Midterms in 14 hrs

Well, I’m supposed to be studying for my midterms right now but… yeah… I’m not. It’s funny actually, because I’m actually ahead of my study schedule (or at least I’ve convinced myself of that, somehow), but all that really means is of the two midterms I have tomorrow, I have approximately one left to study for.

Anyways, because of my horrible tendency to think in order of reversed priorities, I can’t stop remembering other stuff I have to do, which hopefully I’ll still be motivated to do after all these midterms. Among them are:

• that halloween thing: Yeah, I haven’t finished it, cause I kind of had work, …and then forgot about it
• those two stories: one’s at the stage I can start writing, but the other still need work.
• 100% completion in all 3 DS Castlevanias, max level, all modes
• watch a whole bunch of anime I never got around to the last several months
• (re)start specialized posts, and not just complaining/planning ones
• get some sleep, dammit. Also, stop being nocturnal/an insomniac

There’s probably more, but it’s hard to remember when I’m trying to remember them.

:(

I guess I’m experiencing a period of unusually high failure right now. It’s not fun at all. WordPress is eating my pictures, Firefox is failing on multiple levels, I just failed to get an assignment in on time, I’m behind in all my classes, and I guess I’m depressed. I haven’t gotten anything done with regard to non-homework stuff, so that’s also bad. This isn’t the kind of post I want to write, but I haven’t posted anyhting in a long time and I have nothing else to say.

Halloween makes me happy

For those of you who don’t know, Halloween is my favorite holiday. Not cause of the free candy/stuff, and not (well ok, a small part) because of the massive costume-wearing. It’s cause of the atmosphere of the idea of the holiday. I mean, seriously, if you look at what Halloween really is today, it’s a chance for people to give out candy/stuff for no adequate reason and/or dress up in bad costumes and have parties. I guess what I’m saying is that I don’t like the real Halloween, but instead I like the …oh, nevermind, I don’t get it myself. Anyways, the best part is, it’s on a Saturday this year. I hate it when Halloween is on a day I have stuff to do, cause that sucks. Obviously.

Anyways, I try to draw stuff for major holidays as practice for various drawing techniques (well, kind of. It’s partly to keep my skills fresh, since I usually don’t have time). As of now, I have just a sketch of half of the final image, but I should be finished by… probably tomorrow or so (aka 11-1-09). I know it’s stupid to start so close to the deadline, but hey, that’s how I work. Actually, it’s probably the only way I can really work. Anyways, here’s the current sketch:

Hmm… I didn’t expect it to be that huge a png file… Anyways, I already know there’s a bunch of stuff that needs work. They should be fixed by the time I’m done. It’ll also be in color and there’ll be a second person, too. I’ll also change a few things… Lots of stuff to do… But hey, it’s fun, so I’m not (really) complaining.

Behold, the zombie lamp! (or mummy lamp, or whatever)

Behold, the incredible feat of rubberband-and-sticks engineering!

So the other day, I was busy procrastinating horribly when all of a sudden, my lamp decides to break. It’s the kind that has two sections that have springs, made so that adjusting one section adjusts the second one in only certain ways. You know what I mean. It’s the cool kind. But as it turns out, mine was cheap cause the joint that connects the two sections broke. It didn’t just fail at clamping the sections hard enough to move, it broke completely. As in the right side of the joint separated from the left. That was bad. Springs flew everywhere.

So yesterday, I decided to fix it. I didn’t have any glue, and I doubt that would work anyways. What I did have was a huge mass of rubber bands… Long story short, I fixed it up by binding the joint back together with rubber bands. And chopsticks. And various writing utensils, for support and stuff. If I had duct tape, I’d use that too. Actually, I’m beginning to think that duct tape + rubber bands can solve just about anything.

The result? It looks amazing. It’s seriously like a work of art or something. I took some pictures so you can enjoy, although its full majesty cannot be understood without an in-depth description of how everything works together and how I built it and stuff. But that would probably be boring to normal people.

Oh, screw it, I don’t want to sort through my stuff. I’ll just upload all the files I have.

is it break time now?

I just finished my last midterm this afternoon. It was weird, cause it was so incredibly easy. I’m kind of scared about that. I just have these programs to do which were pushed back twice (They were originally due yesterday at 11:59 pm, but now they’re due tomorrow at that time). Midterms may be over, but I got to get serious about work now. Not class work, I have almost none of that, amazingly, but more like writing and drawing and blogging for hsa and stuff. And getting 100% completion in my castlevanias. Yay.

 

Actially I had another reason to write this, but I forgot it and it hasn’t come back yet. Oh well.