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'Yin

I am the epitome of doing nothing interesting at college, apparently. I don't know, it's kind of weird living in a college town when you're used to a town with only 400 people in it. And like five streets. My mind is hardwired to thinking that you need a car to do anything or walking a mile to the gas station. I would probably do more stuff if the bus ran on the weekends. Oh well, I get my stuff done, usually. Either that or I'm screwing around with Civilization on DOS-BOX, which is kind of fun.

I am looking forward to Thanksgiving because it means not being weirded out by people answering their cell phones on the damn toilet for a few days. Seeing friends I haven't seen in like seven weeks? Totally not important! Apparently, about four weeks into this stretch of school, I have mended a relationship by...doing nothing. Woo?

NaNo's going pretty good for me. I'm sitting at 42,144 words currently but about 5k of that is probably rambling and stuff that I don't like. I'm projecting that the novel will end around 55-60k, depending on how long the last part goes. I went through a weird plot arc that has wrapped itself up, so now its back to the real plot. Which is VANQUISHING THE EVIL. I love writing this story which can still be summarized as: city, cars, crystals, monsters = evil = must destroy. No power of friendship speeches yet, thankfully.

I get to register for classes tomorrow. I know that all the sections of Differential Equations are filled except one, which is on Tuesdays and Thursdays...right after the only Computer Science I class offered. Oh well, at least it's not at a bad time. I do math better in the afternoon anyway.

'Yin

I MIGHT HAVE MADE A FRIEND is pretty much the summary of my week. This week (and last) week have been bizarrely enjoyable, minus a couple of awkward hours when I woke up and found the roommate's boyfriend in the room. Um, I don't mind, it's just a bit weird to wake up around 1 in the morning with a guy in the room. But other than that, my roommate and I were getting along slightly better, but since she's have a terrible time with other things, our relationship has hit another wall. Oh well.

But at least school (minus my Calc class) is going well. I made As on my most recent exams. Same exact grade for my Econ and History ones, but a 8 point improvement for my Lit one. I have one more normal exam (Calculus) on Friday the 13th, all the rest are finals. (Have I mentioned this before?)

NaNo went along great for the first two days, then I wrote 400 words on Wednesday. FAIL. But I'm still about a day ahead, and I have nothing to do for classes this weekend beyond reading, so I'm not spending half my writing time on papers and other stuff. Well, I could start on my Econ paper, but that's not due until after Thanksgiving. My novel is currently some weird hybrid of fantasy and sentai ranger crap. This is despite the fact that the "evil" is completely hidden. Dickens is also invading my style.

I got to see Aya and Mandii on Wednesday. Although it was for around an hour, it was completely worth it. I think one of my favorite quotes from the relatively short time was this:
Aya: So, what'd you do on Halloween?
Yin: Laundry.
Aya: *snickers*
Yin: No seriously. I did laundry.
My Halloween was in fact, doing laundry, but that was during the day. I sent a better part of it playing games on DOS-BOX. I don't even remember ever using a computer that used DOS beyond one at the Boys and Girls Club I went to in SECOND grade. It was always Macs until fifth grade when my school switched over to Windows.

I've also been talking to one of my cousins. She reminds me a lot of myself when I was her age: wanting to learn every damn thing she could. Except I think that she could exceed me because she has a school that is supporting her and a parent that is pushing for her daughter's aspirations. And she's actually willing to throw herself out in the world.

'Yin

It's Halloween and Saturday and I'm being lame by staying home, eating chocolate that my dad sent me this week. It's fantastic.

Anyway, college is going pretty good. I have two papers due with in next week and a half and an Econ exam on Monday, but I'm pretty much done with exams until Finals, which I'm not looking too forward to. Classes are somewhat fun, but some...I'm looking at you Eastern Civ. Why so boring?

Anyway, cautiously approaching November. I had about five ideas that I wanted to do for NaNoWriMo, but an idea hit me the other night that will not let me go. I'm not entirely sure what it's about nor do I have a title. It's like I'm writing Falling Off a Tree again. I'm sure that I'll just pick some random ass title than manage to title drop it like I have with Falling Off a Tree and Smiling at a Cloud. The plot so far? Uh, there's people and it's has cars. That's about as far as I've gotten the past few hours.

Life's been going pretty good. I had a kind of depressing moment a couple of weeks ago, but my mood has improved drastically since then. Even missing Dad's birthday hasn't affected me too much. I do want to go home and give him a hug because he hasn't been doing too well the past few weeks. I've also been thinking a lot about my Grandma in the nursing home and realized that I haven't seen her since April. I am a terrible granddaughter. One of the first things that I do when I go home for Thanksgiving is going to see her. 

Anyway, I have part of Hard Times to read. My first real exposure to Dickens, and it's going okay so far. 

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( Fall Break is not one day off from college! )

I'm looking forward to November! NaNoWriMo, here I come! Who cares if I have college? This is where life is at! I have a vague idea what I might want to write about, but I'll probably wind up writing something that pops into my head two days before it begins. Like I have for three out of four years.

I'm also looking forward to be an aunt next year! E_chan, I'm still pulling for January 25th!

'Yin

I miss home, but what else is new?

College is going okay. I did accidentally miss Calculus once when I slept through my alarms. But I managed to make it to the rest of my classes, and I don't think I missed too much. I'm making A's in all but two classes, which I'm pretty happy about.

My roommate is sucky though. She's done things that made me quite angry. I'm fairly tolerant of a lot of activities, but after the theft of money (that has since been returned), our room has a report filed about it. But that's water under the bridge and money that is hidden somewhere harder to get to. As in, on me at all times.

Anyway, my friends at home are being jerks. One is just stirring up stuff for the sake of stirring stuff up. When one of us takes the bait, she gets all defensive about things then acts like her life is terrible (she does have an event of her life that is pretty terrible). But I'm quite tired of the "MY FAMILY HATES ME! MY FRIENDS HATE ME! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!" bullshit. And I'm not even around her anymore.

This is short because I feel like it and have some work to still do.

But Amazon is pretty spiffy now that I have a bank account and money.

'Yin
 

Basic summary of my first two weeks of college: I miss my PS2. =(

Well, there was a lot of getting mad at the roommate for random things, eating Chic-Fil-A because I couldn't be bothered to order things, and reading things. It's just like high school for me, except I walk a lot more to my classes.

I did join the Quiz Bowl team at least. I feel like a high school freshman again when I was introduced to High School level competition. I feel dumb again! Hooray!

I am looking forward to this coming weekend though because I get to go home for a few days. Not because it's the first game and OSU is supposed to be good this year. I miss my dad, okay? =(

I also miss my origami paper. I need something to occupy some of the time I have between classes until school becomes more hectic.

'Yin

I'm at Oklahoma State right now. My early Calculus class hasn't caused me too many problems with getting up in the morning. I've been getting up a couple minutes before my alarm lately, so I don't disturb my roommate too much.

My roommate is okay. Well, there's moments were I think that I do not like her at all, and then there are moments where I enjoy her company. Her name is Jessica, but I'm trying to figure out another name to call her, since one of my best friends is a Jessica. I usually call her "the roommate" to Dad and friends, because I don't know what to call her. (Her last name is shared with one of my old band director's, so it doesn't work out that way either!)

Classes are pretty good. I am usually stricken by this urge to sleep in either Eastern Civilizations or Econ though. =\

I'm enjoying myself down at OSU, but I do miss home. And I don't like the fact that I was stuck on Sunday with no food places open on campus. 

Anyway, back to reading my ~200 pages for Eastern Civilizations next week.

'Yin

Great time to be a filly, eh?

Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta continue to amaze me. What they do as horses are simply amazing in the field. It only makes it more awesome by the fact that they are fillies. Fillies that may have been considered too "fragile" to "run with the boys"*. I love seeing Rachel Alexandra crushing the field. I loved it when Calvin Borel jumped off of Mine That Bird to ride Rachel Alexandra. I'm amazed by how big Zenyatta is compared to the rest of the field and how she is still undefeated. Rachel may not be running in the Breeder's Cup, but hey, at this level of achievement, it's quite impressive for her to skip racing it as it would be to run in it.

I just can't help but wonder how the field would be if Eight Belles had survived the Kentucky Derby.

* - I hate it when the analysts throw this phrase around anytime there is a filly entered in a non-filly/mare stakes race. The owners think she can run so LET HER RUN.

** - I'm also keeping an eye on Stardom Bound. She'll make her comeback, mark my words.

Just three weeks left until I'm down at OSU. Three weeks until Calculus III at 7:30 in the morning. -_-

Birthday was okay. One of my frieends had a situation that wound up with me yelling at her ex-boyfriend on the phone. >.>  It also decided to rain around 10:30, so we didn't get to finish firing off fireworks. I can't remember the last time it rained during my birthday.

I finally got around to cashing my scholarship money from the Foundation of Excellence. I spent it on a Toshiba Laptop (A505-S6960) which I am enjoying a hell of a lot because I also bought the Sims 3. This game is eating away at my free time, which is okay with me. I am growing tired of strategy-RPG games anyway.

After that purchase though, I am done with buying any sorts of things relating to computers or video games. For a while, anyways. I planned on buying books, but that didn't work out too well. I wound up dropping most of my birthday money on BlazBlue and another 360 controller. And another ethernet cable (but I needed that one).

Our tomato plants were doing good. By good, I mean a lot better than the last three or so years (whenever we built the deck, I can't remember anymore). Unfortunately, the plants were struck by tomato worms, and some of the plants appear to be dying. Dad is pretty upset about it.

I am enjoying the weather lately. It's only been in the mid to high 80s for about a week now. A lot better than mid to high 90s with a heat index in the 100s and no wind whatsoever. (Oklahoma weather is interesting but it sucks in late July-late August.)

'Yin