| Free TF2 Weekend! |
[30 Apr 2008|01:23am] |
So this weekend, the amazingly awesome Team Fortress 2 is free to download and play! (Actually, free for download right now, but if you're not shelling out for it, you can only actually play it this weekend.) More info can be found at http://www.steampowered.com/goldrush/.
It's totally worth its $30 price tag, and it's included in the Orange Box which is an even more awesome deal. (Even if you never touch the Half-Life 2 stuff, it's the same price as getting TF2 and Portal individually, and they're both worth their costs, plus it has a couple other random bits in.) But hey, when it's free, might as well give it a whirl, right?
Any of you who decide to join in on the fun this weekend, or anyone who already has the Orange Box (or anything else from Steam, really, though all I have is the Orange Box myself), add me as a friend. SteamID is ArashiKurobara.
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| Just because I know some of my friends will find it interesting... |
[16 Apr 2008|12:36am] |
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BGSU College Republicans hold anti-feminism bake sale. Pretty cool-seeming chick starts up spontaneous free candy in protest and writes about it. College Republicans e-stalk their way to her LiveJournal and internet wankery ensues. Highlights include lolBoudicca.
In unrelated news, I'm experiencing hair envy of a friend, considering bright pink hair post-Commencement.
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| Big worries. |
[17 Feb 2008|01:24am] |
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I've been such a stress case lately. It's not even schol stress or anything, it's personal stress, and it's all my fault.
I'm still in love with my first love, even though I fell for him 6 years ago and have seen him all of twice since he graduated high school four and a half years ago, none in over three years.
I do love Fitz, really, but not as much as I love the other guy. But it's been well established the other guy doesn't like me as anything more than a friend. And actually, I'm alright with that. I'm glad to have him as a friend, he's one of the best friends I've ever had. Even if I weren't happy with it, it's not possible to make someone love you, and I don't think I would if I could. It wouldn't be fair to him.
I thought I'd be happy knowing that, thinking it meant I'd never have to choose between the two because there wasn't a risk of the other guy falling for me. But it turns out that the problem is that I'm not sure if I can be happy with Fitz since even though I do love him, he's not the one I love the most. But I already know that I can't be happy without anyone.
I wish I could just be practical about it. Practicality says that Fitz is good for me, he's here, he loves me, I should keep him. And it's not like I don't want to make Fitz happy.
But what would make me happy?
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| Campus flyering WTF |
[07 Feb 2008|01:08pm] |
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Seen going down the elephant stairs on my way to class
( Minor picspam below cut )
WTF? Why? All the places people normally flyer along the stairs just got cleared recently, it's not like they were hurting for somewhere to post without covering up other flyers.
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| Why can't I just be happy? |
[08 Jan 2008|01:57am] |
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The cause of nearly all my problems of late is my own emotions. But... as they say, you can't control your feelings, only what you do about them. But then... when the problem is the feeling themselves, is there really anything I can do to solve my problems?
I hate lose-lose situations.
Maybe I'll be less cryptic some other time. Not that anyone really wants to know anyway, I'm sure.
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[04 Dec 2007|10:35am] |
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I'm still me. I just have a shiny new name now.
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[27 Nov 2007|02:50pm] |
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Also, I'm vaguely considering buying a rename token and changing to something more associated with myself now like arashikurobara. Thoughts?
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| Ever-so-slightly belated Boston summary |
[27 Nov 2007|02:43pm] |
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Boston this Thanksgiving again was fun.
Actual Thanksgiving felt a lot less crazy this year.
Went shopping the next day following ramen for lunch. Picked up Scion: Demigod at Pandemonium (there were so many other things I probably would have bought if they were there but they weren't *sad*) and the Shadow of the Colossus OST at Tokyo Kid (in my wildest dreams they would have had the master grade Strike Noir kit...).
Then the Sunset for dinner and beer. And this time I could have the beer! It turns out I kind of like stouts and porters. And then on the totally other hand I had a strawberry lambic which was delicious too.
Not much the day after. Crepes for lunch, sushi for dinner. More people should try mackerel sushi, is yummy.
Also, I have been playing way too much Tokimemo GS and now my brain is totally stuck in Japanese school mode. 「カッコイイじゃん！」
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| Shannon's checklist'o'work-to-do |
[20 Nov 2007|03:02pm] |
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- Structural Biology homework (due 11/29)
- Biochemistry SAGES Seminar paper (due 11/29)
Criminology paper 1 (due 12/7)
Criminology paper 2 (due 12/7)
- My share of Number Theory paper (due 12/7)
- Grad school personal statement (due date varies, would like to do by 12/7 though)
... I think it's going alright really.
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[15 Nov 2007|01:21pm] |
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Blue crab roll... with Old Bay all over the outside. o_o;;
ZOMG best supermarket sushi EVAR
(even if it does have avocado in it)
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| Because I'm a total dork: |
[12 Nov 2007|11:29am] |
Pokemon Diamond and Pearl:
Name: Arashi
Friend code: 3179-4360-2811
Maybe I'll go find a thing to make a shiny card picture later. *shrug*
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[11 Oct 2007|02:49pm] |
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Yay, my structural biology midterm got pushed back. *sighs of relief*
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[10 Oct 2007|11:56am] |
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*sigh*
Just as my personal life seems to work itself out, I have 4 midterms in the span of a week. =/
Friday 10/12: Number Theory
Wednesday 10/17: Beginning Arabic 1, Genetics (though this is more a unit test during midterms time)
Thursday 10/18: Structural Biology (which I haven't paid attention in all semester)
Goddamnit. *asplode*
EDIT: Well, doing the structural biology HW over the weekend will help there, can also study for that more over the weekend. Study genetics Tuesday night (possibly skip biochem SAGES bullshit course)... only have to learn some vocab for Arabic... study structural biology more after genetics and also the morning of the test... It'll be rough, especially needing to plan Marathon at the same time, but it'll be workable, I think.
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[18 Sep 2007|12:54pm] |
Go to www.careercruising.com
Log in with Username: nycareers, Password: landmark
Take the "Career Matchmaking" questionnaire
Post your top 10 results.
1. Special Effects Technician
2. Electrician
3. Musical Instrument Builder and Repairer
4. Business Systems Analyst
5. Database Developer
6. Composer
7. Comedian
8. Web Developer
9. Upholsterer
10. Electrical Engineering Tech
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[31 May 2007|11:37am] |
UPDATE: SixApart made An official apology. It's a shitty, weasely, politician-esque apology, but I do like LiveJournal, so I think I'll forgive them... unless it happens again. Then, I'm out of here.
Still keeping this as my default icon for a while, though.
It is still nice to have made a backup.
God, I wish SixApart hadn't bought LiveJournal - it was so much better when it was run by the little company owned by the founder that pretty much only existed and took in money to be able to keep the site running.
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| LiveJournal Strikethrough 2007 |
[31 May 2007|01:22am] |
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So, apparently due to pressure from a group by the name of Warriors of Innocence (BE CAREFUL! their site is reportedly loaded with spyware. I'd avoid touching it even with a 10-foot pole if you use Internet Explorer), LiveJournal suspended a large number of users and communities that they claimed were supporting illegal activities such as child molestation and incest. Certainly, I'm against such things and don't want them anywhere near my blogging community.
However, LiveJournal instead suspended accounts willy-nilly. Sure, they got plenty of that sort of stuff gone. But they also deleted fanfiction/fandom RPG communities/users, survivors of child molestation, and even literary discussion of Nabokov's Lolita. Some of these accounts are displaying the message associated with user deletion, when the users report not having deleted them at all. users with interests such as "yaoi" and "yuri" have had them disappear from their userinfo without their doing, despite the fact that neither necessarily involves underage characters.
And up until this point, LiveJournal had been responding to individual user and other anti-pedophile group reports of communities of child molester communities with a "sorry, we can't prove they're really doing it, so there's nothing we can do."
Apparently, though, SixApart considers avoiding third-party boycotts on their advertisers to be more important than their users.
I'm not going to call this a First Amendment issue, and the Bill of Rights is only to protect us from our government. But this still makes me sick.
This really makes me wish I had anywhere else to move my journal to. But not one's on DeadJournal anymore (too stupidly goth anyway, I was only there in the first place because my friends were), and I refuse to move somewhere like melodramatic, with its emo name and needlessly sexual terminology for mundane things like comments. (I have no problem with sex, but that's just immature.) Plus, there's the fact that I really don't want to lose all my posts here, and I never even got around to copying over all my pre-LJ DeadJournal posts in the first place.
*sigh*
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| FNORD |
[06 Apr 2007|08:42am] |
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*sigh* I never update this anymore. Probably because I don't do anything interesting.
But anyway, someone drew a pyramid with an eye in it and wrote "FNORD" underneath in an elevator in the med school. This amuses me, in spite of the fact that I still haven't read the Illuminatus! trilogy. Which I should one of these days. Along with like 50 other books.
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| Fuck. |
[19 Feb 2007|02:17am] |
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It's too hot in my room to sleep. I am still awake, and it's nearly 2:30 AM. I have an 8:30 class, an 11:30 exam, and a 3:00 quiz tomorrow. I start getting cranky if I get less than 5-ish hours of sleep.
... I am so fucked.
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