Happy Pi Day! Its a good nerdy weekend, it is. Tomorrow is the Ides of March, on which I will be studying for a Latin exam. Yes, that amuses me too.

I've fallen off the radar these last few months, so this is partially an announcement that I am floating around here somewhere. Hello to those I haven't spoken too in awhile. How are you? I hope you are doing well.



Now to the point. I am in the Anthropology class which requires a zoo trip. I plan on going next Saturday, March 21st. I want to be there when Lincoln Park Zoo opens at 10a. So that means that if anyone is willing to join me, the meeting time will be 8.30 or so. I'm not looking at schedules or doing any real travel calculations in my head, but that time seems about right. Definitely before 9a, what with relying on the CTA and all.

If you have any interest in going, leave me a comment here. By Tuesday I hope to have facts perfectly cemented, and will DM relevant people on friendslist. So if you like monkeys and are free the morning of March 21st, come along to the zoo!

I changed my layout! I'm really sort of happy with it, it being a lot cleaner than my last one. I doubt I'll be using speckled backgrounds on lj for awhile.

Top Gear season 12 started this month! But I've only seen the first episode, but ohmygosh Oliver! Watch Oliver in 10x4 to understand. African adventure ftw! Also, I like that that site has lots of show episodes on the page instead of mucking about with outsourcing (especially when you can't view it without signing up >_<). They don't have season 12 up, for that its falls to trusty Sidereel.

Classes for next semester are all registered for and I actually have 15 hours, a first! It will be my last semester of Latin, meaning that I have one more semester of weekly panic and inability. And then I'll get to actually start my Anthropology major. Oh goodie.

My Egyptian term paper has been moved back a week! :D I will be able to sleep this weekend, isn't that wonderful? The beginning of November is dreadful, all the classes have papers due so close to each other and yet that still does nothing to quell my tendencies toward procrastination. Shiny flash games are such a distraction.

Its been a month, lets see what's I can remember happening in however long it takes me to type this:

• Got my hair cut.
  
• Started school.
  
• Went to two zoos.
  
• Today I didn't get sleepy in any of my classes. !!!
  
• Made a Twitter and fixed it a bit.
  
• Made a post on Piffle Theory.
  
• Told sister to upload those photos.
  
• Posted here. :)

( So now on to the part about my courses. )
So this semester is looking like fun. Some actual work required, but the topics should prove to be intellectually satisfying.

Purpose of post: I'm twenty. Twenty years of life on this planet. I mean to try to score my life based of typical lines of division for the various aspects society has come up with. This has been a long time coming.

( If you have a short attention span to all things me, you probably wouldn't have even made it this far. Good job! )

...I finally changed my layout! :D I'm so glad that that old dull grey monstrosity is gone. This new layout's header was not made by me, however. I don't have excessive time this semester for graphics like last semester. :( The people in the header are from BBC's Robin Hood, characters of Will Scarlett and Djaq. If it had Allan I'd be tempted to never get rid of it. :P

So, while I'm here and all, I should probably do a bit of an update of my life this past month.

University: This semester is looking as though it will be time consuming. Not challenging (unless you count how far I can stretch my procrastination), but full of reading material.

Social: I've been realizing who are the ones that I'm missing. Problem with this is me feeling awkward about doing anything about it. Also, I want to try to improve certain aspects of my personality and general moods. At this time I am not that confident about this project.

Personal: Restlessness has set in a bit. I need to get out and move. Walk, run, dance, slid - I just don't want to do that around most people that much. Ran a block this weekend, first time in ages without a bus to catch, and I forgot it can be enjoyable.

Internet: Ohmygosh! I just won first and second place in two different icontests! ^_^ Its been about a year, including the breaks, since I started making graphics and I'm proud to say I have actually improved. (Not that I don't still produce crap, 'cause I do.) I'll post banners to esdlsd when they are made with the icons.
View winning results here: robin_icontest & monkeestills

EDIT: Its been over four years since I first started this journal. I feel so old and so much better than my past self. Even if I still have so far to go.

I've been really rude recently, and without meaning too. Has whatever tact I have left me for sunnier climes?

Good news: I somehow managed to get all A's! I've no idea how I did it. Even Latin. The others were real easy, even if I did panic after slacking off. Getting an A in Latin made my day. Problem is I just remembered that I should go over Latin so I remember it for next semester. Drats!

Saturday was the day that broke me. I have been able to enjoy my cluttered and dusty room for over 19 years. As of today I've started to clean it out. This is mainly because I got a new computer desk. ! Its all in now and it only took me around seven hours to clean, move, set up, and tidy. And that's only a fraction of my room. My bed still needs to be cleared off, but that shouldn't take long. I'm giving myself a semester to finish up cleaning up/out my room. I'm taking tomorrow off though, my entire upper body has begun to ache.

During the cleaning I've managed to hit my head at least three times, two of which were bad enough to make me get an ice pack. It seems Tact and Coordination have eloped. They could have given me some warning, I would have taped a pillow to my head.

So recently it has gotten cold enough here to snow (even if it wasn't much and didn't last long) and currently the water has frozen random bits of the sidewalk with thin, well concealed patches of ice.

Today, leaving the BSB, I had my official first fall of this winter season. :) It was a pretty good fall too, took me by complete surprise. I was there walking down the outside steps in a lively pace when all of a sudden WHOOSH! I was in the air! My legs kicked out completely and hovered with me at a nauseating one feet above the ground! Before any survival techniques could kick in, before any thoughts could cross my mind, I could feel gravity begin to tug on my coat hem (seeing as I wore no shirt tails at the time). Down, down I fell until, after what seemed four seconds, the ground and I reestablished our relationship. Startled and slightly dazed from the brief but action packed affair between the ground and my posterior I got up while replying to a witness to the brief fling. Walking away with neither pain nor pleasure in my heart or elsewhere I felt I was just witness to the start of a new season in both our existences.

I've just been working on my latin and I've just got to say that it has the best illustrations ever. I need to set up the scanner on this computer and scan them, they are that hilarious, once they stop being kinda creepy. Here are two quotes from me (because I don't think I've said anything really quotable lately, Char needs her fodder! :P)

• "If you are going to be emo, at least do it in a dead language."

The picture was of Quintus (the poet Horace as a boy) looking so emo while studying in Rome. Maybe it would sound better with the 'because' I had at the beginning.

Another chapter had drawings of the assassination of Iulius. The last one was of his corpse lying in front of a statue, both of which were rather bloody. To which I said:

• "Do you know how hard it is to get blood off of marble?"

Come on Julius, you know you shouldn't bleed everywhere. Its terribly rude and makes you look a bad guest.

Two weeks have passed, time to update. School's almost done for the semester (!) and then I can catch up on the shows I've missed the last couple of weeks. I plan I fixing up this place and my icon journal, now that I'm in a bit of a layout stint. Hopefully I can finish the layout I'm working of before finals, if I could get IE to work. >_<

( I've actually thought about certain aspects of my life. Shocking. )
But good news: I've become more active online! kinda I'm rather proud of myself for that, though I'm still paranoid that my comments make me look an idiot. I'm getting past it though, I've come very far in the time I've been on the internet. Granted it only took me years for it to happen (maybe even a decade?!), but it has. It almost makes me not embarrassed about my early stuff. Eh, I suppose I had to start somewhere.

A question: Why does it seem that when I'm creatively writing my icon creativity is low and vice versa? Its odd but true, I don't remember producing good stuff in both departments at the same time.

Sometime last week, I believe, people on my block played a Spanish version of Achy Breaky Heart. I think my brain stopped for a minute. If you ever have the opportunity to listen to it, if only a small portion, I would recommend you do so -- its definitely worth it.

( I shall now go through a semester wrap-up ramble. )

Met some interesting people this semester, but still no Anthropology majors.

I've noticed that I never put anything deeper that random fluff. To try to change that fact I think I will clean up friends/communities I have added -- get rid of the ones I don't read and people I don't talk to. I need to make it easier to for me get through my friends page as well as make me more at ease posting here.

Some new news, however, is that I have now turned prime. Isn't that lovely? The next time won't be for another four years. I think I'll really enjoy this year, I usually prefer odd years.

And lastly, I made a new layout for myself! Gone is the now annoyingly bright colours and the Four/Sarah banner. Now my eyes welcome this gentle relief, a sharp contrast with its blinding predecessor. The song used is Changes by the Monkees, not that anyone cares. Using a new mood theme too, because Sylar is one of the best written villains I've been introduced to in a long time. That, and Zachary Quinto is hot. ^_^

Ohmygoodiedaunt! The We Will Rock You musical is awesome. I miss Freddie! I am now bouncing around and singing Queen songs. I've had no sugar, and yet I am shaking. Either something was in the fog or Queen makes me so very, very happy. ^_^

Finals are now over, what a pleasant way to reward myself. Its been an interesting week, and I'm glad its over.

I'm twitching like mad, I'm making many mistakes in my English. I want to go again, I want to dance! If you can go, do! If we support it, maybe it will stay. It's at Morton College, so its nowhere you can't find.

It was funny, though Jason said that some of the things get a bit corny after they are repeated. I don't think so, I love corny music jokes. And trust me, they covered pretty much everything.

I need to go find myself a really good Queen icon, very few bands make me happy so consistently.

Edit: okay, musicals are obiviously not good for my state of mind. They're like a drug, a drug I tell you! Now my head hurts from the quiet. It was wonderfully loud.

And I hate women's public bathrooms.

More than a month. This journal is turning into a 'one post a month' thing even though I attempt to post more. There's really nothing stopping it, I just never really remember too.

Char is also my favorite person tonight...this morning. Much fun to talk to. She'll send me into a petticoat obsession if I'm not careful. And everything is acceptable if it's covered in barbecue sauce. :D

I've also figured out roughly what my classes will me in the fall, so I figure that's a good thing. It will be finishing a lot of LAS requirements, which is a good thing. And now to bed, hope everyone sleeps more than three hours.

Well, Hillary sent me a nudge 'cause I haven't posted in awhile. I was just going to make a post saying "No.", but for now I figure I might as well say something.

I think I'm actually going to really start using this thing now. And I'll probably actually comment on entries (though a lot of entries recently have been on more emotional issues and I'm not always the best person for that).

Things are going relatively well for me, in fact I think I may be getting close to that elusive feeling: happiness. Well, maybe not really but I do feel more content (that is, after I get over any moments of panic I may have.) UIC is pretty nice and I like it there. But how do I keep ending up with classes were the material overlaps at times? I don't know.

Also, I'm making icons now! Shocking, I know, but it gives me something to do. I've posted all my crappy, older icons and will probably post the newer, better ones on Monday. So far I've only got The Avengers, Historical, Doctor Who, and Torchwood ones up but Monkee and Labyrinth icons are planned for the nearer future. I'll probably post them to communities on Monday as well. Yikes! ....am I a full geek now?