School has been super busy and at the moment several of my classes seem to like kicking my butt.

I just want some free time :(

Besides school:
I saw Coraline (not in 3-D...more expensive and my friends and I are cheap college kids)
I've been to several awesome concerts (all classical :D)
In the process of applying abroad

School related:
Taken an Organic exam
Taken an Ecology exam (which sucked)
Taken several Japanese quizzes (one of which kicked my butt)
I should start studying for my Ichthyology exam
Physics exam coming up D: D: D:
Organic lab exam coming up D: D:

I don't really like Feb much and it doesn't like me :(

March will hopefully be better.

So.  What have I been up to for the last couple of months?
I got to see the Vienna Boys Choir :D
I got to see this Irish/Celtic band called Cherish the Ladies :D
I got to see the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra :D
I got to see a flute soloist from France :D
I talked to two Japanese university students on Skype for my Japanese class and it was awesome :O

Then it became the last full week of school in November and school decided to crush me.  Last week was the worst D: It was the week from Satan.  I had 6 exams and a huge paper (worth as much as the final exam in that class).  I looked like this for most of this week D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D: D:
Yesterday was my recharge day.  I stayed in the school theater and watched all three extended editions of LOTR for free :D I felt so much better after that.

Now I have yet another paper to write for that same class that the other paper was for.  I have no idea how to write it.  I've never written an OP-ED before D:  I plan on spending all day doing this and finishing it tonight.  It's on 3-4 pages so its manageable in one day. 

I am going to spend thanksgiving with dad and possibly most of Christmas break with him.  Thanksgiving break will be full of studying for a marine bio lab practical that I have to take when I get back from break.  I also have some papers to write over break as well D:
So this isn't really a break...its more like I don't have to worry about going to class and get all this work done time.  

So November officially hates me.  Other than that I've been ok.  Looking forward to not getting up at 6:30 in the morning for a couple of days and going to class.   My roommate and I are planning a surprise gift for Sarah (other roommate) and party for her birthday.  Its been fun running around trying to get everything without rousing her suspicions :D

I guess that's about it...I've been busy.
Looking forward to Christmas break :D   

Apparently most adults have read only 6 of the books on this list.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

25/100  I don't read enough classics D: ...doesn't help that I don't like Jane Austin :P
24/75 left I want to read
I've read more than what is listed on this list :)

I am being crushed by homework D:
Other than that this school semester is awesome :D (Marine Biology is an awesome class...I don't even realize that 50 minutes has passed when she tells us it's time to go)
I might get to see Speed Racer again if Hanna doesn't ruin my Friday night with wind and rain.  

My roommate made cookies from scratch :D THEY ARE AWESOME.

Other random stuff: I might go to Bush Garden's for Fall break, I won't go home until Christmas, I am going to a ton of concerts this year :O (Vienna boy's choir, Chapter 6, Cherish the Ladies, Warsaw Phil, Mozart opera, Sleeping Beauty (put on by a russian ballet company), a flute solo concert, a piano trio, and a 'music from the movies' concert) <-- $85 total :O :O If I wasn't a student that would have been close to $200 in tickets.  I got the choir, Warsaw, opera, and sleeping beauty tickets...all 4 of them for $45.  A single ticket would have been $55 and for non-students all 4 was $135.  I got a good deal.

That's about it.  I'm busy, lots of homework, lots of procrastination, lots of "WILL WE BE DROWNED IN WATER?!?!?" going on at the moment.  I guess if anything exciting happens then I'll update again.

From the Otakon website:
About signs...
Please note that signs asking for food, money, hugs, etc. are considered panhandling by the Baltimore Police department, and signs offering to exchange any sort of sexual favor (kisses, hugs, glomps, etc.) are considered solicitation.

glomps are considered a kind of sexual solicitation :O
Who knew...now if you are glomped you could claim sexual harassment.
"AH YOU GLOMPED ME!!!11!1!!  I CLAIM SEXUAL HARASSMENT"

I can imagine trying to explain this one in court...
Person: sir, this person glomped me.
Judge: what exactly is glomping?
Person: well...its this running hug...
Judge: how is this sexual harassment then?
Person: well, i...uh, well i didn't consent...and there was this sign.

Also: why would anyone want a hug from a stranger?  This confuses me.
end of randomness

I was like :D
then I was like D: after I read it...actually I was like D: after I saw DiCaprio next to Akira.
THIS WILL SUCK.

This is just really random but today there was a seagull that sounded like a car alarm...I think it was on crack. I wanted something to record it with too. It was like one of those changing car alarms too. It started off kinda annoying/normal car alarm then it started squawking kinda longish...again it was on crack.

Also: going to attempt to watch the lunar eclipse tonight :D
Hope it isn't cloudy.

I saw Emanuel Ax last night :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D XD THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH HAPPY FACES THAT I CAN MAKE TO EXPRESS HOW HAPPY AND EXCITED I WAS TO BE ABLE TO SEE/HEAR HIM.
He is a world renowned pianist and I got to see him for $15.  Tickets for general public was $35.

Anywho, he played four pieces and an encore and his fingers moved so fast that sometimes you couldn't really see individual fingers.  The music he played had a lot of difficult runs and technical stuff and was awesometastic.  He was awesometastic.  That was the highlight of my night last night. 

Before I saw him I took a final, a lab practical, worked on my final english paper...then after I saw him I was up till 2 finishing my paper that was due in class today.  I got it done but it was a piece of crap.  Good thing we are peer editing or else my final grade for that class would suck.

I'm going to eat at Genki Sushi tonight with Yoshimasa, Eva, Sarah, and probably this girl named Anna who is friends with Yoshi and Eva.  Yoshi is only here for the semester and Eva is from Spain (she went with me last night along with Sarah and Amanda).  We are going to Cold Stone afterwards because Yoshi hasn't had this type of American ice cream yet...in fact I don't think Eva has either.

I will probably crash tonight because my brain is telling me to not think.  'Cept this will be the first weekend I've had with a small amount of homework in it and I want to finish reading the Golden Compass before it comes out in theaters.
I'll probably read.
Book > Sleep.

IT FINALLY RAINED :D
Then it went from super nice to freezing cold in under 30 minutes I swear. 

Other than that I probably just failed my chemistry test D:
I'll know soon enough.
EDIT: I did horribly but the curve for the test is giant...so I did so-so now.

I can't wait till break.  Even if break isn't really a break.
Three papers. THREE to type over break.
I have two lab practicals and a final when I get back so that means lots of studying :O
I would like to spend at least one day not working.

So.
Yeah.
I'll update again later with something important.