Kitten, kitten, where have you been?

Well, studying, mostly. *pokes the few weeks she's not posted* Stupid exam I had to study for. Had it this morning - yes, on a Saturday morning. Yes, it made me grumpy (way to fuck up our weekend, university, there was no need to have it today, we could've had it yesterday and it would've been the same). But it's over, and about bloody time, they kept postponing it, we were supposed to have it a month ago. It was the first exam I've ever taken without attending classes (I just studied the material) so I was a bit worried. That, and there was brief panic when the professor who wrote the exam, who was not the professor who taught the course, included in the exam questions stuff we'd not been taught - but we complained and all was set right. Whee.

What else, what else... well, IRC, as usual, though because of the studying I've been quiet there, too.

And more penguin throwing.

And a bit of mIRC scripting. I'm an addict, shush :P I've even made my own mIRCscript site (parts of the layout were a bit of a challenge, though I used a template for most of it - shush, I'm lazy and I wanted to get it online).

And a fair bit of photography, though none of it is getting uploaded until I've revamped my photolog to look a bit more like I want it to look (working on the layout stylesheet, the change should be relatively painless except for going back and editing a bunch of entries, which is the reason I'm holding back on updating now, the less entries I have to re-format the better). Also want to swap my photoalbum site to using Gallery, because backends are good and I'm lazy. :P

What else, what else... I got a new mouse (my old one was having serious problems clicking with the left button, which was... unpleasant... when image editing and the like), new headphones (the cats chewed on the cord of the previous ones, with the results you can imagine... I'm surprised they lasted that long), a few new books. And I have candles again! :D I like candles. And candy, and I have that too. And a new plant, a cactus... since I suck at taking care of plants, they always die on me, I'm hoping at least a cactus I won't manage to kill. :P
Though it's a rather suicidal cactus, it already fell three times (once on my hand... owwie). And the last time it fell, it fell out of its (tiiiiiny) pot... so I went looking for a new, larger pot to put it in, and long story short, I inherited another cactus (from mom, who'd got it ages ago... "here, you can put your cactus with mine" "but mom, I want my cactus downstairs near my computer" "that's ok, you can keep mine as well"). So now I have two cacti to keep alive. Yay. At least, I'm hoping they'll act as deterrent for the cats to keep off my desk. :P

Especially since they made my dragon miniature that I got years ago fall off my desk, and it fell on its wings and broke. --; I found almost all the pieces and glued it back together, but it's missing a wingtip, which makes me grumpy, though it's not very noticeable. I searched for an hour for the missing piece but I couldn't find it... damnit.

My computer desk is tidier now, as well. Got my brother to move his gaming magazines off the corner shelf where they were, which gave me more space to put my stuff, so it's no longer stacked messily. And I got a corkboard which I stuck to a shelf, so I no longer have free-floating bits of paper with "remember to do X" scrawled on them, and I no longer forget where I put important info-containing bits of paper.

I've started tidying my room as well... yes, yes, Tidying Urges are unnatural for me, shut up :P But I wanted to make the boxfuls of manga that I have under my shelves and under my bed tidier (as in, all archived series together, the manga in the boxes more tightly packed so more will fit in them, etc), so I spent an afternoon moving and cataloguing boxful after boxful of manga. I'm considering posting the Big Manga List somewhere online when I'm done (nowhere near done, I still have a boxful plus all the currently ongoing series that are on my shelves to catalogue). It's HUGE.

Also half-considered doing the same thing with books, but with the amount of books I have? That would be suicidal. Maybe I'll do it when I (eventually) move out, since I'll be carrying my books with me of course and I'll have to move them off shelves and onto new shelves anyway so might as well do a list while I'm doing it.

In other news, spring has finally decided to come. About time, too. ;) I like spring, my garden is now all purple and green because of all the violets. They used to be only on the borders but they spilled over and spread all over the lawn while we weren't looking... not that we mind. It's pretty, and it smells nice. I like violets.

...I think I lost the thread of what I was saying. What was I saying? Hrm. Don't think there's anything else I need to mention...

Oh wait, one thing. The other day while I was at university, I was bored and browsing the internet... found a link that talked about a new Card Captor Sakura movie, apparently set in America. It was quite interesting - but then my browser crashed (shitty IE is all we have at university, I can't install Opera, not fair ;_;) and I lost the link, and couldn't find it again, though I have been looking. Anybody heard anything about this? I'd be grateful for any info, I'm really quite curious.

¤ March 20, 2004 10:07 PM ¤

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