Yubsie's Yammerings

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.

pirate_lass and helplessdancer both got me!

( So I talk about ten icons )

Also, the bonus episode of Torchwood this week? AMAZING. And whatcha mean TWO MORE WEEKS?

... wow, mediaplayer. Wow. :p

OMG GOblins, a webcomic about D&D goblins should not make me wibble this much! And yet... *WIBBLE*

Looooong day of rehersals today. It was the first rehersal with the pit, which is ALWAYS an adventure. :p We dealt with costumes, which was pretty painless for me. Unlike poor Brian and his hilarious outfit for the Emerald City. :p

I sent my grad school list off to Steve last night, and he had suggestions sitting in my inbox by this morning.

There was more crazy mad planning at the anime meeting last night. For some reason, people think I should be involved with the anime/geek music panel. Can't think WHY. :p We watched Noir, which enjoys flashing back to earlier in the episode. Despite all the flashbacks, we're still not sure what's going on. Then we made everyone watch the crack on every drug known to man and some that AREN'T which is Excel Saga. We finished up with BLood: THe Last Vampire. That one was completely and utterly NOT my thing, so I started my Zoe/Wash ficathon fic. I think I finally figured out what I'm going to do!

I got back and found out that the zip for my Firefly soundtrack over at fst was already dead. I posted the thing and people managed to kill FOUR GIGS of YSI bandwidth in a matter of HOURS. I guess my strange song calls have gone over well. AMusingly, I had MULTIPLE people uploading better versions of "Married" for me, which makes me ridiculously happy because that song is ADORABLE. :p (And utterly ZOe/Wash :p)

Oh and people? THE CON IS IN MONCTON! STOP EMAILING ME TO ASK!

Gakked from thepodsquad

Look at your LJ userpics list. If you have fewer than 50 icons, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five icons, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five icons, pick every tenth one. If you have fewer than ten, pick all of 'em. List each one in your LJ, and tell everyone exactly why you have it, why it's interesting to you, what significance it has.

Like everyone else, I'm cheating and doing every fifth. :p

( Lots of icons )

Also, still no Goblins. :p

B+ in Kinetics, yay. Not surprised that Organometallics is the last one to come in. :p Like, at ALL. :p

Played a bunch of Fable today. Infinitely spawning zombies that explode with one hit are USEFUL for maxing out one's stats. I'm actually procrastinating on the last quest of the game, so yay.

Also, Goblins finally updated. *dies laughing*

Umm, my darling spamming flist? I hope you're happy. I was only offline for a DAY. WHY did it take me until skip=160 to catch up? :p

No Goblins yet. :p

Had a fun time at home for Easter. Though my family made fun of my sleeping habits. :p I'm not sure why I slept so late... guess I'm still feeling some effects of being sick. :p

I read The Li'l Endless Storybook to my sister with voices. Yes, she's 18. I read it anyway, because I like reading out loud. :p It was amusing though: Every time I read Delirium referring to Barnabas as "Puppy", Topaz looked up because she thought I was talking about her. :p

Speaking of Topaz, she was WONDEFULLY behaved the entire time I was home. And you know... she's actually pretty cute. :p

Most of my time home was spent either studying or at church. Didn't make it home in time for Holy Thursday mass, but I wasn't expecting to. I'm not sure I've EVER made it to that mass, when I think about it. I did make it to Good Friday in good health so I didn't feel wobbly at any point during the Passion. One of the poor candidates took ill during the dismissal. They had to take her to the hospital, and then her entire family caught it. Now she's getting baptized NEXT week.

The Easter Vigil was pretty spiffy, even though it rained, thus less standing by the bonfire. Father Jeff has a flair for the long and dramatic, so we had EVERY reading. The Easter Vigil readings are basically the Old Testament in a nutshell, so this amounted to about an hour of reading in the dark. Fortunately, they simulated dawn by bringing the lights up GRADUALLY. Silly Father Jeff decided to call everyone to the font for the baptism... even though we probably could have seen better from our seats. ANd then he forgot to tell us to bring our candles with us.

One of my favorite things about the Easter season is the super cool Gloria. It's got a really neat rhythm to it. And then it drops down on "LOrd God, lamb of God"... which SOUNDS really cool, AND goes back down into my range when it was starting to push it.

Alas, my singing voice was not entirely back. I got through the Good Friday music, because it's mostly low, but the cough kept catching up to me on the high notes at the vigil.

Other than that, I basically just studied ORganic, because the final DOOM is tomorrow. The most frustrating thing is that the LAST lecture ended by leaving off a synthesis unfinished. So I'll be studying along and hit the material about enandiandric acids, and it'll just STOP. It's so ANNOYING, I just keep sitting there going "But how did they FINISH it?"

Okay, so I'm a chem geek. :p

EDIT: Oh, and guess what? That's right... Goblins hasn't updated!

Really not a fan of being sick during Holy Week. Today was Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday means that the Passion gets read (There's two gospels, the actual Palm Sunday gospel gets read outside the church before we process in with palms). The Passion is REALLY LONG. I'm feeling leaps and bounds better today, but it was still pretty brutal. I was supporting myself on the pew in front of me the entire time. I feel kinda bad about it, but I was kinda thinking "Okay, Jesus, could you hurry up and DIE ALREADY?" because I wasn't sure how much longer I could keep standing. One poor girl DID faint. I almost collapsed once, but I managed to catch myself on the pew. I had instructions from Katie and Jerrod to kindly collapse TOWARDS them so I would actually be catchable, but that proved unnecessary.

And there was free food after Mass, because this is the last time some of the students will be here at St. Vincent's. I had fun chatting with some of the church ladies and the other students. Only one guy stuck around, commenting "Well, this certainly illustrates the good old Mount A ratio..."

GOBLINS GOBLINS GOBLINS!

*does the Goblins dance*

Yes, there's a Goblins dance. It looks a lot like the Ewok dance, but it's done sitting in front of a computer screen.

Kinetics lab actually getting near done. Figured out structure for Organic lab. Goblins finally updated. (Incidently... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!)

The universe is due tomorrow, but this may yet be a good day.

Now my immediate future as a series of dates!

Last day of classes: OMG TOMORROW
First exam: April 8 (aka OMG SATURDAY... but it's Soc. I'm studying for it the night before and that is IT. I have my Organometallics take home, and that is MORE IMPORTANT.)
Last exam: April 20 (because someone in student services hates me :p)
Birthday: April 23
Little brother's confirmation: May 4 (Which I wasn't expecting to be able to go to, but...)
First day of work: May 8

So much animeness yesterday. I watched a random episode of Ranma with Ryan, which was amusing. Much as one would expect of a random episode of Ranma. Amusing, but I'm not dying for more or anything. :p

Nasty evil mean Bill played... disturbing THINGS at the beginning of the meeting. Evil mean nasty Bill! Then we actually watched anime and generally glared at Bill. :p

First up was Getbackers, which I'm still quite fond of. I'd already seen the episodes we were watching, so I wrote Death/Death while still half watching. Yay only half reading subtitles!

Then we watched Yami no Matsui. Ryan turned around and stubbornly read Sandman instead. :p Poor boy is really not a fan of shounen-ai. Even though we still TOTALLY caught him shipping Kei/Goh last time we watched Pretear! :p I enjoyed it, at any rate. :p It's very pretty. :p

After that, we were nice to Ryan and watched Love Hina. I half watched and wrote Death/Death. I still managed to follow everything that was going on. We made many jokes about the fact that Ryan's living arrangements for next year vaguely resemble a harem anime (except, of course, for the part where Ryan already HAS a girlfriend who ISN'T going to be living in that house... yes, I refer to myself in the generic third person! :p).

Finally, we watched... Gatchaman. It was so HILARIOUSLY awful. It had a team of superheroes in these HIDEOUS generic superhero costumes. There was a bird motif, which meant jagged capes and pointy helmets! :p The best part had to be that they were the SCIENCE NINJA TEAM though. How can you NOT love something that's terrible enough to have a SCIENCE NINJA TEAM? :p

Incidently, Goblins? Just switch the designated update date to Sunday and stop lying to us! :p

Tess is evil. Very evil. Because... Destiny/Rambaldi OTP. It's so many kinds of wrong. I think I'll go whimper in the corner now.

Today was a fun video game day. I beat Quest for Glory I with my magic user, Neville. It was funny. By the end, it was all "Cheetaur? I KEEL YOU DEAD? Goblin? ACK! RUN AWAY!" Not because goblins are particularly tough. No, simply because they CRASH THE GAME. Why do I always have one character with huge crashy problems?

After that, I started a fighter character. Who I named Swordy. He's kinda fun. The way he gets through puzzles is, well, he solves his problems with violence. Need to get a ring out of a tree? The thief climbs the tree, the magic user casts Fetch and the fighter... the fighter throws rocks at it. :p Plus, he has a sword, which kills things SO much better than a dagger.

I got kinda bored of that though, because I'd already played the basic story recently with Neville. So I installed QfG II and imported Grig (my thief). It's interesting working with a text parser, I must admit. Also, I HATE THE STREETS IN THAT CITY! I am going to be so PERMANENTLY lost. It took me all of the day just to find the money changer so I can actually buy supplies from the merchants.

I also discovered that Avernum 4 is out! :D I don't like the Avernum remakes as much as the original Exile series, but this is still really exciting because there never was an Exile 4. This is all new story! The single most exciting fact is that the creator finally realized that making people pay gold for training was a royal pain. I mean, it added a certain element of realism, but it also added an element of going to the character editor to get more money. :p

Skills ranged in gold cost from 10 for a level of skill with a given weapon to 250 for a level of mage spells. Your average goblin gives around five gold. You have six party members (four in the remakes).

Starting to see the problem?

But now the problem is gone and I am a happy Ewok! :D

Oh, and Goblins finally updated. It was worth the wait, too. DIES HORRIBLY WAS IN IT! DIES HORRIBLY WAS IN IT!