Computers are horrid

So my laptop makes this horrid grinding noise. It has done this for quite a while now. Tonight I finally got fed up and opened the sucker up. There's somthin caught in the fan, of this I am certain. The plan was to go in and get the sucker out. So I opened, spent maybe an hour tryin to figure out how to pry off the keyboard (turns out there are these tiny little lock buttons that are pretty much invisible), and then was completely foiled by perhaps the smallest screws known to mankind. Seriously, these things are are the most impractical pieces of shit the world has ever know. So yea, couldnt get them out, fan was peeking at me through its stupid protective metal layer, and I couldnt get to it. So anyway, I put everything back together, and the noise is gone. Miracle. But then I notice, yea the grinding is gone, but so is everyting else. So fuck, I broke the speakers somehow. So I do what any frustrated person does, I angrily shake my laptop. What happens you ask? The noise comes back. At this point I'm ready to just smash the thing and hope the warranty covers small screw rage, but just before this tragic mistake happens my speakers start to work again. wtf rite. Its definitely doing this on purpose to fuck with me. So back at square one, debating whether its worth it to send this sucker in to sony. stupid really. shoulda done this right when I got home, course I go back to school tomorrow, so sending the computer in now would be a bit inconvenient. Really am not pleased with technology at the moment.

weee San Diego

sooo SD let me in. Big ass envelope with really nothing in it. Wasn't that excited, to be perfectly honest. It makes me sad, I should be excited, but it confirms with myself that this wasn't the envelope I been waiting for, I'm once again setting my sights high. Maybe too high again. But hey, at least we got a good sign early here. Takes me back to two years ago. Which then makes me think, christ, wtf SD. I got that letter last I think. Or no, I checked it online last. I saw that berk an LA rejected me, so i was gettin scared about SD, though still confident I would get in. And then I saw I didnt. God I was shocked. That rejection pissed me off the most. Berk and LA, even though I so badly wanted to get in, deep down I was a bit afraid I wasn't good enough to get in. That thought never really crossed my mind regarding SD. So yea, getting in now doesn't really feel like an accomplishment, it feels like righting a wrong two years behind schedule. Well, if they let me in, at least I might have a shot at the other two. hopefully. guh. if only if only, right? Highschool was just such a mess. Dug myself so many holes, but I guess, with this acceptance, I've at least got a hand out of one of the bigger ones. Here we go, most uplifting thought I've had in years: I won't be at Santa Cruz next year, that much, I can be certain of.

WBC!

ICHIRO! holy crap that was amazing! that ab, fouled off so many pitches, somehow fouled off one he had no business swinging at in the first place, finally ended up with the big hit. God he's good. Freaking legend that guy. Darvish shaved off maybe ten years of my life with that 9th inning and then walking the first batter of the 10th. Was squiriming on the couch pulling my hair out. Shit he had good stuff tonight tho, fastball velocity was crazy and his slider was straight unhittable, as evidenced by the 5 k's. Iwakuma was awesome, though he needed to be pulled at the start of the 8th. Maybe starting Darvish out there in the 8th coulda avoided that nerve wracking ending, but hey, allowed Ichiro to once again show why hes pretty much the coolest person on the planet. Two straight championships! This one over korea in the final! Tell me, how can anything be better than this?

Mildy Surprised

Went better than expected. My syntax final did not turn out well. One of those do everything and learn you did it all wrong on the last problem type of deals. Didn't have the time to go back and rethink it all, so that was basically that. Hah my conclusion was horrid. I can't remember what I wrote, but given it was 7am when I did it, an I remember chuckling to myself as I did it, I'm assuming it was pretty bad.

Yea I was up til 7 studying last night. Slept til like 10. It was lucky actually, I set my alarm for 930, but i didnt wake up, but my roommate got a call at 10. My roommate is one loud motherfucker, especially when he's on the phone. It annoys the shit out of me normally, but today it without a doubt saved my ass. So I got up, hopped in and out of the shower to try an get my head workin a bit, ran down to the bookstore to pick up a bluebook, turned in my syntax final, ran back to my room to quickly review my portraits one last time, then went to the dining hall for the last 20 min to get somthin in my stomach/get jacked up on caffeine. Seriously, finals would be a billion times harder without coffee. Walked to class, gave the caffeine some time to work itself into my system. Work itself in it did, I was fairly wired for the next few hours, after the test I kinda felt like running around even though my limbs were dead tired.

But yea the test itself wasn't too bad, I kind of over studied in that I didn't know we only had to do one essay. I prepared answers to like every single essay question (there were 5 I think), but yea only had one. The comparison wasnt to bad, though I couldnt remember the title of one of the portraits. Identification I'm fairly confident on, though may have mixed up a few dates, and the spelling in the names is never safe. Vocab I was confident on, probably wrote a bit too much on that one. So yea, went better than I thought it would. Now I just got japanese at 8am tomorrow and I'm home free. So close to being done, pretty damn pleased right now.

Almost Done

Well that sucked. But honestly, I need to get over it quickly, because I have major studying to do. We'll just regroup and somehow beat cuba once again. Yea, seems like it might take a little more luck than usual. Doable tho, not all that unlike last wbc. Darvish was good, command was shaky early, and that first inning was seroiusly unlucky what with shit denesive plays and groundballs managing to slip through holes. nakajima must be hurt or somthin, theres no way these clowns start over him.

As of right now I've got maybe 100~150 pages left to read. Probably won't read em all, just scan for key terms/topics. Not great, not bad. Syntax is still fucking hard, I think I might have done the whole assignment wrong, so now I'm in that stage where I either can try to amend the crap out of my rules or just stubbornly argue why my rules are better than the actual solution that I cannot figure out. Sucks. You know what makes me smile though? Its only for tonight, in 12 hours I'll be like halfway through my portraiture finals, and then only one day away from break. Yea finals suck, but the whole getting it over with super fast thing is pretty awesome.

Hard

Holy crap this is hard. Syntax that is. I looked at it last night, seemed doable at first glance. Now I'm trying to wade through it, and holy crap, this is hard. I see the challenge they want me to deal with, but I can't exactly come up with a way to deal with the challenge. Hard to explain, trust me though, not easy. Optimistic though. The fact that I was able to quickly identify the state of the problem and what needs accounting for is promising, just how I actually solve the problem now is the difficult part. I may forfeit some portraiture study time to really make headway on this. So yea. Optimistic is a good word for this moment. Stuck in place, but optimistic.

Woo Mr. Dice-K

That nickname sucks, but yea, holy crap daisuke was on today. Was locating well an his pitches had some disgusting movement. Fastball really had some crazy movement. Was he throwing a cutter too maybe? Alright wiki says he throws a cutter, so that must have been it. That pitch had some seriously wicked break to it. Was nice to get a mph reading on the pitches today. Didnt know japan had that hard of throwers. I mean there must not ever be any runs scored in npb, seeing as how most of the hitters on the team get demolished by anything over 90.

though to be honest, I kind of like how this japanese team is set up. great pitching, great defense, hopefully balls drop in on offense. I mean, you need to get insanely lucky to win anyway, the scoring part is probably what you have the least control over. This team excels at getting the ball in play, so its gonna be a frustratingly streaky team reliant on balls finding holes. I dunno it's all luck anyway, look at the US team. Demolished by puerto rico even though the offense is amazing. Figure run prevention you can at least get a bit more consistancy on a game to game basis. Though maybe that wouldnt be the case, I guess bad days in the field happen too. Regardless, quite pleased with the victory. So now we get...let me check...Korea. On TUESDAY, FUCK. God wbc is fucking with my finals schedule. That's 3 hours I lose right there. Fuck. I'll wake up early tuesday, maybe 9-10ish(yea right). God I'm not gonna get any sleep, thank god I'm young. But yea, hopefully we destroy korea. Darvish should be going right? Yea no fucking way I miss that game.