【たくみ2号】のプログレスなど

I went with my 2nd choice computer case (the Antec P180) and wow, it's quite a surprise. Lots of fun, neat features, especially the harddrive cages and the drive snap ons. However! I bet it still wouldn't be as awsome as my Lian Li P-80 one! *sigh* It still depresses me very much so. To add onto the depression: the motherboard's layout's actually kinda badly arranged as my hot video card is directly above the motherboard's heat regulator causing the motherboard to hit 60 celcius and up. It may not seem like a problem now, but I sure don't want it to be a problem in the future, so I'll be switching back to the now available DFI motherboard I wanted.　Now I just need to hang in there, and wait for the parts (including some better cooling) I've ordered. PATIENCE!!!! AGH!!

Onto school-related matters...
The drone teacher has continued to overwork us with his super vague explanations and expectations. The continuation of spending over XX hours on his assignments. And he actually wants us to mount our works on FOAMCORE (in which I responded "screw that, posterboard it is"). Ugh so much HOMEWORK, HE'S INSANE!

I grabbed a [random] volume of Busou Renkin from the library the other day. Watsuki-sensei, what the HELL is with your latest character designs? A moon-shaped head man, a guy in spandex wearing a butterfly mask, and a butler-looking guy with a butterfly-SHAPED moustache?!?? Not to mention a disturbing little PINK robot/alien looking thing with hearts? And what, it's being animated too? I am being mightily weirded out...

Boy I'm tired... did I already mention I need a job? I think so... I napped when I came home from school today and I'm still tired now. Ah! I'm sleeping early, good night~

Uh, what is it? the 3rd week now?

So, school's been pretty managable... so far. Now that I've settled in to school life, I've gotten the chance to take a look at the work potion again. Boy, do I not want to go to work or do I not want to go to work! Man, I don't want to go back to work. But after observing my credit card bills for this first month... I won't last. Time to face reality: I need a job. I actually considered going back to my previous job I just "quit" (aka. stopped going :b) but with that motivation of NOT wanting to go back in mind, I did some [weak] job searching and I managed to find a [pretty] perfect place. Strangely, I'll be potentially returning to the world of dentistry. The lady who interviewed me is already ready to hire me as soon as I give her the word. Apparently I fit her ideal candidate really well: she needed computer skills, someone to cover afternoon shifts, only 15 hours a week, had conversational Japanese [well it was just a plus actually XD]... My ONLY IRK is that because we're located right across from the Richmond Hospital, the whole area around us requires PAY PARKING! Now the pay parking isn't cheap, especially for the whole day. Even a round-trip bus ride is cheaper, so imagine that. There -are- parking passes but not enough to go around to me... since I'm the newbie, I don't get first dibs. SO! If YOU know anyone who lives around Gilbert Road and Westminster Highway in Richmond, GIVE ME A SHOUT PLEASE!!!!

Ah yes, the 18th has come and gone... and NCIX has failed me again. I contact them on the 18th and then I was told that it was pushed back to the 29th! FUCK! So I guess I'll live without my sexy, awsomely unique case and just go with my backup. But now the bastards haven't replied to me to give me the yes to the change and for me to go pick it up. Yes, I'm going to fricking pick it up so I don't have to wait for Purolator to show up at my door, MISS ME, and FORCE ME to go pick it up at their location the next day anyways. Talk about depressing...

Only once my manga comes in the mail will I be happy again~~~ *floats away*

School... Week 1 + 2

「あ゛ー 忙しい忙しい…」
*drones like the overweight taste judge from Yakitate!!*

I've visited Loomis one too many times the past week, and I'm very much sick of the place. Our typography teacher (who also teaches our image development class) sends us to go buy materials needed for that class at that time right in the middle of class! Then after the class he gives us this giant list of other materials we'll need that are soo specific (+expensive) they're only available at certain specialty stores. And unfortunately for us, if you didn't want to buy it from our bookstore (which is overpriced 10x), you'd have to go to the other side of the city to grab the stuff you need. And so yes, I had to make a few trips (needing this, exchanging that, etc.) and having to go through the bloody TRAFFIC. If it wasn't for the bloody TRAFFIC, I wouldn't mind going down there a few more times even. But nooo~ there's the "Canada Line" construction shit going on, preventing you from turning left and right, they cut down 3 lanes into one, then there's the fricking SWARMS of CARS.. Agghaghh.. I won't be going down there again anytime soon (hopefully never again, but I doubt it...) I had to go through the worst traffic EVERRRR. I've come to appreciate the crappy traffic that Richmond has, compared to what I had to endure D:

So like, our typography/image development teacher is a drone. He goes on and on.. tossing in subtle jokes that no one laughs at. He's very vague with what he wants from us... especially homework. Everyone ended up going to class with something different.. because he wasn't clear enough on what he wanted. I rendered 6 different typefaces today (yes, drawing them by hand), it has taken me about 5 hours in total, and I'm still not done with his homework. That's how much stuff he gives us to do.. ~_~ His classes are the most busiest and the most expensive out of all the other teachers' classes. I fear it will be a looong year with him (well four, since I'll probably get him again every year).

The print production class is pretty slow right now. We were just taught the basics of Illustrator (gasp, it works just like Photoshop!) and the usage of vectors scare me... >_> Ok, I'm just not that used to them but I'm working on it...! And about the Macs. Wow I dislike Macs even mooooore. Wtf with the one button mouse (easily replacable I know), the "minimizing" of folders when you close them (can't seem to like that.. I want to CLOSE it not "MINIMIZE" it -- feels like it's never really CLOSED), the scrollbars (agh blue swirly of hate!), transparent backgrounds for applications (aagh there's a bloody hole in my application! >_<;;), this merging of toolbars at the top (which one's for which dammit?!).. ok there are good things too.. like the fact that there's a USB slot in the keyboard (very spiffy and convenient).. and... ah, that's all I can think of. Maybe not too many pros after all... my cons outweigh my pros, therefore I still dislike Macs. End of story.

Last is the "history" class. Pretty interesting so far... I hear we had to (or at least should) take notes... I haven't taken any yet.. hm, problem.

There's was an insane rain storm a few hours ago. It fell like there was no tomorrow, seriously. As if the sky was constipated all this time (that explains the blasting hot weather) and suddenly it had diarrhea. Well, the rain was so bad that our roof drainage wasn't draining fast enough and our house started flooding in. Our front door was getting soaked as the water poured in like whoa. The water was literally gushing through the door cracks. Thank goodness (or thank God actually) that it finally did stop though. That was some experience though. :] But it put our house into perspective -- it needs repairs.

And GASP @ the Squenix spread (specifically the broken armored) in the latest Jump mag
Me: "SORAAAAAAAAA.......!..........?"

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL..!!

Wheee~ It feels like ages since I've used both 'first day' and 'school' together in the same sentence..!!

My first class, Print Production and something something, was pretty straightforward. We had to brainstorm "What is important?" as an ice-breaker.. which didn't really break any ice at all. The volunteer that went up to write our ideas on the board was bad at spelling and had really ugly writing but oh well. I give him creds for doing it. Unfortuately there aren't any hot guys (damn!!) in my class... and I'll be sticking with these peeps for FOUR years. So anyways, apparently our labs are Macs... it almost makes me wanna get a MacBook to accompany it since apparently all the big companies [related to publishing, graphics, etc] out there use Macs too. Almost.. I said almost.

The first class then gets cut short for a mandatory orientation to follow. Faculty introductions.. mini speeches.. then we get split into little groups to form "mentors" which is really just randomly picking one student from each year. We mingled a bit and discussed various experiences in and out of school. I'll probably never see them again lol... Then there was a random prize drawings for some book on politics that I didn't win. Instead, when the reps from the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada came to present, I won a year of membership! *___* After their presentation, I actually considered joining later in the program (3rd/4th year maybe) since it sounded like such a good open window to opportunities and networking.

Ooof, I'm so full of juice I stuffed myself with at the orientation brunch.

After the orientation, I headed towards work to grab my last paycheque. They REFUSED to pay my vacation pay! ...like wtf?! Probably because they don't have the money, but that's still no excuse! After full time, I don't receive anymore vacation pay, so it should be paid off now just incase they forget, in which I know they will. And they didn't pay my last day of work either (Sept.1 :<)... ugh now I have to wait until the NEXT payday which is in another 15 days for that ONE DAY'S PAY! Ugh! >_<

Nihe~

Oh silly SO3, I finally beat yo ass. It was nothing a little weapon refining couldn't solve. The small fry felt even harder than the bosses at the end. And Luther, ha, he was pathetic. The ending was pretty blah too. Especially my private ending too... I was looking forward to it and guess who I ended up with? ADRAY?!!? I IMMEDIATELY went to read up on the endings and realized it was the default aka. the neutral ending where I don't end up with anyone. I'm glad I didn't end up with Sophia though.. but Adray rofl, gross. A side note, the Spiral Tower bgm kept giving me Morning Musume "Love Machine" moments. Ah well, I've had enough so that's the end of it.

I've restarted on WA3 now. I've missed the lovely overuse of whistling <3

My bro's finally completed his BST AF2 gear! Yay! Looks like his month's starting off good~ I'm so happy for him! XD

We organized a surprise bday celebration for Mike in secret because he had to cancel his potential party due to other problems. It was relatively successful, I think he was surprised! XD Not sure of his reaction.. lol.

And gasp, school starts tomorrow! /panic