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Thursday, January 19, 2006

Alt Eisen Rise (Mech)

(15:27:27) Ryu Kou Gaiji: Alt as far as it goes
(15:27:32) Ryu Kou Gaiji: is like its namesake
(15:27:37) Ryu Kou Gaiji: its a walking scrapheap
(15:27:46) HeionSatsuKenshi: "fuck it keep adding on metal"
(15:27:49) HeionSatsuKenshi: "more. metal."
(15:27:52) Ryu Kou Gaiji: Yeha it was like
(15:27:59) HeionSatsuKenshi: "not fat enough"
(15:28:01) Ryu Kou Gaiji: FUCK LEGS ARE GIVING WAY!
(15:28:04) Ryu Kou Gaiji: MORE METAL!
(15:28:05) HeionSatsuKenshi: lol
(15:28:09) Ryu Kou Gaiji: NOT ENOUGH WEAPONS!
(15:28:11) Ryu Kou Gaiji: TOP HEAVY!
(15:28:17) Ryu Kou Gaiji: AH LEGS AGAIN!
(15:28:20) Ryu Kou Gaiji: A vicious cycle

Gotta love
these bulky mechs that actually look pretty cool despite the bulkiness.

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

No more test! (for a couple months)

Finished my exams~

Mediaeval History:
2 hours to do 3 essays. 40 minutes each. Finished the first in 20, the second in 30, the fourth in 40, and I went back to touch up my first two, but you can't really touch up hand-written essays too well. Not like I didn't know the questions, it's more an issue of "did I really write enough?"

English:
2 hours to do 2 essays. Oh I knew the questions perfectly well. Nailed the first one. 50 minutes, wrote my butt off, plenty happy with it. I knew the answer to the second one. Or answers. You see, I hate when they give you a vague question and tell you to answer it, and you can answer it using like, three books. I started writing it for Heart of Darkness, but I couldn't remember the name of the author nor one of the key characters, who I later remembered was the Intended (I was thinking, Untouchable? Promised? Fucking A). Crossed it out 'cuz I figured writing something about a book where I can't even remember the name of some characters would be a bad thing. So I wrote about Great Expectations, strugglings with the name of, I think, Miss Havisham. That's what I settled on in the end anyways. The problem was, since I did all my thinking for Heart of Darkness, I literally ran into it full-speed with no pre-thought. Wrote about 30 minutes, then hit a blank, started writing for 20 minutes blundering around with no real plan, but I was writing something I didn't write about before. So the second question, I answered, but I didn't answer very _well_, which wouldn't so much of an issue if it weren't a class of, essentially, essay-writing.

Social Anthropology:
2 hours, 3 essays, I finished each one in 20 minutes. Ouch. I tried to touch up the others, but I still ended up with 40 minutes to go. So I went to sleep instead of going nuts.

Monday, January 16, 2006

Alexander Ovechkin (NHL)

Just a quick thought before I sleep for the exam tomorrow.

If Alexander Ovechkin were playing with like, Peter Forsberg, nights like these would be so common... can you imagine how many goals he'd be scoring?

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Listening to music

Love listening to music, since it helps my mind focus instead of wandering off in fifty different directions. There's just a calming quality to sound...

I don't really have a genre preference to music, although I do hate loud things (rules out Metal and those things). But I do prefer things with an outright beat or something that can build tension very well (ie. long crescendos and decrescendos). So I listen to things from rock (Asian Kung-fu) to country (Uemura Kana) to hymns (Gospellers).

But then comes study time, and any music with voices really mess you up (they start putting words into your head instead of the words you're trying to concentrate on).

In comes the speakers and the OSTs!

Zelda Ocarina and Majora's Mask symphonic OSTs are nice... I think any non-lyric music with classical instruments end up being nice study music. Some songs you shouldn't listen to, though, like Ride of the Valkyries... that won't get you very far (lol).