nikavia

So because I have been lacking in updating for the fine month of December, I will recap, attempting to be witty, or at least put forth some effort in an advent-y way, at least until Christmas. For those of you unaware, there is this whole Christmas thing which usually involves chocolate, candy, flipping things over etc. to count down the days until Christmas, beginning on December 1^st. So I shall attempt to do that, from now, until Christmas, as in “December 1^st, 25 days Till Christmas- 1 week of school left”. We shall see how well this works. This means I also have to recap, so here we go. The sill dorky thing is in this font, and the summary of the day is all… normal shaped.

Friday, December 1^st, 24 days Till Christmas- One Week of School Left.

This day was a Friday, and according to my planner, nothing exciting happened in school. That evening, Alex, Sarah and Daniel came over and we watched Suicide Kings, drank way too much caffeine (Daniel and I did at least), I chatted with Daniel, probably scarred Alex irreparably and then broke out Adventures in Babysitting. It was a fun night all around, with much giggling and enjoyment of our last free Friday before the doom of finals set in. Next year I have made a not to go to the hanging of the Greens, apparently it was pretty.

Saturday, December 2^nd, 23 days until Christmas- Two Math Practice Finals.

Studied way, way, way, too much with Dad, this day only being the entire Trig practice final and about half of the PreCalc practice final. This is all I remember from this day. If I did anything else, it is a mystery to me.

Sunday, December 3^rd, 22 days until Christmas- Three hours of FFX-2.

Finished studying with father, with little bloodshed, and rewarded myself with three hours of FFX-2, which was fun and kinda exciting. My second play through and I got up to 98% before the final boss. I can’t think of anything else to do, so I ran around for a bit and just leveled up and learned things for my dresspheres. I really can’t understand how males can play that game and not be slightly creeped out. They change clothes for God’s sake. Oh well it was fun and a good way to detox from all the math. Went back to the school shaped place and watched Mononoke-Hime with Alex and Sarah. Fun and created something for my to-do list. Good news is I have figured out a few Christmas presents.

Monday, December 4^th, 21 days until Christmas- Four hours of lecture.

This was my last day where everything was lecture, and I had all my classes. Trig was bright and early and very review shaped, as were all my other classes now that I think about it. This day was also when we began to work hard on our ME project. It was a nightmare, as there are only two comp pods on campus that support ProE, DSH and The ESCape Pod. Guess where every single student went after we were kicked out of DSH by the crazy people testing on Powerpoint… POWERPOINT!!! We actually cheated and went to the computers just outside the DSH classroom, tying three of them up for a few hours.

Tuesday, December 5^th, 20 days until Christmas- Five paragraphs about a fake Flashlight.

Yes, a fake flashlight. One of our group members for ME dropped out of college, leaving me to panic type up five paragraphs about our imaginary flashlight that we were designing. There was a lot of ME this day, much of which included being kicked out of DSH and wandering and luckily getting computers in the ESCape pod. I walked from the escape pod to my dorm, at 7 o’clock at night, by myself, in the dark. I realized this might have been a bad plan about ten feet from Alverado. Then I naturally ran into both Paul and Tyler, both of which are ME group members, at Lapo. It’s a small world. This day was bad but not as bad as the next day.

Wednesday, December 6^th, 19 days until Christmas- Six awake hours not with Tyler.

This Day was a nightmare. I woke up, went to trig, worked in the ESCape Pod until Chem, went to Chem (3 hours w/out Tyler), Took a test in ME (Tyler count, 1 hour), went to PreCalc… with Tyler (With Tyler-2, without-3.5), went to lunch with Dusty (about 4 hours w/out Tyler), went to ESCape Pod and spent the next 7.5 hours, with Tyler, working on Project (With Tyler- 9.5, without 4), Retrieved by Sarah and Alex who came and saved me from Engineering land, spent the next hour-ish being fed and watching CSI, then crawled into bed. End of the day count. Time with Tyler 9.5, time w/out him, 6. We bonded… And didn’t kill each other, GO US!\

Thursday, December 7^th, 18 days until Christmas- Seven Completely Random Hugs.

Project was handed in and we all took the biggest sigh of relief you can possibly imagine. Then came this sense of euphoria that hung around the rest of the day. Did a powerpoint on FFX and managed drain the batteries of the laptop. Sorry once again darling, nothing personal. Random hugging ensued as my personal bubble disappeared because I was far too happy. Tyler and I took a Detox period of 24 hours, naturally running into each other at Lapo, but that is okay as it was through glass, so I don’t count it. That night I took a break and was slightly creative. We’ll see how far this goes. Then, that night I stayed up until midnight so I could register for the next semester. Apparently 5000 freshmen all signing onto lobo web simultaneously killed it and It was very very dead. There were many windows of whining open as we complained about how it wasn’t working. I gave up and went to bed at 1 in the morning.

Friday, December 8^th, 17 days until Christmas- Eight problems per test of PreCalc.

Last day of classes, but there were only two, Chem and Trig. Went to Chinese Buffet with Sarah for lunch. Then went back to my room and studied. Then was drug out for food. Sarah and I saw a helicopter take off. It was very exciting. Later a Sarah and an Alex invaded my room (well I invited them in) and we studied and Alex redid my lights around the room. We had CSI in the background. It was quite lovely. Alex and I slipped into Math speak and Sarah rolled her eyes and muttered in German as we discussed Asymptotes and Zeros, in math babble. We found Tyler’s room to give him my notes and then I went to bed.

Saturday, December 9^th, 16 Days until Christmas- Nine people I know seen.

So I was jolted out of REM sleep at 7, woke up at 8, and lazed around until 9, when I stumbled out of bed to answer my phone. Dusty came up and we went to Math Finals at about 9:40 ish. It was cloudy and icky outside. Upon entering the classroom I sat down in a random desk and realized that I had managed to sit next to Tyler. I am subconsciously aware of him. This is not a good sign. We took our PreCalc final and we both handed ours in within seconds of each other (meanwhile Nyssa’s internal warning bells are screaming at me). I felt confident in it. We then lurked out in the hall, discussing problems on the Final. We were joined by Dusty. I then saw Kate, who I have not seen in over a year. It was very exciting. Then we talk for a sec to some guy Tyler knows (doesn’t count in tally, tally currently 3). Then Paul came over and the tally is now up to 4. Dusty and I left and it was Bright and Sunny, must be a sign. Then Dusty and I met Sarah and Cait out in the Quad. Then I went home and took a break from math and studied Chem. In total I ran into 9 people I know. It was nice.

Sunday, December 10^th, 15 Days until Christmas- Ten Pages of Pretests.

This day was a study day, nothing happened except for a bout of nausea when I got back to the dorms. This was my day and it was very very tiring. I also learned some very upsetting news. Adventures in Babysitting and Square Enix share something in common. Nice college guy voices Sephiroth and Nooj…. I shudder. If you could see me, I would be a shuddering mess.

Monday, December 11^th, 14 days until Christmas- Eleven Hours of freedom!

I took my last to finals and was FREE! I finished my Trig Final at 2 and declared my freedom, even though I would not get off campus for another hour and a half. I then spent the next several hours goofing off, helping linds beat FFX2 and watching Grey’s Anatomy and Joan of Arcadia. I crawled into bed at 1 in the morning and passed out.

Tuesday, December 12^th, 13 days until Christmas- Twelve episoded of CSI.

I didn’t watch 12 hours of CSI, but I watched several, eventually getting to twelve hours of CSI being fast forwarded thru or watched. I also went to the dentist and watched some Back to the Future. It was very exciting. I watched many hours of CSI though, several of which I have never seen before it was very exciting.

Wednesday, December 13^th, 12 days until Christmas- Thirteen days remembered.

So that brings us to today. I went to school to get my test, only managing to grab PreCalc. I got a 95% on the Final and an A in the Class. I danced a victory dance. Dad and I went to the Fountain, and it was very good and pretty. Still a bit fuzzy on some parts but that’s okay. I liked it. Then I went home and baked a cake (twice having messed up the first time) and helped Linds study for French. I remember a lot of French it turns out. I watched some CSI and went to Mr. Tokyo for Dinner with Alex and Sarah. It was fun. I am now home typing this up and plan to go finish CSI.

That’s all I got for today. Let’s see if I can continue this until Christmas huh?

Laters

Nyssa

Give me a reason for me to believe in, can't you see it in my eyes,
That I need a reason for I'm still breathing.
Is it time to say goodbye?
'Cause deep in my heart I know there's a reason why I am not leaving, why I'm not alone.
So give me a reason for me to believe it, give me a reason.

~ Cascada “Reason”

Yeah so I didn’t update 19 days ago like I said I would. You all know me. I have the attention span of a puppy. Place something shiny in front of my and I may very well be on livejournal but… well I forget that I have an account even though the site auto-signs me in every time I visit the site practically. I don’t even have a good excuse that revolves around saving innocent people or dire circumstances or even “my internet died”. No my excuse is that I am lazy… really-really lazy and I didn’t really have anything to say… okay that is a lie I had plenty to say but I would have to sit down and type it all out and I really didn’t want to do that.

So um the facts of my life really quick… well more like the fact of my life. I am now permanently on my laptop as my computer died a violent and horrible death. The good news is that I have a mouse and keyboard that are USB compatible so I can use a mouse that doesn’t move the curser just because you happened to breath and I can type without affecting said mouse-touch-sensitive-telepathic-evil-thing. It’s hard to adjust though because my laptop is a wide screen which means that although I do get to see movies on it better, I don’t get the same screen things. Wallpapers and backgrounds no longer fit like they should. It is really weird. I’m going to set up my screen saver after this update. It can do a nifty one I hope because right now I just have the marquee going saying “Curse their choice for hero; they picked a cute one…” I have no idea if that is punctuated right. For those of you who haven’t noticed, my words are all capitalized at the right time like “I” and at the beginning of sentences and my spelling is better sort of. This is not because I have gotten better at typing or spelling mind you but rather because I am typing on Word before I update. This will not be a common occurrence. I just wanted to test it out and Word is really starting to bother me because whenever I delete or type or anything, this little box with a lightning bolt shows up. It says it has something to do with auto-formatting but I just want the box to go away.

So what actually prompted me to update apart from horrible God awful guilt? I got an account on Tokyopop.com ( http://www.tokyopop.com ) because they said that if I did that I could get notified when certain mangas got released. I squealed and signed up(username: Nyke). Why was I on Tokyopop you ask now? Because I have this horrible thing that I affectionately call the “uber list”, and it’s name should be self explanatory. The fact is that it is very big. It is a list of all the mangas Tokyopop releases, volume by volume, with release dates, artist/writers, ownership, whether or not it is out, genre, rating and… no that’s it. It is an excel file because it lines up all nicely and is usually a good deterrent for me when I want to go to Borders. I look at the number at the bottom of the list and I whimper pathetically… I wonder. Hey if anyone knows how to use Excel really well, do you know if I can have it tally something up at the bottom. I know I can make it add and stuff but can it identify words… because that would just be neat and would really help the “Borders-Yay-Shopping-Manga!-Trips-of-Doom”. However the problem with the list is that it has not been updated in like 5 months and Tokyopop has releases a whole bunch of new series and mangas and stuff since then so the whole prevention thing no longer works because the number no longer makes me pause and wonder if I really need those 126 mangas (in case you are wondering the current-I’ve-only-been-working-on-the-list-for-an-itsy-bit-so-close-to-the-February-number is 1,762). But there is also the fact that I know that, contrary to popular belief, I do not have that many mangas. I’ve got maybe about 400. I haven’t counted in a bit and plus I have some lent out. So I have to remember how many I don’t have, how many my sister took and how many I just put in a stupid place. Like Deathnote volume 6 behind my computer monitor.

Anyway back to Tokyopop. Tokyopop has just opened a new thing that is similar to Livejournal only not as complex. It’s sorta the same but mostly based around fan service. It’s like Livejournal where you can meet all kinds of people except it is way more intense where you can see all the new people who signed on. I made a friend within 4 minutes of making my account I kid you not. It was kinda scary. Also their blogs are a lot more public and are listed by update so you can just go look at anyone who updates, merely because they updated. Bit freaky but since I actually made a blog post on there I figured that I better update here because I use Livejournal more then once a… whenever and besides I said I would update on the 9^th and it is more certainly not the 9^th but rather 20 days later. But this brings me to a related topic of the inconsistency among anything requiring a userpic. AOL/AIM uses little itty-bitty userpics that are 50x50 pixels I think (not being an AOL user I can not say for sure) and I have no idea about the type of file it can be. Livejournal’s are supposed to be max-size 100x100 pixels and can be JPG, GIF, or PNG. MSN instant messenger will accept most files but will not play moving GIFs, however they must be 99x99 pixels (if the image isn’t, it gets compressed). Tokyopop’s userpics are 140x133 (I think they can be smaller but it was already mad at me because I used the wrong type of file so I didn’t push) pixels and must be either JPGs or GIFs. It is so confusing and I get kinda twitchy when I think about it. I don’t know what myspace uses because I am have yet to get one… whoops. **shrugs, and fails to look apologetic**

I have been having creativity issues as of late. It kinda sucks because I want to write or draw but my last muse just kinda rolled over and died on my because I didn’t listen. Hopefully my new muses will not die on me for at least a week. My new muses are like so: Baralai: 30%, Gippal 25%, Paine and Nooj, 10%, Squall 20%, Cloud 10%, shiny dots, paperclips, the odd button on my keyboard that I still don’t know how to use, etc. 5%. Unless my math skills have evaporated, that should add up to 100%. But Baralai, Gippal, Nooj, and Paine are all from Final Fantasy X-2 (hereafter known as FFX-2 because that is shorter) and they are my new muses. There is a long story behind my fascination with them  but lets just say wikipedia is evil, Final Fantasy Insider is evil, the people who wrote “The Confessional” are evil and Oritsuru is evil. Screenshots are the spawn of fluffy evil puppies also known as Holly. They lead to odd conversations with Sarah and Dusty shaped people about how you can spot who the crazies out there will just leap on as a couple and give them cutesy couple names (you know, where you combine the names to make them all… cutesy and “OMGsomeant2b!” ex: Draco/Hermione **shudders a bit** would be like “Dramione” or something) if you think I am making up the cutesy couple name thing, you have not been on the internet enough and need to either stop the indecipherable madness or laugh at it, like me. I like Gundam Wing for this reason. Although I was not old enough to understand it when I first saw the show, the whole number thing makes sense now that I am… ahem “worldly”… or maybe “ruined” is a better word. I miss being naïve. Then we get to fandoms like Saiyuki where the whole number thing makes no sense and in the end you just shrug and accept that the people who came up with the system are insane… What was I talking about again? Oh spotting potential innocent characters that people will swear are totally having a passionate affair whenever we happen to not be looking. Those looks of hatred? Lust, lust all the way.  Essentially all that there needs to be is a very simple factor. Do they look good together… yes fans are very shallow. There is also a whole crossed lovers thing, salvation for the unsaved, the enemies who suddenly are forced into circumstances where they have to become friendly, best friends. While these can usually be explained my personal favorite reason for people and their pairing of two people would have to be “Well they both know this one person and were totally at that one thing at the same time and even though they didn’t even look at each other you could just feel the tension you know? <insert swooning here>” If you ever happened to come across one of these people the best thing to do is nod… and back away until you are out of arms reach and then run for about 20 minutes. You should be good and the lack of air will keep you from hurting yourself with laughter. As I said some reasoning makes sense (these are usually the ones who end up with the cutesy couple names), like the whole best friend thing, hell throw in star crossed best friends and I give you the very thing that defines a couple that gets a cutesy name… except in Harry Potter where they use initials… Question does “Hr” stand for “Harry” or “Hermione”? In then end most guess “Hermione”, which would be correct but you have to sit and think about it….

Anyway back to the semi-original subject of the last paragraph and just say that playing the couple chasers game is fun. No really. Have fun with it. Pick a random movie or anything and pick two random people, figure out how they are meant to be and why and make up stupid evidence and then proclaim them your OTP (“One True Pairing” for those not up with the lingo). I have about… a lot. It really is a fun game. And the best part? It makes things a lot funnier and really hard to explain to others why you are snickering when they two haves of your OTP drop evidence of their OMGsomeant2b!-ness in your lap. Television shows are best for this. Dusty and Sarah know what I’m talking about. Sarah was on the phone with me when I saw the screen shots for FFX-2 and said “Ha, found one of the OMGsomeant2b pairing!” and then proceeded to determine how someant2b they were… which was a lot actually. Even on the official fanlisting for one of the characters. Pretty funny. And this was only just by vaguely knowing stuff about the two characters. I laughed for a bit and proclaimed them one of my OTPs… I should make up a list of all my OTPs… putting that on the to do list.

I’ve been updating my user info page with new color bars Quizilla things and the like. I’ve also been updating my interests. Some of them I really have no idea what I was thinking when I put them up. Rather upsetting really. I probably put them on in a late night post like this. Oh well.

In other news, I beat Final Fantasy X, hence all the FFX-2-ness. It was sad and I cried and then popped FFX-2 in and laughed with maniacle glee as I was given free reign, I mean travel, all over the place right at the beginning. Normally you have to wait until just before the 18-bajillion boss evil ending fights before that happenes. So I figured out how to beat FFX. And I write it for future generations and for myself because I will forget someday. It all revolves around getting the treasure in Bevelle and getting Yuna’s strength up to 35. It really isn’t that hard once you start out going “need to get to 35”. You then can just beat things with one blow. It’s great! So I now am playing FFX-2 and I have restarted it twice. It was kinda sad. But the good news is I got to see Baralai! And I ruined my chances of getting even close to 100% compleation right at the get go because I gave the “Awesome Sphere” to Baralai… because I like him more even though he is *******edited for spoilers for those who are shaped kinda like Sarah but probably are going to look a whole lot more Lindsay shaped******* So now I am trying to beat the ultimate evil thing at the very end (95,310 non-regenerating Health points before I am done) but I can only beat the first one with no problem, and then the second one rips me to shreds… I will come up with a solution though… somehow. So now that I am really tired and stuff I think I will go to bed. I may even really update tomorrow because today was a lot of fun! Yay! Anyway laters.

Nyssa

Ps: If you are wondering, this post is officially 2,350 words long.