oyceter | Thesis, again

Well, the intro has now been edited. I should write the conclusion today, as well as extensively edit chapter one. And think of a title. I'm so bad at thinking of titles... for me, a passable title would be: Chapter One - Scholarship on Shojo Manga.

I'm sitting in the Mechanical and Aerospace study room right now waiting for the boy to finish his problem set, and it's very strange. I feel very awkward taking up the computer for silly things like LJ when everyone is doing complicated looking things on MatLab or Mathematica or what have you. But I guess there are at least five other computers free now, so that should be ok.

This is just going to be a random post. Back in my growling at NJ mode because the weather just changed from an extremely sunny 78 degrees to a very cold and windy 40 some (Er,

hecatehatesthat, meant the upper east coast? Made you a pretty icon and all...). And to be honest, the past two days here were gorgeously sunny, with bright blue skies and Japanese magnolias blooming everywhere on campus. I hate winter on the east coast, but I absolutely adore fall and spring. Both seasons always remind me of poetry for no real good reason.

I'll cheer myself up by thinking of thing I'll do after the thesis is in:
- get roaring drunk with other people in my major. Well, the ones who aren't sleeping for four days straight.
- rereading His Dark Materials. I'm so mad; just remembered I gave mine to my sister so I could buy a new set. Except I haven't bought it yet! I'm so stupid.
- reading DWJ's Year of the Griffin, one of the late Dune books, Parable of the Talents and hunting down Kissing the Witch (thanks,

heres_luck).
- rereading Sandman once I yoink it back from Cyrus. Thanks Cyrus!
- work more on that random fic of mine.
- make more icons
- make a website for my total excess of icons so at least they will be used somewhere.
- another outdoor picnic with friends when it's warm again.
- shopping for pretty spring/summer skirts! Everyone has these pretty bright flippy skirts! Yay bright colors!

That's a nice list to look forward to... just one more week to go!

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Back in my growling at NJ mode because the weather just changed from an extremely sunny 78 degrees to a very cold and windy 40 some (Er, hecatehatesthat, meant the upper east coast?

It's today from Maryland northwards along the coast, I hear. Definitely chilly here, though I'm surprisingly not freezing after getting used to the heat the past couple days. Ah, the roller coaster of spring on the east coast.

And thanks for the icon, btw, it's purdy. Just like NJ. ;)

rereading His Dark Materials. I'm so mad; just remembered I gave mine to my sister so I could buy a new set. Except I haven't bought it yet! I'm so stupid.

Buy the british editions! Buy the british editions! They were recently released in the US by Trade Paperback, I believe, and they have extra goodies at the beginnings of the chapters, illustrations by Pilip Pullman and more quotes he selected from poems and stuff. I already have the whole trilogy in hardcover and paperback, but I'm dying to get my hands on the british editions too. The have pretty constellation-covers. *drool*

!!!

Are they the really pretty ones in white? I've got that on my wishlist on Amazon... oooo spending money. Doh. Really must cash my paychecks soon.

And gotcha on east coast stuff. I have a really fuzzy map of the entire US in my head... I was surprised to find that Bostom and RI were to the north of Jersey when I first moved here -_-;;.

Glad you like the icon!

Are they the really pretty ones in white?

Uh, the look like this (http://www.randomhouse.com/features/pullman/), not sure whether they're what you're talking about, but I don't think I've seen any in white, so maybe that's the binding and back cover? ::shrug::

I have a really fuzzy map of the entire US in my head... I was surprised to find that Bostom and RI were to the north of Jersey when I first moved here

!!! HAHAHAHA!!! I mean, okay, nobody really knows where RI is, even I had only a vague idea until I actually moved here, and discovered that it takes as longer to get here than to the schools of my friends is upstate NY... but BOSTON?! (and shut up, I realize RI is right next to Boston, you didn't know either.) Where did you think it was? Between Philly and DC? Boston is the city of New England. You think they had the Boston Tea Party in a nice warm area? Where do you think the Puritan found all those sticks to shove up their asses?

I mock you, man, I mock you with my NJ monkey pants!

Of course, since I still can't tell the difference between New Hampshire and Vermont and only have the vaguest ideas about all those big squarish states in the middle of the map, I probably shouldn't talk.

About HDM: Yup! I guess they must have white spines or something... They're quite purty.

You think they had the Boston Tea Party in a nice warm area? Where do you think the Puritan found all those sticks to shove up their asses?

I mock you, man, I mock you with my NJ monkey pants!

ROFLMAO! Seriously! You had me going on with giggles for about a good half hour or so!

I have no idea what I was thinking ^_^. I kind of know the general shape of Masachussetts and that it's up there with all the other states like New York, but then, I thought New York was waaaay up north. And hey, grew up in Taiwan, the lovely subtropical island (which, for some reason, the US post office thinks is in Thailand)... NJ was about as cold as I could imagine it, believe it or not!

*giggles some more*

*stops typing because giggling too hard*

NJ monkey pants! BWAH!!

ROFLMAO! Seriously! You had me going on with giggles for about a good half hour or so!

Thinking of you giggling is making me giggle. Which is BAD because it's nearly 2am and my roommate is sleeping and laughing at your own jokes is like, not cool or something. What a social psychology thingamajig -- seriously, I never laugh at my own jokes until other people start laughing, and then I laugh like a maniac. I am the reason they put laugh tracks on sitcoms.

I should really go to bed.

*giggles more*

Does that mean your roommate thinks you're crazy now? I definitely get weird looks when I'm sitting over my computer breaking out into giggles for apparently no good reason. But I'm not insane! I'm NOT! Really!

Oh, she totally thinks I'm crazy. Not just the random fits of giggles for no apparent reason, but the occasional walking in to find me talking to the computer -- sometimes because I'm watching an ep, but sometimes because I've just read or seen something else that... requires a... verbal response... shut up.

So maybe it's just that I am crazy. But so are you, especially if you think you're not. That's the first sign, you know.

Hrm. I think being crazy would be fun! Just as long as I'm not in a straightjacket so I could still type.

Er. Talking to computer? Me? I've never done that... ok maybe when I'm mad at it

Ooh, I like your fun-stuff-to-do list. I haven't thought further than sleep=nice. Agree about the weather being nuts, it's downright schizophrenic.

And hey! Apparently I've got the British editions of "His Dark Materials"! Who knew? I haven't even cracked the spine yet (figuratively, not literally) but will do so once I finish school. Looking forward to it, hearing rave reviews everywhere :)

The weather is extremely mood swingy, it seems. BTW, loved just seeing temperature in Celsius in your post. I still can't manage to think in Farenheit, although I can do feet/inches. It's strange.

Wow you haven't read them yet? No time, I guess. But they're excellent reads, most definitely! (adding to the rave reviews here)

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