Monday, August 25, 2008
Busy busy busy~
Last week was very busy for me, so I apologize for not writing.
My roommate actually didn't get here until the very last minute, and by that time I'd gotten so impatient and hungry while waiting for her that I left to grab some dinner on the other campus.
When I got back, she and her family had gotten here and they were unpacking their stuff. They didn't need me to help them unpack her stuff, but we had a chance to talk a bit and they seem like cool people. Her father is actually a Stephen King fan, and I thought that was really cool.
My roommate is also really cool. She's very outgoing and friendly, and I was surprised to find out that she actually likes anime, too. She does party a bit, but I don't think we'll have any problems. Actually, to be completely honest, I do want to go out and party a bit, though I think my definition of the word "party" is different from most college students' definitions. I know that most parties involve just staying out late and getting drunk with friends, but I just want to go out sometime, not necessarily to drink but to have fun.
My classes so far don't seem like they're going to be difficult, though I had homework in them all during the first days. I still haven't gotten around to starting my figure drawing for my fashion project class, but I don't have that class until Friday so I will definitely have time during the week to do it. I'm a little concerned about the drawing class because my professor wants me to work in HB pencil, which allows me almost no decent tone variation. :\ My first homework assignment in that class was a still life which will be due tomorrow, and I'm hoping like hell that mine won't look awful compared to the other ones.
I also had a lot of fun going to the events during Welcome Week, which is the first week of classes after move-in where a lot of the different departments and organizations around campus host a number of helpful discussion lectures and social events. I don't exactly have time to write about them in detail right now because it's about time for me to leave, but hopefully I'll get back to those later.
My roommate actually didn't get here until the very last minute, and by that time I'd gotten so impatient and hungry while waiting for her that I left to grab some dinner on the other campus.
When I got back, she and her family had gotten here and they were unpacking their stuff. They didn't need me to help them unpack her stuff, but we had a chance to talk a bit and they seem like cool people. Her father is actually a Stephen King fan, and I thought that was really cool.
My roommate is also really cool. She's very outgoing and friendly, and I was surprised to find out that she actually likes anime, too. She does party a bit, but I don't think we'll have any problems. Actually, to be completely honest, I do want to go out and party a bit, though I think my definition of the word "party" is different from most college students' definitions. I know that most parties involve just staying out late and getting drunk with friends, but I just want to go out sometime, not necessarily to drink but to have fun.
My classes so far don't seem like they're going to be difficult, though I had homework in them all during the first days. I still haven't gotten around to starting my figure drawing for my fashion project class, but I don't have that class until Friday so I will definitely have time during the week to do it. I'm a little concerned about the drawing class because my professor wants me to work in HB pencil, which allows me almost no decent tone variation. :\ My first homework assignment in that class was a still life which will be due tomorrow, and I'm hoping like hell that mine won't look awful compared to the other ones.
I also had a lot of fun going to the events during Welcome Week, which is the first week of classes after move-in where a lot of the different departments and organizations around campus host a number of helpful discussion lectures and social events. I don't exactly have time to write about them in detail right now because it's about time for me to leave, but hopefully I'll get back to those later.
Labels: class, roommate, vcu, welcome week
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Surprise!
Another update today. :3
The fuse in my cigarette lighter was broken, so the car dealer replaced it for me and now my GPS works fine. :3 I used it to drive home, and I'm thinking about using it tomorrow when we drive to the airport, but I probably won't rely on it too much because the roads to the airport have been under construction for a while and the GPS might not have them registered on the map correctly. I think I might do some comfort shopping after I drop my boyfriend off, and that'll probably be a good way for me to get used to my GPS, even though I don't really plan on buying anything.
By some miracle, the mochi I ordered from Amazon a few days ago arrived today, and I'm surprised and a little disappointed that it tastes very similar to the half-assed mochi that I cooked in the microwave myself ages ago. I guess it would probably taste better without the extra flour coating it, but without the flour the mochi would be very sticky, so I understand why it was necessary. I'm glad that it arrived today at least; I was worried that it wouldn't get here until tomorrow and then my boyfriend wouldn't have been able to try it. I don't think he particularly cared for it, but at least he got to try it. Personally, I think I'm going to stick to mochi ice cream from now on. I will finish the stuff I bought (and share it with anyone who wants some) because I spent good money on it, but I probably won't buy it again.
In other news, I've been having the worst time trying to download Granado Espada. If it weren't so pretty, I would probably have given up on it by now. I've tried to download it from two different websites today. The first one was a zip file that took forever to finish and then turned out to be corrupt, and the second one was a downloader program that crashed halfway through the download and then tried to start over when I ran it again, even though the completed parts of the download were right where it left them. :\ There are some forces at work trying to prevent me from playing this game. I'm also a little worried by an awful review of it that I found on Google earlier today. However, since it's free, I'm not going to pass up trying it myself just because of a bad review, even though it'll most likely end up being a waste of my time either way. That's what I'm looking for, after all. :3
Oh, something interesting happened the other day. I was looking at a floor plan of my dorm building to see how far my room was from the bathroom and other places, and out of curiosity while I was looking up my room assignment, I also went to look at my roommate status again, and I noticed that they changed my roommate assignment. It made me wonder why they made the change; did my first roommate decide not to attend VCU, or did she find another place to live? Or did VCU Housing swap her with somebody else because they thought that based on our major programs, she'd get along with somebody else better or vice versa? I guess I'll never know, but I secretly hope that my roommate will be an art major or share some common interests with me, even though that isn't very likely. I'll be happy even if that isn't the case, as long as we can get along.
Well, that's all for now. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll be done downloading this thing so I can start wasting my time playing it.
The fuse in my cigarette lighter was broken, so the car dealer replaced it for me and now my GPS works fine. :3 I used it to drive home, and I'm thinking about using it tomorrow when we drive to the airport, but I probably won't rely on it too much because the roads to the airport have been under construction for a while and the GPS might not have them registered on the map correctly. I think I might do some comfort shopping after I drop my boyfriend off, and that'll probably be a good way for me to get used to my GPS, even though I don't really plan on buying anything.
By some miracle, the mochi I ordered from Amazon a few days ago arrived today, and I'm surprised and a little disappointed that it tastes very similar to the half-assed mochi that I cooked in the microwave myself ages ago. I guess it would probably taste better without the extra flour coating it, but without the flour the mochi would be very sticky, so I understand why it was necessary. I'm glad that it arrived today at least; I was worried that it wouldn't get here until tomorrow and then my boyfriend wouldn't have been able to try it. I don't think he particularly cared for it, but at least he got to try it. Personally, I think I'm going to stick to mochi ice cream from now on. I will finish the stuff I bought (and share it with anyone who wants some) because I spent good money on it, but I probably won't buy it again.
In other news, I've been having the worst time trying to download Granado Espada. If it weren't so pretty, I would probably have given up on it by now. I've tried to download it from two different websites today. The first one was a zip file that took forever to finish and then turned out to be corrupt, and the second one was a downloader program that crashed halfway through the download and then tried to start over when I ran it again, even though the completed parts of the download were right where it left them. :\ There are some forces at work trying to prevent me from playing this game. I'm also a little worried by an awful review of it that I found on Google earlier today. However, since it's free, I'm not going to pass up trying it myself just because of a bad review, even though it'll most likely end up being a waste of my time either way. That's what I'm looking for, after all. :3
Oh, something interesting happened the other day. I was looking at a floor plan of my dorm building to see how far my room was from the bathroom and other places, and out of curiosity while I was looking up my room assignment, I also went to look at my roommate status again, and I noticed that they changed my roommate assignment. It made me wonder why they made the change; did my first roommate decide not to attend VCU, or did she find another place to live? Or did VCU Housing swap her with somebody else because they thought that based on our major programs, she'd get along with somebody else better or vice versa? I guess I'll never know, but I secretly hope that my roommate will be an art major or share some common interests with me, even though that isn't very likely. I'll be happy even if that isn't the case, as long as we can get along.
Well, that's all for now. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll be done downloading this thing so I can start wasting my time playing it.
Labels: car, dorm, gps, granado espada, mmorpg, mochi, roommate
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