Darn the Internet

The internet will be my downfall, I can see it now. Sitting around here right now, with nothing to do... I've somehow managed to download PSX and SNES emulators, and I'm currently trying to figure out how to get Super Mario RPG to save properly... and goshdarnit, I can't find Xenogears anywhere. Well, I did find it somewhere, it just wouldnt' download properly. There is no need for me to sit here and increase my level of frustration by by goodness I'm working on it. None of this would be happening if my silly roomie and her silly boyfriend weren't so darn addicted to GTA. Stupid video games, ruining everyone! Ah well, perhaps tomorrow will be more fun. Not that today wasn't fun. I still have no idea what to think of this school. The extent of my education here has basically been reading a lot of bizarre books and articles and then coming up with opinions on them. I'm not quite sure exactly what sort of good that is doing me, except to make me rather frustrated with all sorts of pretentious people that exist here. And in general, this place makes me really freaking lonely.

Huh, it's almost one. I have to get up around 9, so I suppose I should go to sleep now. I imagine I'll write more in the morning. Or I'll get up at nine awake and refreshed and realize that I still have an hour and ten minutes before I have to go to Bio, so I'll either continue my search for (totally illegal, of course) a copy of Xenogears to play on my emulator, or figure out how to get SMPRG how to save properly. Hooray geekiness! Now for hoping that I haven't poisoned my computer with all of this wanton downloading tonight.

Huh

What a rather weird day. Right now, there are a ton of guys in my room watching my roomie's boyfriend playing GTA and yelling "Whoa whoa whoa!" at the screen at exciting moments. It's pretty much left me with nothing to do. I guess I might have some reading for tomorrow... but I don't care. Darn.

Bio today was just sort of lecturing... over and over. So I didn't take any notes, because it was just about what we had to read last night. It was pretty much the same thing for drama, only there wasn't really any reason to take notes, and for about twenty minutes or so the whole conversation was hijacked into this debate over whether or not things done in church can be considered performances or whatever. I guess you get that more when you've got those more outgoing third and fourth years in your classes.

I also solved my emulation problem! I found out that my problem was my friend Mozilla... so this morning I managed to get things started... and this afternoon I had all of disc 2 of Xenogears. Unfortunately, I can't seem to connect to the server for disc 1, which is actually the disc I need. Goshdarnit, all I want is this game! I'm not going to go around downloading more of these silly things. Bah! I mean, Xenogears alone is like a gig. I've only got 30 of them, I can't afford to go using them all up, can I?

I did manage to drag myself to track practice today... which was only about an hour, so it wasn't quite as bad as usual. Well, actually it was as bad as usual, because I'm out of shape, so the warm ups leave me exhausted enough... but then we had to run 200s every two minutes for fifteen minutes. Eep! I felt like I was going to die... or that I would at least stop breathing for a bit. But I always feel worse about track before and during it... my brain seems to gloss the whole thing over awfterwards. "You see, it wasn't that long. Painful and uncomfortable, yes... but not long." It's going to be hard for me to quit after this year too... because I know come next year I'll tell myself "You know, it wasn't as bad as you remember it." And then I'll go through this whole thing again. Plus the people have been so nice to me, I'd hate to just up and leave on them... bugger it all.

Sigh... I'd just like to kick this ftp server right now. Stupid thing... I only need about fifteen minutes of its time!

Good time for a Long Entry

It's a good time to write, but I really have nothing to write about. I just finished this rather... incomprehensible reading for Media Asthetics. I think I'll have to read it again before I go to bed, and see if it makes any more sense this time around. At least I can sort of look forward to Media Asthetics this quarter.... well, for now. I'm just not looking forward to having Calculus homework again. I suppose I can look forward to not being able to make track practices on Tuesdays at all (yay Bio discussion section!). And I have a good excuse this time, because there was no other time I could go and still be able to eat. Hooray for being able to tell the truth! And Wednesdays I imagine I will still have to leave early for my Calc problem session... though we might move it.. I really have no idea, since we haven't even had class yet.

My happy news for tonight is that I finally got connected to that evil ftp server, and I'm now downloading disc one of Xenogears. Unfortunately, it's going to take me about another hour to finish it, and that's hoping that it lets me resume the ones where the connection got dropped (and they were already like, at 40MB, so I'll be rather upset if it doesn't!). Now that I know it's working, I know I can just leave my comuter running during the day to download them now. And my mom's going to send me our computer controller if she can find it. I will be a very happy person if this all works out. Weee! Hooray for dorkiness!

I should be in bed by midnight tonight... but I know I'll be up until about one waiting for this to finish downloading or something silly like that... and then once I finally go to sleep everyone will come back from bar night and yell at me for not coming again. Ah well, thus is my life. At least I can look forward to being able to go back to the dorm between lunch and track practice tomorrow. That's always a perk. Maybe it'll give me enough time to set up Xenogears properly and start playing again.

Yeah.. I'm obsessed.