~*Forever Dreaming*~

Wrote this in class today. ^_^
Warning big image under cut, hope my handwriting's legible.
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Will reply to comments soon... *snugs flist* =D So part of my resolution was to blog more... So here goes... If you keep up with my twitterings, I mentioned how funny my astronomy teacher is. He's a sarcastic one and definitely will make class more interesting (on top of the interesting subject of course. =D). Well like every astronomy class I've been in, the first assignment is always a math assessment even though the course description said there was no math needed...Lie as there's always minimal math going on in astronomy, I just hope it's not as hardcore as my past couple of courses. XD

At least he tries to make it interesting:

In book IV of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo and Sam rappel down a cliff, using a rope 30 ells long. How high was the cliff, if the rope enarly reached the bottom? [1 ell = 45in; 1m = 39.37]

My first thought was whether or not there was a book IV for the series and that this was a trick question...XD Granted I never read the series and only the movies maybe I'm wrong? At any rate, I wrote 87.1 m as my answer (and I sure hope that's correct lol).

Then of course I had a sarcastic response to this one:

You buy a 750 ml bottle of rum. How many rum-and-Cokes can you make, using an ounce and a half of rum in each drink? [1 US fluid ounce = 29.57 ml]

Seriously, I wrote But why is all the rum gone? and then 16 good drinks and 1 so-so drink then the actual numerical answer. XD

Overall, I hope I do well on this math assesment... I used to be fantastic at it in highschool but I've other things crammed into my brain since then so it's all blurred together, heh.

But now that's done, time for a break and watch more The Mentalist episodes and then start up reading for my Labors History class. Quiet weekend, and for once a bit productive. XD How was yours, flist? =D

So my new year's day egg said I'd be traveling this year... Hope that's true, and hope it's to either Japan or Guatemala so we'll see. =D

If all goes according to plan, this semester will be my last at City College and then in the fall I shall be in SF State, God willing. I haven't made any official resolutions though I hope to get more fandom work done and be organized enough to expand to other fandoms that I follow. Also hope to blog more, and not put it off as I usually do.

My tentative school schedule is as follows:

Who Built America? From Reconstruction to Present - Monday Wednesday Friday - 10.00am - 11.00am

English 1A - Puente! - Monday Wednesday Friday - 11.00am - 12.00pm

Intro to Philosophy - Monday Wednesday Friday - 12.00pm - 1.00pm

Symbolic Logic - Monday Wednesday - 1.00pm - 3.30pm

Solar System - Tuesday Thursday - 2.00pm - 3.30pm

I'm going to have to drop a webdesign portfolio class as I don't have room for it and all these other classes are needed for me to transfer... Ah well... I need to at least pass all these with a C but really.... B or above would be great as my gpa is on the cusp of not being enough for transfer... ^^;;

At any rate, had a pretty good weekend. Went to what hopefully will be a monthly Sangria Party at Cha Cha Cha's. It was only Laura and I as everyone else seemed to be too busy. We went to the one in the Haight so we could walk around Golden Gate Park. Took some pics with an instant camera, dunno when I'll ever get around to sending it to Walgreens heh. We picked random trails and eventually hit the Museums area, got to see what the new Science one now looks like (with a living roof!). Debated ways to break in and steal stuff heheh. Then found the Children's Playground (which is now called Children's Quarter >_>) and found all my fave playing areas have been removed for more little kid friendly crap. =/ at least there's still sand and the stone slide...

But yeah, good food and good Sangria as always. We ordered the large pitcher (which is like 6 glasses easy) and couldn't NOT finish the thing. So yeah let's just say I probably was tipsy and Laura was near drunk. So we walked through haight, got ice cream, found our way to japantown and had a good time at Karaoke. ^_^ Wish the night didn't have to end but she had to be back on bart before midnight to get home, alas.

Yesterday was first day of classes and despite major walking back and forth across campus(map is flat but this is on a mountain x_x), it was a good day. Gave me hope that I'll get in the classes I need and do what i need to do to move on. Cause I seriously need to get on with my life,someway somehow.

Have 200 plus tabs to now get through, may not comment to all posts but just letting you know I am reading them. =D

OH, I was thinking of maybe making a group at GoodReads/Shelfari... And have it be for my flist (and then your flist most likely too XD) as I've been able to read more books of late and love to hear recs and see what else y'all are reading. I know I have got a couple of you on there (some at one, some at the other) so let me know if you're interested in that?

I think that's pretty much all I wanted to say... *hugs flist* Now to do homework and catch up on comments and emails...and finish belated snupin fic... XD

今日、承認手紙を受け取りました。次の秋の学期にサン　フランシスコ　ステート　大学通うでしょう～！

Sorry if the japanese seems off, been a while since I've had to think about it... XD So a month or so ago I applied to State, they requested transcripts and I had planned to send them in January so I could include this semester. I didn't think I would get a word whether or not I'd get in till after they reviewed that. Apparently not, as I got a letter today saying I've been accepted to San Francisco State University! WOOHOO! Of course it's conditional that I complete all the required classes this and next semester. I dropped the ball one class but I'll definitely make up for it next semester (which won't be as light as I thought haha). *fwee!* Hopefully I'll only need a year at state taking the upper level Japanese and whatever gen eds they think I might need and then I can get a real job maybe working at a video game company or one of the manga companies... FINALLY, after the fiasco that was Arts Institute, I'm finally moving on.

Things I need to post: snupin blank calendar wallpaper with icons by lore, a NoOnProp8 post (with a disturbing anecdote), drabbles post, pimping post... think that's about it. Slowly catching up on flist again. *hugs all*

Though I'm sure most of you don't read RL posts or most of my journal (since I'm rather subject focused on what I post, ^^;;), but thought I'd give a quick run-down on what's going on for anyone who doesn't check out the twitter dailes.

School's been okay, I had to drop one class but really... It was a bad class choice and I knew that from the beginning. Finished all the midterms and I know for sure I aced one (literally *hee*), passed another, and barely passed the other two. XD Excited to get into a NEW speech group, hoping there'll be more effiency and not the fail that was the last group (despite me getting to know one of the guys and liking his humor).

Grandma's been in and out of the hospital due to her lymphadema. Each time it's harder cause her veins aren't very strong and the worst is getting the needle in and it staying there without it collapsing. She's otherwise her busy little self. My brothers, as usual, are a disappointment. The one with a newborn lost his old job and is trying to hit everyone up for money even though we're all broke. >_<

Nothing new on the job front, either my credit score is too bad or people don't like the odd school hours I have (even though I'm willing to work weekends) or something. >_> Maybe I fail at that stupid 100 question psycology test that the big businesses make you take (You can sense other people's moods: strongly agree, agree, neither, disagree, strongly disagree). I applied for federal work study at college cause they're usually desperate for people. But I don't get paid more than $9 and no more than 14 hours a week if I do get anything from them *sigh*.

Oh, applied to SF State. =D They're now just waiting on my official transcripts... I guess I'll wait till this semester is over to send them. At least I'll have three of the gen ed requirements done by it. The rest will be done in Spring. I dunno if I should send them the transcripts from AI, since that's mostly art stuff and supposedly doesn't transfer anywhere. My major for State will be Japanese with maybe a minor in creative writing as they don't offer anything media arts related.

That's prettymuch it other than doing NaNoWriMo this year as you already know.. =D But that'll be for another post. XD Working on getting the LLnM winnings finished, working on getting a commishion page up for art (though if anyone wants to commish me now, I may do a few for VERY cheap so I can have some quality samples done XD).

Due to researching steampunk stuff, I found out that a playhouse will be doing a steampunk version of my favorite Shakespeare play, Twelfth Night! Saw the set pics and it looks gorgeous and I really wanna go. But it's in New York. Despite being broke, I'm considering on how I may get there.... May finally have to help my mom with her Herbalife.

Do I have any New York friends in which I could crash a weekend with? Early November... heh... Even if I don't go, anyone who are able to, here's the post I originally found about it: http://community.livejournal.com/steamfashion/1147505.html#cutid1

That's pretty much it. My life is mainly fandom and surviving school. ^^ Hope all is well with everyone *hugs*

I really need to learn to write blog entries on the spot, instead of telling myself oh I'll make a good lengthy one later. Then I never do, haha. Things have been going all right. Already just a tad bit behind schoolwork but planning to catch up by tomorrow.

Been wanting to share my creative writing exercises to y'all but havent had a chance. That class is a bit scary, having to do exercises on the spot and sometimes having to read aloud. ^^;; So not used to that heh. For the first Submit days, I handed in my two short original fics I've written before. They're the ones listed in my masterlist. I briefly glanced over the comments but really am scared to read and take in. It's the first time I've had my stories looked at by anyone professional. Any previous original stories I've done (aside from when I was 10) were always done for school so I never really had big attachments to them. This is different, they're fics I really tried to excel in. Fanfic is different, I'm not as scared when people actually do critique it cause it's not all mine obviously. I'm just tweaking known characters and situations. Well, we'll see. I may or may not post my exercises up, not sure if anyone would truly be interested.

Hating my Group Speech class... Not so much the subject matter but the group I was assigned to. Including me, we're a group of six, three girls and three boys. The girls are great and talkative. One boy actually speaks up a bit. The other two? SILENCE. Our first assignment as a group was to find out one thing we all had in common, use that to create a group name & a logo. The girls were talkative, the boys shrugged their shoulders. We even tried video games but apparently *gasp* one of them really wasn't into gaming even though the rest of us were. Two days straight and we couldn't get anything on them to agree or share. Worse than pulling teeth, I know as I have plenty experience on that. The closest we could get to was we have all been out of the country, sadly one never used an airport so we couldn't get more specific. The girls and the semi-talkative boy decided to narrow it to smuggling. We've all had smuggled something in (just the usual normal stuff, nothing illegal). Except the two boys were rather quiet. One said that he only left the country when he was a toddler and the other just shrugged and fingered his DS. We finally agreed that they would lie and make something up for the presentation. I volunteered to make the logo. You''ll see it under the cut. =D The bag used is taken from thinkgeek, rest is drawn by me. XD So we finally have a name, Smuggling Travelers! The next month is going to be hell though with the real group assignment. I feel like the girls and maybe the one boy will be doing everything. BLAH.

Math is boring but necessary, have some stupid ass hecklers in the back of the classroom. If they're loud & noisy I one more time I may have to complain to the teacher. Basically just need to make sure I understand all the materials before test times. Best way is to do the assignments and show up for class. History isn't soo boring but as I've tried to take the same class before, the first few weeks are a bit redundent. Lots of writing and reading but I hope to get it all done. No real friendly faces in this class *sigh*.

Astronomy is online and that's the class I'm really behind on cause my textbook decided to take an extra week to get to me than stated. I hope I'll be able to catch up. Love the teacher and she's kinda easy so hoepfully I'll have no problem catching up.

Dad's really pressuring me to get a job. I'd like the money but I'd rather focus on school and my online projects (LJ keeps me sane, y'all keep me sane) so I can get my degree and get a job in the field I want. Dunno, might go to Spirit on Tuesday now that the weather is better and apply. Seriously, past two weeks? Couldn't get ANYTHING done with the house being always near 90 degrees despite a fan. Not fun.

Speaking of the house, it's up for sale. The owner prolly getting too old to care about it, not like she ever did. So now we're succumbed to having to clean up our apartment at a moment's notice for potential buyer walk throughs. >_< Dunno if anyone will buy this PoS. Needs so much repairs it's ridiculous. Only reason it shouldn't be torn down as it survived the 1906 earthquake and all earthquakes since. that's pretty awesome. At any rate since we're not illegals like most of the neighborhood, if we get kicked out we'll be sure to get the monies owed to us to find a new place. Pip really wants me to move to Millbrae. If it meant spending more time with him, I'd like that. It'd be a miracle to find a place in San Francisco with min 3 bedrooms for under 1200... And that's pushing it for us. At any rate, I don't see us moving out before the end of the year.

I think tomorrow shall be Meme-Day so expect some non-sensery from me. =D Will prolly catch up on emails and comments tomorrow. *hugs flist* Oh, n2s for next post... talk about tv shows...

OH! I can't believe I almost forgot! I'm an aunty again! My 2nd oldest brother had his first kid, a whopping 10 lb baby! His name is Mauricio (*groan*) Jonathan. I'll either be calling him MJ or Johnny. =D Seen him once so far, looks like a chubby baby buddha haha. =D

( Group Logo Smuggling Travelers )

Quick n2s: Post here latest ficlet & Snape/Lily comic

So alas summer vacay is over and I've nearly completed my first day of school. Got to go to my night class in about... 30 min heh. First day is usual introductory stuff... So nothing interesting. I do think I'll be enjoying my creative writing class, so you may see my homework assignments here as they'll all be original fiction. =D I think for the first turn in assignment I'm going to use one of my very few original fictions I've posted to get a proper critique. I don't have any comments on them so I don't know if my flist just isn't interested or I'm bad when it comes to non-fanfic writing. XD

Finally was smart enough to buy some of my textbooks via amazon shops as i'm saving nearly 80% off the used price listed at the college store. I don't mind waiting a few days for a $15 book instead of plopping down $80 to get it tomorrow. Slowly working on the livelongnmarry so if you're one of the winners, don't fret. But feel free to email/im/comment here if you're worried or curious how far along I am.

Family wise, mom and grandma have both been in the hospital this past weekend... If you keep up on the twitter statuses, mom had a type of food poisoning and is doing well. Grandma has lymphadema and got her arm infected again somehow so is currently in the hospital. Hopefully she'll be better by tomorrow to come out. Finally made my appointment to the school clinic, will be going tomorrow and then will be needing to set up a full woman's exam which won't be fun. XD I think that's all for tonight, so I shall leave you with my fun and erratic school schedule! =3

Group Speech Class: MWF 9.00am ~ 10.00am
Creative Writing - Short Story: MWF 12.00pm ~ 1.00pm
Math (College Algebra I think): MW 7.00pm ~ 9.30pm
U.S. History of Immigrants: Tue 6.30pm ~ 9.30pm
Astronomy - Cosmic Universe: Online, weekly quizzes

No need to rub your eyes, yesh, this is a real post and not a Twitter summary~! ^_^ I've been wanting to write a proper post for a really long time but things kept getting in the way. Mostly projects. I feel bad to be posting when I have overdue projects to finish, so I tend to not post or respond to comments till I get at least one project done. I actually wanted to post this weekend before my birthday but alas the laptop doesn't like accepting wireless internet when I'm traveling. >_> Anyhoo first few things:

Happy Belated Birthday to anyone I've missed! If you'd like a drabble/drawble (I know I still owe people, they're actually finished, just haven't had a chance to post) let me know. ^_^
Congrats to anyone who graduated or finished their major! I dunno how y'all do it but wow. Good for you. =3
Also want to give a general apology to certain people. I'm sorry for being such a flake, I know I need to be better at keeping you up to date and staying on schedule. =/
I've been slowly catching up on everyone's journals but I prolly won't be commenting on them unless they were from the past few weeks. Hope everyone's well!

So much to say, yet not much really at all lol. My birthday was monday and I'm now a quarter century old. Thanks to everyone who's wished me happy birthday so far, it really made my day. ^___^ XD Sadly all my goals I had to before turning 25 have not been fulfilled. Hopefully I'll get them done soon. As a semi-last minute gift from my mom, we went down to Disneyland. I had a lot of fun despite my feet deciding to act totally against me lol. I should have pictures up soon. The digi-cam broke early on the 2nd day so I gotta wait till the instant cameras get processed. =/ I got lots of nice goodies tho most are either Princess Belle related or Pirate Princess related, hehe.

Currently in summer classes which are going okay. As long as I can pass I'll be very happy. After the fall semester, I'll only have the english classes to take before I can transfer to State. I'm debating on trying for a 1-4 year study in Japan. Honestly would rather do a semester but I don't think I can find anything like that. I just want to get my first degree so I can get a higher paying job that's more permanent and pertinent to what I want to do in life.

Fandom wise I've been passive in all my fandoms. And at the same time, wanting to join new fandoms. XD I'm hoping to have some finished pieces to show off rather soon. =3 And... I think I'll leave this post at that. I may in the next few hours or so post some meme posts so sorry in advance for spamming your flist. *hugs to all*

*waves* Ugh, this first month of the year has been busy. There's so much I've wanted to talk about, yet never got the chance to. XD I'm alive and well, and been in school for a week now. I hope I can survive the semester. XD Checking about 10 days worth of flist postings but I may not comment on everyone. Just rest assured that at least by this week I'll have caught up in your lives. ^_^ This post is gonna have everything so i can clear up my to-do list.

( School )

( semi-mini HP shipping rant )

Memes Include: Five Questions, Album Art, Robin Hood

( Various Memes )

( Lost in Translation )

( Quick HP Fandom Things )

Couple of things I joined (grabbed from flist): Facebook, Mythark City, Twitter, GoodReads,