Not much to say since last time. D: Or, if there is, I'm too tired to remember.
We had comeptition on Saturday and had to get up at two in the bloody morning >_____e
SO.
TIRED.
I was up for almost 24 hours.
We had a good time, though. After all the rounds were over me and the other people in my group gathered all the leaves up and made a big pile and we played around a bit. They're pretty awsome. :] Then we got lost and wound up home at midnight and I went to sleep.
Hooray!

Mostly this week has been a break from essays and large assignments. Next week we're going back to the grindstone; tests, disections, essays, and lest I forget the two major projects for my Econ class and graduation requirements >>;.
TEH FUN.
IZ OVERWHELMING.
But at least I have DA <33.

The only other thing to say is I've finished my seventh Discworld book and, lacking the eighth, have started The Davinci Code. D< Don't look at me like that, it's just for the experience! It's not bad for a light read; it's just not a dependable source for facts or deep characterization or anything.
THIS IS THE PARAGRAPH THAT I REFER TO IN MY TITLE.
Because there was nothing else to use there ;____;

Anyways, in lieu of an update (I did put up two pictures. D< One is in my scraps. GO THERE.) here's a quiz I snatched from Boof. <3 Hooray again!
Sorry if this entry comes off as exceptionally dry or cynical; I'm just sleepy xDD.

001. Real name → D: Your mother. Except not.
002. Nickname(s)→ Kitty. I don't get any in real life because I'm cursed or impervious or something </3.
003. Zodiac sign → Cancer D:.
004. Male or female → Girly bits, as much as my close friends would like to disagree D<.
005. Elementary → ... What, like the school I went to?
006. Middle School → Er, dont't think you guys have been.
007. High School → D: Currently attending one, thanks.
008. Hair color → Blonde as... A thing... With blonde hair D:. [/metafail]
009. Long or short → Shorter than I like it but managably long.
010. Loud or Quiet → Depends; usually loud xD.
011. Sweats or Jeans → Jeans ftw.
012. Phone or Camera → Can't I just have a book?
013. Health freak → HAHAHA. No.
014. Drink or Smoke? → No thanks :3.
015. Do you have a crush on someone? → Going with my answer from Question 13 on this one.
016. Eat or Drink → I'm partial to eating myself :3. Doritos ftw!
017. Piercings → One in either ear <3.
018. Tattoos → EVERYWHERE. D< EVEN IN MY EYE SOCKETS. AND ON MY ACTUAL EYES. THAT IS JUST HOW MUCH OF A BAMF I AM.

HAVE YOU EVER?
019. Been in an airplane → Tons of times <3. Love it.
020. Been in a car accident → xD Not any that I know of.
021. Been in a fist fight → I'd like to think my life isn't just one minor fight after another, but then I'd be doing my violent nature a disservice. <3 Nothing too bad though.

FIRSTS:
022. First piercing → My ears when I was in preschool. They gave me a teddy to cuddle <3.
023. First best friend → Suki. <3 Sure I met other kids in daycare; I just didn't like them. We met in kindergarden after I got shuffled into her class and she helped me pick up a spilled case of pencils.
025. First award → Our cheer coach in elementary school gave us a trophey for being on the team. D: No, we didn't earn it. And yes, yes I was on a cheer team. D< Be quiet.
026. First Crush → N/a
028. First big vacation → I went to Arizona and California when I was in grade school. It was great <3.

LASTS:
029. Last person you talked to → Mommykins~
030. Last person you texted → N/a
031. Last person you watched a movie with → My parents.
032. Last food you ate → Scrambled eggs and diet coke <33
033. Last movie you watched → It was.... A movie. With actors and stuff. D: I don't remember.
034. Last song you listened to → "Dare" by Stan Bush. 8D Hooray 80's power ballad!
035. Last thing you bought → Sour Patch kids candy and a little bag of gum that's supposed to look like gold. D: It's great.
036. Last person you hugged → Mommykins~

FAVES:
037. Food → Any Chinese non-meat noodle dish.
038. Drinks → Diet cokkkeee <33. Telling me it's going to give me cancer only serves to make you look silly.
039. Clothing → Vests and green shirts ;w;
040. Book → "Sourcery" by Terry Pratchett; or maybe "Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov. Or "Misery" or "The Snow Queen" or...
041. Music → Alternative and classic rock, but I like just about anything. Classical, ska, triphop, techno, stuff like that :3.
042. Flower → Stargazer lillies? I'm not good with flowers x.x;
043. Colors → Green ftw .w.
044. Movies → See the below About me section >>.
045. Shoes → Boots and sandles.
046. Subjects → Science and language classes <33.

IN THE PAST YEAR I ... :
047. [ ] kissed in the snow
048. [x] celebrated Halloween
049. [ ] had your heart broken
050. [ ] went over the minutes on your cell phone
051. [x] someone questioned your sexual orientation (*People usually just assume I'm straight or gay, but some have the decency to ask. And what a surprise they get, eh xD?*)
052. [ ] came out of the closet.
053. [ ] gotten pregnant
054. [ ] had an abortion (*EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE o_________o)
055. [x] done something you've regretted
056. [x] broke a promise
057. [x] hid a secret
058. [x] pretended to be happy
059. [ ] met someone who changed your life
060. [x] pretended to be sick
061. [ ] left the country
062. [x] tried something you normally wouldn't try and liked it
063. [ ] cried over the silliest thing
064. [ ] ran a mile
065. [/] went to the beach with your best friend(s) (*I went to the lake beach ;w; *)
066. [ ] stay single the whole year

CURRENTLY:
067. Eating → Saltines and icing
068. Drinking → Soooodaaa
069. I'm about to → Stand up because my butt hurts.
070. Listening to → Static and youtube videos.
071. Plans for today/tomorrow → Go to school, eat lunch, define words, annoy and/or slap the general public, and read a book :3.
072. Waiting for → Headache to go away ;___;. Also Christmas.

YOUR FUTURE:
073. Want kids? → Nononono.
074. Want to get married? → Not really :/.
075. Careers in mind → Planetary astronomy professor <33.

WHICH IS BETTER ON A BOY/GIRL?
076. Lips or eyes → Eyes...?
077. Shorter or taller? → I don't know; I don't pay attention.
078. Romantic or spontaneous → .___. I care not.
079. Nice stomach or nice arms → Nice as in not fat or nice as in ripped? I think people look better when they're thin, but muscles can be icky.
080. Sensitive or loud → Er....
081. Hookup or relationship → How is this dealing with their physical appearance or personality?
082. Troublemaker or hesitant → I don't know/care ;____;! Leave me aloneeeeee -sobs-

HAVE YOU EVER:
083. Lost glasses/contacts → Probably.
084. Ran away from home → xD Nah.
085. Held a gun/knife for self defense → I had a pair of scissors for that once. >> Never did get a chance to use them.
086. Killed somebody → I'm going with Boof's answer on this one >>
087. Broken someone's heart → Not putting that past myself.
088. Been arrested → EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR BBY.
089. Cried when someone died → Well... Not really. I felt bad about it but we'd already grieved my grandmother's passing in the weeks before, since she'd been so sick.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
090. Yourself → I'm so narcissistic I get jealous of myself sometimes ;D.
091. Miracles → Er... I dunno, I guess?
092. Love at first sight → No comment >>;.
093. Heaven → Nah.
094. Santa Clause → YES. .______.
095. Sex on the first date → -shrug- You do what you want. I'll be over here tightening my chastity belt, kthnx.
096. Kiss on the first date → Going with that last answer again. Kissing is icky anyways >>;.

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
097. Is there one person you want to be with right now? → How is it that this question turns up on every quiz? I'm going with Boof's answer <33.
098. Are you seriously happy with where you are in life? → Could always be worse.
099. Do you believe in God → Er, thanks but no.
100. This one is irrelivant → Good for it :3. I too am irrelivant, but I'm also irreverant and irredescent and a lot of other words that start with 'ir'.
But I'm not ir ben.
.____. I r the mei guo.
I DO REMEMBER SOMETHING FROM CHINESE CLASS HOORAY!

(They never did teach us what the Chinese word for 'Australian' was'

Until we meet again,
DAS KITTEH.

8D Dad got my old computer fixed!
Yaaay!
He had to reinstall things like Word and Photoshop but I still have all my old files and stuff so it's all good. He even fixed the resolution for me ;w;

So happy.

Halloween was fun. I handed out candy and our house didn't get egged or rolled so I'm counting it as a victory. The morning of I had to go to an interview with some guy from Rochester University, and I think it went well. :] I like the school a lot and even though I seriously doubt I can get funding to go there at least I get along well with the dean of financial aid. That counts, right? We spent most of the time just talking about my town and how cool science fiction is (the nerdiness dripping from our conversation).
Anyways, a couple of you asked me last journal which schools I'm applying to. Since everyone keeps asking in real life and I keep having to tell them I figure I can't jinx myself any worse by laying the list out here as well. These are the six I'm applying to or already have applied to:

Rochester University
Pennsylvania State
UTK (Because instate college is teh cheaper)
UTC
Auburn University
Rennslaer Tech
Vanderbilt

No, I don't want to go to Vanderbilt (It's an instate school that costs a lot and has its own private hospital and stuff). I'm not going to get the funding for it (That's not pessimism, that's just a fact. To get scholarships for Vanderbilt you've either got to be Jesus or be so damn close no one can tell the difference. D< They want perfect scores and volunteer hours and kids who can revive the dead), it's expensive, and the only students there will be rich kids or work-a-holics, the two groups I get along with the worst. And besides all that, it's not a good school for my major. I'd be tossing out 80k every year for an education I could get just as well at the University of Tennessee. >> My mom is forcing me to and I'm just going to look forward to her dissapointment later when they guffaw at us.
I'm actually not that optimistic that any out of state schools will offer me enough scholarship money either, but I'm more willing to try for them because they at least have decent physics departments and actual observatories.

Right now it's looking like I'm going to have my best shot at going to Auburn, which I have mixed feelings about. On one hand it's a very nice school and on the other it's in bloody Alabama. I'm trying to avoid the overly warm summers and ignorant redneck culture; this seems like such a step backwards >>;.
(It's better than Florida I guess)

BUT ENOUGH OF THIS ARBITRARY NONSENSE.

Still working on EleMental, mainly the language and geography at this point. I've got a working alphabet (yey) and a pretty good list of words started. :] Should still be in development for a while and it's probably not the most important thing about the story, but it means stuff to me.

I've also got quite a few pictures coming along now that I've got my scanner back and those should be up very soon.

Currently all my classes are concerned with dumping an insane number of projects on us and my clubs are finally asking me to do things as well, so I may have less time as we near December. I spent most of last week just writing essays. It was miserable ;___;

Anyways, that's probably about it for me this week. <3 I'll post a quiz if I can find one. AND GERMANY KNOWS WHO I'M TAGGING, TOO.

Dzetl,
Kitteh

8D FREQUENT UPDATE IS FREQUENT.

So we just had our 3rd Annuel Forensics Tournament. Like last year I got to work the food stand, but rather than sitting under a table all day puppetiering a 'magical' hat that tells you the different prices for drinks and pizza, I actually got to be the station manager.

;______w_____; She finally trusts me! It took three years and I'm not continuing the class anyways, BUTSHETRUSTSME! -squeel-
The implications here are endless. Someday she may even learn my last name!
-gasp-!

... Aaand I still spent an hour under the table anyways >>.
But only because I'm irreplacable, darling ;D.
We call our hat the Sorting Hat of Value and it isn't worth staring at the underside of a table for two hours. So I got up and took orders instead. I got to use words like 'comestables' and everything, reeeeaaal fancy-like, y'all. |D

Anyways, it was pretty awsome. I never really had to do anything except at lunch, and I got underlings and Doritoes and stuff. The only downside was after the last round some competiters came to talk with us and most of them were sort of unsavory >>. Also I don't work well with people. 8D But who cares? At least ninety percent of my day was sitting and doing nothing.

We're on holiday for the entire week next week so I should be able to get some things done (finally!) I have a few new drawings I'll try to take somewhere and get scanned <3. Mostly I've been back at work on EleMental, which is eating through my time like a tapeworm through an intestine (the visual you just got from that was worth it :3). I'm not sure I'll have anything upload-worthy soon, but I'm working on a map and some short stories. The main plot is horrid. D: THE WORK, MY GOD.
And I've not forgotten about the Sentients, by the way. >> It's just even more work than EleMental. Who knew you had to research things for accuracy amirite?

And you guys should definately try sporcle. It's amazing. Thanks to sporcle I can name all the countries. D< ALL OF THEM. And it won't be long before I can do it ALPHABETICALLY.
Skills, my friends. Skills.
And, because my other computer is probably perma-dead and I'm not sure I can play Diablo II on a laptop with one CD tray, I'm back to playing DK 64. AND I FINALLY GOT THAT BLASTED NINTENDO COIN ;___w___;. TEN YEARS and I finally got it! I celebrated by braying like a drunk donkey with spine injuries (Again, the visual on that... Worth it). I can finally beat the game all the way through~
And I didn't even need a cheat sheet >w<

College stuff blah blah applications FAFAS things of no particular interest.
D: It's a big part of my life, don't get me wrong. It's just not as entertaining to talk about. Things are being turned in and essays are being written and so on and so forth. I'm applying to about six schools, aaand we'll see in a couple months where I can go the cheapest. <3 Most of the first year dorms have internet access included in the rate so I should still be able to talk to you guys, if I ever get time. Which I will. D< OH I WILL.
School is fine, nothing of interest.

Oh! Annddd, it's been confirmed. I am, in fact, going to China for spring break
>_______W_______<
YEY!
Well, it's a tentative yes and mom's not paid anything yet, and we're not sure how we'll pay for it all anyways, but I'm pretty sure if we just cut back a little we'll manage. Hell, if we spent less on chocolate alone we could save twenty a month, and the payments are less than a hundred, I think. <3 I'm really excited about it. It's going to be really fun and new and I just hope I'll retain some of what the class talked about when we go. The only things I remember right now are numbers and insults ;w;. Ah well.
Anyways it's gonna rock and I'll post all the pictures and stuff and I'll miss you guys like crazy <333.
AND I DEFINATELY PROMISED GERMANY I WOULD VISIT HER NEXT TIME I LEFT THE COUNTRY BUT I'M A HORRIBLE LIAR AND SHE SHOULD KNOW THIS ALREADY.

That's about it from me <33. Oh! And a quick question for you all: Troy and Kas, in EleMental, have a younger sister. I can't decide on a name. Any suggestions? I'm considering Leto and Dzenga at present. .3. Preferably something fictitious and not taken from any major work of literature. Or any minor work of literature. D< Don't steal.

Toodles~

PS: Here's a quiz we haven't done yet 8D! Hooray.

1. Who is your celebrity crush?
N/A.

2. What are you most excited for?
I should say a lot of other perfectly normal things but I'm going to say peanuts, because you're not expecting that. Why? Because legumes are neat.

3. What was the last thing you bought?
A pendant from a craft's fair thing. It's really cool, and my only regret is not brining a hundred extra to pay for the bigger, more spindly one >>. Also, a neat book with a blue, vaguely Celtic, ourobourus on the cover.

4. What was the cutest thing you've seen today?
A little girl snuggling a lamb. Also, BUNNIES ; w ;

5. Does the weather affect your mood?
I would say so, yes. Sunshine makes me lethargic and content while cold makes me productive, neurotic, and giddy. Also thunder > everything.

6. Tell me 5 things you can't live without:
- Paper + Pencil, or something with which to write things down on other things.
- Musicccc
- Books <3
- The laws of physics
- Organs

7. What would you do with a limitless ammount of money?
First, bills. Then college. Then researching ways to build that space elevator, and ressurecting the aesthetically pleasing and interesting dinosaurs/megamammals (the ugly and/or uninteresting ones can stay extinct >>, move to England and give to charity or something so people don't notice all the velocirapters. Also I'd send lots to you all <33. Oh, and my own platypus/llama/iguana/fennec fox zoo. Because that's all you need for any zoo ever.

8. 3 Things you have on:
- Comically large night shirt with polar bears on it.
- Pyjama pants
- YOUR MOM

9. First thing today that made you laugh:
Yahtzee's review of something xD. I don't even remember what it was anymore, but all the reviews are great so I don't care. Hooray for watching criticisms of games I've never played!

10. Say something to the person who tagged you:
8D Hello, non-existant person!

Tagging whoever wants to do the quiz.
AND GERMANY BECAUSE SHE NEVER UPDATES ANYWAYS D<

WHOA HEY A MONTH ALREADY?
I really need to update more often >>.

So remember how I was complaining about not having a working mouse 8D?
I was surfing around tektek and Gaia and caught a bad spyware bug. So we had to turn off my computer. And it turns out that at some point my motherboard was also (very probably) struck by lightening. So now I have no functioning computer and I've probably lost all my saved files.
I would like my iffy mouse problem back now please ;__;

So now I'm pretty much restricted to my laptop. I don't know how long it'll take my dad to fix my computer (considering that he made this diagnosis roughly a week ago and hasn't bothered to do anything about it), so looks like the hiatus stays >>. Thankfully I did save some of the more important things to a flashdrive first.
The worst part?
I actually have got some things I wanted to scan in </3.
Ffffff. >______o

And SWEET JESUS have I been busy. We had homecoming week a while back. :3 We did our annual buggy parade, and for once in bloody ages my house class actually won. Four years of hard work and I finally won! Plus I got to wear a fro and look silly <3.
Plus, most of my classes have decided to just dump work on us. It's ridiculous. But it's not that tedious, so at least it keeps me interested. I'm learning, so what does it matter xD?
The only problem is my government class. The teacher's a nice person and the classwork isn't hard but the people... Dear God, the people. D< They just anger me so deeply. They're homophobic, intolerant, disrespectful- Everything I dislike about living in the south.
But that's about the worst of it.
I also had my first Forensics comp of the year~!
It was actually really awesome and I almost made it to finals, if not for a mix up with the judge's ballet the last round.

I really hope I can take the Chinese class for real next semister. Right now I'm just an aid but the class looks really fun. The teacher's a really fun person, too. The best part?
He's organized a trip to China this spring break!
8DDDD
HOW AWESOME IS THAT?!
I really, really want to go but it's pretty expensive >>. I hope I can go.

Speaking of cost, FECKING COLLEGE PREPARATION.
It keeps demanding to be done D<.
Baaaah. I wish there was one form I could fill out and be done with it. BUTNO.
</3 The good news is that most of the colleges I'm looking at include electricity and internet in their apartment costs so at least I can stay in touch with you guys.
BECAUSE I DO SUCH AN EXCELLENT JOB OF THAT ALREADY AMIRITE?

That's really about it. When I'm not doing club stuff or school stuff or college stuff I'm usually asleep or trying to sleep or watching cheesy movies. I did find a couple neat sites I've been addicted to, like Thatguywiththeglasses and Sporcle. And I've been trying to catch up on old animes.
I tried watching Elfen Leid.
o_________o
Germany, why?! Why for the love of Christ did you recommend this?
DID NOT ENJOY.
But right now I'm trying to get through Neon Genesis Evangelion and it's not that bad. :3 Six more episodes, and then I'm going to try Yu Yu Hakusho and D. Grey Man. Yay!

Oh, and I made it to episode 163 of Yu-GI-Oh! before I absolutely could not keep marathoning it. x.x; I'm taking a break. Urrr. I was hearing Dan Green in my sleep. Of course, it's not much better waking up and thinking you're the pilot of some giant mecha. Or is it? I DON'T KNOW.
Someday I'll finish up, but considering how slow LK is I don't think I need to rush. xD

So yeah. Hopefully once we get my computer up and running again (-sniffle-) I can FINALLY update my account here >>. In the meantime I'm going to try to keep on top of my work and update here a little more frequently.
I was going to steal Slush's quiz but this journal was already way long xD.

Love and cheese,
Kitteh

(PS: Year One is hilarious. Go watch it <3.

PSS: Halloween is only a month away~ Yey <33)

Well, okay, maybe I'm a little dead >>;.
Sorry about that guys! I guess I'm on hiatus? It's just that school started back (likeamonthagobutwhatever) and then my mouse is on the fritz, so even if I had time to be nice and creative I couldn't upload anything because I can't do photoshop.
;__; Suck muffins.
So, you ask, why not write?
Because I honestly have nothing worth showing there either . It's just that I keep having to hop from series to series and I feel sort of guilty neglecting one or the other, so... I dunno, I linger long enough to add like a paragraph to something and then I'm on to something else :/. And that's only when school isn't roaring down my throat and demanding ESSAYS and SCIENCE.

I'm starting to wonder why I joined those extra two clubs, why I'm still in two, and why my deviant art status insists that I need a subscription. x.x; Thankfully I have all my club teachers as, well, regular teachers, so I should be able to keep up. And it gets me out of the house, right?
And honestly, the homework load isn't that bad. I'm just a slacker and it piles up ;D.
[/excuses excuses]

Nothing much has actually changed. Still have both arms, legs and kidneys. Still avoiding the car. Still slacking. ;D Still occasionally talking to myself in a cockney accent for funsies. It's actually a hard habit to break now that I've started the Discworld novels. ;_; So very British. I read Good Omens and decided to try the Terry Pratchett stuff as well, since TvTropes likes them. It's nice to see a slightly analytical approach to the whole magic thing, too :].

I've been spending most of my free time watching The Nostalgia Critic and reading EVERY ARTICLE TvTropes has to offer. ^^ That's when I'm not on Gaia or Tektek or some other site that very clearly isn't DA, but I mean, come on. If I'm not going to upload I feel like I'm not being productive and it makes me feel all guilty just coming here ><.

Right now I'm on an extended Yu-Gi-Oh! binge. See, I stopped watching the animated series when I was a kid (like normal people >>, but I stopped way before most of the third season. So every time I watch LittleKuriboh videos or try to go ANYWHERE on the internet and look at the series I've come against spoiler after spoiler. D< Well it ends now! For the last two months I've been rewatching the series episode by episode, reading online episode comparissons, watching the Japanese version, you know the drill. I even bought the first issue of the original manga. I'm all the way to episode 153 at the moment and I'm very proud of myself. Why all the trouble just so the internet can't spoil a decade-old show? Because I sort of want to see the ending anyways and I've made it this far, so why not? :] So that's something. After I finish all the way through the last episode, I'm thinking of watching something else, probably another anime. Anyone have any suggestions? I should probably get around to the classics eventually but after this I'd rather just watch something fun >>;. IE, something that isn't a philosophical blockbuster, like Ghost in the Shell. Not that Yu-Gi-Oh! is. >>; I'm not that slow.

I feel really guilty updating here without posting something, but I honestly have nothing to post so... xD; Just letting you guys know why I haven't been updating and to let you know the stalling's going to continue. Until things let up a bit here or I get a better mouse, I'm afraid I'll be on hiatus. </3 Sorry. I still read every journal and I do look at the art. Just think of me as that invisible little guiding spirit or something like that. It's not really true but it may make you feel better ^^.

Oh, and I named the new laptop. :] He is 'Farrago' now. It means 'hodgepodge'
I decided he would be male since my landline is a girl.
I think.
I'm afraid to check >>;.
He's made good friends with Benjy the scarf and I love him so <3.

KITTY AWAY!

PS: Episode 42 of the Abridged Series is out, in case you haven't seen. It was amazing. GO WATCH IT THIS SECOND I MEAN RIGHT NOW. The H2G2 reference made me so happy ;W;