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Peter, my older bro, got me a camera! It's a Sony, which I honestly don't really like Sony cameras at all after my first one, but the one he got me isn't bad at all. It's better than my mom's defective one, which now that I think about it is also a Sony lol

I have a feeling I'm going to break it or something, but I took a few pictures today to test it out a little bit more, mostly all of them of my uncle and aunt's dogs and my dog :) I'm half surprised I did not drop it in the snow because I had multiple chances to do so today.

I have a lot of music on my computer right now. Well, not a lot, but enough new albums to listen to to keep me occupied for a while. I've been listening to Wheesung's album for the past hour or so, but I keep having to backtrack because I'm not paying attention to the songs.

I think I'm going to retake the pictures I took before of the stuff I bought now that I have a correctly working camera :P

I'm under a curse or something, or at least that's what I like to call it. I know the reason why my grades aren't exactly how I want them to be and it all has to do with the fact that I stop doing homework midway through the semester, thus resulting in my grades lowering. Really, it's not rocket science.

BUT STILL. I like to complain about the unfairness of it all, especially when a potentially perfect semester can be ruined by a stinking B+. I hate B+'s. They're like the bane of my existence. I know I said this about something else before, but I really, really despise B+'s. Every time I get one, I feel like it's glaring at me from the screen (since all my grades are posted online these days) and laughing at me as if to say, "HAHA you couldn't even get an A- because you're an idiot! You were so close too HAHAHA!"

Seriously. I hate New Media classes. Last semester I, surprisingly, got an A or A+ in them, but this semester, because I was lacking the software I needed for our first two "real" assignments (entirely my fault, by the way), I couldn't turn them in. It would have made up for, oh, about 40 - 50 points of my grade and then I wouldn't have had that stupid 88.73% in the class. And I had actually made a plan to get a 4.0 for this semester, but it apparently didn't work out because of that goddamn B+.

Oh well. Maybe next semester. I still haven't picked out all of my classes. I got Japanese down, but I still need 3 more. I've been kind of putting it off for the past, oh, 2 months. All the spots are probably taken for the classes I need, which means I'm probably going to have to squeeze into some classes that I don't want to take :( I should plan ahead next time. I hate visiting my adviser though. Not that she's a bad person or anything, but I always end up changing the classes she picks for me anyway. I only go there to know my options and then I change the classes that she picks and I choose the ones that I feel like taking, which is totally how it should be anyway.

No fucking way am I taking academic advice from someone who doesn't know the extent of my own procrastination.

Christmas is... in a minute :O It's 11:59pm as I write this. It's just going to be me and my mom, I doubt it'll be any fun, but I have fudge brownies to look forward to tomorrow, so I guess that's an upside.

Happy Holidays!

I realized in the past minute or so how badly I communicate when I'm suffering from lack of sleep. Well, not so much "lack of sleep" as it is refusal to go to sleep. Ignore the fact that I have a final tomorrow today, which I haven't studied for and will most likely not do well in. I've been doing so great in the class so far, too. Sometimes I wonder if my teacher ever thinks I'm cheating, even though I sit in the second row and am, usually, in plain view of her desk, if not slightly obscured by this tall white guy who always sits in the front and, freakishly, turns around randomly to stare in the general direction of the back of the class where there is nothing to see but the DOOR and a WALL.

Sometimes I find myself wondering after his sanity, but then I stop and realize that I'm thinking about another classmate and what the hell does it matter to me if he's batshit insane?

Apparently, lack of sleep also makes me sound somewhat more witty. And British. If that's even possible over the internet. Maybe it is.

Well, I guess I should go to sleep now. I blame this entry on boredom, procrastination for not wanting to study, insomnia, and maybe even a little bit on Matthew Lewis.

There's a new version of "Sorry Sorry" called "Sorry Sorry - Answer," which is relatively the same as the R&B remix ver. of "Sorry Sorry" that was released several months ago, except the boys have more parts this time and Eunhyuk and Donghae rap! Eunhyuk totally sounds like a creep during his part, but that's okay. I like... creeps... (not really, but I'll make an exception for him). Kyuhyun has a damn sexy voice though.

There's also a remix of "It's You," but I'm not really feeling it :\ although I do like the beat for some reason.

Ah well... I'll still burn it onto a CD... when I find the time, which will probably be tomorrow when I'm procrastinating about studying for my final for Japanese. 12 fucking chapters of vocabulary I have to study. Shit is ridiculous.

Okay, let's try this again, Vox.

I bought myself late birthday/early Christmas presents! I ordered them mid-November and I just got them a couple days ago. Haven't had time to blog about it because of school. Well, that's a lie. I didn't end up turning in that assignment due on Friday, which is now due tomorrow but I'm still probably not going to turn it in because I have no scanner. I'll bitch about that later.

On to the goodies...

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Yes, I am a crackhead for buying this stuff, but it's all about supporting the artist(s), man. Even if, you know, in reality, they only get a very small percentage of the proceeds and most of it goes to their godforsaken companies.

Oh, and lay off on the lack of focus in these pics. My mom's camera is broken so it can't focus under a certain distance which, unfortunately, is what happened with all of the pictures. Plus it adds this weird, grainy texture if there's too much red in a picture, or if there's just any red, period.

2PM Vol.1 - 01:59PM
At first I wasn't going to order this because of the obvious reason: Jay, my favorite member from 2PM, isn't featured on the album. I know someone said he's in 기다리다 doing the vocals, but there's only 6 people featured on the cover, so it was pretty obvious just by looking at it that he wouldn't be in the booklet, which is a goddamn shame because I wanted to see his gorgeous abs in a nicely printed booklet :(

JYP, you bastard.

But, anyway, the CD packaging is really nice. I like the style of it too. The entire thing is a three-fold album, but you can't really tell by the pictures I took. The only thing I don't really like are the actual images. Although Junsu, Chansung, Wooyoung, and, for the most part, Taecyeon look really good, the other two, Nichkhun and Junho, have this weird-ass shih tzu hairdo thing going on. They remind me of evil shih tzus, is what I'm trying to say. Seriously. They look like my dog when she's being a bitch.

Honestly, I think it was a good buy though, even minus Jay. Still would have been a million times more awesome if he had been in it, but whatever, JYP. You do what you want. You bastard.

Beast/B2ST 1st mini-album - Beast is the B2ST
First off, holy shit, this is like the best packaging I've ever seen for a goddamn mini-album. Granted, the only other mini-album I've bought is Epik High's Lovescream, but still. It's awesome. I'm probably going to get a lot of shit from Thu for even buying it, but it was worth it. Out of all the things I bought this time, this one has got to be my favorite. It was like opening a present, but then getting another present on top of the original present. It probably felt that way because it came in this flimsy, kind of shitty, plastic thing, but then you open it and you pull out a white box. Yes, a freaking box. Or something like a box. It's like an album box. And then comes the booklet, which is a lot thicker than I thought it would be considering this is just a mini-album with, what, five songs on it?

There's two pages dedicated to each song, all featuring a member, except for Dongwoon because he's awesome and he gets his own page w/o lyrics (actually, it's because there's 5 songs and 6 members, but whatev). And then there's two pages dedicated to each member for one photoshoot (another 12 pages) and then two pages, again, for an additional photoshoot with closeups of their faces (another 12 pages). I think these photos were/are on their official website. And then a few pages here and there featuring all the boys. Point of the matter is, there's a shitload of pages for this booklet and a lot of eyecandy.

I don't really want to think like this, but I'm guessing Cube Entertainment, which is like a sister company to JYP (that bastard) Entertainment, went above and beyond with this mini-album because they really want to reel in Beast fans. Well, I'm already sold on them so it was kind of pointless doing all the fancy packaging and stuff, but it was a nice surprise for me upon opening it.

After you (finally) get through the booklet, there's another insert with their 'Thanks To' messages, all in Korean, so I can't understand it, but it made me laugh that Gikwang ended up using 1 and a half pages to write out his thanks. That crackhead. It's like he was thanking every person he's ever met up til then or something. So nice of him.

Super Junior Vol.3 - Sorry, Sorry [CD (Version C), CD+DVD (Version D)]
So, initially, my whole reasoning for buying two versions of the same album was because one came with a DVD and one didn't. I did this with their 2nd album, too. I don't know. Maybe it's just an SM Entertainment thing. You always have to buy at least two of the same damn release. Who knows.

Anyway, I really thought the CD+DVD version would be different than the regular CD edition, but it's pretty much the exact same thing. The inside booklet is the same, although because of the dimensions of the CD+DVD version, the inside booklet for that one is a bit larger (maybe like an inch or so). Also, the CD edition is the only one that comes with that photodiary thing, but I thought it would be another booklet, instead, it's just a fold-out (see image 3). It was a bit disappointing.

So, now I have two versions, a super shiny one with a DVD and a white one with a photodiary hahaha. It's good that I like this version (version C) better than versions A+B. They all look good in this one... well, minus Kibum because his hair is a bit weird, but it's not bad. I mean, there's 13 of them. The chances of them all looking good, statistically, aren't very high lol

Okay, I'm done with my spamming. Speaking of spam, I need to eat something because the nausea I felt after swiveling in my stupid desk chair while I was drinking coffee has finally faded and now I'm starving... must. eat. food.

Next time I'll update with something school-related. The final days of classes are coming up! Actually, for me, they're all next week, but I'm trying not to think about it.

Mom: Your brothers are coming to visit on Thursday so we have to clean the house.
Me: I don't understand why they can't just stay in San Diego. I mean, don't they see us enough? Honestly.

Well, Thanksgiving is coming up and it's the season of thanks. Pilgrims, Native Americans, and all that turkey goodness.

I went to the store (or a few stores, actually) with my mom today after taking my dog to the groomers at PetsMart. Yeah. It was uneventful. I stared down some fools.

Well. That's a lie.

Some fools looked at me and then I pretended to busy myself with the stacks of processed meat in the aisle that I was in. 'Twas a lovely experience.

I have an exam in Logic tomorrow which I cannot, abso-fucking-lutely CANNOT, be late for. I've been late to that class unfailingly for the last few weeks and I feel bad for my teacher because I like the class, but I always end up leaving my house later than I intend to and miss the first 10-15 minutes of the lecture.

Le sigh.

Oh yeah, and my brothers are coming to visit on Thursday, which sucks because I have a lot of shit due in my classes since school is going to be ending in the next few weeks, hence the conversation above and why I can't understand their reasoning for visiting us on Thanksgiving.

And then that stupid conscience of mine dutifully points out that it's my mother's birthday this week, actually it's today, and they probably want to spend it with her.

Ugh. I hate my conscience sometimes.

Have to write some essays on internet cookies for my javascript class. IT'S FUCKING DIFFICULT. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO WORD SHIT.

And then I have to fix my cookies page. We're supposed to create a page that asks for the visitor's favorite color and, on selection, the page background has to change. And then the cookie on the page is supposed to make it so that the next time the visitor sees the page, it's still in the color they selected.

UGH.

I don't know how to do it. I think I might just copy someone else's work since that's what a few people I've seen have been doing lol. I know, I should work harder, but it's kind of hard when I don't know what the fuck the use for selectColor(document.cookie) is for. WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN??

But at least I finished the extra credit for my logic class. I missed one of the homework assignments and I've been late to class a lot recently, so hopefully those extra points will help me with (at least) the homework I missed. The point system in that class is weird. Most of my new media classes are out of 1000 points, but the logic one... we're only up to 48.5 points and I've got a 47 lol. Still got an A :D woohoo! And I actually like this class a lot better than when I took (and failed) Finite. It's kind of funny because they basically teach the same shit, but the main difference between that class and this one is the number of students. We used one of the big lecture halls for Finite, roughly 150-200 people. And my logic class is just like a regular classroom size, 25 people or so. It's an easier learning environment for me. The only classes I do well in in the big lecture halls are for science and new media classes.

Now I've got to call my bank because I've been holding off on it :\ I need to reactivate my checking card because I accidentally deactivated it for fraud protection. Don't ask me how that happened. I was just being stupid and had a momentary lapse in memory lol.