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It’s 3:30 AM and I have a (final) crit at 8:30 tomorrow. I should have gone to bed 3 hours ago. Meh.

I’m kicking myself mentally because I just majorly screwed up this KoL run (which I was trying to make a speed run so I could go farm crimbo). I spent around 60 turns at the pirate’s cove thinking I needed the dictionary, and getting frustrated that it wouldn’t drop. Then I realized that I had the Mt. McLargeHuge quest and *not* the chasm quest, and I was very sad for wasting 60 hco turns. Then, I got tons of RNG screwage. I spent around 40 turns trying to get the outfit for the mines. I got 4 pants and 3 helmets (as item drops) before finally getting the weapon. The ore I needed was the last one I came across. Then spent around 80 turns at the goatlet with +60% item drops. Encountered something like 12 dairy goats. Got exactly 2 cheese drops. Then I got the leaflet and got the bowling trophy instead of the stat code that I could have used to slightly lessen my screwups in this run.
So much for having time to farm crimbo after hc :-\ If I’m not done with this run by next weekend, I am dropping hc and oxy and farming the hell out of crimbotown anyway.
Bah.

Made tenative rules and cards for a Cluster card game today (instead of doing graphics homework).


I’ll finish it after this week is over. It seems fun enough (and a lot simpler than my other card games).
Bah, I’m screwing up my grades so much by doing this. I’m not going to get graphics done and grargh why am I so stupid?

Also, I can’t help but feel like I majorly screwed up with respect to my relationship. I don’t even know why, because it’s not like I did anything, much less anything *wrong*. I’m just feeling incredibly lonely and such… and I feel like I’m being too whiny and whingy about it and everything. I need to stop being so full of myself.
I guess it’s also the feeling that I’m not doing enough… that I need to be a better boyfriend.
Bah.

I screwed up peoples’ LJ friends pages yesterday after upgrading WordPress (because it apparently extended the feed back 15 days instead of 7, causing old entries to all be republished to the syndicated account).
Bah.

Also, I still haven’t found time to buy Christmas presents for anyone. This is a very bad thing. I’m a horrible friend.
Bah.

So let’s see… in the past 48 hours I feel like I’ve screwed up classwork, KoL, relationship foo, LJ foo, friendship foo, and my sleep schedule.
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God I feel like I’m screwing up everything in my life.
I should be asleep right now.

Edit: Great… I woke up this morning, looked at the clock, and was like “SHIT IT’S 8:35!” Meh. Managed to make it to class by 8:45, so I wasn’t too late…
Yay for more screwups.

Mrrrr

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I may be a bad person :(

Ev came over yesterday to hang out. He was supposed to leave at 4:30 so he could get home by 5. Instead, he didn’t leave until around 8, and it’s totally my fault.
Meh.

Today, I was playing ITG with Chris, and he got an amazing score on Pandemonium Expert, and I cleared the screen before he could get a screenshot.
Meh.

I meant to go and work on graphics today during the break between classes and after classes were over, but I ended up playing ITG and then coming home to sleep instead.
Meh.

I’d already spent the alotted part of my monthly budget for non-necessities (covers DDR/ITG, new music from online, cards I want to buy, etc)… and then I ordered more cards (because they were on sale and I really wanted them).
Meh.

I fell asleep this morning in photo while we were watching the Avalon video (it was really interesting too… I really wished I’d seen all of it).
Meh.

I haven’t really had dinner (just a couple bowls of cereal). Our cabinets are full of quick-and-easy food things (like rice-a-roni, pasta sides, pasta, ramen), but I’m so lazy that I don’t even feel up to making any of those.
Meh.

Now I’m sitting here thinking I should be doing graphics or getting a head start on analysis, but doing neither.
Meh.

I really should start getting to bed earlier.

There was a Leah (here for CtFWS). She’s looking good (and distinctly feminine now). :D

Also, life is generally going amazingly.
I wonder if I’m over what Alisa dubs the “honeymoon” phase of a relationship yet.
*ponders*
*is giddy*
*bounces*
Hehe, nope. At least, not completely.

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In the world of ITG…
I think I could star this. The two misses were stupid.

Doubles, no bar… starred it.

Been trying to star this one for months, and finally got it.

I’m definetly getting better. That makes me happy.

Um, yeah.

Last night we played hide and seek. I haven’t played that game in forever, and it was nice to be a kid again, even if only for an hour or so. I’m still amazed that I was able to fit in the cabinet under the sink and under Dan’s bed. Whee.
Ian was the best at hiding. I had *no* idea where he was! I mean, who would’ve thought he would be mimicing a lamp on the table? I certainly wouldn’t have. And I certainly wasn’t able to find him.
…
XD

Last night I also shot Ben in the shooting studio. The pictures didn’t come out as good as I would have liked, mainly because I couldn’t use the strobes (there was no hotshoe sync cable) with my digital camera, and instead had to use studio lights, and hence got quite a bit of blur in the photos. Oh well.
Some of the best ones can be found at http://art.alanv.org/011.html or below:


Margaret wants me to post more pictures of Ev. Um… okay.

Yeah… apologies to people on dialup :-P Meh. I think I enjoy taking photos a little *too* much.
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And I’m in the mood to shoot people again. Meh. But no… today is homework and more homework. Whee.

Foo

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I feel like I should write something on here, but I’m not quite sure what.

Yesterday was Everett’s birthday. Happy (belated) birthday, Ev!

The graphics midterm wasn’t as terrible as I was expecting… but I still don’t think I did well on it. Meh. We’ll see what my midsemester grade is. If it’s a C or below, I’ll probably end up dropping the class (just because I hate it so much).
The algo midterm wasn’t bad. I scored below average on it… but given that the average was 87%, I didn’t do badly at all. This pretty much solidifies by B for midsemester, which makes me really happy given that it’s algo and I find the class rather difficult.

The only midsemester grade I have so far is analysis, and it’s a B (as expected). That makes me happy.
If I had to guess on the other ones…
Algo: B; Graphics: B-; Alt. Photo: A; Color Photo: A-; Numerical Methods: A
Yay for relatively good grades?

It’s nice having midsemester break and not much homework to do, especially after last Tuesday’s OMG STRESS AHHH foo. I need to do numerical methods and to finish up algo, but besides that, the weekend is mine. I think I’m going to work on a small set of promos for Student Wars (since I want to get cards for Everett and Ben done, and I doubt I’ll finish Internships anytime soon).

I keep having the weirdest dreams. Last night, one dream involved various things on the purity test… and me doing them. -_-
I don’t think I’ve ever had such a disturbing dream. I don’t really want to elaborate. *shudders*
(By the way, I’m about 80.8% pure right now)
Another dream involved me getting back my graphics midterm with a big red X over every problem, and 0/100 points. Meh. At least that made me decision to drop the class easier :-P

Mike freestyled Butterfly yesterday. Managed to get an S- and perfect combo without ever looking at the screen and otherwise jumping around the pad. It was all sorts of awesome to watch.

My life has been amazingly happy lately.
Know how, in your mind, you have this idea of what the perfect guy/girl/robot for you is like… and how they’d act and look and what they’d be like?
This is nothing like what I ever imagined it would be like.
…
And that’s part of what makes it so perfect.
It’s nice to finally realize that a relationship is not the end-all solution to all your problems… because it’s not, and if you’re using it as such, I feel really bad for your significant other. At the same time, it really is nice to have someone to spend time with and to always have that feeling of being cared for.
This was completely unexpected, things just kinda happened. I didn’t have any expectations for this going in, and I still don’t have any.
And you know what? I feel like that’s the way it should be. Relationships should be something that just happens between you and a friend. If you’re actively seeking out relationships, sure you might find one, and sure it might work out… but more often than not you’ll be disappointed, and you’re probably expecting too much from them if they do happen. I think I realize this now.
^_^

One thing I’m curious about: Is it weird that we dated only after entering a relationship? I mean, usually dating comes first… but I’ve always said I wouldn’t date anyone I couldn’t see myself in a relationship with… and I wouldn’t enter a relationship with anyone I couldn’t see myself in a long-term relationship with… so, to a certain extent, they’re synonomous to me.
I guess that’s why, for the longest time, I was confused about Facebook having separate things for “Looking for: Dating, A Relationship.”
Mrrr

Endeca wants me to interview with them. Yay.
*signs up for a slot*

This evening is ITG with Ben, and then shooting studio foo. Huzzah!
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I’ve been playing too much ITG lately. Oh well. It’s the only exercise I get :-P

Life makes me happy.
*gives out bundles of happy to everyone else angsting over grades or various life foo*