Begin Commander's Log: Stardate 20311.14
Did I mention how much I looove Star Trek? Oh wait... I didn't! I'll have to update that later. I'm in shop right now, working on my webpage, as you can see. I think I should update it more often... I might even update this section every day!... Well, maybe not THAT much, but more often than I have been.
School work is a bitch, no doubt about it. Right about now I have one assignment that is due on Monday... and I completely forgot about it until this morning when I was leaving my house! Granted, I'm glad I have academic work, but not when the teacher assigns homework in a ludicrous fashion such as he. I hear he's a great chemistry teacher, but I don't agree with that on his physics side. He seems to know a good amount, but when he freely admits that he's taking an extra class at a college at night... I gotta admit, the respect meter goes down a notch in one respect, but up a little bit for his being able to divulge that information so freely. He seems like a good person all in all, and I'm sure I'll thank him for what he does later, but at the moment... I'll just continue hatin'.
I think I should figure out how to write Star Trek stardates... I remember reading somewhere how to do it, but I kinda forget... oh well, I'll do that later.
Attending a partay tonite! ^.^ Resident Evil remake on Gamecube truly owns... take that playstation!! When I first saw the remake I was drooling... I didn't even want to go through any doors at first! And not to ruin anything, but if you don't do something.... Crimson Heads appear. They are like zombies, only they are redder, faster, and more deadly... First time I encountered one, I was just about to burn a zombie, saw the animation when Chris kneels over and starts to drip the kerosene, thought I was safe, then BOOM I get slashed in the eye! Trying to use the emergency escape feature, I hit the L button, using a flash grenade that I picked up in the previous room. As the stunned Crimson Head staggered and choked on the grenade, I ran away and shot it in the head, causing the grenade to explode instantly! Don't know if it would've anyway, but it was pretty cool... Well, I'm going to end this now. Might update it later on if I feel like it.
Well, looked up the stardate theory... and well, some people really DO have too much time on their hands... STARDATES IN STAR TREK FAQ. Some people need a life... and well, I got bored of reading mid-way through PART III... so as a result, no more star-dates! I'll just use the boring Terran calendar.
11/24/2003
Finally finished my college applications ^.^. Next on the agenda is scholarships -.-. I'm thinking of just editing my existing college essay for those, as I'm much too lazy to WANT to write a new essay for something I might not even win anyway.
Started playing Neverwinter Nights again. Found out my characters are gone because I didn't log in within 30 days ^.^;;. So ya, was a bit upset about that, but I recovered eventually and made a new fighter on the South server! Sabar gear (about the best on the server) and level 20 within 2 days! Quite happy about that but I had a little... run-in with some of the thieves on the server Sunday night.
So there I am, minding my own business, when someone named Mushra Ambassador Okie comes up to me and wants a hug. Hearing his reputation, as he was trying to steal from someone in my group before-hand, I started running away telling him to stay back. Now, since you can't steal from someone that is attacking you, after warning him about 3 times, I eventually started attacking him. Of course, he tried to disarm me, steal my weapon and log off. That didn't happen. If he WAS lucky enough to hit me, his disarm attempt failed miserably and he was taking considerable damage from me. So, about 15 minutes of chasing through the City in the Sky Portal, I said screw it, and went on a Draco hunt. (which went anything but successful :P)
So, when we got back to the City of the Sky, the annoying little twerp was still there! Now he was chasing around another one of my group members. Trying to reconcile, I offered him a hug, if that's all he really wanted, you know? As a result, he pickpocketed me! However it chose a paradise token (no-drop item that can't be stolen). So, as a result, I got the Screenshot and started attacking him, along with my group. Funny thing was, he kept running circles around us so we couldn't very well kill him! Eventually, he called one of his friends over, so the numbers were 4-2, lol. His friend wasn't too powerful either, as he was running away a lot as well. Eventually the Ambassador fell, as did his friend, but not after Mushra logged off and logged on his cleric... I must say, one of the most uber characters I have ever seen. Easily killed me and others, but not before more people stepped in to attack him, I guess a lot of people are sick of the Okies. Another mage stepped in and easily disposed of Mushra's cleric, lol. I was quite impressed by his character, and hopefully we have a sort of "peace", though I highly doubt it. Before I went to bed, I talked to a DM on the message board... seems like a lot of other people dislike the Okies as well, but they don't really have any proof to do anything about it. Really discouraging, but I think I'll make my next class to be a rogue... simply to PP the Okies >:).
In other news, a slow day in shop.
11/25/03
Tomorrow is a half-day ^.^. Probably gonna hang out with my peoples on Friday. (Yes, I know it's incorrect English, but I just talk like that sometimes because I'm hyper/trying to be funny. I'm actually quite intelligent... *snicker snicker snort*) Anyway! Currently listening to Cardcaptor Sakura: Catch You Catch Me... very hyper O_o. Anyway... could be doing a Thanksgiving flash, or work on my website. Since I'm not too good at Flash... then again I may just do it for shats and gaggles...
Woke up today... I actually woke up fairly quickly. Had like 10 minutes to spare, where usually I'm running to get everything done :P. Spent my 10 free minutes at the bus stop... Exhilarating, no?
Hopefully I'll start up my scholarship essay... only have to do one, I just don't have enough room for all of my extracurricular activites on most of them ^.^;;.
12/10/03
Only 15 days until Christmas! Personally I couldn't really give a crap, but hey :P. These days I think it's just a capitilistic plot to raise funds... under the guise of religion of course. Can't really complain though, presents given to all... although does the normal little kid know what Christmas is really about? I'd really doubt it, and I'd imagine the "meaning" will diminish in importance throughout the ages until it's not even called Christmas anymore... (well, maybe not THAT much, but hey.)
Not really expecting too much. Heck, being able to sleep is good enough for me. Although, with some teachers (won't mention any names) it's a perfect opportunity to get crucial class assignments done! We just love doing school work, and when we have time over "vacation" it's the perfect time to give us work, I mean, it's not like we want to relax or, *GASP* enjoy life? OMG! That would be a bad thing to do... but when ARE we supposed to enjoy ourselves? When we are 5 years old, when we don't even know what the meaning of tired is, or when we are 80, when we are too tired to have fun... Oh well, I guess I can just look forward to retirement... *sigh*.
12/11/03
Afternoon Rages
Well, maybe not a RAGE.... ^.^;; But ya, was kinda happy before the end of school yesterday.
"There will be no Driver's Ed today. There will be NO Driver's Ed today."
Ok sweet, I can go home and relax as I have all my scholarships fairly done, etc. So, I'm playing Neverwinter Nights, and I get an IM. I alt-tab over and I see, "Dude, urgent." This being at 4:30 I decided it was time for a break anyway.
"There was Driver's Ed today."
What?!
"Ya at 2:30 she announced "Driver's Ed is back on" when
Mike [our instructor] walked through the door."
WHAT?!
"Ya only like 7 kids were there."
The only reason my friend was still
at the school was because he has a co-op job there... so ya, everyone
else was ALREADY WELL ON THEIR WAY HOME when the announcement was made...
So now I've missed my third class, and I was told at the beginning that
I couldn't miss more than 2. And because I was on a waiting list and stupid
people signed up and didn't bother showing up, I missed the first 2. SO
I'll PROBABLY be kicked out of Driver's Ed because of dumbass people.
I've shown up for every class and paid attention and done well on the
exams. And I've already paid in full.... so what are THEY going to do?
I'm going to show up, and if they argue, I'll argue...
2/04/04
Untitled
After getting about 13 hours of sleep, I was expecting to feel much better... though I must admit, I do feel less tired than normal. Road lesson last night, went OK. Honestly don't think I'm ready for the road test, but *shrug*.
Finally finished the new BP website, give it a look. Note that I had nothing to do with the design, that was my buddy Josh that was responsible for THAT. I did the other stuff. If you find any typos, broken links, etc. give me an e-mail.
Also brought my computer into school. Personally, I think something is wrong with the video codecs, as I can't view any movie files whatsoever. Tried fixing it myself, nothing worked. Don't really feel like formatting, as it's just more trouble than it's worth with Windows XP UPGRADE. Hopefully it can be resolved without having to format. Don't you just love Microsoft? Looked online for possible fixes and I found out that it is a KNOWN problem with the codecs. Of course, they haven't released a fix for it. Just typical... although everything was fine BEFORE I formatted to add another hard drive.
In other news, almost everyone on the road is a reckless driver... at least the people I run into. Driving on my road lesson downtown, k? Now, was going the speed limit, etc. when a car just totally pulls out in front of me, then proceeds to brake because he didn't see another car in front of him. Cue me stepping on the brake AND my instructor slamming on his brake. Apparently, he thought I was going faster than I was and that I wasn't prepared to brake... So he proceeded to tell me what I did wrong and I shrugged it off in my head as I was going to do so anyway. Happens again like 5 times on my 1 hour road lesson and he let me brake for all those times. Personally I find this very disturbing... also, when I'm at my bus stop in the morning, freezing my arse off in the New England winter, about 98% of people don't even make a complete stop at the stop sign. Now, normally I'd just say whatever, but when the intersection that I live at is a VERY dangerous one, in which there's been like 35 accidents in the 4-5 years I've lived there, I find it very... very... asinine? Can't really find a word to describe the utter stupidity/recklessness of people.
In other news, I'll probably end up going to Anime Boston 2004 as... Shingo Yabuki!!! I'll probably have a very crappy costume, if at all, but when I get some time, I'll do some brainstorming on how to acquire gloves, blue overshirt thingy, Kasanagi Sun Emblem for back of blue overshirt and gloves, and maybe some blue... pants that don't have anything on them. Dunno if I should just use jeans, but all my jeans have stuff on them, so it wouldn't be accurate. I soooo want to do karaoke at the con! I'll probably have people laugh, but I think i'll have a lot of fun. Besides, I've seen much worse people last year... *shudder* actually made me walk out, lol.
No clue what I'm going to do before 10:00 today in shop. I might just work on random crap until lunch at 10:27, then come back and go to Electronics to check up on my computer... cuz I DO want to take it home... well... end log.
Mundane Monday
It's Monday and I'm practically dead. I went to bed at about 8:30 last night and proceeded to wake up every hour on the hour until 5:30. Vacation has ended, so I'm guessing that's hardly helping, going from sleep patterns of 12 hours to 7-9 hours a night.\
In other news, since I can't really think of anything else to blog, my Shingo costume is nearly complete! I decided to go with the Shingo 97 outfit, as he only had wristbands instead of gauntlets, making the costume much easier.