes.com is too amusing for it's own good, and too prolific, I can blow off so much time just browsing through this site. And it is convincing me that I must re-watch Avatar, Baccano!, and Princess Tutu because of their shear awesomeness (and I want a poster of that image they use for Baccano on there, that picture is the best representation of that series that I have seen). So yup I'm blaming tvtropes this time, mylifeisaverage is still eating up a lot of my time but I usually check that earlier in the day (and that site makes me feel a lot better about getting old considering how awesome those guys are).
( Longer than usual )
Oh and apparently my dorm leaks, discovered this last night when I was turning out the hallway lights and did the only thing that could be done at 2 in the morning; grabbed a wet floor sign from the bathroom and resolved to inform the RA when I next saw her. Good luck with that though, we can never find our RA when we need her....

Blah, the past few days have been both busy and boring, too much stuff at some times not enough in others. I guess the best thing I can do is try to accurately represent both of those times, and frankly I'm bored now so I have nothing better to do than post.
Monday was rather average until my club meetings. Oh my god I love the JCC and knitting clubs, there were just so many weird conservations. Also had a "you know you're in college when" moment when at the wrapps area of the food court the servers and another guy from the club plus myself had a small debate over poetry (concerning Hemingway and Robert Frost specifically in case you wanted to know). And then the conversations at the table, good lord I know the right people. XD I was telling my mom how you really didn't get to know the teachers in college like you did in high school but I am certain now that the officers in all three clubs I'm in at least recognize me now. XD I can recognize them too but still struggling with the names, gah, starting to have to fake that I know who someone is, I really need some tips for connecting names and faces. Knitting club was much the same but I did learn how to crochet! I actually picked it up super fast, like, ten to fifteen minutes to learn the two basic stitches fast. Then again I do knit so my hands are used to working with yarn and hooks/needles and I think I did correctly teach myself the single chain this summer, it was making the chain wider that had confused me. The girl who was helping me said she actually hadn't ever seen anyone pick up crocheting that fast and also seemed surprised when I said I was self-taught for knitting. I've had a bit of help on the way but by and large I've taught myself the handicrafts. And we might have someone who'll come in sometime to show us how to spin, then I'd know how to sew, knit, crochet, weave, and spin. All that'll leave is woodworking, that one really kicks my ass anytime I need to saw stuff. I suppose I should learn metal working as well but since Sam is really interested in that stuff I can probably get him to do any metal working I need. XD I have resources!
Tuesday had an exciting morning. I didn't have my 8 AM class since this is conference week, but my teacher suddenly canceled the conferences on Monday, when I was set to have mine, and rescheduled them for next Monday meaning that I have 12-ish hours to come up with a topic for a paper!
CRAPCRAPCRAPCRAPCRAPCRAPCRAP. I'm already having a super hard time coming up with topics for these papers, and I signed up for the earliest day so I would be able to have extra time! Another example of how my plans go wrong due to nothing I could have prevented, she hasn't even responded to my request to change the rescheduled date so hopefully my classmates can tell me what the topic is gonna be....
Anyway, so, no 8AM means I left the dorm a bit before 9:30 for my 9:30 class. I rush the elevator, get on with my R.A., we head down a few floors, pick up another guy, and the doors refuse to shut. The alarm is going off and everything so we have to wait for the other elevator, I swear the elevators have been breaking like crazy this week and it sounds like a lot of the times it was for something like we had, no apparent reason. But I get to class on time, the hallway upstairs smells a little like incense but I don't think much of it (hey so many people smoke that to smell a different kind of smoke is actually refreshing), and ten minutes into the class the fire alarms go off. I'm not even sure if the fire department ever got around or if someone else just turned off the alarm (Belk is in a weird place for trucks to get to, heck you can't get anywhere near the center of campus by bus or car, even bikes are a little tricky with all the stairs). But we go back to class and I am not pleased on how my history course is turning into a lighter version of my past four years of theology. Really now? Don't need more religious history, it's super boring and I would rathe rather be learning something different, and the religions just seem so boring in this class.
Saw some of Full Metal Panic in anime club and I have now come to the conclusion that Richard has HORRIBLE anime tastes. He brought in this, the Read of Die OVA, and what else was it...I forget but I found one of the other bad things we had watched in his room (plus Evagelion which was just lol-worthy). So yeah, mildly worried, what's funny is that the anime club officers seem to actually like my tastes (Le Chevalier D'Eon and Princess Tutu both got thumbs up from multiple people) and I think I've got fairly good taste as well, probably because I demand a certain amount of plot from any series I would recommend.
Annnndddd, I give up, I just can't type anymore, gonna go to bed, no wait, do a little more of the Japanese extra credit and then hit the sack. Blah, gonna try to hit up Walmart tomorrow for patterns and do laundry tomorrow, I feel so domestic. Signing off.

Wow, bigger break than I planned on, sorry about that. I've just been so exhausted for the past two nights that I really wasn't up to posting. Seriously I got maybe 6 hours of sleep Wednesday (no, Thursday morning), 7 or 8 Thursday night, maybe another 8 at my dad's house on Friday and then about 5 on Sunday morning. Bleh, not fun.
So the party on Saturday was good and it wasn't. First off I hadn't quiet realized that Cross lived in the countryside and there really aren't any nice homes in the countryside in middle NC. Seriously, if you live out there it's because it's cheaper and the houses aren't so well unkept so the house looked a little sketch. Not nearly as bad as I've seen (believe me, canvassing for Obama took me to some areas of town I really would have preferred to avoid) but still enough to make you check the house number twice. But it was the right one and things looked perfectly normal on the inside, I think it was just that the yard didn't look as nice as it could that really gave off the sketch vibe.
Still a little uneasy when I first came in, I figured out who Puppet was since she was the only other girl there but it took a little while to recognize Moran since he's bulked up since AZ. We, plus the other people there (Cynaide from the forums was also there, met him at Librari-Con) probably just watched the bad horror movies we had for the first hour or so, it took awhile for everyone to warm up and get comfortable. So later in the evening it was fine, we were all chatting, playing Apples to Apples (I'm pretty proud that I got the funny card for putting down exorcism, it was just so random that I had to XD), Sucose and Baki came by for a bit. Since Puppet and I were Pokemon (Cubone and Furret respectively) some people were asking Baki if he was a Pokemon as well and he had to tell them nope, he was Pedobear. Didn't talk to them as much as I wanted to though.
After a while things got quieter, there were endless online quizes, random trivia, and Halo games. I eventually hit the floor around 3, 3:30-ish when I realized they weren't going to stop playing Halo anytime soon. Also that couch was not meant to hold four people, maybe 3 and a half but 4 people was too many. Plus Moran had a random giggle attack at 3 AM for 10 minutes (it went Puppet, then Moran, me, and then some random lady on the couch, I think I can safely say that puppet, moran and I have bonded after sharing my sleeping bag as a blanket for awhile). Sleeping sitting up on a couch is kinda awkward too, I ended up sticking my cell phone in my pocket and clutching my glasses case with the glasses in there, kinda surreal it was such an odd way to doze off.
Got up around 9:15 later in the morning, a bit chilly and a little stiff since that floor was hard and my Furret tail wasn't the best pillow ever (decent but not the best). My mom picked me up soon afterwards and thus ended the party. Went home, finished packing and just chilled for a few hours. I think if I had to do my fall break over I would skip the party and force myself to bed at 10 each night so I would get enough sleep. And make even more of a effort to talk to my mom, she and Ted were cloistered for several hours on Sunday and that really depressed me. Here I am, about to leave for another month with little contact, trying my hardest to keep from going into a full blown panic attack, and I can't even talk to my mother. Talk about dammed depressing.
And my adventures weren't over, oh my god, you guys know how I say that I make plans and they go randomly wrong because of events I can't stop? Like the first time I tried to ride the bus down, like an anti-desu ex machina? Yeah, guess what happened~ First we get stuck in traffic downtown because of an accident (which was making me freak out) and then we turn onto one of the last streets and find a freakin' protest/march/SOMETHING going on. As my brother put it, that wasn't in the newspaper, what the heck?
After a few minutes of driving we pull off into a parking lot as close to the bus depot as we can, gab my junk and sprint for the station. Boy was I glad we brought Sam, needed more muscle to carry all my stuff, we actually came across a number of other people doing the same thing. What was funny was that I wasn't exerting myself at all sprinting with my book bag and lunch boxes stuffed with frozen food (and my shoulders are still sore from that book bag, I think I even pulled my muscles in my neck), the air didn't feel any different but my lungs were having such an easier time. I guess a thousand feet or so does really make a difference in exercise, hadn't really noticed it before.
Pay my ticket, hurriedly hug my mom goodbye and I get on the bus for Boone. I noticed one last thing on the car ride over, when we were dealing with the traffic incident I was starting to go into a panic attack and when I said something my mom looked over concerned, as if she hadn't ever seen me like this before (I believe I was confessing my dislike for the buses since stuff like this always happens). And I realized, my parents don't really know about how bad my panic attacks feel, they only saw a few which were dismissed as severe distress before exams. They don't seem to realize just how much I internalize my emotions, I'm plenty emotional but I hold a lot back actually. And it doesn't take much to set me off, I'm a born worrier, something about brain thickness, and they really don't know about this. Kinda sad, I was even talking with Ted over the break and when I mentioned I thought I might have that disorder that makes recognizing faces difficult (since I have just TONS of problems with this and I'm realizing it's more than most people do) he agreed and said he had wondered himself if I did. I mentioned this to my mom and she seemed surprised but admitted that I might have a minor version of this. It just reminds me of how we never knew for years that my brother had Aspergers, I suspect that my family has more mental issues than we actively realize, we never connected the quirks with real problems.
The bus ride back was long and delayed and cramped, I was on a converted city bus again. The same girl from the ride down (in the JCC) rode with me as well as Brea from Japanese class. She helped me haul my bags off the bus and up the stairs to the dorm, thankfully one girl knew that a bus actually went from where the bus stopped to our dorm, wouldn't have made it across campus without that, the dolly my mom gave me to use was completely useless and I had to carry that as well.
Well, gotta get off now, got a Japanese test tomorrow and need to sleep before that. Signing off, more catch-up tomorrow hopefully.

Yup, still alive, survived the bus ride (bleehhhh, I felt like the traveler in a story as I stood in the rain under my umbrella with my big-ass bag which was hopefully not sitting in a puddle), they had two buses this time so I don't think we had anyone sitting in the aisles this time. I think so but I'm not sure. But I was annoyed at how we had a bus that was going to go to Winston (since Winston has three stops they were going to hit up all three stops), and every time we had someone who was going to Winston the bus driver would send them to the other bus. We still made all three stops. *headdesk* The only people who got off we some guy who got on in Yadkinville and then some random woman who got on in Winston since the other buses were taking too long. By the last stop he was even giving us suspicious looks as no one was getting off. So I got home at a decent time and was so unhappy to realize how cold it was. Dangit I came out of the chilly mountains, seriously the mountains are supposed to have snow Friday and Saturday, and was expecting a temperate climate. Grrr, curse you global warming....
Also had a seriously hard time falling asleep Wednesday night, well, Thursday morning. Like, I think I didn't fall asleep until around 6 AM I think, I actually woke up when I heard someone moving around in my brother's closet and assumed that he was getting ready for school. Seriously didn't believe my clock when it said 12:38, had to check both my watch and cell phone to believe it. I just felt so lethargic for the rest of the day, it was cold, wet, and my house is so dark because of all the curtains. And the junk, oh the junk! My family has the pack rat syndrome (to the point where my grandparents have filled up an attic, a corncrib, and a good sized tobacco farm). There is just stuff EVERYWHERE! The kitchen is messy, I have no idea how some of that stuff got in the bathroom, and there is more crap in my bedroom than I remember. Seriously, I like my dorm room since there isn't much room for me to accumulate stuff, I hate how my stuff is all over my room but it's not like I have enough time to unpack and repack!
Didn't do much Thursday, didn't do much today (Friday) either. Did go grocery shopping (nearly went into a rapture over the selection of frozen foods at Taj MaTeter) and got the first volume of Letter Bee at B&N. Actually saw a ton of novels I wanted to read, gah, wish I had more money to buy YA novels, but the manga selection is not being stocked as much as it used to. Sign of the times, also when they have only two old checkout ladies, man this recession scares me....
Probably won't blog tomorrow, maybe Sunday? Maybe a review soon? Who knows 'cause I sure don't! Signing off!

We ended up watching Le Chevalier D'Eon in anime club tonight since I was the only one who brought in anything (funny enough the theme was swords too, I would have thought that more people would bring in stuff). Got a bit worried since a lot of the first episode (heck a lot of the whole series) is talking and the anime club is more of an action sort of crowd, I don't think we've watched anything subtle yet. XD Next week is school themed anime so I don't have anything, just gonna grab the first volume of Eureka 7 for whenever we have giant robot night.
What else, I should be posting tomorrow just late, well hell it might be earlier than usual actually, just depends on if the bus gets in on time (9:30) or what. And I've worked out my schedule so I should only have to wait half and hour for the bus, that was as close as I'm willing to cut it with this bus system, gah, so unreliable!
Sewing is going along super quickly, almost done with the tail and after that all I need to do is whip up a quick pair of ears! Also still need to finish the B. Rabbit plushie (just need a few details on the coat), make Olivia a heartless plushie for her birthday (can do in a week), and my old youth group leader is asking if everyone can make angels and I have an idea on how to do that, that one gets top priority. Knitting, eh, I'll get to it when I get to it, probably gonna end up doing a lot on the bus ride back to Boone.
Sooo, not much to say, found more Beast Player Erin but it's on a super slow Russian site so it's giving me a bit of grief, that's what I get for watching fansubs I guess. Oh well, better than torrents, ah, and I got more music today for my ipod, got lots of stuff off of itunes that I had been listening to on youtube, get to listen to it all tomorrow. And gonna get off before it becomes tomorrow, better study my katakana again so for the quiz too.... signing off!

...um, WTF mate? Glad that I won't be up here Saturday, I don't think I can handle snow before November. Just, yeah, too early, we're gonna have snow until March anyway, lets not be hasty and pace ourselves.
So, thought of more things to bring back from home (specifically a shot glass and a basketball, can't remember if it's mine or Sam's), and since both my math and health class on Wednesday are canceled I need to re-work my bus plan, bit more flexible now but it's still going to involve sitting in the rain for a bit, crap. The snow prediction is really throwing me off though, really glad I'm bringing all my winter junk up! A little worried that I'll be overdressed when I go back home, lol, haven't had that problem since I lived in Cleveland. And in good news I was working on knitting my hat in knitting club today (and it is seriously going to be the biggest most ridiculous hat ever, I think I need to get smaller needles dangit) and after the first row it got a ton easier, feeling much better about my first hat attempt now. And I also found more Beast Player Erin online (CR, only has up to episode 18 and then skips to 32, and since they appear to have no intention of releasing more catch-up episodes until November at least and the series ends in December this calls for serious action), glad about that since I was seriously considering downloading bittorrents at home and then marathoning like mad so I could get if off my computer before I got it back on the university system. Now I just need to make sure I'll erase my download logs of the PH soundtracks, they didn't get me on the last one so I hope I'm good? Yeah, I really don't support downloading music like this but since it's music in Japan (i.e. EXPENSIVE), shipping from Japan (more $$$s), are CDs region locked?, and some of the websites aren't in English.... yeah, I'm learning Japanese now but I am not at the level where even basic conversations are possible. I have a difficult time following the CDs we have. Then again, and this is coming from first-hand experience from the Japanese TA most of those teachers were suffering from huge hangovers when they wrote the book/CDs, certainly explains a few issues. Also apparently they would go onto huge tangents about what the best beer was, the funny thing is that my friend Brea worked in a Japanese restaurant and knew the names of the beers that he rattled off. XD I love that class soooo much~
And finally my roomie not only wants to decorate the 9th floor lobby like the Gryffindor common room but she is also seriously planning with a friend to start a Quidditch team next semester, I am so totally there. Signing off!

Not terribly cold yet but still getting chilly, starting to be glad that I live on the top floor of my dorm. Of course I'm not so glad about that when one of the elevators has been out of commission all weekend, 'least it should be working by tomorrow afternoon.
Anyway, stayed in my dorm today primarily, but I did do a little more exploring on the road behind us (well, up a big hill and behind us, we're on the edge of the valley Boone's in). There was a moment when I was up there, standing on the sidewalk, looking down the other side of the hill through the partially leaf-striped trees at a road down below with a few cars on it and I felt a strange combination of satisfaction and homesickness. I think I have been homesick for Cleveland all these years and just haven't admitted it, I loved that city so much. It's been just shy of seven years since I've been there and god I just miss it so much. I can't even tell you what it was but I grew up there from 7 to 12 years old, it just left a huge impression on me. And part of the reason I choose App was because the mountains reminded me of Cleveland. When the choice came down to either Wilmington or App, and Wilmington had the better Creative Writing program which I was looking at before, I decided that I would rather be in the mountains in the winter than the beach in the summer, and I'm glad of the choice. Actually, I'm having a hard time defining where my home is now, you would think that I would think home is back in the triad where everyone else is, but home feels more and more like my little dorm room that is away from the drama of home and close to friends. I feel so much happier now that I'm in control of my life, even if I still can't always manage to feed myself (note to self: do not buy cream of potato soup again, gah, feeding myself would be so much easier if the stove wasn't nine floors down). I am happy to go back for fall break but that's more along the lines of "OMG, I CAN BUY MANGA AND UNDERWEAR! And other stuff! And a Halloween party, yeah-ya!" I really feel like I just want to leave my family behind, I'm still not over the divorce, I still haven't come to terms with my brother, and I just feel like I still need to get away.
Wow that got depressing. Um, ahem, anyway, I think that this is the best place for me to be right now and don't regret moving out here, even though I really feel the need for a car at least twice a day. XD But going back will be good, like I said I need more underwear (how I came to college with only seven pairs I have no idea...), and while I'm over at Old Navy I can go to B&N right next door and pick up Letter Bee with the gift card I have and save even more with a coupon, and when my mom goes to work I can tag along, chill in the office for a bit and also head over to Adam's to get some new inking pens, also debating whether or not to pick some up in Sephia as well. And maybe we can go to Lowes so I can get some sticky hooks and duct tape, also need to pick up some Windex and more forks since I only have two and one of those goes AWOL pretty often. So yeah, I will come down with as little as I can bring and come back with a huge duffle bag filled with stuff (no really, I fit all my clothes, plus the huge divider thing I use for my undies, and two pairs of shoes and some other junk in this one duffle bag).
What else to say.... I actually stand a really good chance of getting my Sentret cosplay done by Saturday (a headband! I need that too, I should be able to find a cheap one in some store near me), between my weekly Project Runway dose (AKA, an hour of sewing, that show is awesome motivation) plus the Honey and Clover anime I found on Hulu (again, seeing college art students in action is amazing motivation) I'm nearly done. I need to finish up the pants (can be done tomorrow), and then sew the tail, already cut out the pieces and will pin together once I get the pants done and retrieve the pins from them. But I figured out last night that Ohkubo really did change the designs for Kim's new outfit so I need to get new patterns, hope I have enough white fabric, and pretty much start over there. Thankfully I can take the already cut fabric pieces and make that into the shirt for Echo, I literally need to make half a dozen white shirts/tops for cosplay this year, I really don't know why...
Oh and in honor of steam punk month (yes it's steampunk month! I guess this must be the first time or something since I hadn't really heard about it) I'm checking out Last Exile on crunchyroll. And it looks like I'll be doing my next anime review from a bus again. XD Well it's a three hour bus ride and I have 10 shows to review, sounds like a good use of my time...
Signing off!

Well I got to bed earlier than I suspected last night (but still later than I meant to be, accidently stayed up until 3 skimming Scott Westerfield's new novel, Leviathan which Olivia and I had found in the local Waldenbooks on Friday, the place even has manga!). Spent a few hours riding the bus/waiting for the bus so Olivia and I could make it out to Waldenbooks and then Wal-Mart. We had a bit of an Indian summer on Wednesday-Friday and I was glad of the shade at the bus stop, think I got even more sunburned since my face still stings and feels kinda hot. Gah, I went out so little during this summer too (something about how I actually got a job...) that I don't even think about sunscreen anymore. Then again, a chilly, wet autumn in the mountains doesn't help one remember what to do when the sun actually does shine. But I did find the bookstore (the mistake my dad and I had made on Sunday was assuming that the mall was a strip mall when it was actually a proper indoor mall, really tiny but much less sketch than I was imagining, Boone is actually seriously sketch in a lot of parts, scares the heck out of me). Waited a good long while for the bus to Wal-Mart but I did find the stop for the bus back home (after the last time I decided to get on the very first stop, but it does look like I'll have to wait quiet a while between when the school bus drops me off and the other one leaves).
The float building was, interesting. At first one of the RAs and I couldn't even find anyone so I was chilling in my room for a while and then we had to build the dang float. Our idea was to take the back of a pick-up truck, put up these big PVC pipes in each corner and string an egg shaped disco ball (a pun on our dorm's name) between them so it was a dance floor. The thing is that pick-up trucks don't have a lot of places to tie things too, it took us a really long time to even find a few hooks and even longer to think of using some spare wood we had to wedge the poles in. Even then we had a tricky time getting those poles to stand up, there were many times throughout the night when they would start to tip and everyone would lunge for a pole. We did eventually get the corner poles up, the crossbeam poles up and the disco ball on, we were finishing up the wedging when the weather changed from a light drizzle to a good sized shower. Some girls ran inside to make a tarp for the float (yes, MAKE a tarp out of garbage bags, XD), I just pulled my hood up, but I was really impressed that 3 or 4 people pulled these solid, water-proof, heavy duty jackets out of NOWHERE. One of the guys (whose jacket was more like the waterproof shell of a heavier one) said that he pulled his out of his back pocket but I doubt that my RA has that kind of hammer-space in her pockets. Kinda annoyed at her since she wasn't really helpful, more there for the atmosphere (okay, she did drive the pick-up when we needed a test run) and I dunno, she acts a bit high most of the time. Oh, and the most amazing part of the evening was how we lost my entire roll of duct tape. No seriously, how do you lose 3/4 of a roll of duct tape?!?!? It's not like it's a small thing or anything, dammit now I'm going to have a duct tape emergency, better tell my mom that I need to make a hard wear run, still need sticky hooks to hang stuff up anyway. I headed in at about 1 AM since one of the girls was decorating the poles and they didn't really need us for anything else. And I know the float survived the night since I saw it at the start of the parade (and with a number of people sitting in there, probably had someone or two holding each pole, XD) but when I walked by it this afternoon it was in pieces, I hope that happened after the parade...
So, today I saw some of the parade but, like lip synch the night before, I was underwhelmed. All of the floats looked seriously half-assed (which is probably what happens when the tradition is to make them in 7 hours the night before) and the lip synch contest wasn't that good either. Well, that could have been because EVERYONE was doing Michael Jackson songs (seriously, tooo much!) and maybe I'm too used to America's Got Talent where all of the acts were well coordinated and well executed. It appears that the JCC didn't make it past the preliminaries as well which made me sad, that one looked like it was going to be awesome.
Saw Surrgates today and it was okay. Really easy to tell from the style of it that it was based on a graphic novel, actually some of the subplots felt lacking in the end and when later thinking about it some of the plot twists didn't make sense either so I'm wondering what got cut out. But I liked it well enough, especially when Chyna pointed out that the genius scientist in here was the same actor as the genius scientist in iRobot. Very nice irony indeed, really need to re-watch that movie since I haven't seen it in a good 5 or so years actually. Hmm, maybe Chyna will be nice and lend me her copy...
Well, gonna try to get to bed soon, just need to do a little more web comic reading and sewing, I am going to try to get my Sentret cosplay by Saturday so I really need to book it. Signing off!