Silhouette - A 15minuteficlet

Well, Journalism class got cancelled today, even though the term paper was due. So I decided to come here to the library and wait out the rain (yes, rain. It sucks). I decided it was time to visit 15minuteficlets and try my hand at writing another vague oneshot. It's supposed to be Yu-Gi-Oh, of course, but there are no names. You can probably guess who it is, though. ^_~ If you're not interested in being spoiled for the word of the day, don't click!

( Blurred fingerprints on a rose )

UCs vs. CSUs and other random things.

( Brains! Brains! )

I finally got to print out my DARS (Degree Audit Report Something-or-Other), which is basically a report of what classes you have left to take to fulfill X requirements to graduate. Well, I've already decided which 5 classes I'm taking next semester (Visual Communication/JOUR 250; Writing, Reporting and Ethics II/JOUR 210, Creative Writing/ENGL 208, Elementary Japanese/JAPN 101/C, and Greek and Roman Mythology/CLAS 315), and I have a good idea of what's left (mostly science and history classes... blech!). There are so many weird requirements for every college/"school" ...

Anyway, what prompted this whole thing was how Erin came back with Baba and Grandpa yesterday, and Erin was talking about how UCLA has this whole system for checking exactly what courses you have left to take to complete your degree, to graduate, etc. I had no idea there was such a thing as a "course cap" or "unit cap" -- you can take X number of units to graduate, but if you need more for a degree, you can take more-- but only up to Y point, before they kick you out. Apparently at UCLA the graduation unit number is 116, and the cap is 228. That's a pretty wide gap, but Erin's skimming 220, because she's double-majoring in graphic art design and anthropology. X_X She's got so much on her plate... She's such a far cry from the cousin I used to hate. Now I really admire her for all she's doing. She's a very conquer-the-world type person.

There's a per-semester unit cap at CSUN too-- as far as I know, you have to get special permission from a department chair to take over 5 classes/15 units at CSUN in a given semester. Since UCLA's on the quarter system, it's limited to 4 classes, but I don't know how many units that translates into- is it 12?

There's also the 80/65 rule for my college (Arts, Media, and Communication, which translates to Letters and Sciences at UCLA) that requires that 80 of the 120 units required to graduate must be in departments OTHER than journalism, and 65 of those "others" must be Liberal Arts.

Anyway, I like the CSU system despite their astronomical general education (GE) requirements (58 at my school), because there's a much wider variety of courses and campuses to choose from, plus there are agreements with every community college in the state, practically. UCLA, as big a name a college as it is, doesn't even have a Journalism major. Perhaps if they did, Eva might have actually found some happiness in sticking with the subject, but that's her cup of tea, not mine. You couldn't get me to do Economics if you dangled me by a fish hook.

So many numbers! It's all so complicated! Minimum of this, maximum of that! Freshman standing until you have 30 units! Blech.

I posted WDKY16 on MMorg and FFnet. Stupid FFnet decided to italicize the last half of the story, so I had to go back and edit each segment by hand, else my 'thoughts' wouldn't have been italicized, and I like consistency throughout my chapters, thankyouverymuch.

5 Reviews so far... ^_^ *pleased* I think I'll start going back through all the reviews (maybe when I get home, because it's easier to go through the reviews I actually WANT to reply to there) and make a few more posts to put in my Review Replies memories. I should start doing that for other fics, too.

Last, I'm surprised at how easy it was for me to catch up on journals. I could always switch to delishidoodle mode, but most of those journals are brushes and things I'd need to download (there's no frontal USB port on this comp!) and the icontests would require saving pictures and using Photoshop. None of that here... nothing but 'Net.

The guy from Suncoast called-- I left the phone number at home though (assuming it's different from the one on my caller ID) so maybe I can score two summer jobs, more experience, and then... well, I'm caugt in the delusion that I'd love to work as a hostess at Red Robin this fall, so we'll see where that takes me.

...I need money. *sniff* Dad owes me a birthday present still, dagnabbit! Yeesh.

What Doesn't Kill You, Chapter 15 Review Replies

Well, it's long overdue, but I said I'd do it, so here I am. I'll keep doing this all night until I either forget or get confused. ^^; Hopefully by then I'll have replied to all the pertinent reviews for all the chapters out so far.

( You only need one )

What Doesn't Kill You, Chapter 1 Review Replies

Unlike my last post, which incorporated the reviews, the older chapter review replies will JUST be replies. If you want to read the reviews themselves, you can go to FFnet and go to the very beginning of the review history.

These review replies initially appeared in Chapter 2.

( Bomb a Head! )

What Doesn't Kill You, Chapter 2 Review Replies

Yet another set of old review replies, ganked directly off the page at Darkness Rising. I'll eventually edit these if new reviews for older chapters appear-- I have to go through them in order! Again, the actual reviews aren't included here; if you want to see them, go to the Review page on FFnet or MMorg and search backward by chapter.

I'd like to think I've come a long way in the manner that I write WDKY, not to mention how I reply to reviews. You could probably tell just by looking...

( It'll all make you stronger eventually, right? )

What Doesn't Kill You, Chapter 3 Review Replies

Even more review replies, taken directly from the page at Darkness Rising. These review replies would have appeared in Chapter 4. I don't include the actual reviews; go to FFnet or MMorg and look at the Review History if you want to see them. If people start reading the fic from the beginning and reviewing for the earlier chapters, I'll update this (and the other) chapter page(s) with replies to them as I see fit.

( Sore ga Ai deshou! )

What Doesn't Kill You, Chapter 4 Review Replies

Even more review replies, taken directly from the page at Darkness Rising. These review replies would have appeared in Chapter 5. I don't include the actual reviews; go to FFnet or MMorg and look at the Review History if you want to see them. If people start reading the fic from the beginning and reviewing for the earlier chapters, I'll update this (and the other) chapter page(s) with replies to them as I see fit.

( Mistakes were made. )

What Doesn't Kill You, Chapter 5 Review Replies

Even more review replies, taken directly from the page at Darkness Rising. These review replies would have appeared in Chapter 6. I don't include the actual reviews; go to FFnet or MMorg and look at the Review History if you want to see them. If people start reading the fic from the beginning and reviewing for the earlier chapters, I'll update this (and the other) chapter page(s) with replies to them as I see fit. (If this is starting to seem familiar, it's because I'm rehashing the intro. Come on, you all know the real meat's below.)

( I walk alone, I walk alone... )

What Doesn't Kill You, Chapter 6/7A Review Replies

Even more review replies, taken directly from the page at Darkness Rising. These review replies would have appeared in Chapters 7A/7B. I don't include the actual reviews; go to FFnet or MMorg and look at the Review History if you want to see them. If people start reading the fic from the beginning and reviewing for the earlier chapters, I'll update this (and the other) chapter page(s) with replies to them as I see fit.

Also, please remember that since these were taken right from DR, they haven't changed. My opinions might have, so if you want to comment on anything I've said in my older reviews, like the ones here, please do so, and I'll clarify to the best of my abilities.

There might be some "double reviews" here, since I split up Chapter 7 to become chapters 7A and 7B for FFnet and MMorg. As a result, reviews for Chapter 6 might be mixed in with reviews for the first half of Chapter 7 (Chapter 7A).

( What is the Sixth Sense? )