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Ii Nyusu Minna-sama! (Good News Everyone)

January 28, 2005

I actually wanted to post this last night but I didn't get home till way late and by the time I ate dinner I just wanted to crawl into bed. I was just so worn down, emotionally and physically.

Isis' surgery was a success, and lucky there were no extractions needed. The infection has been treated and her gums were cleaned, and they didn't have to pull any teeth what so ever. Thats a major relief. ^_^ She's still taking antibioitcs but at least her appetite has returned completely, she's happy and loving again and of course her breathe dosn't smell.

I also meant to make note of my great success thus far in quizes and tests in my classes so far.

In Japanese we had a vocabulary quiz - 90%
In CJ250 we had our first chapter quiz - 100%

Today I'll take my first Psychology test at 6pm. The chapter we covered and the theories and such are rather extensive so heres hoping I can do decent on that test as well. I'm supposed to be studying right now - bad me - but some doujinshis I bought came in the mail and I had to stop to read them and then I thought "why not start scanning them?" and well yeah here I am just procrastinating now.

Gah, yesterday I participated in another "voluntary" Psy experiment. First of all how "voluntary" is something if you have to perfom X amount of them in order to prevent the grade that you earned from exams and assignments being dropped by 1/2 a grade or a whole letter grade? Anyway the thing was a major bore fest. It made me yawn and wish I was dead, seriously. One question kept going through my mind as I jumped through their little hoops and hurdles like a good bitch: "I'm wasting the time I could be relaxing or studying before going to work doing this shit?" It was horrible.

I had to sit in this tiny room staring at a computer screen waiting for to dots to appear mentally note where the beginning and ending points were, wait for an image of a bunch of other dots appear to try and confuse me, than the screen would go blank and I'd have to click the area closest to where the points were. It dosn't seem that bad, but when you have to sit still and do this for an hour straight staring at this screen its annoying as all get out. Death by Polka Dots I tell you! At least this is the third experiment I've completed thus far supposedly I should only need two more to complete. In theory of course. Considering we have to fill out this pre-made form about the experiment and the experimentor.

Pft, its just a way for our teacher to say "you didn't do this right and even though you sat through an hour of hell and have earned the 1pt of experiment credit I will award you only half!" Actually I dont know if she's going to do that, I just have a sneaky suspiscion that she will. Like I actually care about these idiots and why they want to waste their time on such ridiculous experiments. Snotty thoughts I know, but still the way I feel about being forced to "volunteer" for anything.

@ 12:34 pm

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Surgery Today

January 27, 2005

Well Isis got dropped off at the vet today for her surgery. I had to have my mother take her after all as I can’t miss class and there was no way I could make it all the way to Las Cruces at 8am and then turn around and drive all the way to Anthony for class at 8:30. The distance is 1) too far; 2) traffic starts getting congested, and finally; 3) I’d have to do more than twice the speed limit in order to make it on time. I wish I had been able to go though.

After I got out of class I called my mom to see how everything went. They won’t be getting started on Isis’ surgery till noon if her blood work checks out. Since Isis is kind of old (9yrs=71 in human yrs) she went ahead and ordered the extra blood work and when the surgery begins (although it’s minor) she’ll be put on a heart monitoring system so that if there are any irregularities Doctor Calista will hopefully catch it in time.

What really has me worried is the fact that even though I gave her the antibiotics like I was supposed to and I made sure she got extra feedings Isis’ weight dropped from 8lbs to 7.5lbs not good. I can’t begin to fathom how this could happen. Before she had the antibiotics to help with the infection Isis was only eating about 1 to 1 ½ small cans of cat food, it was all she could keep down without regurgitating. After she started on the antibiotics I was able to feed her 3 to 3 ½ small cans of cat food. Isis was not throwing up, she was eating more food on her own and had regained her appetite yet despite this her weight dropped ½ lb in one week. I haven’t gotten a phone call yet and it is now 12:22pm so I’m hoping everything is okay but I can’t help but worry.

@ 12:25 pm

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To the Vet We Go Went!

January 21, 2005

I just got back from the vets office a little over an hour ago. Denali's check up went well she weighed in at 8.6lbs and got her rabbies vac., upper-respitory shots, and her feline luekimia vac. as well. Right now she's the epitome of perfect kitty helath and I aim to keep it that way.

Poor Isis though is in much worse shape. My baby, I thought she was eight years old she's actually nine x_X and she's got a bad case of dingervitis on her back and upper molars. She's been put on some antibiotics and next week on Thursday she's going back in for an exploratory examination. Dr. Calista will see if the infection has caused her gums to receede far enough back exposing her teeth's roots. If it has than the teeth will have to be pulled out. My poor little old lady.

Dr. Calista was out of town but Dr. Turner looked at her, I've never met him before but if Calista trust him . . . anyway he assured me that Isis' eating would be affected if her teeth were removed. Either way she's getting nothing but can cat food from now on.

@ 4:16 pm

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Guilty Pleasures

January 20, 2005

*dramatic sigh* I have got to learn to stay away from Ebay - its bad for my wallet's health. I've become obsessed with this one anime in particular as of late. Three guesses as to which one and the first two dont count. If you guessed Hagane no Rekinjutsushi (Full Metal Alchemist) then you are absolutely correct. My favorite fan (non cannon) pairing in that anime is Edvy the slash/yaoi pairing of Ed Elric and Envy. Yes I know technically speaking the two are brothers in a sense but I dont care! Envy is a homunculous thus he's not human so that makes it completely A-Okay. ^_^ Anyway A couple of days ago I placed a bid on one EnvyxEd doujinshi and today I went back and out bidded another bidder for another EdxEnvy doujinshi and a FMA gag doujinshi as well. Thats roughly $30-40 I've spent right there. Not to mention I just won a working replica of Ed's State Alchemist pocket watch and a sterling silver pendant with the show's signature trademark - the Flamel for another $30 bucks. I spend way too much on anime stuff now a days.

Positive note, I sold some more stuff on Amazon.com so theres the justification for the spending spree.

Alot away fromt he light hearted topics and onto the depressing ones. I'm considering going ahead and breaking down and purchasing the required text for my CJ250 class just because that class meets once a week and every class period we have a quiz over the assigned chapter. But then again the teacher does give you the exact 20 questions he'll quiz you on in advance plus the page numbers of where to find the answers as a study guide so who knows. Most of the questions seem to be review from previous classes so looking at my other CJ notes and the couple of books I kept will probably be enough.

Math210 reqires no text hip hip hooray! So I so far only had to buy the textbooks for Psychology and Goverment.not too bad really.

I listened to everybody's suggestions and advice on the matter of my double major and even though it feels seriously close to being a quiter I went ahead and dropped my Biology major and I am just forcusing on my CJ major and minor in Forensics. Doing this and taking 18 credit hours every semester (plus summer sessions) till graduation will allow me to graduate on time. Or so I hope.

Right now my schedule stands as this:

Tuesday: 08:30 - 09:45am CJ230
11:45 - 01:00pm Gov110
01:10 - 02:25pm JPNS212
06:00 - 08:30pm CJ250 *tuesday only class*

Thursday: 08:30 - 09:45am CJ230
11:45 - 01:00pm Gov110
01:10 - 02:25pm JPNS212

Friday: 06:00 - 08:55pm Psy201

Sunday: 01:00 - 03:55pm Math210

Monday and Wednesday I have completely off so I'm trying to use those days to get homework and studying done so far so good. I'm even trying to keep from working events at the Pan Am on those days. Friday, Saturday and Thursday are hetic though because I usually go in to work on those days at the Pan Am and on Thursday and Saturday after I get out of work there I turn around and go to work at the Athletics office. So yeah those days so far I've been coming home after midnight.

Times for the Japanese oral practise hasn't been set but Henmi-sensei is only setting them on Tuesdays and Thursdays so either on Tuesday I dont go home till after my last CJ class or on Thursday I dont go home till around midnight. Peachy ne?

@ 11:24 pm

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First Day(s) Back

January 14, 2005

Yesterday was the first day of classes this semester and boy was it annoying. This 8:30am class thing will be the death of me surely. First of all I had CJ230 looks like another CJ class I wont need to buy the book for. THe class is pretty straightforward, allow me to fill you in on the grading system. There is a total of 600 points possible to earn in that class and there is no extra credit. Scary sounding? It isn't. In order to earn 100 points one needs to bring in two different news articles and discuss them with the class each is worth 50pts. Attendance is mandatory and as such points are taken off of your grade for every abscence. We are alotted three abscences before points start flying (10pts per anscence actually), however if you show up to class every single day you get a 110points. That is truthfully the only extra credit opurtunity in the class. If you show up every day to class than obvisouly you want miss out on the little assignments she hands out which allow you to earn Participation Points, another 100 total. The above is completely easy and totaly possible for me to accomplish I've done it before in fact so automatically there is 310 points out of 600. We have a total of three exams each worth 100 points so if I were to make 80s on the exams I'd still pass with an A. Apparently alot of people failed this course before, I cant help but wonder how.

Japanese is the same structure as always, Henmi-sensei will never change :p Though let it be noted that the class size dropped significally.

Goverment might just bore me to death. We'll have some group projects but aside from that the class is structured very similarily to past CJ and History classes I've had so no troubles there. We do not write papers in that class so no real challenge. Though I refuse to relax, that class might end up biting me in the ass for not taking it seriously.

Though my instructor is definately a weird one. She came into class turned on the computer and placed this rap song on at full volume. Rap fans were able to appreciate it and pay attention, I however was cringing in my seat at the back of the room. The music being blared at full volume in a lecture hall with surround sound was too much for my tastes. Apparently there was a message in the song, all I picked up was: "fuck you" "mother fuckers" and "fucker". Seriously I didn't understand a word except the explicits. When class started she turned off the music and asked us "why would she play that song". My automatic response was because you have bad taste in music. I didn't mean for her to hear it, really I didn't. Some people just cant take jokes. Ah yes and then she made up line up for mugshots. Not joking. In order to make it easier for her to put faces with names we had to right our names on index cards wait in line and than take a picture with the card. I hate getting my picture taken. Damn woman.

Today I just had Biology and Math, I wont have my other CJ class till next week as its a Tuesday evening class only, and no I probably wont buy that book either. So far the only book I need to buy is my goverment texts. Biology was a snooze fest. The teacher just lectured about the area around us and what he enjoys for the entire period, he didn't even hand out a syllabus. People were actually getting up and leaving halfway thorugh the class. Hell I even got out my gameboy advance and started playing it. Some people around me thought this was hilarious for some odd reason.

Math 115 scares me. Turns out there was a glitch in the computer system a few years ago when grades were posted and the C I thought I had earned in 114 was really a D, meaning I need to take 114 again. However Math 115 dosn't have any "real" pre-requizites so to speak. Juding by your highschool grades they suggest where you should start off at or you can choose to take the Math Placement Exam to see what level you need to start off with. It is strongly recommended you take the MPE so they can place you accordingly but I never took it. I'm horrible at math and well tis horrible to me so why take a math test I dont need to take? So I went ahead and took 103 and 114 before jumping into 115 since 115 is the first level math that is required by the general requirements. If pre requezits for the class arn't met you'll be dropped from the class by mid February. I can fight it and say since I never took the MPE it was never determined that I needed the lower level math classes I just took them because I'm lazy and dont really like Math and now I cant put off taking 115 any longer. Good one right? Problem is everything I learned in 114 has been forgotten. We had to take a diagnostics test during class and it was horrible. I spazzed could barely remember any formulas and procedures. I got for sure 5 answers right the rest were more like "well this answer is the closest to what I got . . ." and "when in doubt . . . what letter answer havn't I chosen in a while?"

I'm horrible at math and its not getting any better plus in order to finish the requirements for my Biology major I have to get past this math and take Calculus in order to acces the upper level biology classes that I need, not to mention all the courses for Biology that I still need. Doing the double major is likely to hold me back at least two years or so. If I dont graduate on time I will lose my financial aide and be forced to pay for the rest of my school myself - I cant afford that. But if I just keep the CJ major and Forensics minor I'll graduate on time.

So here's the predicament I'm puzzling over now. Drop the second major and go back to school after I'm employed with a federal agency and they can help fund my further education or struggle for a way to finish on time and or get some extra cash saved up for those final years? I'm not sure what to do right now. I'll go to the Math115 class for another couple of days and see what happens, see if I can handle this shit. Hey its the beginning of the semester when classes are the easiest, if I cant handle it now than I'll know for sure its time to hang it up.

@ 6:37 pm

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Much to Read, Much to See

January 8, 2005

Has anybody noticed I always post a comment around midday? The only time I blog in the mornings is when I'm still up at that time and havn't gone to bed yet. Strange isn't it?

I went to pick up my check yesterday from Zales, my last paycheck. Wish I could continue working full time but holiday/temp is the only position available. I'll have to go back for Valentine's and Mother's Day holidays. Big jewlery holidays. Anyway I got $11 in sales commission on my last paycheck! Not bad when we get only like 1.2% (or something like that) off of sales, and I was a cashier so I hardly got to make sales.

This is gonna be a good year. Mercedes Lackey's new book and final book in the Joust trilogy "Sanctuary" Is set to come out March 1st, I'm already on the reserved list at my library. ^_^ Plus in March her second novel in the trilogy "Alta" will be available in Paperback as well! The sequel to "Dead Witch Walking" by Kim Harrison is due out July 1st and is titled "Every Witch Way. And of course who can forget, July 16th is the date set for the release of the new Harry Potter book; "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".

Sorry, I'm such a bookworm. -_-'

So, deviating away from books I just found out that February (my birth month) is when Full Metal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi) is supposed to be released on DVD. I LOVE that series, and since it is going to be released in America on DVD finally and in my birth month no less it stands to reason that someone *hint hint hint* should get this for me for a birthday gift yes? Thought so. I have to go into work today at 4:30pm, I've got lock-down security. Which means I'm there a full three hours before the event starts so I get some extra hours. Hopefully I can get out of work early enough tonight to watch Hagane no Renkinjutsushi on adult swim tonight.

@ 2:21 pm

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Desperately Seeking Inspiration

January 5, 2005

I'm desperate I tell you, desperate. I've been sitting at my computer all day trying to get the inspiration for the next chapter of The Prodigal Child it just isn't happening. Hell I only typed like maybe two paragraphs more to the third chapter of Online. I just seem to lack the inspiration needed to put my thoughts into words and bring these stories to life. The facts, the gist is there but the story itself is lacking in that spark that brings it to life. I thought about taking a break to draw, thats a no go as well. Five hours and nothing but doodles, half-done sketches, and a couple of paragraphs to show for my work.

School will start back up on the 13th of this month, I dont have much time left that I can devote whole days to nothing but computer and I'm wasting it! I havn't even finished transfering DMYIP over to this domain yet. Can we say pathetic? GAH!

Still no word from or even of Laura Navaro. She is no longer MIA folks, she's just AWOL. Mayra and I have given up trying to figure out if she braved going home for the holidays or if she just rented a motel or is living out of a cardboard box. Its obvious she didn't stay in the dorms for the holidays. Laura said she didn't have any money and was taking out loans left and right for her tuition this semester, and considering the school was charging a little over $20 a day for the dorm rooms and we've been off since the 10th of December till the 13th of January...Thats what $600 or more?

If her pride wont let her ask for help or tell us about her situation than I guess thats her choice. I'll just wait till school lets in again to Laura her Christmas present. And then I'll try to knock some sense into that skull of hers.

@ 9:38 pm

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Its Up and Running!

January 5, 2005

I finally gave up on blogger and dreambook for hosting a blog. Hey I have all this space here at Nanashi so why not use it right? Okay so here's the story. Back in 2002 I created a blog at Blogger. At the time I was in highschool and it was the thing to do so that you could gossip with all your friends no matter what time of day - or something to that effect. Since I was the only one who had a website, a real site and not a profile page somewhere or something it was decided that of course I could create a blog with no problem! Problem was I wanted it to integrate with my site's layout and just fit along with the site, and also wanted no ads on my blog as well. Unlike everyone else I didn't have a doting/spoiling parent who gave me tons of money to spend frivously on any passing whim or fashion and I could not see paying for an online blog when I was trying to scrimp and save for a domain.

So the blog was abandoned. I did like the idea of an online journal so I tried LiveJournal and DeadJournal, same problem, I just couldn't wrap my mind around their codes. So I quit. I decided there were more important things web-wise and real life wise to worry about, like graduation. I later returned to make a weblog again but instead just decided to make it seperate from the site and use a service I'd been using for awhile now - Dreambook; they're not just for guestbooks folks! Problem, unless you pay for the service (my sites come first) you can only have a max of 150 entries before they start to get deleted or you have to create a new book. So I opened up a freeserver.com account and backed up my old posts there creating an archive. Well without warning freeservers decided to cut back on its alloted space for people and delted "excess" files. I lost nearly all of my archives and had to move them over to a new brinkster account. About this time I was juggling three jobs and school and so I rarely had time for my websites. I had just barely managed to purchase the extended bandwidth and storage space for Nanashi with every intention to move the files to that account but never got the chance. Six months passed where I sporadically dropped in on DMYIP, DW, BishFics, Nanashi, and MS to do random updates or just to log in so that the accounts would not be marked as inactive. I (like the idiot that I am) completely forgot about the other account with my archives and so lo and behold I finally remember to check it and needless to say it is Kaput. So yeah.

Recently I tried to figure blogger out again, eh, its like math. I've already got my mind set that I cant figure the codes out and so I draw a blank on how to arrange the site then I stumbled onto HaloScan and realized that using LiveJournal, DeadJournal, Blogger, DiaryLand ect... is just a crutch. They're there to make blogging easier for you and available to those without websites or html know how. A way for everyone to be able to blog. But I do have a website with lots of space, a domain name and I do know html so why did I need to depend on the blogging communities for a weblog? Why didn't I just make one myself, host and host it here! Commenting system? Thats what HaloScan is for! Though I doubt people will want to leave me comments :( That aside this has got to be the best idea I've had in months.

@ 2:05 pm

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