free movies right now. i wish it were HBO though.

showtime has a few movies on constant repeat. so one weekend is all you really need to see everything. it also has a lot of softcore porn. the difference between softcore and hardcore porn is whether or not you get to see penis. also, softcore porn tends to be more emotionally invested, as in "i knew this one couple who always liked to share..." as opposed to hardcore porn where "girl goes to neighbor's house and bends over".

anyway, showtime television shows suck. definitely prefer HBO series more.

watching Wes Craven Presents: They. there is this one scene with a girl. she has an injury on her ankle that is constantly bleeding. then she went swimming at her college pool. and that was when i cringed. the movie was not scary. i have seen a lot of this before. so nothing new. or it may have been new when it first came out seven years ago. but really, people should not go swimming in a public pool is they have a bleeding open wound. that is disgusting. absolutely disgusting.

public pool = urination and feces from children.

college pool = sperm and genital fluids from students being "spontaneous".

then you add blood and bandaids into the mix.

also, the overall grossness of some people.

i am not a hypochondriac. but some people are just nasty.

today was an odd mix of bad moments and compensatory moments. not good moments, per se. bc all of these other moments followed quickly after the bad, as if to make up for the inconvenience.

left the house on time this morning. but it was far too cold for the shirt i had on. so i returned to get my new jacket. noticed that the cardboard tag was still on, so i yanked on it, slicing my fingers open. i had grabbed it by the sides, and not by the top. ::sigh:: look at the deep cuts. look at the clock. realize i am running late. rush to get antibiotic cremefor my bleeding fingers. rush to the bathroom to get some band-aids. cannot find them. rush around a little more. finally find them and put one on. stop and smile for a moment. oscar the grouch smailes back at me. lol. i forgot i had bought sesame street band-aids.

need jacket - boo!
cold enough for a jacket - yay!
slice open fingers - boo!
oscar the grouch band-aid - yay!

running late by 10 minutes or so. still early for class bc i purposely leave early for the parking. arrive in enough time to grab the only seat at the study table.

running late - boo!
grab the only seat - yay!

a classmate shows up and starts talking to me about her personal life: her on/off boyfriend of 5 years who joined the military and will be gone for over a year, but refuses to give her an incentive to wait for him (i.e. marriage), despite their cohabitation of 5 years going on 7 (if they are still together after he returns from deployment). my opinion? if you have lived together for 5 years going on 7, then you are already married; it is just not official yet. and if you refuse to get married bc you are "not ready", even though you have enjoyed all marital joys and woes (besides tax benefits and military insurance) for 5+ years, then you never intend to get married, or you are just waiting for something better to come along. i am not a prude. i do not care if unmarried persons live together. but when you add 5 years of mutual cohabitation to the mix, then you need to come to a decision.

women are fertile for only a short time compared to men. and men have no right to waste those years just bc they are waiting for something better. he will not marry her bc he is not "ready". they have lived together for 5 years, shared a bed as well as a bank account. if he cannot commit after all that time, especially with him placing a deadline on (the renewal of) their relationship (before he leaves for boot camp and is deployed afterwards), then he has no intention to marry her. and since he will not end it, but asks her to wait for him with no promise of a future (not even an engagement), then she will have to be the one to end it. she has to be the one to move on. and unfortunately, she will be the one to catch hell for "abandoning" her lover before he goes off to war. sad, really. she would have settled for a promise to marry (engagement), if the idea of marriage had him so... freaked.

so yeah, that is what i did instead of studying, on the upside, i am pretty sure i ace-ed (?) the test.

interrupted study time - boo!
knew the test material well - yay!

and then the lab. last week's class was cancelled due to hurricane ida. but the classes before, she had been handing out worksheets, assignments, and instructions. she sent email after email reminding us to do our assignments and read the lab before we get to class. i read the lab and thought that it was too much warning to read 3 paragraphs. started worrying about whether or not i had everything i needed. consoled myself with  the fact that i had been there and received all papers handed out. decided to rely on the idea that if there were papers missing, then she would have posted them on the website. get to class and find out there was an entire packet of papers that we needed to have read. oops. but i was not the only one who had no idea about the the other pages. so everyone grabbed a set. and she went over them. of course, we were growing and transforming e. coli in a petri dish. and i had sliced my fingers open with a cardboard tag. so i had to use latex gloves to prevent infection. it was actually rather fun.

not prepared for class - boo!
not the only one who was not prepared - yay!
possible e. coli in my papercut - boo!
latex gloves provided - yay!

then home. my test got moved, so not a study night. had a chance to do naxxramas with the guild. awkward. everyone (not reall) was on skype. r has skype, not vent. vent can host severall 100 people (slight exaggeration); skype can host 5 (not an exaggeration). r was hosting the raid, but had never done it before. r was also the main tank, meaning he needed to be the first one to aggro, as well as lead the group. the raid had 10 people. r's skype hosted only 5, which was pretty much the 4 people who had never done it before. plus a squishy priest who cannot lead the group bc healers have to stay in the back to heal. which left the 5 casual-to-hardcore raiders out of the loop as to why the group had to stop every couple minutes and have a dance party. the strategizing would have been a lot shorter if they had talked/typed to the rest of the group (raiders who had done it before) than try to understand walkthroughs while playing.

there were also a lot of comments of why yuki seemed to be in such a hurry and why yuki was saying we should do this, or we need that, etc. when yuki is the only hardcore raider that the guild knows, and the only one who has done this on a regular basis. honestly, i tihnk they complained about him so much bc r wanted to be the leader, but yuki knew more about the raid. and when you have 10 minute newb strategy session between every boss fight without telling the experienced raiders (the other half of the grou) what you are doing, then of course people are going to get pissed off and leave. skype was supposed to ease communication; it only alienated people. especially when told "no, you can't join us. skype can only host 5 people and i don't want to boot my friends just so you can help us get through this faster." lol. i doubt that is what he actually said. but that was probably what it felt like.

anyway. we wiped twice on the first boss. which yuki said had never happened to him, even when he first hit 80. i believe him on that. took over half an hour to pug 4 people (the other 6 were guildies or friends of guildies). pretty sure we went through 20 people trying to fill those 4 spots. and probably another half hour of "strategizing" while half of the raid wondered why we were not moving.

of course, we only planned on doing 1 of 5 wings. but the newest additions wanted to keep going. so i had to bow out. pretty sure yuki was annoyed with me. he hates it when r leads a run. but i only agreed to one wing. have class tomorrow. told him to tell r he needed to go, so they could swap him out. no idea how much of naxx they actually did.

a ridiculous and overly dramatic guild run - boo!
upgraded/gemmed my gear; completed 2 achievements -yay!

so i guess it all evened out eventually.

campus closed early yesterday (1:00pm). and today was cancelled.

yay! no class 'til thursday.

slightly annoyed that i spent the weekend working on lab assignments for a class that was cancelled.

oh well.

today was not as fun as i thought it would be. father was off work as well. so spent most of the day cleaning. not too bad since today was also wow maintenance. so it was not like i could play wow. f course, when it was back up, i was too interested in something else to go on.

decided to finish watching buffy, season 7. bought it on wal-mart sale before term started. stopped half-way bc i got too "emotionally involved" with spike's personal suffering. so i stopped.

finishing it now. not as bad, once all the spike torture was finally out of the way. i swear, he gets captured, tortured, and humiliated every season: angelus, the initiative, glorificus, buffy, the first. the list just goes on and on. spike is my favorite character, the only reason why i ever decided to watch this series (bc angel was not doing it for me). spike and dru. spike and angelus. spike in any position i can imagine him in. but buffy...

::sigh::  loving buffy neuters men and turns them into weepy pussies.

i want my vampires to be vampires. hardcore and thorough. aggressive and posessive. although i am definitely an angelus/spike fan, spike and drusilla was art. until buffy stepped into the picture.

gah. i hate buffy. i suppose i would like her more, if she did not cripple everyone in proximity to her.

anyway. back to the hurricanes.

um. not bad at all. inconvenient. the gas stations got swamped about the time i needed to go get gas. i am still on the same tank i filled before term started. close to the last quarter. annoying, but not too bad. not much driving since class is either cancelled or on holiday.

(slightly) out of food. kept meaning to go to the grocery store. now that there is time, all the stores are closed.

anyway.

he showed up the other day (morning) to finally finish up the table. he replaced the windows and doors last time. was not sure whether he forgot about detailing the table or if he was going to come back later. i do believe this is the last we will see of him. hopefully.

got a text from yuki. apparently, the most recent place the "punk kids" vandalized was by the mall where some (no longer as close) family friends live. he wanted to know if the cops have any leads. to my knowledge, there have been no follow-ups. still trying to decide if it was a hate crime or gangs. this is not the first time my filipino household has been vandalized (eggs, glass bottles, and rocks) or stolen from (full gas can, father's bike, and various "outside" shoes). of course, all this has been happening since the hurricanes tore through. so while the missing gas can and shoes were forgiveable slights, but the stolen bike was the reason we built a fence to close up our property from thieving desperate hands that refused to understand that although we have been desperte over finances as well, we never stooped to stealing from our neighbors.

the thieving was understandable. not always forgiveable, but understandable. the blatant vandalism is unforgiveable. and both, regrettably, are difficult to punish with no witnesses. so the police have nowhere to go. and the insurance companies and glass guys (who never show up on time)can make a profit bc somewhere, out there, very bad parenting is leading to punk kids committing random acts of attention-seeking behavior.

if it had been a hate crime, then it would be easier for the police to pursue.

if it had been gang warfare (yes; there has been some territory fighting in the past), than it would be easier to pursue.

but punk kids? no motive bc i is random. no witnesses, either. the only pattern is the timing: between saturday night and sunday morning (a great surprise before church ::sarcasm::). so we have a police car patrolling about that time. but he is only going to do it for a limited time. and once he is gone, i imagine it will start back up again.