We made the moon our mirrorball

Since I've been flapping my gums about it everywhere else, I should mention that today was my last day of classes! I'm not an undergrad anymore. Soon I'll have to act like an adult!

Haha, no.



Don't forget to comment here if you want a card. I should get to mailing them soon, when the work is no longer crushing and awful.

On the way to my car, I saw a guy shaving another guy outside one of the school buildings with an electric razor plugged into the wall. The shavee had a barber smock and everything. It's not that strange, but I dunno. Just two guys, late-afternoon, alone. Hey, let's shave.


Also, a resounding thank you to the teacher who assigned a book that made me cry for half an hour. Granted, it was a very good book, and it's not hard to make me cry, but still.

Ah, so the last week has been fairly awful. I'm not really sick anymore, but I've been coughing so hard that people on the street asked if I was choking. I had a midterm and there was SO MUCH WRITING and I'm a super-slow writer on tests and didn't finish the essay. I'm desperately hoping for a C. ;_;

Then my grandfather had a fall on Thursday. It happened before in April, when he stood up too fast and got dizzy. He's fine now, but this family has been spending way too much time in the emergency room lately.

But then the weekend was awesome! I didn't do too much, but I got to hang out with Dani and have mini-adventures and cupcakes.
And I got my first fanart!!!! Well, not so much 'got' as 'stumbled upon a sketch while browsing tumblr and subsequently confirmed that yes, it was from a story I wrote'. But holy fuck, I never thought that would happen.

I'm also having a hell of a time deciding what to work on next. Lots of drawing to do tonight. So much to do aaaaahh.

The last week or so has been a crazy haze of end-of-summerness. School starts on Wednesday, and this time our last hurrah will be seeing Inception in D-BOX tomorrow. Omg.

I spent last week with my family and we went to Reno for the weekend. If you've never been to Reno, it's like Las Vegas but really tiny and somehow much, much trashier. It was filled with homeless people and it was extremely hot and windy at the same time, and half of the casinos are closed/abandoned. It was fun. It was also my first time being of age in a casino, so that was an experience. I played video poker and slots and the cocktails were awesome but the money-losing, not so much. I did enjoy hanging out in the arcade in the middle of the night (we were at a Circus Circus), and I won a thousand tickets in less than 20 minutes and walked away with a big bag of stuffed dice and crap. Who's the loser now, eh???

On a very nerdy note, my fic got a hundred favorites on ff.net! Even despite the fact that the formatting on ff.net baffles me and I've not at all mastered it.
If you went back and told my 13-year-old self that someday I would be writing stories for fun and putting them up for strangers to read, I would have scissor-kicked you right in the face.

I'm also finally getting a chance to take an actual life-drawing class. I feel kind of intimidated cause I'll be around real art students, but I just really want to learn. I may even be annoying and post some of the drawings. You have been warned.

No, Roxie, you do not have to work on that fanart, or watch that show, or write that porn. You can focus on school for three more days.
Three days.
And you will be free.

So. I have this lower division anthro class that I'm taking, though I don't remember why (probably just filler). I've already learned most of what we've covered, which isn't surprising since it's lower division and I've been doing this for five years now - plus the class is mostly made up of freshman, and includes a lot of non-majors. The teacher has covered a lot of information so far (it's about the stages of human life), but she keeps saying things that are...not quite true. It doesn't happen all the time, but usually there's at least one moment during each class that makes me think "hrm, that ain't right". I never say anything, since I'm just a student, and an undergrad at that, but the fact that she's teaching these questionable "facts" to non-majors really gets my goat.

Last week she said something that I am convinced is completely false. It contradicts some of the basic principles of natural selection and physical anthropology.
Then today she somehow managed to talk about the marriage and assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand without ever mentioning a connection to WWI. I....I didn't think that was possible. If this was an upper division history class there'd be no need, but since a large portion of our class gasped when she said he was assassinated, you'd think she would have at least said "oh btw, then WWI happened lol".

For the most part it's not really a big deal. Just a few ideas that some teacher might be misrepresenting. The fact that it's pissed me off so much just shows that I need to get away from school. Good thing there's only a couple of weeks left!
I swear I'll post something interesting soon. Something with shiny pictures or fluffy bunnies.

So school is over and goddamn, it feels good.
There're so many things I want to see and do over break and I'll probably forget to do most of them but oh well. I am ready to NERD OUT.
So many potentially epic movies coming out too.
Tom Brokaw has an amazing voice.

The next couple of weeks are going to be so busy and stressful. And then I'm going home.
Hmmm.

OH MAN, I'm done.
Almost done. Two more weeks of actual school, then it's over forever until fall.

I was up until Real Late™ last night finishing a term paper, and by the time I was done, I had no idea what I'd written about. Like, seriously. Ten pages of complete crap. I think?
That's not a good feeling, but at least it's nearly over. The worst parts of the semester are behind, and the Bath stuff (interviews, acceptance) is going to start soon, so I'll know in a few weeks whether I should start planning. Holding my breath.

One month until my 21st birthday! I want a car made of ice cream! And no, those two things aren't related.
My eyes want to sleep but my body does not.
ZzzzzzzzzZZzzzzzz

Excerpt from my archaeology notes:

The feudal system! Money money money
Byzantine did lots of stuff
Dripping gold! Precious jewels! Delicious cake!
Merchants act as depositories?
Oh god why I’m so tired, my eyes hurt a lot I want to fall asleep in Buddha’s lap he’s fat, fat thighs
Looted mercenaries or something
The Renaissance happened
Religious knights – templars
Someone filled a void
Avoid the Noid!
Italian bankers were whores
Jack and the beanstalk? Doesn’t know beans about venture capitalism! Amaaaaaaazing

Ugh. So very tired.