Disorientated, but still in action (66/90)

Heh, I'm surprised how busy I am even when I haven't had any homework this past day or so. I've gotten so far behind in my personal list of things to get done that I have started to stress out over it. Immediately after I came home from work, I fired up Google Reader and looked through about 1000 pages before getting bored. After that, I listened to music through my headphones (Apparently, music bothers Shaun when he's watching Cartoon Network XD) while building the Lego Star Wars set I bought yesterday. Then I proceeded to watching the Nostalgia critic as I have not had a chance these past couple of weeks... 

Oh yeah, I've recently subscribed to The Brick Show which is a blog where a guy reviews new and upcoming Lego sets. His way of reviewing sets begins with him comparing the price of the Lego set with the number of pieces the set comes with. AFOL (Adult Fans of Lego) usually look at the piece to price ratio to justify if they are putting their money into each Lego set wisely. Also, AFOLs look for unique pieces when buying their Lego. I know, it's weird thinking about that, but apparently there is a whole community of people over the age of ...let's say 20... that like to buy sets just so that they can get more pieces for their grand projects. So yeah, back to talking about The Brick Show. The guy goes into detail about the intended use of the Lego set and talks about each minifigure. The reviews end with three overall ratings of the set according to three different age groups: young kids, older kids, and adults. 

On a side note, I think I've been a little less responsive these past two days. I think this is due to the past weeks where I got 4-5 hours of sleep daily (maybe it was 3-4). I seemed to keep a good streak going, but now, my body and mind have worn out. But I'll recover. I have this weekend plus Monday.  O-o Wait, I take that back. I have Sunday and Monday to rest. Fridays and Saturdays are always hectic. 

Happy Free Time (65/90)

Wow, I have not had a day as relaxed as this one in such a long time. All of the burden from my seemingly never ending homework is now gone. I can now focus on the simple things in life. Like going to Wal-mart to buy food that's supposed to last me until the end of the semester. :)

Today started out pretty crappy, actually. I woke up at 9am, but could not bring myself to get out of bed because my room was soo cold. I even missed my 10am class just because I couldn't bring my dead beat self to challenge the cold. Eventually, I managed to get out, put clothes on, and leave for my 11am class.

That stupid AC.

The rest of the day was pretty awesome though. Besides being tired from the day before, I managed to do what I consider my carefree activities. When I came home from my single class (damnit), I decided to do a small update to my website (fully functional now). I also decided to mess around with some Lego bricks before realizing that Toys R Us is having a sale this week. That's when I started talking to Lou and then asked him if he wanted to tag along. He was willing so I asked Eric if he could give us a ride.

At Toys R Us, Lou and I went straight to the Lego section. We had such a hard time deciding which sets we wanted to buy and how much we should spend (because we're poor college kids). After much debate, we made our decision and walked around aimlessly around Toys R Us holding our boxes containing our Lego sets (dorks). We met this guy who, for some odd reason, was really into collecting Nerf Guns. He did not specify why he wanted a Nerf Gun so badly other than he just wanted to shoot people. Lou and I asked him if he played HvZ (Humans versus Zombie, bitches) but he declined. Instead, he told us what would seem like an awful representation of a Human/Zombie taking all enemy zerg.

After that small fiasco, we (I mean I) payed for the Lego sets and walked down to Wal-mart. I was in dire need of food and did not have anything to drink in my fridge. I also bought food for the "End of the Year BBQ." I hope the people like the food when they come out to eat on Friday. I spent $40.73 on the peoples.

Eric came (once again) to pick us up. He had to go to a counseling meeting (don't ask) to take a personality/IQ test so he couldn't be there with Lou and me to Toys R Us and Wal-mart. But whatever...

At 6:30pm, my friends and I had a meeting that involved us clearing up a certain debate we've been having about housing during the summer. To my surprise, the meeting was really short so we mostly socialized with one another :D An hour later, I attended the last official meeting of Club Japan. The meeting was also brief and someone put up a PowerPoint that highlighted a few activities Club Japan did over our two-semester-long timespan as an organization.

When Club Japan ended, I immediately left towards home. On the way, I saw a couple of people (whom I'm not too familiar yet) playing soccer in front of the Village Green. I waved Hi to them and they asked me if I would join them. I did. We had a couple of laughs and had fun playing around for a bit. One of them asked me if I wanted to go see his band practice for a bit. I totally accepted and he took me down to the basement of the VGR to hang out for a bit while the band attempted to remember how the parts of the songs went. I think the band was trying to teach their new guitarist how each part of the song went. I gotta say, it was pretty cool, but I had to leave early so I would attempt to get some more stuff done tonight (like this post).

Oh geez. This blog is becoming a narrative again...

Success!! part 2 (64/90)

Alright. So, I'm starting this post where I left off in the previous post as I did not want the post to be too long. Plus, I thought I wouldn't have anything to write today anyways. Turns out, this was true.

I set up the forum on my website and then had to leave Evie because she was tired and I had to go to another meeting at the student center. Before I left, I realized I was hungry so I decided to grab pizza on my way out from Woodworth. I got some Hawaiian pizza which turned out to be way better than I expected. Awesome!

My next destination was the Fashion Show rehearsal which started at 4pm so I was a little late. Not that it mattered. Nobody had made any progress except setting up the stage. I was really impressed with how the stage was set up. City lights, buildings, christmas lights? Oh yeah!

[After an hour of hanging out with some people later]
Oh no. Dress rehearsal. This is the part where we actually walked with the outfits we put together before the show starts! Whatever shall we do about this horrifying nightmare? Damn, you could totally tell I was faking, didn't you. This was the part of the night where I swear to you that I wore what felt like the most comfortable clothes ever. Thanks to Mo. He let me borrow a sweater for an outfit I put together. After wearing that sweater, I'm definitely considering in getting my share of the same type of sweater. In another hour, the Fashion show starts..

And now, the time has come to test our hard work. We have been meeting weekly since the semester started trying to get this show put together. This last week, we met 4 times because we felt a little crunched in the amount of time we had to prepare for this show. To be honest, most of the final touches were done at the last minute. We had so many people stressing out even right before the show. (Did we get the lights right? Do we have all of the outfits? Is everyone here? Will we be able to keep the show running long enough?) But in the end, the show was a huge success! So many people applauded. We got so much praise. We all felt so awesome!

My little thoughts of walking on stage:
I was so concerned with my facial expression throughout the whole thing. Chris had told me not make any weird expressions (which I always seem to do). He told me to look a little annoyed and to squint my eyes a little. When I walked on stage, I felt really uncomfortable because I was told to stand at the very front of the stage for 2-3 seconds while all of these people took pictures of me. Every time I walked, I kept thinking that I turned too fast because people were still taking pictures while I was walking away from them. Another thing that made me really uncomfortable. I walked multiple times so after the first time, I kept seeing the same people look at me. Each time, it became harder and harder to not make eye contact with the audience. Oh well, I'm sure the audience enjoyed seeing the same person multiple times (XD Sam). I'm sure seeing people they recognized kept their attention.

Success! (63/90)

This week has started out great so far. Sure, I may have overslept and almost missed my Japanese oral proficiency exam (I was pretty scared about that). But there was too much greatness in the air to say that today was "just good."

I am pretty confident I got a good score on the Japanese oral proficiency exam. I hesitated on a few sentences, but I think my speech was very clear and I used the right particles in the right places. Nothing I said came off as sounding awkward to Ishiyama (I won't do it this time) so I'll just take that as an indicator that I did well.

After the oral exam, I headed into the Atrium as I wanted to finish of the Pita I had gotten yesterday and didn't have enough time to eat before the oral exam. I sat with my Pita near the stairs for about two minutes when a couple of my friends from anime club came to say hi. We had a little conversation which lasted quite longer than I had expected as they said that they were waiting for someone. Feeling obligated to stay and keep them company, I stayed at the table for about 10 more minutes before finally deciding to head off to class. Turns out, I was late, but I didn't care. Intro to Art is so boring that if I had gotten to the class 10 minutes earlier, I may have slept towards the end of the class.

After Intro to Art, I had Social Media which is probably my most exciting class this semester. I don't know why, but I never feel the urge to fall asleep or take a nap in that class. Even if I hadn't slept for the last two days, Intro to Social Media class will keep me awake. After class was over, I headed to Woodworth with Ambria who was getting food to take back to her dorm. We talked a little bit and I told her a few secrets on how to get food cheaper by ordering things individually instead of in a package. All said while I was sipping on a clear cup that contained fruit punch and vault. Also, FYI, I got that drink for "free" if you know what I'm mean. After Ambria was done with her food, we both went our separate ways (She went to Park Hall. I went home).

When I got home, I decided that I was going to work on my website and get more content posted. I managed to create a horrible audio recording of my attempts to explain a few updates that I had done to the website over the last couple of days. After that, I created a video that consisted of a small tour around the Lego sets I had bought this semester. I kid you not, I probably spent around $200-$300 on Lego sets this semester. The video also showed how messy my room has been (to your amusement, I suppose).....

I went back to Woodworth a few hours later. I had to meet with someone who wanted to teach me how I could install a forum onto my website. After about an hour of trial and error with her method, we gave up. I think the problem was that the software was  incompatible with Wordpress. Wordpress just didn't have anything configured in its system to allow that so I ended up searching on google for a plugin that worked as a forum. And &*%(&^, I managed to find a plugin that worked...and that only took about 4 minutes to do.....

Can I say TO BE CONTINUED?

Until we win (62/90)

I want to recall a little event that occurred yesterday as I have realized that I forgot to mention it in the previous post. Lego Wars! The little event wasn't actually a war, I'd call it more of a social gathering.

I want to say, that I was kind of worried at first as I was not expecting the girls to be enthusiastic about the gathering. I didn't even tell them exactly what I planned to do with them. I just said something like "So.... tomorrow at uh... 7pm, you guys wanna hang out at my house?"

Sam had a little setback, but Marlee and Evie managed to be at our meeting place on time. I was a little late, though, as I wanted to eat beforehand so that my random hunger moments wouldn't disturb our play time. When I got there, we had a little conversation and blah blah blah (random laughter and all that stuff). Then we decided to finally go to my house, but to our luck, the rain came and poured hard. Marlee and Evie didn't have a problem as they both had sweaters, but me. Oh me. I only had a T-shirt (and shorts) on. Goddess dammit. Oh well, we made our way home and took that little bitch (rain) on like bad asses.

When we came to my house and into my room, their purpose became obvious as they saw all of the scattered Lego bricks on my bedroom floor. "So yeah, let's play with Lego!" I don't know why, but I think I came off as being a creeper as I immediately started up my ustream and set up my laptop to do some audio recording. To my dismay, the stupid thing didn't want to work. I kept fidgeting with the tool trying to get it to work, but failed in the end. So my plans of doing a podcast audio recording failed miserably. Phoooey.

All in all, we had fun playing with Lego. Sam came an hour late, but the group and I actually upheld a meaningful conversation just like I wanted to (too bad I couldn't record it). I really liked their creations. Even the two that were not finished (Don't give up guys). After our little attempts to create stuff out of Lego bricks, I realized that people do in fact have slightly different perceptions of this world. The images we create reflect the person we really are. Some of us do need a little more time to get this image out of our heads, but those ideas can be equally as good, if not better than others. You never know until you finish.

Talking dirty (61/90)

Watch it. You'll never see this coming. You'll never believe it. You'll never comprehend it. OH MY GODDESS!! It's coming!!! Are you ready!? AHH!!! I can't keep it bottled inside any longer!!! FFFFFFFF!!

It's just another blog post. Ha, you thought I was going to share some awesome, didn't you? Or maybe a deep dark secret.. No? You have already learned to expect nothing awesome from me? D'awwww. You're so sweet.

Okay, let me get down to business. Dirty dirty business. The type where you shouldn't bring your kids to. Or your wife. Or your grandma. Heck, you shouldn't be here either.

So, I was getting my haircut today and Jackie was kind enough to volunteer. Do you see where this is going? Well, yer wrong. Let me finish. Gah. Just thinking about it just sickens me. During the process of cutting my hair, she made this comment. She told me I was hairy. Given the context, you'd think this comment was appropriate. But I made the mistake of saying, "yeah, check out my chest hair" (I was getting a haircut and hair was all over me). Well, apparently, Jackie took this the wrong way (or a way that I did not intent her to take). She started talking about how she likes hairy guys and then said something about how she (liked?) her boyfriends hairy butt. Ewww... Oh wait, I think I just gagged or something. Yuck. So yeah, disgusting. Way to go Jackie. Way to keep this horrifying image of your boyfriend's monsterously bushy buttocks.

In any case, you should definitely check out this link http://is.gd/bH0pW
You'll thank me later ;)

Something you don't care about (60/90)

Alright. I thought I'd never get through this week. My head has been hurting all day. I should have probably gone to bed early today, but I couldn't help it. My brother was playing TF2 and I had things to discuss with someone.

So, I'm trying to get people to buy the Left 4 Dead 2 - four pack that's supposed to be on sale this weekend. You should too! It's only $60 for 4 copies of the game which comes out to $15 per game. Who wouldn't want that?

 Hmm.. oh yeah, if you read this and want to hang out tomorrow (Saturday) at my place, please give me a call at around 6pm. A little heads up tho, I don't have food. I haven't gotten around to buying groceries this week. But, I'll probably get something special if enough people show up.

I know some of these posts have been really short, but let's face it, I am in dire need of sleep. I've slept an average of 3-4 hours everyday this week. Naps included. So yeah. Sleep. I need as much as I can get right now.