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Damn mornings

It's actually not morning, it's almost ten at night, and I'm going to go to bed very soon, because I'm tired. Because it's yet another one of my 8AM days. And I was good, I got up even though it's a holiday and most schools have it off except universities. I went to class even though the professor wasn't there today nor is she going to be there Wednesday and so a grad student was lecturing. I wasn't like half 1/3 of the class (possible more? It was pretty empty) who decided to skip. I went. I didn't fall asleep in class. Then I went to another class. And I had a small break, during which I studied for Japanese. And then I went to class again, and sat by these really annoying people who don't know how to shut the hell up. And then I went to Japanese, and then I came back to the dorm. And I only messed around on the computer for like 15 minutes. And then I played Wii for like ten minutes. And then I actually got started on school stuff. I tried the chapter four quiz for o-chem, even though we haven't gone over all the stuff. And hopefully I can find the motivation to go in Wednesday to the TA hours so I can get the answers to the quiz. And then I watched one episode of anime, and then ate dinner (which I will get to later) and then I took a small break and played Pokemon Yellow, and then I got bored with that and finished reading volume 17 of FMA because I've been on it for weeks, and then I started working on my lab report, and I finished it. I usually don't even start lab reports until the night before, but I'm all done with this one and it isn't due until Thursday morning. I even got started on my second one and hopefully will find the motivation to finish it this week so I can get it done with.

Dinner...food in general. I think...hmm...I need to pay attention to my body more when I eat. Because there are days that no matter how much I eat I can't satisfy my hunger, and today was one of those days. I had a bowl of cereal for breakfast, I was hungry at the beginning of my second class. I came back to the dorm and had some fruits snacks, and then about an hour later some muffins. Then fifteen minutes later a PB&J for lunch. And then halfway through Japanese I was hungry again. So I came back to the dorm after classes and had another pack of fruit snacks. And then another pack. And then I held off until dinner, and I had 2 cups of rice with sauce. And then almost immediately after I was still hungry, so I had an early dessert and had two cookies. But then a half hour later I was hungry again so I had another pack of fruit snacks. Now, I think this might be the case when I don't have meat, although I can't be sure. Like I said, I need to pay more attention to when these days happen. I guess I could see tomorrow, since I'm probably not going to have meat tomorrow either. I think I'll have pasta for dinner, which is possible now that I have a handy dandy microwave pasta cooker.

I don't know if I ever made the original point that I posted here to make. I think it was about how tired I was, or maybe how hungry, or maybe neither. Darn, I can't remember.

Oh, wait...no. There was something else, but it wasn't the entire point of this. I was listening to music and I noticed that for some of the K-ON! songs under artist it was Hisaka. That has been bugging me for the longest time but I couldn't figure out why. And then today I figured it out. It dawned on me that her name was wrong, it's Hikasa not Hisaka. Every single song with name in it had this mistake, so I went and corrected them all. And then I felt happy. Oh, and then that had me wondering if someone had created a fanlisting for her yet. And to my surprise they hadn't, so I applied for it.

And one more thing. This week's episode of FMA: B (original, not English dub)...OMG. Ed was so damn sexy with his hair down. Once he came on screen that was the the only thing I could think of for the rest of the episode. Although the end with Ling vs. Greed internal struggle was played out quite nicely.

Okay! It's five minutes after ten! I don't have class until ten tomorrow morning anyway, but I'm going to brush my teeth and go to bed!

Posted on Feb 15 2010 by Amber + 0 Comments

*shudder*

So...I just finished watching episode 1 of the FMA: B dub. And...I guess it wasn't too bad. Although before the episode even started I shuddered, because they cut the damn OP, and the ED as well. I love the OP. It's like the best OP of both the series. And the animation is amazing. They very poorly cut out some animation that hints towards later in the show, how stupid. And jeez was it poorly cut. The ED wasn't as obvious, unless you've seen the full one. And I don't even get why they did it. For the first series they played the full OP (although they only used two of the OPs when it aired on TV). They better not try to pull that crap later on.

As for the actual voices...well, I was actually surprised. I was expecting Vic and Maxey Whitehead to disappoint, but the two who disappointed were actually Chris Sabbat and Sonny Strait. When Maes went on his crazy OMGLOOKMYKIDISNTSHESOCUTE rant it sounded like him, but a lot of the time when he was just talking normally he sounded nothing like the first series. And then Chris Sabbat really dropped the ball with Armstrong's voice. It was just...no. However, Maxey was surprisingly good as Al. You can tell it's someone different, but barely. When she first spoke it bugged the crap out of me, but after a but more I could tell she was pretty close to Aaron's Al. I think the issue initially is that the English dub Al is so high pitched. Not like super, but higher than Japanese. And then I laughed on the inside, because Rie Kugimiya normally has an extremely high voice, but she gets so deep for her male characters, and her Al has such a deeper voice than dub Al. And Vic didn't bug me as much as I thought he would. No way in hell he'll ever be anywhere near as brilliant as Romi Paku, but it sounded a bit less whiny than the first series. Travis and Colleen were great as their respective roles, as I was expecting them to be. And Laura Bailey, with the few lines she got at the end, sounds like the awesome Lust I know.

Blah, stayed up nearly two hours later than I wanted to, so I need to go to bed now.

Posted on Feb 14 2010 by Amber + 0 Comments

So apparently the best diet is...

Apparently the best diet (both by means of success and deliciousness) is to pig out like crazy on various chocolate and foods with chocolate on them. I don't even know how, but I've lost six pounds in the last week. And that was after I went home this weekend and had chocolate covered cheesecake, two big pieces of fudge, a chocolate covered funnel cake, strawberry and chocolate crepe, a root beer and a root beer slush. Oh, and like half of a buffalo chicken pizza. Along with a root beer. I was worried about gaining a pound or two over the weekend, but apparently that was not the case. Very strange indeed.

Yesterday was so strange. It rained. That's not really the strange thing though. I never really associate the rain with anything negative, because I love rain, but it decided it wanted to be a bad omen yesterday. I went into my o-chem exam, it was sunny enough, with clouds in the sky. But the sun was still shining through. I get out, and it's raining. All the way until four hours later when I finished for the day. And in those four hours I had my physio lab practical. It didn't go well. I'm pretty sure I indeed bombed it. But I'm pretty sure I passed by o-chem exam, which is a big plus. The whole physio thing may have had to do with the fact that my mind has been on o-chem and o-chem alone since last Friday afternoon, but who knows. I also find it strange that yesterday in Japanese, while it was raining, we learned how to ask what time it was. And that was on the test today, and I couldn't remember. It's like the rain wanted me to forget. I also blanked out on な a few times, even though I'm been using it like crazy lately, and I have hiragana pretty much down. I'm pretty sure that なんねんせいですか was right for what I was trying to do in various places. Hopefully it was. And I think I did well on the written portion. The only issue would probably be poor penmanship. That's what takes me so long with Japanese. At this point I understand most of what's written, but it takes me forever to write it. I write it, and then I don't think it looks quite right so I erase and do it again. I don't even know how many で I erased and rewrote.

Err...I should probably get to homework soon, because...I have a lot due tomorrow in my Japanese Pop Culture class. And I can't be staying up late tonight, even though I normally stay up past 10:30, because I need to be more awake in physio. I'm like half trying to stay awake in that class most of the time, and then about ten minutes before class ends I finally shoot mentally awake. So I think I'm missing a lot of what she's talking about, which probably isn't a good thing.

Posted on Feb 11 2010 by Amber + 0 Comments

ZOMG?!?!?

Note: The following will not make any sense unless you've read chapter 104.

I think someone needs to send out a SODF, save our distressed fans. This is one fangirl who shall be in a pit of anxiousness and despair until next month's chapter of FMA. If you've read the latest chapter, you'd know. I never thought it would happen, I didn't think he'd do it, but he did. And...I don't even know how to put it into words. I read it this morning and still can't figure out how to. It was just so...well, it was unexpected, but everyone knew that it was probably coming. I just really hope it can reversed. No, it has to be reversed! There's no way...I mean, Riza, Scar, and Mei, plus the five sacrifices, are all in the big black ball. And then Lan Fan in unaccounted for, but considering the role she's played in the story and the fact that she wasn't shown, I have a feeling she's going to be popping up at some point, possibly to do some super team up with Greed!Ling. Of course, they're probably going to have to deal with Bradley and Pride. I'm doubtful Riza will be doing anything too impressive, considering her wound isn't completely healed...but Scar, I have a feeling he's going to do something big. And at this point in time I just don't know how it's going to end. I've always had theories, but after this I'm throwing everyone out. I never thought it would get that far. Although I'm going to have hope. It's really just a matter of getting them back, since a person is made up of body, mind, and soul. Everyone still has the two, and for the time being they're good. No no no, I don't see Arakawa going down this route, I just don't.

GAH! Olivier!! YOU MUST LIVE!!!

Posted on Feb 09 2010 by Amber + 0 Comments

Overdrive or mellow mode?

Blah, I have no clue anymore. The start of this week I was so busy, working to get all the studying in for physio and Japanese Pop Culture, because I have the tests back to back tomorrow. But physio...I think I wasted a few hours of my time on physio. I was reading through the book, and stopped. Not even worth my time. Everything I was reading was all stuff I learned in gen bio and gen chem. Yet the professor kept saying how the concepts would be difficult to understand. Not so much when you've spent the last year and a half learning it, but oh well. I'm just going to go over the slides and the few notes I wrote down and that'll be it for physio. For Japanese Pop Culture I'm going to look through my notebook and hope that the notes I took were good enough to get me through the test. He said at the beginning of the course that writing just what he wrote wouldn't cover everything, so I've been writing other stuff as well. I feel as if maybe I should have taken notes from the readings as well. Oh well, I just need to not bomb it. Really I want to get at least a B, although wouldn't an A be nice. I've always counted on A's in my gen ed stuff to keep my GPA somewhat decent.

And then I have two classes after that, and my weekend begins! I'm going home! I wasn't planning on going back home until spring break, but this weekend is the Chocolate Affaire, and I was so depressed when I thought I'd have to miss it, so my parents are coming down to get me. Yay, I get to eat yummy chocolate!!

And then after that, the rest of my weekend will be filled will studying for o-chem, maybe a little Japanese. My original plan this weekend was the study for o-chem and Japanese, and then get way ahead on most of my homework/reaction papers/reading/pre-lab stuff. I can still work on it some though. I was also going to try to start another anime (even though that's the last thing I need right now) but that probably won't happen. I'll just watch episode five of Dance in the Vampire Bund when it comes out, along with Durarara! and Ookami Kakushi.

Posted on Feb 04 2010 by Amber + 0 Comments

Stuck. And tired

Today, after two short weeks of school, began the first full week of classes. Apparently the guy Japanese professor teaches Mondays and Wednesdays. I thought the first day the female one said he taught two days, but last week he was only there on Wednesday. Makes sense now.

I feel like already I'm so behind on everything. I study every night, mostly for Japanese. I've taken the online quizzes for o-chem, or at least given a first attempt. Maybe it's because I haven't bothered with any physio yet. Or because I have an outline due in two days for my Japanese popular culture class and have no idea what to write it on. He gave very little on what we're supposed to do, but it has to do with pop art in Japan, and we have to do a crapload of research for it, at least 6 academic sources. And then today he gave an example, aesthetics of Japanese cooking or food, but that was just because he was trying to point out how wouldn't always find stuff directly on our topic. I have no clue how that has anything to do with pop art, but okay. Right now (and I don't have much time to decide) I'm thinking either something on fashion, specifically Lolita, or something involving anime. Or censorship in manga, but I think that might be a bit too narrow a topic, considering a lot of the more gory manga never make it over to the US, which would make it hard to find stuff on it.

I am so tired right now. Even my mom could tell over the phone I was. I'm almost always tired though. Mornings are in no way my thing, and the fact that I have to get up before the sun four days a week doesn't help. Stupid 8AM physio, stupid o-chem lab. At least tomorrow I don't have class until 10, so I can sleep in a bit. Of course sometimes my roommate is a bit loud in the morning (she only has 8AM classes Tues. and Thurs.) and that wakes me up, even though I stay in bed in a light slumber until she leaves. Then again, sometimes I'm so tired even her moving around doesn't wake me up. I feel as if this time will be one of those times.

And things with my bike aren't getting any better. Last week I discovered my light was stolen off it, and today I discovered (after nearly killing my foot, at least I had flats and not flip flops on) that my back brake doesn't work. I thought it was just because it was cold, because it tends to be a bit less responsive in the cold, but it's just flat out not working. I press it down all the way and nothing. And then in the afternoon I tried again and the handle got jammed about halfway. When I had locked it up I messed with the handle a bit and it was still jamming, and the cable connecting to the back brake was doing some weird jumping move. So for now I'm stuck with just my front, which I'm not used to using. Hopefully it lasts.

Episode 41 subs finally came out today, and I was apparently the first one on the FMA LJ to notice, because I actually got to post that they were up. Still waiting for them to come up online though. I should have brought my old computer with me, it has the right program to play the files, and since it isn't my school computer and has like nothing on it whatsoever I have no issue taking up space to watch FMA: B. I'm hoping it comes online before House, but if not I can just watch it after.

Posted on Jan 25 2010 by Amber + 0 Comments

Hmm...

I'm bored right now, and I was thinking about what else but anime. And...I think I can actually list my favorite anime, in order.

1) Fullmetal Alchemist/Brotherhood (I don't see any point in differentiating between them)
2) Clannad/~After Story (Again, not going to differentiate between the two seasons. They were both really good)
3) Kimi ni Todoke
4) K-ON! (Hopefully they don't ruin the second season)
5) Toradora!

I just now noticed how Code Geass and Death Note were knocked off my top five. I don't think anything will ever come around to knock FMA off the top, and probably not Clannad from the second spot. I think the thing with Kimi ni Todoke is how mellow it makes me, even though it's not a completely mellow series. I blame Noto-san for it, her voice...it's like, almost as amazing as Paku-san's. Clannad there really aren't any seiyuu that stand out to me, it's more of the story.

Oh, it's kind of late. I need to get studying again on my Japanese. I think I have ta-to down, and no, since its shape is really easy to remember, but na-ne not so much. I need to print out my notes for physio too.

It was supposed to rain all day today. It rained in the morning, for like a few hours. I'm pretty sure it was a few hours only because I kept waking up various times during the night, I was having trouble sleeping. I never heard any rain, not until I woke up in the morning. It's supposed to rain all day tomorrow, and Thursday, and Friday I believe too. Let's see if that actually happens.

Posted on Jan 19 2010 by Amber + 5 Comments

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