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Shit I’ve been busy
Posted by Amber on April 11th, 2013
Filed under: General,School

Title says it all. I won’t even be putting everything here, because it’s getting late and I’m ridiculously tired. Maybe sometime this week…

But yes, so busy. I’m getting ready (hopefully) to graduate, still need to meet with my advisor again. I made an appointment with her once and turns out I needed to go meet with someone else first to apply for degree candidacy, and then go see her. Hopefully I can get it next week. I’m not really sure where all my time has gone, but I’ve been so busy with school stuff. There’s less than a month of school left yet I still have two papers and a presentation I need to do. Then of course there’s finals. And once I make sure I’m graduating there’s a lot to deal with for that. Then I need to start looking for a job, and getting ready to move out of my apartment. There’s so much more, I can’t even think about it all right now.

So…basketball is over, and that makes me sad. Now I have to wait until October for it to start again. And I’m looking forward to next year. Arizona has a great class coming in. We did last year too, but only made it to the Sweet 16, mostly because Ohio State had the refs on their side in the round of 32 and against Arizona. But Wichita State showed them. Coincidentally this also completely fucked up my bracket, I might as well have just symbolically burned the west region. I think, no, I know we can do it next year. National championship. We’re losing a lot of firepower and leadership, yes, but our freshman bigs from this year will have developed even more, and there’s some damn fine talent coming in at the 3 spot (taking the place of Hill/Parrom) in the form of Gordon and Hollis-Jefferson. Plus we will have fixed the biggest problem we had this year, the lack of a true point with McConnell being able to play finally.

I need to go to bed, but I will say one more thing. It shall be about TV. First…HOW DARE YOU. REALLY CARTOON NETWORK, REALLY? HOW DARE YOU. I hate CN with a freaking passion. There was so much more that could have been done with Young Justice. The fact that they prematurely canceled it meant that everything had to be tied up quickly, and then at the end they show Vandal Savage on Apokolips. REALLY? YOU’RE GOING TO TOTALLY INTRODUCE SUCH A BIG POSSIBLE NEW PLOT RIGHT ON YOUR LAST EPISODE? SO MEAN!! Oh, and Wally. HOW CAN YOU KILL OF WALLY? WHY WOULD YOU KILL HIM OFF? CN took of the best show they’ve ever had, and are replacing it with Teen Titans Go!, which looks like complete shit. Maybe it will have a decent plot like YJ and GLTAS did, but it has the same shitty animation as all of CN’s other shows. It’s disgusting how all that other shit gets to stay on but quality stuff like YJ doesn’t. I really hope that someone else picks it up. And the last thing I shall speak of is Doctor Who. I…I’ve never been overly fond of 11, I prefered 10 and the brief appearance of 9, but when he was with the Ponds it worked. Thus far with Clara I haven’t been that impressed. Modern London Clara is so boring compared to Dalek and Victorian Clara, but she has the potential to turn out a good companion. I just hope she isn’t another Martha, because luckily Martha was only the companion for a season, but I doubt Clara will be, and it she turns out to be like Martha, ehh… There needs to be another Donna like character. Donna deserved to have more than one season as a companion. She was unlikable at the beginning but traveling with the Doctor made her a better person, and she ended up saving the entire universe. Okay, done now, need to brush my teeth and go to bed. Class tomorrow, yay.

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The good, the bad, the FUCKING AWESOME
Posted by Amber on January 8th, 2013
Filed under: Family,General,School

So yes, it has indeed been quite some time since I’ve written anything about my ongoings of life that have nothing to do with school. And strangely enough, I find that without school I have time to do things that aren’t school related, that is, have some kind of life. I never realized how badly school took over my life. Well, I did, but that’s not what this is about. This is not school stuff here, this is life stuff. Mostly winter break stuff, and the contents of this post will be all over the place. Also, this will probably be a very long post if I can remember everything. Because I was going to post before the new year, but then I got distracted with stuff and…yeah. Also, because for some reason I got distracted with other things, this post has things from like a week of writing it.

(more…)

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That bummed feeling
Posted by Amber on October 26th, 2012
Filed under: General,School

The title says it all. I don’t know why, but the bummed feeling keeps creeping up on me. Well, I can definitely think of things that would make it appear again, but that’s usually right after such an activity (e.g., studying my ass off for my biochem exam only to find I still failed it, just not as badly, meaning that the class I’m putting 90% of my effort into, the only one I need to graduate and had to stay an extra year for, is the only class I’m not passing). I don’t really feel like doing anything, but I do. I’m so damn sick of studying, but I still do it, because I need to pass biochem. Two hours a night, except last night, because I was getting my stupid report for microbiology done. It was somewhat difficult, not because of any extensive research, but because such little research and such general information was needed. I’m so used to writing much more complex papers, this one was just general info on a microbe of our choice. I knew a lot of the stuff already, but I needed sources. Also, I’m sick of my history of rock and pop class, particularly the Friday section, the one day I have to go because attendance is taken. Last week the assignment was to write down ten signs that could be related to and then discuss why with a small group. Took my group like ten minutes tops. Took pretty much all the groups that much time. How long was I stuck in class? About forty minutes, so about a half hour of doing nothing. Then this week we first got into the groups…actually, I’m going to rant about this a bit. I mean, seriously. The class has an assignment where you have to make a group recording of a song. I specifically write on my paper that I HATE rap music, yet the TA puts me in a group where most of the people like rap. Also a group where nobody has any knowledge of how to use Garage Band to make the stupid recording. Oh, and I’m going to choke every single person in my group if I don’t get an A on the damn project. Some groups have already started doing stuff, at least writing lyrics. My group doesn’t even know what genre our song will be, and there’s definitely no lyrics. According to them it’s going to be super easy, we’ll be able to bust it out in a weekend. All of them were also saying how the midterm was difficult. Haha…yeah, no. I spent barely any time studying for that damn thing, yet I’m sure I got an A. This is why I hate gen ed classes. It’s with a bunch of dumb asses that think it’s so difficult. Well, maybe if you had a real major instead of psychology (and yes, I do not believe psych is a real major) where you had to work a bit, or maybe if you came to lecture where the professor gives all the information, or if you had a real major and thus had to learn how to retain information from books, then it wouldn’t be difficult. Then maybe you’d also know that procrastination is a BAD idea, because something will go wrong or you’ll just run out of time. This entire semester I’ve gotten shit done way earlier than due dates, or I’ve started them early and worked on them slowly so I’m not pulling an all nighter before the due date. Damn, my rant got long. My point of this was that my group talked for maybe five minutes then sat there for like a half hour, after which we watched a couple videos of music mashups, then left. The more this semester goes on the more I’m not regretting adding that 400 level micro class next semester. Food Microbiology and Biotechnology, I thought it sounded really interesting when I first heard about it but I didn’t have time for it. Then taking this extra year I just wanted to focus on biochem, but this semester the only micro class I’m taking is gen micro for a better grade, and it’s boring and not challenging. Actually, I really wanted to correct the professor today. He was talking about hear immunity, and the flu shot, and how people who had gotten it were safe from the flu. WRONG DUDE. The influenza vaccine is only to try and prevent the flu, based on the most common influenza strains from the previous flu season. If the flu someone gets is a different strain from the vaccine then it won’t prevent anything. You know where I learned that? Virology, by the professor I first took gen micro from, and I got an A in virology. But I didn’t. Where was I…so yeah, I need an interesting course next semester or I’ll go insane.

Oh, and I hate Cartoon Network even more now than I did before. If you didn’t know (I don’t remember how old my last post is, so I don’t know if I had this in it) they fucking took Young Justice off after two episodes and a three month hiatus for yet another several month long hiatus. I watched the episode that was supposed to air online, and I am so pissed at them for stopping it there. Actually, I’m pissed that the didn’t show that FUCKING EPICNESS on tv, but also because they put it on hiatus at such a suspenseful time.

So…yeah, I’m still bummed. It’s not all from biochem. Part of it could be I’m getting off my happy high from my awesome weekend last weekend, which included apple picking, a delicious apple smoked burger, a huge ass piece of freshly made pie with homemade ice cream, some bomb fudge, apple bread, cider doughnuts, an ass kicking football game, and of course the Red-Blue game filled with promise of a national championship. Regardless of my mood, I know I must continue on. I still have to get some hardcore studying done every day. I still must continue to workout (this super hard, so I can go home Thanksgiving and laugh at my brother at how much of a fat ass he’s become yet again). I have to keep going to class…and that’s my life. Not even any Bones on right now, so just Thursday TV for an hour. I continue to search for a job with no success. I better do some more notes for biochem so I can maybe play HG a bit more tonight. I caught a Seedot earlier and already evolved it into a Nuzleaf, so I’m going to try to get a leaf stone by tomorrow. Plus I need to evolve Loudred into Exploud. Then level up my Absol because I’ve been switching my party a lot and want to replace Umbreon with Absol in my main party.

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So yeah
Posted by Amber on August 30th, 2012
Filed under: General,School

I haven’t posted on here in a while about anything but my teeth. I’m really tired right now, so maybe when I have more energy I’ll write a meaningful post. Just random stuff for now.

So…Shark Week was a couple weeks ago. I was going to post something, but I guess I didn’t. I enjoy Shark Week. I’d like if they had some new informational shows though instead of just stories and camera stuff.

School is…tiring. I go three days a week really, and have all my classes within a four hour period of time. Getting from my third to last class is difficult, because the damn professor keeps going after class is technically over so I have to run halfway across campus, trying to push through a few hundred people on the way, all while dodging construction and bikes. Then I get to my last class and have to find an odd seat somewhere. Monday it was by a douche bag frat guy…I didn’t enjoy that. I only have biochem discussion Tuesday, and then nothing Thursday. So today I was doing a bunch of homework and studying, since I had no class.

I like my new apartment. It’s more expensive than my old one, but much nicer and quieter. And front my apartment door to the bus stop is maybe 40 steps. So bus is really close.

I need money. I’ve applied to so many jobs, haven’t heard back from any of the places. I’m thinking about just going and playing my violin on the street. Probably wouldn’t make much money though.

Jan Brewer is a fucking idiot. No explanation is needed for that.

More money issues. I saved a crapload of money buying books online. Didn’t even need them. Had to buy different stuff for the class (online homework, e-book, and a keyboard for my basic musicianship class) so I’ve spent well over 150 dollars that I couldn’t really afford to use.

Football game Saturday, yay…I don’t get the channel it’s on, boo…well, I’m really waiting for basketball in the end. Can’t wait to see how these new recruits do. This is a basketball school. Baseball won the championship this year, basketball needs to get on it so I can get my champ shirt for b-ball to go with my baseball one.

Okay done now. Sleepy. Need to go exercise a bit. Couldn’t heavy exercise today because my left calf. Can still do strength stuff today though. Bye bye

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…well fuck
Posted by Amber on August 2nd, 2012
Filed under: General

I am seriously scared I’m going to need to get a root canal. The dentist said yesterday after all the work that there was so much decay that a root canal might be needed if the pain continued. Well, I woke up at five this morning from the pain, and it hasn’t gone away yet. I don’t really understand. Before I went I wasn’t feeling any pain whatsoever, yet he says that tooth back there is pretty bad. I still don’t understand how my teeth can be this bad. Oh, right, life enjoys making me its bitch. I’ll probably end up going back in tomorrow to get it checked. FML.

UPDATE: After going to get my permanent cap on (and more fillings) the dentist said that the tooth and the area around it is just fine. After this I couldn’t use the left side of my mouth because it was so numb. And of course come sometime in the near future I have to go in to get five cavities filled on the right side of my mouth. Five. I seriously don’t understand why my teeth are so fucked up.

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Why can’t I win?
Posted by Amber on July 31st, 2012
Filed under: General

My damn mother. Yesterday she drops on me that she made an appointment for me to get my teeth cleaned today since she found a place where cleanings are covered by our insurance. So I go in today for my cleaning…and so much more is to follow. I have to go back tomorrow. Apparently I have several cavities starting to form, at least I think that’s what they dentist said. Although tomorrow I’m going because the last dentist I went to screwed up. It was a quite a few years ago, but someone I chipped one of my back teeth so the roots were exposed and had to get a cap on it. Turns out he screwed it up, so it’s way bigger than it needs to be and doesn’t fit in my mouth properly, and that little pocket where I can’t reach in the back of my mouth is a prime spot for bacteria to screw me. I feel bad for speaking poorly of bacteria, because of all the good that all of my normal flora does for me. But those unwanted buggers just have to show up, and I feel like the way I’m talking about bacteria is a bit strange but I am a microbiology student, so…yeah. So tomorrow I’m assuming the dentist is going to take the cap off, make a mold and put in the temporary, then in a few weeks I go in for the permanent cap to be put on. So instead of a free cleaning my mom has to pay hundreds of dollars, and that’s just the cap.

I feel like I can’t win with my damn teeth. As a kid I didn’t take care of them, but for the past five years or so I’ve made sure to brush twice a day, floss and use mouthwash. I very seldom drink any sugary drinks, I drink water like 98 percent of the time. But whatever, I know I can’t win with my damn teeth. My horrible, overcrowded teeth.

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contacts, buses and finals
Posted by Amber on May 3rd, 2012
Filed under: General,School

So the professor for microbial genetics put up the grades as of now, and what they are with the curve. I’m not doing as bad as I thought. I have a D without the curve (I thought I had an F) and with the curve I’m just one point shy of a C (I’m at a C-). So now all that’s left is the final… I’m not going to hope for anything better than a C. I want one, I’ve always wanted one, but I’ve known it’s not possible. All I need to do on the final is get around what everyone else does, and I’ll get my passing C. I’ll never have to look at microbial genetics again.

I feel I should write a bit about yesterday, which was horrible. I got something in my left eye like halfway through the day, and since I had my contacts in I couldn’t rub. Normally I tear up for a few minutes and whatever was there gets flushed out, my eyes are good at taking care of themselves. But whatever this was, it wasn’t coming out. All through physics, and the hour and a half it took me to get home, I was in some of the worst pain I’ve ever been in. When I finally got home I took my contacts out and flushed my eye with water for like five minutes. By the evening the pain had almost completely gone away.

Things wouldn’t have been so bad if the buses did suck ass. I knew I’d have to wait like a half hour for the bus because I always just barely miss the one to go home after getting off the first one. However, the one that I was expecting to catch was full, so the drive just drove right by the stop. Another half hour of standing in the sun and heat, with my entire head in pain. Then it got worse. A few minutes before the bus got there I nearly blacked out from everything. I felt like I was going to vomit for a few minutes, I was starting to lose both my sight and hearing and my entire body went tingly and numb. I have no clue how I managed to walk up to the bus when it got there, but luckily some guy gave me his seat. I really wish I had a car, then I would have been home way earlier and in general wouldn’t have to deal with the shit the buses put me through. Well, back to studying. I got a few hours in today, want to get through at least half of the recorded lecture tomorrow.

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Damn kids
Posted by Amber on May 1st, 2012
Filed under: General

Next apartment I live in…well the next apartment I live in will be a one bedroom, so that will probably help quite a bit, but I’m going to make sure it isn’t overflowing with damn kids. Obviously two bedrooms as opposed to one bedrooms are going to have damn kids all over the place. I think children should be required to have rigorous finals as well, because they’re annoying the hell out of me. It’s getting to the end of the year for everyone, and college students are locked up somewhere studying their asses off for finals. What are all the damn kids doing? Going outside, from like 5-10 or even later at night, being loud. And it gets worse. Some of them are even coming upstairs where I live and running around, creating even more noise. It’s annoying as hell. For the past couple days around 6 there’s just some little girl screaming at the top of her lungs for no reason. One time I was tempted to go out there and scream to show her who’s boss, but then I remembered I already went through puberty and can’t scream that high anymore. I can still scream loud, but without the high pitch it just isn’t the same. Then I was reminded of this one time in elementary school, I think maybe first or second grade, maybe even kindergarten because I feel like I was in the area (the memory is hazy), when for the hell of it some and my friends and I screamed at the top of our lungs during recess for the hell of it. Completely different situation. Also, I lost The Game earlier today, and just lost it again. Damn. Sorry, since you just lost it too. Haha! And if you don’t know The Game, don’t look it up. You don’t want to know. Just like I shouldn’t have looked up rule 34. I did, and now…the interwebz will never be the same again. Wait, point of this post? Damn kids being loud. I have a passing grade of the line dammit!

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And I’m looking for a job on top of it all
Posted by Amber on October 16th, 2011
Filed under: General,School

I realize it’s been an incredibly long time since I posted anything. Well, this post is probably going to be short, because I have two more midterms this week that I need to study for, then I want to try to get through the rest of my kanji flashcard making, study for my kanji quiz tomorrow, finish my Japanese homework, study for the structure quiz in Japanese tomorrow, try to load Write-n-Cite onto my laptop for one of my classes tomorrow, get a bit more done of my lab report, and do all of this in a hasty fashion so I can get up early tomorrow to make sure I get into the classes I want to.

So in case you hadn’t noticed, this semester has been a rather busy one for me. It’s my senior year, although after looking at everything it looks like I’m going to be staying another full year probably. And for one class, biochem. Why? Because before they had a one semester biochem class for non-majors who needed it. Well, apparently the last time they had it was last spring, so now in order to fill my requirements I don’t get to take a 3 unit biochem course, but two semesters of biochem, each 4 units each. Lucky me. I guess that’s what I get for putting it off. So I’m going to have to most likely come back next year just for that class. But on the plus side if I do come back I can take Japanese 415 in the fall. Hopefully I can, taking a semester break from a foreign language might as well be taking a three year break from speaking it. But also another good thing, if I do have to stay, and if I get the job I’m trying for right now, then I’ll have tons of time to work. And I hope I do get the job. I applied once before but apparently there wasn’t anyone qualified enough or something so the job was posted again. I am qualified for it, and I am determined to get it, so I’m applying again. It’s the perfect job for me and a great chance for me to keep practicing and learning new lab skills. The pay isn’t too bad either, it’s nearly $11/hr, which may not seem like a lot to some people reading this, I don’t know, but minimum wage in Arizona is only $7.35, which I’ve been told is very low compared to other states.

Real quick about classes. I hate my biostats with a passion, and I usually leave early in order to make it on time to my next class because there’s no point in being in class except for possible extra credit. The professor can’t lecture worth shit, it seems like she’s always just babbling. She just pisses me off. My vet sci lab isn’t too bad, it’s actually pretty easy, just takes a bit of work and the main professor who lectures is a bit boring. Japanese is fine, I have the same professor (I don’t know if that’s even what I should call him, he’s a grad student) as I did for some of 101 and 201, which helps because I don’t have to get used to how he speaks. I’m actually doing pretty well in there right now. And my micro lab is enjoyable, although not so much the Monday pre-lab lectures. The professor pretty much just goes over what we’ll be doing in lab that week in fifty minutes, and then the next day the lab TA goes over the same information in about 20 minutes, so I’m not sure why I go but I go. My lab TA is really nice though.

And quick anime! Thus far nothing good this season except Shana. Boku wa Tomodachi isn’t too bad I guess, but nothing else I’m watching stands out. Although from last season Penguindrum is starting to intrigue me. It’s kind of like with Steins;Gate (end AMAZING), where I had no clue what the hell was initially going on, but when it started it started.

And that’s all I have to say for now! Or have time to say! Oh and I’ll put a more relevant icon when photobucket decides it wants to stop being a bitch.

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Realizations
Posted by Amber on April 29th, 2011
Filed under: Anime,General,School

No more basketball stuff, because basketball is over. Okay, one thing. Williams decided to screw Arizona over and declared for the NBA draft. Bye bye top 5 rank pre-season and automatic championship. He should have stayed another year, he could have worked on his defense more. Whatever though, there’s an amazing class coming in, I guess we’ll just have to show him we can do it without him, and when Arizona does clench that championship next year he’ll be sorry he missed it.

Now to as the title says. This is going to be very short, because I have less than a week of class left for the year and have a shitload of stuff to do.

First, I’d like to say a bit about the finally aired last two episodes of Madoka. It took forever, and honestly the ending was a bit confusing (not so much the ending ending as much as the Madoka stuff), but it received a 10 from me, and has bumped Clannad down to my 3rd favorite anime. Also the HOTD OVA, which I’ve been looking so forward to because there isn’t going to be a second season anytime soon with the mangaka only bringing out a chapter every two months with barely any development in it, didn’t impress. I rated it rather low.

Now onto realizations! (more…)

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