Anime Con >^.^<, 19th B-day, and Sickness :-(

The anime con was freaking awesome! Diamond spoiled me way too much. (yeah yeah... I know it was my first con and 19th birthday.)I have 4... well 5 actually anime hats. 3 are homemade. There is a Wolf's Rain one, a kitty one, and a kilala one. The other is a reversible hat from Fruits Basket. I also have a kick ass Sess bag. Unfortunately, I got sick on Sunday, felt bad on Monday, and I couldn't go to school today. (It was that bad... lets just leave it at that) I still feel sick now. As soon as D-dog cleans off the bottom bunk, I'm going to go sleep. Still waiting... Anyways... more about the con... There was stuff going on 24/7 for 3 days straight. Artist's Alley, Anime Video rooms, panels, karaoke, live bands, game room, DJ's, cosplay, voice actors (Zelgadas was there! and I have his signature), and more. Well, Diamond is done. More later. Night.

PS... Pixy and Catacarta make such a cute couple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (More on that later)

Friends and Taxes...

Yay... thanks to help from D-dog and Turbo Tax, my state and federal taxes are all done. >^.^< Now, all I need to do is mail em out and do my local taxes. (This was the first time I ever had to really file anything. Last year was a breeze since I wasn't working yet.) *yawn* Time for bed now. *sigh* Tomorrow is my last day of spring break (w/o work.) The week has gone by way too fast.

Oh yeah, almost forgot... yesterday, Na`na` and I hung out together, ate ice cream, and went to the movies and today Meg, Daemon, and I went out to the mall, played DDR, ate, and went shopping. I had I moment of weakness in one the stores and bought (and bartered for it too!) something that I love... and I'm sure D-dog will like it too. I keep taunting him with it... hehe... he won't know until tomorrow what it is. Anyways... it's really time for bed. Night.

YAY! D-dog has a blog! and other assorted updates...

>^.^< D-dog now has blog. (You can find the link under "pathways to my friends")

Anyways, today might be the day I drop a class. I'm meeting with my advisor at 10AM today to discuss it. I'm not looking forward to it, but something needs to be done. *sigh* I hate failing... Maybe I'm just over reacting and it isn't as bad as I make it sound... maybe....

I reminded my family (Dad and D-dog) yesterday that spring break is next week. Both of them looked at me with blank faces... figures... I guess I should have reminded then more, but I thought if I told them well in advance (I told them a month or so ago) that they could take off a couple days and we could do something. I guess I can alsways pick up extra shifts at work... what a fun spring break for me. At least I won't have school to deal with.

*holds stomach and curls up* Ugh... I don't feel too good today. I slept through my alarm (either that or it just stopped going off) and was late to Physics. Now I feel sick. *sneezes* Oh, great... the fun just keeps getting better and better...

Dad's 40th and Mass

Well, in ya'll didn't know, the 28th was Dad's 40th birthday. (OOooo... big 4-0) Anyways, we went to the Los 3 Amigos to celebrate and Mimi and I got my Dad the exact same card. Lol... The card had like 10 different ways to say someone's turning 40 on the front and inside it says something like "I'd go on, but you probably want to kill me by now. Happy Birthday" It was a good birthday and Dad definitely does NOT look his age.

Yesterday was Ash Wednesday. I don't know it everyone knows, but I attend a catholic college. I'm not Catholic, or any denomination for that matter, but one my friends invited me to mass. So yesterday was my first time as mass... ever. It was extrememly crowded, but the service wasn't bad at all. I had my friend Anne right next to me so that I ask her about anything that I didn't understand. Oh, and I even talked D-dog into coming with me too. >^.^< I'm also thinking about participating in Lent this year. So far I haven't had any red meat or chocolate... so I'm thinking about giving up one or both.

Johari and Nohari

I don't think my "quiz thing" has attracted a lot of interest. Therefore, I am making a separate post and repost the link the the Johari Window. In addition, I am posting a link to my Nohari Window. In case you unfamilar with these terms (like I was, up until just a while ago) Johari is a collection of positive personality traits and Nohari is a collection of negative personality traits. Please be honest. If you can't be honest, don't bother doing it. Thank you.

Johari Window Link (positive personality traits)

http://kevan.org/johari?name=Lynne+Skysong

Nohari Window Link (negative personality traits)

http://kevan.org/nohari?name=LynneSkysong

STRESS! and Quiz thing

I just got done with back to back Calc II and Physics exams. In case you don't know, these are my hardest classes, and the exams always come back to back. I've come to a deciosion. Unless I do better on both exams (compared to the previous exam) I am going to drop the class with the lowest exam grade. I'm not very optimistic about the scores either and I'm not sure which I screwed up more... all that's left now is to wait. The only upside to this is that when/if I drop a class, it won't effect my GPA and I'll still be a full time student (that way I can keep my scholarships). Oh, and then I can concentrate on one hard class and do better.

Today in general has just sucked. On the upside, D-dog comes home earlier on Wednesdays and we're going to Sess's for dinner. (It'll be the first time for me to see her new place) I hope I get to see Na`na` too...

Oh, I saw this quiz thingy on Cora's blog so I thought I'd have a go at it. Maybe we can both learn something from it. It's about what I think of me and what you think of me. Enjoy.

http://kevan.org/johari?name=Lynne+Skysong

V-day and Rusty

V-day was a blast... well, actually it was the ides of February to be exact, but whose cares? D-dog wrote out about 10 poems and hid them all around the house. Each poem was a riddle that I had to solve to get to next. And each poem was in a plastic heart with something like "I love you" or "Sweetheart" on it. And there were little gifts next to some of the clues. All together I got some 100 Grand fun size bars, 9 packs of gums, fake/real looking roses (there won't die on me!), a card, and an extra dark Hersey's chocolate bar. Plus, he took me out to eat. We went to Thai 9 at first, but they're closed from 2:30 to 5 for some unknown reason, so we grabbed some chicken from KFC. Hehe. I have the sweetest boyfriend.

Yesterday wasn't so much fun. I went through the day, and had two exams, thinking in the back of my head that Rusty (my German Shepard) was going to be put to sleep. I got home soon enough so that I could go to the vet with my dad and D-dog ended showing up at the last minute. As it turns out, Rusty has really bad allergies, which a causing a bad ear infection and skin problems. So now he's on two antibiotics and I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Okay, g2g. Exam and homework... you know how it is....

Grr... what is it already!!!

D-dog has this V-day surprise for me.... the only problem was that Mimi, Papa, and Dad all got home early yesterday, so now I have to wait til later today to find out what he's ploting. I hate not knowing what he's up to, but even more, I hate the delay. Grr. Anyways, more on this later.

*sigh* Currently I'm typing up my Exam paper from philosophy. 2-3 pg on the meaning of life by critiquing Nagel's and Socrate's point of view and including my own and 1-2 on Tronto's political theory. And I have a Chem exam tomorrow... *sigh* Back to work.

Sick and and Tired....

of being sick and tired... (Sick and tired= ugh... don't make me go into all... that's just TMI for ya'll)

I went to bed sick, woke up sick, crawled to physics class sick (I was so slow that I was a couple minutes late), took a nap in the commuter lounge sick, forced myself to eat while sick, and now typing while sick... well, that's my day so far. I have going to Calc and lab while sick to look forward too and getting broken by the chrio while sick too. Then its homework and random crap while sick. I haven't felt right since 2005, I'm sick and tired of this sick shit.

Okay, I'm done bitching.... about being sick anyways. D-Dog has jury duty today. I hope that he doesn't get caught in the justice net and forced to serve for months... It makes me glad that I never got around to registering to vote. *sips dew and prays for the end of the school day*

Thank you D-Dog for putting up with me. I've been a bitch lately. I don't mean too, I feel like shit. And ty for the foot and neck rubs too! >^.^< Best of luck to you and getting out jury duty.

Flashdrive Found!

Yay! I'm so happy. Today has actually been a good day... with the exception of the usual 8AM Physics class. When I checked my e-mail today, I had a message from UD saying that a flashdrive had been found back in January and their investigation led them to believe that it was mine. Hehe. So I went across compass... WAY across compass... To pick it up. It still works fine. The only difference is that part of the loop connector thingy has broken off... which is probably how I lost it in the first place. Anyways... Yahoo isn't cooperating today. Grr. Oh well...

Um... Update... I'm still sick. My nose is drippy and I feel like crap. (Partially from being sick... Partially from having a screwed up neck... partially from lack of sleep) *yawn and sniffs* Trig sub still sucks. I just don't get it. Imagine your worst math experience ever... then multiply it by like a goggle goplex.... yah... that's trig substitution...

Well, I better go. Lots of school crap to do... not to mention work tonight. *sigh*

Uncle Orson Revews Everything

Well, I was surfing the web for a bit today and ended up on a website I haven't been to for a couple months. www.hatrack.com So I went and checked on Orson's recent essays and found a good one from late last year. It's about how we need to exercise caution with modern medicine. I liked it, maybe you will to.

http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2005-12-25.shtml

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I love Katamari Damacy... I'm so glad that I'm not alone. >^.^<
Below is an excert from Orson's Yours, Mine, and Aeon Flux; Videogames posted at hatrack.com

Another game I saw recently is called Katamari Damacy (Playstation), which has taken Japan by storm. When I describe it, it will sound so weird you'll wonder how it could be fun. But I promise, it is.

It reminds me of nothing so much as a great scene from Robert Stoddard's classic musical Giraffe Story, in which one of the characters says, "I had a terrible dream last night. I dreamed that somebody had cut me into little pieces, and I had to go around and pick them all up."

That's Katamari. What you do is you move through the world rolling things into an ever-larger ball. You start with little things -- scraps of paper, clips, pens. They simply stick to your katamari ball as you roll over them. You bounce off anything too big to pick up. But as the ball gets bigger, you can pick up bigger things. So if you move through a school, for instance, you start with scraps but end up rolling over (and picking up) desks, chairs, students.

The designer of Katamari, Keita Takahashi, made the game as a kind of parody of or rebellion against videogames. It feels far more like play than most videogames. Videogames, after all, are about solving the problems the designer has laid out for you. Essentially, the game trains you. And while Katamari has a bit of that, too, it mostly consists of garbage strewn about and it's your job to pick it all up.

It really is like a kind of nightmare -- only you're the monster.

Truth isn't just black and white....

it is a myraid of shades of grey.....

I've just been pondering what I've been reading in everyone's blogs... truth is... I don't know anymore. What is just to one is cowardice to another. What is fact to one is a lie to another. It's impossible to know anything for sure b/c no one has all the facts. Even if I had all the facts, and I can't be for sure that I would interpret them behind a viel of ignorance.

Update: I've been sick for over a week. Symptons: sore thoat, coughing, drowning in my own nasal discharge, tired, more coughing, headaches (probably from my neck though...)

On a lighter note, I sent out 4 copies of my NASA application yesterday to Cleveland for the NASA internship. I had to send it overnight express since UD's computer system was down last week and my transcipt request was late going through as a result. Wish me luck. >^.^<

My grades suck so far this semester.... C on my first Math exam, B- on my first Chemisty exam, and I'm still waiting for the results for my Physics exam. The sad thing is that I actually studied. -_- OH, and btw, I DON"T CARE WHAT COUNTS AS A GOOD GRADE FOR YOU. I worked my ass off studying, and didn't meet my own expectations, that the point. Also, it I don't keep my GPA about a 3.5, I lose money for college... meaning no more UD. So I don't want to hear it, okay?

*shakes head* -_-

I don't know what to say. I read everyone's blogs, but it has come to a point that on many I feel that I can't comment for fear of starting another uneeded arguement. So I don't say anything. I can't even hardly offer comfort to anyone for fear of being accused of taking sides. I don't know the full story, but it seems to me that many of ya'll are jumping at one another worse than starving wolves at a roast. But whatever... it's your freedom of speech. Use it as you will. I have nothing more to say on the subject.

Yay! One extra hour of sleep a week!

So, I was driving to school yesterday. I glanced at 75, it looked okay, and a got. Right after that, all I saw was red.... red brake lights. 103.9 X then announced that 75 was backed up (no shit.... was all I could think) So, I listened to Sess's Disturbed CD and crawled along to school. I arrived at the school 2 min. before 8AM. (My physics class STARTS at 8), parking, and ran to class. I arrived at the classroom at 8:05AM and looked around, bewildered. The lights were on, but nobody was there. The wasn't a sign saying that class was moved/canceled/or anything. So a slowly walked to the lounge (fyi: the lounge=the commuter lounge in KU). After searching for my class schedule on the net, I found out that I had misread my schedule. As it turns out, I don't have Physics on Tuesday! >^.^< Yay, more sleep for me. I wish I didn't I Physics on Mon or Fri though.... b/c then I wouldn't have class til noon. As it turns out, I have Chem at 9, so it's only an hour of extra sleep, but it's better than nothing.

Schlorships.... internships.... I'm looking for both. Feel free to help if you have any info. about either. I looking into interning at Wright Patt or in Cleveland w/ NASA. Those are the only two I have concrete info about. Hehe... I can't wait to leave my job... and it's not just about the money (although the avgerage pay is $14 per hour), the management sucks and now that the Christmas season is over, it isn't worth the money.

DDR!!!! >^.^< Since I have a 3 hour break three days a week at school I have had plenty of time to improve my DDR skills. Yesterday, I beat A on heavy (3rd time ever) and I have been working on double. 4 light is where I'm comfortable at, but I always play a standard 5 or 6 at my last song. Today I beat a 6 standard... but I can't remember which one now. Oh, btw, Freckles is a lot of fun on light for anyone doing doubles.

*takes drink of Dew* Mmmm.... the elixer of life.... and my lunch. At least my last class ends at 1 today instead of 7.

Happy New Year 2006

Yay. Happy New Years all! Have you made your new year's resolution yet? I haven't. I have a rough draft in my brain but nothing down on paper. I plan to type it out later if I ever finalize it. So... how did all of you fair yesterday? Nate and I went over to Steven's and watched lots of .Hack// and I even started playing the game... I played it for over an hour and I'm still at level one! There is so much crap to read and tutorial stuff to bear... but alas... it is an RPG game after all and each one is different. I was sick as hell yesterday before work. (Yes... Nate and I worked on New Year's Eve...lucky us...-_-) I payed homage to the porselain god and some other unmentionable things. I was better at work, but still weak and sick feeling. I managed to get through it. *listens to family bickering* *sigh* Some things never change... New Year's Eve for me was the most relaxing one I ever had. No family bickering. Just movies, games, and fun. Hehe. *smells* mmm... Dad and Mimi are making pork and sour craut. (It's tradition. We eat it every first of the year.) *see Papa try and get something out of the soda machine, but it was out. He stalks off and offer to help him, but he's too stubborn* grr... my family can be so irritatind. Anyways, I'm going to go check on Nate (he's sick... but it's not the exact same thing that I had) and help set up for dinner. Later all. (Get better soon Nate! >^.^< )