Japanese lit final went OK, I guess… some out-of-the-blue questions, general consensus in the class is “meh.” At least I stayed awake, working on an hour and a half of sleep as I was… woo coffee!
I spent most of the afternoon relaxing. I got back, ran into Lincoln, Haynes, Lucia, and a bunch of other Techhousers hanging out in Haynes’ and Lincoln’s room, celebrating the construction of their Kotatsu. [A kotatsu is a brilliant thing, a kind of low table with a blanket hanging down to the floor like a skirt around it and a low-power heater inside. Kind of a legwarmer crossbred with a living room table. They're glorious, and it's become a major social focal point in the house since Lincoln and Haynes built theirs.] I spent most of the afternoon hanging out in their room with people, sometimes sitting at the kotatsu, sometimes just lying on the carpet, savoring the feeling of having nothing pressing to do ^_^
I finally went to bed around 10, after more lazing about in the afternoon. This morning (we’re still talking Thursday, despite when I’m posting) I crawled out of bed around 11:30, woke up, got dressed, showered, did that kind of relaxing morning ritual stuff I hadn’t thought about for a week or so (well, even in the heat of the project I had at least showered). I will confess that, rather than read Nietzsche and draft my Will to Power essay, I played Soul Calibur III for the first three hours of consciousness. I went to the post office on my way to the Animation Screening for 125, no new mail but I did run into Alden, a friend from Japanese last year.
The animation screening was AWESOME! We packed the room, and people really liked both my Katamari animation and the full 3d Maya animation we did. I’ll post a low-res version of the Maya one soon, I just need to get around to converting the files… suffice it to say that I am very, very happy with how it was received!
I’d arranged with Dee to go down to the mall after the showing, so after a few minutes of congratulations and shmoozing I found her and Weihsin and we headed out. We walked partway with Dan Byers, who was STILL up, having not slept in four days… after he finished the sound for our project, he went straight back to editing his film class project. You’re declared legally insane after 3, and when Jane from Techhouse pointed out to him that people start hallucinating, he said “Oh yeah, that’s been happening….”
From anybody else, I’d assume they’d actually slept a little. Dan? Yeah, he’s been up the whole time.
The trip to the mall was really fun. I got to talk to Weihsin a lot, which I’ve never really done, however often he’s around Techhouse or Anime club. He and Dee are a really cute couple, and it was awesome getting to talk to them both, I don’t see Dee nearly enough either. I even managed to buy most of the christmas presents I needed to shop for, so a very successful trip all around!
After I got back I had every intention of studying. I really did, the books are still in my bag. Funny how studying got sidetracked… I should just avoid Haynes’ room, it NEVER turns out well for productivity. Today’s activity appeared to be the public beta of a new MMORPG, called RF Online (for rising force, or something, i dunno). The Phillipino beta is out, the American one won’t be out for a while, but through skillful clock adjustment and use of proxies they’d managed to fool the computer into thinking they were in Vietnam. I love techhouse… Lincoln, Haynes, Graham, Lucia and Joey were all in on it, although Doug declared it an unworthy game and seems to have abandoned it. I don’t know, I like it… yes, they roped me in. I got back and looked at the clock… it’s now 5:19, I had NO idea it was after 4, but I’d been playing for almost five hours when it crashed… yay beta versions?
If anybody else wants to get the phillipino beta going, my character is named Alarin, on the server Nexus. I’m a specialist, which means some day I will get a Mech, but in the meantime I am having much fun switching off between twin swords, a lazer gun and a compound bow. The technology level is weird, the monsters are odd, I don’t get the pvp stuff that happens after level 30, but I’m quite enjoying myself now ^_^
That being said, it’s 5:21 am. I’m going to bed.
