Winter finally started showing its teeth today. I had to grab an extra jacket for class tonight, and it's only going to get colder.

See, a couple of years ago, when I went to school, I would wear three coats. First, I'd wear a hoodie, then I'd wear a trench over that, and then a fake-fur thing over that. And while I was waiting for the bus stop, I was still freezing.

The thing was, though, I was too afraid to ask mom for a decent coat, because we'd just bought the fake fur thing with the mistake thinking it would be warm enough. It wasn't. It was like wearing nothing. So, for two years, I was cold.

Then, my mom got a job at Macy's and bought me a down coat with her discount. It's so great.
So, for Thanksgiving, tomorrow: Thank God for Moms.

Yes, I'm alive. I know I'm prone to fits of running off and just plain not being very reliable, and that was one. And what I mean by not being reliable is actually doing the crapload of essays that I need to do for one class and a crapload of college applications.

I have been writing, even though I'm not doing NaNoWriMo because of aforementioned college applications. But not to worry! The writing is fantastic and I may post some sometime soon. Maybe next week or so.

Also, I have a playing test over this soon:


Yeah. Kinda worried about that.

More wisdom for you. This one involves hot dogs and monks.

...that sounds so wrong.

( A Buddhist monk... )

Spread viral videos, not viral infections!


So remember, catch it, bin it, kill it!

Okay so I guess this isn't really a proper review, but I did think that in the third volume, the story's gotten better. Or maybe it's because the cover's got a green pretty pattern on it and I really like green and pretty patterns, but whatever.

I had just heard though that from a review my brother read that the SZS manga's art is considered subpar, but the story and jokes are considered excellent. Why is the art subpar? I don't understand why it would be considered that way. I mean, sure, it's great when art in comics is absolutely fantastic like it is in Lackadaisy Cats, but why is very simplistic art bad? Especially in such joke-driven comics, like SZS is, really great art would just be distracting. The style of SZS is great for the style.

Thoughts?

Je commencerai afficher quelques notes en français ici. Je crois quelques jounaux ici sont bilingue et j'ai besoin l'entraînement.

Cette année je suivrai "French V" et toute la classe je parlerai le français.

Souhaitez-moi "bonne chance".

I'm finalizing my schedule for next year. I'll only be taking six classes, and because one of those classes is an evening class at the community college, I probably won't have to be at school until 10 AM.

Nice.

Also. Yes, I am still working on Hatchet. It's just that I've been so insanely busy that I haven't had much of a chance to work on it. It will happen though, I swear.

Let's put this in perspective -- a vampire falling in love with a human is like a human falling in love with a cheeseburger.


See how ridiculous that is?

More wisdom today. I guess I haven't been up to giving you any for a while because I haven't been feeling very wise myself.

But anyway.

( Why Do Elephants... )

So I went to Steak & Shake to get a burger. I wanted a double patty burger with onions and fries, and a coke. And that's it.

But apparently there's this deal that you can get a double patty cheeseburger with fries that costs $4, and... the double patty steakburger with fries costs more. So of course I wanted to spend less money, so I asked for the cheeseburger, but I didn't want the cheese, so... I asked for a cheeseburger with no cheese.

Then I heard in the kitchen that the cooks were asking about putting the cheese on the side.

What a world.

Okay, I still have writer's block, but I'm here to complain about the English language, in particular, demonyms. If you don't know what a demonym is, it's the adjective form of a place name. And they are horrible.

( It hurts my brain! )




Okay, I think I'm done.

...What I'm trying to say is that I think I confused one of my students. Looking at it now, I think I confused myself.

I have a new story. And a new mantra to go along with it.

I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic.

I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic.

I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic. I will not feel obligated to be completely realistic.

Okay I think I'm ready to write now.

So I saw this movie last night called Public Enemy about John Dillinger and how he robbed banks.

Only it mostly wasn't about robbing banks it was mostly about catching him for robbing banks. Go figure.

So yeah it was pretty good but I thought some of the gunfights were too long? Like, they should have been shorter and to the point. I understand some people LIKE that sort of thing, shootouts, but seriously it shouldn't make you wonder if they're actually going to hit anyone or if they're just going to shoot at each other until they run out of ammo. And that was cool, once -- that Dillinger did run out of ammo once. Because that usually never happens. It made me smile, just a bit.

Also I've learned that Christian Bale makes a MUCH better villain than hero, even an antihero like Batman. Oh, he was creepy. But creepy-awesome.

Anyway, the only reason I saw it was because my mother wanted to see it because it had Johnny Depp in it. By the end of it she was going "OMG It's SOOOO VIOLENT WHY IS IT SO VIOLENT?!" so that was kind of annoying. But eh.

I passed my driver's test, fuckyeah!

That means I have a shiny new driver's license. And I can drive on my own! FREEDOM. Only not really, because I'm so bad at navigating that I don't trust myself to go out alone to most places.

I just barely passed. But that doesn't matter, because either way, it's still a license. Even if my picture looks like crap.

So I bought this little Introduction to Linguistics book today, you know, to see if I'd actually be interested in it or I should quit while I'm ahead and major in advanced theoretical mathematics or something like that.

So then I got to the point where they were discussing the differences between 'black berry' and 'blackberry' and how the second has a schwa (ə) in the 'berry' part or the 'e' isn't pronounced at all. And I was like 'whuh' and that was the point I figured out that the book was talking English-English and not American-English (most Americans say [`ræz bɛri] instead of [ˈræz bəri] like the book said). So... well, I'm continuing to read it, but I'm not taking any of the IPA stuff to heart because I'd be learning it, uh, wrong.

In retrospect, I should have been tipped off by the spellings. But no. It took something like that for me to put two and two together.