dead_phoenix13

So a few days ago I noticed that all my picture folders after the t's went missing.

Not sure when or why, but they were. It was great sadness, as my YGO folder was quite extensive, and I had the entire Zelda manga in there.

And so I go today to make a (new) Xenosaga folder, and it won't let me... BECAUSE IT ALREADY EXISTS.

IT'S QUITE THE MYSTERY.



If only Robert Downey Jr. were here, HE'D help me solve it!


P.S. Finally started watching Firefly in earnest. But had to stop because Megavideo is fail. D:

Edit: I can enter the folders by typing it into the address bar, but I still can't FIND the damn things!

THEY'RE GHOSTS DAMNIT.

If you were me, where would you put your pocket watches?

I have checked both my desk and my boxes, and those are really the only possibilities. D: Unless I left them at home, which is unlikely but possible, and I will check there on Sunday when I visit.

I did find my $100+ NBX one, which is really the important one, but...


Great sadness. D:

Dear Young Lady Whom I Sat Beside At The Theater:

Kindly do not give me that derisive look when I stole your purse-seat at a PACKED THEATRE. I understand I came in a little late and might have ruined your concentration momentarily, and perhaps I laughed at some jokes no one else seemed to get (*cough*Holmes/Watson*cough*) and occasionally caught on to the humor a little sooner than the rest of the theatre, but really. It was packed. You don't get a purse-seat when it's packed. Especially when you're in the best viewing area.

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Dear Young Lady Who Served Me At the Concession:

I would have felt badly about the fact that you gave me too much change, as I myself once worked the concession at a theater, and I appreciate the fact that you're working a minimum wage job I imagine you care absolutely nothing about.

However, I feel that when the line is as long as it was - and it was the longest I have ever seen it - you should kindly hurry just a tiny bit, if you would. Acknowledge the fact that you work at a theater, and thus everyone's on a deadline, one that probably didn't include waiting twenty minutes in the concession line.

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Dear University:

I understand that it's important you make sure people owing money don't go about signing up for classes and whatnot, but it's $40. $40 for a useless group of cleaning ladies, I think. Not sure if that's actually what it was for, though. $40 I literally cannot pay until the 4th, and considering classes start on the 5th, is incredibly inconvenient.

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Dear Robert Downey Jr.:

Congratulations on gaining your second potentially successful full-on franchise. I applaud you, sir.

P.S. I would marry you, if you asked.

Edit:

Dear Roommate:

Would it kill you to turn off a light once in a while? And I don't mean the main light - which I leave on purposefully, and you seem incapable of turning on, even when you're in there - and in which we are capable of replacing the light bulbs, but the bathroom light, which we must call HUB to replace, and the microwave, which I don't even know how to replace.

Also, yelling "Surprise!" when you come home three days early from your two week trip when you NEVER HAD THE DECENCY TO TEXT ME YOU WERE does not make it all right, or any less annoying.

My papers always seem to end up being a full third less than they should be. Always a third.

This should really cause me more concern than it does.

Dear Italian Textbook:

Please do not tell me that the preposition "in" is for larger geographical areas, like countries, states and regions, and that "a" for smaller ones, like cities, and then go and stick "in" in front of a BANK. NOTE: BANKS ARE NOT A LARGE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA.

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Dear Assassin's Creed Novelist:

I realize no one really expected much of this novel, and that this is the first time you've ever had anything published. But that's no excuse for having everyone go "Hoshit!" at a METAL BRACER/ARM GUARD WHATHAVEYOU. Seriously, I THINK THEY HAD THOSE in the late 1400's. I'll buy that Ezio's is a better quality, and maybe even that it's hidden from sight, causing perhaps a small hesitation when there's more resistance to a blow than originally expected.

But not a "WHAT DEMON PROTECTS YOU?! *hacks at arm som'more*"

Seriously.

And don't even get me STARTED on Ezio STILL pining after Christina TEN YEARS LATER. Did they just give you the basic plot outline and tell you to do what you want? With no thought for the characters?

I got a phone call today, from EB Games.

My ACII Special Edition is there, ready and waiting for me to pick it up Tuesday.

OIANSDGJASGJABNSGKN.

Texted back and forth with my new roommate today. She seems very coherent. ♪

She's moving in tomorrow, which is a shame since I won't get to meet her until after work. Ah, well.

Thoughts on ACII:

-The Theatrical Trailer had these ONDGNASDGNAGORGEOUS GRAPHICS, I wonder if the game'll switch over to that at any point? Like, they're all about walking about and freedom and interaction during cutscenes, so I know they won't during the REGULAR ones, but...maybe on a few fancier ones?

-I hope they'll fix that bit where I had to watch all the boring explanation scenes when I wanted to replay in ACI. D:


THREE DAYS

So I was (obviously) thinking about ACII the other day, and how Ezio had a face.

And it occurred to me that it could be symbolic of the fact that Desmond (the fellow reliving the memories of his assassin ancestors) is coming into himself as an assassin, or the fact that Ezio has an identity outside of "Assassin", whereas that's all Altair was.

And then I was just like "AAAAUUUGH I'm such an English major."

BEST THING EVER HAPPENED.

Ezio's Mum: Self expression is vital to understanding and enjoying life. You should find an outlet.

Ezio: I have plenty of outlets!

Ezio's Mum: I meant besides vaginas.


WORDS DO NOT DESCRIBE MY AMUSEMENT.

I'm disturbed by the difference between the knowledge of "Musicals" versus the knowledge of "Bollywood" in my Musicals vs. Bollywood paper.

Like, there's obvious reasons as to WHY, but.... it's just like, "Musicalexamplemusicalexamplemusicalexample. Bollywood Generalization."

But it's not like they're something I can just look up.... it's a huge industry, with a long history...



Assassin's Creed II in 10 days!

I'm already a sixth done this paper. Which is far more impressive when you know it's a 3000 word paper.

It's not due for THREE WEEKS.

So today Habitats for Humanities is running around collecting cans and bottles from all the HUB residents.

And I look across the hall, the people there have put out their happy little bag of cans.

And then I head back into my place, to grab the last of my THREE AND A HALF garbage bags of them.

And the question is, will the Habitats for Humanities people be pleased that I'm giving them that much, or disgusted that I have that much?

Oral exam successfully passed!

With flying colors, I might add.

I did have to make conversation, which is unfortunate, but it was an easy conversation and he was forgiving about it - since "I had to do something much more difficult than prepare."

If only he had that mentality on the exam...

Which I'm feeling mildly more confident about - only mildly, though. I'm still not solid on prepositions, and there are far more irregular verbs than I feel comfortable with...

In other news, there was gratuitous Italian in the first part of the live-action Assassin's Creed short, so that made me happy.

Not only do I feel totally unprepared for the written Italian midterm, but now the Oral is all in a scuffle, too.

My partner has the flu, so the Prof's all "You'll do it with me", which is all well and good, but.... well, there was a script for my partner. Should I just... bring a copy for him? Or is he actually going to try and have a general conversation with me? Because then I'm totally screwed.

I've been having this penchant for proper rice, recently - as compared to Minute Rice. Still getting the hang of the timing for proper rice, but anyways...

Since I had curry every day for, like, two weeks, I just kept the (small) bag of rice on the counter. Not the best place for them, admittedly, but I didn't have space in the cupboard and figured I'd put it away once I got around to cleaning them out.

My roommate goes on a tidying spree last week. The rice vanishes from the counter. I assume she'd put it away somewhere.

Today, I go to make curry, and I cannot find it anywhere.

She threw it away.

Now, I do not understand the process that must have been going on in her head for her to think half a bag of rice is garbage. I don't think it's my pack rat tendencies talking when I go "What the hell, woman?!"

Still, she let me use her rice instead, so I can't really complain too much. But it's a different type then I'm used to, so who's to say how it'll turn out...

But, new roommate next month! Maybe she'll be more...generally... astute.

KUROSHITSUJI MUSICAL DVD AD GLEE~♥

I wish it could've had some singing in it, but the dancing looking amazing. :D

Edit:



Quite possibly the most amusing Twilight screenshot ever.

Outside of Edward dry-heaving and anything involving Dazzle.

AUGH ASSASSIN'S CREED SO AWESOME.

It's going to span over 30 years. 30 YEARS! Ezio gets a beard! And a wife, I'm hoping. It would crack me up. Though perhaps a bastard child would be more fitting...

Also the ending is FANTASTIC. It's always nice when they have a sense of humor.

I'm getting a new roommate!

Jini didn't deign to tell me she was moving out until the move-in inspection notice arrived, but I'm mildly excited nonetheless. Hopefully they put a bit more forethought into the placement this time. :P Not that Jini isn't a sweetheart, but we just don't...mesh well.

Supposedly my new roommate is someone named "Gai, Nan" which I think is a girls name - unless it is, in fact, "Gai Nan". We'll see. No idea what kind of name it is, though... Korean?

This also means that I get the place to myself (for at least) a few days. Glee~

AUGH I want to work on scanlations but I promised myself I WOULDN'T until this damn Italian test is over because switching back and forth between languages is BAD for me.

So I bought Star Ocean: First Departure about... a week and a half ago. Used.

I finally get around to throwing it in the other day, and Second Evolution pops up. Now, it's a PSP game, so I'm on the bus. I'm all "I could've sworn I bought the first one... but maybe I did get the second one. Ah, well."

Now that I finally get around to digging out the case/receipt, I'm just like "Ah, crap."

I'm going to call them - I really don't mind which one I get, I'm good either way - but still, that'll be... awkward.