Meet my productivity list for the weekend.
( not too long )

Got over half of my list finished but I did attempt everything on said list. I think I just have a few more Japanese assignments to do (I already did the ones for Haken no Hinkaku) and then I'm home free, almost.

Started Shokojo Seira today. Mirai's cute as usual. <3 Love her. I feel like she's my sister. Is that weird? xD Yes. Yes it is.

Last night I got this idea for an "idol blog project"...basically, a community on LJ where certain members translate and post entries made from idol blogs all in one place. So far I'm only doing Ichikawa Yui, but I'd like to include some other idols I like as well. After I make the community pretty and take on some more blogs I'm going to try to pimp it a bit and find more people willing to translate other blogs. What's annoying is that I can't backdate community entries, bloody hell. So now I have to put the original date in the title and everything's out of order. Is my outdated version of Semagic lying to me or can I really not backdate these things? Slightly inconvenient, but I want to keep it a community instead of a one-person journal. At the same time, I started ANOTHER project...I do this so often. Usually my Womby's the one I tell because he gives me the go-ahead (like when I wanted to start a blog, and then when I wanted to start a BBS...), but I feel I've become one of those people you have to roll your eyes at when she tells you she's starting a new project, because I'm the type to get tired with it. I acknowledge this and know it's annoying. But I do have fun while it lasts. And I'd like to keep this one going as long as possible. It helps my translating skills and besides...I've been doing fanlistings for five and a half years now without losing steam, so maybe this will be the same. (^^)

For the time being, check out pie_napple if you want to see what Yuinyan's been up to recently. She loves her cat Toraji, who is adorable, which makes her adorable. I'm going to have to check out Inpei Shirei soon.

Home on Thursday! Psyching up. I'll gaburincho my own cat soon enough~

Current Music: the whirrrr of my fan

Yep, that was my weekend.

I got my paper fully written (nearing the page limit, even), finishing a little after 10pm on Friday night. After that I got caught up on Thursday night TV \:D/ But I ended up not watching White Collar because I was on such a roll with that paper (so naturally I'm going to get a terrible grade again). Saturday I went grocery shopping with my momma and then lunch with her and the rest of the family, and after doing my hair I went over to my cousin's place and played Paper Mario 64 more with KC. We're in the sixth chapter right now and almost done with the Flower Fields. After a few hours of gameplay I came back to my place and decided it was time to start up Mirror's Edge again. The last time I played was during my birthday weekend...I completed the training level and a small part of the prologue. See, there was this run/jump/pipe-grab combo that I failed at a bajillion times so I stopped playing because I felt pressed for time. But sometime inbetween then and now I had a dream that I played the game, and that made me want to play it when I returned home.

It's so much fun (=___=) It gives me a runner's high :D ...ish. It definitely speeds my heart up though. I'm so used to RPGs, the kind where you can see people coming at you and you get transported to another screen to fight them. Yeah, not in Mirror's Edge. They shoot at you from all angles and then there's the snipers and of course, it's allll in first person. But jumping and soaring across all of these obstacles is so much fun. I'd like it more if there wasn't any fighting (melee and firearms), because combine the running with the storyline and it's pretty awesome. But I love totalitarian dictatorships in fiction. I played to the beginning of chapter 4, I think, or at least whenever you spy on that one guy in his office from the air duct and then the blues come after you. I couldn't figure out where I was supposed to go and it was getting late so I gave up. XD Until next time.

Theeeen I downloaded Paper Mario for my N64 emulator because I feel somewhat addicted to it, but I've been running into graphics problems. I swear, there isn't a good N64 emulator. I've been using Project 64 but there are so many errors. Maybe I've just gotten spoiled with my Visual GBA emulator because there are virtually no problems in that one. Anyway, because of the game freezing whenever I try to kill some poisonous cacti, I don't think I can advance any further than chapter 2. I was going to buy it when I got home from my cousin's but remembered I don't have the necessary classic controller. =/ So boo.

On the plate for this week: two papers and something short for translation class. I've been itching to translate some lyrics lately, so I'll probably do that.

Back home in a week and a half! Exciting.

Current Music: Baby on Board

Okay, so, I love being home. Obviously. But clearly I cannot come home when I have legitimate (as in something I can't put off until the night before) homework to do because my family demands all of my attention.

(￣∇￣+) Oh hell, I love the attention and feeling wanted.

But seriously guys, I have a five page paper to write. My mom is lamenting the fact she has to work this weekend and my aunt's already talked about kidnapping me as a result of my mom having to work this weekend. I spent most of the day today helping my aunt out with some Target shopping (she had recent back surgery and can't lift heavy things like laundry detergent) and playing Paper Mario with my cousin, so it looks like my night is going to be focused on this paper now that my mom's left for her part-time. At least, until 8pm, when Ugly Betty comes on and White Collar follows. Priorities, you know.

The only person I'm letting around me isn't a person; he's sitting at my feet and even he might start pushing it if he bugs me to feed and/or cuddle him. >O (And I feel that he is glaring at me right now.) Sure, maybe I should have stayed in Iowa City to focus all of my efforts on this paper, but mental health: I needz it.

Eh, I'm still not worried. <3 My first class on Monday got cancelled so I found someone to take over my shift Monday morning, and now I'm staying home an extra night. Now, time to boot myself off Poupee and Web Kare and Livejournal so I can actually get some paper writing done before Betty comes on in two hours.

Set up a router for the first time just now. After a couple of snags on my part (I couldn't tell the difference at first between my modem being on or off...oops), I'm able to access internet again from more than just one fixed spot in my apartment. This is nice. I'm sitting on my couch watching Keith Olbermann (and it's not fuzzy!), nearing OD on Pixie Stix, and able to be on the internet all at the same time. I feel spoiled. (Of course, this means my apartment has become a state of disarray again with wires everywhere and pixie stick wrappers. Wireless. Hah.) What could bother me?

This week, actually. As soon as this week is over, I think all of my major projects will be out of the way until after Thanksgiving break. Freaking finally. I had a response paper due today (which I was uncharacteristically wordy on when I wrote it Saturday evening), and tomorrow I have a group presentation to give in Japanese. If my partner only knew how little I cared...it's a good thing I can pretend. The topic matter is interesting but the words are so big and I really have no further interest in the subject. But it's okay, because I trust myself. Even when I'm least prepared I always seem to still manage somehow. It's been like that my entire life. I can procrastinate until the last minute with any sort of schoolwork and it's still all right in the end. I just know that sometime before I fall asleep tonight, I need to buckle down and write myself up some notes and actually make sense of this issue so I don't leave my partner hanging. I can do this. <3 I'll have another response paper due on Wednesday for Sex & Pop (these tend to require a bit more thought) and then another presentation on Thursday over male/female speech in Japanese Linguistics. I have a feeling that won't get started on until tomorrow evening. At least I don't have to worry about having to make late-night library runs anymore.

I'm not scheduled to work this weekend, which highly surprises me. My boss told me that he might need to schedule me for Halloween weekend because 1) more than half of our employees requested it off and 2) it's a home game, which means pummeled!!! I told him he could schedule me, but knew this might hinder any Halloween plans I would have (like a party on Saturday night). I'm pretty excited that I wasn't scheduled though, because this means I can hang out with people longer and stay downtown and watch silly people in their costumes. (Mind you, I'll probably be wearing a mini-skirt, so I'll be just as silly in a way.) I'm also planning on casino-ing it up Friday night because I have birthday points to use. <3

With my luck, I'll be assigned the second exam for Sex & Pop culture next week! :D Aaand a quick check of the syllabus ensures me that YES, I do have the second paper exam due the 9th. YAY. This means I need to write it the night or two after it's assigned if I want to properly go home. (-_-);; Just gotta keep thinking forward. At least my car problem fixed itself like I hoped.

I can't recall the last time I disliked October so much. Week after week of nonstop work.

- I called Mediacom yesterday and set up an appointment for Monday. I'm going to be getting cable+internet, but it's going to be $75 a month. On the plus side the installation will be free (good thing too), but I thought it was going to be way cheaper. D: My mom and I had a fight about this yesterday. I'm probably going to cancel the cable in a few months, but internet alone is $45. Stupid.

- Paper due Monday, paper due Wednesday, a presentation on each day before and after Wednesday. Why aren't midterms over yet? These shenanigans have been going on for three weeks now. dna

- My car's CD player stopped working today as I started it up to drive to the library. The radio works fine, but it refuses to play any of my CDs. (It's not like it's horrible music!) I'm not sure what's wrong because I just replaced the battery. Any ideas? It's a 2000 Grand Am V6.

- When I was at home for my birthday I saw previews for a new show called "White Collar." I am inexplicably attracted beyond words to the main character, but I haven't started watching it. I'll probably be able to tomorrow night.

- My apartment is atrocious and after I go back home in about half an hour that's going to consume my evening. :D

- Haven't been able to watch any of the new dramas yet, but I'm curious about Shokojo Seira, Tokyo Dogs, Real Clothes, Bocho Mania 09, and Ohitorisama. And of course LIAR GAME 2, but that's not until next month.

- Planning on a surprise home visit in two weeks. With my luck, I'll be deadbolt-locked out of the house by the time I get there and will have to wake up my mom via the doorbell and calling the home phone. Surprise!

- I'm convinced a man in the library has swine flu. He was here last weekend as well. He sounds worse now. Ughhhh. Just stay away from me, dnw.

If there's one thing I like about class, it's watching the presentations of my classmates. And it's not even the presentations themselves - rather, I like watching the speaker. Even the people who act so cool during class and hide their flaws, it all flies away when they stand up in front of everybody and have to speak while the entire classroom is silent. You can see the paper of notes that they hold is shaking from their hands, and their voice becomes higher or faster than normal, sometimes both. Sometimes they focus on one person in the classroom to stare at and their eyes stay locked on them. (I was the object of this once by a boy that I liked - I always smile remembering this, even though nothing ever came from that!) And the audience completely sympathizes, because they know they too will be in that position soon enough. Everyone becomes one.

I'm certainly not immune to this. I tend to speak faster and I try to hide the fact that my hands shake. But I do like watching for these weaknesses. It means we're all human.

Speaking of, my presentation was on Monday. I was worried it wouldn't even surpass 10 minutes, but when I sat down, I realized 40 minutes had passed. Thank goodness for discussion <3

My internet connection at the apartment has been off and on as of last night - mostly off. This is not the week I prefer this to happen; when I discovered this last night I had been just about to start homework, and found myself driving to the library at 8:20pm just to do my homework. The quiet and lack of distractions (Harry Potter, television, food, etc) made finishing my homework a task accomplished in two hours, and I sent both of them off to my teacher and came back home. This morning my internet came back for all of two minutes, and I found out that I had forgotten to attach one of my homework files to the emails I sent, and I retained no copy because I did it on a school computer. Suffice it to say this morning was not fun. I wasn't going to go to my Translation class at first but then I realized staying at home would not get my homework done in my internet-less state, so I packed up my laptop and brought it to class with me, where I was able to connect to the school's internet.

I've been stressed out too much this week, but I feel a lot better - when I was studying for my Japanese test earlier today I saw an email from my Anime Class professor telling me she moved my presentation to next Monday instead of tomorrow. I almost cried from this news. Now all I have due tomorrow is a 2 page reading response for Sex & Pop so I can really relax a little bit more.

I'm typing this up during my independent study Linguistics class, actually. xD I just hope I have internet when I go back home...crossing my fingers. It's really heavy to take with me, but it's nice having my laptop in the computer labs when everyone else is searching for a free computer.

I'm going to try to get to the bottom of this, seeing as I am done with my two presentations this week and I should not be.

( a little self-analyzing )

Anyone heard of Sophie Hunger? She just came up on the front page of Mania DB when I was nabbing a Brown Eyed Girls jacket cover. I tried out "Round and Round" on Youtube, pretty good acoustic stuff...any other recommendations?

Current Music: Brown Eyed Girls - Abracadabra

I can't wait to go home this weekend...which starts Thursday night for me, actually. It kind of sucks that my birthday falls on a Sunday this year so I'll be driving back to Iowa then, but it's okay. <3 I'll get to spend the weekend with my family anyway. We're going to Fright Fest at Six Flags again (I swear, we've gone almost every year except maybe last year) and I'm super excited to wear my costume. I'm going to be a raver (which reminds me, I need to bring home my glowsticks too) positively bursting in color, and today I went out and finally found a cute pink skirt I mostly like. It's hard to find the kind of pleated design I want, and Ragstock only had a purple version and I've got purple in my costume already vis a vis the visor (that probably makes no sense but I thought it sounded funny). If I find another one at Goodwill or something I'll buy it, but I've not been able to find short, bright skirts this late in the year. =/ The only things I need to buy now are a halter top and a set of brightly-colored leg warmers, preferably rainbow to match my arm warmers. I think I'm going to get another pair of fishnet stockings too before I go home, but we'll see.

Two presentations to give tomorrow, both are relatively informal. I was worried until I remembered this. I've also got an assignment to do over "wa" and "ga" due tomorrow by noon. But I think I'll finish up Aoi Hitomi to Nuage first.

( poupee thoughts )

I discovered that even if I can't download things from MU here at college, I can watch them on Youtube. Despite being such a fan of Ojamajo Doremi, up until now I'd really only seen a couple of episodes. Thanks to Youtube, I think I can watch the majority of the series in order. *nosebleed* I still refuse to watch real-people things that way though - too much quality is lost, but anime is relatively simple so it looks okay.

I have an obscene amount of papers and homework to write and an equally obscene lack of motivation to do any of them. I hate analyzing things like I'm being told to analyze (like anime that I don't care about or Kerouac), and I'm pretty sure analyzing is not what I came to college for.

At least it's not Sunday yet. I'll try my hardest to write tonight.

My apartment is fresh and clean again, thank goodness. I really dislike living in filth but during the week I feel like I'm not home enough to do anything about it.

As a fourth year Japanese student I've been made to start a blog (all in Japanese), and you're welcome to follow it as well. I'm blogging more than what's required *laugh* Go have a look here, and let me know if you can think of a better title than I did.

I've been playing on Poupee a little bit more than usual lately and am cleaning my closet, so if you're interested come check out my selling page.

I should probably get dressed if I'm going anywhere today. Probably buying more clothes. It's easier than doing laundry.

Current Mood: discontent