It's time to separate the blogs.

Okay, I think it is time for me to have a separate sports blog. Because I'm sure most of you could care less who all these soccer players and tennis players are, and are probably not going to search through all of that to find real info. So I will start a new blog here. Enjoy it if you want to.
In other news, today our hall had a meeting about the noise and the alcohol consumption levels. Kat never yells at people, so this was very serious. I guess I sleep through a lot of this stuff. If I'm staying in the dormitory next year, I am definitely getting a single. I am not dealing with this shit again.
Midterms = very tired and stressed. Lab reports = torture. Food = good for the soul. I also now have an mp3 player, so I can listen to spanish music and pretend that I can speak Spanish. Yay!

Happy Birthday to me!

Yay I am 19! My last year as a teenager.
The food yesterday at the Blue Nile was really, really good. And I also spent a lot of my parents' money treating my friends out. Thank you Mom and Dad! My parents are awesome.
I have also played more Xenosaga III yesterday. I am currently in chapter 5 of 9, and only 10 hours in. I hope the game isn't short like Xenosaga II. I want more crazy artwork and cutscenes and more fun! Yay for RPGs.
I also went to the game today and almost killed myself in the cold weather and in the rain. Michigan was winning when we left. American football is alright. I rather watch soccer, but Michigan's soccer team isn't so good. Thus I am addicted to my livestreamer again.
Two tests next week. Hopefully biochem. goes well. I declared my major on Monday (I didn't know that it was so easy) and I need to find some research to do. I also need to pray that they will have Chem 420 next semester so that I can take it! The best part of biochem right now are the mechanisms, so intermediate organic chemistry will be orgasmic. Haha.

Xenosaga is the shit.

Xenosaga III is amazing. I played 4 hours or so of it last night and I may play some more tonight. I figured 4 hours a week should get me through this game before Christmas break, but I think I'll be playing more than that! Then there is Suikoden V, FFXII sometime soon, Grandia III, Valkyrie Profile (I think), tons and tons of other games. Yay for gaming!
Totally tons of other things are going on, like the Shostakovich concert I'm going to tonight, and soccer, and tests. Werder Bremen vs. Bayern Munich was this morning, Real Madrid vs. Barcelona is tomorrow at 3 PM, and MLS playoffs started today! And if I'm up to it, Manchester United is going against Liverpool at 8 tomorrow morning. Fun, fun times. Well, Niko played today too in the game against Chelsea, so I think he's made the first team! Sweet!

To Someone Special

Someone not that close, but close enough to me died this morning. She lived in the same hall as me, two doors down, last year. I didn't know her that well, but enough that it affects me. Best wishes to her friends and family...I can only hope for the best.

If I am lost for a day; try and find me
But if I don't come back, then I won't look behind me
All of the things that I thought were so easy
Just got harder and harder each day
December is the darkest and June is the light
But this empty bedroom won't make anything right
While out on the landing a friend I forgot to send home
Who waits up for me all through the night
Stars - Calendar Girl

Writing is fun.

You should all go and start writing, no matter what age or level you are at. Write things down, either in a diary, as a short story, a drabble, a poem, whatever you choose. As some of you know, I am a fanfic/real person fic/original fic writer, with all these works scattered under different pennames and on different sites. I'm not going to link to them (if you are really bored, you can go look for them!), because the best part about posting on the internet is that you can write anonymously if you want to. Then people can comment on your work (hopefully) and hopefully you will improve as a writer and as a person.
How does writing improve you as a person? Well, your writing always carries a bit of yourself in it. If you are not portraying yourself, then you are portraying the way you believe people think and act, how they say things and how they react to things. The best comments I've ever gotten on my writing were those that told me that I made a character sound like a whiny 16-year old even though the person was supposed to be 26. This comment opened my eyes, and finally I saw the world without the closemindedness of a teenager (who usually thinks the world revolves around him or her). It helped me grow as a person almost as much as going to college.
So what about the crap in this blog? Sometimes the best part about writing things is rereading it a few months or years later and reflecting upon it. I always laugh at my younger self when I reread old diary entries or old stories. I'm not the best at rewriting things, which could be an interesting experience (imagine rewriting a story that you wrote in 6th grade with its horrible plot and characters), but I critique my old works both as pieces of writing and as examples of my thinking level and I always try to improve. I hope still to mature even a year from now, and be able to look back upon entries I wrote this year and smile at the improvement that I've made, the added sophistication and dimension to my writing and to my life.
Being a writer has sharpened all of my senses and I notice the "coincidences" and the "drama", the small changes in people's voices and mannerisms, the way the environment can effect people's moods, the way words can be so beautiful and yet so destructive. And through writing I have discovered myself, the way I want to present myself, my style. I want to write in fragmented sentences that have many clauses, that describe things in roundabout ways, that try to have varied vocabulary and that tend to have many related things clustered together. I feel that my writing shows who I really am. You can decide for yourself.
I hope you read through all of this and enjoyed it. Now it's your turn to write.

In and Out (7)

what's in

• Reading. It's good for your mental health. Actually, because I have a bunch of pages to read for anthro, and then there is the Spanish novel that I haven't gotten past the first page in, and then there are fanfics...
• Lab reports. I spent at least 6 hours on each report, and I rather die. For real.
  
• Grammar. Because we love sentences. No, it's more like I'm learning different cases, such as the nominative and the dative and the genitive, because noun and adjective declining is so much fun.
• Knitting. I have gotten to the armholes on the sweater I am making right now, and I am pretty far on the pair of socks I have on the needles for this month. I think I can help Knitwits out by knitting a pair of socks a month; it doesn't take that much effort, after all, and it cleans up all the extra yarn I have!
• EURO 2008 Qualifying. And Croatia plays England tomorrow!
• Marat Safin. His blog is pretty good, and I'm pretty sure some things get lost in translation...
• the Facebook-sponsored bikes or something. I don't really know what they are, but they are everywhere.
  

what's out

• Working hard. Because it makes me too tired to think. I could barely roll out of bed for class these past few days. And did I really need that 99% in Physics?
• Playing my oboe. I'm such a bad person. But my lips are falling apart, and I just heard someone playing violin really, really badly when I walked back from the 9th floor computer lab yesterday. It has scarred me.
• The weather. Please stay consistently cold, so I don't wear long-sleeves when it's 70 F and short sleeves when it's 50 F. Thank you.
• Tests. Until the 19th, I believe. Yay for a respite!
  

Oh no I'm betraying Nina!

Ana Ivanovic is totally on my desktop and is so hot that it is not even funny.



Did you know that she's actually younger than me? I think I have to die again.

I'm back.

I survived 3 midterms last week and passed them all. I messed up standard deviations on my analytical exam, but she only took 2 points off for that. Sweet. I also managed to have some sort of social life this week by going out to see Little Miss Sunshine on Friday and watching Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark. The only thing I didn't do was start playing Xenosaga III.
Of course I also watched some soccer. I also died of excitement when I heard Fox Sports was rebroadcasting the Portsmouth vs. Tottenham game because Niko played all 90 minutes of that game. Thus I made sure I recorded the game (discussion for biochem ended early so I came back and made sure everything was set up) and watched it over the next two days. I have pictures (screencaps) of him in his black jersey for you too!


I had two more screencaps but blogger can't handle his hotness, obviously. Neither could I, especially when he ran his hand through his hair...I died. By the way, Croatia pummeled Andorra 7-0 and face England on Wednesday. Go Croatia (haha)! Spain lost again though. They play a friendly against Argentina this week as well. I wonder how Argentina will look like without Riquelme.
This is totally random, but I think I'm an anti-British things person. And I have no relations to the Patriots whatsoever. I think I'm not an anglophile because everyone else is. I don't really like British accents, am totally out of fashion, don't really like the English look, think everything over there must be too expensive... I want to visit England, but I rather see Spain or Germany or Croatia! I should put the 5 lessons of Croatian that I've covered in that book to some use. And maybe I used to like the English look, but now I totally dig Eastern European and Spanish people. As if those looks are totally related or something...I think I just have strange tastes.
By the way, Chivas USA clinched a playoff spot despite losing yesterday. Hopefully that translates into me being able to watch Jonathan Bornstein and Sacha Kljestan!