Holy crap-balls. My drawing of Watson won the Sherlock Holmes Club contest! I'm amazed it won, there were way better entries submitted than mine. Anyway, yay!

...My school has a science fiction library... IT'S OWN LIBRARY! It's huge! It's a basement, with geeks and everything! I haven't had much time to go down there lately, but it's so nifty. I just read the first volume of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and checked out a big (and very old!) omnibus of Jules Verne. I've heard lots of mixed reviews about Jules Verne's stuff... I hope it doesn't suck too bad. It's also where I met, matronmalice on LJ, who I believe I saw in line somewhere but didn't recognize, because I am incapable OF RECOGNIZING THE HUMAN FACE. I've learned that I don't know who the hell anyone usually is, no matter how many times I meet them. I'll try and do subtle things like talk to them for a long time, and they're finally like, "yay, we should hang out!" I ask them to write their number on a piece of paper and then go, "make sure you write down your name too, so I know whose number it is"... this is all a ploy because I've forgotten their god damned name! I always feel terrible about it, too.

I went to Manhattan with a bunch of people about a week ago. We went to Chinatown and a bunch of Japanese bookstores. One of the people was a Japanese international student, too... so I got a chance to talk to her a little bit and make an ass of myself. XP

I have volunteered for five billion different things, because I thought I was bored.

1) I'm running around collecting signatures to get money for student clubs... I think this'll be pretty easy, because just after volunteering to ask around it did this huge domino effect. I'm a member of two clubs, and the members of those clubs all have connections with *other* clubs. Then my roommate is in a pledge in some sorority, who has a bunch of peons who are in other stuff, and so on and so on.

2) I started kind of sitting in on the meetings at some or other feminist organization here on campus, and they eventually noticed me and asking me if I wanted to do stuff. It's kinda funny, I think they made me the unofficial morale officer (*zomg puts 'H' on forehead in green marker*) so I decided to look up one discussion topic and one dorky new-age 'social ice-breaker' exercise for next week's meeting. They're also trying to find ideas for social events and the like, and I'm trying to think something up. Feminist movie night or something... This 'extra-curricular activity' is easily the one I'm the most nervous about, because all the people in the group look like they've been around for a long time, and I frankly don't want to piss them off. I feel like kind of a leechy ghoul-type person saying this, but if I stick around for two semesters I can sign up for an office and then it'll look all nifty on grad-school applications.

3) Lastly, on the 12th I'm not going to be eating during the day. There's this thing where if you sign up and fast for Ramadan for a day, a sponsor will donate money to give food to the homeless. Sounded easy enough. Plus, there's a free dinner once you're done fasting. I frankly think it'll be a good way to save points on my meal plan.


So anyways, Dad got a job... IN ALASKA. I was correct in my suspicions that he was just trying to get me to go to school there so he could have an excuse go. Now he's going to probably live there seasonally and come to Washington during holidays. I'm kind of curious as to how my stepmother feels about all this, but I guess if he accepted the position, it must be cool with her.

I'm also *really* tempted to try and apply for an RA position at the school. It's equivalent to maybe a part-time job plus some extra training, and all the volunteer stuff I've been doing is only for this month. The big thing is that if you're an RA, you get free room and board plus a meal stipend. It'd be basically like a $3,000 scholarship each semester, and *this* would mean I wouldn't have to take out any more loans, because Dad has a job now.

I might try to propose "anthropological linguistics" as a multi-disciplinary studies major so I don't have to take as many classes. I've probably said it before, but I'm a linguistics major with an anthropology minor at the moment, and I'm worried that I won't finish all my requirements in two years. I personally want to take more classes, but money is an issue. *cries* Why can't college be free? It is in other places!

*Cough* My birthday is on the 29th. I am a consumer whore.

I recently got curious enough to buy a DVD with three of the Russian-produced 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson' films. ...zomg, to use a cliche.

OK-OK, I know it isn't British enough and there's no budget and the music gets kind of redundant and Livanov's Holmes is kind of dorky looking and that lazy bastards would be turned off by reading subtitles and that Watson is technically taller than Holmes is BUT MY GOD THE REICHENBACH SCENE. *catches breath* The thing that disappointed me the most about the Granada show was the most redeeming part of the Russian one. Russian dummies fall down waterfalls better, I guess. I'm going to wait to watch it again with Yugami this weekend before I write a big spoilery review on it (which I totally want to do) but I just need to squee a little. Anyway, this is where I pat myself on the back for taking the risk and spending thirty-two bucks on something I was unsure about. Like little fried bits of lovely on the TV screen, I tells you!

I have other things to say about how I have no idea how to pack for school, and that I picked blackberries and made blackberry cobbler, but the Russian Holmes thing was the most important part of my day. *nod* It's not pathetic, it's fandom!

The first ten people to comment on this journal post will get a free drawing of their choice! The only catch is that they then have to post the same tag on their OWN journal, and draw for the first 10 people to comment as well. Tell me what to draw, you jerk!

...@_@ I don't know if ten people watch this or not. Ah, well. My meme obligation will be filled in some way, shape or form.

So long as I've heard of the characters and it isn't porn, I'll draw whatever you want. Yay! *waits*

Current assignments:

1) Shalka!Nine in spooky goth scene for SpecimenA.

See The Outside for SpecimenA.

2) Rose and Ten in Russia or middle eastern country for hoshinekoyasha.

See Semiramis for hoshinekoyasha.

3) Four/Adric for vandonovan. (in progress)

4) Six/Peri for iristigerlily. (in progress)

5) Shalka!Nine/Shalka!Master for spiritedchaos.

6) Rose and Ten comforting David Tennant and Billie Piper for Before-I-Sleep.

7) Goddard/Reaver for Yugami.

8) Five sneaking a bite of his celery for deeed.

9) Sarah Jane stealing Four's hat and scarf for Mr-Davros.

10) Five/Tegan for forgottenbutton on livejournal.

That's all she wrote!

It's so nice when you open your DA messages to find that someone has favorited all the drawings in your gallery you like the least...! My ego is feeling pretty pumped.

I'm back, by the way.