By 10:20am today I need to finish two papers and study for my exam. I’m not too worried about the papers, but the exam…? Eh. Below are the words/names for the matching portion of my exam…I’ve just finished watching The Return and Solaris and I’ll probably regret it, but I’m going to rest my head for a little while… probably til 4am-ish.

I know it’s a lot to ask, but if anyone can even just link me to wiki pages for a bunch of these, it’ll save me time for when I wake up… I think I got most of the spellings right, except for the last one, anyway.

Any help is appreciated.

Krushchev
Andropov
Malenkev
Zyuganov
Trotsky
Gagarin
Zhukov
Luzhkov
Breshnev
Barbarossa
Ost (OST?)
Vasiliev
United Russia
KPRF
Gaidar
Council of Federation
Kursk-Belgonod


One of my essays is on the fall of the Soviet Union. Apparently there are 3 aspects to it… I only really know one lol: Yeltsin wanted to destroy Gorbachev and to do so, he destroyed the country that Gorbachev stood for. Douche.

The second essay I’m doing on the Livejournal DDoS attacks from the Russian standpoint… or at least trying to focus from that view. I have a few links somewhere on my plurk. If anyone has anything, I’d happily take that, too.

Note to Self: Don’t forget to read about the decrees and what helped the Soviet Union win WWII for the in-class essays.

At some point I’ll actually update LJ for real XD The best way to contact me these days is my plurk. I haven’t been checking my LJ really, nor Facebook. So. Yeah.

*takes that power nap…*

Oi! I haven't posted on LJ or read through it in ages. Hope people are doing well.

So, life. Life is going okay! School is going okay! I was panicking on Facebook a bit about a class that I had missed a lot of (though found out that last week Strokanov wasn't actually on campus for classes) and last Friday was the last day to drop a class without getting a failing grade. I was gonna talk to him on Thursday about it, but one of the other profs said he wasn't in town so I sighed and just left it.

Caught him Tuesday on his way to teach his 9:30 class. Talked and walked, sorted things out a bit. Calmed down. Ended up sitting in on his 9:30 class, which was in the same room as me 11 class, so. And he was talking about India. All good.

I was running numbers and by the end of this semester I should have 18 credits rolling in - 6 from last semester, 12 from this one. Two summer classes is another 6, 15 planned for the fall. Ontop of my current 59, that will put me at 98 credits, and I think I need 120 or so to graduate. That means I need about 22 for next year.

I... might be able to do that o.o

The question is whether or not I can finish my major at the same instant. My minor? Easy. I can finish that this year. My major is a little more difficult.

There's a freeze on all the budgets of the departments. I forget all the details because I haven't looked at them for about a week, but the school is trying to avoid being in deficit in 2013 and they're all over the place running numbers to level out themselves so that they'll be okay. But they're currently pissed off the student body by heading towards faculty cuts in order to achieve that. First, offering profs close to retirement an early plan, and since it's seeming unlikely that those folk are all going to accept, they'll go towards untenured profs.

I personally think they should really chop out about half our deans since we apparently have eight and they're even easier to get rid of, but whatever.

The whole thing does bother me and it sucks but I'm more bothered by the departments getting no money.

They can't run more classes without money.

Richard Moye is going on sabbatical the coming fall and spring (I thought he was choosing to start in the spring, so you can imagine my mental keysmash). But then, even if he was here, he might not necessarily be able to teach much since there's no money to do so properly.

Well fuck that guys, how the hell are we supposed to finish our degree, huh?

I did find out that independent studies cost me more money and is easier on them then a full class. So those might end up being my last resorts.

A lot of the student body actually went to Montpelier to talk with the capitol's education folk about money. There's this big number of money that goes to all the public colleges of Vermont... alas the state colleges (Lyndon, Johnson, Castleton...) get pretty much whatever is left of that money. We've been getting less over the years.

I had planned on going, but I've been feeling horrendous off and on this week, and since I would have been traveling in a school van with a bunch of the students with a plan of being out from noon-5, I could see the terrible idea of getting myself stranded there while heaving.

Yeah. So. :| Will have to wait until tomorrow's Critic to see some of the details of how it went.

Uhm... lessee... LARP is creeping up. Gotta get stuff for that... FIRST comp in CT next week... gonna go to that.

FFXI comes back up tomorrow... for who-knows-how-long. SE got their electrical output down to some amount so they can bring the servers back up... I think I've been going through withdrawal only because I can't play.

I'm still weighing around going to Russia in the summer. I want to but... $2800... I really hate spending money. I really, really do. And maybe the school would hire me again, but seriously... I wouldn't rehire me, lol.

But hell, they probably barely can with how money is. Hiring non-workstudy students is money they barely had last year.

...Other stuff... Yearbook we're starting to rush a bit to meet our deadline x.x I'm doing fine in my portfolio/thesis class... though I can't find like... two pieces of paper that I had for my thesis research :| I think it's SOMEWHERE at the house but ugh.

And I really wish it could actually be spring. We had a few days were it was scratching towards 60, and then it snowed another inch or two. Can I get warmer weather? Pleeeease??

Prob missing stuff, but. Whatev. o7

I am happy. I'm delightfully, bouncing around with happy.

So, I went to sleep at 9am yesterday and woke up at 9pm. Goal was to push myself late so that I would actually maybe be to my 11am class, which I had missed the last erm... three classes of >>; I did see one of the other kids from the class on Friday when I had an impromptu trip to campus after going to Applebees with Josh, and he told me that our geography test was Thursday (today).

Basically I played FFXI from 9pm to about 6am wherein I started studying for the geography test (to keep it fresh in my mind). Highlighted all over my atlas that I got for freshmen year's Representing the World lol.

Cleaned off my car around 7:30-8am-ish. Initially I planned to just turn it on and heat it up, come back inside and then clean it later, but just getting to my car without killing myself and ending up in a snowbank (I almost did that anyway), I had to for once shovel out my steps and a bit around my car, and by that point I just full-out attacked my car.

Screw those brush things. The best way to clean my car off is flailing my arms at it. ...No really, it actually worked pretty good, and since I didn't have to leave asap, I could come back inside and let my jacket dry off.

Did more geography stuff. Had to find half the stuff (Russia and surrounding area stuff). Then I hightailed it to campus with the idea of seeing Strokanov before he went to teach his 9:30 class and speak to him about missing classes. I got to campus at about 9:20. Yeah. At that point I wouldn't be able to get him, so I abandoned that plan and went to bug the English department. Bugged Chandler for a good period of time; I had already emailed him at like... 5am my plan for his portfolio/thesis class, so we chatted about that and some other stuff.

Then I finally left him alone and plopped into a bench near the snack bar and GASP, went back to geography.

CUPATSYK, dudes. Twitter and plurk probably WTFed at that. It was my method to remember all the damn mountain ranges. From left to right... more or less.

But we didn't have the test today.

We were all a bit flabbergasted. He forgot. We even actually tried to ask him but Strokanov is a man that can barrel on, so he barreled right into his lecture and we were all like "....okay.... maybe he's saving it for... later?" But we saw the time dwindle down and we were hardly going to interrupt his flow. So by the end he was kind of like "oops." I ACTUALLY WAS READY TO TAKE IT I THINK. Oh well, Tuesday.

I think he also forgot that I missed the past three classes. He remembered I missed Tuesday! But last week? Didn't seem to. So I just didn't mention it lol.

Then I headed back to the English department because I'd been trying to catch Dan, since I had missed the past two Critic classes :D; YEAH IT'S KINDA BEEN A BAD START OKAY. He... wasn't around at the time, BUT RICHARD. RICHARD WAS (I missed his Monday class LOL). Richard doesn't have office hours on Thursday. He's not on campus Thursdays. So this was like... awesome.

He discussed Monday's class with me, then we talked about my incomplete for one of his classes last semester, then we talked about incompletes in general and we kind of talked about Red :D; "You probably will graduate in shorter time than Tom at least..." "Yeah, there's that." and just stuff. IDK how long we talked. I stopped 'cause there was someone else lurking that wanted to bug him. Soooo I shuffled off, and lo-and-behold, Dan's office was open.

But no Dan :| I waited around in his doorway for him, staring at a clementine that was in his candy dish. Generally anything in that dish is for the taking but I wasn't sure... He came by, let me have the clementine, and we talked (my third English teacher who I talked for eons with).

Now see, Dan is the head of the journalism stuff. He's the teacher connected to the campus newspaper, The Critic. I hate writing news. Hatehatehate it. I spoke with him last semester of the possibility of a creative writing section, which had sparked my interest, but I couldn't do it at the time. So thought about it this semester, buuuuut.... it really wasn't settling with me, still. And the class that focuses on The Critic (you don't have to take the class to work on it, but you get credits for the class lol) starts at 6pm Thursdays and ends when the layout is fucking done (this can take awhile). It's annoying and tedious and I just can't seem to like it.

So, Dan starts saying, "Now here's something you might be interested in..." and I'm expecting it to be some different section in The Critic that I'd still begrudge in some way (Dan does know completely my stance on working on The Critic lol). Instead, he mentions a group of students working on a yearbook. There hasn't been an LSC yearbook in a really, really long time, but it's the school's 100th birthday, so they thought it'd be cool. It's 72-pages and Jostens is doing the printing and the most writing I'd probably be doing is profiling students from the 50s to what they are now. I can do that. That's actually kind of cool.

Some of it will probably be busywork but... I that kind of busywork I can do and oddly enjoy; it's like updating the lists of Paixao - sort of background stuff that flows easily for me. I'm actually pretty damn interested in working on it. I'm strangely excited for it. \o/ AND to put icing on the cake... I don't have to go to The Critic's 6pm meetings. I'll prob meet with the main person sometime on Monday - alas, the full group meets 3:30 on Monday and I have class, lol.

But it's just.... nrrrrrg. I love the English department. I'll probably never stop saying that :)

I DON'T HAVE TO WORK ON THE CRITIC. OMG. FOR ONCE THERE IS NOT JUST THE CRITIC FOR THE WRITING AND PUBLICATIONS CLASS. BEST. DAY. EVER.

*oozes everywhere*

Now to continue my productivity streak and go pay my Charter bill. Eheh.

THEN MY ENERGY WILL BE SPENT PLAYING DANCE CENTRAL. FTW.

Run a Google image search to your answer to each of the following questions, and post the result. You must choose an image from the first page of results.

1. Age on your next birthday.
2. A place you'd like to travel.
3. Your favorite place.
4. Your favorite object.
5. Your favorite food.
6. Your favorite animal.
7. Your favorite color.
8. Town where you were born.
9. Town where you now live.
10. Name of a past/current pet.
11. Name of a past love.
12. Best friend's nickname.
13. Your nickname.
14. Your first name.
15. Your middle name.
16. Your last name.
17. A bad habit of yours.
18. Your first job.
19. Your grandmothers first name.
20. Current/Future/Past college major.

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SO y'know, I read it as "you must choose the first image" soooo yeah. Whatev.

Do you trust my taste in music? Pick a number between 1 ~ 6,813 and I'll find the corresponding song in my playlist.

There's a good post to start the new year with >___>

At some point maybe I'll be all introspective or something.

l-lol


*goes back to Dance Central*

So I was thinking about some of the money I got for Christmas and then started pondering Gally '11. I initially was like "TOTES GONNA GO" and then got guilty about school and stuff and decided I wouldn't. But I was thinking about school a few days ago and I'm really not that bad off, especially given that I took a break for a year.

Glance at the Gallifrey website and see for the guests: Peter Davison.

PETER. FUCKING. DAVISON.

That kind of made up that decision for me 8D Fifth Doctor is on of my faaaaavorites.

It's also like... a week before my birthday, so I could prob just make it my birthday present lol. I'm not toooo worried about rooming... I think MJ is possibly-maybe going so I might be able to flail and ask for corner space lolol. The only thing that'll be a pain is plane tickets lol.

...although poking at Southwest Airlines, they don't seem too bad :O

*flaaaaaaails*

I should be starting break that week too. This could work nicely....

Eeeeee I wish other people were awake so I could prod them... AH WELL. DARN INSOMNIA. DARN WALMART. I WANT MY MEDS ;;;;

In other news, I got uh... kind of a lot for Christmas. The big thing though was an xbox 360 with the Kinect stuff. ...I'm totally getting that dancing game.

*also woots a bit for finally finding a Cata OST torrent* I'll prob share it at some point. Lazy now.

I think we have about 6in of snow. Hard to tell because the wind is blowing about like mad. Yaaaay blizzards. :|

Raaaaaawg I'm sleepy. I just woke up, and I am without my therapy light, which I think I can safely say now DOES help me wake up. Oh well. It would've been a pain to bring...

...but I SHOULD'VE ANYWAY. ;; *grabby hands at... nothing*

So, Wednesday I came down to NH 'cause my brother was making broccoli and cheese soup~ To get to his place from my apartment, it shoulda taken me about 2 hours. Instead, it takes about 2 1/2 courtesy of OMG TRAFFIC from like... Concord and on. To say the least, I WAS NOT AMUSED. And poor Josh. He called me at one point and I just caught the 'J' before I answered and thought it was Justin so cue me ranting through the phone until I get "Uh... this is Josh" huioknbguijjhg SORRY AGAIN FOR THAT JOSH.

Thursday I got a good amount done. I was gonna go to RiteAid but I got lost lol. I THINK it actually was exit 7E I wanted. I was off of 6. I failed lol. I shoulda just turned around, but I kept on going and ended up in Merrimack lol. I was gonna go to Wal-Mart anyway, so I just went there and put in my prescription at the pharmacy.

Bought a scraper. Cleaned up my wall that many folk know had pictures taped to half of it lol.

Got my Secret Santa stuff done annnnd my muse cards. They went out this morning.

Oh. And I reapped the Master at Taxon on a whim.

:D

And stuff. I forgot where I was going with this entry. I started it at my mom's and then went to my bro's. I'm gonna go play WoW lol.

Right. Life update. Richard and Chandler are giving me incompletes so I can salvage those classes. C in chorus, so I'll save three and lose two. I texted my mom finally and told her that I was doing better, not perfect, but better and that I figured something out with my classes. She replied that she honestly thought I dropped out and was afraid to tell her and she didn't know what to do x.x

Well, maybe her assuming the worst will make it easier to talk to her. I'll probably go home Wednesday, or something.

Hmph. LJ left me with some decent icons on this journal at least. It's generally such a pain when things go inactive.

MUSE CARDS are still available 'cause I haven't done them yet :D;; I think I need more stamps lol.

Other stuff.

Uhhh WoW-wise, Justin, my brother, rejoined. So I hopped over to his server, Bleeding Hollow, to make a character. Joined his guild, SG, and have been chatting over TS with some of his friends. He paid my membership fee, so that was nice. Made my undead lock. I wanted to go through the new quests anyway, and I haven't been disappointed. Heck, one even made me not completely hate Garrosh! That's saying something. It's weird when I do my dailies on my main though and then switch back over and get all "WHERE ARE HALF MY SPELLS. WHY CAN'T I DEATH COIL YOU? OH. I DON'T HAVE IT YET. SHIT. *DIES*" lolz.

At least I'll never have to worry about gold. Justin gave me 300 when I started and I barely started chipping away at it for glyphs and stupid wool cloth. So, Sunday he was saying he needed to head to Org, which is where I was buying out wool cloth and I was like "Hey, why you're here, could you toss a bit of gold my way?" ...He gave me 1200. It's good I have TS set to pushing a button to talk because my response was basically "Jesus. I said a BIT!"

Ah, the difference of siblings. I hate spending money in and out of game. He does it all the time (mainly because he can replace it quickly though, lol sigh).

Oh, it is fun being on TS with his "other sister" and her husband. Trudee and Chris. Trudee and I were basically "Why did you think it was a good idea for us to meet...?" because we both pick on him EVERY CHANCE WE CAN GET. Oh yeah, we're definitely sisters-not-by-blood 8D

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In other news, I've been playing WoW. Finished reading all 8 Dal books this morn' and got the lil familiar~ Haven't really been focusing on my main. Lvl 63 lolz. Mostly been doing three dailies on her: the cooking and fishing Orgimmar quests and the venomhide hatchling quest. One more day and I'll have me a raptor mount! :D

Tried out the Worgen and Goblin starting areas. I made a Worgen with Kae and Rue on the Sentinels RP server, and my gobbie on my norm Eredar. I actually liked the Worgen starting stuff better :O Folk are like "it's dull and boring just like them" but I thought it was fun. *shrugs* To each their own.

I hadn't realized until yesterday though that the names of my two characters are similar XD I had made them like... a day or two apart, too. Junelle is my Worgen, Bethell is my Goblin.

Poked around with archeology earlier. It reminds me of the Chocobo Hot & Cold game from FF9, which I had always gotten addicted to XD Soooo I kind of like this.

Flying in Azeroth makes everything easier, especially on a PVP server. I managed to slide into Darkmoon Faire to peer around, and then chilled out on a Stormwind tower before I got paranoid and hearthed home XD Though I belatedly remembered a certain achievement and was like "Damn! I should've fished something up before I left!" I'll do that suicidal rush another time lol.

Probably will go back to leveling later. Whenever I'm awake. Moye said he'd bug Kascenska again if he didn't answer by noon. There's no way I'm seeing the dean til I hear from Moye.