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I'm procrastinating again. I need to do my take-home final for HONR267. Tomorrow I need to study for my last final, which will be tomorrow night at 6:30. So yeah.

Oh, and I forgot to report on the ending of The Ruined Map. It was... very, very weird. He didn't find the missing husband. The wife's brother was murdered. This one weird coworker of the missing husband had led the detective to believe that the husband was dabbling in nude photos, weird ones, but eventually admitted to being a liar... lied poorly a bunch more... then called the detective and committed suicide while on the phone. The detective went to a cafe where a hushed up below the radar meeting of drivers was going on, and they beat the freaking stuffing out of him I guess out of fear that he was a cop, then threw him back in his truck. He went back to the wife, stayed the night there... tickled her, they may have fucked, I'm not entirely certain... and then all of a sudden a chapter starts that echoes the book opening word for word for a while, and we find out that the detective has gotten complete amnesia of some sort. The craziness. He calls this number that has been present throughout the story but never actually dialed and the wife picks up, only of course he doesn't recognize her... he begs for help, for her to come get him, but when she comes he hides in the shadows and chooses to disappear to make a life of his own choosing. THE STRANGE.

Work yesterday wasn't as bad as I expected. It was long as hell, sure, but I got all the dishes, mopping, etc that we couldn't finish Saturday night done by 9am when Amy came in.

I took some pictures with my camera and emailed some to my mom and some to Danny's mom; my roommates went to my mom so she can see who I live with, and the pictures I took of Hobbes went to Danny's mom. It was rainy yesterday so my photography was limited, but later this afternoon I'll probably take a break to take some pictures outside the house, and at some point I might post some.

Hogsmeade is over. I didn't do as much as I'd hope, but I still participated. =D Also, a couple days ago I ordered sigtags from wildmusings' Diagon shop, and she already finished them. Wow, she's quick!

Found lolcat icons. Danny does not approve. I never thought I'd run out of space with 112 icons, but I'm getting there. Now every time I find new icons I try to go through and prune ones I don't really use but didn't really want to get rid of just to preserve the space I have left.

I've been reading The Ruined Map today. It's really weird. It's definitely more similar to American reading than that crazy Dunes one, but still... odd. It keeps mention of names to a minimum; the only ones mentioned in the narrative so far are I think the guy the detective's looking for and this coworker of the guy who the detective has talked to. Even the missing guy's wife doesn't have a name mentioned in the narrative, or her brother who dies.

I'm 2/3s of the way through so far and there's been a main character death, a raping, an organization of homosexual runaway boys... and various weird trains of thought. Also the narrator's wife popped up randomly in the middle of the book with no previous indication that he even had a wife.

But yeah. I need to finish it tomorrow and write the paper. I believe in class the moron teacher told us we could email it by Monday, but the original due date was Friday so I'm hoping to finish it tomorrow. I did procrastinate today... I got the most productive part of the reading done in the last two or three hours before Danny got home. But I did, however, write the reflections on the exhibits I had to go to. Which I did go to -- yesterday, at the Freer and Sackler galleries in DC. They were cool. We also went through the Smithsonian for fun, and I really wished I had my camera already. It should arrive on Saturday.

Danny thinks the Hufflepuff chat is "loser"ish. I visited for a couple minutes to see what it was like. I think I'll go more during Hogsmeade this weekend if I can do it when Danny isn't there to tell me how I'm a loser. Also, mentioning him in a post it much harder when he's actually paying attention.

Soooo.

Yesterday opening with George wasn't so bad, although I didn't get off as early as I was hoping.

After I got off work, Danny and I went to go get his new car. It's a copper red Mazda 3 hatchback, truly sexy... although it was a horrible shame that it was raining the day Danny got to bring it home. It took forever to get through everything, though. Danny was convinced buying a car didn't take long at all, but I told him he was wrong. He was. (Apparently buying his Trans Am in Tuscon was really quick because it was used and it was, well, Tuscon.)

I like it a lot. It'll be weird never looking for him in his little green Saturn again, but it's a beautiful car.

( Also, shortly after leaving work yesterday )

So I have quite a bit of schoolwork to do today, but I don't think it'll be too bad. The most time consuming will probably be reading The Ruined Map, which I don't have to finish quite yet.

I was accepted at hogwarts_elite as a Hufflepuff =) I'm excited.

I just realized how much work I have to do in very little time. I have all tomorrow to do work, but Saturday and Sunday morning I work (hopefully, I need to call Bre to see if I actually get to work Saturday morning instead of evening) and then have family stuff in the evening with Danny's family. Monday I have lab and psyc section, then work. Tuesday school all day, naturally, it being my birthday. Wednesday we were going to go to King's Dominion for my birthday if it's nice, but I might have to decide against it to have time to finish work.

So that's the time I have. ( Now for the work I'm supposed to do, and a rough battle plan. )

ETA My stupid cell just went off in class. I swear, it never goes off when it's on vibrate, but I forget to silence it one day and hey! Someone's trying to call me! -headdesk-

ETA 2 App's up at sorting_elite... Let's see how it goes.

-was not accepted to diagon elite- -is more disappointed over the fact that Noah hasn't posted hogsmeade results STILL-

I'm so obsessive, agh XD I'm scaring myself. Night you guys.

I think Dad and I are going to go for a walk here in a few minutes, but I'm not sure.

I should be working on Literature. I've just determined the real reason it took me so long to finish Lit III: I let the essays sit. Sometimes for as long as a week I put off writing them. Particularly if I've got more than one to write, which I do right now because James Madison sent back my Lit III novel project because they fail at making clear instructions. I have to write an essay on symbolism in the Scarlet Letter and a review of "The Rocking-Horse Winner", the latter being my current Lit IV assignment.

So yes. Must do that.

I've been working on Candlemark. I've got a layout up and I think all of the basic info I need. Hopefully I'm not neglecting anything. I suppose I should add a 'To the Admins' forum for questions or whatever. -ponders-

Mmm. Waiting for MECA and Hogsmeade results. I check my h_e filter far too often. It's ridiculous, really.

Holy freaking crap.

SIX people are tied for third place in one of the Rosmerta contests. SIX. I have a feeling it's going to stay that way since it's 6:59 as I type this and so Rosmerta is closing in one minute if Noah's on time.

SIX.

-stare-

What's worse: two are tied for first, as well. Only second place has a clear winner.

Omgwtfbbq.

edit Noah was on time.

-stare-

Okay, so, a little over an hour (or is it two hours) left of Hogsmeade voting I believe, so I'm going to attempt to work on this journal entry and vote at the same time... haha. Well, for some Hogsmeade communities. -isconfused-

Okay, so that didn't work out... I ended up voting my little heart out and then coming back to this x) Ah well. I got it all done, so that's good.

I think I stand a chance at placing in one thing. I checked maybe 3/4ths of the things I entered to see whether I was placing, though, so I don't know about any I haven't checked... whatever. And in one I made the most ridiculous mistake in the world XD Still get participation, though.

/hogsmeade

Okay, so, got up early this morning for SATs. The getting up was fine, surprisingly enough. Shower, Cocoa Puffs, brush teeth, check email while waiting for mum to do her thang so we could go. Went up to the test center. It all went smoothly, really, aside from our proctor being late and some guy who wasn't sure what he was doing stepping in until she arrived... but the guy was amusingly adorable, so it was okay with me.

I'm used to having 45 minutes for the essay portion from the FCATs x_@ So yeah, I didn't quite finish. I got in a good three paragraphs and would have been pretty finished if I added a conclusion, though given the 45 minutes I was trained with in Florida I would have ended up with 5 paragraphs, an extra stuck in before the conclusion for good measure. So. I finished my sentence and everything, and the essay went onto the second page, so I shouldn't have done too horribly despite not finishing it. I hope. (Anyone know if not finishing is unusual?)

I wish that you could work on any section you like during the testing time instead of being confined to one. I was cutting it extra close on the math, but I always had like ten minutes left over for reading x_x; For my first section I didn't finish filling in the two final student-answer ones or whatever, but I ended up remembering the problems and solving them mentally on break, and sneakily filling them in later -shame- Oi. Then on the second math section I skipped one that I didn't have time to go back to, and there was another from the first section like that. The third section I finished, though. Which means that out of the three sections, at least two I missed simply for not completing them. Completed everything on reading though.

So, yes. That was the SAT for me.

Then we went to Arundel Mills to watch The New World. We got there exceptionally early and bored ourselves silly wandering around the mall... I got a new necklace and shirt, and a necklace for Ash in Alaska from Hot Topic / Spencer's. Mmm... So yeah, then we went to the theater and I waited in line for concessions... the whole theater was running about 20 minutes late because someone had pulled a fire alarm earlier, so our movie was going to start later than scheduled as it was. A guy testing movie previews on a bunch of laptops recruited my brother and me to watch the previews and fill out a survey about them. Ice Age 2. Meh.

People coming out of The New World mostly said it sucked. Dad thought it may have just been because it was interrupted by the fire alarm so they were in a bad mood, but we discovered that it wasn't the fire alarm's fault. At all.

The movie was slow. Sooo slow. I spent the first half of the movie wondering when it was going to start. I spent the second half wondering when it was going to end. And the narration was annoying. Aaaagh.

High points: Colin Farrell looked pretty damn good in the movie. I never thought much of his looks before this movie and couldn't understand why people fawned over his hawtness, but now I don't think I can look at them with quite the same look of nervous uncertainty on my face. Oh, and the previews were cool. I love trailers.

Low points: ...everything else. Yeah.

Yup, that's about it. -iztired-

I finally finished my second math exam. It took me three days, not counting skipped days. I took it online and got a 75, and it disappointed me so badly. I do believe 75 is the lowest grade I've gotten in James Madison aside from the miserable 68 I got in Lit III... but I didn't really bother myself over that one since according to the school it's passing and it wasn't the first grade I got back for that class, so I knew it was just a one-time fuck-up. But it's incredibly disheartening to find that the first grade you get in a class is a 75. I mean, I don't know what I got on the first exam yet since I went retarded and mailed it in... I suppose I could take it online anyway since they haven't received it yet... -goes to do so, apprehensively-

Oh my god I feel better, not much better but better. I got a 90 on the first exam.

Still. I had such trouble with the second exam, and then when I looked back a couple mistakes were stupid ones... -resolves to check work much more thoroughly (read: check it at all) from now on-

-sigh- Now I have to do Physics. I should do the first exam for that class online too since it's another I stupidly mailed in the first test for... and I got an 88 on the second... which isn't good either. =(

edit 96 on first Physics exam, much better. -relief- Also, anyone know why people sometimes mark edits on entries with ETA? Doesn't that mean estimated time of arrival? And for that matter, what does the NB! on some hogwarts_elite contests mean? (I've been meaning to ask for a while XD)

Hogsmeade = time consuming.

I'm taking a rest. I'll probably end up sleeping til noon, but hopefully not. XD

I haven't gotten much done, but, eh, hopefully I'll get more done later. I think my computer's all but telling me to go to sleep, what with Rotten Tomatoes down, bethy's head girl contest images down, and PSP shutting down my image in the middle of everything.

I'll have to post about my weekend outside Hogsmeade once the crazies go away.