Dear Lady that Lives Next to Christy,

YOU DO NOT CALL AN 8-YEAR-OLD CHILD A BITCH.

Die in a Fire,
Amy

It's no big secret that I don't like ugly_icons. I stay because it is one of the few places I visit that is almost always wanking away about something, which can be quite entertaining. In order to heighten the entertainment, I created a bingo card.

( MY OPINION!!11!! )

Please note that I don't post there, so I don't go around trolling that community. On the other hand, if any community needed deserved to be trolled, it would be that community. ^^

So I have started in on my summer reading and finished several books already.

( 5 so far )

Next on the list—A Fine and Private Place, by Peter S Beagle and The Grave Yard Book, by Neil Gaiman. On that note, does anybody have any recommendations?

Alexiel.net finally has a new layout. I've been meaning to do a new one since school got out, but didn't find a picture that inspired me until yesterday. I love this image, but the legs... good goddess they looked awkward so I cut them out. ^^

I'm working on my network page tonight. I want to arrange it a little differently and maybe do a new layout too. We'll see.

So I have officially won the banner challenges at both pevensiefour and narniaseven! Oh my! I'm a little surprised, but really pleased. Go me.

So I'll start with the good news. I've finally updated Black Dove. There is a new layout, new icons, new wallpapers, newish fanart, and a new network page. I'm currently working on some new content, so we shall see how that goes. In celebration of the new layout and updates, I did a set of 10 variation icons.

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Now for the bad news. I've decided to close X Ring. There are a couple of reasons, the main one being that Websurf has become a complete nightmare. You have to have the code on the page that the ring links to or they boot you off and there is no way for me to manually fix this. Even the ring website itself wasn't in the ring because I use frames. There is just nothing I can do about it. Also, the impending death of Geocities will kill off a large portion of the remaining sites in the ring. It's just not worth it any more. Just look at it. It's a fucking epic mess!

I feel really sad about it, largely because it was the only site I've ever taken over from somebody else. In fact, its the only site I have asked to take over. I've always been very mindful of the fact that it belonged to someone else first and they trusted me to take care of it. Another person probably would have shut it down ages ago, but it's been around for about ten years now and in my care for almost eight of those years. It's just... sad.

I got most of my grades in now.

POS 305: A
ENG 369: A
CHI 345: A
CHI 302: A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe it! I finally got an A in Chinese! I can barely contain my GLEE!!!

So my mum and I were having dinner tonight and I mentioned the term "slasher". She thought I was talking about a "cutter" so I explained the term, and I mentioned that technically I too am a slasher, even though I don't generally read/write fan-fiction or look at fan-art with a rating over PG-13. (I tend to just think couples are cute together and leave it at that.) Anyway, I decided to tell her about my favorite slash pair: mac_hearts_pc. She went, "Huh. Yeah, but PC is a little old for Mac." We actually spent time discussing the pros and cons of a Mac/PC relationship. ^^ Sometimes my Mum is really awesome.

At 4:59 PM I sent in my final Chinese film paper.
At 9:12 PM I sent in my final Chinese paper.

I am done with this semester.

Boo-ya.

I think honorary degrees are kind of lame anyway, with perhaps a little more actual value than, say, #1 Grandpa; however, if you are going to give one to anybody, perhaps it would be a good idea to give one to the President of the United States when he speaks at your university, especially if that university is ARIZONA BLOODY NOT THAT IMPORTANT STATE UNIVERSITY; however, I seriously doubt that the President is crying into his bowl of Obama-O's about it, considering that it is ARIZONA BLOODY NOT THAT IMPORTANT STATE UNIVERSITY.

Daily Show, protip, if you want to speak to students in the library, you might want to go to one of the libraries, not just a library-like building, you know, for the record.

Now I need to go back to writing a 10-page Chinese film paper that is due Friday at 5:00 PM. ::gulp::

I'm going to take my second final: Chinese 302.

::gulp:: I don't have a good feeling about this...

Happy Mother's Day.

I got my mum an ER boxset and $20 for a store called Kirklands. It's all good.

I feel like I am going to fail my finals. I know that I will not *FAIL* them, but I also feel like I am not going to do well on them. I should be studying, but all I can think is, "Why bother. You suck anyway."

I need to grow the hell up and just do it instead of thinking about it.

20 X/1999
10 Shoujo Kakumei Utena
10 Death Note


( Welcome to England )

I won 1st, 2nd, and most original over at narniaseven with all three of my submissions this past week. ^_^ I was feeling cheeky.

I have slain the monster--the monster that is my 15-page sci-fi essay. It is titled “Subverting the Rational and Defamilarizing the Common”: The Influence of Gothic Literature on the Genre of Science Fiction. It actually ended up being 18 pages with the works cited. Go figure.

Good lord is my butt getting sore. I guess that is from pulling 13 pages worth of essay out from it in three days. Ug. I have another 2 to go, plus a works cited. ::sigh::

I'm on page 15! I need an intro and a conclusion, but otherwise, the body is done!

I was in the middle of an online quiz when my Dad cut the power to the house. If you do not finish the quiz all the way through, you get a 0.

He couldn't even apologize. He just said my teacher was stupid for setting up the test that way.

Asshole.

Good news. The test was not replaced (since it covered a book we didn't read) but canceled altogether. Woot!

I think I mentioned that I was getting ticked off about the TA grading my Political Science class papers. The first two papers, which I thought were both pretty insightful, both got low A marks. I was... disappointed. For the last paper I had a really good idea but I didn't get to express it fully because I was very limited in space. I was expecting another low A to a high B. Well, in class Tuesday the teacher stated that a different TA would be grading the last paper. (Basically he said that if you need to discuss the paper with some one you should talk to this other person who would be grading the paper.) On this one I got 100%! Woot!

On another note, I am slogging away at the 15 page monster. The prompt was to analyze the Gothic influence on Science Fiction. It would be a lot easier if we were allowed to reference other scholarly works so I could look up info on Gothic literature and do a more intense level of analysis, but sadly we can only reference the stories we read in class. Even the teacher's notes are out of bounds. I don't understand it either. Also this is the paper I ranted about earlier that is only worth 20% of our grade.

If anyone could beta it for me Wednesday night/ Thursday anytime before 6:00 Pacific Standard Time, that would be great, though I know most of you are really busy.

We interupt this hiatus to bring you late-breaking news.

I have financial aid for next semester!

That is all.