Sharan Volin

That's the sound of me falling over from exhaustion after the last week of classes. Finals start next week, but by some really bizarre stroke of luck I only have 2 finals coming up, one for 3d modeling/Maya and one for my MIDI class, both practical type finals that don't require studying. Don't ask me how I got off so easily when I'm taking 17 credits!

It's been a rough week, though. My guitar final was Tuesday (and the final quiz for my game design class). Plus it got really cold here and I still had an air conditioner in my window and got cold and have felt sick for the past few days. I may leave work and head home soon since I feeling like I'd fading pretty fast now. I get to work a lot more hours next week at least!

Also, ( Astrology Meme )

This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. The instructions seem to be different for everyone posting these things, so I'll bold what I read and italicize the ones I own but haven't read yet (the only one I never finished was Red Mars, which I finally gave up on about 150 pages in because it was boring politics and I had no sympathy for the characters other than one minor one, which fortunately isn't on the list). I put asterisks next to some of my favorites, although some of them I read too long ago to be sure.


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Yes, I read/own a lot of books. How did you guess?;) Actually a few I wasn't entirely sure of because I may have read them a while ago and forgotten, but this should be pretty close.

You know, that's pretty close to my average in H.S. Of course I was never the type to do a lot of studying and try for A's. I got by just fine doing the reading the night before tests;).

At least my GPA is much higher now!

You Belong in San Francisco

You crave an eclectic, urban environment. You're half California, half NYC. You're open minded, tolerant, and secretly think you're the best. People may dismiss you as a hippie, but you're also progressive, interesting, and rich!

Did I ever mention how much I HATE San Francisco/the Bay Area? I belong right here in Los Angeles. Some day I might write up a rant on why people in the Bay Area are incredibly rude (a few friends up there excepted). The whole attitude up there can be be defined by one thing that was actually said to me: "Oh, you're from L.A.? I'm SORRY." in a really insulting tone. It really feels like they look down on anyone that's not them (Los Angeles especially, but not exclusively). Personally I've found people in L.A. to be MUCH friendlier! I'm not saying everyone up there is like that, but it's definitely the prevailing attitude.

The Bay Area is a nice place to visit for cons and things like that, but hell would have to literally freeze over for me to even consider living there again.

About the only true thing about this is the half NYC part, being an ex-NYer.:) The quiz was pretty flawed, though. How could I choose between 5 different bands when I'd only ever heard anything by 1 of them and didn't even like that one. Some of us gave up on the radio back in 1991-92 and never looked back.;)

I love that game:).

In other news I've somehow managed to come down with another nasty cold/flu type thing that's finally been downgraded to a nasty cold since my temperature is finally back to normal instead of hovering around 100 degrees. Not good when I have classes, work, a Dream Theater concert to go to tomorrow night, and a flight out to NY on Tuesday. At least my Lunacon hotel is taken care of. My parents will be driving out with me so I just got a room for the 3 of us. Fortunately they still had rooms available, although I got stuck with a smoking room:(. Let's hope it doesn't smell too much.

( Buffy quiz )

Damn, that HTML code sucks, though. I could do much better with a lot less tables.