So my good deed of the day: I was walking back to the dorm after getting some food in the caf and on the walk next to Woodard Hall there was a student ID. Since I've lost my wallet here once and left my ID in the bookstore once, I figured I'd do the the girl who lost her ID a favor and picked it up and... turned around and went to the Tech Express and left it with them.

Whenever people lose things like that on campus, people are always told to go there. And if not, she'd have to go get a new one anyway and she might give her name and someone will recognize it as one of the lost-and-found IDs and... yeah. Not a good thing to lose on campus so I hope she finds it there.

Beyond this, I have so much French to read.

Articles
- class struggle in France
- colonialism
- prostitution in the novel

Literature
- Hernani par Victor Hugo*
- La Chartreuse de Parme par Stendhal
- Le Père Goriot par Balzac
- Madame Bovary par Flaubert
- Boul de Suif par Maupassant**

Other Things
- "Les Djinns" par Victor Hugo (already read but need to look over again)
- Baudelaire (his biography)

* Lesser priority but still priority
* Very much priority

And this all has to be on my Reading Report that I turn in next week on the 16th. So. Yeah. Thankfully, we went over Le Chartreuse de Parme quite a bit today. Yet another one of those infamous French "rocks fall, everyone dies" romance stories. Seriously, from the time of the Middle Ages on up, the French at least from what I know love to have tragedies. Kind of interesting to make note of.

In addition to those readings I should actually get around to reading Richard II like I should have already been doing. I love my Shakespeare class so much. Last class, we went from the history of gardening to Roman war ranks to Virgil to Plato and then connecting it all to Shakespeare's use of imagery regarding gardens and how they reflect the monarchy and how a king should always maintain order in the kingdom.

It was so amazingly in depth and this is the kind of education I've always adored. I love being shown how things lead up to each other and pieced together. I mean, there are times when the class was probably going, "So where is he going with this?" but it all had a point, as random as it seemed and... I think I'm going to take his class in the Spring. It's a linguistics course in a way. History of words in English and such. And... I need another English course credit to finish off the hours I need to get a minor in the subject (because I failed that last English class I took...).

In addition to all of this... ahaha, you guys know how sometimes when you write fics or RP characters, you learn stuff and then you find yourself going, "I haven't done that in ages! Why not?" Well, I've been listening to classical music since a thread I did last night. Ahaha~ And someone has been linking me to fanart with Gilbo and Fritz and baw...

But yeah. I feel very much like diving into all this all at once but good lord. That's a lot to read and do. Thankfully, I can listen to music while reading. Hilariously, the music I'm listening to is like... from a century before the literature I'm reading. Ahaha~

And yeah. I feel very content right now.
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My laptop works again! You know the one my dad gave me? Yeah, it wasn't detecting any networks and it took over 2 hours for the Computer Center people to finally go, "I have no idea what's wrong, let's try this."

And it worked and I can has wireless and ethernet and stuff and \o My own computer once more!

And I totally have a gorgeous background and aaaaaah. Need to start playing around with it more~

So excited for having comp of my own! Even if the D key doesn't work 100%~
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6 1/2 hours till the New Year for me \o

And my mom, sister, and I made out like bandits at the liquor store >D Yeah, I got some pussy drinks like mojitos and margaritas, but that's mostly because yeah, still new to the drinking scene. But in addition to those?

80proof vodka. \o

... lemme alone.

My mom and dad and sister will be splitting a case of different varities of beer while I work my way through the pussy drinks.

And we will be watching The Dark Knight on my dad's big screen HD TV. Uhuhuhu...

So uh. Needless to say that I will not be online tonight and if I do pop on, I'll probably be anywhere from extremely tipsy to drunk.

Can has fun new years!

As for New Years resolutions... uh.

I'll think about those in the morning.

Later all!
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Can has my phone charger and zomg my phone! I has use of it again after like 2 weeks without it. \o

In addition to this, the things I left at my sister Shorty's place.

Awesome.

Yeah, short post is short but squee, man, squee.


EDIT: And to ring in the new year...

Go to your calendar and post the first sentence of the first entry of every month for the year.

- Victory is mine! ... only because I'm in the computer lab.

- Sadly, I am still working on my paper.

- Wow, updating at 4AM. Go me~

- Okay, so I've been failing in life recently.

- Gotta talk this out because it's driving me a bit up the wall.

- A belated happy birthday to lwyn! Sorry I haven't been able to get you a gift yet ;;;

- So I haven't been updating lately.

- Hey guys! I know I have like over a gazillion songs and whatnot, but I was wondering if you guys had some songs to pimp out at me.

- Okay, so yeah. School is up and running (finally) which means I will have access to interwebs via computer labs. (And here I thought I wouldn't have to do that sort of thing again for a long, long time.)

- Am in the process of trying to buy my computer.

- So nice to have a short football game day.

- It's freezing.
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I FEEL LIKE I'M WIN AND AWESOME.

M-mostly because I didn't punk out of attending class because I was tired and wanted to sleep in. This has been a chronic problem of mine since last Winter a-and I'm finally defeating it. \o;;

Beyond that, I was able to get a nap in before band.

In band we played Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A-flat and jfsdahksa I love Bach. :< I want to listen to some classical music now.

And just the random happy hyperness of pre-Christmas break.

All of this in spite of my female body rebelling against me. CURSE YOU, BODY OF MINE. *waves fist at*

... who wants/needs cuddles right now? I feel very much like snuggling with people.
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Durrdurrdurr~

+ My French class will never not amuse me.

+ I realized that I went to all of my classes this past week. ... it has been about three Quarters (i.e. last Winter) since I have managed this. Things are really looking up for me in that aspect.

+ Arthur and Merlin squabbling over life-and-death matters and whose life is worth more = best bff scenes ever. Though I think the rat stew topped everything else. Also much blame is targeted at llamrei for having me get interested and ultimately enjoying the blasted series, whether she knows it or not...

+ It's the weekend! \o


... god, this show. *watches more*
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So I forgot to do this yesterday, so I'll do it now while I remember.

Things that made me smile yesterday:

+ Shakespeare class. Jungman is such a wonderful professor, getting in-depth with the history of the time of Shakespeare. Also, the story of how the theaters were being tossed over to the other side of the Thames and, after dismantling their theater to move it, the group Shakespeare was with bought a plot of land owned by the Queen and essentially stuck it to the Puritans in charge of the city and stayed in central London. Very amusing facts from history~

+ An elder woman sitting next to me in Chemistry helped me out by pointing out charts and graphs in the book that helped explain better what the professor was talking about.

+ I'm still giddy that I'm able to pronounce French better.

+ Band. In general. Music. I adore. ♥

+ achan_hiarusa helping me out with the confusion I got from Chemistry~

+ The 12th Detective Conan movie. ... did I mention I was loving music very much yesterday? Because this movie definitely supported the "I love everything musical" feeling.

+ George Lopez. Because his show always manages to make me laugh for some reason or another. Ah ha~

Aaaand, I think that's it.

Today's still happening so I'll probably do a post about the happys of today later.

For now, I leave you with some French:

( 'Les Djinns' par Victor Hugo )

... why yes, I did totally write that all out myself. I kind of have to read it and analyze it for my class on Monday. So~

Also, if you want the English version, you can find it right over here.

... I adore the ending of the end of this poem, but the English version doesn't really do it justice, in my opinion. Maybe I'm just picky since I prefer the originals of things. ETA: I might be tempted to do a more exact English translation of this poem, though. The English version by O'Sullivan really doesn't do it justice, I find.

Anyway, that's my educational literature post for the day. Or something. \o
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Because of recent personal low moments in the "I am happy" levels (i.e., been failing at being able to say that for a little while), I'm going to be doing the following meme:

1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this everyday for a week without fail.

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Well. To start off, even if the day is still young:

+ the weather channel said that there was a possibility of snow today (more than likely, it'll be the wet, soggy kind). This made me giddy as all else. ... until I shared the news with some classmates of mine who scoffed and basically said, "It won't be real snow like in Minnesota (because I have relatives there and know what it's like)."

But remained cheerful despite this because zomg possibility of winter weather~

+ More French history in French lit today. I r happy history buff who, yes, had to relate everything to Hetalia because I'm easily amused like that. (For some reason, I had the running commentary of Arthur going, "Five Republics. Think you have enough?" with Francis responding, "Oh, I'm not sure... certainly not as bad as how many monarchs you've gotten rid of, non?" and... yeah.)

+ Relating Shakespeare with my French studies. Because we were reading an excerpt from Madame de Staël's De la littérature considéré dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales (abbrev. as De la littérature) involving the tragedies of Shakespeare and the difference between English and French literature.

+ My speaking of French is a lot better thanks to that phonetics course and I will probably be happy about this for a while.


... wow, this thing does cheer me up.


ETA: + Watching House be an ass.
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