So I have these two plants.  An African violet that I bought from Lowe's in maybe February, and a hydrangea shoot(I think?  What do you call a hydrangea that isn't yet a giant bush yet?) I got for free a couple weeks ago.  With both plants, I was assured they would be very easy to care for- the African violet doesn't need much water and all I have to do with the hydrangea is keep it alive until spring when I can put it in the ground and let it do its thing.  Not too hard, right?

Shyeah right.
( On the African violet and its lack of flowers )

( The trouble with hydrangeas... )

So yeah.  I have the most contrary plants in the world.

Also, Boondock Saints is one of the better movies in the history of ever and I kind of want to write for it.  Just a little.

今　夏休み、東京　に　参ります！！参りたい　から、　うれしい　でござる。　でも、私　も　しんぱいしている。　日本語　を　話すの　が　上手じゃありません。　がんばりますの　は　私　の　やくそく。　　

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I'm taking a summer class so I can graduate from the university this coming spring (Guess where my tax return's going?).  It's Database Systems, and an online class.  Never had an online class before, so this ought to be an interesting experience.  Still trying to catch up with, well, everything, and it's terrible that when I need to be working the most is when I get the most urge to write.  I've been dabbling in an alternate line for my sandbox instead of school work, so hurray for sheer and utter laziness combined with a fight/flight twist.  My major's maybe the scariest thing in the world right now, but I suppose it'll all turn out.  Changing it won't make it better, since yeah.  Too used to living on the internet.

Maybe will update my sandbox over here when I finish this C++ program I should've started last week.

EDIT: Oh, and to make matters worse, I'm considering trying to go back to Honors.  It's a ridiculous idea, and I'm not sure I even want to, but I'm just curious.

Soooooo how's the world going for the rest of you?

RavenScarlett made me a blinking icon for my birthday and everyone should go look at it. 

In other news!
Do any other fic writers miss the good old days where people would review every fic they read just because they read it?  Pageviews are great, but feedback is even better.

This totally has nothing to do with the fact that I just uploaded a new fic on FF.Net.

( Reason for NotQuite!Ire )

Oh, and NCIS is maybe the coolest thing EVER.  Much love for the awesome that makes up the show and its fans.  Best drama ever.  Sure, everyone likes to pick on DiNozzo, but really, it's canon and great because it happens in the show twice as much as it ever happened in fanon.

</i>( A tiny shout about Ocean's Eleven )

And a guy in the parking lot asked me what time it was, and then complimented my butt.  What the hell.  I wanted nothing more than my airsoft gun.  Or my brother's paintball gun.  A grenade would've been good, too.

In better news...I'm still here! Still breathing!  w00t!

I have officially made it through my second first week of college! Go me!  Of course, the real work hasn't started yet, but that's beside the point.  Actually...my Discrete Math course is already a PITA and I feel really really dumb in that course, and yeah.  There's a genius brat who sits in the row behind me and of course he gets it all just fine.  Sleeps through the lesson, then breezes through the work.  Does that seem fair to you?  This is probably what I get for being able to do that all through high school =_=;  I'm exhausted.
Tonight, we are celebrating at the local Waffle House.  Tomorrow, I have work again.  Sunday off.  And repeat, minus the celebrating because my bank account won't stand for it.

On the subject of the real world, I passed my Cal 2 class.  Not as high as I would have liked, but it's passing, and a far cry from what it was last semester, so yeah.

=_= Seriously, I thought Delena-chan was just being overdramatic (gomen ne, Delena-chan...<3) when she said that Tobi had a Sharingan. That, and I thought there would be a little more to this chapter. I mean, sure, we got to see more of Leader-sama (Pain, right? What is this, Final Fantasy? I prefer calling him Brain, like from Pinky and the Brain, Akatsuki's got the same kind of plan) and the blue haired girl, but not much besides that. And what's with Tobi turning out to be the founder of Akatsuki! Seriously, I've got no problem with Tobi being more than a cheerful dumbass, but did they have to just dump it on us like that?
Meh. Anyone here still believe that Pain is Yondaime-sama with a dye job and lots of piercings? I do! Cliche it may be, but it works for me!

And because Delena-chan said I abuse Kyouji too much, here's something I sent to her to remedy that:


Okay, back to studying for me ^^;

So I'm thinking about changing my major.  Right now, I'm majoring in Computer Science/Computer Engineering. Yeah, double major.  Everyone told me that it was too hard, and most of the people they know who tried computers up and failed.  Well thanks, now I'm a statistic.

Don't get me wrong, I like computers.  Programming, though, has beaten me very badly, and all the classes I need for the major are extremely difficult.  So computers, yes; programming, no.  And programming is central to computer science.  It's fun, but only when it works, which is next to never.  I'm more of a people-y person anyway. What's really bothering me, though, is the idea that I've shot my GPA to shit for nothing. And that I have to explain all this to my father.  ARGH.

And normally, I'd post this to dA, but there's this guy.  A guy who likes/d me.  A guy who I have not figured out how to tell him that he's wasting his time.  And mine.  And now I can't post anything to my journal without him commenting.

On a quasi-happier note...I made my first post to my first (only!) community! Go me! XD Okay, so it was just a link back to this journal, but that's okay.  It counts for something.  I think.