Last night, I stumbled upon people printing out copies of the Paladin (the school's little magazine/newspaper thing) and one of them was printed with the wrong settings and turned out REALLY tiny. Seriously, they're normally about the size of a regular magazine, but this one was smaller than a graphic novel but still as thin as a magazine (the words/pictures were shrunk, but amazingly, still readable.) There was also a picture of a gun in there that made me think of a fusion of a revolver and a hairdryer at first glance, though looking at it again I'm guessing the "hairdryer" part on the front of the barrel was just supposed to be the rifling grooves on the inside of the barrel (it's at an unusual angle, not quite a regular side-view.)
Speaking of the Paladin, there's a list of "101 things to do before you leave SVU." Some of them make it obvious that this list was being built up looooong before this issue of the Paladin was printed (#30, "make a waffle topped with every ice cream flavor in the Dining Hall"--problem: the waffle-makers are no longer in the Dining Hall!), while others (a lot of others) are things that involve actually leaving SVU, and not always to places that are nearby or on trips that are actually required or given as an option for school (such as #58, "take a trip to Virginia Beach.") And of course, there's Mormon-y things (#51, have a Sunday evening scripture study group on the Blue Ridge Parkway) and things that only people who actually have some luck with girls/dating can do, such as #3 (kiss in front of the knight statue.) I'm actually surprised that there's only one of those on the list, considering how frequently "instant relationships" sprout up (and then rapidly shrivel away) around here. Heck, with the frequency it happens at, "get into a relationship that doesn't last more than a semester" could probably be on this list!
I also found out the other day that one of the few people I've met here who isn't Mormon is going to be baptized into the church pretty soon. Weird. This happened last year, too, though I don't know the girl who's getting baptized this year as well as I did the girl who did it last year. If this keeps up, I'm probably going to be the only non-Mormon in the school by the time I graduate. Or maybe not quite the only one, but pretty close. I'm definitely not going to be one of the ones who randomly gets baptized, at least!
Friday, January 25, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Wow... not even a month and I've already gotten into a habit of not updating this. XD
Yeah... I guess this semester just isn't eventful enough for me to have stuff to say every day (or even every other day) so far. But anyway...
Recently, I've started working on my first projects in both Printmaking and Sculpture. For Printmaking we're doing another batch of copper-plate intaglio prints, this time dry-point (carving directly into the plate with tools) instead of using acid. Also, I am amazed that I remembered how to spell "intaglio" and that the spell-checker on here doesn't mark it as a misspelled word. But anyway, my first plate is this weird idea I randomly had of a bunch of creepy featureless people walking in one direction (toward the viewer) in a huge crowd while one girl (who has hair, distinguishing her from the bald and creepy crowd) walks in the other direction with a spotlight on her. It's turning out pretty well so far. For Sculpture, I'm carving away chunks of a book (which has been "aged" by wiping coffee all over it) so that it looks like it has landforms like rivers, canyons, etc. sticking up out of it. So far I've coffee'd the book, dried it, carved a canyon out of it, started on a river, and drilled several holes into it (which have wire running through them to hold all the pages together and keep them from curling up on the edges.) More river-carving soon, and then probably a deep pit (maybe with lava at the bottom?) and some higher-elevation landmarks.
For Contemporary Issues, I'm reading a book about food poisoning (the case in 1993 where undercooked Jack-in-the-Box burgers made a bunch of kids horribly sick with E. coli.) I also have to do research on gun control for our final presentation/project
I've also learned how to play several different card games that I've never seen or heard of (for the most part) before, and discovered that Subway's ham and turkey sub is actually surprisingly good. I mean, I don't mind ham or turkey, but they're not my first choice on a sub usually (that would be salami, pepperoni, pastrami, etc... the Italian meats in general are great)... and yet the 6-inch turkey and ham sub I got with a "buy one, get one free" coupon for 6-inch subs last week was one of the best subs I've had there in a long time. To the point where I went ahead and got a full footlong version of it the next time I went. XD Seriously, it's this close to replacing my "usual" Spicy Italian (and already would have done so if it wasn't 50 cents more expensive for some odd reason...)
And, as I mentioned last semester, apparently there's a girl who might like me in some more-than-friends way... and I still don't know who she is. >_< But yeah, after some more talking with the girl whose boyfriend mentioned that he "knew" there was someone at that last dance who wanted to dance with me, I've managed to squeeze a few more bits of information out of her (including a few things I managed to learn without even directly asking--my private-investigator training seems to be holding up! XD) The only thing I knew before was that this girl was someone who was present at the last dance of 2012, which ruled out several people (including one I really like, unfortunately.) But now there's more than that; apparently, the mystery girl is probably someone who wasn't at SVU before this year (which rules out a lot of people I know, including one or two who I initially suspected might be the true identity of the mystery girl.) She also apparently described me as being really nice and fun to talk to, which means she has to be someone that I've talked to for more than just 15-minute intervals (which rules out a few of the girls I met last semester but didn't get to talk to very much, as well as anyone I didn't really get to know until after the dance.) I also got the girl I was "interrogating" to hint at the possibility that this girl not only wanted to dance with me but may actually like me in a not-just-friends way, by saying that she thought that "some things" need to develop on their own (when I asked why she couldn't just tell me who this girl is, or at least give me a good hint.) If this girl had no interest in me beyond just being friends, I don't think there'd really be a "thing" to develop, and it'd be unlikely that someone else who had talked to her about it would word it that way (or be so secretive about who the girl is.) Still doesn't really help me much, since I know a lot of girls and at least a few were girls I didn't meet until last semester... but it does narrow down the focus of my search a bit.
Right now I have two main "suspects"--two girls that I met last semester who were present at the dance (at least one of them stayed until near the end), who always seem to smile whenever I bump into them, and who I have talked to semi-frequently throughout last semester. One of these girls is actually someone I've considered asking on a date but haven't gotten around to it yet.
There's also two "maybes"--one being a "maybe" because I didn't talk to her quite as much as the other two last semester and she isn't as smiley around me as the other two, and the other because I didn't really get to know her that well until during the dance, so it's pretty unlikely that she already liked me in some way beforehand. On the other hand, I know for sure that the girl I heard this from knows the second unlikely "maybe," while I've never seen her talking to any of the other three... which kind of makes me wonder.
And in completely unrelated news... The K'hyurbhi Lands came in 2nd place in the Heart of the OHR contest! Yep, that's officially the best (by far) that a "real" game of mine has ever done in a contest (Fat Frog: The Movie did win the movie-game contest, but that wasn't exactly a "game" so it's not quite the same thing.) I'm honestly kind of amazed it did as well as it did; I knew Dungeonmen was going to win, but I never expected I'd come in second with the competition it had (I figured I'd get third, fourth, or maybe fifth if people voted at least somewhat objectively, and... somewhere a lot lower down... if the pattern established by Okédoké's way-worse-than-it-should've-gotten results from previous contests continued.) You can read it about over on the Hamster Burrow (the new OHR blog.)
Recently, I've started working on my first projects in both Printmaking and Sculpture. For Printmaking we're doing another batch of copper-plate intaglio prints, this time dry-point (carving directly into the plate with tools) instead of using acid. Also, I am amazed that I remembered how to spell "intaglio" and that the spell-checker on here doesn't mark it as a misspelled word. But anyway, my first plate is this weird idea I randomly had of a bunch of creepy featureless people walking in one direction (toward the viewer) in a huge crowd while one girl (who has hair, distinguishing her from the bald and creepy crowd) walks in the other direction with a spotlight on her. It's turning out pretty well so far. For Sculpture, I'm carving away chunks of a book (which has been "aged" by wiping coffee all over it) so that it looks like it has landforms like rivers, canyons, etc. sticking up out of it. So far I've coffee'd the book, dried it, carved a canyon out of it, started on a river, and drilled several holes into it (which have wire running through them to hold all the pages together and keep them from curling up on the edges.) More river-carving soon, and then probably a deep pit (maybe with lava at the bottom?) and some higher-elevation landmarks.
For Contemporary Issues, I'm reading a book about food poisoning (the case in 1993 where undercooked Jack-in-the-Box burgers made a bunch of kids horribly sick with E. coli.) I also have to do research on gun control for our final presentation/project
I've also learned how to play several different card games that I've never seen or heard of (for the most part) before, and discovered that Subway's ham and turkey sub is actually surprisingly good. I mean, I don't mind ham or turkey, but they're not my first choice on a sub usually (that would be salami, pepperoni, pastrami, etc... the Italian meats in general are great)... and yet the 6-inch turkey and ham sub I got with a "buy one, get one free" coupon for 6-inch subs last week was one of the best subs I've had there in a long time. To the point where I went ahead and got a full footlong version of it the next time I went. XD Seriously, it's this close to replacing my "usual" Spicy Italian (and already would have done so if it wasn't 50 cents more expensive for some odd reason...)
And, as I mentioned last semester, apparently there's a girl who might like me in some more-than-friends way... and I still don't know who she is. >_< But yeah, after some more talking with the girl whose boyfriend mentioned that he "knew" there was someone at that last dance who wanted to dance with me, I've managed to squeeze a few more bits of information out of her (including a few things I managed to learn without even directly asking--my private-investigator training seems to be holding up! XD) The only thing I knew before was that this girl was someone who was present at the last dance of 2012, which ruled out several people (including one I really like, unfortunately.) But now there's more than that; apparently, the mystery girl is probably someone who wasn't at SVU before this year (which rules out a lot of people I know, including one or two who I initially suspected might be the true identity of the mystery girl.) She also apparently described me as being really nice and fun to talk to, which means she has to be someone that I've talked to for more than just 15-minute intervals (which rules out a few of the girls I met last semester but didn't get to talk to very much, as well as anyone I didn't really get to know until after the dance.) I also got the girl I was "interrogating" to hint at the possibility that this girl not only wanted to dance with me but may actually like me in a not-just-friends way, by saying that she thought that "some things" need to develop on their own (when I asked why she couldn't just tell me who this girl is, or at least give me a good hint.) If this girl had no interest in me beyond just being friends, I don't think there'd really be a "thing" to develop, and it'd be unlikely that someone else who had talked to her about it would word it that way (or be so secretive about who the girl is.) Still doesn't really help me much, since I know a lot of girls and at least a few were girls I didn't meet until last semester... but it does narrow down the focus of my search a bit.
Right now I have two main "suspects"--two girls that I met last semester who were present at the dance (at least one of them stayed until near the end), who always seem to smile whenever I bump into them, and who I have talked to semi-frequently throughout last semester. One of these girls is actually someone I've considered asking on a date but haven't gotten around to it yet.
There's also two "maybes"--one being a "maybe" because I didn't talk to her quite as much as the other two last semester and she isn't as smiley around me as the other two, and the other because I didn't really get to know her that well until during the dance, so it's pretty unlikely that she already liked me in some way beforehand. On the other hand, I know for sure that the girl I heard this from knows the second unlikely "maybe," while I've never seen her talking to any of the other three... which kind of makes me wonder.
And in completely unrelated news... The K'hyurbhi Lands came in 2nd place in the Heart of the OHR contest! Yep, that's officially the best (by far) that a "real" game of mine has ever done in a contest (Fat Frog: The Movie did win the movie-game contest, but that wasn't exactly a "game" so it's not quite the same thing.) I'm honestly kind of amazed it did as well as it did; I knew Dungeonmen was going to win, but I never expected I'd come in second with the competition it had (I figured I'd get third, fourth, or maybe fifth if people voted at least somewhat objectively, and... somewhere a lot lower down... if the pattern established by Okédoké's way-worse-than-it-should've-gotten results from previous contests continued.) You can read it about over on the Hamster Burrow (the new OHR blog.)
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Back at school again!
Yeah... I'm back at SVU again. Have been for a week now, I just forgot to post anything here in that whole time. Of course, there hasn't been much to talk about for the most part... it's been a pretty uneventful week. Started off good but then got really average, sometimes dipping into horrible... not a great start for the semester at all. There's been some good parts, of course, but also way too many bad parts.
My classes seem like they won't be much of a problem this time around, though unfortunately I haven't been able to get my whistler needle (used for carving stuff for Printmaking) back from home yet (my sister inexplicably brought my woodcarving tools and my compass instead, even though I specifically described what the thing looked like... how that happened I have no idea, but eh), so I don't know if I'll actually be able to work on my Printmaking assignment this coming week or not. At least it won't be such an extreme homework overload this time around; most of my classes have very little (if any) homework, so it'll pretty much just be the two art classes taking up my time.
As far as other things go... so far I've re-learned a couple of dance moves I had completely forgotten since the start of last semester, discovered that free pizza isn't always a good sign, learned how to play a new card game (Skip-Bo), ended up randomly walking around Buena Vista with someone at 11:00 at night, watched another movie I had never seen before (Stranger than Fiction), and went to the worst SVU dance in history (I didn't get there until 10:30 and STILL ended up feeling terrible by around 11:00 or so... and whoever was DJing needs to get fired, because they seriously played EIGHT fast songs in a row at one point, with nothing slower mixed in, or nothing I can dance to at all.)
Not sure how next week's going to go... let's hope it ends up better than this one.
My classes seem like they won't be much of a problem this time around, though unfortunately I haven't been able to get my whistler needle (used for carving stuff for Printmaking) back from home yet (my sister inexplicably brought my woodcarving tools and my compass instead, even though I specifically described what the thing looked like... how that happened I have no idea, but eh), so I don't know if I'll actually be able to work on my Printmaking assignment this coming week or not. At least it won't be such an extreme homework overload this time around; most of my classes have very little (if any) homework, so it'll pretty much just be the two art classes taking up my time.
As far as other things go... so far I've re-learned a couple of dance moves I had completely forgotten since the start of last semester, discovered that free pizza isn't always a good sign, learned how to play a new card game (Skip-Bo), ended up randomly walking around Buena Vista with someone at 11:00 at night, watched another movie I had never seen before (Stranger than Fiction), and went to the worst SVU dance in history (I didn't get there until 10:30 and STILL ended up feeling terrible by around 11:00 or so... and whoever was DJing needs to get fired, because they seriously played EIGHT fast songs in a row at one point, with nothing slower mixed in, or nothing I can dance to at all.)
Not sure how next week's going to go... let's hope it ends up better than this one.
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