Oh! I feel insulted. My last advertisement at the top of the blog up there ^ was for pocket protectors! Is it that obvious from my blog that I'm a nerd? "Pocket protectors for the fashionably geeky". . . scary.

I just found a site that scanlates (is that a word, now?) Rurouni Kenshin manga. It's so goood! It's about this guy who used to be an assasin for the Japanese government who's decided to give up killing--- so he roams around the country and protects people in need. The fight scenes are great--- first because they're incredibly artistic, then since its black and white and artistic, it's not frighteningly gory, and because Kenshin won't kill anyone.

I love his long red hair, and the spiky hair of Sagara Sanosuke the rebel.

I had an 18.03 test today >_<;;;; and 6.001 tomorrow. I didn't do good on my last project, but my TA said I had "interesting implementation. . ." hmmmm....

I think I'm going to trash the Tagboard and go for comment posting or something. The board makes my page so slow-loading. . .

In the Mixx version of the manga, Bunny says when she sees Amy "Wow--- she looks like Demi Moore!" Not the first thing I would think if I saw Ami-chan, but Naoko admires models, and has done her paintings after some models: drawn Pluto in a Naomi Campbell outfit, drawn Black lady like a girl from a perfume ad, so it wasn't unbelieveable that Naoko-sama would make Amy look like Demi Moore.

But looking at the Alex Glover translations of the manga, Bunny says instead "Wow--- she looks like Miss Rain." I had to go and see who Miss Rain was: she's actually the main character in another manga Naoko made called "Miss Rain," and yes, the girl has short blue hair just like Ami-Chan. You want to read it!!!! It's such a dreamy, cute story, very atmospheric, and not that long. I just finished and it made me feel so warm and fuzzy inside ~_~;;;;

But Naoko must really like this type of person: Sailor V's best friend in the original Sailor V manga was a lot like Ami-chan, and then Miss Rain (who like Ami has control over water and bad luck in love).

Back to studying. . .

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. . . I woke up at 12:00 today. But the dorm was serving food around 1:00 so I waited until then and got a free lunch/breakfast. Wow, it feels like a Saturday since we didn't have school today. I made the title for my doujinshi and the first page (inspired by Chorallaries concert) and will be posting it at my site soon. . . And my Sailor Moon site is now listed at anime turnpike. Their guest Trixie Turnpike for this month is sooo cute! To play around with layouts (and because I love Sailor Merc) I'm making a new Sailor Mercury shrine called Blue Colored Glasses". That's where I'll be posting up my doujinshi (fan comic).

Ahh, good food. I had calzones with the cooking group today. And Jacque made egg custards. Which reminds me. I've been noticing something scary. See the advertising banner up at the top? Does it say something about Sailor Moon? Lately, the banners have been displaying "Buy Sailor Moon Trading Cards" or "Buy the Sailor SuperS video". . . Is my diary being filtered for words I mention a lot to pick out advertisments? Lindy's ads are always about cooking ^^.

Oh dear. Lots of Love,
Sailor Hg

I'm going to have to wait until the exam to get a lambda pin *sob*.

Lindy invited me to go to Fanueil Hall (spelling?) with her advisor for dinner; the food there was great. I had scallops and bacon.

Physics is hard. I am dumb. Not a good combination.

My Harmony and Counterpoint instructor gave all the musicians (which means me too!) a $5 gift cetificate to Toscanini's for performing everyone's written works. Isn't that nice?

The greatest misfortune: to have high standards for beauty but to never be able to create it. To have weird thoughts driving you mad with inspiration for stories and not being able to put them down on paper. To have only a gift for criticism and not creation. For I will eternally be dissatsified with what I hear and see, but never be able to fix it.

Listened to Alanis Morsette's "Precious Illusions": it's has such a cute video comparing medeival love to modern love. . . Wow, it's so hard to study for exams.

I have inspiration for several episodes of "SailorHg's MIT adventures" and drew a sketch for a cover in 18.03; perhaps that will be coming out even before my Wrinkle In Time doujinshi. SailorHg's adventures at least won't take any research.

Live lecture tomorrow. We all get lambda pins *yay*.

I found out yesterday that I'm being transplanted off my floor. ~_~;; There are a couple other West Tower people that got booted off to the East tower for next year (the all singles tower), and it's understandable that some people must, b/c the West tower has the nicest singles, and they want to fill them up with upperclassmen first. What's upsetting is that my chances of staying weren't that low: in fact, everyone else on my floor managed to stay as a result of the lottery; I'm the only one from my floor that un-lucked out. >_<;;; loneliness. . . I don't know anyone on my new floor either. And I'm scared b/c there was a west tower girl last year who was transplanted to east tower and couldn't take the absolute deadness and moved across the river to student house. At least Lindy and Jacque and Maithilee say they'll all come visit me. ~~

Wow, so many finals to study for. Must hop to it, I suppose.

Like any other girl, I just can't resist certain things. For example, a room full of stickers, stamps, construction paper, and every color of glitter pen imageinable. Heh. It was our dorm's "De-stress" night. I made good luck cards for people and had a smoothie.

Why is it that the scheme programming language has so many historical terms, but they won't explain to us the history? I am going to research this and write a book on it one day. In a pair data structure, the first element is called the car, and the second is the cdr. Why???? What do those mean? When 2 things have the same meaning, or effect on the program, to translate from the complicated one to the shorthand is called "desugaring." Why???? When you're clearing out useless bits of data and temporarily storing the ones you need, you say the empty cells are heartbreaks. Why?????

Oh, the mysteries of life.

My website had its 99th visitor today. Will it make it to 100? Maybe I need to do something special if it does. Heh. No, 100 is to common of a number. How about 141, the squareroot of 20000? But that's not a strikingly important number. Or 314? Heh. It'll never make it there. Okay, if someone is the 144th visitor (gross!!!!) they can request a background with any character on it. That is, if someone is the 144th visitor and reads this. What are the chances of that?? ~_~;;

Wow. I got my physics test back. a 64. That's so awful ~_~;

It wasn't really lots of points off for anything. It was 3 points off here, 3 points off there, and it just all added up.

Wow. That's so bad.

I would be wondering what is wrong with me at this point in time, that I'm not studying nearly enough, except for the fact that that very same day, I had a Differential Equations test as well, and I scored a 98 on it. So, I'm not sure what to make of my grades.

Eh, life is a confusing thing.

Wow, I'm sooooooooooooooo frustrated. My project won't work.

By the elevator, there's this printout on "Selfless Gratitude". It talks about how the things in our lives happen for reason, and how our lives in the first place, were statistically very improbable events. Recognizing this, and being grateful connects us with the world, and a higher Purpose. I've been telling people who come to me with complaints about the schoolyear to be grateful for the good things that have happened, and I'm a bit surprised by how many good things happened to them that they'd forgotten.

I shouldn't be, b/c I do so myself. And I need to take my own advice in being grateful. And I need to remember when I am worried that the one who is watching over me and letting all these little small good things come together continues to do so.

What a short weekend! Friday was spent watching Kiki's Delivery Service at the Anime Club--- what a cute movie! Then yesterday, made pizza at the housemasters, watched Tim in the musical Clue. . . and worked on the 6.001 project in between. It's soooooo hard!!!!! And it's not any fun either. *scowls*.