hikaranko | Entries tagged with driving

in about half an hour, i have to leave the library, trek all the way across campus to that building that's too far from the library considering it houses requirement courses that revolve even just a little bit about books, barge into some classroom, get down on my knees, and beg to be added to the roster.

yeah. that should be fun. :P

and why am i out to humiliate myself so early in the morning?? because i need that damn class. and i will get it by any means necessary.
i think i have a great little spiel set out to say to the professor, too. "just let me sit through this one class to see if i think i can keep up, and if i can, then please please PLEASE let me in!" it sounds a little desperate, but hey, that's exactly what i am. now it's just a matter of being able to remember that when the time comes.
and i should be fine, right? like, i really should be able to keep up, i think i did okay in my english class in Chapman. i mean, that last essay screwed me over good, but everything else i did was good! i should be fine. yeah... -_-;;

English. good grief, man.

better than math, though. anything's better than math.

but bah. i still hate school in general.

on another note, i'm trying to think up ways to sneak off to Chapman for anime club one night via public transportation. since i'm still terrified of driving and all that... i think there's a Metrolink or something that goes down into either Anaheim or Orange County (i'll have to double check)... and then from there... umm.... okay, so i haven't worked out all the kinks in my plan. >_< but it's either that or finding some way to convince my sister to take me to Chapman...
or learning to drive and getting my license already. which i still worry about, because my driving is abysmal and i get really freaked out. then everyone gets annoyed 'cause i'm a good driver in a video game, but i argue that i don't have to worry about my actual life being in danger in a video game.
i probably drive like movie!Ed. as in, one split second of inattention will wind me up in a ditch.
and since i tend to daydream... yeah, it's really not a very good idea, i think.

and now that my sister has her 500GB external hard drive, i get her old 100GB one!! HUZZAH! STORAGE FOR MY ANIME! now i can go on a real downloading spree. XD i just hope i don't turn into my cousin. it's very weird to me that he downloads like, every single series known to mankind, manga form or anime form, but has only watched about half of them. he has this whole other untapped stock of anime and it's just like... WHOA.

after he graduates, if he doesn't go get a job right away, he's gonna sit in his apartment and just... watch everything he's got in a shot. it's gonna drive him crazy.
(sigh) i kinda know how that feels...

and for something completely new and different...

i watched trains pass by at the station last night.

hehehe, okay, well, i guess that's not all we did, but it sounds funnier that way. but yeah, a friend and i had a very deep, profound discussion last night, in which we found out what's wrong with my brain. :P it's comforting to know that i have no actual clinical mental problems. except maybe for the ADD 'cause i swear i caught my mind wandering off a couple times while i was listening to her, which stinks because i really was interested in what she was saying. but anyways, we decided i'm just a little hypersensitive, yelled at one last train as it passed by, and then went home. hooray!

after that... there was panicking about my damn art class. which is going to start in about, 4 hours. and i'm dreading it. T-T the professor scares me!

ok, must go calm down now. thinking about that suddenly got me very worked up.

Current Mood: anxious

really. i do.

sometimes.

anyways, some very bizarre things have transpired over the past... 24 hours.

for instance? a car accident.

no one was hurt, and the car didn't hit anybody else. it just went a little crazy on the overpass from the 57 freeway to the 60. one tire completely flew off (complete with a part of the axle) and the other three kinda died. the front of the car is pretty smashed up. i wasn't in the car at the time, but judging from the pictures it doesn't look like any of the windows are broken. but radiator fluid is gross looking. it looks like snot... or ecto-plasm... blegh..

but anyways... that was just a weird thing to happen to us and our car. given we get so many issues with that car, i'm kinda worried we're gonna be attacked by angry bills. but if the insurance pulls through, does that mean we get like, $50,000? (O.O) will we be able to pay for other bills with that money? does this mean we don't have to wait for KIIS FM to pay our bills on a Thursday?!?!

ahh, so many burning questions. the answer to most of 'em is probably "no", but it's nice to dream.

anyway. since we had no car today, i didn't go to school. while having another bus adventure would have been fun, i don't really wanna go to school in the first place. :P i'm not missing much by not going to that government class, and i can always find a way to make up for lost work to Fujita-sensei.

oh i forgot to talk about this!! we had a skit in Japanese class. the only requirement was that there had to be some keigo (honorific language, totally polite, really long and hard to say, pseudo-evil. "shimasu" becoming "onasaimasu" and "imasu" becoming "irrashaimasu"). our group's situation was to be in a store, and we were like, "uhhh..." but we got inspiration from the Rolling Bomber Special. the two shoppers became undercover power rangers (Nihon Defence Force!) and the shopkeeper was an undercover evil genius that works for Zarray and was planning on selling giant Eva-like robots to other evil geniuses and take over Japan and then the world. it was kinda fun, 'cause i got to strike out a bunch of cheesy power ranger poses and yell curses in Japanese. XD

hehehe. fun times, fun times.

more fun to be had

Current Mood: i'm listening to Thriller?
Current Music: Michael Jackson - Thriller

so now that i have a great new notebook type thing with completely blank pages and a hard black cover, i am working on turning it into the Great Book of Random! as of this moment, it features an enlarged version of an Ed doodle i did on lined paper (with the original doodle inserted), a little "puppet pals" version of Ed (it's so very cute! even though he's angry), random info about FMA and lyrics to "Rewrite." yes, it's very FMA dominated right now, but that will soon change! i will eventually write down the Guybrush-isms in there. and the next page i plan on dedicating to Naruto, and its insane insane-ness.

chapter 295 shocks me! waaaaaahhh!! XD but still waiting for Sauce-kay. why doesn't he just show up? all duked out in his... village of the sound... outfit... blargh, i hope he doesn't wear that goofy thing. it'll ruin his bad ass image and mess up his character. i mean, kimimaro would've been so much more intimidating if he didn't have that weird purple ribbon thing on his back. what IS that? orochimaru has the most bizarre fashion sense... or maybe he puts his subordinates in those outfits because he's cruel and gay and pedophile-ish and very Michael Jackson-like.

so my life has been consumed lately by FMA (i am now reading the manga. QUITE different from the anime, gotta say. but in a good way! still amazing!), Naruto, the computer and FanFic.net. gotta love those FMA/HP crossovers.

oh but oh! had a driving session yesterday morning with a professional driving teacher (yaaay!)! but i'm really quite the suck when it comes to turning and speed control (booo...). give me straight lines! give me straight roads and i can drive! give me zig-zags and i fail. T_T but it was a good thing that i had that session, because otherwise i would be even worse off. still kinda scary. i didn't know what was gonna happen if i bumped into something... >_<

in other news, i seem to have caught a cold. colds suck. runny noses hurt my feelings. i was sniffling all through church last night, and i felt like everyone in the chapel, all 200 some people in there, could hear me. and it didn't help that i was there early and had to wait outside in the cold for the doors to open. T_T but yeah, i'm ill, and that screws with my life a little. gahd, i'm gonna fill the tub with hot water and just sit in it. maybe the steam will clear my sinuses... *sniffle*

oh BAH!! i didn't get to go to anime club again!! T_T i wanna goooo... must get cousin who has loads of spare time to take me... still have unfinished business with Chapman, too... gotta get a form and have it signed by the dean... and then i won't be Chapman's ghost anymore. :P

engh... no use moping. this is enough for now. :)

Current Mood: oh, diseeeeease
Current Music: Eric Cartman - Come Sail Away

i spent today glued to my laptop. amazingly enough, i got a crapload of work done on my Kingdom Hearts fanfic and that makes me happy. looks like i can finally finish off the Agrabah chapters and move on with my life. XD i finally stopped working on it a little while ago upon discovering just how tired i am. so now i am wrapped under some thick, happy blankets and pretty much ready to drift off to sleep. my sisters are downstairs, though... one's watching season 2 of 24 and the other is playing the Sims.

hehe... we had a Sim scare, too. for some very peculiar reason, one of her Sims wouldn't move. he had been stuck in the carpool for hours and hours and hours, accumulating dire needs to eat, take a crap/piss, talk to someone, do something fun, and sleep. we had no idea what to do. so i pulled out a cheat and moved him out of the car. unfortunately, this caused an even bigger problem. he just floated there. nothing really changed. he still needed to fulfill all those needs but all he did was sit there. but it was weird because his kids would walk by and wave at him, and he would look at them and smile. but other than that, he couldn't do ANYTHING. we tried deleting him (and then reloaded the game 'cause he vanished), moving him into another house (but he refused to. what a loyal husband), and just dragging him around the lot. then suddenly a little message popped up saying "austin has returned home from work with $X", and the man immediately died. he dropped to his knees and died. we had his son plead for his life (and succeed! yaaay!), but then even once he was alive again, he was still doing the weird sitting down thing. but it got even weirder, because if we told him to DO something, he'd do it, but he would switch between doing what we told him to do and floating on nothing on the other side of the lot. it all eventually fixed itself, but it was very funny (to me) while it lasted. :P

other sister almost lost her phone. i said that it probably slipped into a crack somewhere and died because it's so thin. right after i said that, she found out that it DID slip through a crack in the sofa. XD i'm on a roll!

now if only i could say the same for my driving lessons... -_-;; at least i have a permit now. i'm an official student driver! i feel a little bit better on the street now. if i get pulled over for my crazy driving, at least they'll know that i'm a crazy driver for a reason. :P i basically don't really understand how the brake works. i've always associated brakes with actually STOPPING the car. i didn't know that it slowed the car down, too. ya learn new things everyday! XD

tralala... i wonder if i should keep working on Kingdom Hearts...
i'm also disappointed in myself and my weak will power. i finally succumbed to watching cutscenes and excerpts and FMVs of Kingdom Hearts 2, and holy ****in' ****, i need to get this game ASAP. and boy do i mean NOW. the opening is OMG gorgeous and awesome and just one of the most amazing recap video things that i've ever seen in my young life. i love Utada Hikaru's new theme song and how well it works with the video and i can't wait to hear it in english. waiting eagerly for the english version now. and if it ends up coming out for the PS3, i think i'm gonna strangle something.

oh yes! school update: officially have no clue what in the hell is going on. got a letter from CalState saying that i need to have 60 credits, which basically means that i'm supposed to be a college junior, which confuses everyone in my family because the website said that 60 credits aren't needed. so we have to call the school and ask about that. i just know that a return to Chapman is highly unlikely, because my parents have issues with the tuition and because of that, i can't even register for classes. but that sucks, because i like Chapman... and CalState LA has a very very ugly campus that depresses and offends me. it just happens to be conveniently located in LA, closer to home and to church and to the place where my sister works. bwah. i have no idea what's going on... i feel like a college dropout. T_T

Current Mood: confused
Current Music: Utada Hikaru - Passion