25 November 2004
Most Memorable Turkey Day
So many firsts including: first Thanksgiving away from family, having classes on Thanksgiving, enjoying said classes, spending the entire afternoon traipsing on the London Underground, going to Camden for the first time (with two lovely ladies, whee :D ), and generally having a fantastic Thanksgiving Day. Hopefully it'll get better from here. Not quite sure what I've got on tap but go figure. Today is just kinda legendary to me already! Anyhow I said it already but Happy Thanksgiving to all, I will see you all sooner then you think (muwahaha!)
24 November 2004
23 November 2004
Almost Undisputed Trivia Champs
And we were the only international team too. The joint US-Canadian (UW Stevens Point and U of Quelph) effort brought a close second place! It would help if the guy doing the trivia knew his Star Wars quotes correctly. Which movie do you think "You're all clear kid, now let's blow this thing and go home" came from? Anyhow...
Almost done with the World War 2 paper rough draft. Then I've only got the 10-20 page Brit History paper on the IRA and the Shakespeare paper all 6 or so pages of crap I need to turn out for that lousy class. I don't like it much, can you tell?
Exalted: Fair Folk is almost out. The artists/authors have gotten their copies. Finally got to see some art and charm trees (technically art) and they look very cool. Fae (er Raksha is technically what we're supposed to call them now) nobles are incredibly bad-ass. They start out with 3 dots in all attributes and get a 10/7/4 breakdown (max of 7 starting in any attribute) so they can do a heck of a lot of damage from the get go although I suspect there are some serious drawbacks to keep them from maruading freely across Creation. Regardless running around with beginning characters who could easily have Str + Ath of 12 (that's strong enough to throw a Volkswagen around folks!) from the get-go should make a ST or two a bit nervous. At least I'll have another fun thing to toss into my game I am theoretically running this spring. Need to work out details whence I get back home to all my beloved books but if you are a Pointer and want in let me know! (Lars ya count even though you technically graduated several decades ago. ;) )
Not much else to talk about on the England front at the moment. The farthest I have gotten away from ISH or MTH is for walks with Trisha into Regents Park (which at max is a mile and probably not even that far away). I am happy cause I found someone to walk with! It has also managed to warm up appreciably here from last weekend which is nice. Jeff took some iniative, which itself is not unheard of, and figured out to turn our radiators on, although they aren't very warm they help. Plus Jeff didn't kill us all in turning the radiators on! Luckily his girlfriend sent him something to warm the place up but he can't open it up to see what it is til Dec. 1st (hehe I know what it is!).
I should return to my paper now. I am enjoying reading about the Russian front in World War II which I think is seriously under covered in American classes. The Russians could have beaten the Germans without us and what do most Americans think the major turning point of the war was? Normandy. Don't get me wrong that was quite important for post-war things but the Russians coulda rolled right to Normandy if need be. That woulda been one heck of a Soviet Union then!
Almost done with the World War 2 paper rough draft. Then I've only got the 10-20 page Brit History paper on the IRA and the Shakespeare paper all 6 or so pages of crap I need to turn out for that lousy class. I don't like it much, can you tell?
Exalted: Fair Folk is almost out. The artists/authors have gotten their copies. Finally got to see some art and charm trees (technically art) and they look very cool. Fae (er Raksha is technically what we're supposed to call them now) nobles are incredibly bad-ass. They start out with 3 dots in all attributes and get a 10/7/4 breakdown (max of 7 starting in any attribute) so they can do a heck of a lot of damage from the get go although I suspect there are some serious drawbacks to keep them from maruading freely across Creation. Regardless running around with beginning characters who could easily have Str + Ath of 12 (that's strong enough to throw a Volkswagen around folks!) from the get-go should make a ST or two a bit nervous. At least I'll have another fun thing to toss into my game I am theoretically running this spring. Need to work out details whence I get back home to all my beloved books but if you are a Pointer and want in let me know! (Lars ya count even though you technically graduated several decades ago. ;) )
Not much else to talk about on the England front at the moment. The farthest I have gotten away from ISH or MTH is for walks with Trisha into Regents Park (which at max is a mile and probably not even that far away). I am happy cause I found someone to walk with! It has also managed to warm up appreciably here from last weekend which is nice. Jeff took some iniative, which itself is not unheard of, and figured out to turn our radiators on, although they aren't very warm they help. Plus Jeff didn't kill us all in turning the radiators on! Luckily his girlfriend sent him something to warm the place up but he can't open it up to see what it is til Dec. 1st (hehe I know what it is!).
I should return to my paper now. I am enjoying reading about the Russian front in World War II which I think is seriously under covered in American classes. The Russians could have beaten the Germans without us and what do most Americans think the major turning point of the war was? Normandy. Don't get me wrong that was quite important for post-war things but the Russians coulda rolled right to Normandy if need be. That woulda been one heck of a Soviet Union then!
20 November 2004
Regged
Yay registration went off without a hitch for me for the spring! Sadly I have an 8am class 4 days a week which I had no choice on taking (only section of a required CIS course). However I have only one class on Fridays and it's done at noon so going home will be easily facilated if need be and otherwise I have long weekends. In general my schedule will be pretty busy during the week tho so all my fun will be moved to nights and weekends. Maybe I will get more homework done tho if I am stuck on campus and can't play around on the web as much. I can dream at least!
It's gotten chilly over here since it started raining on Thursday. It has to be close to freezing out there and it's that damp chill which cuts through just about everything. I am not real upset that it is raining today because I need to do homework (I am doing some at the moment) so this will keep me motivated to stay in and do it rather then going finding Trisha or someone else to go for a walk. I wasted a good hour and a half doing that yesterday but Trisha hadn't been to Primrose Hill so it was well worth it. Ironically we got there about sunset (which is 4pmish or earlier here) so the whole city looked pretty damned cool.
This whole week has been rather unproductive and we've been staying up til 3AM watching movies on Jon's laptop. The group varies somewhat but it's usually me, Jon, Jeff, Leah, and Trisha. Other people occasionally show up. Jeff and Jon (lightweights!) never make it through the second movie. It's good fun and we found a decent pizza place that delivers too. Gotten some quality Risk games in as well. It's funny how Filteau tries to make everyone think he is not out just for himself and that when he is feeling like he's in a bad position how he tries to diss other people so he looks better. Greatly amusing :D Jeff did well last night but Jon has managed to be in second place the last two games which is pretty good considering that he has hardly played. It looks like Risk and Axis & Allies will become a mainstay of our getting togethers back home. At least I found people who'll play those games it had been forever since I had played them previously!
Time to return to the homework. Going to try and complete the geography paper so I only have a Brit history, WW2 history, and Shakespeare paper left. The long ones which require actual quoting of sources and such. This week is gonna involve oh so much typing!
It's gotten chilly over here since it started raining on Thursday. It has to be close to freezing out there and it's that damp chill which cuts through just about everything. I am not real upset that it is raining today because I need to do homework (I am doing some at the moment) so this will keep me motivated to stay in and do it rather then going finding Trisha or someone else to go for a walk. I wasted a good hour and a half doing that yesterday but Trisha hadn't been to Primrose Hill so it was well worth it. Ironically we got there about sunset (which is 4pmish or earlier here) so the whole city looked pretty damned cool.
This whole week has been rather unproductive and we've been staying up til 3AM watching movies on Jon's laptop. The group varies somewhat but it's usually me, Jon, Jeff, Leah, and Trisha. Other people occasionally show up. Jeff and Jon (lightweights!) never make it through the second movie. It's good fun and we found a decent pizza place that delivers too. Gotten some quality Risk games in as well. It's funny how Filteau tries to make everyone think he is not out just for himself and that when he is feeling like he's in a bad position how he tries to diss other people so he looks better. Greatly amusing :D Jeff did well last night but Jon has managed to be in second place the last two games which is pretty good considering that he has hardly played. It looks like Risk and Axis & Allies will become a mainstay of our getting togethers back home. At least I found people who'll play those games it had been forever since I had played them previously!
Time to return to the homework. Going to try and complete the geography paper so I only have a Brit history, WW2 history, and Shakespeare paper left. The long ones which require actual quoting of sources and such. This week is gonna involve oh so much typing!
17 November 2004
No Side
Well the election is over. Bush won. I actually spent quite awhile thinking and working on a response which now I don't think I am going to use despite working on it a fair amount. Thus this will be less eloquent then what I had written so sorry about that. Maybe if I am motivated I will put that up sometime later (it is ensconed in my actual journal somewhere).
Anywho...
Bush won. It's not the end of the world. 59 million Americans are not stupid, not bigoted, not whatever. They voted what's right, that's democracy. Be glad we don't have another 2000 fiasco! And the seperation of church and state means that the church does not directly rule (ala Church of England and/or the Catholic church), the fact people vote along the lines of their religious beliefs probably just indicates they actually believe in their said faith! Pretty sure ol' TJ (Thomas Jefferson) said something along those lines back in his day.
Right, so those are my short comments on the whole mess. Randon and scattered cause I am writing this late over a game of Risk (which Filteau is screwing up!) These last 2.5 weeks are heavy with homework. Very heavy. I have nearly 30 pages worth of stuff to write!
I've also been trying to get out and do stuff with people outside of our group (ala the people I game with who are fun but can tell some tales of NHS) and with other folks as well ( :D ).
Now if I can just figure out about a place to live back home and Salt then life will be good. Oh I'd like the Wales trip to run Sunday too.
Politics and my life, what a weird post.
Anywho...
Bush won. It's not the end of the world. 59 million Americans are not stupid, not bigoted, not whatever. They voted what's right, that's democracy. Be glad we don't have another 2000 fiasco! And the seperation of church and state means that the church does not directly rule (ala Church of England and/or the Catholic church), the fact people vote along the lines of their religious beliefs probably just indicates they actually believe in their said faith! Pretty sure ol' TJ (Thomas Jefferson) said something along those lines back in his day.
Right, so those are my short comments on the whole mess. Randon and scattered cause I am writing this late over a game of Risk (which Filteau is screwing up!) These last 2.5 weeks are heavy with homework. Very heavy. I have nearly 30 pages worth of stuff to write!
I've also been trying to get out and do stuff with people outside of our group (ala the people I game with who are fun but can tell some tales of NHS) and with other folks as well ( :D ).
Now if I can just figure out about a place to live back home and Salt then life will be good. Oh I'd like the Wales trip to run Sunday too.
Politics and my life, what a weird post.
03 November 2004
01 November 2004
Vote
So yea, go vote. Despite what the idiots may say it doesn't matter who you vote for so long as you vote. And if anyone tells you that you voted the "right" way smack them. Seriously that ticks me off. And also, every election is equally important. This one is no more so. But like I said what matters is that you vote.
I voted awhile ago, if you are wondering who then you need to reread this. What did I do on election day? I watched "The Girl Next Door" which I highly recommend. So after you vote go do that.
And those of you with a significant other, be happy. You're lucky.
Jolan Tru.
I voted awhile ago, if you are wondering who then you need to reread this. What did I do on election day? I watched "The Girl Next Door" which I highly recommend. So after you vote go do that.
And those of you with a significant other, be happy. You're lucky.
Jolan Tru.
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