Suspense

I just watched episode 10 of Sora No Woto and...I'm not sure if I like where it may possibly be going, if my speculation is correct. FYI, this post is going to be containing SPOILERS, so if you haven't watched up to episode 10 of Sora No Woto and you don't want to know what's up, then don't read the rest of this paragraph. So...I'm really bummed that Rio left. She was my favorite character! I found the end to be sad, with her passing her trumpet to Kanata as Iliya had done to her. The question is why did Rio leave, after saying how she had ran and now she knew she couldn't stay in Seize and had to perform her duty? Well, I'm pretty sure it's because she's the princess of the country. This is due to many facts: first, Kanata kept connecting her face and facial expressions to that of Iliya. Second, the whole telling the story to Jacott about her life and how it was similar. Then there was her telling the story to Kanata when they were walking about how her half sister would come to visit her sometimes, and then flashbacks to Iliya. And I think the last was in the store when the shop owner and some guy were talking about how there was one more princess, but she was illegitimate and then Rio walked into the store. So I think that's all pretty good evidence to speculate that Rio is a princess, although an illegitimate one. Then there's what's worrying me. Kureha was telling Kanata about how Iliya was supposed to have been married to the prince of Rome so that there would be peace between the two nations (because apparently that's who they're currently at war with, and the Roman forces are starting to move after I'm assuming an unsuccessful treaty agreement) and that she would be his third wife. But then she ended up drying saving a child from a river. What I'm worried about is that Rio, since she was walking about how she has to fulfill her duty, is going to take on responsibility as the nation's princess and be married off to the Roman prince. Because that would bug me like crazy, Rio can't do that! She's too awesome to not be with all the girls, and definitely too awesome to be married off for peace and never to be seen again. I hope she returns, I really do. It's partly because she's my favorite character and I hate when my favorite character ends up leaving, and partly because the 1211th just isn't the same without her. Meanwhile, still waiting for episode 47 of Brotherhood to come out subbed. It's taking longer than normal, which sucks. Because this week is at least the beginning of the Pride battle, if I remember correctly. School is getting to me. So badly. And I feel it got to me even more last night. Why? Because for some reason I never bothered to delete my old roommate from my Facebook friends. There was some conversation in the news feed on one of her things, and apparently she pulled a 3.8GPA last semester. Her. The one who in one semester missed all of her classes at least 6 times, would go out four of seven nights to party and get wasted, then come back around 2 or 3 in the morning. I definitely didn't do that well. I sure as hell didn't do that well. But I'm not buying that she did better than me necessarily. I had two science classes. When she was my roommate she wasn't taking any. She's going for a BA in psychology. Psychology? Maybe with a BS, but you can't do shit with a BA. So I'm guessing she still hasn't taken any science courses. She's probably been doing all this easy shit that people with easy (meaning they don't require much science or math) majors do. That's the only way she could have done better than me. Meanwhile...I don't know if it's possible, but I'm going to do my hardest to raise my low B in Japanese to an A by the end of the semester. I need A's to raise my GPA, and 5 credits of A will definitely help. And I'm also going to try my hardest to get a B in at least one of my sciences. I'm pretty sure I can manage a B in physio, although that's if I get A's on the next two tests and don't completely suck ass in lab. Now, o-chem...if I can get an 88 in there, then I get an A. So...I'd have to get near perfect on the last two tests. My second test (which I just got back today and barely passed, although did get complete points for one of the A level questions) would get dropped, and then...you add about twenty points from the two theoretically good tests to my first test which I got a solid C on...then figure in the online quizzes...hmm, so maybe not. Maybe, but maybe not. I could definitely get a B with that though. I'll have to try to figure it out later. Speaking of that test, I could have done better if I had more time. I left three questions completely blank, so I lost 22 points with that alone, and then rushed on a couple to get an answer down, and only got partial credit. I think I'm going to try the quiz for chapter five right now, because I think we got through most of the stuff. And then...try to work on my case study hypotheses for physio lab. I have one, but I can't think of a second. And I'm not sure how long they're supposed to be, like a paragraph or just a sentence or two.

Posted on Mar 08 2010 by Amber + 0 Comments

O-chem...

I think...I'm going to take iaido over the summer. I'm sure my parents won't mind if I do, it's not too expensive. I need to get into martial arts, and I've always wanted to do something with sword. O-chem is bugging me now. I thought I'd do alright in it, until I had to start visualizing the structures. I did poorly first time on the chapter 9 quiz, but that was because we had only been working on chapter 9 stuff one day in class. And tonight I went through the quiz and I thought I found the two points that I had gotten correctly, and worked through to get a different answer for everything else. Well, I got another 2 points only. So I went through it yet again. Now I'm at three points. I only have two more tried left, I don't want to score lower. I just can't figure out what the hell I'm doing wrong.

Posted on Mar 01 2010 by Amber + 0 Comments

The horror of oral exams

Japanese oral went horribly. Everyone who was coming out of the room said they did horrible, although I don't know if that's actually true. The professors certainly made it intimidating enough. All of the desks were back against the wall, so it was pretty much a huge room with a table and chair in the front, the female professor on the side watching and the male professor sitting at the table giving the exam. I felt so prepared beforehand, or at least I didn't think I would stumble as much as I did. But how I did stumble. When I got in there and sat down I lost all my confidence, and my mind went almost completely blank. The professor didn't ask many questions, I was required to keep the conversation going for the most part, but after the basic introduction I kind of lost everything. I couldn't even remember how to ask what time they were going home, or what time they went to class. There was so much silence going on, and a couple questions that he did ask I completely guessed on the answers. He asked something about sleeping, but I'm not completely sure what, just understood nemasuka. The test ran longer than it was supposed to as well. Each person was supposed to take five minutes, it ended being around ten, I think I might have actually gone a bit over. How I do hate oral exams. Understanding stuff written down and answering it isn't normally a problem, but speaking it and having a conversation is difficult for me. If I didn't speak English my entire life I'd probably stumble a crapload when I tried to speak it (which sometimes I do because I get nervous speaking.) But on a good note, I only have one class tomorrow, and it's my late start day.

Posted on Mar 01 2010 by Amber + 0 Comments

Awesome weekend

Seriously, if I didn't have a test and oral exam tomorrow, and a hard super important test and practical on Wednesday, this weekend could have been enjoyed to the greatest extent. Yesterday started off a bit blah, because my parents ended up getting here an hour later than they expected, and then we ended up driving around the city for 45 minutes because my dad insisted on using the MapQuest directions he printed off, but we couldn't find the road we were looking for. Eventually my mom just went on the Freeway. And we got there a bit late, but eventually we made it to the Renaissance Festival, with enough time to walk back to the jousting arena for the fist joust. Our knight was cool, his colors were awesome. Although I couldn't get over the master of arm's horse. Last year it was a big beautiful black horse, but this year it was white. What I loved about it though was that whenever she was just kind of in place and not riding around, her horse would dance around. It was awesome. And then, unlike the other years, when the queen/king came out the horse bowed. After that we hurried our way back to the entrance, because I wanted to see the gypsy violinist. I felt bad because we were the only ones who were actually there the entire time listening to her and not just sitting there to eat lunch (although we were eating lunch, I had a broccoli cheese soup bread bowl). I actually ended up buying one of her CD's, I liked the music. And then there was a quick walk over to Three Guys and a Bunch of Drums. I'm pretty sure it was a new show this year, but if it wasn't I don't know why I've never gone to see it before. HILARIOUS. It was so funny, although they did some awesome stuff with the drums (and triangles) too. Then...it was walking around for a bit, buying a dragon candle and then back to jousting for the second joust. And we watched that, and then...I don't think we watched another show, just walked around some (went to look at the hawks in the cages), went to the petting zoo and then back to jousting. And then we went home. The weather was absolutely perfect. I was worried it was going to rain and my parents would wimp out, but it didn't. Until the last jousting it was cloudy all day and nice and cool, which was awesome. Even this time of the year it gets WAY to warm there with the sun out. And then last night my grandma shows me this thing in the paper for a Japanese Festival and my mom said we could go for a few hours. So today we went for a few hours to Matsuri. It was really cool, when we got there the taiko drummers were performing. I think my brother might end up taking classes. And strangely enough I had Japanese food for the first time. Curry! Chicken curry. It had an interesting taste to it, wasn't too bad. My mom hated it though when I gave her a try. And some type of dumpling which was good, and a Japanese soda. While we ate we listened to some band that did j-pop/anime themes. They were alright, although I'm not sure whether I should feel ashamed or proud that I could name all the songs that they played. I ended up recording "God Knows" since she started playing when we were about to go look around. Just lots of looking around, there was a lot of interesting stuff there. I found a flier for the iaido dojo up there, I'm going to see if I can take lessons over the summer. When we found a program for the festival I was bummed (and somewhat angry) that we had missed the kyudo demonstration (because my dad was being a butthead earlier and was trying to decide whether or not he wanted to go). And then I was even more bummed because one of the groups performing in it was the club on campus and I would have really liked to ask them for some information because I want to join but can't find any information on it. Saw a bunch of bonzai trees by the Bonzai Appreciation Society and I got a couple of bags (a Fruits Basket book bag with Kyo on the front and a FMA backpack with Ed on it. I wanted to get another book bag but they only had Al and Roy on the large FMA ones. Sadly we had to leave early, although the entire family said they didn't think it would be that interesting. I laughed though at all the cosplayers. Cosplaying is really something that you'd do at a festival, but I guess they saw this as something Japanese thus an opportunity to cosplay. It is past eight, and I haven't even started studying yet...I need to get at least another B on my Japanese pop culture test tomorrow, shouldn't be too hard (although I have yet to even look at the notes). And after that is over I must practice like crazy for my Japanese oral. I still have problems pronouncing ra, ri, ru, re and ro. It's supposed to be a mix of r, l and d. Easier said than done.

Posted on Feb 28 2010 by Amber + 0 Comments

WTF

I just totally wrote this huge rant in here and the stupid page backed up on its own, so I lost it all. I'm pissed now, more than I was. So quick summary: stupid bitch in Japanese, stupid Mexican bitch in physio lab, too much bone stuff to learn and I never will in time for the test. Shit, have a lot of o-chem stuff to do, and Japanese. Doesn't sound quite as good, but oh well. Maybe when I have more time I'll edit.

Posted on Feb 24 2010 by Amber + 0 Comments

Wow, I kind of feel like a good student

Seriously, I actually studied today. And it totally isn't the day before the test. Now, I really REALLY had to force myself, because I really don't like physio, but I somehow managed to get in about four hours worth of studying on physio alone today. And I actually understood what I was going over, which also means that in those lectures where I was still half asleep the information did actually make it to my brain, it just didn't register completely with my conscious self. Although I didn't get as far as I wanted. I wanted to get up through the notes before the axial skeleton, but I was one set short. Why? Because I got on to watch a couple episodes of Rosario + Vampire Capu2 and I ended up finishing the entire thing today. After I finished the first season yesterday. And so my notes have been left untouched for like the past five or so hours. But I did do all my Japanese homework that's due tomorrow, so I don't have to worry about rushing to finish that tomorrow. However, I didn't get to any o-chem. I wanted to work on the worksheet and then go over the quiz to see if I could find the answers I got wrong on my own and correct them, but that didn't happen. And I wanted to go in tomorrow to get help from the preceptor. I still could, but I'd probably look really stupid, because some of the problems I got wrong were probably easy, but I tried it before he had finished lecturing on all of chapter 4, thus I was missing some information. I also need to try chapter 9 quiz, probably tomorrow, even though we haven't gotten any info for chapter 9 yet. I know I'm going to need help from preceptors though, and if I wait until I get all the info it'll be too late to get help before the quizzes close. And then studying for my Japanese chapter 3 test on Thursday. I...I'm not sure about it, I really am getting things, but at my own pace. Seriously, if I had the money I'd just like go to Japan for a year and I'd probably get a decent hold of the language. That would actually be really cool to do, maybe I'll consider it once I'm fluent enough in the language I could survive without looking like some American idiot. Kay, late now. Need to go to bed very soon. And need to see if the guy who gets me stuff from Japan can get me Stereopony's CDs. But that shall wait, because I need to make a list of everything. I'd guess it's starting to get time of the year when yukata would probably be easier to find.

Posted on Feb 21 2010 by Amber + 0 Comments

The boredom!

So...BORED! I don't know how long it has been since I've been this bored!! I don't know what to do right now. I was good and did my Japanese stuff like way early. Okay, not way early, but last time I did it on Sunday afternoon, this time I did it Friday evening. I think that's a lot earlier. And then I've been playing Pokemon Yellow for a few hours tonight. I was wondering why the hell Sabrina's pokemon were all at level 50 when I didn't have a single one at level 40 yet, thus being unable to see how I was expected to beat her. Well, I then figured out after finally beating her (on the sixth try) that it's because I forgot to go to Fuchsia City first and fight Koga. Not my fault, they make Saffron City right next to Celadon, where I battled right before. But oh well, I have that MarshBadge. Now I need to go fight Koga for the SoulBadge, and then I'll try to remember where you get the Surf HM from and go for badge seven. And then after battling Sabrina I decided I needed to get a water pokemon up to a decent level. Last game I played, which was Blue a few months ago, I decided to evolve Eevee into Vaporeon, so my water pokemon was taken care of. However, this time I decided I might as well go for Flareon, because I already had Pikachu at a decent level (for the time at least) so I didn't need an electric, and I wanted to use Lapras this time as my water pokemon, so no water. But I already had Charmeleon in my group, but I decided I'd just keep working with him and Flareon (since it didn't know any fire attacks originally) and once I got Charizard I'd put it in my box and keep Flareon. I had dumped Nidoqueen earlier for Flareon. When I first started I caught both a male and female Nidoran, and evolved them both. Then I decided I wanted a Nidoqueen on my team, although I had an extra Moon Stone so I evolved Nidorino into Nidoking to increase my Pokedex. But then I couldn't see the point in Nidoqueen, because she's a poison/ground. She wasn't really overly powerful against anything I battle, and I already had Sandslash as ground (I decided I wanted to level up Sandshrew and evolve it into Sandslash and actually use it instead of just catching one later on. This is mostly because in Blue I had Diglett/Dugtrio on my main team almost the whole game and did it come in handy in tight spots.) However, I didn't know Lapras was only a level 15, so I've been going through the caves to try to get it to a decent level. The first cave I was in I was getting some Geodudes, which were easy KO's but then I started getting a crapload of Zubats, which were annoying me. So I went to Diglett Cave instead and so far I've gotten Lapras up to level 24. That's fine for now, I won't be using it in the next battle. What I need to do now is use Flareon more so it learns some more fire moves (right now it only knows one). But I will need Lapras stronger for Blaine and the VolcanoBadge. And for when I make it to Indigo Plateau I'm going to need Lapras to know at least one ice move, because Lance's dragons are a pushover with ice attacks. I taught it a psychic attack, although whether or not that comes in handy will be determined later. It's strong against fighting pokemon, which is what Bruno has. Okay...I think that was a bit too much talk about Pokemon. Well...I think everything would be better if subs for episode 7 of Dance in the Vampire Bund would come out already. I gave up about an hour ago and watched the raw. I can understand a little of it, but I need subs. I'm really curious as to what the fight was about, and if he agreed to something or decided to something. Other than that I've watched all my anime for the week, and read chapter 200 of xxxHOLiC. I think I'm going to let the chapters build up a bit before reading, because fifteen pages isn't much. I started and completely caught up last weekend in less than a day. What I could do right now if start studying for physio, because the test is going to be crazy hard and I need as much studying as I can. I have to know pretty much all 206 bones in the body more or less (not all of the ones in the head luckily) and then where they are inferiorally and superiorally to other bones. And then just the general make up of bones, how their made, the different hormones that make them up and cause bone re-absorption, all that stuff. But I just don't feel like studying for that right now, I hate studying for stuff like that at night. I could study my Japanese, because I have the chapter three test next Thursday, and then the oral is the week after. I always mess up during oral exams, because I tend to have trouble speaking. Of course, it's not like the writing is much better. Mostly because I feel the need to try and be a perfectionist when I can, because apparently handwriting is important in Japan (plus with some of the katakana if you write them slightly differently isn't a completely different sound. I mean real slight differences, like whether or not a line is more horizontally curved than vertically curved.) Although Japanese I sometimes feel like an idiot. I'm getting it slowly, I think that's how I am with every language I've tried to learn. But when they ask us questions in class a lot of the time I just sit there for a few moments trying to make sense of what was said and then answer. I know it, it just takes me a moment. I was supposed to have known all the verbs in the chapter last Friday. I did really poorly on that quiz. But I'm starting to learn them now, I've got down six or seven of them. Same with days of the week. I know two of them right now. But I must say, I love Japanese verbs. There's only three irregular verbs, apparently there is no different future tense, affirmative ones end with 'masu' (or 'ru', 'u' and a the three irregulars if you go by dictionary form) and then negative is 'masen'. Much easier than Italian, where the verbs, with so many bloody irregular ones and then even more of them having irregular future tenses than past tenses and all of that...yeah... One more thing. My grandma's bad luck with cars has struck again, this time much worse. Years ago, I think when I was a freshman in high school, she got in an accident with the van, which wasn't her fault (some idiot was going way over the speed limit in a residential area and didn't see the stop sign). She came out of that unscathed, along with my cousin who was with her. Then I think it was two years ago, she got in an accident with the PT Cruiser. I don't even remember how that happened. And then a few months after getting a new car she got in another accident (dog caused this one, ran in the road and a car in front of her swerved to not hit it, causing her to slam on brakes and the trunk behind her to run into the back of her car and smash in the trunk and back seat. This one left her and my cousin with some back problems and they were going to a chiropractor.) Well, apparently this morning she got in another one. She was in the way to pick up my baby cousin and she got in an accident. I don't know the exact details, my mom didn't give them to me, but it wasn't her fault again from what she described. The car that hit her made her car turn at least 90 degrees, towards the street my parents live on. She also hit a car that was in front of her after that one hit her I guess. So she was in the hospital with a neck brace on lying down, and my mom said she had a fractured something (wrist maybe?) and that they were going to do a cat scan to see if there was any internal bleeding. And then she called me later to tell me that they were going to release her but she ended up collapsing in the bathroom so she's staying in the hospital. Now I don't find this to be very good news, I'm really hoping she's alright. Her health isn't all too great to begin with, and I keep telling her she's putting too much stress on herself at her age with what she does (read raising my thirteen year old cousin [read doing everything for her because she's a little brat and can't do crap for herself, and whenever she doesn't get her way she acts like it's the end of the world] and taking care of my four year old cousin, who is a complete brat like her sister and demands constant attention, on the weekdays, and doing everything for my grandpa including bringing in the groceries because he's willing to shop for them but not bring them in the house. I've helped her when I'm home. They go through Mountain Dew like crazy, so he usually buys like six two liter bottles each time he goes to the store. Plus he tends to buy milk as well. So she, the woman in her later sixties with a bad back ends up carrying all that crap in, and then putting it away. I can do the entire thing in two or three trips, because I pack a crapload of bags onto both arms.) And I just off the phone with my mom, apparently she was almost across the intersection when the car hit her on the front passenger side, spinning her about twenty feet back. Good thing nobody was in the car with her, because they would have been a lot worse off, if even alive. Did I ever mention how I'm not talking to my other grandmother? Because I'm not. Actually, nobody is, my mom, dad or brother. I'm not completely sure why they're not talking to her (although I know part of it) but I'm not talking to her because 1) After he had to get her to bail him out of jail, my uncle that was living with her moved out, but kept sneaking back in to first steal all of the money from her giant money jars, which probably had a few hundred dollars in coins alone, not counting all the bills, then stealing various appliances including all the boxes for her TV's, and a bunch of her kitchen appliances. And then he stopped making payments on his truck, so they were garnishing her wages. And then he got kicked out of his apartment, so he was living in his car. And the dealership was going to go take it, but then he'd be living on the streets, so she decided to take him back in. She had already packed up pretty much everything from the house (which she was going to have to move out of because she couldn't afford it. Initially she had bought it because the moron uncle and his hippie wife who cheated on him with some douche wanted a house with a pool, and they agreed to help pay for it. Like that actually held up) but now I guess she's staying there, with that asshole. And so that's the main reason that I won't talk to her, because I feel that stupid people deserve whatever happens to them, it's their fault. Well I managed to take most of his sword collection when he was still moved out, suck on that. I should have taken all his Patriots stuff too so I could sell it on Ebay, he had a lot of autographed stuff. The second reason, which is why I'm pretty sure the rest of the family isn't talking to her, is because of idiot uncle again. A few weeks ago my mom called me and told me that it looked like someone had tried to break into the house, although she was really telling me more about how Frankie had gotten out and she found him scared in the laundry room. But then later she called to tell me how they had the cops there because when my dad got home he noticed that pretty much all his narcotics were gone, including the ones in their bedroom. At least a thousand dollars worth, no doubt. Hmm, I wonder who would break into the house, steal a crapload of narcotics and know that they were not only in the kitchen but also in my dad's dresser drawers, not bother to touch the computer, TV, or any of the game systems, and not alarm the dog when they entered. Maybe someone who knows that my dad had back surgery about a year ago and has all these meds, who the dog knows and thus wouldn't be hostile towards and who got left by his hippie wife and was prescribed depression meds not too long before. Hmm...oh wait, I know who fits that! And then they talked to my grandma about it and she was on that idiot's side, and even had the nerve to accuse my mom's brother. He's had problems, yeah, but he doesn't steal, especially from family. He even asks my grandpa if he can have any meds when he's over at their house. Plus I also believe he is still afraid of my mom being able to kick the shit out of him like she did when they were kids, because I'm convinced she'd totally be able to. It's probably where I get that attitude from. So yes, that is why I'm not talking to her. I feel the need to add that we all agreed that it's a real shame that Mickey isn't still around. That dog was the best dog we've ever had, and the thing that would have been great in this instance is that even if he knew who you were, if you weren't invited into the house by one of the people who lived there then you didn't get in. Mickey dog...I miss him. He wasn't needy like the dumb little mutt, although I admit I'm at least grateful for how attentive Zoe is. When I take her on walks she alerts me of everyone that is like half a block of me. Still no subs! Grr...alright, I need to find something else to do. Jaa mata!

Posted on Feb 19 2010 by Amber + 0 Comments

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