Uh, hey guys, it's been a while.

...Over two months, I know.  Bad Caitlin, no biscuit.  Please don't hurt me?

Scruffy hair was really, really scruffy until I got it cut.  Slightly different than when I cut it last summer.  And yes, that was the last time I cut my hair.  It was such a mop.

LOTR class is win and awesome.  And yeah, I know I don't have the lectures posted, but I will.  And I will have written notes for the days I missed (more than I wanted to because I've been having these weird, killer headaches that make Caitlin a very not happy camper, but they seem to be gone now).

Other classes aren't bad, but I'm bollocksing Spanish up.  Mrrr.  Too much L2 interference.  Ugh.

Actually joined an LJ RP, which sounds funny since I haven't been posting here, but the activity requirement is very small - twenty comments/posts for a two-month period.  Which I filled with only my intro post, so it's okay that I don't have much time for it.  And it's FUN!  (Is dramadramaduck  in case you're wondering.)

EDIT: Oh! And I met Denise's totally awesome fiancée! She's crazy awesome! Did I mention she's awesome? Awesome.

Have not written more than random, couple hundred word-long bits and pieces of unrelated fics since... uh, I can't remember.  Sad.  : (  I miss having time for writing fic.

I signed up for Round 007 of blind_go  anyway.  I think I'm just a sucker for punishment, especially since the minimum word requirement is 3500, and fics are due May fourth.  I finished exams April 17th and start my spring classes April 27th.  *headdesks*

Haven't played any video games since Christmas break, and even then I didn't play much.

Am taking two classes in spring session, History: Victorian Britain and Sociology: Irish Society for a total of six credits.  Which is the max numbers of credits one is allowed to take during spring session.  Actually pretty excited!  Nothing for me to take in the summer session, though, unless I feel like taking three creds on Shakespeare's tragedies over a two month period via distance with Marquis.  Which I don't, as he's the primary reason I ended up dropping the full-year Shakespeare course.  :/

Need a job for the summer break, especially as I am staying in Antigonish.  I'm taking spring classes, and I'm sick of living at home and sick of my mother treating me like I'm incompetant or that it is ANY of her business how many hours I work, how my classes are going, when I'm going to graduate (later than she wants), or how much I owe on my credit card.  I make my payments on our co-signed student LOC on time, so that's ALL the business she has with my financial situation.  My mother needs to learn to mind her own sodding business.  Thank god Dad can.

(Speaking of my dad, he was in Vegas for a Kodak conference and when I asked him what Vegas was like he used "strange" about eight times in two minutes.  Also, "noisy".  Oh, Dad; you are not so articulate when you're brainfried and jetlagged. <3 )

At work right now, and at the end of this shift I will have worked 35 hours since five to twelve on Sunday night, along with going to class, having a job interview, making time to eat, showering, studying, doing class readings (some of which were fun LOTR class readings, some of which were not), not sleeping (damn insomnia)....  *dead tired*

That's all I can think of right now, really.

I promise I'll try and update more.  I swear.  I missed you guys.  <3<3<3<3

This semester I'm in a class about Lord of the Rings.  Yes, in university, and yes, it's already awesome.

Anyways, I'm recording the lectures for a few friends already so I figured I'd see if anyone on my LJ would be interested in them?  If people are, I can post the links to download the sound files here.

Yes/no?



Also, on the subject of Christmas cards, well, I kinda failed.  I had exams and I planned to do it afte rthey finished, but then Joy died and I just forgot with everything that was going on.  I'm sorry.

So last week, one of my profs said that our final would be a take home exam, and it would have to be a minimum of ten pages.  We would get the question on December third and the essay would be due by noon on December tenth.

I was not impressed.  At all.

Tonight he changed it.  Now it's three essays, each a minimum of four pages in length.  Assigned December third, and STILL due December tenth, even though we suddenly have more to write.

Still not impressed.  Impressed even less, actually.

Fuck you, Pretentious.

OH MY GOD, SAM, YOU ARE SUCH A BLEEDING HEART.

BUT I LOVE YOU FOR IT.


...Just had to say that.   Now I'm going back to my thrice-damned Shakespeare paper that was due Thursday.

Back at school.

Campus apartment is rockingly awesome, and bigger than I expected.  Living with daimeera , limetreebower (once she gets here) and the random person known as Angela (since Vivi, my roomie from last year, has a work term to do in Halifax she lost her spot).

Been here since Thursday and still not unpacked.

Need to continue the proud family tradition started by my dad at Dal and... acquire MOAR MILKCRATES so I have places to store things.  Need more shelving, and milkcrates are fr-- *ahem* cheap.

Glass box-ing again; work tonight and tomorrow and Wednesday and Friday night/Saturday morning backshift and Saturday afternoon this week.  My regular shifts are Tuesday night 8-12 and the Friday night midnight to 0600 Saturday morning backshift.  And yes, I picked them both.  XD

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DONE MY  EXAMS AS OF FIVE TO ELEVEN THIS MORNING.

BOOYAH.

SOC CAN KISS THE FEET I USED TO KICK ITS ASS.

...At work again.  Four until midnight.

Still haven't started packing.

Parental unit showing up at, as my brother put it, "stupid AM tomorrow" to move me out.

Methinks NO SLEEP AGAIN TONIGHT.  LOL.

(Though I did sleep this afternoon.  While Vivi was moving her stuff out. ;-;  Yes, I slept through her moving her stuff out, lol.  *was dead to the world*)

I figured I should make an actual, real post, haha, as opposed to spastic, joyous, or not-so-joyous flailing, fandom or otherwise.

One exam left, tomorrow morning at nine: Sociology 100.  Not too worried about it, going to start studying in a bit.  Wrote Computer Science today, and am almost guaranteed to fail it, due to my prof being a total fucking dickwad.    Long story very, very short, among other things, he decided to do shit with us that mostly only gets don eby third year CompSci majors, and is not supposed to be covered in the 100 class at ALL.  Bastard.

Wrote my Celtic Civ final yesterday, and it went pretty good - I also got back the paper I'd been practically tearing my soul out and bleeding over and loathing and suchlike.  If you're on my AIM, you may have seen my username being something about That Damn Paper.  Another long story short, it was my term paper worth 30 points on my final grade, and it shouldn't have been hard, but it was completely killing me.  It gave me more trouble than any other paper I've ever written for university - including the 19 pages I wrote for my Creative Writing final - and I spent more time on it, too.  It was supposed to be eight to ten pages.  I ended up handing in five pages of, IMO, total shit, three days after the extension the prof had given me ended.  Considering this, I'm not actually displeased with the 19/30 I got.

Friday is moving day.  Well, moving-my-shit-day, since I'm not actually going home until Saturday night or Sunday morning, depending on how late the staff banquet on Saturday night runs.  We'll see, anyway.

Jessica will be back in Pictou county on Sunday, too, as you may have figured out from my last post.  I start work on Monday, babysitting the same seven kids I did last year for May and June.  I'm looking forward to it, sinc eI haven't seen them since Christmas and rather miss them!  <3

proverse.  God.  proverse has taken over my brain.  Thanks, she_universe. :P

...But really, thanks. :DDDDD  I'm getting SO stoked and so excited for all these ideas we have!  And the fact that there's ACTUAL STUFF on the profile page and main page of the comm now!  Okay, fine, it's just little wee profiles for Sam and Derek, and an itty bitty, incomplete intro post.  BUT!  Soon we will have PRETTY GRAPHICS! And ICONS! And ACTUAL CONTENT!  And STUFF!  And MINIONS FANS!

Well, ideally.  XDD The fans will likely be a long time coming, sadly, lol, but we'll have to see.  Maybe we'll get lucky and internet-famous, haha.  XD


Residence is kinda depressing lately, not in the least because my beloved Gilmora (where I live this year and lived last year) isn't going to be residences next year.  On Friday at 12.01 PM, the construction guys are showing up to remove furniture and walls and start renovations to make it the Music Department and offices. ;-;  I have to go around Gil either tonight or tomorrow and take pictures before Gil is no longer "my" Gil.

Also, it's starting to get rather empty and quiet.  I haven't even noticed the nun around lately.  I wonder what she's going to do next year when she doesn't have her residents around to mother by making the lights do weird things when you should be going to bed?  (Among other things, lol. XD)

I've worked rather a lot this week, and will be working more, lol.  Sunday I was 4PM-8PM, Monday I was the same shift, I work 8PM-152AM last night, am working a double shift from 4PM-12AM today (right now), and am working another double shift from 4PM to 12AM tomorrow, and Joan's lunch hour on Friday, either 12.30-1.30 or 1.2, depending on when I finish packing my crap into the car.  Which technically has to be by 12.00 because of the aforementioned furniture-and-wall-removing construction dudes, but I plan to have something to eat before working.

I was trying to figure out what the hell I was going to DO all day Friday, since I can't hang out in my room and Sam-my-computer will be packed up and sent back to Pictou County with my mum, seeing as he's a desktop and I can't cart him around with me, lol.  Then someone reminded me that the campus computers labs will still be open, probably, and the library definitely will be.  : DDDDD  Something tells me I'll be spending all day Friday and probably most of the day Saturday holed up in the labs.

I'm going to miss the blind_gochat, though, partly, because the library and the labs both close at midnight. ;-;  Sadness!  Maybe I can convince someone to mail me the log...

Speaking of blind_go, I have, uh, yet to write anything for it.  <_<  The same goes for my  naruto_flashfic assignment this month.  The flashfic is supposed to be done for the 30th, and the BG fic for the fourth of May.  And I have proverse stuff to write and graphic-ify.  According to our schedule, by May 12th.  Meeeeep.  XDDD


ALSO: I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED PACKING YET.  AND I HAVE EIGHT HOURS OF WORK AND ABOUT TWO HOURS OF EXAM AND HAVE TO BE OUT BY NOON FRIDAY.  BECAUSE.  AS I SAID BEFORE.  DUDES.  WALL-SMASHING.  ETC.  HI, HELLO, DEPARTMENT OF REDUNDANCY DEPARTMENT, HOW MAY I ASSIST YOU WITH HELP TODAY?

MY BRAIN, IT IS FRIED.  *FACEDESK*

*FLAILS LIEK WOAH*


ALSO ALSO: My roommate just walked by and stopped to chat with me for a minute, and when she turned to walk away she very nearly walked into the edge of the doorway.  I THINK MY KLUTZ IS CONTAGIOUS.  I DUNNO IF SHE'S GOING TO MAKE IT THROUGH NEXT YEAR ALIVE, WHAT WITH HER LIVING WITH ME AGAIN AND POSSIBLY CATCHING MORE OF MY KLUTZ.


ALSO ALSO ALSO: I LIKE CAPS WAY TOO MUCH.  AND IT'S ALL THE FAULT OF  she_universe AND  lady_assassin AND cephiedvariable.  I BLAME YOU THREE FOR THIS.  MY NAME IS CAITLIN AND I HAVE A PROBLEM.

BUT I NOT-SO-SECRETLY LOVE IT.

WE GOT AN APARTMENT!  HELLS YEAH!!

Me, limetreebower, daimeera, and my current roommate Vivi have an apartment in Powers for next year.  Fear us. :D

The res office ladies totally went A and B the C of D for us.  I need to send them flowers or chocolate or something.

My last several days in brief:

 - rediscovered my love of Hikaru no Go. Oh, the subtext.  :D:D:D:D:D
 - wrote a few shounen-ai Akira/Hikaru (or Hikaru/Akira, whatever; it's the same pairing) drabbles for Hikago; they will appear at inkntendinitis shortly, I imagine
 - wrote my English 250: Survey of 20th Century Literature exam; did well, I think
 - knitted.  A lot.
 - discovered I must wrap the liquor boxes I got for shipping people's Christmas gifts in brown paper because they're liquor boxes
 - got brown paper for free today from where I used to work, because I asked Lloyd (my former boss) where they had put it out this year, and he said to just go downstairs and ask Hamish for some.  Then he called Hamish to make sure he'd be down there.  XD  <3 Lloyd; he's a dear.  ^^
 - watched Vampire Hunter D (the 1985 movie); it's awesome, a classic of the genre, like Vampire Princess Miyu or Blood: the Last Vampire.  Must now read novels and watch Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.
 - made hamburger-less Hamburger Helper with TVP as an experiment; experiment was successful
 - didn't study enough for my Soc 100 exam tomorrow, but I'll be fine
 - discovered I really, really like BUMP OF CHICKEN.
 - actually had to wear my scarf and winter coat, instead of just a quilted vest over a sweater
 - handed in Creative Writing portfolio for the semester; let's hope it goes over well
 - found a torrent of an English fansub of Bright Girl's Success Story, a Korean drama I've really wanted to see for a while; said torrent is nearly eleven gigs, so I must burn/purge first
 - finalised my BRILLIANT PLAN for living arrangements next year; details will follow at some point
 - slept, though maybe not quite as much as I should have, it was enough
 - ate lots of Maple Mini Wheats and giant wheat Goldfish crackers.
 - didn't eat enough of what's probably considered "real food", but oh well.  XD
 - was told by Meaghan at twenty to four the other morning that I was up past my bedtime; countered with the fact that I'm older than her, which she said didn't matter.  XD

That's all, really.

...Apparently the Mount (my building) has ninjas.

Since one just ran past me.  XDD 

Yes.  Insert general update-y stuff here.

...Wait, I have to actually do that, don't I?  Damn.  XD

Hokay. So.  Here's de earth...

It's DONE!  The damn English paper of DOOM is done!  Finished!! Complete!  Kaput!

AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!  *cackles madly*

FUCK YOU, DISGRACE!  TAKE THAT, BITCH!

Okay, emo-ing is done now, back to work.

So, my English term paper?  About the relationship between power and gender in Disgrace?  Totally fucked on that.  I can't find any good critical sources that have to do with what I have to write about, and have become completely stumped as to what I'm going to write.  The damn thing is worth 25% and is due Wednesday.  I'm so fucked.

Panicking... NOW.

So, I went to The Out with rostand and guitarpulsation earlier tonight.  The Out is where Kyrie, Kathleen, Allan, and somebody else (whose name currently escapes me) Judy live.  The on-campus bar is The Golden X Inn, The Inn for short, so since they're off-campus, it's The Out.  Also, three of the four of them are out of the closet, so it's an amusing double entendre.

So I went.  Had a straight shot of tequila, no salt or lime, and discovered it really wasn't as bad as people were making it out to be - I've tasted worse things.  Had a few mouthfuls of Sex on the Beach; it was pretty good.  A couple sips of rostand's screwdriver, which was also good.  Then I tried about a shot (or a little less) of straight bourbon, which apparently isn't generally done, but it again wasn't as bad as people made it out to be.  That was it for my liquor intake, not that it even gave me a buzz, but that wasn't the point.  I was just curious about the taste since I hadn't tasted any of it (with the exception of a screwdriver) before.  I wasn't looking for a buzz, because I don't like the feeling that one gets when buzzed and the loss of control.

By around eleven, pretty much everyone (else) was past tipsy and well into sloshed, so I left.

My thing about alcohol is that I don't mind people having a few drinks and getting a little tipsy.  But once people are past tipsy and are thoroughly drunk, I don't like being around them, no matter who it is.  I don't even like being around rostand when she's trashed.  (I think I've mentioned my aversion to drunk people to you, but maybe I didn't, so if you didn't know, don't worry about it because it was my fault for not remembering to tell you!  XD)  To put it simply, it pushes me past uneasy or nervous and well into the realm of highly, intensely uncomfortable.

So I left.  I had a great time while I was there, but I just can't handle it when people around me are totally trashed.  That's why I always leave floor events after an hour or so and avoid big parties.

Maybe my reaction to people being hammered is irrational, maybe it's an overreaction, I don't know.  I just know that that's how I feel, and I make an effort to extract myself from the situations as they arise or avoid them entirely.

I really did have lots of fun up until everyone was totally hammered, though. ^_^ 

electronic_emo: *talking about how it's kind of weird when her roommate walks around shirtless and braless*
Me: I really wouldn't mind if my roommate walked around like that.
electronic_emo: Well, you're a lesbian.
All: *die laughing*

So. Big French 220 project was due today. Group project, unfortunately. I was pretty okay with it, until I got the two sections from the others in my group. Cheryl's wasn't too bad; Kayla's, on the other hand... well, I'll let some quotes speak for me. These are word-for-word, copy-pasted from what she sent me, and keep in mind that she is supposed to be a third-year French major.

"Le Snowqueen sur James St attracks beaucoup de gens..."
"Il y a seulement un de chaque restuarant qui est bon."
"Beaucoup des étudiants d'Université travaillent aux restaurants."
"Les Restaurants dans la promenade de distance de chaque autre, et localisé dans les rues de bien lit."
"Les barres et les pubs c’est Pat’s Place, Chuggles, Piper’s Pub, The Oriental Lounge, et The Golden X Inn lequel peut être trouvé sur le Campus d'Université."
"Ils ont été sus même pour avoir musicials comme Ashli MacIsaac et le Trews!"

So... yeah. Anyone who speaks/reads French should see what I mean.

Anyhow, I was, of course, rather pissed off, as I basically had to go through Kayla's entire section line by line to check everything and correct it. I changed my MSN name to reflect what I was doing ("At X - Caitlin - working on Fre220 paper, doing lots of corrections on the other people's parts..."), and Kayla wasn't too happy. Maybe I was being a little petty, but it was either that or totally tear her a new one, because I was flaming pissed.

Kayla MSNed me this evening, rather annoyed....

( Here's the MSN conversation from earlier tonight... )

I sent the whole file she gave me to iamatwerp because she wanted to read it... and she said it better than I ever could:
Greg is practically crying over this. He says there is some of it that is so bad he doesn't know how to correct it because he doesn't have a FUCKING clue what she is saying... and Greg is fluently bilingual enough to work in the Chaleur region of NEW BRUNSWICK outside of Quebec almost as French as you can get :)

This was for our final project for the entire semester, and she had the gall to go on at me about needing a good mark when she sent me that shit. And she's SURPRISED and ANNOYED that I didn't send it back to her for corrections - I wonder why! She spelt "restaurant" right ONCE in the entire four pages of text she sent me, and randomly capitalized things that didn't need to be. If anyone is really that curious, I'll send you the file, though you may regret it once you get it....

Anyways, enough ranting. I think everyone can see why I'm so flaming pissed at her. Stupid, scum-sucking little whore. Of course, I wasn't actually sorry about offending her, but we still have a presentation to put together, so I have to try and keep things semi-civil until that's finished with.

Going to do more NaNo now - I already did almost 4000 words today, and I'm sure I can punch out another thousand or two considering how pissed I am.

So I've changed my layout for NaNoWriMo - hence the notebook paper design. ^_^

Last night was Rocky Horror Night - X Pride (the LGBQT society here) put on the Rocky Horror Picture Show in Nicholson on the big screen. And a bunch of people dressed up, including me, and beautydreaming, who was Magenta. It was much fun. Mitch went as Magenta, too, and Jess was an amazing Riff Raff. It was fantastic. electronic_emo was Columbia.

There will be pictures - oh, there will be pictures.

Once I get around to uploading them.

*clears throat, shifty eyes*

So Anthony's autopsy was inconclusive - they couldn't get a time of death or cause of death or anything, so there's going to be an inquest, which could take up to six months. Blah. This whole to do has been very much not fun.

Something good did come out of it, however, as I got my cousin William's MSN out of it. I talked to him on Tuesday for about eight and a half hours. Which actually wasn't that long, considering I hadn't talked to him in eleven years.


I have tendonitis again. Blarg. I hate taking Naproxen. It messes with my head. Steven (my boss) sent me home from work today because I was all out of it.


OMG! Eighteen days until NaNoWriMo! I'm ML again for the Pictou/Antigonish area, and have already booked a room for the kick-off, two write-ins, and the Thank God It's Over party. I also have an info meeting planned for Sunday for anyone curious about what it is. I put about 35 posters up around campus, so hopefully I'll have some new faces. ^_^ Also, as a second-year ML, I get a FREE ML tee shirt! YAY! Free stuff!


Piers on my floor borke a window last night. XD He was on this floor last year, too, and broke one of the windows above the bed formerly belonging to emmy_bemmy that now belongs to Steph AKA Shadow-Kyrie. He was banging on the glass window above Tall Justin's door, and then it broke. Me and beautydreaming and I heard shattering glass and Piers' raucous laughter and were like "OH GOD!" Piers' laughter can be very worrying.


I have my Intro Psych midterm on Monday. Mitch and I are going to have a study session Sunday night after my NaNo info meeting.


And now for a meme! Behind a cut, because it's huge.

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.  (But not a significant other...)	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.	✓ I own lots of books.  (They're taking over)
× I wear glasses or contact lenses.	✓ I love to play video games.	× I've tried marijuana.
✓ I've watched porn movies.	✓ I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.  (Well, he was the psycho-ex. But only for a little while - he's all better now. XD)	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes.  (Actually, I curse lots.)	× I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.	✓ I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.  (Swiss Army knife for the win!)

( it goes on... )