Cranky. Old. Man?

Man, I've been UP TO STUFF today!

- Exercised! Probably half the reason I've been like a hyper kitten on crack all afternoon. I've been wondering why I've been so hungry lately (minus reading these scary articles about how dieting makes you crazy and the like) and then it occurred to me that duh, I'm moving more, my body requires more to feed its crazy metabolism.

- I like apple slices. I'm starting to wonder if this is hormonal or I've finally conquered my dislike of you know, healthy things but I like them more than candy or chips now. Thankfully my On the Go mart around here stocks them up like crazy.

- I suddenly realized that both my laptop and my Palm Pilot (yes, I have one, you can see where my salary goes...) are bluetooth compatible. I also realized that I might have to get a third party way to do this, because Microsoft is being STUPID about letting me sync. It's like, "ah yes, WE SEE YOUR DEVICE" and then skips to a step that's like, "TRANSFER FILE HERE"... and it doesn't show up. I might have to pull someone more 1337 than me over so that I can have connection. Because that means I could control my music remotely, which would KICK ASS.

- Been making icons because I saw a "haute couture" challenge for some comm and thought it would be an interesting subject to apply very oddly. So I've been looking through different game arts (mostly Amano atm) and finding stuff I like. I'll post them all probably as a big group once they're done. And I found very pretty FF4 pics, so. Those too.

- Working on a Midgar FST because I have lots of music now that I find appropriate. XD Clearly I'm on YAY FUN THINGS overdrive, so. Might as well go with it.

- Saw a girl at dinner that looked fabulous, like straight out of an old movie. I need to get over my creepy observer tendency and just say hi, as she seems pretty cool.

- There were other things I wanted to put here, but I forgot. XD

~Cendri

Have not broken the chain on exercising yet! (and have determined to take weekends off, so I don't die completely) Running and walking is hella better when you're the one determining your workout. Sure, I'm not doing anything SUPER HARD (and yet, I am still a little sore... maybe I'm harder on myself than I thought) as compared to say, when I ran Track, but doing things at MY pace is way better than having a coach yelling at me. Since I'm not a long distance person, I do intervals. Really, fancy machines (except I use a treadmill when I can, so I can get readings on my heartrate and keep my speed fixed) are not needed.

Two tests this week, one's a lab practical (and Visual Basic is probably the easiest programming language KNOWN TO MAN, thank you again for the recommendation, Justin), and the other is a fifty question multiple choice. In say, a math class multiple choice would be doom. But it's my pilot lecture course, and half of it is stuff I've spent the last four years studying. Still, I've been going over the areas he said to review. Because that's awesome and responsible and stuff.

Eating breakfast, even if I don't want to get up, no matter what, has probably been THE best decision ever. Seriously, if you feel like the suck, eat breakfast in the morning. Or you know, regularly. Chances are your insomnia is partly because you're hungry after dinner. TRUE FACT.

imaginarybeasts's new theme is basically genderswap. Considering the people I know that read this, want an excuse to write awesome original fiction? Yeah. I missed "Science and Magic" last month because of well, EVERYTHING HAPPENING, so hopefully I won't miss it this round. You won't see the signup post, since you have to be a member (which is open, I think) to read it, so. But you will see the wonderful back issues.

I should probably do a little writing, but I've laundry and study and a homework assignment that kind of snuck up on me. XD I have ideas on the things I'm working on writing-wise, just having a slightly hard time finding that zone that I hit. I may need to do a little sewing to get my braincells flowing. XD Almost done with the second sleeve on the jacket! Once that's done I mess with the closure and possibly make it a little asymmetrical. Who knows!

Well, I know of ONE thing I could probably write without too much trouble. But to start the laundry first. Yeah.

~Cendri

P.S. Since I noticed several of you have been putting up your WIP/To Do/Projects, I actually have been keeping up recording mine. And I just updated it yesterday.

So this was sitting enqueue all day practically... I'm spacing out.

I don't believe I've sat down at all besides in class or eating until just now. Wow.

Snow is crazy. Freezing is a warming process, so it was warmer WHILE it was snowing. Now it's just slushy and cold. At least we have heated sidewalks in places and probably one of the most ON IT plow crews evar. Seriously, I nearly got ran over by them a couple times.

I started a new "carry with me so I don't forget things because I am the Queen of Notes to Self" notebook. It's copper. Shiny. It has a pocket in the back. It's slim enough to fit in my coat pocket. I might be a little too in love with this thing.

I am so glad that it's Friday, my brain is only working at half capacity, it feels.

And this guy is my hero.

( healthblogging )

Stop with the hot and cold flashes! It dropped fifty degrees (approximately 10 degrees Celsius... I think) in the span of HOURS. THERE WAS A THUNDERSTORM AND WIND YESTERDAY NOW THERE IS ICE.

Now that that's out of the way, I've determined the easiest way to write Carbon Made is to listen to Tori Amos's "Scarlet's Walk" album on repeat for hours at a time. Hopefully this does not mean I will go insane. It's a possibility. I can always take a break and work on "Last Call for Liquid Courage" which is much rougher and crazier (not that Carbon Made won't likely have a trippy section, I just haven't gotten to it yet). I'm kind of fond of how the writing has been eating my brain lately. I almost feel like an artist. XD

This'll probably result in a fabulous talk with history!Gast. He likes to derail my questions about technology and advancement and things and get me on weird topics where I explain the sort of flow I get into with my creative processes. This meeting I will probably come prepared with my umbrella wing parts.

I've also noticed that the song "Stiff Kittens" by Blaqk Audio has a beat that's exactly the pace I like to walk at. Interesting.

And a query. So, since I've been reading a lot of interesting psychology stuff, I'm tempted to write a crazy fandom related essay. Interesting, y/n?

Damns, I don't have time to make tea. Curses to my liking of imperial beverages!

~Cendri

P.S. I understand the Tesla one, but then, my fangirlism is probably helped by the fact he was played by David Bowie once.

Alright, so today is kind of odd. Not bad, but odd.

+ First off, after I went to sleep last night, I woke up again after the fragment of a very strange dream that is utterly indescribable in words, hell SOUNDS even. Which happens to me sometimes, the images are so... strange it's like my left brain can't keep up.

+ Upon waking up, I had the answer of how to end the next chapter of "Grow Up And Blow Away" (and I even put it on FF.net while I was at it). gonetoarcadia, that's the story with Theresa and Elena in it, and they're turning from cameo to an actual part of the plot. XD Also the a story in the Liquid claim, Breath Control, because I just wanted to get it out of the way.

+ I also sketched up my plan for my wings a little better, because apparently when one part of my creative brain is working, they all are. I need to check some of the plans with like, actual things out there, because I do not attest to being a mechanical genius, and I was kind of... half asleep when I put it together.

+ I've been voraciously hungry all day, even after having a decently sized breakfast AND lunch. WTF.

+ I finally visited the doctor today, since my back was having not nice spasm times, and she did some crazy chiropractor stuff to it, which for now hurts a little (she loaded me with Advil due to this) but will apparently get my accident-shocked muscles in my upper dorsal (I LEARNED STUFF) and my vertebrae up there to work properly. Makes sense, considering how I was jarred from being hit that it hurts there. So this is good, I didn't think it was serious, but I figured if I let it go much longer (because I have a pretty decent pain tolerance and tend to ignore these kinds of things) it might not be so good.

+ So I'm most of the way through the book about flow that I'm reading to help preclude my research paper (and maybe even source, I like getting a good basis on related stuff before I have a good idea of the specifics to research). And it's gotten me thinking about things, and weirdly enough sort of goes with the oddity of my day. Strange.

+ Expecting a phone conference with work soon, so I gotta wrap this up!

~Cendri

Alright, I lied about the trains. And by 'automobile', I mean van.

I have learned the hard way that picking today to walk over to the hangar I needed to get to in which to get the last of my books for my pilot class (because private pilot lectures is awesome even if the prof's voice makes me drowsy). Because today it snowed.

And when it snows out here, there is wind.

Now, imagine if you will an extremely flat area of land, because this is an airport. Now imagine the icy chill of 20 mph (32.18688 km/h for you metric system people) winds and snow in your face. Yeah. Not the smartest idea. Also, since they don't want people walking in areas where, I don't know, planes land, this was a fairly long walk, because I had to go AROUND everything.

But, there is a good part to this story!

Once I got there, I went in the wrong entrance (because by then, I thought any entrance was better than dying of exposure) but the lady was kind enough to let me cut through the middle. Where they were doing stuff to planes. Mostly Cessnas and little ones like that, but IT SMELLED LIKE AIRPLANE GREASE AND STUFF which is in fact awesome. And then I get to the desk and one of the mechanic guys was just going to take his van around the airport and offered me a ride back to the part of the airport where I could get a bus.

Which meant I didn't have to walk back!

Also, we got there just as the bus arrived which meant I didn't have to stand in the cold and wait for it!

And then I went to lunch. Now, mealtime has turned into a sacred thing for me, because I am serious about attempting to gain some weight. I think I'm hitting about even in regards to what I put in to what I burn off, so that's good at least (walking for me is like running a marathon for some people... yes I know, hate all you want, but being hungry all the time and boney has its downside). Certain foods are starting to get a little old, so I try to hit up a variety of dining courts, depending on what classes I have on a particular day. I find myself gravitating towards a lot of the Asian-ish foods, and heaping on as much meat and tofu as I can find, because protein = good! for me.

Today there was loaded potato soup.

Alright, some of you might know this, but this is my favorite soup ever. Because I hate watery soups, and I love bacon. And potato. And chives. I couldn't believe my luck, because I'd been waiting for it to show up in one of the dining courts like, SINCE I STARTED SCHOOL.

Also, soup is good when you almost froze yourself to death accidentally.

So despite not getting enough sleep last night and giving myself a little windburn, it all evened out. Now I am going to do some school readings for the rest of the afternoon, probably hit up the on the go food place and see if they have loaded potato soup because yeah, it's that awesome, and probably make tea.

I also managed to burn some popcorn in my room last night and letting my room sit with the window partly open and one of those plug-in air fresheners has nullified the burnination. Sweet.

~Cendri

P.S. Dear wardrobe remix. Quit reminding me I'm in a very cold climate and can't flounce around in girly things without getting hypothermia. Just to spite you I posted my tres chic winter wear. It's all about the layers!

P.P.S. Hey, any of you sewing people that can come up with cute things to wear that can handle raging wind, subzero temperature, and manage to not be bulky or fleece (because sorry, fleece is just crazy) you win big!

Alright, so I woke up this morning being unable to move well. I managed to get down from my loft to turn off my alarm, but I pretty much decided to just hop back up there and lay down until my muscles stopped jumping. So I ended up missing the one class I had today, but I told the prof what the deal was and he said as long as I have the class notes (which were printed out) I'm good. Thankfully this happened today instead of like, tomorrow.

I tried to get into the student health center... it must be that hypochondriac time of the year, because that didn't happen. So we'll see if I can do something about it tomorrow. For now I have Ibuprofen and plenty of food stocked up in my room.

Still, this sucks. I must have really jacked my back up in that accident. I've never had back problems before. I have generally good posture (which I'm always working on) and I'm young. Egads.

Also, I found out one of my favorites just got auf'ed on Project Runway. What the hell?! I don't know what she did that was so awful (knowing the judging this season, probably not much) but damns. At least my other favorite (SISSYBEAR) is still on.

That, and I started my spoony_bards claim. I hope it doesn't turn into some Sylvia Plath crap, though (yes, I cannot stand Ms. Plath, sue me). We'll see with this next bit of it.

~Cendri

I checked out a camera from our little tech resource place so that I could take pictures from a certain book that's in a special collection for my history project (which allows me to read some interesting stuff). Since I had a DIGITAL CAMERA, though, I decided to ah, play around with it last night so that hopefully the pictures I took from the book would come out ok.

Here are photos I took while walking around. Instead of like, staying indoors, because it's freezing outside. Like REALLY freezing. Intensely and horribly freezing. Like I don't want to go to class tomorrow, I wore five shirts and two pairs of pants, and two socks and boots and a fur-lined hat, type freezing. I'll prolly add notes to those pics later.

But what I did last night? Was pretty much silly. I'll probably play around with those in photoshop or something when I get bored.

Yes, there is a reason I keep those two things on different accounts. My Picasa site is mostly where I keep fanart I find, because I don't want it clogging up my harddrive. >.> The flickr account is something that real people can see, hence it's another form of dorkery for the most part.

Now I'm going to attempt to be conscious enough to do my prelab. Oy.

~Cendri

P.S. spoony_bards

I HAVE INTERNET IN MY ROOM.

That said... I have a busy day ahead of me. XD Have to go pillage the library(ies), buy a couple more class materials, and plan for Justin and Liz's Big Adventure (c) this weekend.

( in which I talk about Project Runway, since I've outed myself as a fan )