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