Semester started last week. The classes seem hard, but the professors seem to all be competent and nice this semester so that's cool. It looks like I'm going to have to commit myself to this semester though which kind of sucks but it should still be better than last semester. It also doesn't look like I'll have too much actual homework this semester, but there's so much reading that I have to do each week that it will probably be at least 6 hours a day to finish it all. (more like 8-10 because it's likely to be boring text and I'm prone to daydream), and in more than a few of my classes around 60%-80% of our final grades come from tests, which usually wouldn't bother me, but I don't have a very good track record with accounting tests.. Guess that's kind of a debatable statement though, since I normally score in the average to slightly above average area, but still, 40-60 percent still doesn't seem good to me. I've managed to get by with those scores thanks to the curves, but it all seems laughable to me. I get a 50 percent on a test and thanks to the curve I get an 80 percent? :lol: What happens when I get 50 percent of my work right once I've graduated and am on the job? Fired and never hired again? Even if I actually get 80 percent right I'd still likely get fired. It makes me feel like they're not really preparing us for our future jobs, but I guess this is where that whole student responsibility thing kicks in..... the thing where they make me feel like it's my duty to properly learn the material. -_-
That's all I got to say about that.
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We found an abandoned puppy on our doorstep a few days ago. It was around 18 degrees that night and the thing was practically frozen to death so we took it in and have been taking care of it ever since. We took it to the store to see if it had one of those chips in it, but it didn't. While we were there they told us that it was probably 2-2 1/2 months old and they couldn't tell us for sure what type of dog it was, but they thought it was some $1500 type (sorry, forget the name) which seems unlikely to me. We've been looking for the owner, but everyone we've asked so far has said that they've never seen it before. Due to my brother's disposition it seems we're going to make it our own if we don't find the owner soon. I don't really mind I guess, but I feel like I'm a bit busy to commit to training a puppy at the moment. For example, yesterday when I came home it had pooped in the crate and managed to smear it everywhere. It took an hour to give it a bath and clean the mess.....an hour that I had planned to use with playing Mass Effect. :x And then there's that school thing thrown in.
It kind of looks like that only the face has traces of a scottish terrier in it.
We've been talking about names, but I don't think we're actually going to name it unless we decide to keep it. My brother wants the name to begin with a "B" because his dog is named Bailey and he wants to keep up with the B thing for some reason. This happened to work well for me because I just finished rewatching Beck so I wanted to name the little guy... Beck. :P But my brother shot the idea down right away. "You can't name him Beck. Our mom's friend's grandson is already named Beck. " -_- I still want to name him Beck though.
He's a cute little guy, but I guess all puppies are. He's not very coordinated yet so he still falls down a lot when he tries to run. Twice now he's fallen into the water bowl and when he tries to walk down the stairs he often slips and flops down (but he's still really small so he doesn't fall down more than one step at a time). It's kind of inconvenient that he's so small because after that bath yesterday it took him ages to stop shivering. Also when you try to take him outside for him to use the bathroom he starts shivering withing minutes.
He gets along well with our other dog, and they seem to like each other, but the problem we're having is that whenever you yell at "Beck" Bailey will react as though you're yelling at her, and since you tend to yell at little puppies a lot, Bailey has been very on edge, thinking she's getting yelled at for no reason.
That's much more than I'd planned on saying about the dog....I'll try and get an actual picture later.
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As for the money... I recently got paid the last of the 400 dollars that I earned over summer break, and it looks like I'll be getting another 450 soon for reasons I don't feel like getting into. It's nice to have excess money. I call it excess money because I hadn't planned on getting it and I had already made a budget schedule from now until the end of my lease with the funds I currently had so I'm thinking I'm just going to keep my previous budget schedule and keep this money for a rainy day....and maybe video games. I'll admit that I did buy Berserk, but that was only because I found it super cheap at this store that specializes in pre-owned goods. Other games I might consider are Skyrim and Kingdoms of Amalur (depending on reviews), but I still have a few games left to beat so I'll hold off until then.
Oh, and I also have extra money in my budget because schoolbooks were about $500 cheaper than I'd budgeted for. The last three semesters they've averaged about $750 and I always assume worst case scenarios for my budgets so I'd allotted $1000 to text books this semester. Turns out they only cost me about $500 this year.....so that's more money to play with, but at the same time I'm down $100 because I'd originally forgotten to include the parking pass expense to my budget.
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As for gaming, many of you might recall that I got a quite few games over Christmas. Well around that time I got the gaming monkey on my back and I've been playing games nearly nonstop for the past month. In this past month I've beaten Batman: Arkham Asylum (twice), Bioshock, Uncharted 3 (twice), Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction, Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty, Ratchet and Clank (the original), and Spyro: Year of the Dragon. I'm also a good bit through Bioshock 2, but I'll have to wait on that because I accidentally left the disc at my parents house. All of these games were very good I thought, especially Batman. I'm still a bit disappointed with Uncharted 3 though due to the lack of a shop and the lack of a satisfying final boss.
As for my current gaming, these last few days I've been playing Arkham City whenever I'm in my bedroom and whenever I'm in the living room watching the dog I'll play Mass Effect (because I'm too lazy to repeatedly move my ps3 from one room to the other). Arkham City is great, but not as amazing as I'd heard. I like the new combat moves and the ease of quickfiring gadgets in combat. Also the combat in general seems more polished than in Arkham Asylum, but there are still a few bugs it seems because every now and then I'll still punch the wrong guy even though he's in the opposite direction of the way I'm pressing. The riddles I especially like. They're a lot harder than Arkham Asylum and I thoroughly enjoy figuring them out. The scanning riddles aren't done well though I think because you just have to go to the spot on the map and scan randomly until you find it, which kind of bothers me. In Arkham Asylum I preferred the scanned riddles over the trophy riddles because the scanned ones were more challenging, but now it's the other way around....go figure. When I said it wasn't as good as I'd heard I was mostly talking about the story. Admittedly I'm not that far in yet because I've only spent my time doing riddles, but so far the story hasn't impressed me at all. Oh, and playing as Catwoman actually is fun....I was skeptical of that beforehand so that's another nice thing..
As for Mass Effect, keep in mind I'm only about an hour and a half in, but I really like the story so far. I'm not impressed with the combat yet, but I've only done that first mission so there's still plenty of time for that to change. For now though I feel like I'm playing more for the story and the cutscenes than anything.....which doesn't bother me at all because the story is so intriging so far. I tried making my own face for my character and I spent at least 30 minutes going through all the options....and in the end I had a guy who looked cool from the front, but from the sides he was really ugly. :P So I deleted him and went with the default look.
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Blog was longer than I meant to make it, sorry. I tried to fit more pictures into the blog this time because certain blue flower man told me to and I felt like I should comply. *looks at the one picture*.....well, uh,...I'll put more in next time.
Song of the Blog: Hit in America. Instead of the actual song I'll just link to the Beck OP. Hopefully it will get someone to watch the anime.