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Stuck. And tired
Posted by Amber on January 25th, 2010
Filed under: General


Today, after two short weeks of school, began the first full week of classes. Apparently the guy Japanese professor teaches Mondays and Wednesdays. I thought the first day the female one said he taught two days, but last week he was only there on Wednesday. Makes sense now.

I feel like already I’m so behind on everything. I study every night, mostly for Japanese. I’ve taken the online quizzes for o-chem, or at least given a first attempt. Maybe it’s because I haven’t bothered with any physio yet. Or because I have an outline due in two days for my Japanese popular culture class and have no idea what to write it on. He gave very little on what we’re supposed to do, but it has to do with pop art in Japan, and we have to do a crapload of research for it, at least 6 academic sources. And then today he gave an example, aesthetics of Japanese cooking or food, but that was just because he was trying to point out how wouldn’t always find stuff directly on our topic. I have no clue how that has anything to do with pop art, but okay. Right now (and I don’t have much time to decide) I’m thinking either something on fashion, specifically Lolita, or something involving anime. Or censorship in manga, but I think that might be a bit too narrow a topic, considering a lot of the more gory manga never make it over to the US, which would make it hard to find stuff on it.
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Hmm…
Posted by Amber on January 19th, 2010
Filed under: Anime


I’m bored right now, and I was thinking about what else but anime. And…I think I can actually list my favorite anime, in order.

1) Fullmetal Alchemist/Brotherhood (I don’t see any point in differentiating between them)
2) Clannad/~After Story (Again, not going to differentiate between the two seasons. They were both really good)
3) Kimi ni Todoke
4) K-ON! (Hopefully they don’t ruin the second season)
5) Toradora!

I just now noticed how Code Geass and Death Note were knocked off my top five. I don’t think anything will ever come around to knock FMA off the top, and probably not Clannad from the second spot. I think the thing with Kimi ni Todoke is how mellow it makes me, even though it’s not a completely mellow series. I blame Noto-san for it, her voice…it’s like, almost as amazing as Paku-san’s. Clannad there really aren’t any seiyuu that stand out to me, it’s more of the story.

Oh, it’s kind of late. I need to get studying again on my Japanese. I think I have ta-to down, and no, since its shape is really easy to remember, but na-ne not so much. I need to print out my notes for physio too.

It was supposed to rain all day today. It rained in the morning, for like a few hours. I’m pretty sure it was a few hours only because I kept waking up various times during the night, I was having trouble sleeping. I never heard any rain, not until I woke up in the morning. It’s supposed to rain all day tomorrow, and Thursday, and Friday I believe too. Let’s see if that actually happens.

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Seriously!?
Posted by Amber on January 19th, 2010
Filed under: School


Right now my emotions are a bit mixed. This morning I went down to the bike rack. I usually spot my bike (because I tend to forget which side I parked it on) by seeing the light on it before I even get in the hate. But not today. I spotted the purple-ish bike, but there was no light. I got really confused. I was wondering how long someone had the same bike as me. But I looked around, didn’t see another one like it, then looked at the lock. It was my bike. Except there was no light on it. Over the weekend some cheap bastard decided to be an asshole and steal my bike light, both front and back. It pissed me off. I’m still pissed off. I need it for when I’m out at night, especially this semester, since I have a later class one day. They sell the damn lights in the bookstore, but someone just wanted to be an asshole. I’m pretty sure they tried to steal my front reflector too, because it was bent funny, but that thing is screwed on their super tight. The light my dad just put on for me and he kept it somewhat loose so I could adjust it as needed. Now there are two options for how it was stolen. No, three. One, for some reason someone was in the parking lot, they saw the light on my bike, and decided to jump the fence and steal it. I always keep my bike in the gated bike racks, because I feel it’s safer than the ones that aren’t gated. Option two is that someone who lives in the dorm and has access to get in was in there, and decided they’d like a light for their bike. Option three, someone who was with someone who lives in the dorm was in the racks with them, and stole the light. I’m guessing it was option two, because I don’t really see someone jumping the gate just for a light. If I could, I’d go to every damn door in this place and ask if they jacked my light. I’d beat it out of them, because it’s not like the bastard who actually did it would confess. And once I’d get them to confess, I’d take the light back and beat the shit out of them, just to teach them a lesson. Unfortunately, I can’t do that. I wish I could thought, because it just pisses me off. I’ve have that stupid light on there for months. I would have expected it to be stolen when I was on the main part of campus, or when I was taking a chem test last semester and my bike was one of the few around there since it was so late, or in front of the library at night, where nobody would probably notice it being taken. Not in the gated bike rack that it’s been kept in for ages. I’m just really pissed about it, and I want to punch something.
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Should I could today as productive?
Posted by Amber on January 18th, 2010
Filed under: School


I don’t really know if I should today is productive or not. I did about a hour and a half of Wii Fit, bringing me to thirteen hours total. Apparently, as I found out yesterday, when you reach ten hours the piggy bank that keeps your time turns bronze. I’m guessing it takes ten hours to change it again, but I won’t know until I actually reach that point. I probably did like eight hours over the three day weekend, which wasn’t too bad. I’m not sure if it’s helping me lose too much weight, a bit maybe, but with the yoga helping with my flexibility and balance and I’m definitely gaining more muscle. So if I don’t end up losing that much weigh in the end, my guess would be it’s because of muscle I’ve gained.
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Um…so
Posted by Amber on January 14th, 2010
Filed under: School


Japanese is possibly the most challenging thing I’ve ever tried to learn. Even harder than chemistry. Although I know once I understand the writing system I’ll have overcome a huge challenge of learning it, because once you know what each hiragana, katakana and kanji are you can speak Japanese, and all that’s left is knowing what the words actually mean.

I also discovered something interesting, which obviously I should figure, because subbers don’t literally translate what’s being said. I’ve been slowly going through my book for the past half hour or so, going over the words in hiragana that are on the page I’m working on, and mountain was one of the words. And when I figured out what it was I figured out that kanden yamakeno is actually mountain cat, not puma or bobcat as I always see it as.

I seem to be having a bit of trouble with writing あ properly, whenever it looks neat I feel like the beginning of the third stroke is too small. And then the way that the professor wrote い and the way it is in the book are slightly different, but I’m pretty sure all I have to do is make sure the second stroke is shorter and you can tell what it is. う, えand お are all pretty easy, although for the longest time this afternoon I kept blanking on う.

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Up before the sun?
Posted by Amber on January 13th, 2010
Filed under: School


Perhaps I should have done this right when I finished my morning classes. Perhaps I should have waited until all my classes were over. Either way, I’m writing about my first day back now. I forgot what it’s like getting up before the sun is even around. It sucks, if you’re wondering. But I had the bathroom all to myself, since my roommate didn’t have class until ten today. She was still sleeping when I left, lucky her.
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*growl*
Posted by Amber on January 7th, 2010
Filed under: General


The soft food thing is starting to get to me. I had a smoothie for breakfast, but I’m hungry again already. It is around lunchtime, but yesterday I wasn’t hungry but ate anyway, so I could get the nasty taste of penicillin out of my mouth.

The surgery wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. The only pain I actually felt at the office was when they put the IV needle into my arm, and I have no clue what happened after that. I didn’t hear or feel anything when they were working in my mouth. Just a swollen and extremely numb mouth when they woke me up. That was some good anesthesia, whatever they gave me. And although the Novocain was annoying to try to eat with when it was actually working, it hurt like hell when it decided to wear off. I had taken half a Vicodin right when I got home, but I had to take the other half when I started to feel the pain. Strangely enough the right side of my mouth is the one that’s had most of the pain and swelling, the left has had very little, despite that being the side that was initially giving me problems. After it I went over to the house, and had a nice nap with three cats. Izzy was on my pillow next to me, Frankie decided he wanted to sleep on my stomach since my lap wasn’t really available, and then Scottie was under my legs. Eventually Izzy decided to be a pillow hog and was slowly pushing me off the pillow, and starting to get her paws all over my face when she moved.
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Here’s to…hell with it
Posted by Amber on January 4th, 2010
Filed under: General


I haven’t updated in quite some time. At least not with real news. Well, it’s a new year, and a new decade. Although I’m only twenty, I’m almost completely certain I can say that 2009 was and forever will be the worst year ever for me. Specifically December 2009. There was just too much loss, too much bad news. The only thing that came with December 2009 was the end up general chemistry classes (hopefully, unless I am forced to GRO them because I need to raise my GPA to get into pharmacy school) and my GPA raised up a bit.
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