Two papers and a presentation done, two more papers to go. Presentation went...better than I thought it would particularly given I forgot to take out one of my notes to self on one of the slides. Afterwards there was browsing of 4chan, drinking, attempts to play Munchkin, and general geekery. Quite fun. Best two lines of the evening: "You can't learn fertility!" and "If you must sin, sin boldly."

I started playing RO mostly because Ten tempts me horribly and I needed something to fill the void in my life left by WoW. I have a mage and she is OP, I kind of love it. Although speaking of mages and WoW, apparently they're finally buffing Frost (after what, nearly a year and a half?), so once I get my new harddrive...I may be tempted to reinstall. What servers/factions are people playing nowadays?

And some clothes, too. Posted because Winter wanted to see them /o/ And cut to avoid layout-warping.

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Today we passed just east of Minneapolis, swung up through Fargo, North Dakota, skimmed the top of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and wound up in Mitchell, where it is currently -12C. Had some minor panic over a passport on my mom's part (she left it at home, and we had my brother overnight it ahead), and got to meet some friends, which was nice ♥

The Dakotas are very flat and empty, and also have speed limits of 75 mph which on one hand is nice but on the other hand is very conducive to some major highway hypnosis. I haven't killed my mother yet, although if she accidently says 'MyFace page' one more time I may snap (she means 'Facebook', really).

We have made it to the great city of Cleveland, Ohio, after spending the night in Willoughby. Passed through Albany, Buffalo, and Erie yesterday - good weather, low traffic. This morning was the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which was lots of fun - I loved seeing all of the stage costumes and stuff. Right now is a late breakfast/early lunch at Denny's - with free wi-fi!

Sob yes flist, feel free to mock me for this. Credit where credit is due, the awesome HQ scans are from Ju-Ni, and I was inspired by the lovely clean Urahara icons from 13ofnothing. Comments and credit are appreciated, but not required. Feel free to edit if you'd like!

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In lieu of an actual update, have an RP meme! Because I felt like it.

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Because I don't have much in the way of thinky stuff to talk about.

Whip It: Old, but something Greenie linked to the other day reminded me that I totally meant to post about how awesome this movie is and didn't when I saw it. It is so awesome that 1) I went by myself to see it at the theatre and 2) I cried in the theatre while watching it. It is Dead Poets Society with kickass girls and a happy ending. It takes most of the traditional Inspirational Sports Movie tropes and subverts them. I may actually buy this on DVD it was that good.

Sherlock Holmes: Okay so I think everyone already knows this was awesome, but I feel like adding my two cents. Watson is awesome! Holmes is gay for him! I've seen some complaints about the story being too cheesy but crazy supernatural ooga-booga is pretty much on part for the stories - Dan Brown has just kind of made us sick of grand secret society conspiracy theories, I think.

Daybreakers: Vampires! Who don't sparkle! Predictable story, but lots of fun nonetheless. Very bloody and dystopic (I love that like all the vampires smoke because none of them have to worry about lung cancer any more)

Tales of Symphonia: OH MY GOD WHY DID I WAIT THIS LONG TO PLAY THIS GAME. It's like Zelda's dungeon layouts teamed up with Secret of Mana's combat system to go kidnap FFX's plot. And yeah, it's about as awesome as that makes it sound. Some plot elements are kind of predictable, but it's ridiculously fun and has totally been sucking my time away from P3.

Because I do this every year!

In 2009, I:
-Got a credit card
-Got a smartphone
-Failed a class
-Finished a JRPG in under six months!
-Got back into LJ RP (and how)
-Made a suit from scratch

...Not a very eventful year for new experiences, haha.

- Actual CBC news broadcaster ticker seen yesterday while I ate cheeseburgers in McDonald's: "Its Way Way Too Cold Out"
- We got an inch of snow! Which means everyone was driving like an idiot yesterday, and today it's all melted again into the occasional puddle of slush on the grass
- Daiso is a magical land of small, cheap, useful, Japanese things that you didn't know you needed until you saw them. I had to talk myself down to twenty dollars worth of stuff (everything is $2 each, so :<)
-Corollary to above - I now have the perfect case for my BPAL imps! it's a bit plain, but it has little perfectly sized compartments.
-The Delly has a new culinary invention - the potato chop. It's an inner core of ground beef, onions, peas, and carrots, surrounded by mashed potatoes, rolled in breadcrumbs, and deep-fried. It's delicious.
-Apparently sleep-dep makes me poetic. I ended my eight and a half page 20th century lit final (a discussion of how Watchmen and The Matrix represent fears of technology current to their time periods) with "Scientific progress moves forward while the the ethical debate surrounding its use lags behind, and we are left in uncertain territory apt to breed nightmares."
-Eleven page paper of doom netted me a B+/A- and and admonishment to proofread. I did skim it once, but I was a bit tripped out on the clonazepam and really sick of looking at it, so there's a few word switches, half the 'it's' should be 'its', and I stopped editing a line mid-sentance.

All my papers and the two worst of my finals over with, which is a relief. I dunno if it's the stress or the cold snap we've been having or both, but I've been feeling more like a bitter, angry husk of a human being than normal the last few days, ugh. I'm halfway tempted to take hiatuses at my games so I can just hide inside alone and play PS2 games, but I'm also grumpy about my inability to get characters active and involved in plots right now so it's kind of a no-win situation. I am a crankypants right now and feeling miserly and annoyed at other people having fun, which is not really a great state of mind for social interaction.

tl;dr my life is unsatisfying right now