Well, the weekend was pretty good, although it went slow. I guess in this case that was fine. Because that equals out to more time playing World of Warcraft, which I'm still addicted to. Friday was a surprise birthday party that was actually pretty boring... I suppose I should have expected that... I don't think there is a good way to have a birthday party and make it exciting if you aren't the person whose birthday is being celebrated. Not to say it's impossible, but just not likely >.>

Saturday began good and ended bad. A small bit of WoW before heading off to D&D started up the day. I ended up staying there probably the latest I've ever been there (besides New Years 2003-04, when I spent the night) before going home. At home I debated going to sleep but I stayed up to check my downloads, and then got drawn into more World of Warcraft before I went to bed at about 4 A.M. As I mentioned, I'm still addicted to World of Warcraft, but the day ended bad... About a week ago Jordan & I bet about something in WoW, and then I was wrong. Today Jordan decided that he wanted his money, even though at the time I'm pretty sure both of us didn't expect money. I told him no way, and we redid the bet conditions again, where this time I was right, and I took screenshots to prove it and so forth. Jordan got mad and was like "I don't want to see your fucking screenshots", left the party, and he hasn't said a word to me since. I know he's probably super pissed too, but to me, its childish. He still owes me a shitload of stuff from RO, but I don't bring it up (albeit RO is boring now, but even when we were still playing I didn't care). What I think it is is greed. He's almost level 40, which is the point where you can buy a mount (sorry to all you people who don't care about WoW), but the thing is super expensive. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have anywhere near enough money to pay for it, so he was looking to me for the money to put him another step farther. He's just super pissed that I'm not paying. Fine I guess, I see where he's coming from. IMO, I don't think he would have paid me if I won the first time. Even if he would have, I'm not sure if I would have taken it or not. I'm not trying to paint myself as an angel or whatever, I probably would have, but I still don't think he would have paid me if I won. Whatever, hopefully he'll get over it eventually. Maybe after he gets his mount...

Sunday was ok, I spent most of the day playing WoW, but I didn't level up at all, so that was kinda depressing. I think I spend about one day completing a bunch of quests, and the next day turning them all in, finding new ones, and starting on them. Usually I kill enough monsters as part of doing the quest to level me up, and the XP from finishing quests is usually enough to do it too. Although yesterday I spent a good portion of my time doing super low leveled quests so I could get some more reputation with Thunder Bluff (reputation makes stuff cheaper, and if you get enough you can buy the mount from that city which is a different kind. I don't really want their mount though... It also makes some Windrider/Bat [the best mode of transportation between towns] trips cheaper). Whatever, I'll stop with the WoW.

Today sucked (at least school did), in gym we had to swim 6 laps instead of the usual 4 (I'm sure a lot of you can do lots more than 6, but I'm an oddball in that I can run fine but swimming kills me). Then during the last two periods of school I had tests, which was really hard to go between. The first was English, which is an area I'm not too good with anyway, followed by Computer Science. I got a chance to look at the key for the CS test after we turned it in, and I'm pretty sure I answered about half wrong. Stupid technical tests... Oh well, in the end I don't think it'll effect my grade because of all the labs we do. Also, the AP test is half multiple choice half actually writing the programs, and I'm pretty sure I can do the writing really well. That just wasn't a good day for tests.

Also over the weekend, I was reminded of the story I wrote about a year or so ago. I wrote it for Writing Fiction & Poetry, and a friend of mine is taking that class now. He asked if I sent it in to publishers, which reminded me about the story. He said he wanted to read it, so I sent him the only version I could find, the short one. It makes me angry too, because I know somewhere I should have the long version (about 5 pages more). I can't find it though, and it's not on my harddrive or any floppies I own. I even checked my website for it, but couldn't find it there either. I sent him it overnight and when he came back online the next day he said he liked it, and gave me a bunch of suggestions and so forth. I asked him if he was interested, if he wouldn't mind doing some editing for me so I can do more work on it easier, and he said OK. ^_^ He pointed out a lot of things that I hadn't thought about, so maybe it'll be a cool story afterall. I reread a lot of it and it still makes me think I used a lot of stupid words to make myself sound smart, but every time I look at it I come up with some other way to write out the sentence less confusingly and even smarter because I'm not using words that nobody else uses. I think it's looking better, but I don't know what kind of effort it'll take for me to actually go all out and fix it up...

Today I was informed of one of the most exciting things eber: ACEN! Short for Anime CENtral, and held downtown! I find myself in a predicament: I need money (i.e. a job), and if I can, an Alucard costume. Because Alucard is awesome. I need to be able to cough up about $100 for a hotel & entrance fees, and I'll want a bunch more so I can buy stuff like anime and posters. Three people who did the VA in Full Metal Panic are going to be there too ^_^ I need to buy that to see if I can get them to sign it... Also: THE PILLOWS!! They did the music to Fooly Cooly (FLCL), one of the awesome-est anime's ever. And they rawk. *listens*

Adion is watching: Full Metal Panic - 2 - I Want to Protect You
*chuckles* such a funny (& good) show

Well, not much has happened since my last post... I took a gander at Senpai's latest LJ post and decided to see what I was according to the poll thingy...

Your Brain is 53.33% Female, 46.67% Male

Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female You are both sensitive and savvy Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve

What Gender Is Your Brain?

How about that? Apparently I'm more than 50% female. Spooky... Although to be fair I couldn't decide to an answer to question 5 (When arguing, do you drive your point home or come to an understanding). I put come to an understanding the first time, because I think that's what I try to do mostly, after my 2 cents are out there the first time. On the other hand, I do try to win arguments. I'm definately argumentative... To me the only way to do that is to have a) good, true, proveable information ; b) make them crumble mentally. Haha, just kidding on the b >.> But seriously, how can you win an argument if they don't understand what your point is? So I couldn't decide. Apparently if I flip my answer to driving my point home I'm 53.33% male instead though. I find it odd that that question worked that way, as I always seem to hear that the women win arguments in life, and coming to an understanding doesn't seem to make the argument go in your favor most of the time. Oh well, I'm not going to be like, "omg th15 t357 is rigged!!!one!11!!!!!"

Anyway... Yesterday sucked, I didn't have any time to play World of Warcraft at all ;_; Thats pretty much what makes my day now-a-days. That and talking to Senpai for more than 5 minutes >.> That's difficult though, because neither of us are really talkers. If nothing's happened in the past 5 hours I don't remember it til later, and even if I did I probably wouldn't talk about it to people unless it involved them. I'm just not a talkative person in general. <.<

Ok well thats all I have to say for today I think...

(edit) I just went back to that website where I took the test that proves I'm actually a girl for a glance around at the other quizzes... I found a "What age do you act" or something like that one which sounded interesting. So I took it and it came out exactly right >.> Out of 15 questions I must say they do some pretty damn good quizzes.

Adion is currently listening to: Yngwie Malmsteen, Doug Pinnick, & Billy Sheehan - A Tribute to Van Halen:2000 - Light Up the Sky [3:48]

A friend of mine had this away message and it disturbed me how unfairly true it was.

A woman has a close male friend. This means that he is probably interested in her, which is why he hangs around so much. She sees him strictly as a friend. This always starts out with, you're a great guy, but I don't like you in that way. This is roughly the equivalent for the guy of going to a job interview and the company saying, You have a great resume, you have all the qualifications we are looking for, but we're not going to hire you. We will, however, use your resume as the basis for comparison for all other applicants. But, we're going to hire somebody who is far less qualified and is probably an alcoholic. And if he doesn't work out, we'll hire somebody else, but still not you. In fact, we will never hire you. But we will call you from time to time to complain about the person that we hired.

*sigh* Life sucks.

As a sidenote, where oh where has my Becky-senpai gone...? Miss you <3

Adion is currently listening to: ETN Global - Dan Hill - Trance-Incorporated 018 Guestmix

Yeah, thats pretty much what happened to me... Progress reports came home Friday, and I'm technically not supposed to be able to be online, but my mother underestimates me. Which is fine by me, I can easily get around her shoddy work. She unplugged me from the router in the basement, so I just plugged myself back in. I'm still going to my friends house today, thankfully. I got 3 A+'s, 2 A's, and a D by the way... I'm going to start actually doing my calc homework and hope that brings it up by itself... The largest problem I'm having is blanking on tests, which is something I usually do. I'm just having trouble remembering equations, which is something thats pretty normal for me... But either way, I would have gotten a 78% on the last test instead of a 58% if I had remembered the appropriate formula's on a few of the questions...

Well, enough worrying about that for now, I need to play something to satisfy my edgey mouse finger, which has yet to be used in such a long time. A whole week without a need for the finger has probably made me go nuts. >.<

Adion is currently listening to: Ys I & II - Track 16 [2:24] (The music files grabbed straight from the CD to Y's I & II Eternal game)

Well, on Sunday I was up at 2 ish AM and my mother woke up and got angry with me, which is why I haven't been on or will be on (for any length of time at least) until Saturday. On Saturday I'm going to a friends house and we're setting up World of Warcraft on his computer (I'll bring mine too) and then we'll be doing some hardcore leveling up and much coolness will be had.

I'm still screwed in Calculus. We had a test today and I completely forgot about it (I had a field trip yesterday and missed the review day ;_;), and I don't think I did very well... Maybe I should go in early and just sit there and read the calculus book/ask him questions. *sigh*

I don't really have much time to update, because I'm technically not supposed to be on right now... My parents are out eating food and I'm the only one home. I'm not sure when they'll be back, so I'll be safe & leave now >.> I'll cya all on Saturday ^_^

Adion is currently not listening to music.

Well, Monday came and went... I went in for that interview, but when I got there, apparently the store manager wasn't there. So, I talked to the assistant manager, and she said that everybody there is pretty cool, and that she'd get the store manager to call me or the other stores if there aren't any jobs at this one. Now it's Thursday, and still no response. I don't know if I should call them again and see what's up, or if I should give him another day or two to respond. I'm pretty certain he only works on Monday Wednesday & Friday though, so if I don't get a call by the end of tommorrow I think I don't have much choice.

I'm back into my addiction of WoW again, I think I figured out what makes me want to play so much: it's the quests. I really want to play to get those quests done, but I finish one and then I get another, and so it's pretty much neverending. It's so awesome how they do quests too, you don't have to run around a city and talk to every person in the city (that would take forever, there's tons of NPCs in the big cities), but instead they just have an exclimation mark above their head when they have a quest to give you. It's silver if you're not able to get it yet (too low leveled), or gold if you can. When you finish one, there's a question mark above their head. Silver if you still haven't finished a quest, gold if you're done. Cosmos (the UI upgrade that is fully legal by Blizzard) even puts up a nice little list of all the quests I have running and what level they are (so I don't walk into a slaughter, or waste my time with low leveled ones), and also displays what I need to do (when I need to kill something or bring something back). I <3 WoW ^_^.

Past that, there really isn't much news... I'm not doing so well in math still >.> Getting a 66.3%, which is about 10% more than the last time I looked, only... This week was progress reports. AKA, there's a D on my report card. Fantastic... On the other hand, the rest of my grades are A's, some A+'s. The problem, Calc is an honors class, and you don't get an honors point if you get less than a C. Now, hopefully it won't come to that, but I'd really like that last 3.7%, preferably another 13.7%... Next test I'll really study hard for so I bring my grade up at least 6% on that alone... Hopefully. ;_;

Adion is currently listening to: Arch Enemy - Snow Bound [1:32]

Sometime's I like to listen to some of the really sad songs on my playlist and just think... Like I'm doing now... Feeling really sentimental >.> And a bit depressed... Just thinking about the world, what all's going on and all that. I guess it's my way to unravel a bit. Most of the time I feel like I have no emotions, expressing them takes effort. I think it's because of oversensitivity or something like that from all the media. Back someday, I'm sure the media was useful for newsworthy things, now-a-days it's only useful for telling the next sob story about another fatal accident. It's amazing how many stupid people are out there... And see? I get to this point and then I get angry. All those idiots out there fighting for no particular reason. We're trying to help those people in Iraq, so what do they do? Try to hunt us down like animals, and then kill themselves like barbaric imbeciles. It's disgusting. I hate humans...

Adion is currently listening to: Gary Jules - Mad World [3:07]

has my Jordan gone... I miss you >< Hopefully I'll see you soon...

In other news, I called up Walgreens today and made an actual appointment to go there on Monday for my interview. Now, hopefully he won't be a jerk and we'll actually have one. I'm needing a job soon... >.< Well actually I don't need a job in relation to WoW for another 5 months, but the sooner the better. Then I can possibly upgrade my computer too... New monitor, better CPU & Motherboard, a nice video card, maybe a 512 stick of DDR. I suspect the thing that'll give me the biggest performance boost will be a nicer video card, although I wouldn't mind getting a nice 19" LCD monitor first. Oh well.

I've been playing a lot of CounterStrike recently, 16 hours of that in the past week, as opposed to only 11 of World of Warcraft. It's not even that I don't like WoW. I love WoW. I can't think of anything I'd change, now that I have the Cosmos GUI. Just a phase I guess. Not quite sure what's up. Yeah. Not much else I don't think... I'm starting to update too often for large blogs I think heh. I guess I just wanted to keep everybody who cared up to date on the Walgreens situation...? Now that I think about it, I'm not even sure what I'd buy there if I got a discount on merchandise. Maybe I'd buy mom's groceries or something. I bet they wouldn't let me though. Dunno, never had a job before. Yeah...

Adion is currently listening to: YES - Owner of a Lonely Heart [4:10]

Grah whatever. So like I mentioned yesterday, I went over to Walgreens for the interview I was told to go to. So, I went there, and I found the store manager who wasn't there yesterday, (it was just some lowly manager before I guess) only to find out that he wants to reschedual for some reason. Grah! He told me to call the store after I get home from school on Thursday. *grumble* Here I thought I'd be done with this whole process today, and it keeps getting pushed back. On the other hand, at lunch today I was reminded that a friend of mine is a manager at McDonalds... Which means I could pretty much get a job easy there if I felt like working fast food... But I really don't, because I don't want to know what they do to the food. Then again, the only reason why I want a job is to get some money so I can afford WoW & some of college which I know I won't be able to pay with scholarships. Well, I could maybe if I was to actually take time out and search... But I'm lazy and don't feel like working all too much.

In other news, I'm thinking about trying to learn how to type on a DVORAK keyboard. It's a much faster and more efficient way to type once you learn, so that'll be cool. The problem is, the school keyboards are in QWERTY, and I can't change them if I wanted to. Not good times. That would take some skill to switch back and forth between, which I'm afraid I wouldn't have. On the other hand, it's like playing with N64 controllers for 3 years and then switching to Gamecube controllers while still using N64... Only much more complex. And I can do that with ease, perchaps two keyboard formats will be easier than expected...?

Adion is currently listening to: Shakka Zombie - Siroi Yami no Naka [4:04]
That reminds me, I should try to find that song from the unreleased episode of Cowboy Bebop...