so last weekend was ax...it was a ton of fun! it was overwhelmingly huge! i spent a lot of time in line. a loooot of time. but it was worth it. i ended up making it to, like 3 panels *sigh*. the vendor's room was amazing. i ended up getting a few books (*cough* nana *shifty eyes*). it was almost hard to find stuff i wanted in there. i usually get my older brother something ghost in the shell related, since we both like it and watch it when he comes home. i ended up getting him one of the novels and having it signed by mary elizabeth mcglynn (its a dub, but i love her voice. and the character she plays. *rolls on the floor*)

ugh. amvs friday night. me and my friend got in line 3 hours before they started. 3 hours. the line wound around in the parking lot numerous times. after they finally let us in, they announced that they lost the disk with the amvs on it. *headdesk*. are you kidding me? we ended up seeing them sunday morning, but it was worth it for "does L creep you out" http://youtube.com/watch?v=vmcUKkGCgq0

ive watched this more times than i care to admit.

also? i forgot to pack a brush. apologies for the hair. oops.

so maybe i'll get off my lazy butt and upload some pictures.

( Lots of pics )

and there it is.

well, i have to go finish cleaning the bathroom. my brother is airforce, and he's comming home for for his mid leave. he has to go back for another six months when he leaves, which sucks. but i couldn't be more excited that i get to see him in a few hours! we're nine years apart, but if either one of us were the opposite sex, we'd be just about the same person. we do differ on a few key points. i think "a new hope" is the best star wars movie, he thinks it's "return of the jedi". ah sibling rivalry.

well, i'd better get cleaning! soli, xpyne! it was fun meeting you and your friends! it's cool you can get such a big group of people you know to do a group cosplay! im jealous! maybe i'll see you next year!

ok...so i guess it wasn't school that was causing my lack of post-age. i guess i'm just that lazy.

the past month has been a little weird. i officially have a degree. its not really as different as i thought it would be. i have my diploma, and instead of looking at it and feeling all acomplished, its more of an "eh." but that could just be me.

so this past month, i really haven't done much. im taking my last 4 online classes for my other degree, and those are half over with. other than that, its been really nice sleeping in a little (although i still try to get up at a decent time), and not studing for hours at a time. ive been crafty though! i've made a few scarfs and am working on some bags. its really nice to finally have time to crochet without worrying about studing. omg, im turning into an old lady. but i think ive pretty much adjusted, and am ready to get back to normal now.

id totally forgotten ax is in a month until the friend im going with said something about it. im really excited! i went to a harry potter convention out of state last summer and had a blast. out of state cons are like super little mini vacations. not really looking forward to spending 12 hours in a car, but it will be fun. i don't think im going to cosplay for the weekend. maybe just a few hours. in fact, i think ax may be the last con i cosplay at. i have a blast picking out my costumes and making them, but they're always uncomfortable. and expensive and time-consuming. i could be sewing cute clothes i could wear on a daily basis! i dont know yet. i really wanted to do kusanagi from ghost in the shell. i might break down and do that. but that would probably be my cosplay swansong. a little sad, but liberating at the same time. at anizona, i spent a whole day out of costume, and it was really nice...

anyway. so thats about it. nothing else exciting. my shower is broken, so i have to use my parents right now. they have a little rack with both their soaps...i usually end up using my dads manly-smelling soap, just because it's easier to get out. is that bad? im starting to get used to smelling all aftershave-y...yeah. ok. im going to read some stargate fic, cause i'm just that lame.

i need some new icons, too. subaru holds a special place in my heart and all...but its been a year now. i'll get right on that. (yeah, right)

4 weeks left! definatley good thing, considering i'm slacking off more and more every week. i have a ton of stuff to do in the next few weeks, and i should be more worried about that than i really am.

sanzo...your outfit is so much harder than it looked. i'm about 80% done with my costume, which is good, since i need it by next thursday (OMGIMSOEXCITED!). my mom came to my resuce and agreed to do all the handsewing for me. i wouldn't have this problem, except i decided to be retarded and make a fully lined robe. why do i do these things to myself? sanzo, this is how much i love you.

i found volumes 5-10 of deathnote on sale, and picked them all up. yet another thing to distract me from all the other things i really need to be doing.

also? i just discovered kyo kara maoh a few days ago. the last thing i need is to be sucked into another fandom right before finals. i have no willpower against it. *sigh*

i had no class today, but i woke up early to get some work done. progress? i've read several kkm fics. *headdesk* my morning is gooooone......

thats right, call me sensei! cause im almost done with school! 6 more full weeks of school, then finals, then its all over...

so obviously, i caved into my masochistic side, and decided to just take all the classes i need to graduate in one semester, rather than spreading it out.

PROS:
im done in 6 weeks

CONS:
OMG I HATE ALL MY CLASSES PASSIONATELY. WORST SEMESTER EVAR.

i love learning about cell biology and genetics. i hate ecology/zoology. among beloved classes such as ochm 2 and physics 2 (thats sarcasm, fyi), i have ecology, invertebrate zoology, vertebrate zoology, and conservation biology. *dies a little*

im also taking a nutrition class, just cause it was a biology elective and it fit in my schedule, but i actually kind of like it. *shrug*

anyway, aside from semester of DOOM, im also frantically trying to get my sanzo costume finished....i have 30 days to get it ready in time for anizona. why do i do this to myself?

its spring break, and im going to go celebrate by finishing my costume, and studying for my ochm test that my teacher scheduled for the tuesday after spring break. EVIL.

ok, i should just give up on the posting once a week thing.

it's both frighning and releiving that school is almost over. it scares me to think about finals week, but i'm looking forward to christmas break so much...it's all i can think about! there's so many things i cant wait to do when ill have no homework to worry about...

such as sleeping. well, really, it's not so much sleeping thats enjoyable...it's waking up without an alarm clock, and taking your time rolling out of bed in the morning. i like to keep my room nice and chilly, and bury myself under all the huge quilts i can find. by the time i wake up in the morning, it's so nice and warm in there, its painful to have to drag myself out of it.

and sewing! i haven't even touched my machine since early summer. i try to sew all my christmas presents for my firends, pillows, quilts, etc. i saw the perfect fabric for a pillow for one of my friends, so i have to at least get that done before christmas. as for everyone else on my list....i may be shopping on christmas eve ><

and i really need to get my sanzo cosplay mostly finished during break. i'll need it done by april for the anime convention in arizona, and i wont have time to really work on it when i'm in school next semester either. luckilly, it doesn't look like it will take too much time to do.

writing! i've started two stories...and that's about it. haven't had a chance to touch them in months. who knows, if i do get one finished, i might be too chicken to actually post it. we'll see.

my non-school friends! i haven't seen them in, like, months. at least not for a reasonable amount of time.

clean my room. not that i'm looking forward to cleaning, but it's a STY. papers and clothes everywhere. i'm not a super neat freak, but it's bad enough to be driving me crazy. not good.

and there's a ton of other things i can't wait to do. but i must focus! one more week and a half!

ah! can you believe there's only 5 more weeks in this semester? the weeks have just been flying by. it's like, by the time i actually wake up, its already wedensday. crazy!

its busy busy busy, and i really don't have much to say. i refuse to let all my posts be about school, and even though i've been bad about it latley, i'm still trying to keep my goal of updating once a week.

i started writing a story a couple of months ago, and it's kind of bugging me that i haven't worked on it since. maybe after this semester.

on a totally unrelated note, my brother and i usually celebrate our birthdays together, even though we're a month apart. i got him the special edition full metal alchemist movie. he got me a copy of the special edition full metal alchemist movie. whoops.

on another unrelated note, i think im addicted to these two amvs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyGM8bf6eoo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2WgGw2jZRs
i must have watched them both about 10 times. poor subaru. he kills me with his tragic-ness.

who passed thier freakishly hard ochem test monday? me!

well, okay, it was a 71%, but thats still passing! (mumbles something about it being one of the highest grades...whish is sorta sad)

well, thats pretty much it. i haven't really *done* anything in the past two weeks. last week i studies chemistry...all.week.long. and this week im catching up on all the work that i put asde to study chemistry. (have i mentioned my dislike of chemistry? it is however, less intese than my dislike of physics.)

i finally got volume 5 of yami no matsuei. there was much tatsumi love. i was very happy.

Oh my. The only thing I can really remember from the past two weeks is a blur of school. That's it. I'm behind in everything. i feel a bit like subaru in the icon. only there's a distinct lack of cute boy leaning over me.

Ochem is slowly draining the life out of me. it's very mortal combat like. everytime i sit in class and my teacher talks about a new concept, it's like i get kicked in the head and my health bar goes down a little.

actually, i think i'm slighly grasping a few of the concepts. i've devoted the last week and a half to studying ochem (hence the "i'm behind in everything"), but i'm still not ready to take a test monday. on the plus side, the quiz i took monday brought my overall grade up to a 71%. so...i'm passing the class at this moment! but oh my, we're in troubled waters now. (we wont talk about that first test. i did actually kick the fair amount of ass i had predicted on newman structures and nomenclature. however, i blew everything else.)

my art class ends in a week and a half. i couldn't be happier about that.

i have my graduation appointment next monday. i really want to graduate this year, but i'm not so sure....it would require me taking 25 credit hours, including ochem II and physics II next spring. i'm doing 25 credit hours now, but i don't know if i could handle doing this for another semester. *sigh* we'll see, i guess.

alright, im going to go poke around lj for 10 more minutes and then go back to chemsitry.

well...i was the first one finished with my ochem test this morning. (good thing or bad thing? i have no idea!)

i know i compltely blew an entire question. like, to the point where if i get *any* partial credit i'll be happy! what makes it worse is, it was almost word for word the same question that was on the previous quiz...WHICH SHE GAVE US THE ANSWER KEY TO. why didn't i study the key to the quiz more? because i'm a complete and utter moron. honestly, what's wrong with me?

on the bright side, i'm fairly certain i kicked a fair amount of ass on the alkane nomenclature and newman projection problems, and i made a decent attempt at the extra credit problem, complete with lousy drawings to further explain my fuzzy logic.

we'll see! this is me not stressing over it. really.

another week, over! *wipes brow*

i fear monday, my first ochem test...i know as soon as i finish posting this, i need to study until bedtime. (which could be why comming up with things to type is a slow process today...stalling!) at times i feel like i know what im doing, and then i take a break and forget it all. i got a "c" on the first quiz...and honestly...i was pretty okay with that. (the fact that the highest grade in the class was only 3 points higher than mine makes me feel a little better). really, if i just *pass* the class, i'll be happy. must be senior-itis.

my dad just took me out for a milkshake. milkshake study breaks are nice :-)

anyways, onto more important things. i'm slowly making my way through the x/1999 manga (in no particular order), and so i'm reading the begining of book 14...i was terribly offended by ( this... )

poor subaru! they needlessly cut out his head! *sigh* he has such a nice one too... ^^

oh dear, how is it only 2 weeks into the semester? *dies*

i got my first physics test back...i ended up with a 91. which is...ok. i was hoping it would be higher so i wouldn't have to worry so much about future tests. it was the stupid comprehension question that killed me. i did all the math just fine -- i just can't explain why it works the way it works. it may have something to do with me not carring.

i got an 8/10 on my first art paper. i knew that class was going to give me problems.

everything else seems to be going alright so far. ochem is taking up a *lot* of my time though. we got a take home quiz friday, and i snagged two chem majors to work with on it. we spent five straight hours on it, and still didn't finish it. it was pretty beastly. hopefully we'll get everything figured out tomorrow :-X

a few days ago, i woke up with an idea for a fic, and i have a few things typed out. it's not going to get done anytime soon, but i'm pretty proud of the fact that i, you know, am kind of giving it a shot. we'll see. *shrug*

i've been reading "game over or continue" by jjblue1 before bed everynight for the past few days. it's the perfect mix of adorable/creepy for my nightly bedtime story. it just amazes me how well people from all around the world write in english. i have no ability at all for languages. i took two semesters of french in high school, and i couldn't even imgine ever being good enough at it to write a story. it boggles my mind.

so, im off to read another lovely chapter, and then it will most definatley be bedtime.

well, i had an interesting day back to school. i only had two classes today (microbiology and physiology).

i totally missed microbiology. but wait, it wasn't my fault! the class register listed a room number, so naturally i go there. too bad the class is full of phsychology students. anyway, i stand around looking dumb with the other 4 micro students who are standing around looking dumb until someone tells us a different classroom in a different building. so we all go there. what do we find? dark room. so i decide to go to the professor's office, since i already know him, and get all the stuff i missed. so after that, i ask him where the classroom is actually at, and he gives me yet another classroom number.

as i was walking to my physiology class a few minutes later, i passed by a girl who was cutting accross a dirt area with some plants and cacti and stuff (i live in arizona). anyway, i hear her scream and turn around, and she has a big chunk of cactus *stuck* in her upper thigh right under her butt. so i ended up pulling a hunk of cactus out of some girls butt. i kept wanting to just yank it out fast, like a bandaid, but everytime i'd touch it she'd freak out. i got it out eventually (aw, she called me an angel *blush*).

all in all a very interesting day back to school.

here i am meeting my self-imposed 'update once a week' quota. with time to spare, even!

4 more days until school. im a little excited, at this point. which is good, as opposed to feeling impending doom, i guess. i'm sure in 2 weeks, any excitment will be long gone. i stopped by academic advising this week, because the speach class i took last year wasn't showing up on my transcript as fulfilling my communications requirment. i was really scared they'd make me take com101 as well. but it all worked out. no more communications classes for me!

so here's the final fall schedual:

physics and lab
art appreciation (online...woohoo)
microbiology and lab
organic chemistry and lab
physiology and lab
science communication II

my gpa shakes in fear at the thought of ochem. i do too.

I really meant to drive down to school today and finish tweaking my schedule/picking up my parking permit and whatnot...but it's so nice and cloudy and rainy, i really can't be expected to actually be productive, right? so instead, i'll just read some more x/1999 fics and pretend school doesn't start in another week.

well, thats pretty much it. sorry. i'm just trying to get in the habit of actually updating. however, i'm lazy, and pretty borring, so this may be a painful process.

well, i suppose it's finally time i posted something.

really, i just use this to make the occasional comment on a community. but, i'd love to meet people into my fandoms so i don't have to fangirl all by my lonesome!

anyway, i'm 22 years old and am in my last year in college (bout time)! the fall semester begins for me in 2 weeks, and im tentativley signed up for 24 credit hours. i may die before christmas, lol (4 labs a week is just WRONG).

so that's my excuse for not having a more interesting journal. i swear, i'll try to think of things to write about :-) really, all you need to know about me is that i love anime, and i spend a pathetic amount of my limited free time reading fanfic ;-)