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I hope I get a roommate next year who isn't as bent of appearances as the one I have now. Seriously, she's a lot better than the one I had last semester in general, but she takes so much time getting ready. I don't like when she stays in the dorm on Monday or Wednesday nights, because then I have to get up earlier than her and get ready right away or hope that she's done before 9, because I leave for my first class them. She easily takes a half hour in front of the mirror. I maybe take 5, and that's when I bother to straighten my hair.

I really don't know what to write. I had stuff in my head earlier, I think, but I forget now. Darn...although I'm still upset that I screwed myself out of a B on my last chem test. I got a 78, but I forgot to fill in which form of the test I had so I got points docked off. Which means I would have had a B.

More school issues. It sucks being a freshman. You know why? Because your priority registration for classes for the following semester is last. My schedule next year is going to suck. I got chemistry, which is really the only class I actually wanted. Physiology was full so I had to settle for microbiology, but because of stupid microbiology I couldn't take Russian. Well, it was also because of chem lab, because the only Tues. Thurs. class open had a lab on Wednesday afternoon, so I couldn't take the afternoon Russian. And the Microbiology labs meant I couldn't take the morning Russian. Well, I had chemistry the day I wanted it, but I was have the damnedest time trying to get enough classes to be full time that would fill requirements I need, even if I hated them. It didn't seem to want to work for me. So I had to give up my spot in chemistry and managed to grab the last open spot in a MWF lecture, and now I have chem lab on Thursday mornings. Then I couldn't find a damn INDV class, even though I don't want to take one, that didn't conflict with my other already schedules classes so when I did find one I just clicked on it as fast as I could because there were only 2 seats left in it. It's called Society and the American Dream or something like that, something stupid obviously. Even after that I needed at least one more class so that I'd have enough credit hours to be a full time student. So I tried some arts classes, because I need some type to fill the prerequisites for pharmacy school. Well I tried, and they all either conflicted with my schedule or there were no more spots open. I was desperate for something I even checked to see if there were any spots open in the dance and theater classes. What sucks is that most of the musical classes are for majors only. Apparently there's a class called violin, it's just independent study of playing violin and there's a class once a week for 50 minutes. However, it was only open to music majors, so despite the fact I've played violin for 9 years it was impossible for me to do. So I decided to try for languages. Russian, my first choice, I obviously couldn't get into. I tried Greek, my second choice, both modern and classical and that wouldn't work. Then I tried Japanese, my third choice, and guess what? That didn't work either. So I tried my fourth choice, Italian, and managed to snag a spot. After I had done that I thought maybe I should just take a more practical language, so I tried Spanish even though I hate it. Nope, couldn't do that. So I got stuck with Italian. And now I don't get done on Fridays until 3, so my weekends when I go home are cut even shorter. Before priority registration began for anyone I had planned out my entire schedule, hoping to get it. I got almost all my classes done in the morning so I'd have afternoons free to do whatever, and I'd be done by 10 in the morning on Fridays. I blame the fact I couldn't get into physiology for it. If I could have gotten into physiology I could have taken Russian, and had a TR chem class and had enough credit with just those three classes to be full time. I could have even slipped an INDV class in without it messing with my schedule too much. But no, it just had to be filled up. Oh, and I couldn't get into a math next semester. I really hate math, I think I'm going to fail math this semester (I got a D last semester, just barely missed a C). So then I thought maybe I should just GRO it, but I couldn't. Since Arizona's state government is so fucked up and they don't give a damn about education the state universities lost a hell of a lot of money in funding. So they have to cut back. One of the things they're doing is getting rid of the small math 113 classes like they have now and just putting all 300+ students into one huge math lecture. I don't see that working well. Math is one of those subjects you really need small classes for, because if people don't understand something it'll be hard to take the time to explain to that one person in a class so large as opposed to a person in a class of like 20. Then I tried to get into math 124 because I guess it's like the equivalent of 113 but with trig. However, when I tried to sign up it said that I didn't have the right math prerequisites. That's bull shit. I took math 112 and passes, barely, but I still passed, and thus I should have been able to enter math 113, 124 or 125. Yet it still says that? Screw it. Right now I'm considering just going as all out as I can at community college over the summer, get as much crap out of the way as I can. I wanted to get a job, because I'd really like to be out of the dorms by junior year, but I don't want overwhelm myself over the summer. If I do too much I'm going to completely burnt out by August when school starts up for the fall semester, and ten I'll be completely screwed.

I watched episode 3 of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. I felt as if it was kind of rushed, although they didn't leave anything out of it. Maybe it's because in the first series Lior is covered in 2 episodes, which I guess was kind of unnecessary. Still it was amazing. I can't get over how amazing the animation is. And they made the coloration of this episode darker than the previous two, which helped to the atmosphere that was supposed to be. And Ed did his super awesome automail sword thing from the manga that looks totally bad ass compared to the one he normally transmutes. I had to watch it on Youtube unfortunately, because I downloaded the mkv file but my computer couldn't play it, and I couldn't find it anywhere else online to watch it. The audio was ahead by like a second or so, but I still got the idea.

Well, a certain friend, if I really bother to consider her a friend anymore since we haven't talked in ages, even on Facebook, and it's been nearly a year since I've seen her, said she might be coming down today, and that maybe we'd be able to 'run' into each other. I'd guess she probably didn't, she probably had to hang out with her friends that go to ASU who seem to have no idea how to move on with life and go home every weekend to hang out with their high school friends. Probably having some pre-Britney Spears party or something they kept talking about on FB.I don't know. I don't really care either. I should have figure the friendship was rather shallow to begin with and that it wouldn't last past high school.

I finished watching Revolutionary Girl Utena. To say the least it was a disturbing show in the middle, but the ending was incredible. I thought ending wise it was up there with the best of the best anime. It was sad yet at the same time freeing. So now I think I'll try to find somewhere that has the rest of Chi's Sweet Home so I can finish that. I got up to episode 26 on Veoh, but I can't find anymore episodes on there. If the site where I watch Vampire Knight Guilty didn't have suck issues streaming it without it constantly pausing I'd work on that some. I also with I could find somewhere that has Darker Than Black.

Posted on Apr 19 2009 by Amber + 0 Comments

Right so...

At the moment I'm just a bit weirded out. Or maybe a lot, I'm not really sure. Even though I questioned Megan not too long ago on how she could watch a lot of different anime series at the same time I'm doing it myself right now. I'd work on Darker Than Black if I could find somewhere with it, but I can't. So while I'm 8 episodes into that I decided to start watching Chi's Sweet Home. I'm up to episode 24 on that, need to try to find somewhere that has the rest. Then because I wanted to start something (I don't know why) I decided to watch Vampire Knight, because I had planned on watching it eventually. Well, I finished that but now I'm onto Vampire Knight Guilty, and am two episodes into that. And I also decided to see how good Revolutionary Girl Utena was and I'm like 26 episodes into that. Plus I'm keeping up with Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood as it comes out each week, because of all of these that is my top priority. But I'm weirded out due to Revolutionary Girl Utena, which I've been trying to get through because it's fairly short and easy to access. I'm sorry, but it's screwed up. It's not a bad anime, the plot isn't too bad or anything and there's some variety to it, but just in general it's screwed up. Nanami has a brother complex and is like grossly overprotective of her older brother around women, because she clearly wants to be with him, and I think there might be something strange about Miki and his sister, although he's really the gentleman of everyone. Then Anthy and her brother Akio have an incestuous relationship, and it's mostly him if not all him forcing that. Then he's jealous of the friendship between Anthy and Utena which I think will eventually turn into more than just a friendship. That's just the, er, odd family issues. There's so much more weird about it.

I'm so happy that I only have one more bio lab, or at least I think. Today was horrible, had to dissect a squid and oyster or clam, and then a cow eyeball. It was nasty, the eyeball spewed some eyeball juice. And I hacked a bit when we were doing the squid, mostly because of the smell. I can't stand the smell of anything marine-y. But we don't have lab next week. However, since the rest of my group for the cactus report are idiots and have no clue how to write a formal lab report we ended up getting a 50 on the report and have to meet up to work on it next Friday so we can try to get a better grade. I did the calculations and those were all right. But other than that we have to do our semester project and do a report on that, which is due in two weeks. Just great. Oh well, I get to sleep in next week at least. Although I've been having trouble sleeping lately it seems. I've been waking up way earlier than normal. Today I woke up at 5:30, I had to force myself to go back to sleep.

I'm so burnt out right now, I can't even bring myself to write much more here. I only have like two and a half weeks of class left then a week of finals and I'm done. But I have to take a couple classes over the summer, so there's no break for me. When I think that I have at least 6 more years after this I start to feel a bit overwhelmed, but I think after a little break I'll be alright.

Posted on Apr 17 2009 by Amber + 0 Comments

Just a quick one

Seriously, don't have time to write too much, but I haven't posted in a couple days. So no babbling like I normally tend to do. Like that. And that. And that...okay, no obsessive babbling.

Weekend was good, weekend was crappy, both of those applying to Easter. It rained, I played in it. It was fun. My brother was a total idiot and took some glow sticks we had at the house and danced in the dark to some Cascada. It was recorded, I should have jacked the memory card (because it's technically mine I let him borrow) and put it on Youtube for everyone to see. I got lots of candy, including a bunny and an apple. Sadly they both were mutilated because we didn't think it was that hot and they melted in the car on the way back. I ended up staying up at home until this morning instead of coming back Sunday afternoon like is normally the case. It was cool. I stocked up on food for the rest of the year since I won't be going home anymore until school is out, which is in like a month. Wow, freshman year of college is almost over. Crazy.

Best part: We got back in time for my one class of the day, like 45 minutes before it started, but my parents were kind and decided a nice meal was more important than a lecture on Heracles, and I agreed. On them of course. We tried Dirtbag's, which is right across from my dorm but I never go to because I don't want to go to alone. It was actually really good, and reasonable prices. Then I got milk. And now I'm back at the dorm. I'm really sleepy. That is all.

Seriously now, I need to get off and study for chemistry. Have a test tomorrow. I haven't done too well on the other tests and this one is all Lewis structures. It's either do or die, I need to try to memorize some of them so I can get through is faster (because most of the test is drawing L.S. and the test is only 50 minutes) and try to remember the different molecular and electron geometries, dispersion forces, ionic forces, and all that other good stuff.

Oh, one more thing. FMA chapter 94 of the manga. AWESOME. It was all the Mustang-Envy battle, not Armstrong siblings kick assery this time. I'm really anticipating what Mustang is going to do, how far he'll go in the name of revenge. And I watched the second episode of FMA: B yesterday. It was equally AWESOME. They're finally getting to the story line of the manga, and I loved how they portrayed inside the gate and Truth. Animation is still INCREDIBLE. They made a mention of Xing and therefore they must include the Xing characters now, which was obvious. And that means they must include Briggs character which includes OLIVIER. And if they don't, which they do, I'll be angry. Because no characters deserve to be animated more than Ran Fan an Olivier. The Ling-Greed relationship will be awesome to see though.
Can't wait for next week. And next month. Darn, next month's chapter is coming out right when I have finals. Oh well, I'm going to have to make time to read it when it comes out.

Posted on Apr 13 2009 by Amber + 1 Comments

I don't really know what to say about today...

I really don't know. I mean, it was almost completely pointless. I don't even know what the point of chem lab was today. All we did was make models of Lewis structures with some kits, and then did some of them on paper along with the 3-D molecular structures. Some labs apparently took less than an hour to finish it all. We ended up taking exactly two. Yeah, that was really fun. Two hours slowly going over Lewis structures. I mean, it's not like I know them, because I don't. I can draw them well enough, and just barely have the basic molecular structures down. But it was something I could have done at the dorm, not sitting in the little class area in that stupid desk for two hours. Mythology was easy enough, had a quiz. I didn't even really study and I'm pretty sure I only missed one if any. You seriously can just go to class and be fine.

My meals have sucked today. Breakfast was fine, cereal, and then for lunch I had soup at hand. Good thing I had crackers because I had cream of broccoli and I didn't like it. Broccoli and cheese yes, but apparently without the cheese it's crap. So I ended up like eating 1/8 of the soup which was all on crackers I dipped in. Then dinner was a real treat! Since I only have three bucks I couldn't exactly go and get something. So I had popcorn. A mini bag, like personal sized one. Not even all of it, like half of it. And I'm starting to get hungry again now. I think I'll eat the applesauce cup that's in the fridge. It's cinnamon flavored. Yummy. I just need to get through one more day with my food. I need to try and have enough time tomorrow morning to have cereal because I need to finish the milk before I go home for the weekend. I think I have some money of my gift card to Which Wich so I'll probably get that for dinner tomorrow, although it'll be an early dinner, because I'll get it right after my last class. Hopefully the wind isn't too bad, because I hate fighting against the wind. I had this morning, although really more afternoon, and it was horrible. It chose that exact time I got on my bike to blow against me. Piece of crap wind, it needs to go away.

Oh dang, just remembered I have math homework to do. And I need to take a shower before Mythbusters starts. NEW MYTHBUSTERS, after an eternity! Two hour demolition derby special!

Posted on Apr 08 2009 by Amber + 1 Comments

I cannot forget to do laundry again.

I still can't believe I forgot to do laundry yesterday morning. It was horrible doing it today after I was done with class. I got in there and three of the washers were already in use, including the one I usually use. When I got in there to throw my clothes in the dryer there were two other people in there, both putting their stuff in the dryers. So I had to take the last dryer available, which was the one on the very end and I'm not sure if it works well or not. I think I better make sure I get up there exactly when my clothes are done or a couple minutes before or they might be thrown out of the dryer by someone else, because I'm sure there are more people who are going to be doing their laundry. Yes, never have this problem with Monday mornings. I'm usually the only on in there.

But to get to the little bit of random luck I've seemed to be having. Somehow the money to do laundry worked out perfectly when I put it on my card, because I am exactly at 0 after putting my stuff in the dryer. I only have enough money to put on it to last maybe a week more, but since I'm going home this weekend I'll do my laundry there and get my parents to give me some money for laundry here. And then yesterday at the pre-pharm meeting, which I maybe shouldn't have gone to because I'm officially freaking out about the PCAT's, I won the drawing they had. I won a practice guide for the PCAT's. I think I've decided I'll take it next fall, next January particularly even though I'll in no way be ready. I'll have no idea whatsoever about the organic chemistry, because I'm not taking it until next spring semester because I need to finish up gen chem next fall. And I'll have no idea about microbiology probably because I wasn't planning on taking it next year, I was planning on physio instead. I'm sure there's much more I won't know, but I want to just get an idea of what it's like.

More luck, best news today. I was approved for the Priscilla Ahn fanlisting!! I couldn't believe nobody had taken it yet when I looked. She's not that unknown, she has a CD out and is currently on tour. I was totally bummed I had to miss her concert, because it was on a Wednesday night on October in Phoenix and I was about 200 miles away from Phoenix and had a class the next morning at 8.

New Mythbusters tomorrow night!! Super excited, it's a two hour special.

The third and last professor began teaching my bio class today. I guess I should have maybe slightly expected it, because of his name, but he has a French accent. It kind of threw me off. It appears that he's going to make us have to use the book to fill in stuff from the notes. But now I need to do my lab report for chem lab that's due tomorrow. And I need to study for my quiz tomorrow in mythology even though it doesn't matter if I do poorly on it because he drops the lowest three quiz grades. And I need to try to study like major hard all in between for chemistry because I have a test next Tuesday and I need to kick ass on it, and it's the most difficult so far. Lewis structures not hard, the molecular and electron geometry hard. And do math for Thursday. Yay.

Posted on Apr 07 2009 by Amber + 0 Comments

It's another one of those days

Today started out kind of weird. For some reason I thought that it was a lot later than it was when I first woke up, and I was freaking out that my alarm didn't go off, which I had set for 8:45 because I needed to do laundry today. Well it was just barely past seven. I at first couldn't even remember if today was Monday or not. Then I went back to sleep, when my alarm went off I shut it off and was just laying in bed for a bit, because on Mondays and Wednesdays I usually end up sleeping around fifteen minutes longer than I set my alarm for. Well I actually did get up about fifteen minutes later, but for some reason I thought it was a lot later, like past ten. So I didn't do my laundry, I decided I'd do it in the afternoon because I wouldn't have time to do it. Well I found out around 9:30 that it wasn't as late as I thought it was. So I kind of just bummed around the dorm for awhile. I kept checking to see if my grade for my second biology exam was posted yet. It ended up being posted after I got back to class, I got the exact grade I got on the first test, and I felt a bit more confident with this one. Oh well, with the extra credit that we've been given it should bump me up to a B, and I still have one more exam plus the final to bring it up to what I want.

Class was easy today. All we did was watch a video. It was really more on the lost city of Atlantis, but it brought up a bunch of Greek mythology stuff so he found it relevant.

As for one of those days I mean one of those days when I'm super hungry. I had a bowl of cereal for breakfast, then about two hours later the hunger started up again so I had a packet of fruit snacks, minutes before I left for class. I don't think I was even through class when I started to get hungry again, and when I got back to the dorm I had some Easy Mac for lunch. About an hour later I was hungry again so I ate...I don't even remember what it was now, I just know I had something small. And now I'm hungry again, I've been hungry. I'll probably eat something small before the pre-pharmacy meeting. I really hope they have good for us, filling food, because all I have is soup. Until the end of the week I'm stuck either eating on campus or having soup, because I've never felt so broke. I have three dollars in my wallet, that's not going to buy me anything. Well, maybe something from the McDonald's value menu, but I don't eat McDonald's. However, I have plenty of soup. But I think the problem with the soup is that there's so few calories in it that my body absorbs them or whatever pretty quickly and demands more. I certainly would burn 150 calories easily in one day, especially since I end up biking around 4 miles on my normal days.

Because I was bored, and because I thought it might be easier to get in contact with friends, I downloaded Skype. However, my laptop is pretty useless for that, since it doesn't have a built in camera or even a freaking microphone. So I was on Amazon and found a webcam that's fairly cheap and has good reviews, and it has a built in mic so I won't have to worry about getting one. I'm trying to get someone to buy the rest of my Visa gift card from me so I can use my debit card but not completely waste my own money.

I'm actually doing my math homework before the last minute!! I haven't done much of it, and apparently my mind was so fixed on the bio test last Thursday I wasn't paying attention in my other classes, because I can't remember how to do derivatives of logarithms. I decided to start doing it because I've really just been on the computer because I'm trying to upload a video on Youtube and it's taking forever. Last night I was waiting for almost three hours and it was still uploading. I just quit and tried it this afternoon, thinking I could have it going for awhile. That was before I remember I have a pre-pharm meeting at 5, so it it isn't on by then I'm going to have to cancel it again.

Posted on Apr 06 2009 by Amber + 0 Comments

AHHHHHHHHH!!!

I saw it!!! It was just the raw, but I saw it!!!! The new FMA series!!!! SO....AHHHHH!!!! I can't really think how to put everything into words, but I'll try to and try to make it readable while I'm at it.

No idea what the plot actually was for the episode, could only catch a few words here and there since it was the raw, but the animation alone is AMAZING!! Definitely sticking more to Arakawa's style with it. I literally squealed at least three times. Luckily my roommate had left so I didn't look like a complete idiot in front of her. I really wouldn't have cared though, because it's FMA!!!!!

FATHER!!! A couple glimpses of Father!!!!! And towards the end with Liore, the animation AMAZING!!!! Oh, and opening credits, young Hohenheim! If they show him then that it has to follow the manga, because it has to get into the Xerxes thing and indirectly tied up into that are Xing characters!!! And if they have Xing charries then they're going to have to have Briggs charries, although I already assumed that because in one of the posters they had manga Sloth, and that has to mean Briggs because that's where he first shows up. They're definitely trying to make the beginning of the series different than the first series, but are still trying to stick to the manga plot, which is awesome!!

I need to get some subs then I'll be happy enough to get me through the week. And to make things even better chapter 95 of the manga should be coming out at the end of the week!!!

AHHHHHH!!!! I don't know how I'm going to get through today calm. I think I'm going to watch it again.

Posted on Apr 05 2009 by Amber + 3 Comments

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