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Another eye infection! ;_; I really should lay off the contacts but I do love me some good eyesight...

Also I got a 56/100 on that last Calc midterm. Yeah, I really did NOT do well at all. I'm going to study extra hard for the final and sleep early. Hopefully I won't get lower than a C ;_;. Why am I getting raped here when the classes shouldn't be that hard...

My stomach also hurts from period cramps.

Today's just a terrible day. On the plus side, I am getting my art groove back (what am I saying, that's not a good thing, it'll distract me from studying!!). I'm wrapping up a FrUK painting and finished two fanart/sketches for GG (that's Gorgeous Geek, Minh's story, here~: http://hohiho.wordpress.com/gorgeous-geek/)

sob

I did have lots of fun with presenting Plato's Symposium today, which is by far my favorite thing in HBC this quarter. Homos and love make for lots of fun (the rest of the class didn't seem too into it, eh).

<333 Jennifer's coming over tomorrow <333

you may be wondering why I'm posting at 5:30 in the morning

I finished my creative writing story

but I need to edit it

so I'm doing other schoolwork until I'm refreshed and can reread it

Minh has already read it over and I perceive a shitload of corrections to be made

I am pulling my first all-nighter of the quarter, the first all-nighter of my college life.

It helps that it's the story I've been dreaming about for centuries, so I don't mind writing it at all, but I do wish the characters were a little deeper than just archetypes. But whatever, the world is one I love to live in. This is a sacrifice of sleep I'm willing to make.

Good morning, everyone.

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afsdwethkjahkdsfjhsakj my teacher emailed all of us at 5:45, literally, to tell us that THERE'S NO CLASS TODAY so I can turn my shit in next week. What the hell did I just pull an all-nighter for?

On second thought, I've very relieved for the extra time to revamp the story, which does need a lot of corrections... I guess I can say I'm very lucky.

Kurt Kurt Kurt<333333

I just caught up on the latest episode of Glee and oh my gosh his voice~~

No one else can hold a candle to Kurt Hummel, ahh. I don't think that the show should spotlight him, though, I'm perfectly fine with the amount of screentime he's getting because he's such a strong, stable character that there isn't much point in following him around (he doesn't need character development the way the other characters do).

I skipped Chinese class today simply 'cause there was no homework due and I didn't feel like it. I've been using this online painter program called Sumo Painter, it's quite excellent actually. I really like it. Doesn't mean I don't need PS because Sumo is only good if I have a consistent internet connection, which I won't always have. Today was a strict no-work day because I felt like I needed the break (although it would've been more productive had I just slept all day, haha).

There's this manga that I read a while back called House of Beauties that I really liked. I think I'm going to try the mangaka's other works :). And speaking of manga, I finished three manhwa just yesterday and the day before (all relatively long ones, too), one of them at Rachel Lee's recommendation. They were H2O, You're So Cool, and He's Dedicated to Roses. Do not read He's Dedicated to Roses, it's completely terrible. H2O is bearable, and You're So Cool is awesome <3. You're So Cool and H2O may seem similar in plot, but I think the execution for You're So Cool was much better. Anyway, yeah, if I do have a recommendation, it would be for You're So Cool.

Oh, and I have a 10+ page story due Monday and I haven't even started the outline and it's going to be critiqued by the entire class and I am so screwed ;_; /sob

I'm contemplating just using my old stories, but they suck. And I'm super bad at writing from experience because I don't have any experience, so my descriptions of emotions and dialogue are going to be terrible. (Offscreen: "Someone needs to slap this bitch. Shut up and write!")

Oh, and Jennifer's staying over for Thanksgiving??? *_____* <3 I can't guarantee Chicago will have much more to do than South Bend, but I guess we can catch up and watch ~New Moon~ (someone show me how to add sparkly text c: ) And I guess you can show me how to color shit because I'm terrible at picking colors.

Nah, not really, I don't get depressed.

Not deeply depressed anyway.

Just the usual sense of ennui every college student is supposed to get, I think. (psst, ennui is my favorite word)

I'm usually a do, don't say kind of person (complaining feels good but is a useless waste of time) but since I'm striving to be more candid in my journal, I will be. I've been feeling like crap lately (probably due to lack of sleep... I'm usually optimistic and happy when I sleep enough). I haven't had the time to draw and when I do, all I draw are figures and people and faces and nothing that will really help me with illustration, like perspective and architecture and motion. I know all I have to do is practice, but then I subconsciously talk myself out of it and just go on drawing what I know how to and like to draw. If I really want to improve, I need to expand my horizons, like, now.

Anyone know of a good free painter program that I could download that works on Mac? I guess I'll see if I can acquire PS from someone :'<. And Gimp doesn't work for me, Mar.

Oh, and I didn't do too well on the Calc midterm today but hopefully partial credit will pull the grade up. I'm really frustrated at myself because I should've known how to do the problems, they weren't exactly hard. I was just so groggy I wasn't thinking straight. My essay's due in an hour, I should go work on that.

we all died in an atomic explosion. Well... at least it didn't hurt for very long. I was lucky to not be a survivor.

This has been the 3rd apocalyptic dream I've had ever. The first was the sun blowing up (it had much the same feeling), and the second was also a nuke, I think. I'm always in a high building looking through a window when it happens.

I'm fairly certain I'm less afraid of dying in a nuclear explosion than I am of dying a prolonged death of some terrible disease. I think the thing I'm most afraid of has to be crippling and chronic pain (I'm not a baby about paper cuts or knee scrapes, ha).

On that note, a midterm and an essay due tomorrow, hurray! And right after I'll need to start studying for finals and write a 20-page creative writing story due Monday.

Why is Achilles such a whiney homo douchebag?

It could've been better, I still fail at rolling backwards on my left side, and I was running on two hours of sleep, but...

THIS BOWL OF NOODLES IS REALLY ALL I NEED TO MAKE ANY SHIT THAT HAPPENED OKAY.



Om nom nom

Serious bookkeeping time.

I had my writing seminar today and I still don't know whether to think of my TA as an elitist prick, a tool, or someone who could invite very compelling discourse if the rest of us were only smart enough. He's overly cautious about what he says, making sure he's as concise as possible while being vague as to the direction he wants us to take our papers. I don't know.

Fell asleep in both Calculus and HBC today, I think I'll take the rest of the day off (after I study for Chinese quiz tomorrow, but I think my grade in that class is pretty secure).

/edit why is college no different than high school

//edit I've been reading a lot of Motomi Kyousuke manga. He's a guy but he writes very decent shoujo! (I really shouldn't be stereotyping, why is it so surprising when men write good female leads?) You can tell the types of girls he likes (they're all tomboyish tsunderes) but that's fine by me, because they're likable.

I got a care package today from home! Basically cold noodle sauce (yay! my old one is all moldy now, ew) and beef. I had a taste of the beef today and was in heaven

like

oh my god

why is my grandpa's cooking so amazing

mmm

here is a picture if you are wondering


It's just the perfect mix of spicy and salty and moist and oh god I could eat this forever. It took great restraint on my part to put it back in the fridge for later. I think I ate 1/4th of the package just today, it was so good.

My IKEA alarm didn't go off (it's manual, maybe I did something wrong) and my phone alarm didn't either because my phone's batteries are jacked up, so I overslept and missed all of math class today. Luckily my teacher is a sweetie and let me turn in my quiz in her office after class. I'm so lucky, ahh. I'm setting 3 alarms now, the 3rd one being the alarm on my computer (gives me good reason to keep my computer on all night, haha). The ringtone will be Beyonce's Single Ladies c:.

Also my rolls are improving in Aikido but I still can't roll backwards on my left side, my neck gets all twisted.

Oh god, Facebook is such a huge time sink. It's just, I've been going through this phase where I feel like I don't know anything about anyone and that just makes me sad and want to see what's going on with their lives. Namely the people I purport to know but really don't, like SciOly people and people in my high school group that I don't keep up with regularly, basically everyone but Jenn and Em. When Rachel (Lee) moved to Georgia in 12th grade, I promised to email her every day or every week or something. I haven't been keeping up with that very faithfully (I did at first but it got a little iffy because not enough interesting things were happening). I think it's because I'm sensitive about posting events that are personal to me, so the only things I can comment about are things that don't have shit to do with me, which are far and few in between because I am not a very observant person.

I bought two boxes of peppermint canes for $3! I'm happy xD. They are one of the things that make Christmas great. I don't think I know anyone else who likes them quite as much as I do. At least, not openly. Also, every store I've been to in the past few weeks have been Christmasy. Instead of Thanksgivingy. Strange, is Thanksgiving just not that big a festival to decorate for in-stores?

I reread Penguin Revolution, and am in love with Kimi ni Todoke and Crazy For You (by the same author). I've already elaborated on the stories too much to others to want to repeat myself here, so I won't, but you can find them all on mangafox. Maybe I should compile a list of all the manga I've ever read and start rating them... Aya Nakahara (author of Lovely Complex) ranks quite high on the list of authors I love (but Hiromu Arakawa (FMA) will forever be #1 because FMA was my childhood. She's followed closely by Naoki Urasawa (Monster, 20th century boys, Pluto)).

I should stop binging on manga, eheh. Been sleeping anywhere from 3-5 these past few days. Right. Jennifer called me in the middle of the night (3:30 am) on Friday or Saturday to tell me about Slender Man because she was terrified. Curiosity got the better of me so naturally I looked him up right after hanging up. Why did I do that? Luckily I was exhausted from sleep deprivation already, or I would've never gotten to sleep. Fucking creepy.

Also yesterday was the first production meeting for Waiting for Godot that I went to. Aileen (director) baked us bread! It was kind of bitter but I guess that's what the honey and olive oil was for xD. And it was very thoughtful of her. Also I don't think I like surrealism much, so I'm going to change my creative writing story idea. Originally I wanted to write something about a man who's down in the dumps and lost in his life, and he meets a lost little boy who just wants to get home, and he gets the boy home and realizes that he's at his old house and decides it's okay to start back at the beginning, but I didn't know how to write it so that it was non-pedo. I don't know, I may still write it. But I kind of want to write that time-travelling thing I dreamed about weeks ago, with the wife and her two husbands. It has more potential for relationship exploration, rather than self-exploration, and is less depressing.

I really should start doing homework on time, hm.

I am very happy that my math quiz got turned into a take-home test because I was ready to just fall asleep in the classroom (been sleeping at 3 or 4 every night for no good fucking reason. Ah, I'm pissed at myself). I also played SSBB (Brawl) and I really, really liked Melee a lot better. The gravity is so heavy in Brawl.

I'm pretty sure I aced my Chinese midterm, or damn near! <3 Hooray for the only class I don't have to make an effort in. I mean, yeah, I study, but I don't have to study that hard. Or force myself to concentrate.

Wednesday (November 11! ... does anyone here watch Darker than Black?) is Jim's birthday so I spent pretty much all of today with the rest of my college family shopping for his (and someone else's) gift. It was pretty fun, albeit tiring. We had Chinese steamed meat buns (bao zi) along the way, and they were delicious. We're also baking a huge cookie (reminds me of Mar xD). Tomorrow is pretty much gone because we're celebrating... maybe I should sleep early today, hmm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJTmhOzyEGw

Queen Rania of Jordan is amazing. Yes, this is very old news, but about an ongoing and modern problem, and she's such a convincing speaker and puts things so simply and honestly that I'm half in love (and half ashamed at myself for not even having defined values and goals in life). She's gorgeous, too, I can't believe she's 39 (and has 4 kids).

As I grow older the amount of people around me who proclaim "the world stinks, and I stink too but I'm not gonna do anything about it" just increases and increases. I'm beginning to think that everyone has pretty much the same thoughts (the first time I thought that, I thought I was somehow unique in thinking this. Pretty egocentric, right?), only some choose not to express it. They think they're more aware of things than the people around them when that's usually not the case.

I don't know. I don't know what the "right" thing to do is, not personally, not socially. I saw four homeless people begging for money on the streets of Chicago today and did not donate anything. My justification for this is that I wouldn't be giving them my own money, but my parents' money... and I'm also a poor student trying to spend as little as possible. My policy is to be stingy when it comes to unnecessary things for myself (like a new iPod), free when it comes to buying food I'd like to eat (I always indulge in my food cravings, because what's the point in denying yourself, unless it's unhealthy?), and generous when it comes to giving gifts for others. I've got this huge guilt mechanism when it comes to spending, which my mom always disagrees with; my mom's policy is, "Don't think about saving money by not spending it, think instead about earning money to make up for the money you spend."

I'd like to be happy. I think I can be pretty happy just being warm and fed and accepted. I don't care about being successful or known or number one or anything. Just be able to indulge in my small desires and be a good enough human being and role model. Living life with integrity doesn't mean living a righteous life where everyone can see. I'd be perfectly happy living an unremarkable life, as long as I respect others and respect myself. Being remembered or changing the world isn't so important (then again, I'm young and don't really believe I can die yet, so my thoughts may change). But my thoughts on the pointlessness of "success": Why leave something of yours behind for posterity when even the memory of you is going to disappear, given a long enough timeline? Yes, it's nice to have your kids, if you have any, be proud of you. It's nice to die with people who give a damn surrounding you. But the instant we die, we are all alone anyway, aren't we?

On that note, I believe I will be showering. Sorry for rambling, I just wrote as I thought, so if it's convoluted, well, this is my thought process, and it doesn't necessarily follow a logical progression.

PS: Jenn, I saw a dinosaur plushie today and thought of you :).

► Pick up to 10 OTPs.
► Describe them in less than 15 words.
► Have your flist guess the OTP.
► ???
► PROFIT.

IDK if you know what fandoms I'm in these should be pretty obvious? (hint: check out my dA?) ALSO I DO NOT BLAME ANYONE FOR NOT GETTING #7. It's Jezebelle/Jin from Gorgeous Geek, Minh's story :'<. It is an OTP of mine so I HAVE to have it here. Also I know some of these are over 15 words but that's okay.

Oh god I feel like I've forgotten so many but these are the mainstream ones (minus Gorgeous Geek but I just love it so much)

1. Sex bomb sex bomb Russia/America
2. I was ready to hug it out with him, but Phoenix/Edgeworth
3. I'll even give you my heart Elricest
4. I can handre it America/Liet
5. Stupid dreck
6. My name's not "Bud"!
7. So, should I wear the "I'm taken" ones, or the "I'm available but don't let my boyfriend find out" ones? Fi/Jin
8. Turn the table as I change the lightbulb PoLiet
9. Do you know why I chose him to be my partner? To avoid fighting him myself.
10. That's a declaration of war, isn't it

Three of these are from games, the rest are anime/manga

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY <333!

There were lots of people in costume on the subway when we were going downtown, but I wasn't one of 'em. Too poor and lazy to waste money on a costume that I'm only gonna wear once. Yup. We went to a Korean Restaurant, though, that was yummy. Although my stomach hurt on the way back. Moving on.

So, today. Work, work, work, then chilling with my college family. Today was pretty fun, especially the picture taking and teasing in the restaurant. It's Maggie's birthday on Monday, so we celebrated it today. We got her ear muffs and gloves and cheesecake. Reminds me of Ms. Massoudi. Ahh, I should visit Portola. And NoHo. I feel old now, haha.

I created my CRWR characters on a whim but they're starting to grow on me. They're basically Ariadne and the Minotaur kind of... revamped and put in an alternate universe Greece. I mean. The Minotaur is not a monster (not in the physical sense, anyway) and Ariadne is no longer a princess, but a street urchin who lives off of thievery. I don't know. They're getting clearer in my head, at least. I have no idea how I thought of the idea... I just hope their story will fit well into a short story.

I spent the last two hours frosting the cookies this girl in my dorm (CJ) baked. Yum <3. I kind of buttered them with a knife but no one pays attention to the designs, right? Not at two in the morning, hopefully not. Oh, it's daylight savings, huh? I guess that makes it one in the morning. Time to sleep.

I took a survey today that was basically about how time and control over life and money affect happiness (I hope it wasn't one of those tricky psych experiments that seem to be about one thing and are really about another... there were some random ass questions), and got $10 and a free mug! I'm happy.

Got sidetracked by a guy who wanted us to see a lecturer who'll talk about communism and how we don't know what we think we know about it. It seems interesting, I think I'm going to go.

I... got a C on my Humanities essay. I'm pissed off, mostly at myself, for doing it last minute and for ignoring some very obvious errors I made in it, and for getting the bitchy grader (the teacher grades easier than the TA does, and I got the TA, who is a sarcastic elitist guy). If this were high school I'd be freaking out but I'm a more mature person now, right? A C's not the end of the world. I'll just have to stop slacking off and try harder because I know I can write better than this.

Speaking of slacking off. I'm currently watching a cute Korean drama called 18 vs 29, about a woman who is about to divorce her husband but instead gets into a car crash that results in amnesia (of course). Hilarity ensues as the husband tries to win her back. Also Super Junior's ShiWon is in it <333. I actually got into it because of Park Min Ji (she's so cute!), but neither of them are the leads, haha. They play the leads when they're young and still in high school, but the actual leads are like, 30. It's still a pretty good drama though.

Maybe I'll minor in East Asian Languages after all. I like all three, and I certainly don't mind studying for languages at all. I still have no idea what I want for a major though, neither Econ nor Bio really appeals to me. And I realize that I can't be in anything English-y after all because I'm pretty lazy with analysis. And my art is mediocre. Don't comment on this, I'm not fishing, just... I'm having major art/writer's block right now, so it's a little depressing. When rating my happiness today, I gave it a 5/10. I mean, I'm never sad, but I'm also never happy. Hm. I think I'm mostly frustrated that I'm ignorant and also too lazy to consistently do something about it. Like, when the people in Model UN were doing impromptu speeches, I was too chicken to volunteer to try out and instead sat there watching everyone else do it. Some failed, but they still tried; I didn't even try because I knew I wouldn't do well, because I have no social skills. I came to college for an education, right? So stop watching dramas and get your lazy ass moving already, dammit. :< *ruffles hair in frustration*

I MEAN IT. DON'T.



okay




GODDAMMIT I HATE PERIODS. HATE. WITH A BURNING PASSION.

This is the SECOND time I've felt this shitty in my LIFE. The first time was also during my period, what a coincidence. Anyway, right after class I felt so nauseous I threw up, and couldn't quite make it back to my dorm before I had to throw up again (did it in a nearby trashcan... whew), and then threw up again in my dorm bathroom. And then I curled up in my bed and wanted to die, my stomach (not really stomach, I dunno what it's called, it's a little lower) was aching and burning and I made a few pregnancy-delivery sounds before realizing that I should probably take some painkillers. Popped in two Advil and kept curled up in fetal position until the pain started slowly, slowly, to subside. Then I fell asleep and two of my (adopted) "brothers" came to check up on me and gave me the Common Cold plushie. Aww. Thanks for missing most of the action, guys, I would've been so very embarrassed. God. Now I'm wondering about those BC pills (do they really work, because I'm not going with the other option which is supposedly having sex). How do you live with pain this bad during periods? Mine are normally bearable but today's just flared up because of a little walking. Fuck.


Add to that the fact that I still have an eye infection (it's going away! But now my eyesight is shot to hell and I need to make an appointment with the SCC to see if they have an optometrist I can go see about glasses... because I don't want to risk putting on my contacts again).

And I have a fever and a cold. But those are a little better too. I'm mostly ;____; about my period, ehh.

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JENNIFER I GOT YOUR SWEATER IT'S SO CUTE <3333 THANK YOUUUUUUU

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Oh my god it's so warm and it's maroon so it matches my school color <3<3<3 ilu


Also period cramps are going away so I'm happy.

Whew.

Wheeeeew.

God I've developed a callus drawing so much.

But it's done. It's DONE.



... episode 1 drawings at least ;;. I may do more for later stuff, but it won't be at the breakneck speed I did this one. 81 images in the span of 1 week. During midterms. Minh is goddamn lucky I love her or I wouldn't have done this. Well, add to that the fact that I love the story, haha.

Speaking of midterms, I did okay on math and excellent on Chinese. I don't have my math score back yet but I missed 1 and a half problems out of 7... so I have no idea if that's good or bad. I felt pretty bad after the test, but I got over it.

I rewarded myself with a super spicy ramen after finishing the art, haha. Been sleeping at 3-4 am every day to draw.

Not in the morning, though. I wanted to skip Chinese (we didn't do much) just so I could sleep more, but I convinced myself to get up and walk. I didn't eat breakfast because it was too late. Anyways, I came back and was like, "What a waste of a class" and promptly fell asleep again (after eating brunch).

I studied math. Drew some pictures for Minh's script because honestly, illustrating this thing has become an addiction for me. I'd be like, "Just fifteen more minutes, just one more picture," and end up wasting an hour xD. Well, I wouldn't really call it wasting, but.

I went to the math problem session at 5 and stayed till the very end. It pleases me that I understood every step the teacher did on the board.

MUN was another waste of time because I had no idea what was going on xD.

Then I stayed in the library and studied more math. I'll be home free tomorrow after the midterm xD. And finish illustrating the rest of the pics, yay!

Okay.

It's ironic that the only day I stayed awake all the way through Calculus is the day I got 3 hours of sleep (for previous classes I got at least 7). It's like sleep deprivation keeps me awake or something. Weird.

Finished my essay last night pretty early, but then I sent it to Minh to critique and she ripped it apart xD. It's a good thing too, because of how contradictory and wishy-washy the thing I wrote before was. I hope I get a good grade. It's not a spectacular essay, nor an original one, but I don't think it's worse than a B.

Speaking of Minh always leads back to her story Gorgeous Geek. I'm completely floored by how amazing this shit is. It's like heroin, seriously. As soon as she updates a chapter, I have to read it immediately, dropping whatever work I have to do on the spot. Honestly, I'm completely honored to be illustrating a part of such a great story. The characters are memorable and deep, the situations realistic but highly entertaining, the lessons learned emotional and brilliant. For me, being friends with Minh is like being friends with Jennifer in that I'm constantly thinking, "How is this person so awesome?" There have been so many jawdropping "are you serious" moments in the series that I can't even remember them all.

READ IT: http://hohiho.wordpress.com/gorgeous-geek/

Oh, and there are cameos from her other story, Sweet Hearts, in GG, so reading SH first will up the awesomeness factor in GG, but isn't necessary. SH is a lot of fanservice and minimal plot, unlike GG which is almost all plot, so it's more difficult to get through... but they're both good stories.

All SH chapters are up here: http://hohiho.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/all-the-sweet-heart-chapters-in-one-post/

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Math exam is Thursday. *scurries off to study*

*vows to self* I will NOT skip Aikido today! Discipline!

I hope I don't run out of printer ink.

Today I mostly tried to write my essay (due Tuesday, fun). I finished two impromptu character sketches for Creative Writing tomorrow. They're kind of cliche and terrible but the character ideas are fun and I want to expand on them. Did no drawing today because I wanted to try to work.

My mom called me to tell me to concentrate on Calculus, which I haven't even touched yet. I'm still banking on the fact that the midterm is Thusday... three days is enough time to study! Ah ha ha... who am I kidding? I spend half the night on homework, I don't have time to study! Why did I waste all of yesterday again? Right... Brotherhood. Damn you Hiromu Arakawa for being irresistable!

Short entry because I'm getting right back to essay writing.

Long titles are apparently my forte.

Anyways. Today. I woke up at 11ish, ate noodles while illustrating things for Minh's script (I'm now on the 18th frame! Seriously, guys, when this shit hits youtube you all have to watch *_*. I'm excited). This project is almost but not quite as intense as making that Hetalia doujinshi was. I mean, this is more on the level of a MAD. No panelling, no shading. I don't know. I'm kind of proud of it nonetheless. The finished thing will probably be about 50 frames? I guess. I'm about a quarter done.

Skipping Aikido tomorrow (because I'd have to wake at 10) sounds very tempting right about now. But I need to start keeping my commitments and grow a pair. Like, seriously. What is so hard about waking up and going to a one-hour session? It's not even a waste of my morning because I'd be drawing all morning anyway.

Lots of homework, still, but I'm still procrastinating. I have an essay due Tuesday and of course I haven't even started writing. This feels like high school all over again.

So, today. Other than art, I got no homework done because I was busy marathoning Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (for the uninformed, the true-to-manga anime adaption of FMA). Four things can be said about what I think of it. 1) I love Ed more than I love Al in this series, while for the original anime it was the opposite. 2) Ling. Oh my god Ling. The animation for all the Ling fight scenes is bloody gorgeous. 3) Roy Mustang is a heck of a lot more badass. 4) Envy has gotten funnier and less psycho, plus he's voiced by Detective fucking Conan. Awesome. I mean, he's still gross as heck when he reveals his true form, but I like him better.

Nothing beats out the manga but honestly, I'm not complaining. Crazy animation, crazy lighting, crazy voice acting, what else can I ask for? I will say that the "original" anime series has a better OST, but Brotherhood made me cry more than once within the first half (Hughes always gets to me), so I'm not going to even try comparing the two. Hiromu Arakawa is my hero.

aka I am a complete elitist writing snob

Our TA is kind of dry and sarcastic and talks to us like we'll probably write mediocre essays. He backtracks on every statement he says; for instance, he'll be like "a lot of students have done this," and then go "I'm not saying necessarily that you will, but I'm just putting it out there." An hour wasted, good job. I wish this weren't mandatory. I mean, I'm not the greatest writer in the world but everything he said I've already learned from Dr. Haut and Ordona. So.

My eye's much better (so it's not pink eye, just an infection, I guess). I'm trying to avoid touching it.

Lots of homework, and a Calculus "midterm" on Thursday (technically we have 2 midterms and 1 final, so they're more just big tests. Meanwhile I'm still trying to illustrate Minh's characters. Way to prioritize, me.

Today I had my Chinese test. I'm fairly certain I aced it (it's just memorizing words, and I don't need to worry about grammar because I'm bilingual).

We also had a girls' night out ("We" being me and the only other two [Asian] girls I hang out with), where we worked out at the gym (my first time working out! I feel accomplished, even if I kept cramping up. My legs will probably be sore tomorrow), then went to the coffee shop for food (I got a parfait but it sucked because the fruit was really sour).

Did laundry. Wondering if I'm doing something wrong because my clothes don't come out smelling fresh. I mean, they smell clean, but they're not really scented the way they are when my grandparents do laundry. Hm. Maybe it's just my detergent. Or the amount I'm using. I don't measure, I count seconds.

I signed on as Assistant Stage Designer for a minimalist Winter Quarter production, Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot (Yes, Jenn, Godot). Should be cool.

I'm definitely going to Aikido on Sunday to make up for missing out on it yesterday.

pink eye from rubbing my eyes so much. Stupid hands. It's become a bad habit.

I woke up today with my right eye stinging like hell. It's happened before so I thought it was my contacts, but when I took them off it still hurt, and my eye was all, well, pink. I went to class and could barely open my eyes to take notes because it hurt so much. After class, in the open air, it was better, but it still hurt. Now, at the end of the day, it still stings a bit but is much better after two naps.

I think I have a fever too, but nothing is certain. Don't have a thermometer or anything and my hands are always cold anyways. I'm guessing I do because the bridge between my nose and head feels pretty fuzzy, the way it does when I have a fever. I'm kinda sniffly too.

If it weren't for that, today should be a good day because I got my Calculus quiz back and it was 8/10. I have no idea how I managed that without really knowing the material. I officially love my teacher now, not because of my grade, but because she's super nice during her office hours (she's just a grad student, I think, but she's not stuffy at all and is willing to explain the smallest thing). It doesn't mean I'll be able to stay awake in Calc, though.

I had a strange dream where FMA met Hetalia. Chibitalia and HRE were prominent for some reason. They were all in high school or something and Chibitalia is trying to convince everyone that he has a super-celebrity relative or something (Grandpa Rome!), and I don't even know why FMA characters were there. Probably because I'm finally starting to watch Brotherhood. I didn't like the animation as much as the old one before, but now I realize that it's smoother (Ed's hair is so flowy! More so than the original. I thought outlining his hair with a lighter color rather than darker color was weird, but I'm used to it now).

Speaking of FMA meets Hetalia: there totally has to be a story where alter!Ed and alter!Al (from the end of the first series) meet Germany. Has to. I will write it myself if I can't find it. Maybe. If I have the time and patience to research the going-ons during Nazi Germany.

For some reason I always thought of the Ishvalans as Muslims rather than Jews ;;. I mean, it's totally obvious now that they're based on the Jews (in the first season anyhow). I guess the desert just threw me off. I'm still blown away by how deep this anime/manga is. And that I discovered it in 8th grade. I mean, something has changed. Now it's much less about the fo yay and the brotherly love (the brotherly love is important too, but) and more about the overarching story. This story is a fucking masterpiece is what it is.

Jeremy (the guitarist I talked about in an earlier post) is downstairs playing guitar again <3. ... I think he's playing Umbrella. Or maybe I'm just ignorant when it comes to guitar music. Either way, it sounds nice. Funny that I know his name and can praise him like this, but have never spoken a word to him.

Chinese quiz tomorrow! Studying.

PS: Stupid eye, I missed Aikido today because of you!