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Oh my shit I have SOOOOO MUUUUCH to do this weekend and at first I was like WAAAAGHSKDGLDJS but then I was like FUCK THAT SON I'M TAKING THIS HEAD ON!!!!



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Also I think I did pretty okay on that psych test after all. (except I totally forgot what encoding specificity was) (it's the idea that you will remember things better if you're provided with context for the memory, in case you're wondering, which was not what I ended up bullshitting, so I bombed that question)

"Only connect"--but how could he connect, and how could we help him to connect? What was life without connection? "I may venture to affirm," Hume wrote, "that we are nothing but a bundle or collection of different sensations, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement." In some sense, he had been reduced to a "Humean" being--I could not help thinking how fascinated Hume would have been at seeing in Jimmie his own philosophical "chimaera" incarnate, a gruesome reduction of a man to mere disconnected, incoherent flux and change.

oliver sacks what are you doing

you can't make puns

this is an academic essay, they're not even funny

I AM IN A BAD MOOD WHAT IS HOMEWORK

Comment with a fandom/series. I'll reply with three reasons why I love it and one reason why I hate it.

LOOK AT THIS FUCKING BUNNY



I hope your day is now a little better.

I felt woozy when I woke up this morning so I decided to go back to bed and skip my 8:30 class. I woke up again at 10:00 and felt great. I hope this is not an indication that I need ten hours of sleep to function.

I had really weird dreams too. I dreamed I was kidnapped (actually, this dude walked up to me and I knew he was going to kidnap me and I was just like, okay, so are we doing this now? And just followed him lol :')) and was taken to this abandoned house that for some reason had a fully stocked pantry. And then he just left me there. And I was like, well, I guess I'll just wait here then (instead of leaving?). After a while my family showed up and I popped out of the bedroom I was in and was like SUP GUYS HERE I AM and they were like what are you doing here?? Turns out they only came for the food and didn't realize I was even missing. So I went back into the bedroom and waited for them to come and retrieve me properly. uhhhh

BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT

THE POINT IS PHOENIX WRIGHT/PROFESSOR LAYTON CROSSOVER GAME!!!!!!!!



and then there was a Dennou Coil global web game today is wonderful

So I have this habit of, late at night, getting really excited about new cosplay projects and making plans for them and then never following through because I do not have the money to pull them off. I did the same thing last night (for Gumi from the Matryoshka PV) except for two key differences. One: I actually am getting some sort of income now, so I will be significantly (if not majorly) less broke, and two: I can probably get all the base supplies I need for this one for around $75.

This is a link post for my own convenience because my bookmarks are super disorganized and I don't feel like trudging through them all.

Jacket: in true red. I'm not sure yet how I'm going to modify it (I'd like to do a good job on it) but I don't need to worry about that just yet.

Gloves: sadly sold out, these don't have cuffs but are a good cheap backup. I'm going to check thrift stores first though since they tend to have a good glove collection.

Wig: no styling required, even!!

So I still need to find decently priced colored contact lenses (I'm unsure whether to get red or green since I'm not shelling out for special effect lenses, those are always like $75+ by themselves), fake lip rings(?), and some sort of way to make a black megaphone. I went through pixiv to see if I could find any sort of consistent bottoms and there were none, though black miniskirts and red sweatpants seemed to be the most popular. So I will probably just go with my original loose black jeans/jungle boots combo, because I already own both of those and it's less money.


I just think this one's cute.

I'm in no rush yet since I'll probably do this one at AX which is quite a ways off, but the most pressing dilemma right now is: I have no Miku. I mean I will deal if I don't have one but I feel like if I'm going to cosplay from Matryoshka there ought to be a set. So is anybody going to AX who would be willing? Or do you know anybody who would be? It's really not all that difficult to do and it would be so cool ;___;

IN COMPLETELY UNRELATED NEWS I am sick of all my icons and need to go hunting for new ones. Maybe it's actually worth it to have a larger pool.

A is for age: Eighteen. Nineteen in less than a month.
B is for beer of choice: Not a beer fan.
C is for career right now: Student.
D is for your dog's name: No dogs, but my cats are named Horatio and Logan.
E is for essential item you use everyday: Naturally my laptop. OR MY IPOD god I feel so lost whenever my headphones break
F is for favorite TV show: Farscape :3
G is for favorite game to watch: Uh, like sports? Basketball, though I'm not huge into it. If you mean like video games, I like watching survival horror LPs because I find them fascinating but am too chicken to play them myself.
H is for hometown: Long Beach, California.
I is for instruments you play: Piano, though I quit when I started high school on account of having no more time to practice. I'm actually not a huge fan of it, I prefer singing. I can also play like a scale on the trombone lol
J is for favorite juice: Pineapple!
K is for whose butt you'd like to be kicking: naw man I'm such a hippie, peace love and hallucinogenic drugs mV
L is for the last place you ate at: The caf. They had surprisingly good bundt cake today because it's homecoming and they want to leave a good impression on the rich alums.
M is for marriage: Not for me.
N is for your name: Tora is my net handle. My irl name is Kathleen, most people call me Katie. I don't really like it but I've used it my whole life and I don't know what to switch to.
O is for overnight hospital stay: Never happened.
P is for people you were with today: My fwends o3o
Q is for what your best quality is: idek man I guess I'm pretty laid-back?? My irl friends describe it as acting like I'm high :')
R is for what you're currently reading: I am SUPPOSED to be reading Blindness by José Saramago, but it is due Monday and there is no way I'm going to finish it by then, especially with everything else I have to do. So I read a guide to it so I can at least participate in the discussion and will be reading the thing proper at my own pace.
S is for what your relationship status: Single.
T is for the time you woke up today: Well I got up at 10:30 about. I don't remember precisely when I woke up.
U is for type of underwear you have on: Uh...normal underwear? It's black??
V is for vegetable you love: ARTICHOKE
W is for worst habit: Procrastination and paranoia.
X is for x-rays you've had: Er...aren't they a checkup standard? I get them like every other time I go to the dentist and I know I've gotten a full body x-ray at one point, though I don't remember what for.
Y is for some yummies: CARROTS
Z is for zodiac sign: Scorpio.

I am slowly becoming obsessed with "Matryoshka" and I want to make like all my icons of it because I love the PV art so much. If I was better at cosplay I would make Gumi's look my next project.

Also I've been contemplating a rename for a while...I have a new one in mind that I quite like but otoh I really do love sung. It's simple and unique and easy to remember, and I know that no matter what I change to I will feel regret pangs like I did back when I switched from sung. But I've had it for going on two years now and I kind of want to revamp my entire LJ for my birthday. I'M SO CONFLICTED UGHHHHH

irl update of the day: No better time to discover you're the clumsiest person on earth than when you're supposed to be waiting tables. oh my god I set off the fire alarm by accident

I have no idea what to draw for this week's assignment WHINEEEEEEEEE

HELLO LJ I AM NOT DEAD, I am just busier with classes and stuff than I anticipated. Well it's more like classes + an irregular work schedule + trying to have more of an irl social life, but the result is the same. And I haven't really had anything to talk about, I mean. I think I did horribly on today's cognitive psych test (on account of having no memory for names and specific studies) and basic drawing being early in the morning for three hours combined with my lack of attention span makes it a very frustrating class, but all in all this quarter has been very uneventful. Oh, I didn't get into the a capella choir I posted about a couple weeks ago, but oh well. Probably a blessing in disguise since I am the kind of person who is not capable of juggling too many responsibilities.

Ummmm idk video games? My parents sent my 360 but we've been mostly playing one of my suitemates' games, which are Fallout 3 and Final Fantasy XIII. I am content to watch Fallout being played since I have trouble with FPSs, but unexpectedly it is really cool. It makes me think I should be playing more western games since the open-ended sandbox kind of environment appeals to me. FF13 is pretty much the complete opposite of that, but it's a decent timewaster.

This isn't really much of an entry but lately I've been getting that feeling again like I'm getting on people's nerves, which I am sure is all in my head or at least exaggerated, but either way it's unpleasant so I think I will hermit from the Internet for a bit. Which is probably a good idea anyway since I have a lot of homework to do this weekend ughhhhhhhh

OH RIGHT remember how I talked about my parents doing that lawn-to-garden drought-friendly conversion thing to our house? Well, the after pictures are up (they've been for a while, I just forgot to post them) if you're curious. They're teeny but they're all I've got, sorry :(