The Daily Adventures of Mercat

This afternoon there was an absolutely perfect snow flurry. Fluffy flakes, but not windy at all. Even a shade of sun poking through. It didn't last long, but it sure was beautiful. I was happy, for that short five minutes, that I was outside walking back from class and not inside hiding from the cold. :3

I've been in such a fluffy mood the past couple days. I think it's a damning combination of Christmas on the horizon and a full-out double-plus Indiana Jones marathon.

At any rate, I found a new challenge. I was going to start it up tonight but I'm exhausted and I have a lot to do tomorrow... Unfortunately, for about 36 more hours, it's still finals week.

Let's see, today we got up early because we're on east coast time, and we went out to Rocky Mountain National Park to see if we could hike, but we couldn't because the snow was about three feet deep, maybe more, so we built a snowman and had a snowball fight. And also made the two feet of snow on the roof of the little shelter fall off like mini-avalanches. That was fun.

Aaaaaand pretty much the only other thing we've done all day is watch the Star Wars marathon on Spike. WOO

So they want the guy who wrote Pooh's Heffalump Movie to write the Wanted sequel. First of all, it can't be that good. Second of all, HE EFFING RUINED HEFFALUMPS. THEY AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE ANYTHING. So that guy can diaf as far as I'm concerned.

Uh, no more tuna by 2012? I'm fucked. I live on that stuff.

Al Capone's prison cell, holy crap.

A new fake name game, this time your NPR name. For the life of me I have no idea what the name of the smallest foreign town I've been to would be. Poland was TEN YEARS AGO HOLY SHIT.

Yeah, to hell with all this snow. Even if it is melting on the ground... I have no will to go outside, and it kinda sucks because I can't even sleep in, my body is so hammered into the GET UP AT EIIIIIGGGHHHHT schedule. Dammit.

Buh, I haven't even got much done on my computer because I found a 232-page thread of stupid pictures. X| Sooo here are a bunch of links that are the result of that.

I can tell you one thing; Hitler may have had a terrible concept of what was structurally possible (seriously, man, have you heard of foundations), but he did have a fantastic concept of what is epic.

This site is hilarious; the guy depicts different emotions, from normal to incredibly specific and bizarre.

This comic is like the new Perry Bible Fellowship, except I am not exactly sure I understand this newest one so much.

How is this a real story?! It's not even recent enough to be an April Fool's joke.

A hilarious video from a third-year art student, showcasing all the awesome skills he learned in an animations art class. If you actually want a listenable loop of that, you can find one here. It's almost Popcorn.

Vader loves Christmas: a hilarious and clever edit if I do say so myself.

I was talking to one of y'all about 3d modeling or robots or some shit the other day, I know I was. And I couldn't come up with the term "uncanny valley", so there you go.

Holy shit Hawaiian yodeling. I've always wondered how close yodeling is to singing, even if only because I have no problem singing the Goatherd song from Sound of Music.

Voytek the soldier bear, fuck yeah Poland!

Also, a retro graphics archive. Mostly 50's-ish, I'd think, style-wise.

No school today. This is... amazing. I still have a lot to work on, but I least get a tiny break. It especially helps because last night I was freaking out because I couldn't get to any computer to finish my homework; I'd spent four hours in the lab and came home for dinner. Candice's computer died too (just last night), and Sarah was sick and already asleep and Brittany was using hers. So. I kind of had a meltdown about homework last night. (Just because it was one more thing on the pile, you know?)

Yeah, so. I've been in the lab for about three hours now, but that's okay, I'm getting things done and it's quiet. It's a bit odd in the sense that I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in the building currently... But I like it that way.

It's very bright outside with all the snow, and I definitely was kind of blinded when I walked inside. BUT this is the kind of snow to have, I'm telling you. A foot or so of it, very kickable, and still pretty warm outside, enough that it would be very nice to be outside. Now if only I didn't have so much to do, correct? Yes.

BUT, a bunch of linkspam that has piled up a bit with my computer woes. (Ah, poo. I am no longer the only one in here. Someone else just walked in.)

The immortal jellyfish... Quite cool, really. I'm not very afraid of them being our next overlords because I'm pretty sure it's going to be some octopodian thing and I will ~freak the fuck out~

An adorable Barney and Robin background. I am very sad I don't have my laptop right now because it would most definitely be the desktop...

The Henchman's Helper? I'm not exactly sure what's going on here but I am intrigued.

"Milky Way over Mauna Kea" which should be more accurately titled "Milky Way over Haleakala". Haleakala is the volcano in the foreground. (Still active, though it hasn't erupted in such a long time they thought it was dead. Or is dormant the right word? I think dormant means it's active but not currently erupting...) Anyway, you can see Mauna Kea (part of the Big Island) poking through in the backgroud. It's cool to think I've been at this view, roughly... Damn I miss Hawaii. Holy crap though, look at all that light pollution... That makes me so sad, really.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I would say that this would be the only way I'd read the book, but I suspect that as much as I dislike it, it's noewhere near as bad as Wuthering Heights. So. I will only say that you just have to be aware of where zombies are coming at you from... (Now there's a lovely ending-a-sentence-with-a-preposition, as dislegal as it is.)

Green grafitti. Very cool stuff.

Business currently hiring; I would work for Google...

Well, you have to face it, regardless: the Mayans were very skilled with figuring out their calendar. And regardless of the outcome, I will be having a party. By the way, anyone know when the LHC is supposed to come back on?

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum. I want to go there. Mechanics such as these mystify me... Sorry for that unintentional alliteration. (Worse than punning, methinks...)

Ah, so, back to work for me... And back to that tiki blog I found. Good stuff, that.


By the way, is anyone else excited for the Pink Panther movie, or am I the only one? (Tee-eye-double-guh-er.)

Well I was just thinking a little about how I'm going to try to restore that whole Christmas mystery thing... Nutcracker, the Little Drummer Boy, the awesome Christmas books we had when we were little (like the one about Santa and Jesus, LOL). And I wante to look out the windoe because my lights are up and happy... and it's SNOWING!

Like, REAL SNOW! Not the painful stuff. Huzzah!

=^n.n^=

Yeah, so that sunny front passed in about a half an hour. When I got out of physics, another obvious cloud front had come in, and the sky was again gray. Still is. (My prof said the wind was supposed to be 60 mph. A lot of stuff looks like it's going to break, such as the Air Force's flag pole. They've got a GIANT crane out trying to put up the Christmas Tree. No way in fucking hell do I see that happening.) On the way back from class I was smiling like a nut because of the wind... I love all the leaves and crap blowing around.

BUT!

On the way to religion? (Which I'm in right now) IT FINALLY STARTED SNOWING!

Snow in the sense that it's frozen rain, becuse it's like miniature hail at this point... very much OW.

But still! Snow! And Christmas trees! On the first of December! W000000H000000! I think I can finally start getting into the Christmas spirit... I had to put on my winter coat.

See? Emo rollercoaster this year. I am giddy because I am tired of being angry and giddy, but it's still there, I'm just not depressed about Christmas anymore! I think I've had a nice grace period for Thanksgiving (and still Halloween, dear lord), and now that I've got an idea of what's missing [that whole Christmas mystery thing], I can work on it. I put up Christmas lights (MULTICOLORED, NOT white) in the window last night, and turned the lights off so I could look at them. This weekend I will get my Santa hat and my light necklaces and my other stuff, and we're going to get a Christmas tree on Sunday. Hurrah! A live tree, yay. Whenever we have a tree I will wait until everyone goes to bed, and then turn the lights on on it and just look at it for while. I have an ornament that I love to put up, too. It's the main girl from the Nutcracker, and I got the ornament when my grandma took me to the ballet when I was little (along with the ballet slippers of one girl). It was kind of a coming-of-age thing for my family. I went first, a few years later my sister and cousins went. But anyway, she is porcelain and has a beautiful blue and lace dress, and her hair is coming out of her bow but it just feels so wonderfully mysterious and beautiful.

Hooray for Christmas!

Yeah, so, placing bets on a tornado in Xenia.

Lol, just kidding. Sometimes I can be mean. But seriously, it was so grey all morning and all of a sudden the wind just went NUTS. (A tree broke in half over by Albert Emmanuel.) And when there's bad wind and rainy skies, people in Xenia go nuts. People, chill. Although I will admit this has been one of the worst winds I've seen in a while.

But anyway, as for the title. So it' been gray the past 48 hours or so, and it was rainy-ish all morning. On my way from work into physics (which I'm in right now), the wind picked up like CRAZY. Trash started blowing everywhere, branches going nuts, just craziness. And as I get up to the science center, when you look to the East it's gray with huge thunderheads, and there is a VERY obvious line of clouds, and pure blue skies with white puffy wisps of clouds to the west. I mean, that's a front if I've ever seen one. Someone said it's supposed to rain, and it better fucking get a move on. Fo realz. [Sun just broke! w00! I'm blind!]

(I have photos of a like situation last year, but there wasn't such an obvious front break, it was a sort-of-gradual green-gray to bright blue.)

Oh, and I love it when adults have a great sense of humor. Someone asked the professor before class what his method of test curve was that he had been talking about. He said, "Oh, I just said that so you didn't feel as bad." He let our jaws hit the floor and then said just kidding. Then when everyone else was in class, someone asked what the exam was going to be like. He said, "Just know it's going to be nothing like any of your other tests." The he paused again and said, "I'm just kidding." Lol, I love it when teachers can be funny (even though this guy kind of drives me up a wall).

This sucks. =( Guys, we gotta hang out in the next couple of weeks... I'm leaving the 19th for Colorado. And I am so not in a Christmasy mood, it better fucking start snowing. As much as I hate the cold, SNOW. SNOW ON CHRISTMAS. The lack of snow only makes me fear global warming more and more. But anyway, seriously. We should have a Christmas party before we leave, so we can hang out and I can give everyone presents and whatnot. And there better be internet in our hotel in Colorado. Hells no way am I skiing for a week. Blech. I have btons better shit to do! Lol.

Also, my tests went okay, which is good. If I had studied more, I would have done better, but oh well. But I really need to get back to this English paper so I can screw around online later! Get the comics up and started, waste my time on LJ and all... yeah. Woo! Finally, my stresses are OVER! Well, except for the fact that this weekend's schedule is already PACKED. Boo, pep band. =(

And I'm sad things that are a big deal never seem to work out. If I weren't doing so well on my scholastic stuff today, I would be in a funk because of it. It's looking like I'll go to Troopers, because Southwind doesn't want high brass or something, which hasn't been confirmed but still. And no response from Domer but Chris said he doesn't like Troopers and Domer could go back to either Bluecoats OR go down to Southwind if he wanted. Plus, I don't even know if their parents would be happy with them traveling to Wyoming, Idaho, and Knoxville. =( And I don't necessarily HAVE to go with the guys, I just want to be marching at the same level as them, you know? Troopers, as much as I love them, are kinda... down there on the list. =( Why, Southwind, why? Why did you have to get all your high brass positions filled or whatever?! Oh well, I guess we'll figure out in the next couple of week.

GAH. But! Back to this essay, I've got an hour and one and half pages done. (Good thing it's only rough drafts this week, hooray!)