Prelude
"Omake Theater" is the term given to the world that goes in my head. Specifically, it is assigned to be the Omake "chapters" for TimeChaser's "...
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Currently my favorite .gif:
It fairly accurately describes how I feel right now (though in a sort of calm way).
This morning, I woke up a bit later than I wanted but still managed to get coffee (wooh) before meeting up with Terumi and heading down to the art building. We have Art History 291 Tuesday and Thursdays from 11 to 12:45, and today we had...our first test.
I decided to go with the "wing it" method, and actually did quite well despite only writing the equivalent of maybe seven lines of notes over the past few weeks. But before we took the test, there was something else we were to deal with.
As soon as Terumi and I entered the building, the fire alarm went off. Sooo we head around the corner and out the other set of doors with the rest of the first floor, though we being college students are highly intelligent and stayed within five feet of the doors. We were outside for about twenty minutes while some fire trucks came and all the like. Some dude in the music building was watching us, so I waved at him.
He didn't wave back. D:
Dadada, came back to the dorm, ate lunch, went to Coms, listened to more speeches, drew, had the kids around me go "oooh a picture", then came back and vegged out.
Then right before dinner, I had a moment. And it was a great moment.
And then my friends were like "WHERE ARE YOU WE'RE HUNGRY" so that moment was kinda cut short/ruined.
Anyway...Art 101 from 6-8:40, coming back and relaxing and enjoying that I don't have classes tomorrow. ...But I do have work. Snap. ...No, actually, that's good, I like tips...
The main point of my kidnapping last weekend was to go to a "world's fair", which was very cool. Various countries have booths and stuff set up to show off the culture and cuisine of said nations, so that was fun.
India in particular had a whole room and was also doing henna tattoos. Me and my friends decided "WHY NOT" and got in line, me after deliberating because they'd fade in 7-10 days and I had to work within that time span. While waiting in line, we got on the subject of real tattoos and what, if any, we would get.
I'm not a big tattoo person. They look cool when they're done but then they fade and look kinda bleh and stuff of that sort. But I have figured that if I was going to get anything, it'd be the kanji symbol for "katana", done in the blues I have been using on myOtaku/World since way way back.
Lots of us have simple names that feel like names, especially after talking to people in Chat. And while I've known a lot of you for lengthy periods of time, I don't quite know why you use the names you do. Therefore, I am curious.
"Katana" came about in sixth grade, right after becoming friends with my idkbff Lorenza. We were young little anime fanatics who found out that each of us loved to draw and write, so it was a treat to roleplay with each other online and write stories. But as we became more involved in the internet, we needed names. She and I batted some around, and one day she proposed that I use Katana.
We have a website, Behind the Name, that we've used for name-raiding, and back in the day, they had an entry for Katana as a female's name. It meant what you think it meant, so I went with it. Later, when we joined the OtakuBoards and I needed a username, I just went with that.
For the record, I had no idea a certain Lady Katana existed before me.
I was on the OB a few months before myOtaku was made, but I had become very attached to the name and snatched it up wherever I could. I was happy to have it and began to think nothing of its origin. To me, it was just...my name.
It continues to be my name, and I've almost hit seven years of using it. I've taken to being called Kat as a nickname recently, mainly due to Chat and the fact that "Kat" can be swapped between here and my DeviantArt account without issue.
Also, I get to be called Katakana and Kata-tan, and who doesn't like that? XP
Oh, and the henna tattoo came out really cool.
Soooo...Intro to Vis Comm.
I really really really don't like the professor. What's shocking is that, unlike my experience, he is totally not a grad student. He's an old(er) guy and one of three vis comm professors. But since there's only one section of the intro class, he's the only one teaching it.
I believe I mentioned before that the man is very vague and quiet, but today we REALLY learned that he is also hard of hearing. And I mean like, epically hard of hearing. AND HE'S NOT THAT OLD okay okay.
The assignment due today was working with text some more. We were to make 20 boxes with 3 letters and then 20 more - I can't really explain the assignment without going on for five paragraphs. Anyways, I did it and, for the most part, like the stuff I made. Anyways, we hang them up, he goes around to talk about them, and when he comes to mine, he says "I don't think you considered the relationships of the letters." But unlike most everybody else, I said back to him, "I actually thought about the letters a great deal and how they worked with each other." He either ignored me or didn't hear (or both) and continued to basically trash my designs.
I rolled my eyes a lot (when he wasn't looking).
Another thing that irks me with him is that he'll get something wrong, we'll correct him, he says "oh" and fixes his mistake, but then goes right back to saying the wrong thing. It happens with names and it happened to me when he said a certain letter was a lowercase L. I said "It's actually an italic capital I". He says "Oh"...and still calls it a L. Why the hell do I even bother?
A while later, he's going around to each student and talking about the designs and such. He comes to my table and I was out of my seat when he initially came over, but I sat down right as he came over - slightly bad timing, y'know? He talks to the girl next to me, then the guy at our table, and then just moves on to the next group. I said, quite loudly, "Hey, you forgot me" as he was walking, but he either ignored me or didn't hear me (or both).
And this is where I lost it and mumbled, "Fuck you too" and proceeded to work on my own.
Call it being whiny and unprofessional, but it just really irked me. And his attitude and behavior and total vagueness have been bothering me since the first class. This is going to be a very long semester.
(Oh, and I call him Leif Ericson because his first name is Leif. ...But it's not pronounced like "leaf". I don't know either.)
So here I am, on the internet, but it's the hard connection in Terumi's house so we have to split it between me, her, and Jiaqi...XD
Anyways, I'm not feeling like being too talky at the moment, so here, have something I ganked from Missay (...
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