Sighs. First day post-end-of-lectures. I’ve been up for a few hours already (definitely did not wake up at 5am like I’ve been regularly doing since the beginning of September!) and have eaten breakfast, lunch, studied biology and chemistry and fought with my printer to spit out the practice chemistry finals. Am I fully impressed with my productivity? Not so fucking much. But I blame it on my printer, which is being super temperamental these days.

Also, cleaned up some of the old hostees stuff on my server – I found one of my hostees hadn’t updated since April, so her stuff automatically got deleted. As well as a few others that asked to be hosted, had everything set up for them, and then they never did anything with it. Yay for cleaning up – only freed up like 20mb, haha. But it’s not like I’m hurting for space right now.

Anyways… New theme, obviously. A little belated for the start of December, but since it’s still the first week of December, I figured that it still counted well enough for the start of December. Lyrics are from the song Sugar Free by Hedley, go take a listen (probably somewhere on Youtube, if you want to find it). And actively working on a few things right now: some things for chelle-chelle.com, some other things for amesrpg.com, studying (of course), Christmas gifts for the grouchy ungrateful souls that I live with, musings about baking, more studying (and hoping to pass organic chemistry…). So the next few weeks are going to be awesome and just so much damn fun…

That being said, have totally been working on my ‘reference sheet’ for my first biology exam. We get 1 piece of paper, single-sided and we get to write whatever we want. So you best believe that mine’s typed and has all what I consider to be ‘important’ information. Not sure how big I should make the font-size though. My original reference sheets for the 2 midterms were at size 11, so it’ll probably be smaller than that, and a bit more packed and with a lot more colours! Heart colours.

And… lastly for today, does anyone know where I can get something that looks like a Rubik’s Cube that has more than 9 (3×3) squares per side? It’s the only thing that my sister D wants for Christmas – she saw one down in LA that had 16 (4×4) squares per side, but she didn’t get it (and is now regretting it…). If you could help me out, that’d be awesome. I found one online that has 49 squares per side, but it was $71 with a 6 week shipping period so… Help?

Edit: Found one with 16 squares per side at dealextreme.com for $5.99USD + free shipping. Hello, sister’s Christmas present!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Saturday.

Not much to report thus far. I slept in quite a bit today, which was awesome. But I did get up before noon, so not so much. And I did fall asleep sometime after 3am, so I need to work on that a lot. Especially as once September rolls around, I’ll be getting up at 5am on a daily basis for school. No more staying up for me! I’m going to be going to bed extra early for the last two weeks of August in order to get used to it. I don’t want to screw myself over that early in the school year by falling asleep in class!

Volunteering went so well today. I got roped into playing a card game with someone there and it was one I’d never played before (it’s called Kings Corners and I found a website with the rules, so you can check it out too!). It’s a lot like Solitaire, but it’s multi-player. I played so many rounds, she admitted later that she let me win a few times! I was kinda insulted, haha. But she said she stopped letting me win after I won in my first turn in one of the rounds. I also played a pseudo-Jeopardy with the people at volunteering as well as more cards and I played server and made many (many, many, many) cups of coffee (bleh) and tea (yay). Overall, volunteering went well.

There was a bit of a mishap where one of the volunteers (L) was commenting on another volunteer’s clothing choices for the day. C had leaned over once to get a straw out of the lower drawer and apparently L could see the waistband of the girl’s underwear and commented on ‘granny panties’ and whatnot. It was rude and G (our supervisor-type coordinator) rolled her eyes while I went “Have you seen what you’re wearing today?”.

L was in clubbing gear, essentially. Open-toed flats (which we are not allowed since we help with moving wheelchairs and carts). Very low-cut dress (not allowed, due to sensiblities and the fact that some of the residents will start sexually harassing us for it) and skirt that was mid-thigh (also not allowed, because of sensibilities, again – considering most of the residents were all born pre-1940s, they all like us to be a little bit “covered”). Oh, and her entire bra was basically showing (it’s so difficult to have a conversation with someone who’s 6′1″ when their bra’s completely showing and eye-level with your face).

She started to defend herself and G just cut in there and restated the rules and that L should have gone home and changed (she slept over at a friend’s house and then went straight from there to volunteering) and changed into something appropriate and that L should have been very glad that none of the residents had complained about it as they normally do. Or they normally throw food down the shirts of women wearing low cut tops (I saw someone learn that the hard way!)

I stayed an extra half-hour to help out one of my favourite residents (he’s such a charmer!) with his blueberries. Which was fun, actually, he likes telling me random stories from when he was younger. Besides that, I didn’t really do much after I got home. A lot of computer, some coding, some Photoshopping and photo-taking for me today. I also read a book and whatnot.

New fanlisting up, for the relationship between Ethan Lovett and Lulu Spencer of General Hospital (they’re half-siblings) and it is called “Acceptance”. As, in soap opera-land, they only recently discovered their familial connection and she accepted him (while her brother and other half-brother are kinda… rude and unforgiving at times). Worked on my dolly blog, but it’s not quite finished yet (I just can’t decide between 2 columns or 3!; but there is a new photo up on my Flickr photostream of my darling Sophie. I love that girl so much.

First thing’s first…

I got approved for a new fanlisting! The Ethan Lovett & Lesley Lu “Lulu” Spencer fanlisting. They’re are two characters in the ABC soap opera General Hospital. They started off as adversaries, then they decided to be friends, and then, it turns out that they’re half siblings. I love their relationship. Hence the fanlisting. Besides… Ethan has an Australian accent. Which was a really pleasant surprise, I applied for the fanlisting nearly a month ago so I nearly forgot about it.

Work was okay, rather boring and long, but it was okay overall. The new logo that was revealed a while ago, came with a new company website (of course). They came up with little slogans for each product line and someone actually approved the phrase “you need balls for this job”. For a company website. I’m not sure why someone would approve that. I mean, yes, on some level it’s amusing. But at the same time, for a professional website for a company that deals with people on an international scale, it’s not appropriate. That and I don’t have much of a sense of humour tonight.

I went thrift store shopping with my eldest sister today and it turns out that I introduced her to it. I found a really cute hoodie (green with white daisies all over it) but the sleeves were ratty and… it had this horrible smell to it. I mean, the smell would probably come out with a good washing (maybe). But I didn’t like the sleeves. I also found sweatshirts and such from my school – the thrift store was selling them for $5-6 and they retail for $60+ at my school’s bookstore (granted, those ones don’t come with stains…).

Some… stuff happened tonight, so I don’t really feel like writing too much. I did want to share my new fanlisting acquisition though, since I love their relationship and all that.

Anyways, I decided that I will be making a dolly blog so I won’t bore you all to death with details about Sophie and her hopefully soon-to-be expanding wardrobe and other dolly-craft endeavours! It will probably be on a subdomain (I have 3 domains already… And I’m not that good at updating all of them!) but I need help coming up with a name!

Because, left to my own devices, I just know that I’ll end up with something like… “Make Believe” or “Imagine” or something equally non-descriptive, short and… well… kind of boring.