I'm sure everyone has noticed by now that google has pacman as their logo today and yesterday. I will admit I've played it quite a few times already. It's really just me waiting for everything to download and copy to this new laptop. Working on my music now- it'll take half an hour to copy because it's about 50GB of music. Wheeeee.

New laptop is still growing on me. I'm also hesitant whether I want it to still be named Cibo. When reformatted my old Dell, I named it Cibo, but it's only been Cibo for a while. I'm considering using some Avatar names. I like Azula. I think it may fit my new computer.

I am liking Windows 7, though. It feels a lot more streamlined and happy than XP. Oh, if anyone knows any neat shortcuts for W7, let me know!

Oh, and I bought a speaker for the laptop. It was about $30; I wasn't looking for anything much more expensive than that. We'll see how I like it!

Lalalala~

Soooo I'm on my new laptop. (Lenovo, Intel i5 core, 2.23Ghz, 300GB memory, 4GB RAM, nvidia GEForce graphics) I like it mostly... but the speakers are shit. My Dell E1505 has amazing speakers.

I also chose to get a smaller laptop because I did want one that is more portable. I suppose I'm thinking for the future when I eventually get a permanent desktop... maybe?

As of right now, the keyboard feels nice. Nothing wrong there.

But the speakers are driving me nuts. Maybe I got too spoiled with my Dell speakers. :( :(

So... I guess if there's nothing else terribly wrong, I'll probably stick with this computer. I just don't want to buy speakersssss waaaaahhhh.

Anyone have any suggestions? Anything better than these tinny things...

So I really like Avatar the Last Airbender. I wish I'd gotten into it sooner. D: But oh well. There may be NEW AVATAR in.. oh, a year. Or so. So that's cool.

Plus I can still find the icons and such from when people were way into it. Yaaaaay.

Um, this is just to show that I like Sakka. SAKKAAAAAA.

On a serious note, Galen and I went very very south. In fact I'd rather not think about him at all anymore and I've been doing pretty well on that front since I'll probably never see him ever again. And I am completely okay with that.

The end all of it is basically: he started fucking around with other girls (this is all after we broke up), I was lonely, but didn't care particularly that he was fucking around with other girls (but felt sorry for them if they were actually serious). Then I met Tristen around February, and then I heard rumors of him talking shit about Tristen and his friends and me, and lots of other mis-communications (but at this point I don't care). Also he began to be "unable
to handle my very PRESENCE (grow some balls, seriously) in the house, so I tried to stay clear of him when I was there, and then a final FB message to me calling me awful awful names and being seriously immature. So he bans me from PKP after Spring Break, effectively banning me from a lot of my friends who live and/or visit that house a lot.

He came up to me once after slamming that door in my face saying "Do you want to talk?" Hell no, I can't forgive all the shit you put me through this semester, calling me awful things, and barring me from seeing my friends (which inadvertently put one of the people I do still keep in touch with in a really bad situation and I feel I could have helped HAD I BEEN ABLE TO VISIT HIM IN HIS OWN FUCKING ROOM). I am not about to forgive you or even want to talk to you. So I said, pretty coldly, "No. Not really." And walked away.

He was the one who made things impossible at the end of the semester. I don't think I'll ever forgive him for that. So. Yay that update.

Soooo off to China in three months.

But I still have the summer to do... what? I think the best is to get a part-time job or something to make money this summer, cause I feel I'll need more money than I have before heading off to ANOTHER COUNTRY.. again.

Also, I'd like to get better at keeping a journal/record of my, probably at most, weekly happenings. At least by the time I get to China I'd like to have a pattern going. Maybe? Something. So this'll be public for now, since my friends-list here is so small it probably doesn't matter if it's public.

I'd like to do a little bit of tiny traveling, but none of it is planned yet... And there's always the $ issue, duh.

Impatient about my new laptop-- trying out Lenovo this time around. My dell that I'm using right now overheats like MAD and I know there are problems with screen's backlighting. Soooo that should be here by Saturday, I think.

Problem: I'm so lazy and solitary when I'm home. I know it's beautiful outside but I just... don't... want to go outside and do anything. What would I do?

I have books too, that I'm reading, but... that's a temporary reprieve from my default of tv+computer/internet. It's not good. Sigh.

I've kind of thought of a few things, like utilizing my sketchbook again, which I haven't done, for, frankly, a few years.

Also started following http://academichic.com , which makes me realize I need to get a few things to oomph my wardrobe for professional, working days. I know that's soon, and I think my job in China will be fine to start that off. A few things I know I should get are: pencil skirt, pumps for working, nicer pants/jeans, and I may dabble with using a belt as just decoration rather than function.

Let's see-- also just watching a bunch of movies and shows and stuff. Like 28 Days Later, re-watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, some Futurama, blah blah.

Iron Man 2 was amazing, btw. I loved it, and I can't wait until dad and I see it together.

Cool, okay, later. I'll try to make this regular.

Herrooo.

I'm almost done with my second-to-last semester of college. WHAAAAT. I don't like being a senior. Staying a junior forever is great.

But. This semester has been infinitely better than the last. I'm NOT taking five classes and killing myself.

Grease was probably THE highlight of this semester. I did sound engineering, sound board operating, and the House right spotlight (we were a bit short on the crew, can you tell?) I miss it a lot. I will be ASMing Three Days of Rain, but I doubt it will be nearly as fun.

Galen and I haven't been together for about a month now, and actually we were on really odd terms for the beginning of this semester. We were sort of together-- we were sleeping together and hanging out, but... I didn't feel right, so we finally broke it off.

We're in a good place, and we're way friendly with each other (unlike a few weeks ago, which was hell when I couldn't go to PKP) but I think he still wants to cuddle and such like we used to, which isn't something I think we should do if we're not dating. As much as it would be nice, and I know he would really like it, I don't think it should happen.

I miss having that boyfriend dynamic, though.

Mario Kart is greaaaaat. Played it for a few hours yesterday after Love Actually.

AND SNOW. GLORIOUS SNOW. Grace and I built a fantastic snow lion. His name is Reginald. We made him at FOUR IN THE MORNING. So much ridiculous. He's probably covered in the snow that was STILL FALLING THEN.

Chinese got canceled today because Daniel couldn't make it here. So I'm officially done with classes! :D I still have these things to do though:
* finish C9 grammar work
* finish haiku journal
* Japanese translation final
* haiku final study
* Chinese final study
* commonplace book for Kanji Mastery

My Japanese has really suffered. I'm really quite embarrassed how badly it's gotten. My speaking, particularly is what I'm displeased about. I need a kick in the pants... somehow, to get me back in gear with Japanese. I've also been putting a lot of my energy into Chinese rather than Japanese, and that is probably just ONE of the many factors of why it's happened. Grease also took over my life for about three weeks, so I couldn't do much else.

Chinese is fantastic, though.

Errr, I need to do laundry so bad. It's an enormous pile circling my bed and I've run out of socks and underwear. I NEED TO DO LAUNDRY.

Okay time to be productive...? Hahaha that's funny.

oh, I have Steam now too. YES.

For some reason I felt inspired to actually update my livejournal. And lo! It's been exactly a YEAR since I last did so. HA.

So I like lists. This will be a list-y entry.

This is what my summer has been and will be so far. I made a notepad document at the beginning of the summer, because... I did.

May 23-24 Gustavus
30-31 cabin
June 6-7 Beloit
13-14 home/casino
20-21 Pittsburgh/AST
27-28 home/Mad Jacks
July 4-5 cabin
11-12 cabin
18-19 Peter and the Wolf/Valleyfair?/home
25-26 Texas
August 1-2 home
8-9 home
15-16 home
22-23 leave for Beloit YES

I have a whole folder of notepad docs of these sorts of things. I don't think I'm the only person who does this. Am I?

Wow, lots of things have happened in the year I have been absent from this thing.

I went to Japan for four-ish months, I'm at SSA again, I had a crazy overloaded spring semester, and I have changed from being abroad but in ways I'm still learning even now.

I have a social list too, of people I want to hang out with more next year. I'm not gonna post that, because that seems a little... weirder and socially inept of me to do so. It is a physical list, though.

I'm already starting to adapt to the whole, "I'm going to be a senior and in the real world in a YEAR" thing. Scary. I've made some mock budgets of what living in Chicago may be like. In Excel, of course. ORGANIZATION, I MUST HAVE IT. Not that I expect it will be terribly true to what my real budget will be, but we'll see.

I have a stack of books from the library as well. Lots of Batman. Lots of scifi I've always meant to read. And then the odd others. About 15 books in all. Let's see how I do with getting through them all instead of dinking around on the internet.

Speaking of streaming/internet. I've now become a fan of three things: Dr Who (new series, eventually I'll watch *some* of the old), Torchwood (watched Children of Earth two days ago), and Battlestar Galactica. Three shows I've meant to watch for a long time as well.

Hm hm okay. That's good enough.

Watching SciFi Channel original movies is always interesting.

I caught a movie, it seems, near the beginning, but I never caught the title until it just finished (now). It was called the Grave-Dancers. It had the guy who starred in John Doe (what I know him from) and also the brother or something in Prison Break. Dominic... Purcell, maybe? I'm too lazy to imdb him.

It was all RAAAAH HORROR and KILLING and DEATH and AXES and stuff. I don't know why I was watching it.

Now it's some other movie, but I'll watch it anyway. At least until I get Batman: Gotham Knight. WHEEE.

I has two youtube links today to spread from my flist.

This first is an art that buttfacemakani found, here; it will make you laugh.

And this is from momebie, and it almost made me cry it was so cute/touching.


BELOIT TOMORROW NNNNNNGHHHHHHHHHHHH SO EXCITED. (Techincally Thursday, but I'm leaving tomorrow night, so, close enough.)

Sweeeet. I sold a bunch of my manga online. UNFORTUNATELY the freaking post office closes at 1pm on Saturdays AND I DIDN'T KNOW THAT, so I have to have mom go and ship them tomorrow. So laaaammme.

Venture Brothers was hysterical tonight. I even bought the shirt. XD Yesssss.

Aaaaggghhh this semi-week is going to be so looong. Wednesday night I'm leaving for BELOIT to see Galen! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY. And then I'll take the bus back Sunday night/Monday morning to go back to work... Monday morning. D: That'll be interesting. We'll see how much sleep I get.

But aaaaahhhhhh so excited.

I got DDR Extreme2! It's really fun, having a new DDR game. The first in.... four years or something? Geeze. I realized that my PS2 is 6 years old. SIX YEARS. Damn. And it's still going. I'm wondering what it would cost to trade it in for a slim version, because I'm afraid this one is going to go kaput at some point, and I'd rather have a newer one that will last longer as well.

Hmm hmmm, we'll see.

Urrrrghhhhh Wednesdaaaayyyy....