I like presents, generally. I don't like getting presents for people. I can't wait until I'm old enough that I can give people money in an envelope and tell them to buy something they like. My biggest fear is that some friend will get me a present and force me to reciprocate. Birthdays are bad, but Christmas is the worst because it's all together, A TON OF PRESENTS ALL TOGETHER JFC HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO COPE. So I usually team up with my siblings and we get the presents for our parents, etc, together, this way we only need one brainwave. But we didn't know what to get for each other, so I was about to suggest let's not get each other presents this year, too much of a hassle, when my sister comes up all happy and tells me that she and my brother finally found presents for me. WEEPING. PANICKING. DENIAL. So I just spent the afternoon trying to find presents for them and I think I did it? I did not find the game my brother wanted bc it went out of print like ten years ago or smth so I got him a nerdy cookbook. Then weeping again because I found the very same thing that my sister wanted and couldn't find anywhere, the same thing I told her last week it was impossible to find. Now I just have to hope that nothing gets ~lost~ in the mail.

Oh and the other presents aren't even wrapped yet because nobody can be arsed. So much holiday spirit in the air in this house.

So Peyton's been bothering me to update my LJ but I felt like RL was too boring and sad and derpy to talk about that and I've already got Tumblr for fandom squee. Which mostly equates to writing inane strings of letters in the tags of gifsets that give me feels, but still. Isa posted this meme thingy today and I thought YES GOOD SHE'S GOING TO TELL ME WHAT TO TALK ABOUT. And thus an update was born.

Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal.

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Oh, also before I forget, Teen Wolf has eaten my mind.

Come join beacon_hills, an interactive challenge comm for Teen Wolf. The very first Phase is starting soon STARTED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO ACTUALLY and it'd be great fun to have some new member join in the fun. There are two teams: team_argent and team_hale. They're both great teams, and which ever team you join EVEN THOUGH TEAM HALE IS TOTES THE BEST BECAUSE IT'S REN'S TEAM, you will be sure to have a great time competing. Apply for a team and be sure to tell them I sent you.

I think an update on my life is long overdue because I don't even remember the last time I posted here. It's not really an OMGSTILLALIVE post because lol I'm stuck with my uni's crappy wifi rn that loads one page every 10 minutes, I'm supposed to be studying but I have no lessons and no willpower to do anything even remotely productive, think of it as me rising from the grave as an unquiet spirit to bother you with my incoherent wall of text. Or whatever.

♠ My course load this semester is... eh. I've had worse, but the timetable itself sucks. I get home at 9PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays because I have lots of free periods. And I told myself I'd be good and use this time to study, but who am I kidding, I always bring my laptop on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So it's like 40% study, 60% try to connect to the internets and waste time because I'm tired. And despite being tired I just can't go to sleep before midnight, and even when I do I end up tossing and turning in my bed until almost 2am. IDK why, I'm like BODY I WENT TO SLEEP EARLY FOR YOUR SAKE SO FALL ASLEEP ALREADY and my body's like LOL NOPE and my brain's like WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO REMIND YOU OF YOUR LIFE AND YOUR FUTURE SO YOU CAN WORRY AND NOT RELAX EVEN ONE BIT and then I'm dead in the morning. Though, afternoon naps? Feasible. Oversleeping? Hell yes. I just can't sleep when I should.

♠ The courses themselves would be interesting, if not for the teachers. I have functional analysis and geometry with two professors I already know from first year. They're not bad, but they talk too quickly and write things messily and I have a hard time keeping track of what's happening. I've been trying to keep up with at least geometry, but for every hour of lesson I'd need two hours to understand my scribbles. Most likely I'll end up studying on the online pdfs, which look neat and ordered but aren't as in-depth as the lessons. Then I've got yet another course with the same dumb professor that drove me crazy last semester because she talks slooow and dumbs down everything to high school level. Yeah, there's this trend of either too easy or too hard, idk. But I like the subject. I think from next week I'm going to skip every other lecture because the dumb is killing me. Plus I have the course that's crazy late in the evening and I can't even skip because attendance is mandatory, but it's game theory and I love it. The only problem is that it's for all students, not just mathematicians, so everything's dumbed down and we waste forever on stuff like DO YOU KNOW HOW TO CALCULATE THE AVERAGE BETWEEN TWO NUMBERS? DO YOU KNOW HOW TO CALCULATE A WEIGHTED AVERAGE? and blah. This scary amount of maths drove away most non-mathematicians anyway, so last week the level improved a bit. Here's to hoping it'll get even more interesting. Because rn I've been entertaining myself by thinking up elaborate fandom scenarios for all the examples.

♠ THERE WAS THIS ONE EXAMPLE CALLED THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES. I TOTALLY RENAMED IT AS THE BATTLE OF THE REMOTE CONTROL BECAUSE ALL OF THIS PROFESSOR'S EXAMPLES ARE SEXIST AS FUCK, SHE EVEN COMMENTED ON IT AND I WAS LIKE "Y U NO FIX THIS" BUT APPARENTLY LOL NO, WE NEED TO HAVE THE BOY WHO WANTS TO GO TO A FOOTBALL MATCH AND THE GIRL WHO WANTS TO GO TO THE CINEMA TO WATCH SOME ROMANTIC CRAP. SO I CHANGED IT TO CAP WANTS TO WATCH CSI AND IRON MAN WANTS TO WATCH GREY'S WHICH IS 1) CANON, 2) WAY MORE AWESOME, 3) IT WAS 7PM AND MY SANITY WAS GONE. MY NOTES FOR THIS COURSE = FOREVER THE BEST.

♠ SHE DIDN'T TELL US THE STORY OF THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS IT AND IT'S EVEN IN MOVIES AND TV SHOWS AND STUFF. :| I AM DISAPPOINT ALSO BECAUSE IN MOVIES AND TV SHOWS PEOPLE WHO TEACH GAME THEORY ARE MORE AWESOME THAN HER. HOLLYWOOD LIED TO ME. SO I DECIDED THAT THE PRISONER'S DILEMMA IS THE STORY OF BELLE AND RUMPELSTILTSKIN IN OUAT. IT ENDS BAD BECAUSE IT'S A NASH EQUILIBRIUM LOL IT COULDN'T HAVE GONE ANY OTHER WAY BECAUSE RUMPLY IS SMART. BEST NOTES EVER, I TELL YOU.

♠ Aside from my very exciting courses, my life is... er... non-existent? I just don't have time to do anything, it seems. It's my birthday in one week though, maybe I could muster some strength and guilt-trip my sister into taking me shopping because I haaate shopping and I'll never go on my own but I really need a new pair of jeans. And shoes because I'm still pretending that it's winter but really it's not but ugh new shoes are the worst. Can I be 4yo again and have my mum do all my shopping for me?

So, by the way, I typed this before lunch and had to wait to post because did I mention that the wifi here sucks. And now I have to wait until 5pm to go to lesson and turn game theory into epic adventures of fictional characters. Woe.

@Yu, Chibi, Nee: giovedì 1 marzo alle 9 circa andava bene a tutte. \o/ Estendo l'invito a chiunque voglia accodarsi.

STAR TREK (2009)


THURSDAY, MARCH 1ST


8PM UTC

JOIN US? THERE'S GOING TO BE A CHATROOM AND (AT LEAST) FOUR ITALIAN FANGIRLS DISCUSSING THE MERITS OF THIS GREAT MASTERPIECE OF INTERGALACTIC CINEMATOGRAPHY AND STUFF BLOWING UP AND TIME TRAVEL AND LIVE LONG AND PROSPER.

I CAN PROBABLY FIND YOU DOWNLOAD LINKS IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF THEM.


Since everyone and their goldfish knows that Benny is in the next Star Trek film. Also did I just attempt to type it as Stark Trek. Tonyyy!

Dato che io mi muovo rapidamente solo quando c'è da organizzare vaccate. Sento il bisogno impellente di riguardare Star Trek (XI) ~because of reasons~ e le nuove foto del set non aiutano. Quindi, donne, ditemi una data in cui possiamo rimirarlo tutte insieme. Chibi non può prima di mercoledì, quindi facciamo la prima settimana di marzo? Per l'orario diciamo indicativamente verso le 9 di sera (anche se si sa che poi si inizia tardi).

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I've been the worst person ever lately, I kept meaning to update but never did because my life seems boring and who would want to hear about me anyway. It's an awkward period anyway. Not... sure what's happening, it's like I've started hanging out with a new group of people and I don't know them very well so I'm on the sidelines but it's fun, but then I get distracted and forget about old friends. Urgh. Self, you suck at Friendship 101. Maybe the pony cartoon can actually teach me something, haha.

(Also, much hate for people who call when I'm in my room and the phone is two floors down, and it stops ringing before I can get to it. Srsly, if it's not important and you can't even wait one minute for me to get my ass downstairs, why bother in the first place.)

Exam yesterday. I'm crossing all my fingers that it went well, and it's killing me that I have no idea how I did because it was such a random exam, more like philosophy than maths. I did answer all questions, though, so I'm hoping I did well and I can get results soon and put this course behind me. I'm really disappointed because I thought it would teach me how to teach maths, I've tutored a couple of kids in the past (with mixed results) and even though I'm not considering teaching as a career I would have liked to learn more about teaching, and how to better explain maths to kids, and so on. Instead I got a load of bullshit about alternative teaching methods based on group work and how it's so important to develop social skills along with numerical skills. Which, tbh, I don't give a crap about, I like maths because it doesn't require social skills. Also I think all those ~alternative methods are flawed because they're written from the perspective of 60-smth professors who are way out of touch with the way kids think. Some of the tips are ridic, there's a part that says: "If a shy student is having troubles working with his group, you should approach them and give them tips on how to proceed, speaking quietly so that only they can hear, as if you were their accomplice. This will help create a friendly bond between teacher and student." I am headdesking because if it had happened to me I would have 1) died of embarrassment, 2) been mocked as a teacher's pet by the group I was working with, 3) hated that teacher forever. So yeah, really hoping I didn't flunk this one because I'd hate to waste more time on this psychology crap. (I mean no offense to those who study psychology for realz, but this course is ridic and not at all my cup of tea.)

SPEAKING OF WHICH, I WILL NOW MAKE TEA AND MY MOOD WILL IMPROVE. Because I'm still in a slump after watching XMFC with the clawsies, I couldn't sleep until 4am and I kept thinking about Charles and Erik's troubled love and urgh. Feelings.

So internet is back. And I'm going crazy running up and down and trying to do seven things at once. So much for my vow to study allll day long today. (It's a stupid subject anyway.) PEYTON I AM COMING FOR YOU!

The phone company said they'd fix it in 72 hours, not counting weekends because they're not working on weekends ofc, this was one week ago and I'm starting to remember why I hate living in this country. Also my train today was 45 minutes late and freezing cold. Right now I'm in uni because I needed to tell my prof that I'm a failboat and I'll try his exam again in a couple of months. TBH I think if I winged it he would have given me high marks all the same because he gives 30/30 to everyone unless you make blatantly huge mistakes, I could've probably winged 27/30, but it's one of the big important exams and I want to at least know this subject better than so-so. He was happy with my reasoning. I'm less happy that I'm sitting here in uni and it's so cold I have to keep my coat and scarf inside, but at least there's free wifi. Which is slow as fuck, but any port in a storm. So far I've also mooched internet access from one of my mum's friends, and dad bought one of those USB internet thingies but it's slow as fuck and has such a low limit that really I can't use it for more than reading/writing mail. I had to download a largish pdf for my next exam and I didn't do it last night because it would have taken forever. Largish here is 120 pages. I cannot. All I want is Glee's cover of Smooth Criminal which gives me all the feelings for Santana and makes me forget I'm straight. At least if I had TV shows I would be distracted. Instead I've almost finished ADWD which gives me all the feelings BUT IN A VERY BAD WAY. SRSLY HE IS WHO?! AND SHE DID WHAT?! WTF IS GOING ON WHERE'S THE NEXT BOOK.

ETA: Also I acknowledge I'm the worst flister ever since I never ever comment and I have an awful ego and always talk about my stuff anyway, so if you want to defriend me I won't mind and tbh I probably won't notice because I'm ditzy so yay defriending amnesty is go!