Top Ten Things I Want To Do Someday:

1. Go to Europe. Because I should.
2. Ride a vespa.
3. Finally decide whether or not I want a tattoo.
4. Learn to mambo.
5. Find constellations other than the big Dipper.
6. Tell people who annoy me to shut up and watch them do it.
7. Visit Panama.
8. See the Alaskan wilderness.
9. Teach friends the wonders of dancing in public and not caring who sees.
10. Take one of those super nice pictures at one of those professional photography places and use that as the picture of me for whenever someone on the net asks what I look like. Considering all my current pictures suck.

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It's Wednesday! And I'm still alive! For the most part anyway. :3 I just got out of my second Biostatistics test, and I feel about it the same way I felt about the first one. I either did brilliantly well, or totally bombed it. I'm hoping for brilliant. I also managed to turn in a 4 page proposal for Biology... and then learned a paper I was sweating over and panicking it was going to suck was only worth a homework grade. Stupid TA spazzing me out. -_-; I have one more test tomorrow, Biology of the Marine Mammal, and I feel mostly confident. I do really well in that class thanks to liking the subject material and the teacher.

I find myself failing to like a lot of the students though because they're either in the "omg I got into this because I like this one such and such animal and know all about them but not jack shit about anything else" or they just dun give a flip to begin with and wanted a class that didn't seem hard. I mean, having a favorite animal and all is great, in all honesty I started getting interested in Marine Biology around the time I learned to read really well because of one type of animal, killer whales. I didn't stick with that because a lot of other animals are neat in their own ways, but it was what got me started. Argggh, I dunno, maybe I'm just a geek.

I think I got more annoyed with those girls because they're just kind of skating by and not bothering to explore anything else really. Like they did a project for one class that involved an essay and a speech and presentation and all this shit and did really, -really- well on it. Well, instead of like, trying something new, for the past year or so they've just been using that same presentation over and over for various things and I'm like "wtf? do you not want to learn anything new because it interferes with boyfriend time or something?"

I have made some friends in it though. One of them is Terri and she is awesome! She's been to New Zealand and studied with our prof as his intern and all this cool stuff! @_@ Plus she's a nice person and helps out with the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network and such. I like hanging out with her, we talk about all sorts of random things or make comments about the class and how Dr. Wursig is never going to let us live anything down simply because he knows who we are.

Anyway well, I've rambled on enough. Hopefully on Thursday I will be able to goof off and be a dork, and then on Friday it's looking like I'll be going to Rennfaire again and carting a bunch of newbies with me. Jeezy creezy that's going to be freaky. I mean, one of them is like, a teacher. Even though she really can't do anything to me it strikes me as weird and has me thinking "Okie.. what can I NOT tell them so as to not scare them off?" Crazyness.

Currently Playing Kill Bill: Volume 1 By Various Artists see related

I hate tests.  No, more specifically, I hate TAKING tests.  I'm in midterms this week, and so far I think I've done.. decent on the exams.  I haven't gotten everything right, but I haven't failed spectacularly either.  I suppose that's to be expected with the first test. 

But on the whole, I hate test days.  I always get really nervous and anxious the night before, and as a result either review things like mad or totally blow it off altogether.  A bad habit yes, but I can't help it.  Tests make me bloody spastic.  And when the day of the test is actually upon me, I'll get up as soon as my alarm goes off, either get there early or late, feeling like I've got a bad case of indigestion and desiring anything I can find to cling to or gnaw on.  Just as long as it keeps me occupied. 

As for paying attention to the classes before the test? Pbbt, forget it.  I'm too busy looking at the class of doom with that exam.  So in short I guess all I'm really trying to say is that tests have to be some sort of maniacal scheme to cause nervous breakdowns.  Because frankly every time I have on my nerves are shot.  And I have two more to study for this week too.. yippee.

*twitches*

Currently Playing Rainbow Ayumi Hamasaki 5. WE WISH see related

The gods of coincidence have way too much fun playing with me. Today has been one of those days you were thinking was going to start off crappy, and for the most part, did. The water got turned off this morning due to plumbers working on the apartment pipes, so of course, there goes a shower to start off the day feeling 'simple and clean.' Haha, bad pun, I know. Next is I get called into work.. and spend almost 2 hours running around 3 different buildings on campus to get my Work Study with school straightened out so I can, ya know, afford to pay my rent and buy food. 10 hours a week at $5.15 an hour do not a rent check make, that they do not. I was good and frustrated by this point, cursing enough to make a few sailors feel embarassed, and generally feeling unpleasant by this point. I hate getting the runaround when it comes to issues like this.

So where is the good part of this day, you may ask? Well, as I was waiting to get my work issue resolved, I decided to stop by the Fiscal Office to check on my refund check. I usually get one of these every semester, and they're a nice bit of extra income for things like books or emergencies. Since I missed about a week and a half of work this month, money has been a bit tight. I signed for them.. looked over....

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..... I am now $2,178.60 richer. I did a little dance. Alright, several little dances. I've already got plans made for what I'm going to do with a good bit of the money (savings, woo!), but there are other things I missed doing last year that are suddenly in my power again. Like fixing my car. Paying off Athena (still owe 65 dollars for that dang spaying). Christmas, for god's sake, frickin' Christmas presents. Anime and manga up the wazoo is planned in there somewhere. Don't worry, I haven't gotten so boring I don't know how to properly spend money. XP I just tend to think bills first these days. @_@;;;

Classes are shaping up good. My classes are the following:

Introduction to Psychology
Biology of the Marine Mammal
Technical Writing
Biostatistics
Health and Fitness

14 hours, two degree classes. Should be vury interesting. ^.^

In other news, the visitage of my huge family both did and did not go well.  On the one hand it was fantastic, because I got to see a lot of family I haven't seen since about... oh, Easter of my Senior year in high school.  Being a Junior in college this year well, yeah, the time span's a bit long, isn't it?  On the downside, I had to put up with my stupid uncle and his kids.  Particularly his son.  I can't stand that little kissup, really, I've tried since he was about 8 and used to practically yank my hair out of my head.

But when small boys think that deriding everyone around you, including your FATHER, and then kiss your ass is gonna get you to love them, there's a problem.  Like the fact you just well, put down my father.  I'm sorry, if you were to just discuss things with my dad like well, an adult, instead of telling him he's fucking wrong about something because you supposedly know better, it's not gonna get you loved.  It's gonna get your ass kicked.  Especially when you then declare me wrong, and the subject in general deals with my degree, as well as the area of the state I live in.  Yes, this actually happened. 

But other than that, and showing up my Uncle by letting him in on my secret that I do indeed know the difference between good liquor and bad liquor even though I'm not legal, the visit was good.  Got to do some fishing and had a lot of fun; the dolphins didn't come as close to the boat this year as I would have liked, but it was still great seeing them.

  I've also subsequently finished Gluhen, and managed to find bits of the manga that comes after it, Weiss Kreuz Side B.  I mainly went a looking for it because the ending of Gluhen had such an "Oh.. oh no you didn't!" type feel. 

I hope it gets licensed sooner or later, I'd like the DVDs, especially since the animation is so much nicer this time.  I plan on getting more Kenshin, Kare Kano, or starting X the next time I go anime shopping.  I'm kinda torn between that and getting a ton of manga I'm missing.  Decisions decisions..