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This post is slightly overdue so there are a few things to cover:

My Co-op is officially over which means starting tomorrow the job search is on. At first naturally I'm going for the quickest thing I can get and once I know I'll have money coming in then I'll start to be more picky and specific and hopefully find something relatively soon that will allow me to use my degree.

I am dying to see Star Trek. Like it's driving me nuts. Luckily I'll get to go tomorrow and I'm sort of being selfish enough that even if my roommies can't go I'm going to find a way to. Why do I not have a Star Trek icon? Why? I must fix this at some point.

I have a dreamwidth account. I'm still figuring things out. I don't have any invite codes it seems, but if you want to track me down there feel free. I have mostly backed up my LJ over there, which actually made me very happy when I saw I could do that. I'm still angsting a little over just six icons, but meh it's not a big deal and eventually if I want I can get a paid one to get more so I'll get over it.

My Sims post should be happening soon. I have lots of pics saved up I just haven't had the energy to sort them out. I've lately been feeling restless with them so I'm trying to figure out some interesting things I could do.

Actually, I've just been feeling restless in general. It could be knowing I have to crack down on some things, or that Spring is here. Either way I'm hoping to sort it out soon, because it's getting annoying.

Wow, it's been quite a while since I've done a real post.

There's not much to say really. I've slowly destressed from school. I messed up the class I thought I would so now I'm doing Co-op. The paperwork should all be in by Friday at the latest. I'll be working on research for the music library here on campus. I'll be a librarian again, which feels sort of weird.

I've played with the Sims 2 quite a bit. I'm still not sure if I actually like it very much, but it's been interesting to learn.

RP people do expect posts and tags from my pups this week. As soon as I've got my hours sorted out I intend to focus on them as much as possible this month.

That's about it for now. A longer post may come later as well as a State of the Pups. Also, maybe some Sims talk.


EDIT: Yup there's snow here. Not too much. I think at most about 2-3 inches? But it looks like some melted throughout the day or something.

I think I can finally has autumn weather. Yay!

I think that October is going to be a month for cleaning up, simplifying and organizing. This is at least if yesterday was any indication.

So far I am so not motivated to do anything for any of my classes. This really doesn't bode well, but I just have to hold on until December. I haven't started the job search yet (must get on this ASAP) and there is a certain novel that I've only written a couple of pages on that needs my attention, and I should really organize and revamp some of my ideas.

And I accidentally hit enter...oops. So yes I think this post is done now.

So I mentioned a little bit about the changes going on at the school this semester, but really more needs to be said:

Vouchers used to only be for $500 and were on a sheet of paper- Now, they are either $250, $500, or $750 and are 'credit' at the store.

Refund money is dispersed either into your personal back account, or an account that is tied to your ID card.

Timecards (at least for me) are now being turned in online.

Also, the wireless is handled differently now so that it automatically connects after set-up.


There might be updates to this as I think of things, but these are the big ones that all seemed to change over the summer.

Anyone who can see this and is expecting tags from me they will be VERY slow. They may even have to FTB because I just got some bad news and I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Well it seems as if I might be coming out of the funk I've been fighting all summer. *crosses fingers* Of course the timing sucks, but I guess that's just the way it has to be. I'm not sure how long it will last so I'm trying to get pups out there as quickly as I can just in case.

School starts next Monday and I do not feel ready at all. I am waiting on money so I can't do much of anything which I think is just adding to that feeling.

I may be getting a new bed, but I haven't completely made up my mind yet. I think it would be a good idea for me to, but it all depends on how the money situation stacks up. I mean I have one. It may be about to die, but it's still usable so I keep talking myself out of it.

Other than the waiting game, and mentally getting ready for school next week, there isn't much going on.

You know seeing as how I have several TV shows and movies to watch I should get on that. Just a note to myself.

So yeah summer not off to the greatest start. I'm hoping that this is just an off day and things will go smoothly from now on.

More fic coming soonish. I still need to get my original stuff down, and get off my butt and start trying to sell some stuff. I've come to the conclusion that I just need to find work I can do at my own pace, and at home. Which makes getting some writing sold all the more important.

Saying that makes me feel lazy or something.

Got my grades back: 1 A, 2 Bs, 1 C and 1 D. I am not happy about the D, but it means I can go on with my classes next semester so I'm just going to take it and move on.

So yeah just took my next to last final and let's just say I'm not feeling optimistic about my grades this semester. I am hoping that I at least need what I get to in order to take what I have scheduled next semester, but we shall see I guess.

More of my fiction will be coming this weekend more than likely. I also would like to get more original work up. So far I have a few ideas, but when I actually sit down to type will decide what happens.

I got to see Moon Child last night. OMG I am in love. See, I was already doomed with Gackt. I mean over the past two days I've bought nine of his songs so I knew, but after seeing this movie I must give love to Hyde as well. It is scary and strange and very Marissa. Yeah, so I've already watched it twice and changed my TR queue because of Kei. It's probably for the best I really had nowhere to go if I brought in Hikaru though I love him *shrugs*. I'll keep my mind open, but I'm pretty much decided on Bella and Kei and then FINISH. NO MORE APPING. I may not keep this promise, but I want to focus on my current pups and get them really connected, and with Weiss pups on the way then Aya will be busy so it's all good.

There are enablers on my F-list, and at TR, because of this I went down to the library just a little while ago and got a copy of Atonement. I have been curious about it for a while, and something just hit today so yeah...*headdesk* I have so much I need to read in the next little bit, and the list just keeps getting longer.

I am quickly approaching burnout. I am letting little things take on far more importance then they should and have no patience whatsoever. I can't really focus to do homework, and though I know I should care I'm like meh when I think about school at all.

Well I've put some drabbles from memes on my character's journals. And I turned in a project for my one class today. I think it probably isn't that great, but we'll see. Next week should be pretty light and hopefully I'll get my tagging mojo back. It's coming slowly..very slowly.

At some point today I want to go through all of my pups and write down specific plot ideas on a month by month basis. I'm hoping this will also help me get over the blahs, or whatever it was that I've been fighting on and off since December. I have no idea how I will do this since I just want something for my own thoughts.

I also plan to by this weekend to start working on an outline of this particular story that I got inspired about a week or so ago. I don't know how quickly it will go, but we'll see. It surprised me that this idea hit out of nowhere so I'm going to go with it.

Other than this not much going on.

Oh, just a warning it seems that notifs might not be going through for some people?

I haven't posted in a while, of course this probably isn't that surprising *grins*.

School isn't going as smoothly as I would like, but mostly that's because I've not been feeling the greatest since about December. It's slowly getting better, but it's sadly put me behind in several of my classes.

I've done a bit more shopping and essentially replaced a few more of my videotapes. It's a slow process, but between buying replacement DVDs and making copies where possible it's at least moving forward.

I still haven't finished playing Final Fantasy XII or Suikoden V, but hopefully I'll get them finished around Spring Break since I don't have plans for then unless something changes drastically, which is entirely possible.

Okay, off to finish homework. I am hoping to get caught up this week *crosses fingers*.

I am finally home! Don't get me wrong I love my family, but I am a homebody and being away from my place for this long was really sort of annoying. Anyway, Christmas was pretty good. I ate way too much, but isn't that the way it always goes? I got some clothes, a little money, some jewelry, another throw (I think my Mom forgot that she had already given me one, but hey I guess you can't have too many, right?), and a few other things.

I also have my grades: CIS 300 (Management Information Systems) B, ENG 200 (Harry Potter and the Fantasy Tradition) A, MGT 300 (Principles of Management) C, MKT 300 (Principles of Marketing) C, and finally MUS 390 (Survey of the Music Industry I) A.

Other than being home and celebrating Christmas tomorrow not much else going on here. I will have to start getting ready for next semester some time in the next couple of weeks because I want to have as much done as possible before it actually starts.

Well if I don't totally mess up this semester, which is a high possibility sadly, this is what my schedule for classes looks like next semester: Intro to Creative Writing (which might actually get me off of my butt, but we shall have to see), Business Finance I (Oh the excitement...only not so much), Operations Management(no excitement here either), Services Marketing (minor excitement, but you know not really), Internet Marketing (*shrugs*) and finally Survey of the Music Industry II (this one might be a little interesting, but we shall see). Anyway, yes let's hope that I do not mess up this semester and you know run around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to fix it.

There is also the whole fear/nervousness of trying to get ready to graduate. I can't afford to waste time at all because I will go through the financial mess that I went through (which I've still not really recovered from) when I graduated the last time. I'm pretty sure I'll have to move and while it's exciting I just...well I don't know if I'm ready.

As can be seen from my icon a certain fandom, which is never far from my heart anyway, is back in the spotlight. I first saw Ronin Warriors (Samurai Troopers in the Japanese) in 96-97? A friend got a hold of all of the episodes through another friend when he saw her printing out pictures from the series and told her he had the episodes. Since then I have had to sit through untranslated movies, buying action figures, them finally putting the DVDs out and finding out how different, and yet amazingly the same, that the English version was, and of course I've been through many fandoms since. Now I finally have icons (Yay!) and will be putting the music from it in MP3 format very soon (probably over break?) so I am a little giddy. Weiss Kreuz is making it's way back into the front of my head again too so *grins*.

I'm still RPing and loving it, but then that isn't really news, now is it? I have made new journals for characters but who knows if they will go anywhere.

The second day of classes is about midway finished and so far it seems like it will be a busy, but not too stressful, semester.

I love my teacher for my Harry Potter class. It is good to see a professor being so geeky, and yet knowing he will have us write papers that I actually want to write. I haven't felt this way for quite a long time. Is that showing my inner literature geek? *shrugs*.

Anyway, aside from school with lots of reading, and quite a bit of busy work it seems, I am involved in two rps with a total of eight characters. I don't get them out near as much as I should so I am looking to fix that this semester. Raistlin is singlehandedly working on that since almost every post that comes up he wants to tag into. And of course I must now do extensive writings on my views on his relationships in the Dragonlance books. *headdesk* And really I thought he was slightly anti-social, go figure. He even has a few hates and likes already. One of them slightly worries me, but we won't get into that right now. I also want to throw him into secret/Halloween plot, but I don't know yet what I would do exactly so I'm working on that.

Other than worrying about financial aid(what else is new?), and trying to figure out how to get my new, desperately needed, computer not much is going on. Getting back into the grove of school, and trying to catch up on video games is taking a lot of my energy this week. Hopefully by the weekend I will feel up to doing more.

I have a few theories/questions that I want to get out there before the book comes out. Surprisingly, or not, most of them are about Snape, directly or indirectly.


( please move in an orderly fashion )

As I think of more, because I know I had them, I will be adding. Also, I am likely to organize them a bit more since they are pretty rough at this point.

I am getting so anxious for the movie it's not even funny. Weeeeeeeeee!

Summer school is going pretty smoothly, though I cannot wait until it is over. I will still be busy when it is over as I prepare for next semester and try to make some hard decisions about a few things.

Okay, June..not going so well sadly.

It started out well enough I suppose but now I find out that there was a problem with my FAFSA which no one caught, paid any attention to whatever, which is going to end up costing me quite a bit of money. They might try to see if they can get me something, but I'm not holding my breath.

Things Marissa must do: get ready for classes in about twenty days, work on much stuff for RP including an app and memes for said app character, bug financial aid and hopefully get something out of it...ummm..I know there is more but I can't think of it right now so I might edit later.

Today has, as you can see from the icon, not been a good day. Remember that class I had to take over? Well apparently the registrar thought it would be nice to drop me from all classes that required that one without even checking to see that I was taking it over in the summer...you know that time before the fall.

Anyway, after much running around, and much changing of the schedule itself, it appears to be fixed. Hopefully it will stay fixed.

At least one good thing did come out of it. I will only be working at the Public Relations and Marketing Department now. My boss at the library told me that they are redoing how they distribute monies so that it no longer matters whether you are using work study or not. She felt, and I couldn't help but agree, that since this job was closer to what I was actually going to school for that it would be better for me to get all my hours here.

I also, went ahead and got my books so that I don't have to worry about that at least.

On another note my Mom sends me forwards...a lot. Well today she did and then right after it was another that said correction so I figured she said something in it. It was a questionnaire that she filled out and it was really nice to see some of the answers. Now, if I could just get her to actually email me with more actual information instead of junk mail.

Well, bad news first...I must definitely take the one class over again in the summer. Already registered so now I just wait for the first day I guess. I also had to sign up for a second class in order to get financial aid for the summer so I decided on intro to psychology since hopefully that will be something that will help me get past certain things in my writing.

Good news, other than one C I got two As and a B in my classes so there was a little relief to be had on that front. Ummm...I thought I had something more to say, but I seem to have forgotten it. I suppose this means I might be updating later.

The project o'doom is OVER! I gave my presentation today so now all I have to do is play the wait for the grade game.

May hasn't started off very well. I won't go into details but needless to say it has not helped the stress that can be me. However, there were moments today that make me hopeful about the month especially since finals are next week. Yay!

Summer should be interesting since I'll be doing some work for another person in our department and all depending on how that goes who knows what I will do.

I am free of the Project O' Doom! At least until I have to do the presentation on May 1, but that I think I can handle a little better. I'm thinking about celebrating by downloading a couple of songs from itunes.

I think my grade is probably in the low C range, but we shall see hopefully next week.

Well registration is done, and while it wasn't completely painless the pain was only mild.

Here's my schedule for next semester: Survey of the Music Industry I, Principles of Management, Principles of Marketing, Harry Potter and the Fantasy Tradition, and Management Information Systems. There might be a finance class added but right now I'm betting on a no. Now I just have to set up my work schedule and next semester is taken care of.

Also, interesting thing at work last night. Some students were filming a production in the section of the library where I work. Apparently, one of my bosses is in it and is trying to convince them to let her blog it or put it on youtube. She figures librarians will eat it up. So if this happens I will try to find it and put a link here.

I just checked, and wow has it been a long time since I've updated, and that sadly was mostly to vent. I suppose it feels weird sometimes to update when not much has changed.

However, I can't really use that as a an excuse this time. There have been a lot changes in my life recently. The biggest, as most everyone knows who has looked at the most recent posts of mine, is that I moved at the end of January. Even with all of the craziness still going on as the house is being worked on I must say I am very happy. It is near school so it usually on takes me five or ten minutes to get here each morning, which means more sleep (this makes for a very happy Marissa). There have been some problems, and minor stresses, but hopefully they are all passed now, or if they continue remain as minor as possible.

My cat, Kyra, is still lost. I don't know what to do since it isn't really feasible for me to go back to my old place and try to look for her. Maybe that will happen eventually, but I don't see it happening anytime soon so I continue to worry. Luckily we managed to hang on to the psycho one, known most of the time as Phantom or Psycho Kitty.

Still working on replacing my iPod, since it would cost more to fix the one I have then to just get a new one. As it gets warmer I get more impatient because I would like to have one so I could go walking more. I also plan to upgrade my computer's memory and ram and get an external hard drive this summer. I love my computer, but it is long past time for an upgrade, seriously.

I've actually been working a bit more with icons lately. I need to go through and work some of the tutorials that I have, and maybe actually seeing about upgrading my photoshop at some point. One of my bosses at work has offered to put it on one of the computers there and work with me on it.

I'm still working on FF12 and Suikoden 5, but they go slowly since school is taking up quite a bit of time recently. Especially this one class that if I didn't absolute need would be dropped so fast it's not even funny. I have a Yu Yu Hakusho video game and well, let's just say as much as I love the series I think that whoever made the game should probably be punished in some horrible, very creative, way because while of course since it is a fighting game there must be button mashing the particular style of button mashing is annoying and makes no sense and seems to require at times extra fingers...perhaps this is just me.

I am still rping, but because of school and a few other things that have sort up happened recently I've not done very much with my pups at all. Hopefully this will change, especially when summer gets here.

I can't wait for summer, mostly for the fact I'll more money than for the VERY warm weather. Also, I probably won't be taking any classes so that will be a bit of a relief. I hope to be able to go to Otakon, but unless I start doing something soon I'm not sure how I will work it out. I still haven't heard from a few places where I sent my stories some months back so I suppose in May it will be time to do the rounds again.

I haven't really thought about the last Harry book yet because it really hadn't hit me until recently how soon it was going to be here. Naturally, like most everyone I have ideas, though they are mostly questions actually that I think she should answer. Of course, I am not holding my breath because I fully accept that maybe I am over-analyzing and I may be the only person who wants to know the answers to certain things(well okay not really but it is possible). If the money situation in April allows I will probably pre-order and get that out of the way then its wait for the movie. Also, there is an animated Dragonlance movie coming out in fall that I'm excited about.

Now that I've rambled (and boy have I rambled) I guess I will take my leave of this post. Hopefully I will actually start updating more, at least this is the plan. Also, I would like to actually have more of my writing here. I still need to work on my homepage as well.

Okay I fail at updating this journal, so much do I fail that it's not even funny. Anyway, this is my 'OMG! must post' well umm....post.

Christmas was good. I got clothes from mom, a throw which if I understand she actually sewed..I think this is a new hobby of hers but I appear to be out of the loop, some bath stuff and perfume which have a very Japanese feel to them (names like Japanese Cherry Blossom and Orange Flower), I got a pearl necklace set, a necklace, a watch...I'm not sure that this is all but anyway, I got money which allowed me to buy Final Fantasy 12(why do I not have icons yet?), and Lady in the Water. I finally, thanks to a friend, have the guidebook for Final Fantasy 12.

The New Year so far has been interesting. Things have happened in RP which I'm still dealing with, school starts next week and I will be moving before the end of the month. My new place is amazing. It is a house first of all which makes it cool for that alone, but it is also so close to campus that it is such a relief I can't even describe how relieved I am, and oh yes much cheaper than where I am now.

I'm not sure about net interruption yet. It all depends on whether we transfer my cable account or go with direct tv and some form of DSL. I am good either way but maybe just a bit partial to the cable idea.

Alas my iPod is still sick. I hope to send it off this week.

*glances at post* Oh yes, my life it is exciting. *headdesk*

Due to very wonderful parents and having a birthday soon I actually went and upgraded my amount of user pics. I also changed the payment so that I wouldn't have to worry about it as often. It's not much but it felt good to take care of something. October really left me shaken I think and I'm recovering slowly.

I still have no heat, but hopefully that will be remedied tomorrow, at least once can hope. If it isn't I have decided that I will take more drastic action, though I'm not completely sure yet what exactly I will do. I have been given advice and it's highly likely that I will take it if somethings isn't done soon.

I have mostly let my homework go during all of this, but I am slowly getting caught up, and tomorrow two of my classes are canceled, which makes me very happy. Not that I don't enjoy them in their way. It's just that lately I've needed a break.

That's it for now I think. I am still waiting to hear on the stories I have sent out...*crosses fingers* and I hope to be able to do more writing and send more out before the end of the month, at least that is the goal.

Well I've not even had my first class and needless to say it feels like it's going to be one of those days that you just should have stayed in bed.

My heat stopped working possibly sometime last night. It stayed around 70 degrees Fahrenheit until this morning. When I left it was about 61. The good news is that my landlord knows and is sending someone over either this afternoon or tomorrow. Bad news, if they don't come today tonight is supposed to be just as cold. This doesn't bode well.

Since I haven't updated in a while- midterms went relatively well. I got mostly As except one C, my music theory class. Basically it wasn't the best week for a test, but hopefully I can do better on the final.

I enjoyed a four day break which allowed me to do some rping and a lot of reading. It was very relaxing, though there's still quite a bit of stress alas. I suppose you can't help but wish they were longer really no matter what.


I guess that's it for now. Hopefully I will have an update that details the heat situation and maybe I can work on some icons this weekend.