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So I decided that a quick little update of everything would be good before I bury myself in my work again...

University is...well, somewhat difficult but at the same time, manageable. Not anywhere near the same as highschool, that's for sure. Classes are good, haven't failed anything yet (though midterms are coming up, not cool) so things are going good in that aspect.

...HOWEVER, my classes can be...egh...difficult in more than challenge :/

Comparative Literature is cool, get to read a bunch of old stuff...but our Prof gives out shit notes, and we have a 10-page term paper due in Novemeber...Not fun :/

Linguistics...completely different from what I expected. It's actually a little confusing, having to learn EXACTLY what your tongue is doing when you're saying the word "Hello." It's just...weird.

Japanese is fun, probably my favourite of the bunch, but I feel inferior to some of my classmates :/ Not fun feeling inferior and crappy...

English is...well, English. Readings and Responses and Essays, what else?

Psych....egh, that class is ridiculous. Reminds me of Bio 30....but more in-depth and...blegh...

So spread those out along the week, throw in study sessions, work, food breaks, and sleep, and you have my university life Not much time for social activities, no sir.

...Speaking of Social Activities, Thanksgiving's coming up. This, of course has my parents stressed out with having to balance both Thanksgiving AND my birthday. I feel terrible for them having to deal with all that :/

I get really...uneasy during this time of year, which is odd since it's my birthday. But a lot of the time, I feel like I'm stressing my parents out with having to deal with both Thanksgiving and my birthday (family AND friends, mind you) so it makes me feel like crap :/ I've been avoiding having friend parties, because I don't want to have them deal with more stress than they need to. Family is one thing, but I don't mind not having a friend party...

...of course Mom argues with me on that and says she doesn't mind, but it still makes me feel terrible :/

Well, that's my update for now. I'll get back....eh, whenever I can. Until then.

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Other Links:
gamegirl on FF.net: [link]
gamegirl on youtube: [link]
Animethon 15 Photobucket album: [link]
Sou Kawaii Valentine's Day Photobucket album: [link]
Harufest 2009 Photobucket album: [link]
Animethon 16 Photobucket Album: [link]
Click Me: [link]

Friends:

If I forgot anyone, lemme know and I'll add you

Well well, at long last; Grade school is far in the past, and here comes the dawning of a new age: University.

....all I can say is HOLY FREAKING SHIT, THIS PLACE IS HUGE.

Seriously guys, the University of Alberta is HUGE. Like, I'd say easily 5000 people (maybe more, maybe less, IDK) and I know NOBODY there!

Well, that's a lie. I have...4 friends there. And my sister. So...Yeah. 5 people. Fun times.

Okay, so classes. Comparative Literature is cool, reading a bunch of old stories and writing notes on them. I dunno, I like reading old stories. Though, that 10-page essay does NOT sound fun. Also, there's 20 people in that class including me . Linguistics is interesting, as far as I know it's about....talking. And language. And speech. And there's 120 people in there. But my sister's in that class with me Then there's Japanese, which while fun, reminds me of being in grade 1 learning to read xD Psychology is all mind stuff, so it's kind of interesting (and there's like 300 people in that class. I know none of them) and English is...English.

Admittingly, I DID get lost and ended up in storage...DON'T ASK.

But yeah, it's crazy...almost like it's own little village community in there. It's surreal, yet cool at the same time :3

Now, with all this coursework, it means I'll probably be inactive. ...Correction, I'll be even MORE inactive than I am xD So forgive me everyone if I don't come on or if I come on complaining about something. That;s what school does to me

Well, that's all for now. Might update around my birthday...

Until then.

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Other Links:
gamegirl on FF.net: [link]
gamegirl on youtube: [link]
Animethon 15 Photobucket album: [link]
Sou Kawaii Valentine's Day Photobucket album: [link]
Harufest 2009 Photobucket album: [link]
Animethon 16 Photobucket Album: [link]
Click Me: [link]

Friends:

If I forgot anyone, lemme know and I'll add you

Well well, good mornign everyone! Animethon is officially in the past, and now it's time to comment on all the fun stuff we did!

This year a lot of the merchandise (and quite a few costumes) was themed around Soul Eater, Kuroshitsugi (or however you spell that), Vocaloids, and Pokemon. Yes, pokemon. It was an interesting mix, but fun.

As most of you know, this year I went as Persona 4's Jiraiya along with the rest of our P4 cast (which included as Yousuke, as Naoto, as Teddie, as Chie, as Kanji, and as Souji/Main Character.) We got to take a bunch of fun pictures with everyone, and even met up with a Yukiko, another Yousuke, two more Main Characters, a Naoto, and a Rise. So baisically the whole cast of Persona 4 was at Animethon this year. We took a lot of cool pictures at our photoshoots, which are all in my album.

This year I decided to be silent with other people, instead using a bunch of hand gestures and stuff, and it got really funny when and I started trying to 'score with hot studs'. By the end of the third day a lot of people knew who we were xD

THE SWAG: I got a lot of nifty stuff this year. Again, most of my money went to Artist Alley (they just have such cool stuff there), mostly to pins, surprisingly.

PRINTS: I got prints of two dragons, a blue snarling wolf thing, Minato/Main Character from Persona 3, and a sweet picture of Amaterasu and Sakuya from Okami.

PINS: For pins, I got one of a shadow heartless, a pin with Naoto from P4 and the vocaloid Kaito, a 'happy plz' face, a jolteon, an umbreon, a dragon, a new player pin from TWEWY, and jumbo pins of Death The Kid ans Soul from Soul Eater, and a Star Fox Coffee pin xD

OTHER SWAG: Compared to everything else, I didn't get much swag. I got a cool Soul Eater wall scroll and split a case of Soul Eater figurines with (she got Death the Kid and Maka, and I got Soul and Shinigami-san), and a Chrismas Chocobo plushie I plan to give to my little cousin around Christmas. I was going to buy DVDs, but they didn't have Box Set 1 of Code Geass (which I was really looking for)

The album for my Photobucket can be found here: [link]

Well now that Animethon is done, time to look to the future! Next up: Bellerose!

...Also, one last thing: I'm planning to get another table at an Artist Alley sometime in the future (maybe at Soba Bowl or Harufest again), and I'm a little drained for ideas. If anyone has any suggestions, please tell me!

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Other Links:
gamegirl on FF.net: [link]
gamegirl on youtube: [link]
Animethon 15 Photobucket album: [link]
Sou Kawaii Valentine's Day Photobucket album: [link]
Harufest 2009 Photobucket album: [link]
Animethon 16 Photobucket Album: [link]
Click Me: [link]

Friends:

If I forgot anyone, lemme know and I'll add you

Hello Hello everybody! How are you all enjoying your summer? Good? Excellent!

...Okay I know I should be studying for my Diploma but whatever. It's social >>

So, it's summer, and we all know what that means; sunlight, the Summer Game Drought, vacations, summer jobs, relaxing...AND ANIMETHON

I know that Animethon is a good couple of months away, but I'd like to get this out as soon as I can. I've decided to get back into my pipecleaner building (I haven't made much since Harufest) for Animethon.

I've decided to NOT get an Artist Alley booth this time, since my request line was..well, really rushed, and decided to do things differently; if anyone would like me to make them something out of pipecleaners, please let me know here. I'll make it for you, and then you track me down at Animethon and I'll give them to you :3 That way people get exactly what they want! Prices will be no less than $5, no more than $20. I'll be walking around dressed as Jiraiya from Persona 4 (He looks like this: [link] )

So if you'd like me to make you something, and you're going to be at Animethon, please leave a comment describing what you'd like and who you're cosplaying as (not required, just so I can look out for you as well), and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

All funds go to support my mac and cheese addiction

CURRENT REQUESTS:
- Neku and Beat (TWEWY)
- Shibuya Hanekoma (OC from TWEWY) and Rokuten Mao (P4)
(I believe it was you) - Lavi and Allen (D.Gray-Man)


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Other Links:
gamegirl on FF.net: [link]
gamegirl on youtube: [link]
Animethon 15 Photobucket album: [link]
Sou Kawaii Valentine's Day Photobucket album: [link]
Harufest 2009 Photobucket album: [link]
Click Me: [link]

Friends:

If I forgot anyone, lemme know and I'll add you

As the name suggests, I went to Video Games Live this monday

I have to thank for bringing me along with her! For those unfamiliar, Video Games Live is a concert where they get a big simphony to play video game music while footage plays in the background, and hosted by Tommy Talarico. It was pretty sweet

Before the show they had some stuff going on, like Guitar Hero tournaments, Street Fighter, Resident Evil 5, stuff like that. They also showed some videos and had a cosplay contest. The winner was so clever: She wore a black sweater with twi whitew lines on the arms, and a white ball on her head. She was Pong xDD

The Acts:
8-Bit
They opened with a montage of 8-bit games like Gradius and Donkey Kong and Tetris and stuff. It was pretty epic hearing the old themes played by the simphony :3

Metal Gear
This one was pretty epic. As they played the music, a guy in a box came out, along with a guard. The guard was looking around, then all of a sudden a '!' appeared over him as the 'There he is!' tune sounded. It was so awesome xD He looked around and ran into the audience before going back on stage and giving up

Final Fantasy Piano
Remember the guy in the box? It turned out to be that Super Mario pianist (Can't remember his name, but he can play the Mario theme blindfolded). Ce came out and played a montage of Final Fantasy music, like the title screen and Aeris' theme and the Waltz from Final Fantasy 8...and some other songs xD

Mass Effect
They played some Mass Effect music and stuff. Not much to comment on XD

Space Invaders
Here, they called one guy out from the audience to come up and play Space Invaders. They gave him a shirt to wear that would track his movements (meaning if he went left, the ship would move left) and a trigger to shoot. Then the orchestra played along as the guy progressed. He didn't win,unfortunately xD

Pong
This part was cool, because they showed us a video of the old man who invented videogames, and then we got to talk to him through Skype. When he asked if anyone had questions, someone asked what his Gamer Tag for XBox Live was xD He was like "I don't have an x-box, I'm too old to play videogames"

Kingdom Hearts
Here they played the orchestraeic version of Simple and Clean from Kingdom Hearts. Unfortunately, Square wasn't letting them use game footage and so they used Disney Footage instead xD

Beyond Good and Evil
They played some Beyond Good and Evil music here. Not much to comment, again xD

Tron
Here they played TROOOOOOOOOOOOOON!! Again, not much to say xD

Zelda
Of course, they played Zelda. When they showed all the footage, I think only me and one other person actually cheered when the Majora's Mask footage came up (I still hold that game higher than Ocarina of Time). That's kinda sad, but I felt for since she was the ONLY one who cheered for Wind Waker xD

Then there was intermission xD

Splitting Atom/Need For Speed Undercover
They got this band out after the break to play the opening theme for Need For Speed Undercover. I was actually confused here, because I wasn't sure if the graphics they were showing were graphics from the game, or real-life people o_o

Warcraft
They played some Warcraft footage here. During the WoW parts, I was tempted to yell out 'For the Horde!!' but I didn't xD

Super mario
They got some Super Mario footage up with the music. Not much to comment on xD

Mario piano
They brought out the Piano guy again to play some Mario themes. He played the Mario theme blindfolded again, and then played Yoshi's Island. He even did the little thing when you're running out of time and need to hurry up, and played faster

Guitar Hero
Here they got this one kid out to play Guitar Hero Aerosmith, since he was thee tournament winner. They told him to get 20,000 points on Hard to win (though he asked to bump the difficulty to Expert). He played Sweet Emotion, and ended up with a 97% note hit, a 398 note streak, and over 300,000 points. Baisically he shattered the old Video Games Live world record xD

Final Fantasy VII/One Winged Angel
They played Onewinged Angel here, and again weren't allowed to use actual footage. So instead they used cosplay footage. They showed one picture of Sephiroth, and I couldn't help but yell out "IT LOOKS LIKE A GIRL!!" I got some laughs from that xD

Halo 3 OSTD
They showed some footage of the new Halo 3 game they're making, along with the music. 'Nuff said.

Halo
After the OSTD, they just did a compilation of all the Halo games and stuff. I actually yelled out "BLUE TEAM FOR THE WIN!" and got a few cheers out of it

Castlevania
Even though I haven't played the games, I'm tempted to after seeing this xD The music was very well done for this O:

Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross
Apparantly this was one of the most requested games at VGL.. I didn't know any music, but it all sounded good

Merchandise:
I picked up a sweet-looking Video Games Live t-shirt, as well as the L33tstr33t Boys CD. Also, I got a cap as a thank-you for taking me there.

Well, that's all for now. Until next time!

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Other Links:
gamegirl on FF.net: [link]
gamegirl on youtube: [link]
Animethon 15 Photobucket album: [link]
Sou Kawaii Valentine's Day Photobucket album: [link]
Harufest 2009 Photobucket album: [link]
Click Me: [link]

Friends:

If I forgot anyone, lemme know and I'll add you