Song Away

The Steampunk Scholar has once again proven himself a valuable source for steampunkery. Here is an article on the steampunk 'tribes;' the various collections of like-minded steampunks (because there can be huge differences betwixt one and another). I have to say, after reading his article (The full article is at Exhibition Hall, another SP publication.) I know myself for a Browncoat Timelord (BT)/Carriger Pigeon hybrid. It's not so bad a thing to be.
Anyway. I'm going to Sakura Con again this year! I think I've mentioned that, but maybe I didn't, and either way, you know now. I doubt I'll be doing any cosplay, but I'll be steaming it up anyway. It's getting mainsteam enough that I may not be the only one. Anyway, that's what Original Characters are for, right (I can just say it's in the works over in Japan. People'll totally believe me...)? Do you think I should bring my enormous hat? Hah.
In other news, I have been accepted to a college, which is simply unbelieveable, isn't it? Fingers crossed for the others, ne (So not going to happen.)?
In other-other news, I am mortified with the schedule I have at SFCC now. The International Relations course I'm taking for my bloody civics credit is between the ridiculous hours of 1.00 and 3.15, Thursdays and Tuesdays. Srsly. I was so super-pissed when they changed the time from the original 10.30 to 11.30. That's a reasonable time for me. Now for three days a week I have one damn class. That's sure worth the hour and half to drive. And it's bloody Japanese too. Maybe I should just drop Japanese. It's not like I'm really keen on learning anymore, I just keep taking it. Weird...
Anyway.
To Ned; I somewhat regret to inform you that my spring break will hardly be noteworthy for your RLA 'zine. Try Joel. Maybe Donovan.
I'll post my expedition to Seattle, hopefully with a picture or two in early April.

Yours,
Murphy

Grawr rawr rawr decisions

I think we all know I'm pretty bad at making decisions. I can't prove this, and maybe some of the RLA kids who have made me rage over the past years would say other wise (especially rage in the kitchen), but really, I'm terrible at it. But I'm really just wasting time right now trying to decide what I want to eat for luncheon and what I want to do right now. You definitely know I'm a time-waster.
Normally I don't bother blogging because I have nothing to say. Well, I still have nothing to say, but I haven't written recently because I have been playing WoW. (Hey Bryce, Ned--Does anybody else remember that presentation? That was a laugh...) It was pretty funny when I showed Bryce's hand motions-- W - o - W-- to John when we were talking about it. I'm even okay at the game itself (which you and I just lost).
You're probably already sick of me after this, so I'll leave for another hiatus and not return for half a month. You probably preferred the semi-intelligent posts I used to put up when I still talked to Ned on a semi-daily basis. Sure does suck to be you.

Murphy

Cold

It's been kinda cold lately, hasn't it? At least I think so. I've hardly been able to get warm anywhere. But those last three statements were just to bore you to death so you wouldn't bother reading the rest of my post.

I hate midterms. Well, you all probably know that I hate tests in general, especially standardized ones (anybody remember my anger at the WASL so long ago?). But midterms hold a new special place on my list of crap I loathe. Especially my English 101 midterm that I wasn't informed was a midterm. Awesome, right? Right. At least I passed. And not a low pass either.

Tomorrow is the Japanese midterm, which I cannot say I am looking forward to. I'm starting to forget why I'm taking this blasted language. Why am I taking this? It's not so I can understand the anime like many who're taking it. Nor do I have any interest in Japanese women like the rest of the class. Why am I taking this??

Anyway, it's late. I'm leaving you all at that.

Murphs

Really Bloody Tiresome

I'll admit it right now. I hate all my classes. I hate school. I'm so sick of coming to this place everyday to learn things I don't care about at an hour when I'm not really consious yet. This, of course, begs the question of why I'm going to university then. to be perfectly honest, I have no bloody idea. I don't actually want to go. I want to wash my hands of school systems. Any of them!
I guess what I'm trying to say is that right now, I've only got a few things going in my life. There's only one or two I actually enjoy. Other than gaming and hanging out with John, I don't have any ambition to do anything. This reemergence of RLA apathy outside of RLA is making me question whether or not I'm a motivated person, which I guess I'm not.
Sorry, RLA. It's not you, it's me.

-Murphy

Yeah, Okay

I did exaggerate a little on my last post, but you're here to be entertained with my wild hyperboles, not bored by recountings of rereading the words to 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' I've got posted on my wall next to Ganon (by god, yes, I named my new computer Ganon). Oh! You! Pretty chitty bang bang, chitty chitty bang bang we love you!
Seriously, I just bored myself writing that.

Yawn,
Murphs

Regret

I need to get my Running Start Reccommendation Form filled out. This fills me with dispair. The most obvious reason, I think, is fairly clear to us all. I have to go to RLA. If their blog is any indication of how far the social situation has fallen, I am terrified to step a single foot into Ned's room, partially in fear I may understand anything they're talking about.

Also that they may have fallen far enough to bring me down and eat me alive.

Yours,

Murphy

How Exciting!

So, among other things, I have found that my DnD group (that's Dungeons and Dragons, for the uninitiated) is going to meet on Monday. Whee! I have to say, we hadn't done anything in so long I was beginning to lose hope; but no more! There's a high probablity that we'll be starting on a new campaign anyway, since I believe we lost the old one (Not to mention it was ridiculous and I totally lost track of everything we were doing.).
But in other, more exciting news, a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie is in the works, due to be released summer, 2011. It's called On Stranger Tides, and since the plot was bought from none other than the steampunky Tim Powers, we can allegedly look forward to a little more steampunkery. By the by, you can bet your cogs I've got to read this book before the movie, and yes, yes I will dress up just as steampunk as I did for the release of Sherlock Holmes.
Less exciting but more pressing is the imminent return of school. Monday morning, I get to wake up at an unreasonably hour to attend my PoliSci class, American Government, at 7.30 in the morning. Now, why, you ask, would I ever go to a class that potentially boring at such an ungodly hour? Well, friends, it's because they don't offer it at any other time. And to make things even better, I can't find any class at 8.30 to occupy me before Japanese II (I will, by the way Ned, haunt the Japanese V class, though I'm way out of my league.).

So drink up, me hearties, yo ho!
-Murphy