Whoops

I haven’t posted in a while, which is truly a pity ‘cuz lots of stuff has been going on!  Let’s move semi-chronologically.

Firstly!  My trip to Bellevue outlined in my last post (woo driving adventure) was truly excellent.  I was initially unbelievably nervous about it since I had little to no contact with Will (cell phone reception = NOPE SORRY LOL), plus I would be driving to an unfamiliar place to meet unfamiliar people.  And as some may know, this is one of my worst fears.  I am often concerned I will be judged in some manner if people see me doing stuff that I don’t understand or…somsuch.  Anyway, the actual drive to Bellevue wasn’t hard at all, and once I got into the town, I found that Google Maps had led me not to the State Park but to a cemetary.  SUCCESS.  So I called Mark, who got me to an entrance into the park.  Unfortunately, I then got ahold of Will (thank God for that–even if he had to use his mom’s phone and therefore a different service provider) and found out it was NOT the right entrance to the park.  Yes, there are several, and they do not connect to each other.  So I floundered around for a while on the highway until I found the proper gravel road and made it to the campground.

I met his family and all of their friends and such, which was overwhelming in terms of name-learning but very fun nonetheless.  They were very…talkative.  In a very friendly, open way.  I was terribly amused by the conversations I observed and heard–it was a lot like hanging out with my dad’s side of the family (minus the unbelievable volume of swearing, haha).  Anyway, after a lot of hanging with Will while food was consumed (their breakfast–I had eaten before starting out on the road), we all crammed into a few cars and drove to Galena to mill about the shops and such.  I didn’t buy anything (I had forgotten my wallet in the car, and I didn’t want to impose when it was offered–plus I didn’t really want anything anyway, I was just enjoying the trip), though I did get ice cream with Will at one point which–I may say meekly and with a kind of embarassed sappiness–was kind of really adorable to me because it was in one of those old-fashioned-looking parlours and even if it was updated otherwise, it was kind of super cute and…I dunno.  Eating ice cream with your bo is kind of traditionally adorable.  …Don’t kill me.  I am overly romantic in most ways.  BUT ANYWAY IT WAS COOL, I LOVE ICE CREAM HAHA.

Then we all went back to the campgrounds and had dinner after they played some games (like the bean bag tossing one with which I am so familiar, plus…this strange…beercan…frisbee…thing that I had never even seen before, go figure there), and that was delicious.  Then I had to go home (sadface).  The drive back was much less interesting, and I ended up yawning a lot, so I switched out the Star Trek soundtrack for loud rock music that I could sing along to.  Win.

SO THAT WAS SATURDAY.  I had a lot of fun, it was really nice to meet all them peoples and spend some time with the boy, who I probably won’t see forrrrrr two weeks?  Well, a week and half anyway.  Patience is a virtue I am learning to accept–usually I am pretty good after an initial emo moment.  In any case, I am looking forward to the next visit.  Hee.

On to things that are probably of more interest to people other than me, art!  Lots of art has been going down.  I started in on a comic for my dear friend (and fellow admin./superior/founder of Org. Nu and Keyblade Brigade) where her character, Xeth’s, beats up this dude and then makes out with my character, Xalna, after she totally scolds him.  Epic win.  I should probably work on that more, though, since I am up to page 6 and then got distracted.  And everything from 7 on is really interesting!  Like thee FIGHT and the MAKIN’ OUT.  Motivation, I choose you!

Aaaand I was told about an OC tournament!  Just in time–I was recently missing the good ol’ days of Dark Kingdom and 9 Levels (which never really got past the second round…that is a cryin’ shame, if I do say so myself).  It’s a really interesting one; you enter an artist (usually yourself in some incarnation or another) into this world where you can use some item to summon up to 3 original characters to fight for you.  It is kind of like Pokemon battles, but there is an artist instead, and the Pokemon can talk and be…humanoid.  And there’s no capturing.  And you don’t have to collect anything.  Okay, it isn’t a LOT like Pokemon.  But I digress.  I am entering myself under the name GG for the artist, and I can summon Tek and Noirei using my cell phone, hurr hurr.  I have missed those boys, though, so it’s nice to give them a fresh new look and let them run amok in a new setting.  Here’s hoping I get in!  I really need to finish my audition comic, then I can actually submit my entry (I already did all three character sheets).  Since it’s based more around writing than artistic merit, I made sure to choose characters that I can be frustrated with (instead of them just listening to whatever I wanted them to do) and that don’t get along with each other.  Much more interesting that way.

Plus the shiny new versions of Tek and Noirei have made me start rethinking Miles 7, which has been so sadly neglected for…what, the past two years?  I think that is pretty possible.  Anyway, I have been reformatting the history leading up to the main plot, and I’m reworking the way half-demons look, act, function, etc.  Plus Lakai got one more change to her design (along with the last few, which included a height change, a new eyecolor, and a different coloring for her hair)–she is finally losing the paper white skin.  I KNOW, it is shocking.  But I figure all the half-demon markings should correspond to their color (red markings for red half-demons, yellow for yellow half-demons, and so on and so forth), so…she needs white markings, and with white skin, white markings will not show up too well.  Hence, she is going to have darker skin!  On top of that, she has always been drawn to look somewhat middle-eastern or somesuch, so this makes more sense, honestly.  It should be a big difference, but I think I will be very pleased.  Plus the plot might be taking some pretty hard hits as far as changes go, but who knows!  I am still working it out.  I don’t know if/when I’ll actually go back and start rewriting parts, but it’s nice to start in on the process of updating it.  It needed it–badly.

Oh, I still haven’t found a paying job for the summer, but I DO have an unpaid internship!  I will officially be spending, ehhhhh, 3 or 4 hours a day working at KLJB, a local TV station (where my mom used to work–like, 20 years ago…and everyone who still works there remembers when I was a baby, haha, awkward-ish).  I figure I can do graphic design stuff, some editing (since I have experience there), and they seem to want me to blog perhaps.  I think this is because I mentioned that I can blog and while they have on for the station, no one has even touched it.  Ah well, that will be interesting.  The best thing about it, though, is that my boss remembers me from when I was little and was really close friends with my mom.  Furthermore, he plays video games.  EXCELLENT.  He had a desktop of the cake from the end of Portal surrounded by Companion Cubes.  We spent an hour talking about Bioshock, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2, and watching YouTube videos.  I think this is promising.

Movies!  I won’t delve heavily into this one, but MAN is the new Star Trek good.  My love for it is, like, borderline Pirates of the Caribbean-caliber, and that is hard to achieve.  I have already made a fancharacter and started babbling about it to my mom–who, fortunately, loves Star Trek and therefore enjoys and understands our conversations.  We also started watching some of the older movies, which are actually pretty dang good.  So I highly recommend seeing it.  I have seen it twice now, and I am going to see it again with Grace and her mom and sister, I think.  HOORAY.

Laaaastly, on the gaming side, I took a heavy break from FF7 and lost motivation to play it, but instead I decided to start up a new game of FF8.  As one might expect, I am blogging the journey.  Anyone who wants to read my numerous complaints, bragging, training strategies, and healthy doses of my opinion, the URL is:

ff8garden.wordpress.com

I think that about covers everything.  I have a lot of work and interesting stuff coming up, so I will do my best to keep this page updated with all of that craziness.  Catch y’all later!

Hurr Hurr

Video blog here later, once the thing gets posted to YouTube.  ISN’T IT FUN WHEN I MAKE YOU WATCH ME TALK??

And for the record, I AM doing a lot better today.  The weather’s gorgeous, I feel super awake and rested, it should be a good and happy day.  Thank God, I’ll be happy to get back to my usual, obnoxiously cheerful self.  Stupid hormones.

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Back to Basics

And we’re back to the usual, written format.  Thank God, I hear you all sigh, that video was downright AWFUL.

I know.

So anyway!  I’m a little late on posting this one, but I had a fantastic weekend, as usual.  I got to chill with Will for longer than usual, since Emily didn’t return to CF until after dinner.  Hooray!  We did silly things like RP at Org. Nu under the same screenname (which just really confused everyone) and watch A Knight’s Tale and eat convenience store, microwaveable food.

Seriously, though, it was a really good weekend.  Suffice to say I’m being very, very brief about it, haha.  Here’s hoping we can get together this weekend, too.

Other than that, life’s been pretty good.  I finished my crazy paper that was due last week, and I’ve started in on my Soc. test and such that’s due next week.  I’ve been plugging away at my classes, and I’ve been surprisingly productive!  I’ve also gotten a lot of artwork done.  Not much gaming (sorry, Lifestream Discharge, I probably won’t be able to update you again until after school gets out…I should probably say something over there), but it’s probably a REALLY good thing to be getting drawing in.  Even if it is practically exclusive in terms of subjects.

SPEAKING OF.  Organization Nu is fantastic right now.  I mean, aside from the rather rampant drama (either in character with relationships/violence…or between members…which is far worse).  The RPing has been sweet, and I’m having a ton of fun playing Xalna.  We had some really epic things go down the other day, which I won’t detail here for the sake of time (I have to leave for class in four minutes), but it’s really a lot of fun, which makes me happy!  I love the group that’s been around lately, they’re wonderful.  Annnnd Will joined up to help with club things, since he’s all smart and can think of sensible things that Savvy and I tend to overlook.  He knows things about science!  We know things about art.  Haha.  So all is well over there.  Plus Keyblade-Brigade is finally starting to come together.  Savvy’s been mega busy, so nothing’s been updated YET, but soon…soon, my pretties, soon.

SO YEAH.  Internet life is great, real life is even better…I have no complaints–except that my advisor won’t get back to me so I probably won’t get signed up for the classes I want…GRAR–BUT OTHER THAN THAT, life is fantastic.

More to come in the future.  Later, readers.

Wangst Blah Blah Bears

Wow, two posts technically in one day.  This is momentous.

But not really, since I’m just wangsting/complaining (HUSH, YES, I gave it up for Lent…but when you have to vent, you have to vent).

Sentiments from the last post are still lingering around at pretty much the same intensity.  I am still pretty dang sure it’s not all hormone-y…but everything else about today is.  Seriously.

It’s been a weird day.  I can’t seem to concentrate on anything, I’ve been nervous and worried for no reason at all throughout most of the day…I feel all butterfly-ish in my stomach, which is a feeling I am eager to dispel…I don’t know.  My mind just won’t work properly.  Good God do I hate this time of the month.

So anyway.  I’m chilling in my room now, meandering about the internet and AIMing before class at 3.  Hopefully some of this gross, weirdness will dissapate ‘cuz I really hate feeling funky…

(Yeah, another short one.  Next post will likely be another obnoxious, long one, perhaps with less emotional oddities.)

Late Night Weirdness

Guhhhhh, meeeee.  This’ll be a crazy short post.  No real updates on life, per se, just…gotta vent a little bit.

This probably sounds totally insane to post in the middle of the night after just getting off AIM and all but…God, I suddenly really miss Will.  I don’t even know why it struck me so abruptly or what triggered it but…wow, dang.  I wish he was here–more, even, than I usually do.  It’s like he got off to go to sleep like a responsible human being and wham, suddenly I wished he was back on like nobody’s business.

I could blame weird, crazy hormones for this, but honestly…I don’t know that that’s quite right either.  I just…miss him.

Yep.  It’s worth the wait to see him in a week and a half.

I-*claps*-dennicul.

Because everyone loves My Cousin Vinny.

But you know what no one loves?  Iowa weather.

Seriously, it is April and it snowed yesterday.  It is now cold and windy.  All of the snow that had started to melt yesterday and turned into slush is now freezing into ice chunks.  Awesome!  On top of that, it causes unnecessary problems for everyone.

Case in point, the drive back to school.  So begins the story of the weekend.

Now, this weekend was a particularly good one–okay…well, nearly every weekend for the past 2 months has been “a particularly good one”, so let’s just say life has been pretty sweet lately.  Anyway, I went down to Davenport with Whitney and Will, after a somewhat awkward planning session in which I forgot to tell Whitney that Will went to ISU and therefore they’d be riding together–two people that have never met–for an hour and a half or so until I was picked up at UNI.  We all made it safely home, and Will and I watched Wall-E that night.  It was late, we didn’t get home until around 10:30.

We got up the next day and whittled away at this to-do list we had been compiling of stuff we needed to do over the weekend that we knew we’d forget.  Around 5 or so, my parents swooped us up and took us to Biaggi’s, which is definitely not something about which one can complain.  That place rocks.  So we had pleasant conversation, delicious food, etc. etc.

THEN Will and I scurried over to Assumption to see West Side Story, which was the reason we were in D-port at all.  Now, let me just say I am impressed with his fortitude.  He is not a fan of musicals and he knew none of the people that swarmed me afterwards and shanghaied me into performing in our brief Godspell reunion.  However, he agreed to go anyway, didn’t hate the show, and waited patiently in the wings of the stage while I flounced about the stage getting disgusting from exertion and bright stage lights.  My friends, I appreciate fortitude and patience.  I think I may be indebted now.

As for the show, now that’s a story.  I will simply say…I have seen better shows at Assumption.  …Well, alright, I was in them.  But that’s not why they were better (I’m not THAT egotistical).  The biggest flaw I found was the band.  Don’t get me wrong, West Side Story is a very difficult show.  The music has dissonance, strange melodies, odd rhythms…it is by no means a standard score.  However…our band was just not polished enough to make it work.  Parts of the show were great; second act had simpler music and it sounded very put-together and clean.  The first act had a lot of huge, crazy songs and I don’t think the band could handle it.  Apparently, LaCorte, Steph, and Catie all wanted to use prerecorded tracks (this is according to Brian AND LaCorte herself, so I know I’ve got this pretty close to correct).  Hayman didn’t want to use them at all, she was vehemently against it.  Wulfkuhle (I hope that’s how you spell her name, I know it’s a strange spelling) wanted to try learning it and then decide.  Evidently Hayman won, as I can’t imagine anyone would want to not use tracks after finding out the band sounded like that.  I do apprecite the effort they put in, but I think it would have improved the show as a whole had they used tracks.  Oof.

As for the performance of the ACTORS…well, I really have seen better.  Jessica was impressive, I was very pleased with her accent.  Her singing was a little flat, but Maria is a REALLY HIGH role and Jessica is an alto, technically, so that just blows my mind.  Kathleen, who is a soprano, got an alto role (right, these make sense) in Anita.  And she nailed it.  Her accent was very effective and she fit the role perfectly (despite not being Puerto Rican).  Plus the girl can DANCE.  Boy can she dance.  Seth, who was Bernardo, can ALSO dance.  I was very impressed with him–I knew he’d get Bernardo, though, since he is a much stronger dancer than singer and Brady was a shoe-in for Tony.  …And you know?  That’s a little disappointing.  Brady’s singing is fantastic, yes, but his acting is reeeeally missing something.  I wasn’t even convinced of his character until he was dying.  That’s kind of how most of the show was, though.  The cast was uninspiring, honestly.  I feel like they didn’t put enough energy into the roles, especially the Sharks (though they had less to do–the women were fine, but the actual gang members were lackluster).

That being said, I still enjoyed the show.  They really did much better than I thought they would after sitting in on a rehearsal.  And Will liked it (though some of his complaints were the same, particularly with the band), so I would say it was a victory for AHS.  And after the show, like I said, the cast of Godspell that was present dragged everyone on stage to do Bless the Lord, God Save the People, Turn Back O Man, and Day by Day, which made us all sweaty and disgusting (especially the people who had just performed in a show) but was highly fun.  And then we were off.

We watched My Cousin Vinny that night, and then stayed up with the Food Network for a while.  And that was Saturday.

Sunday was very disappointing.  We were going to get up at 10 and chill until we had to leave at 2 or 3.  However, my mom woke me up at 8:40-ish and informed me that the weather was going to be so awful that we should leave as soon as possible.  Me being hormonal and ridiculous, plus wanting to hang with Will, this rather upset me.  Not that there was anything I could do, the weather report really WAS awful.  So I talked to Whitney and we ended up deciding to go at 11.  Long story short, I woke Will up, we had breakfast and packed, and then we were off on the road.

You know, Iowa weather is really just stupid.  We had no problems at all until we got closer to Cedar Falls, at which point it got close to whiteout conditions and the roads were slushy.  We were behind a plow for a little while, which was good.  We had a number of shenanigans, such as the windshield wiper starting to break (man, that plastic is like nails on a chalkboard when it scrapes against the windshield) and something on the bike rack making a rattling noise.  Everyone got home safely, but it was just crazy.  Why did this have to happen, y’know, technically in the spring? Grr.

That being said, it was still an awesome weekend.  We finished it off by watching Dreamwork’s Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas over the internet.  Wow, I had no idea that movie was so GOOD.  Dreamworks’ 2D animated movies are really fantastic, I feel more people should take note of this.

Further, today my class was cancelled!  Hence why I am here typing instead of in class.  I suppose it wasn’t really cancelled, but we got there and waited for 20 minutes, and the professor never showed up.  Considering we were allowed to leave at 15 minutes after–and almost everyone did–I would say it was completely legal to leave.  Besides, it’s not fair of him to not show up for that long when we don’t even know how to start the next project.  It’s not like we could have started working.

So this has been a delightful string of events (minus the weater).  I am off to study a bit more for my Art History test, then the rest of the day should be mildly eventful.  More later.

Quick Update

Because perhaps I should update something other than the FF7 blog.  Seriously.  Nearly 2000 words in one post.

This has been a very good week.  Like, unusually so.  I haven’t had much homework, so I’ve been able to just chill out in the evenings, chat on AIM and play video games.  I got a few drawings done–I’m going to do a big FF7 collage (because I haven’t done one of those in a while), I designed a new character (someone should stop me–this time, it’s a member of Team Rocket…), and I just generally doodled some characters from the Wheel of Time books and my Org. Nu character.  I also wrote a section for the latest event in that club.  I am switching back and forth with Savvy to finish our collaborative mission.  I think it’s due this weekend, though…I’m not sure I’m going to get my next section done.  Whoops.  We’ve been a little tardy on finishing the whole thing, I admit.

Further, I am going home tonight!  My high school’s musical is this weekend, and I have a variety of friends going home for it.  Fortunately, one of them goes to the same school as Will, so she is picking him up (and she is a saint, since she doesn’t even know him and gets to ride with him in the car for an hour and a half until they get here) and coming to get me, then it’s 2 and a half hours until we’re home.  It’s going to be late when we get back.  That’s alright, though.  I get to be home, see the musical and all my Theatre friends, and hang out with Will.  All is right with the world.

Right now I am looking for new ringtones for my phone.  People are getting annoyed with my text ring (I don’t really blame them, it’s obnoxious and goes off a lot), plus I am aching for some new awfully rendered music.  I am kind of a loser like that.  Unfortunately, I can’t find anything I really want.  I am perusing the Final Fantasy 9 songs right now, as there are a few I really like, but I can’t find good arrangements of them.  They’re too quiet, or too incorrect (and that just bugs me), or just…weirdly orchestrated.  It is rather frustrating.

Well, I am off for now.  Until later, y’all.

Sean Connery is EVERYWHERE You Want to Be

Good Lord, I do so love these epic weekends.

Well now, let’s see here.  This has been quite a good week.  And it entailed the most epic set of people ever assembled.  Well, close, anyway.  Four of my best college friends were here, I can’t really complain.

Alright.  Alan arrived on Wednesday and just hung out that night.  He was on Spring Break, and decided to spend the last half of it hanging out here.  And who could blame him, really?  Then, on Thursday, Finley’s little brother was brought to UNI, and Alan’s younger brother drove up, too.  On top of that, Marissa stopped by to join the party.  This made our group add up to 7, which just classifies as several people.  We all went to Burger King that night, and discussed the pros–no cons really–of killing the smaller Finley, different ways to lose the game (which I just did, as did any readers), awkward high school happenings, and other things of that nature.  We then went back to the dorms and watched Iron Man, which is always a good time.

Now, it must be said that for much of this time, I was playing Phantasy Star Universe: Ambitions of the Illuminus.  I had a craving to play Phantasy Star Online and create my own character, and I had lost the disc for the game, so I bought the newer game in the series, which turned out to be a fantastic plan.  On Thursday, I told Alan he should make a character, after he hung out with me whilst I played it for a few hours.  He decided to make Sean Connery.  This was the beginning of the PSU/Sean Connery-themed weekend.

So Friday, David, Alan, and I all went up to Ames to pick up Will.  After a remarkably lively car ride back (I am used to rather quiet rides to and from Ames), we all packed into the room again–this time short several people, as everyone else had gone home to their respective houses or dorms–and once again started up PSU with Sean Connery.  Will also shared the atrocious voice acting in the first PSU game.  I am fairly certain we drove the actual inhabitants of the room crazy with our constant playing of the game…but hey, it was Sean Connery.  We later went to the Pita Pit for dinner.  I have grown to really enjoy that place, even if I get crazy nervous and self-conscious whilst ordering.

After playing a good deal more PSU (I think this was the point at which David pointed out that it was annoying), Will and I went back to my room to actually go to bed, as it was getting really late.  My roommate was staying the night at a friend’s room, so she was not there–until the morning, when she came in to do her morning routine.  Normally, I would not complain…but man her hairdryer is loud.  And she turned the faucet on to its highest setting.  I honestly find it kind of funny how loud it was.  Anyway, after waking up very late (we obviously fell back asleep after she had left), we tromped on over to 4113 again and settled in for another day of PSU.  Finley returned from home around the middle of the day, and David’s “sister”, Alenka also stopped by and hung out.  Later, we were joined by Marissa, too.  Surprisingly, instead of seeming super congested, this was just crazy fun.  We booted up Soul Calibur IV and decided to make the most epic fight; Sean Connery versus Chuck Norris.  After being highly amused at the various awkward attacks and the act of knocking other players’ clothes off, we decided it was time to make Samuel L. Jackson and Morgan Freeman, too.  And after we grew tired of Soul Calibur, there was time for Super Smash Bros. Brawl.  There is really nothing like epic Jigglypuff fights, I can say that.

That night went similarly to the night before.  It got really late, so Will and I left, and we ended up staying up way later than we thought because we were engrossed in conversation (I actually don’t know what time it was–neither of us were wearing glasses, and there aren’t any major clocks in my room, just phones and Stephanie’s alarm clock, and I don’t know where that is).  We woke up early-ish, though, and got lunch (as no one else was up yet), then we killed time with internet and guitar until David had to take Marissa to church and Will back to Ames.

The car ride back wasn’t bad.  Good music, friendly conversation, an unusually warm car, and briefly napping on Will’s shoulder (David’s unbelievably loud music woke me up eventually).  As usual, it was sad to see Will go (Note: to anyone who makes a snarky comment here, I will punch you–that aspect of the weekend, which was by far my favorite part, has been SERIOUSLY downplayed in this entry.  I dunno what it was, but this was just a particularly sweet visit…and that definitely factored into the excellence of the weekend.  And look, I didn‘t even go into it, that much.  You know I sacrifice for you readers…), but there’s next weekend to look forward to (and believe me, I do).  Finally, the car ride BACK was surprisingly enjoyable.  I had mostly expected it to be all kinds of awkward, as I was certain I had angered David the night before.  However, we just talked like friends (with the occasional David-style put-down, you know), and we listened to music.  And when we got back–more of watching Alan play as Sean Connery, at least until he had to leave (thus concluding the epic PSU/Sean Connery-themed events of the weekend).

I finished off the evening by talking to Will and Alan (who had gotten home by this point) on AIM and working on my project for 3D.  I finished the dang thing finally, and listened to the 3rd Wheel of Time audio book.  It was a nice, relaxing evening, a good end to one of the best weekends I’ve had lately.

PLUS, my first class got cancelled today, leaving me the morning to make my Playstation emulator work with Final Fantasy 7, so now I’m playing through it with the characters named after my friends.  There’s just nothing like seeing dialogue with familiar names.

More later, folks, perhaps when something equally delightful happens.  It seems to be common these days.

(P.S.  Finley, if you do indeed read this one, I do apologize that I didn’t write a paragraph about you here.  I promise I will next time, you know I‘m good for it.)

Chiggety Check Yourself Before you Wriggety Wreck Yourself

Because I do so love that phrase.  It really has nothing to do with the entry, though.

Ah, it has indeed been a while since last I posted.  Let’s see, let’s see.

Everything has pretty much been awesome.  That sums it up pretty well, I think.

Classes, with a few exceptions, have been pretty delightful.  3D is destroying my brain with frustration (I shan’t go into the whole fiasco, as I am done being angry about it, but it is a tale of woe and teachers changing assignments THROUGHOUT the period given to work on them), and Soc. is really kicking my butt, but those things aside, I can’t complain too much (I actually can’t complain at all, I gave it up for Lent…look how well THAT’S going, haha…).  I am especially enjoying Drawing, surprisingly enough, where I feel I am doing much better than last semester.  Considering that I am actually trying this time, this is not a surprising development.

Socially, I also have no complaints.  Relations with David have been reset to the kind of friendliness we had near the start of first semester, which is awesome.  Finley is a delight as always.  In fact, I need to talk about him extensively here, as he refuses to read these posts unless he is heavily discussed.  He is, as always, quite awesome.  His hair is long and flowing, reminiscent of one of those ridiculous men on the cover of romance novels (but in a good way), and his guitar skillz are unmatched, truly.  He is also a button.  But for serious, he is just as fantastic as usual.  We are enjoying Religions of the World extensively–oh Robinson, your strange little off-topic discussions are so much fun for everyone.

I got to see Grace last week, which was wonderful.  Good Lord, do I miss that girl, I am dearly hoping she’ll  be around this summer so that we may annoy everyone with our squealing, girly, geekiness.  We did not have a ton of time to hang out (nothing like the multi-day sessions of nerdiness from days of olde–playing Yu-Gi-Oh!, watching the Nightmare Before Christmas…throwing knives in my backyard to be like Will Turner…), but we rock-rocked-awn on, watching videos and eating pizza and all that jazz, plus we had the most delightful adventures on Friday.  More on that later, when I talk about Spring Break.

Will is also great.  Just in general, he is great, haha.  This will sound awfully sappy, but we had our first weekend apart since meeting (“aw, boo hoo, Gilly”, I hear you say–well you can just can it, reader), which was very strange, I must say.  He did get to visit on Saturday, though, and see the new house (again, more on that part later), and I know I will be seeing him the next TWO weekends, when he visits here this coming one and I drag him to Davenport with me to see Assumption’s musical the following one.  In any case, things are just super on this front, and as usual in the last few posts, I simply couldn’t be happier.

(Wow, I didn’t notice before now.  My best friend is named Grace, and my boyfriend is named Will.  Will and Grace…)

NOW.  Spring Break.

Spring Break was last week and BOY, are my arms tired.  …Wait, no.  Boy, was it bizarre.  Haha.  See, my parents decided to buy a new house, so they spent the last two months packing for the move.  I arrived home just in time to finish packing MY stuff and move on Friday, just two days before going back to UNI.  The week leading up to the big shindig was strange and semi-chaotic.  Almost everything in the house was in boxes, so we really had no kitchen, living room, dining room, computer room, or basement.  We consumed lots of sammiches and fast food, and my parents took off work to finish the last few boxing duties.  I, on the other hand, got to fill out summer job applications, pack the stuff under my bed, and generally seclude myself in my room, where my cats were trapped for later capturing convenience.  The only real inconvenience, though, was the losing of internet Thursday night.  It’s not like it was that big of a deal–or shouldn’t have been–but for one who stays up so late talking on AIM, it was a ridiculous, minor crisis.  Thank God for texting and Facebook messaging.

Wednesday I went to catch up with my piano teacher, then I scuttled over to Assumption to watch a rehearsal for West Side Story.  It is looking promising–though I am hoping the band gets a little more refined by the time the performance rolls around.  I was thoroughly impressed with accents–not only are none of them from New York, but none of them are Puerto Rican, and with such good accents, I was nearly convinced of both.  However, as great as Brady and Jessica are at singing, and as great as an actress as Jess is turning out to be (sorry Brady, you are good, but you are still Jesus, I’m afraid), Seth and Kathleen are so going to steal the show as Anita and Bernardo.  Their chemistry is amazing, and they are both hilarious and wonderfully talented.  This is not bias, I promise.

Friday was the move.  Grace came to help, as did both of my aunts and a slew of movers.  Grace, Aunt Sue and I were in charge of cat wrangling, which means that after Mom and I managed to somehow trap the cats unhappily in the bathroom in the old house, the three of us had to later return and take the miserable felines OUT of the tiny room and cram them into even tinier cages.  They were not happy, and that is a vast understatement.  At least the caged part shook them up so much that when we put them in the NEW house’s bathroom, they were too shocked to try and escape while we exited the room and shut the door.  After that, Grace and I ran back and forth between the houses, grabbing forgotten items and cleaning up for the new owners.  And then we arranged my room that night, making it look as decent as possible without any accessories, belongings, or a bed (since I got a new daybed for the room and it wasn’t going to arrive until Saturday).

Saturday, Will visited, which means he, too, got shanghaied into lifting heavy things and putting items on very tall shelves (as all the women putting them away were quite short, especially in comparison).  However, there was much gaming to be had (I do love me some Phantasy Star Universe: Ambitions of the Illuminus–character creation for YES), as well as Food Network watching and lounging on my awesome new bed (much to the worry of my mother, I must say).  Plus sandwiches.  I have a new love of wheat bread, mounds of cheddar and swiss, and roast beef.

I got back to school on Sunday (and it was so nice to have internet again), and finished off the break with a nice, relaxing evening.  It was a good week, I must say.  I’m looking forward to getting back home and painting my drab, white room, though.

Oh, I am starting various comic projects.  I think Grace is writing a short script for me to work on, plus I am doing a comic strip-type webcomic with Will about Phantasy Star II, and I am going to FINALLY start Cursed as a weekly webcomic.  Hopefully.  I’ve been doing a lot of concept work, figuring out exactly how I’m going to draw the characters, which has been very fun.  Everyone finally looks unique, I do believe.

I think that is all for now.  More later, plus probably a review of Uncharted, as I realize I never said anything about that wonderful, wonderful game.