i shouldn't have logged onto AIM last night. or played around on facebook. because suddenly it was past midnight and i hadn't worked on my physiology or japanese homework. or studied for my usual japanese quiz.

about that, there will be a quiz every class. no joke. we had the second and final kanji quiz last class on chapter one. you know what today's quiz is about? vocabulary for chapter two. kill me now. i guess it's important to keep students engaged in the course content outside of the class, but this is insane. and assigning stuff on top of that is evil. (and if she says "isogashii kedo, ganbatte kudasai" one more time, i'm going to go posutaru.) but i still like the content, and it's dead easy for me so far. the hardest part is actually memorizing the freaking words. even writing the kanji has become easier, now that i have a basic familiarity with a lot of character radicals (the bits and pieces you can break each chinese character down into).

so i started both of those things at 12:30 last night. didn't finish until about 3:00. -_-

it's really a pity that my "easy" classes are in the morning. edpsych seems easy enough, but maybe it's because i have three years of university under my belt, and i know exactly what to expect and what to do for a class like this. as a result, i've become quite lazy. i've skipped three times so far. *diiiies* i've skipped ecology twice. for that class, the content is simpler to understand (because it's practical rather than conceptual), but there's still a lot of it. if i had a harder class in the morning, maybe i'd actually become more motivated to not skip. oh, who am i kidding, my early-morning zoology class last semester was hard and i still skipped that sometimes. >_>

even though i'm ready to drop dead from fatigue at any moment, i'm so glad i came this morning. my edpsych prof just went through each question on the upcoming test and told us which specific concept to study for each. O_O we're talking very specific. like what parts of the concept the question is asking about. i've never had anyone do that before. now i really have no excuse to do poorly. -_- i hope he does this for the midterm and final. >_>

i wish i could curl up somewhere and sleep for the next 45 minutes, but i need to study japanese. -_- a couple words i have to memorize are really out to lunch… why must i know how to say "travel agency" anyway? -_-

p.s. i added this blog's RSS feed to my facebook notes. i wonder if it'll automatically show up. guess i'll find out! :D *edits* yay! it did! now all the facebook freaks have no excuse not to stay updated. :D

i finally signed up for facebook. D:

the apocolypse is nigh.

i can't believe i'm blogging so much! i'm sure you can't either. YAY. :D it comes in spurts, so enjoy it while it lasts.

let's see… i finished my paper at about 2am. x_x i'm easily distracted. i ended up watching CSI and OMG I AM SO UPSET AND DISTURBED. the actual episode was pretty… dumb, actually. the investigations, i mean. especially for a season premiere. then the last ten minutes hit and OMG!!! >:O WHY DO MY FAVOURITE CHARACTERS ALWAYS HAVE TO SUFFER!? ;_;

immature ranting aside, i finished my physiology assignment this morning in half the time i thought i would. *_* and my calculations look very pretty. and i'm a mathematical genious because i figured out how to plot one of my lines nicely without figuring out the slope. >:D i just figured out the x- and y-intercepts. :D maybe that's how i was supposed to do it, but i find it horribly tedious to figure out the slope then plot several dots to wind up get approximate intercept values. and, yes, this is for animal physiology. it feels like a mathematical chemistry class rather than a zoology course, though. -_-

so with my spare time i got a head start on studying kanji. and, surprisingly, i have them all memorized, writing and all. i'm glad she doesn't test stroke order because that'd be cruel. i just need to check a few alternate readings and i'm all set. :D

once monday's over, i'll be so happy. i have another kanji quiz and an ed. psych. quiz. then i don't know what i have. probably another physiology assignment. bleh. there's one every week, pretty much. but still, the past week has been REALLY busy. and i work 32 hours (i was scheduled for 40). next week i'm scheduled for 32, but i convinced them to bring it down to 28. i still have to work five days, though, most of which are short shifts. but still… that's really annoying. it won't be so bad, though, since i'll have less homework/assignments/tests to study for.

i really have to pee, so i'm going to check some kanji, pee, then eat something. think i can do all that in the 18 minutes i have left before class? just watch me. >:D

first, a fun meme stolen from ami's LJ. (then, i drone on about random crap that i'm pretty sure only i care about.) what does this mean? it means i shall use the more feature for once in my life! :D

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because i had some free time tonight, i decided to do the unthinkable. i finished that story on cream lemon that was left hanging. we all forgot about it, myself included, and it was just begging to be put out of its misery. but cream lemon kind of died, right? wrong. jbeth sent me the database for me to play with a while ago, and i finally got around to converting it from b2 to the latest update of wordpress. it was rather painless, actually.

so, yeah, here it is. the new wordpressed cream lemon. ;D feel free to read my fun chapter (you DEFINITELY want to read the earlier chapters for it to refresh your memory, though, because even i forgot what it was all about). :D plus, i took the liberty of changing a few things. read the update post on there to find out what. >_>

anyway, bedtime for me. i work at 8:30am, which is a bit odd. usually it's 7am. o_o my cat's probably sleeping on my bed. i hate moving her because she doesn't like to stay once i'm in there. :( enjoy cream lemon. even you, hammy. the latest chapter has lots of poo. :) just for you! ohh rhyming.

just a quick post to let you know that i'm not dead or anything. but just about. i'm being consumed by school and work at an alarming rate. i can't get into the details right now because i'm going to try getting six hours of sleep tonight. so i have to go to bed right now. i was going to go to bed an hour ago, but i'm a little upset about being forced into having no life rather than me choosing not to have one (like normal). it's even gotten to the point this week where my high-priority shows (both on tv and online fansubbed anime) are being pushed into my cancerous backlog folder (yes, i'm actually downloading the tv shows i miss X_x). but i couldn't take it any longer, so i just stayed up for an hour watching nana while eating carrots. :)

and, uh, yeah, i'm really scared now because hachi's narration is really starting to creep me out, and for once i'm having a hard time not reading spoilers (but i shall resist). it's hard to believe the show is half over, which makes me kind of sad. if the first half has affected me this much, i can't wait to see how the rest unfolds. i just have this bad feeling that it's going to end in a huge tragedy, unlike yazawa ai's other stuff which tends to end on a happier note (though often bittersweet). i don't want to speculate, especially at this hour in the state i'm in. either nana dies and hachi's narration is her friggen EULOGY, or something bad happens to nana and she either abandons singing and/or life altogether. i can just tell. they're totally setting this up. things are finally going good for her. not to mention hachi's own character flaws prevent her from growing as a person without some major event to slap her in the face. but who knows. it could just be that new ending theme song, as much as it rocks, it's a bit darker than the last one (i really hope the lyrics are random and don't have anything to do with the plot). either way, i don't want to know if i'm right or wrong. i hope i'm wrong, but don't don't tell me if i am. definitely don't tell me if i'm right. x_x i love being surprised by this show; it's paced so cruelly perfect. seems like they give you a little shock every episode.

anyway, enough about that. bedtime. x_x

*dies* i just wasted more time taking an irresistable screenshot of nana flipping yasu the bird. i just remembered the scene and couldn't go to bed without taking a screenshot of it.

bedtime for real. x_x not sure when i'll get another chance to contact anyone… x_x

*uses x_x emoticon one more time*

some time while i was peacefully doing my japanese homework at my college, a gunman opened fire at dawson college in montreal, killing a woman before police shot him minutes later. even if you don't know about this, i'm not going to summarize the story; you can go to a news site, and it's prominently featured on most of them (including the american ones). i only just found out about it a couple hours ago as i turned on the tv to watch something while i folded laundry. i'm feeling a wide range of emotions right now. i almost broke down, even, after hearing a student talk about the pools of blood in and outside of her school. that could have happened here. that could have been my school. i could have been shot. i feel that security is sufficient at my school, and it's not really that big of a school to begin with, but still. i feel vulnerable and naive and upset.

let's see if i can do the unthinkable and summarize my super long post that i lost.

the evening of the 10th i watched a CBC documentary on the "hidden past" of 9/11, or something. i forget what it was even called. it was actually not what i expected it to be. i wasn't "conspiracy theory"-like at all, and i was expecting it to be. i don't think they even mentioned the patriot act. it was mostly information i knew already, but the way they presented it was really interesting: perfect for renewing people's anger and frustration surrounding 9/11, now that i think about it.

i mentioned this to hammy just now, but school is getting horribly busy. it's been exactly a week since the semester started and i already have an exam in a few days, homework due tomorrow that i haven't finished, an assignment on monday (that i will definitely need extra help finishing), an assignment on tuesday, and something else i can't really remember because it's just all too much too soon. during my two breaks tomorrow i'll do my japanese homework (thankfully japanese is my last class of the day). i need to relearn months and days. i forgot entirely, unlike days of the week. i have no idea how to say "april 4th" though. i remembered my days of the week, though! go me!! :D pretty easy to relearn, actually, and i love how the kanji are simple enough that i remember how to write them.

this is stating the obvious, but buying "real" food from 7-11 is not a good idea, especially late at night. i bought a chicken caesar pita because i was starving (i had very little to eat today), but it's not sitting very well with me right now. i'm kind of scared of going to bed because i may feel worse in the morning as a result.

my uncle george and i went to see who killed the electric car? at the princess theatre (to which i have not visited since i was very young, and that in itself was extremely nostalgic). i'm this close to being a full-blown environmental nutcase, all i need is to join greenpeace and start violently protesting at random (both of which i will probably never do). i'm so upset that electric car technology is more than available. it's pretty much perfected (and is better today than it originally was when GM decided to market their doomed electric car). there are so many barriers keeping it from becoming a reality, though, and it really does upset me. when the next step, plug-in hybrid cars, start coming out (or have they already?) i'll be very happy. a step in the right direction, that's for sure. fully electric would be the next logical step, but hopefully the government or anyone else (oil and car companies) won't hinder it like they already have. this whole hydrogen fuel thing is great and all, but it's not realistic. a million dollars to make one of these cars? forget that! -_- and the technology for hydrogen fuel cars is decades from being perfected, why are people making such a big deal about it when we have a clean alternative to gasoline right now?

anyway, whatever, i really recommend this movie. it's not some random ranty movie; it's got celebrities in it and everything. although mel gibson looks really freaky in it. o_o

i don't know if anyone knows this, but i have a secret interest in tarot cards… simply for my own entertainment. i take tarot cards as seriously as a horoscope in a newspaper: fun and interesting, but that's it. i kind of want to learn how to read tarot cards, but i don't really have the time or patience right now. :( maybe someday. in the mean time, i shall do this quiz that ami posted on her lj. :D (more…)

i just spent an HOURRRRRRRR writing an entry. and i just lost it to IE. i could have been STUDYING FOR A HUGE EXAM I HAVE ON FRIDAY. I REALLY HATE IE.

this is why i don't blog. -_-

happy birthday, vw. ;D it's been your birthday for 21 minutes, am i good or what?

actual blog content forthcoming… probably tomorrow while i'm between classes, like usual. >D