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Summer so far The following is just an all-purpose, general update since the last entry since it's been one heck of a long time. Marks have popped up on ROSI and I find them funny. Not "haha" funny but sort of peculiar funny. This semester, I can honestly state that it's been the one that I've tried and worried the least since I started university. I've had four courses, three of them being C level and one being B level. One of the courses, I registered into a month late and one (Lit&Culture 2) that I seriously could not stand, from the course material to the professor teaching it. I only actually did all the readings for my Tragedy course, only skimming over the readings for Shakespeare 2 and Bible 2 and sticking with just skimming sparknotes for the Lit/Culture course. For no course did I study more than 2 hours the night before for the exam and even those were sort of...half-assed efforts. Despite all of this, this semester is the year that I've scored highest in my university career thus far, resting an a 3.25 GPA for this session as compared to the usual 2.6-2.8 as was normal in the past. For those non-GPA minded, my marks this session has been around high 70's, low 80's as compared to my previous years where it's been typically a full 10% lower. So what's that tell you...? I'm very confused as to it and honestly, don't quite know what to make of it. It's not like I had only easy, coasting courses this year either...the Shakespeare and Bible courses were fairly heavy duty and the Lit/Culture course was truly a huge chore to get through...and yet, marks... -.- I don't know what to make of it in the least. Added to that, some more girl problems. Not relationship issues but like...literally, problems with a girl XD. In the game Conquer, I run/ran a guild. By no means, was it a big guild, consisting of just 10 people, most of us going way back to the beginning but it was a nice guild and I liked it, and still DO like it though I don't really play much anymore. Another casual friend was added to the guild and I swear, she could have been Sabrina's clone. You remember her? The one who would take any real or imagined criticism and get all...like, drama queen over it. EXACTLY the same with this girl. One night...she started talking about how aroused she was and more, and more and more along those lines. Now, I'm no prude or nothing, so don't get that kind of impression of me but there are certain lines that just really shouldn't be crossed and announcing to 5-6 people online in the guild that you're naked, and playing one handed so you can fondle yourself at the same time...man, does that EVER cross the line. Nothing was said immediately but after she left for the night, I asked the other folks how they felt about it and they all professed a certain measure of discomfort. So the next day, when she popped online, I talked to her, telling her that while she was fun and all, sometimes, she took things a bit too far and would she mind toning down the adult content out of consideration for the other members of the guild. Oh man...hissy fit. I started getting hit with crap like, "fine, I just won't talk at all cause it BUGS you Perry." Of course, I try to explain that it wasn't everything she said, just some things that crossed the unspoken but near universally understood lines of decency and common sense. Then she leaves the guild and starts yelling at me in a whisper, telling me that since I couldn't stand her talking, she'd just leave my guild entirely and she hoped that I enjoyed myself alone cause I couldn't stand other people talking. I swear...I had to do a doubletake to make sure that it wasn't Sabrina under a new character and even KNOWING that it wasn't her, I wasn't sure, do you get my drift? I mean, they could have been twins...more than twins, the same person. Creeped me out. Another buddy in the guild, a guy we call Spells, made the comparison even before I could call his attention to it, which was eerie as heck. So that's Conquer for ya...lucky I'm not playing much right now because I've been lost in World of Warcraft >.<. It's not the big things that have drawn me into the game but all of the tiny little things that just flesh everything out. I bought myself a pet kitten. She doesn't particularly DO anything in combat or out of it but it's adorable to have a little kitten following you around everywhere you go. I've bought the friend that got me to play a "Mood Ring" that cracked her up as she'd never known they existed. Even now, I'm leveling up my skill in Tailoring so that I can make her a "Swashbuckler's Shirt" and buy her a pet parrot XD (she's always had a strange obsession with pirates ^.^"). It's things like that, a million and one of them that keeps me coming back for more...all of the little extra things that don't much affect your stats or how you fight, but just keep your interest and keep you searching for more. The girl I'm tutoring is doing fine and once his school semester ends, my hours tutoring will be doubled each week so hooray for that too. No real new musical obsessions...though I've been listening to the awesome "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen quite a bit lately. Mom's somewhat peeved at me again lately but what else is new? The latest issue is the fact that I didn't go to a family gathering at my maternal uncle's house last night. Did I have previous plans? No. Did I personally have any problems with any of that household? Again, no. But here's the thing...they make my sister feel unwelcome...nothing overt, but more like passive aggression, without speaking about it or making it clear, they avoid her and do their best not to engage her in conversation and any place that makes HER feel unwelcome isn't a place I want to be, family or not. Protest baby, Kim family for life XD. So that's my life and summer thus far. How's yours? |