HAR HAR

Mood: Geeky.
Listening to: Septette for the Dead Princess (2nd Card Arrange) - Touhou: Immaterial and Missing Power

SO GUYS HAY. I’m fully aware that like maybe 2 people a day visit my blog but whatever, lmao.

Not really much to say. I’ve been playing Luna Online, and Ragnarok Online. OBT’d on Dragonica Online for a bit, but haven’t played very much for various reasons. It has potential, but the way it is now, I don’t find it very entertaining.

Two weekends ago I went to see the new Star Trek movie, and it was really awesome. If you haven’t seen it yet – go see it now! I’ve been to see it once, and intend to see it again soon – I hope. For better or for worse, it seems to have revived my inner trekkie.
I’d never really seen much of the original series before seeing the movie – I mostly watched Next Generation (<3 for Data) with my father. Since seeing the movie I’ve gone through almost the entire first season of the original series (god help me). Spock is my hero. <3

Anyway, I’m going to make this short(ish), because it seems all I can manage to talk about this week is Star Trek so I’m going to spare you, (Plus, I’m scaring the crap out of myself).  Later!

~Aurelia

Like OMG

So it’s been a few months. Not that it matters, lol. (WHO IS READING THIS ANYWAY? No one? Awesome!)

On the gaming front, I’m back to playing Ragnarok Online again. It’s just one of those games that I will continue to play until it falls off the face of the earth.

Speaking of such games, I recently ordered a Gamecube copy of Phantasy Star Online (<3), since it has a few things that Blue Burst doesn’t. Once I buy a GC broadband adapter in a couple of weeks I can get online and do some of the online and downloadable quests (seat of the heart sounds fiercely difficult @_@). Don’t talk to me about how Sega’s servers are down. I won’t talk to you about how that doesn’t matter.

Once I’ve finished with PSO, which will hopefully not be for awhile, I think I’ll get a 360 copy of Phantasy Star Universe. Not only is my PC disc missing as I discovered this week, but I was having some retarded gameguard issues as well (when is gameguard NOT retarded?). It seemed to involve gameguard flagging itself as a worm virus or something completely idiotic. And there was no help for it on the forums except for one person’s temporary solution that ended up not working. In truth there should have been solutions from SEGA, but apparently they don’t care enough. Anyway that’s enough before I start ranting about hackshields again like I did when I bought the game and discovered it didn’t work (months and months ago).

As far as College goes, I had my last day of the spring semester (wooo!) last thursday. I’ve switched transfer degrees as of this upcoming fall semester from Associate in Science-Chemistry to a general ‘associate in arts’. No not an art degree, just a general transfer degree to use for whatever I decide to do next. But it’s not going to be Chemistry, because I’ve discovered how not fun Chem becomes when I start taking classes for it. And how even though I’m not completely awful at math, the math classes I have to take alongside it are still torture. Anyway due these and other factors I’m no longer majoring in Chemistry. I’m not positive yet but from my general degree I’ll probably move on to Anthropology/Archaelogy, which was my original plan before I rather impulsively decided I wanted to be a Chemist my senior year of high school. I still love Chemistry. It’s just going to be my hobby now, like it was before. I can’t wait to dig around in the dirt it will be awesome. I’m going to have to wait a little longer than I wanted to though, because there are no anthropology classes at my campus. I was SO angry when I found this out – so very, very angry. As I may have said before, the community college I’m currently attending is a network of campuses. When you apply to the community college, you become capable of enrolling in about five different colleges. I’m not explaining it very well but oh well. Anyway the anthropology classes have like… one class at the campus I’m attending, and the archaelogy class and all the other anthropology classes are at a campus that is an hour away from where I live, so I’m fairly pissed. Oh well, I can wait until I move on from this crappy community college to greener campus pastures.

On a final note, I would like to end this with an anthropology related triumph.
YEEESS! </captain falcon>

HEY LISTEN

Mood: WTF.
Listening to: Adema – The Way You Like It

HI GUYS. So apparently if Retro Game Challenge sells well in the US, Xseed will give us Fragile: Farwell Ruins of the Moon. So everyone go buy it RIGHT NOW. Please don’t make me mod my wii and import it.

PLEASE.

~Aurelia

Har

Mood: Annoyed with stupid people
Listening to: Hamasaki Ayumi – Rule

So much for updating often.
OH WELL.

Anyway happy president’s-day-in-advance since I’ll probably be too glued to my games tomorrow to blog.
Since I’ve been too busy doing other things to blog, I’ll share what I’ve been busy doing.

A couple of days ago I bought ‘Big Bang Mini’ for DS. It’s lovely, and if you’re a fan of arcade-esque shooters in-lieu of space invaders, you should check it out.

I know it seems like I’m playing a new game every week – but I like games, okay?

Anyway while I’m still playing SMT: imagine on occasion, right now I’m participating in the closed beta for a pretty little chinese MMO called Ether Saga. It’s not perfect, but it’s an excellent game with a beautiful environment and lots to explore, which is really one of the main things I look for in an MMO. I’ll share a few screenshots. Click the thumbnails to see the full sizes in their full sized glory.

Character Selection

Grace Rock

Ancestral Spring

 I seem to be drawn to the places that have water. I like video game water. If it’s done right, it looks pretty.
If you’re playing the CB and you happen to be on the West Server, come say hi, I’m usually on Tsukiya, but I could also be on Tsuzurao, Shizuka, Aurelia, or Naosu. I’m likely to be on Realm 03 or 05.

Anyway, it’s 11 at night here, so I’m going to have to wrap this up so I can go sleep eventually.
LATERS.

~Aurelia

SMT, and Other Stuff

Mood: Bored.
Listening to: Super Junior – 돈 돈

HAY GUYS. Sup?

I have to go back to class tomorrow, which means I really need to get on that reading I’m supposed to do for English. I think the only time I ever actually avoid reading is when school is involved, college or no.
Regardless, while I’m avoiding those readings, let me tell you about what I’ve been doing over my break to avoid them.

I played some Touhou earlier in the break – Immaterial and Missing power and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. You know, the fighters I mentioned the other day. If you don’t know what Touhou is, I can’t even begin to try to explain to you myself, so wiki it, or something. I hadn’t played iamp in ages, so I was a little rusty at first, but it was still fun. My main fighter is Sakuya Izayoi – you know, the time-controlling maid with all the knives? My second is Hong Meiling. Everyone hates her, but I think using her is fun, in a retarded sort of way. In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, I use Remilia Scarlet, followed by Sakuya. No Chuugoku in SWR – but it’s probably better that way, since Meiling’s projectiles are so crappy they’re practically nonexistent, and SWR seems more projectile-heavy than IAMP. Enough about Touhou, though.

I’ve also been playing Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine again. I figured I’d give it another chance now that it’s gone from closed to open beta. Also, I’m a slave to the SMT series. Atlus makes nice games. After getting to the thing with the Inugamis and Shikigami (if you’ve played – you know what I’m talking about), in which lots of death is involved, I remembered why I stopped playing last time. But I pulled through anyway, and in the end, I got to take my revenge on that f#$@er, Taraka. I have a trophy picture as proof, and would like to share it. Click the thumbnail to see the full-size image in all it’s shiny glory. Well, it was shiny glory when it happened. Jpeg quality ruins everything, sob.

I’ve played around in Photoshop over my break too – I made some new SWR themed avatars (like the older one that is currently my wordpress av – that’s Sakuya, for anyone who doesn’t know), and a signature image for MegaTen. Anyway I’m off to play some more MegaTen, then later make some pasta for lunch and watch Murder, She Wrote, (8D) while I eat. OH, RIGHT. And do that English homework. Eventually. Ciao!

~Aurelia

Oh Look, an Update

Mood: Neutral
Listening to: Hirahara Ayaka – “Reset” (Okami OST)

Me trying to keep my wordpress updated: Part One.
So I’ve been back in class for about a week now. And by a week I mean two days – Tuesday and Thursday. And I don’t even have class THIS Tuesday due to an inservice, so I’m enjoying a week’s break. My little sister in Junior High, with class every weekday, is ready to kill me.
So now that I’m back in class, I know what my new Professors are like. I haven’t really got any complains except for Chemistry, which naturally, is the most important class in my major. So of course my professor would end up being the odd one.

He kind of mutter/mumbles, so he’s difficult to understand. And though the second day wasn’t quite as bad because we actually started into the curriculum, he’s boring. Maybe I’m just spoiled because my senior year of High School Chemistry teacher was awesome/hilarious, but he lectured in this monotonous voice. Who would have thought Redox reactions could sound so boring? On the first day, he essentially monotoned his way through the ENTIRE SYLLABUS, VERBATIM. And this syllabus was in packet form – it was like 6 pages long, and it took him the better part of an hour and twenty minutes or so. Apparently summarizing isn’t his thing.

Anyway, enough ranting. I’ve spent the last few days messing around in photoshop and playing Touhou – Immaterial and Missing Power, and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody – two awesome danmaku fighters. Yesterday afternoon I went to the bookstore, sat in the cafe, and read manga for three hours. Yes, I’m a bad panda – but the price of manga in America is outrageous. It’s like 80-200 yen in japan – which is about 80 cents to two dollars – and it’s TEN BUCKS here. And it takes you like 30 minutes to read one. Bah.

ANYWAY. I’m off to read some Agatha Christie. Laters.

~Aurelia

Ha ha ha…

Uh… Happy late New Year!

So it’s been lots of months since I last updated,  again. First semester of college is over, second starts… sooner than I’d like it to. In about six days, for me at least (I don’t have classes on the starting day). I only have class two days a week (*cackle*), and three (if you count lecture and lab chem seperately, four) classes on those two days. It’s kind of a busy two days, but it’s only two days - I figured what’s the point in showing up for like one or two classes a day, every day.

Anyway, I’m hungry and would like to go eat my (late) lunch, so I’ll make this fast. I changed my layout again (mostly because I was bored) and photoshopped myself up a header for it. Sorry if it hurts your eyes. Also changed my avatar; the Ema Skye one was getting a little old. In case no one has noticed, I really like purple. Okay I’m going now. Lunch time. BYE.

~Aurelia

Whups!

NOTE: THIS POST DISPLAYS AS BEING POSTED AT 2:15, CST. THAT IS A LIE, BECAUSE WORDPRESS IS STUPID AND DOESN’T ADJUST FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME. IT WAS POSTED AT 3:15 CST.

Okay, okay.

I realize that nobody probably even reads this, but I’m going to apologize to my imaginary readers anyway. It’s been since what… May? The last time I posted was to announce that I was to graduate in a week or so, and then I graduated and spent the entire summer forgetting that this existed. So now I sit here listening to this senseless Korean pop song, (It’s catchy. Don’t judge me.) and apologizing to you all.
Terribly sorry.

So yeah, I graduated and all that fun stuff. Now I’m in college wading through the stuff I have to get out of the way for my Associate in Science transfer degree… thing. Woe, community college. I actually, hopefully get my Chemistry class next semester, though, so there is hope. The fire diamond on the outside of the Math & Science building is graced with 4, 4, 2, W, ACID, so there should be some truly enjoyable chemicals in the lab class. No, I am not crazy.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a disgusting pile of Speech work to sift through. Public speaking, just one of the many scourges of the universe.

~Aurelia

Oh Dear

Yes, I know, I’m a bad panda. I haven’t updated in like… two months. I’m sorry. D:

So yesterday was my last day of school.
Ever. I graduate in six days or so.
Except not, because this fall I’ll be going to college to study Chemistry and all that fun stuff.

Short post is short!

~Aurelia

Oh Snap

                                                                                        

Yay, spring break!

I promised I’d update soon, so here it is.

                                                                                         

Joined a bunch of fanlistings today, linkbacks are found on my Links page.
I’ve been playing more Apollo Justice, and while I miss the old characters from the Phoenix arc, the new ones are pretty likeable, and the game is just as fun. My verdict on Klavier: awesome, but still not Edgeworth-level awesome.

I almost died of all the panty jokes in Case 2. I’m on Case 3 now, which makes me sad, because I know that there are only 4 cases… ;____;

RODiary came back awhile ago after a reeeally long downtime. I should post something, but I really have nothing to post.

                                                     

And now, I must be off! *hurls snackoos*

                                                    

~Aurelia