Post the Thirty-Fifth: Rrrrgh

I feel a little stressed.

Most of this stress comes from the fact that I promised myself that this term, I would genuinely try hard in school, instead of coasting along and somehow pulling good grades out of my ass like I usually do. I promised myself I'd do all my readings, attend all my classes, and actually study for tests.

However, the classes I'm taking this term require a lot of work, moreso than last term. There is a LOT of reading to do. For example, for this week, I still have to read 2 chapters for History (the chapters are about 50 pages each), 2 chapters for Philosophy (again, about 50 pp eage). Today I went to the library and read 100 pages for Humanities. And this is a 'light' week. I'm also supposed to read through all the plays in my textbook for English and decide on which essay topic I want to write on, and I also have a paper analyzing primary documents due on Monday. I'm lucky that Geography was cancelled due to snow on Thursday; I've already done my readings for this week (because they were actually last week's readings).

Despite all this work, I'm feeling rather... apathetic about actually doing it. I feel like there isn't nearly enough free time in the world to do everything I need to do and everything I want to do.

That's not to say that my life hasn't been good.

My birthday was last Thursday and it was actually a pretty fucking excellent birthday, possibly the best one I've ever had. I got $100 from my mom which I spent on textbooks; the World of Warcraft expansion pack from Jenn and Dixon; a book of sudoku puzzles and $50 from my grandparents which I also spent on textbooks; a $15 iTunes giftcard from my aunt (more on that later); a sweatervest from Kat; A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire from Olivera (which I already had :P); and a pair of really sweet headphones from Nadya and Sarah. I also got 3 drawings (from Chelsea, Ming, and Mimi -- all of which were entirely unexpected and totally awesome). More than any gift, I got a TON of love and good wishes. It's kind of unfortunate that I need something like a birthday to remind me of this, but my friends really are awesome and I'm so grateful for them.

My birthday was also just really fun. Beyond presents and love, the events of the day before, the day of, and the 2 days after were fun. There was a snow day the day before my birthday. On the day of my birthday, a new anime was released that is based off of my favourite manga (which I thought would NEVER EVER get turned into an anime), and it turned out to be a really fantastic and true-to-the-source adaptation. Also on my birthday, I only had the one class, and a good part of it was taken up by the professor making an analogy to Star Trek, which I highly enjoyed. After supper on my birthday, Jenn, Dixon, Allison (Dixon's mom), Denson (Dixon's brother) and I went to go see Tangled and we had THE ENTIRE THEATRE TO OURSELVES. Very cool. The day after my birthday, I hung out with Kat and went to IHOP, and then I hung out with Olivera and Kayla for a bit respectively. Two days after my birthday, on the Saturday, I went to all-you-can-eat sushi with my immediate family which was really fun, although they talked about World of Warcraft the entire time.

So, yeah, all in all, a good birthday.

Lately I've been becoming more involved in the Youtube community, subscribing to a lot of people and so on. In a related event, yesterday, I cleared out my iPod of songs I no longer listened to (about half of my library) to make my iPod more awesome and MUCH MUCH more geeky.

Remember how I got that $15 iTunes giftcard? Well, I've already decided what I'm going to spend it on. It hasn't come out yet, but Lauren Fairweather, a Youtube person who is also a fantastic musician, is putting out an album in the future that is ENTIRELY focused on Snape and Lily's history and relationship from Harry Potter. Lauren's part of a wizard rock band (yes those exist) called The Moaning Myrtles, but I prefer her solo stuff (although I love the Myrtles). So, when that comes out, I intend to buy it on iTunes. She's only released one song from it so far but it's SO GOOD. It's called Maybe and it's from Snape's POV when he first meets/sees Lily. I can't stop listening to it. I'll link it here.



Another thing that's going on with me is I feel the need to start writing a new novel, but I don't want to leave my old NaNoWriMo one alone to die. I do love that story, but... I don't know, It's been over a month since I've touched it, it'd be weird to start it again suddenly. Maybe if I read through it again? But the thing is, I'd get bored because I DO remember it all so well because... I came up with it.

Anyways, I'm going to leave it here for now. Maybe has been looping this entire time. Just FYI. It really is a good song. Even if you don't like Harry Potter, it's a good song and I think you should listen to it.