Life of an Engineer :P

Being a Technical Communications major, I'm in Mercer's School of Engineering even though I only have to take two engineering classes. This is why the majority of my friends are engineer majors (for now anyway), and since I'm considered an engineer because I'm in the School of Engineering, I get to find a lot of engineering jokes to tease my friends with.

This is one of them. :P

And now I have to go meet up with my group to write our bridge proposal for our Intro Engineering Design class. :P

A repeating pattern?

So I haven't been blogging much for the past few days... 

Actually, I just realized that I did the exact same thing last week: post every day between Sunday through Wednesday, and then have a huge gap until I post on Sunday again. I guess the second half of the week really is busier than the first half. That, and I can't bring myself to blog on the weekend when I'm trying to do everything that I don't allow myself to do during the week, which is ridiculous since I still read manga and fanfiction during the week when I should be doing homework or studying. But, I also try to catch up on all of my YouTube subscriptions on the weekend too. :P

Also, my case finally came for my tablet, I've been using it more than my laptop and have been bringing it to school lately. Since the tablet comes with a stylus built within it, it has this cool writing feature where you can manually write what you want instead of tapping a bunch of keys. How cool is that?

But yeah, I'll try to get my blogging together and post more consistently. I mean, I'm still more comfortable blogging on my laptop because I have most of my pictures and info on it, but if I use my tablet as much as how most of my friends with their tablets do, it wont be long before I prefer it to my laptop, lol. But, that will prolly take a while since I still haven't completely gotten used to and customized my tablet yet. I mean, I still haven't changed my background picture or uploaded any music yet, lol.

Ugh. I don't know what I hit, but my stylus isn't working anymore. Did I already mess it up? D: That would suck so much. I was really getting used to it! 

Anyway,  I'm gonna go. Shelle's car wouldn't start yesterday after astronomy,  and none of the guys who tried to fix it could figure what was wrong with it. You would think that a bunch of engineers would have been able to fix it, but that car is old and finicky. :/ 

Today, Daddy came and tried to fix it, calling a close family friend who's a mechanic for advice and even buying a new battery piece for it, and the stupid thing still doesn't work! I was with him the majority of the time in the car that he drove here since he told me that the police and security showed up earlier when he was working on the car since it looked suspicious,  lol. I brought my student ID just in case. :P And it was a good thing that I did so that I could get into the engineering building later and ask for some screw drivers, lol. I guess that's one of the perks of breaking down in the engineering parking lot, lol. 

Either way, I spent the majority of the day inside of a car, reading the No Fear Shakespeare version of Twelfth Night and catching up on tumblr. I still haven't had the time to create the bridge design blueprints for my group's proposal that we're working on tomorrow. D:

So yeah, I want to finish reading Twelfth Night tonight so that I can say that I at least accomplished one thing today. 

I'm gonna go eat and then do that. Later! 

pointy.star

Jupiter + Moon = Halo :P

Today, I found out from Astronomy that on Monday, Jupiter and the Moon were really close together so that you could see a halo around the moon. My professor actually took a picture of it and submitted it to this website! I thought that it was really cool! He said that if we manage to take good pictures while we're out on our night labs, he'll submit them too.

So, yeah, check out his picture. It's pretty awesome! :)

Top Ten Tuesday: Settings I'd Like To See More Of (Or At All)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by the Broke and Bookish.

Top Five Settings I'd Like To See More Of (Or At All):

1. Alien planet

There's so much that you could do on an alien planet! The setting, the culture, the technology! So much leeway! Not to mention the crazy things that you could make up! XD

2. Conventions

When I say conventions, I kind of meant Comic Con or any anime convention, lol. I think that it'd be an awesomely nerdy book. Sort of like the stories from Geektastic, but with reluctant protagonists instead who learns that it's okay to embrace your nerdiness and be yourself. 

3. College

I'm interested in the whole New Adult genre, but I haven't read any yet, so I don't know how I feel about them (since the main difference is the inclusion of sex). Either way, I would love to read books about college students and their lives and how they switch majors and make new friends and join clubs and all of the stuff that I'm doing now.

4. Stores

I think that you could do a lot with stores. Like, they're so versitile since there's so much stuff you could do in them. For example, Monument 14 takes place in a store during an apocalypse, but you could also have a cute romance in a store where a shopper has a crush on a worker, or two workers bond over stocking items. Or it could be like Dash & Lily's Book of Dares and have little messages for people in books in stores. So many possibilities!

5. Overseas

Even more possibilities! Not to mention the vast amount of cultures you could write about! I've always wanted to travel, so I think that book settings in other countries is great because you get to basically experience the culture there while reading. 

Summer Wars - Amazing every time

Today in Anime Club, we watched Summer Wars, which was awesome because even though it was my third time watching it, I still loved it and enjoyed every minute of it. I mean, it's such a great movie! Words cannot describe my love for it, even though I wrote a fangirling review for it a year or two ago, lol.

Either way, you should definitely watch it! You won't regret it! And if you've already seen it, you should watch it again! XD

Rewatching this movie reminded me just how much I missed rewatching/rereading books and movies. I've been so busy trying to read as many books that I've bought over the past few years and trying to watch all of the movies that I'd bought over time and trying to watch shows and movies on Netflix, that I forgot just how nice it is to rewatch something that I had highly enjoyed in the past. 

You know what's gonna happen, but you still love watching how everything builds up to the climax, and it's great because you get that happy feeling from remembering what happens next and because it doesn't take much to get sucked into the plot of the movie again.

So yeah, I guess what I want to do now is rewatch movies that I enjoyed and reread books that I loved. It's going to be difficult since most of my books and movies are at home, and I'm at my apartment  most of the time, but I'm pretty sure I can do it over breaks and stuff. I'm not going to make this a goal since I don't want to feel pressured into doing it, so hopefully I'll remember about this goal as the time passes, lol.

Anyway, I've got to go do homework now since I basically procrastinated all weekend. :P

Bye~

pointy.star

Cover Lover 27

Wah~ What a busy day yesterday. Well, I was mainly only busy when I was working yesterday since there were two basketball games, and the boy's game was super busy. But yeah, my feet and right shoulder ache, but whatevs; I only got to work today since I had a night lab on Thursday night and couldn't work at that game, so I'm okay with whatever amount of work I can get because I needs some moneyz. :P

Plus, I got my refund check, and my dad agreed to let me get a tablet since I was supposed to get one for my birthday a few months ago but didn't get one since the one that I wanted wasn't out yet (the Microsoft Surface Pro), but since I found out how expensive it's going to be and did some research on other tablets, my sis (she's going to get a tablet, too, lol) and I decided that we were going to get an iPad and a Samsung Galaxy Note since we didn't want to have the same tablets and couldn't decide on which one to get. In the end, I'm going to get the Galaxy Note because I want the stylus that comes with it and Shelle's going to get the iPad so that she can FaceTime her boyfriend, lol.

We went to BestBuy to go get them 15 minutes until 10 at night, which was what the closing time said it was online, but when we got there, we saw on the door that they closed at nine on Saturdays, so we couldn't get our tablets after all. Which reminds me, I need to start looking for covers online since I don't want to buy them at the store because they're so expensive...

Yeah... I'm gonna go now. 

Calming Cat

So there's this thing called Calming Cat on tumblr that I found, and all I can think of is this myungyeol fic called Sealed With a Kiss that I've been reading for the past few days (and finally finished at one in the morning, lol) because Myungsoo sends Sungyeol pics and videos of kittens, and the fic is so hilarious and adorable and awesome and I love their snarky banter. They never fail to make me laugh or smile. 

So yeah, if you've had a long, tiring day, look at the calming cat, read the myungyeol fic, and just chill~ (I feel like a hypocrite since I've been procrastinating and not doing my homework so I can't relax, lol)

Top Ten Tuesdays: 2013 Debuts I'm Looking Forward To

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by the Broke and Bookish.

So many awesome summaries! So many awesome covers!

Top Ten 2013 Debuts I'm Looking Forward To:

Prophecy by Ellen Oh  |  The Ward by Jordana Frankel  |  Dualed by Elsie Chapman  

The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnet  |  Ink by Amanda Sun  |  The Art of Wishing by Lindsay Ribar  |  Reboot by Amy Tinterra |  Linked by Imogen Howson  |  Control by Lydia Kang  

Let the Sky Fall by Shannon Messenger