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What the hell?

Whoa, I finally have over 1000 visits to this thing. Granted it was offline since late August or early September last year, but still. Nearly three years, I think. It's pretty cool though, I guess, although I don't think anyone actually cares about everything that goes on in my life.

Speaking of my life!...nothing has been going on. Right now I'm watching Mythbusters, I wish they'd come out with new episodes already. Though I wonder if Kari will have a part in much of it, since she's pregnant. I have no clue how far along she is, but on the video on the official site she looked a a few months. I don't actually know what pregnant people look like, if I see a pregnant woman I just think how stupid that was, because soon enough she's going to have some stupid kid to take care of.

Tomorrow is Maggie's birthday! I figured she'd be busy tomorrow so I called her today to wish her a happy early birthday. Unfortunately she was going into a meeting so we couldn't talk long. And she's going to Rwanda over my spring break, I'd assume hers as well, so we can't hang out. Darn.

I only have a week and a half until spring break. I have a chem test next Tuesday and then midterms in mythology and chem lab on Wednesday. Once I get past those I should be alright, for this half of the semester anyway. And luckily bio lab isn't actual lab next week, I don't think. Pretty sure we're doing a field trip to the desert museum or something like that. But then I don't have mythology since there's no point in starting new stuff after the midterm, so I'll be done by 11! I've been telling my mom so she can make sure she's down here by then, but knowing her she'll probably have to work, even though I told her a couple weeks ago to make sure she didn't have to work, and then get down here in the later afternoon. Nooo, I don't want to spend more time down here than I have to. I'd really like to get up there before my old high school gets out, because I guess the band/orchestra is having a concert that night and I want to see the orchestra practicing, and tell them how bad they are and such. Because in reality, they suck. You lose 5 members, which included the top three violins and both cellos and only gain 2 mediocre violins isn't going to do that much for you. Although I've been told it gave Lynn a big ego booster, because she got first chair. Yeah, really hard with all the competition gone. Actually, thinking about it now someone had to drop out because of scheduling issues, and even if he was a first violin he was last chair. But really, they have four firsts this year instead of the normal six, and they're not what you'd call the best.

I'm starting to really freak out about school. I have a 2.4 GPA after last semester, yeah it really sucks, and I need at least a 3.0 to keep my scholarship. It's going to be really important next year since there is going to be a tuition hike. Damn state government, all a bunch of conservative assholes who don't give a damn about education. Normally I speak of Arizona much worse than that, but I won't for the time being just because. Then today while my mind was wandering during chem lab I remembered that I need to have a 2.9 in order to stay a pre-pharmacy major. Now I'm pretty sure an A is going to be my final grade in mythology, it's really easy. However, I failed my first chem test, even though I really thought I did better than that. It's not that I'm afraid I'll fail, I know I can pass the class (if I pass chem lab that is) but I need at least a B in it. Biology...I got a C on my first test, although I saved all my studying until the last few days before the test. I should be able to pull a B in there if I try. And then math...it's my greatest fear. I completely bombed the first test, but luckily the next test is going to be the Thursday after spring break, not the one before, so I'm going to try and get a friend to help me or something, because I can't fail. Last semester I got a stupid D, although that was only because I had no damn idea what the teacher was saying. I had actually learned most of the stuff in pre-cal in high school. But this is calculus. I'm pretty sure I'm one of the few people who haven't had any calculus before. The big problem with it is that for the most part I understand how to do it in theory, like the formulas and such, but when having to perform I totally fall apart. If I had gotten into English this semester I'd drop the class, but if I drop it I'll just barely fall under full time student and I can't actually do that. I'd lose my housing, my scholarship and loans. Well, since I'm complaining about math so much, I'm going to go and try to do the practice problems he gave us. Because I have math in about 23 hours and have yet to even look at them.

Oh, just a quick thought. I've been watching the SMA series *points to post below*, and it's the funniest freaking thing I've ever seen. It's better than Geass Twist. However, that brought up the issue about the dubbed Sailor Moon. Well, the main thing that brought it up was a part where Beryl says "This show is rated G. That G doesn't stand for gay!" They use the dubbed names and such, and in the dubbed to make it kid friendly, since it was directed towards kids, but at this point were making fun of subbed I think. Because Zoicite is a guy, but in the dubbed they make him a her because of the implied relationship between him and Malachite. But the dubbed voices are really crappy, as I discovered from watching like 1/3 of one random episode. In that episode they also changed something but it was kind of more minor. Whatever.

Posted on Mar 04 2009 by Amber + 0 Comments

Who would've known Usagi/Serena was bulimic

I randomly found this while looking around youtube. It's funny, although I don't really care for how they make Mako/Lita seem as if she was a man later on when she enters. And they make cracks about Ami being useless, which really isn't her fault. The creators gave her crappy powers for some mean reason, she's one of my favorites.

Posted on Mar 02 2009 by Amber + 0 Comments

What is there to say?

Weekends. They're so boring, I never do anything. I just stay in my dorm, usually always in my pajamas and either go on the computer or study. Try to study really. Sometimes I'm successful in that. Yeah... but hey, now the weekend in over and I have finished my one class of the day. Now I have nothing to do until tonight, because since it's the first Monday of the month I have Pre-pharmacy club to go to. But uh, what to say here. Hmm...

Well, it turns out my roommate did get quite drunk on Saturday. Wasted would probably be the better term. Her boyfriend sneaked her and a few of her friends into a party at his frat house, some person called Lil' Flip or something like that was going to sing there. I actually just looked them up and go figure it's some stupid rapper. I hate rap, it's almost as venomous to music as Disney stars. So she apparently drank half a small Gatorade bottle of Vodka, and like three other drinks, I just caught what she was telling her friend who was over here. And she was drunk by 9 before anything even got started, and I guess the party was so loud that the city police actually came, not just university police, to end it. She didn't come back that night, I'm assuming she stayed with her boyfriend. Eh, whatever.

Something got into me the other day and I somehow wrote a short autobiography story-like passage about my various years in orchestra. Maybe I should post it here or something, if I ever feel like it. I posted it on Facebook because that's where I was at the time. I'm always on Facebook though. With all of what used to be my friends having Facebook now, they're a little slow, there's no need for stupid stupid Myspace. Although speaking of stories, I still haven't really gotten a start on my writing assignment for mythology that's due in a couple weeks. It's pretty easy, need to write a myth-y story, has to be around 1000 words. Normally that wouldn't be a problem for me. However, I want to write a good one. I have an idea, but it's difficult to get in down.

Finally, after like, 2 weeks I think, I finally made it to episode 100 of Sailor Moon! Apparently most of what I saw when I was younger was Sailor Moon S, because that's what I've recognized the most. Pretty sure before now I never actually saw Sailor Moon and probably very few episodes of Sailor Moon R. I can't wait until I get to Sailor Moon Sailor Stars, mostly because it was never licensed in the US (or any English speaking countries) so I'll be one up on everyone else who says they love Sailor Moon, or loved it or whatever. I'm dedicated enough to watch all 200 original Japanese episodes subbed. A bit more tiring than watching all 70 episode of CCS and the two movies. It's especially hard when I'm fighting a bloodbath trying to get into where I watch it.

Now a bit less than two weeks before spring break. It's kind of sad, around this time last year I was getting super hyped because I was going to be on my way to Europe. Silvernail is taking a group this year too, to the UK. I'm jealous. The reason I found this out of course was because Noel, who was the one junior who went last year and thus is the only one who is still in high school, is going this year as well. I have nothing to do over spring break. There was that little thing of playing for Ms. Aikman's wedding with the quintet, but wouldn't you know, the quintet went down to a quartet because the person who originally suggested the idea couldn't handle the work, then in early December, all in one day, the quartet turned into a trio and then it was completely disbanded. But don't get the wrong idea, I'm not angry. Oh no, I got the music later than everyone else, plus had all the first violin parts forced upon me and had to learn it rather well by December to show her our progress so I practiced a couple hours every weekend. Oddly enough two of them went to community college and one went to a pathetic excuse called a place for higher education (obviously by that I mean ASU), yet they didn't have enough time to put in the smallest bit of effort into practicing. All they had to learn were the second and third violin parts and the cello, which really wasn't that hard for any of the songs. Yet they couldn't find the time, so I, who had worked for a couple months trying my hardest to learn the music just came to a dead halt. And of course none of them could e-mail her telling her that "we" could no longer do it, I guess their many hours of playing WoW in the middle of the night distracted them from such. But no, I'm not angry about it. The entire idea of this entire rant was that I'm not angry about that anymore, REALLY. sneer

Who in the world would be angry about something that happened so many months ago? I don't see why I'd even bother writing about it, the words sounding so fuming, if I wasn't angry anymore. Seriously.

Okay, I need to go work on my math, or my chem lab write-up or something.

Forgot to say, added a couple new random pictures. Just some stuff from life, I guess.

Posted on Mar 02 2009 by Amber + 3 Comments

So you shouldn't be allowed to "kill" human babies inside the womb but you can rats?

Truly, truly evil. I wish I could just not go to bio lab anymore. Today we dissected a rat, a frog and a tadpole. I didn't touch a single one. I barely managed to look at the dead frog when it wasn't cut open to write down its appearance, but when they were cut open...I can definitely say I nearly threw up at least three times, probably more. The worst part of it was that the rat at my table was pregnant, there were fifteen little babies in her. Naturally everyone else was getting all excited about it, thinking it was cool and such. I could not look. Even hearing people made me ill to my stomach. Someone who was looking at them said they probably would have been born soon too if their mother hadn't met her match, since they were pretty much completely developed. I don't see the point in dissecting things. I am morally obligated to have as little to do with it as possible, it's animal cruelty. I mean, it's not like the animals got a choice of weather to live on or be killed for some heartless people to slice open. And yes, they truly are heartless people. Apparently some of them had done cats in school and were saying they wish the cat had been pregnant. I don't know how the hell anyone could do that to a cat! If I were to see a dead cat laying there for me to dissect I would most definitely throw up. It's a shame that the poor animals hadn't had the order of a geass to live on. Then there would probably be a few dead humans, which is much better. The majority of the human race is doing nothing but destroying this planet, they don't give a damn if they waste water or throw away things that could easily be recycled instead or take away several animal species' homes so that they can have somewhere to live or if an animal is at the brink of extinction because of it or because humans have to go and kill them because they feel like it. I am truly disgusted with the human race at times like this. Luckily I only need two semesters of biology for undergrad, hopefully I won't need any during pharmacy school. Of course I'm sure I will, although maybe since it will be higher level we won't have to do such barbaric cruel things. But yeah, I've decided I'm a chemistry person. It's already my strong point of the sciences. Physics is quite fun, but all the formulas and math involved is too much for me, because I such at higher level math.

Then mythology wasn't too bad, at the end the professor had some students act out part of a play by Euripides, it was about Dionysus. Mildly entertaining, that's all I really have to say about that. For no reason what soever I felt the need for ice cream, so I went to Cold Stone to get some. Probably should finish eating it before it melts. Only two more weeks until spring break, maybe I can get together with some people from high school or something. Ha, yeah right.

Posted on Feb 27 2009 by Amber + 1 Comments

Um, yeah

Righto. I'm actually really tired right now, or at least I think I am. It's either I'm tired or my boredom has dulled me to the point where it feels like I'm tired. But, I actually enjoyed my chem lab today. We were doing emission spectroscopy, and we got to light stuff on fire. Not really as blunt as it sounds, we had to take different compounds and put them over the flame to see what color they turned and then record the wavelength of the light. Then for the last part we got to play with sparklers! Okay, not really play, but we got to light sparklers and do the same thing we did with the other stuff. The yellow sparkler was the only one that did what you'd expect a sparkler to do, I had blue and it just kind of lit up a blinding blue and that was it. Although I did temporarily blind myself for a couple minutes after it all. I don't see why we're supposed to look into a very bright light to see what color it is, because after you can't see much for awhile.

Because of my boredom I decided to go to ahead and buy myself some FMA patches. I got one of Ed and the other is the symbol that Ed has on his jacket.

I got a few picture up from Europe that can be found in the scans section of visitor. I couldn't think of anywhere else to put them. Also up in the visitor section is one whole base! Enjoy it if you want. I really should do some more, whenever I get my old computer up I guess. It really sucks not having any programs but MS Paint on here.

Posted on Feb 25 2009 by Amber + 1 Comments

If only there were beds in class

I don't know if I've ever been so tired before for an entire day. Of course it make have been because I woke up nearly an hour earlier than I normally do on Tuesdays. My dad text messaged me around 7 to answer something I asked him last night and I couldn't get back to sleep. One good thing about that was I was able to be one of the lucky 50 to watch anime this morning. But I didn't do any of my math. Not like it really matters, I'm never going to get it. And then during class I was pretty much completely zoned out, I got like the first 20 minutes of what he said. It seemed like it was going on forever, I hate having math for 75 minutes. I prefer 3 days of 50 minutes than 2 days of 75 minutes, for math at least. It would have been wise to take a short nap between classes, but I didn't. Then chemistry was worse. I'm usually pretty good in that class, but I'm pretty sure it was obvious I was nearly falling asleep. Who knows how many times I kept twitching or jumping slightly because I somehow managed a small burst of energy to keep me from completely falling asleep. I think I nearly fell out of my hair a couple times. I always sit in the same spot, second row, because I do better when I sit up towards the front. Today would have been a good day to sit in the back. Then, oddly enough, I wasn't tired in Biology. Granted I did zone out a bit, but I can't help it. Finally the second professor is starting to teach, he's more interesting than the first. Notes are also a lot easier, he has powerpoint slides to print out and all you have to do is fill in the orange line.

No clue why, but I've finally decided to put pictures from Europe up. I uploaded them, although I don't know how to get them where people can see them. Megan will have to help me on that part. It's not very many. I have nearly 400 pictures I took, and they're all on my other laptop. The few I uploaded so far were on Facebook, and they're only from France so far. I'll get some from Italy up later. Everything later...because school sucks.

Edit: I forgot I wanted to post this. Checking out FMA livejournal, the second commercial for the new FMA series coming out in April. It looks AWESOME.

Posted on Feb 24 2009 by Amber + 2 Comments

GAH!

Curses! Today is the day where the place I watch anime would be restricted to a maximum of 50 viewers. I was hoping that wouldn't be until tonight, but alas, it was this afternoon. I was about 14 minutes into episode 60 of Sailor Moon and then my internet decided to be stupid and freeze as it has a few other times today. I wasn't off for more than 2 minutes, but when I tried to get back on it said that the maximum number of viewers had been reached! I had been hoping to get to at least episode 65 today. Somehow I got through 25 episodes between 6-ish last night and 3:30ish this afternoon. I would have gotten through more but my stupid internet is REALLY being stupid today. I had to restart episode 57 three times. Hopefully I can get on at some point to watch.

Then I got an e-mail from my RA today, and apparently someone stole a chair from the 3rd floor study lounge, and if the dorm doesn't get it back then all the residents are going to be charged for it. That's complete crap, I'm going to be so pissed if I have to end up paying for the damn chair for the stupid lounge I never even go to because some idiot thought it would be funny to take it. Yet another problem to living in the dorms. Unfortunate thing is I'm living in them next year too. If only I could have had enough money for an apartment. Wouldn't have to deal with this kind of crap then, nor would I have to deal with all the other things that come with dorm life.

On the positive side of things the Renaissance Festival was fun. We got there a bit before 10 so that we could make sure to get in as much as possible. It's amazing how difficult it is to get things in. We went to get seats to see The Ded Bob Sho first. My brother and father saved them while my mother and I went to look around a bit, since there was still a half hour until the show started. We watched that then my mother and I went to get a seat for the first jousting and my brother and father went to go watch the glassblowing demonstration. When the jousting was done we went over to the glassblowing and caught the last 10 minutes or so of it, then we ate. I had a broccoli and cheese soup bread bowl, it was so yummy, and a frozen lemonade. Then we went walking around some just to look at the different shops, and we all got some sort of chocolate. After finishing that we went to the Dungeon Museum and saw a bunch of different torture techniques from way back then. It's a good thing I'm not claustrophobic because the entire time you walk down a really narrow and dark path with really low ceilings. Plus they had the AC up really high so when you were near a vent it was crazy cold. Then there was the second jousting, a bit more looking around, then to the Birds of Prey show. We got there early and the Mediaeval Baebes were on. They were quite good, they're actually from England and were only performing at the Renaissance Festival for last weekend and this weekend. We only got to see a few of the birds because we had to get all the way to the other side to see the final jousting. I ended up getting a dragon candle and a really pretty shirt with the outline of a unicorn on it. I love the place I get candles from, they're so awesome looking. Last year I got some cats and the year before that I got some sort of donkey with wings, so I needed a dragon. I should try to get a photo to show.

On a side note, because I need to start my practice problems, I'm pretty sure I'm going to fail math this semester. There is no homework, it's just the tests that count as grades. Last one I did REALLY bad on, and I doubt I'm going to get any better. When I'm in class I get the general idea of it, but then when I try to do it on my own I'm completely lost. Bad thing is I can't make it to his office hours for help because I have class. Higher math is evil.

Posted on Feb 23 2009 by Amber + 1 Comments

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