Bombed that one
Oct. 10th, 2006 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azuriteAfter another long weekend (and another typhoon), both my face and my sanity are slightly less worse for the wear. However, I should be getting my own personal wireless Internet access in my room by the end of the week, so thank goodness for that. I can only hope that all the firewalls I keep running into are Tokiwa University firewalls, and not Japanese government firewalls (though I doubt it).
I somehow mangled my FFX-2 ILM game file (beyond getting the Enterprise accessory, which I already knew would prevent me from getting a Perfect Game) by getting all the way to Chapter 3 in a matter of hours, and I just recently passed the Sphere Break tournament in Luca. I tried to use my Ultimate Guide to Sphere Break to help me beat Shinra, but it was running incredibly slow on my Windows VM, and I don't know why. I wanted to see if there was a Mac version available, but the original page that the FAQ came from is firewalled, and the Colorado University page where J Covey (or whatever his online alias was) hosted the files (DOS-based scripts) appears to be gone. If anyone can point me in the right direction -for either a Mac-based version of a similar script or a way to fix the slowness of DOS-based scripts in my Windows VM, I'd appreciate it.
I also need not a USB Host Controller (which is something that comes with your USB CHIP, not a particular device's software), but a USB Composite Device thingamabobber. My printer still refuses to run in Windows because of this. If I can't think of something within a few days of getting my own Internet, I'll just buy Office for Mac or iWork for Mac and be done with it. I can't be going to this much trouble just to type documents up on my own damn laptop.
My sense of geography was way off, and I had no idea Nagoya was at the other end of the Kantou area! No wonder why it took them so damn long (and so much money) to get there! Worse, I forgot to take any pictrures (but Mike did; I suppose I can pester him for the pics on Facebook), and we hardly 'caught up on old times' or anything. He said he's changed a lot, but generally to me, he acted the same- perverted, gentlemanly, friendly... 'Mike-ish.' It's a shame they're so far away and are here for such a short time, because I wish we could have talked more. I also wish I could have found more things -doujin, figurines, anything!- that I wanted, but unlike the female Japanese population (apparently), I'm not into gay smex (with the lovely misnomer 'for ladies'). I'm also not into moe or the hardcore girl-on-girl porn. Why is shoujo doujinshi or plain ol' guy-on-girl sex so hard to find? I think I needs to find me a Mandarake, since Tora no Ana and Animate both disappointed. Anyway, due to the severe lack of Yu-Gi-Oh anything, I ended up desperately buying Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters Sound Duel 4- which has BGM music and the last season's OP and ED songs. It may also have music from the Japanese 'Hikari no Pyramid' movie, which I desperately want to see for the differences between it and the English 'original.'
Today classes restart, but we have no EC today -thank goodness, I guess, since planning out conversations and topics is a lot harder than it sounds. We seem to be pretty restricted in the sense of it being a 'partnership' and not a 'teacher-student' sort of relationship, and while some people have been blessed with talkative partners, I seem to have rather quiet ones- usually one is more talkative than the other, but not by much. Almost all the groups are girls; I think only Jaclyn so far has gotten a guy in one of her EC groups. In any case, I want to come up with more ideas- perhaps like designing my own crossword puzzle or something.
As for Japanese class, despite my studying on the train, I totally bombed today's vocabulary quiz in Japanese. I keep thinking about how the school insists to us that they can't give us all As, due to the insistence of our professors (coordinators and advisers from both CSUN and Fresno) saying Tokiwa's grading of exchange students should come close or match to the exchange school's. Well, with the way I do on some quizzes, it won't be any problem giving me a B! I do want to improve, of course, but there's so much material in each test, it's hard to remember what to study.
I also got an email from Sam, Scott's stepdad- Scott's gotten placed with his family just 15 minutes outside the capital city of Ashgabat in Turkmenistan, and while it sounds like some things (toilets, showers) are very different and will take some adjusting to, but generally the family he's with is very nice and accomodating (the father even has a computer, though internet access is still slower than slugs). There are even 2 pictures of Scott with the son of the host family (I believe he's 9 years old), which I wish I could upload to Scott's blog or MySpace, but that's his personal thing, not mine. If he gave access to anyone else, they'll probably update it, since Sam did forward the email to many people. I definitely want to write to Scott again, especially before his 27th birthday this November- and before he gets moved again in January to somewhere new. I'm glad he's doing well and I hope to get a really long letter (like he promised) soon, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see. I miss him so much! But hell, if Yuna can survive 2 years without Tidus, I can survive 2 years without Scott! At least I have the comfort of knowing he's not a dream...
Ah, I also hope Mom's package with new slippers, oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, and other such stuff comes soon. And my router/modem, too. I think I might go to Mito Eki again this weekend (Friday, likely, since the O-Hanabi fireworks festival origianlly scheduled for this weekend was postponed to THIS Saturday on account of the latest typhoon) to send some more letters- Eva, I wrote a postcard back to you, but I forgot to leave space for the stamp! If they end up covering up some of my words, I'm sorry! I'm sure you'll be able to read it anyway. I hope to finish more letters/cards this week, so I can mail a bunch of them at once.
I suppose I should check the LJ Portal to see if anyone's got an upcoming birthday, because I might just be tempted to send a present...
I somehow mangled my FFX-2 ILM game file (beyond getting the Enterprise accessory, which I already knew would prevent me from getting a Perfect Game) by getting all the way to Chapter 3 in a matter of hours, and I just recently passed the Sphere Break tournament in Luca. I tried to use my Ultimate Guide to Sphere Break to help me beat Shinra, but it was running incredibly slow on my Windows VM, and I don't know why. I wanted to see if there was a Mac version available, but the original page that the FAQ came from is firewalled, and the Colorado University page where J Covey (or whatever his online alias was) hosted the files (DOS-based scripts) appears to be gone. If anyone can point me in the right direction -for either a Mac-based version of a similar script or a way to fix the slowness of DOS-based scripts in my Windows VM, I'd appreciate it.
I also need not a USB Host Controller (which is something that comes with your USB CHIP, not a particular device's software), but a USB Composite Device thingamabobber. My printer still refuses to run in Windows because of this. If I can't think of something within a few days of getting my own Internet, I'll just buy Office for Mac or iWork for Mac and be done with it. I can't be going to this much trouble just to type documents up on my own damn laptop.
My sense of geography was way off, and I had no idea Nagoya was at the other end of the Kantou area! No wonder why it took them so damn long (and so much money) to get there! Worse, I forgot to take any pictrures (but Mike did; I suppose I can pester him for the pics on Facebook), and we hardly 'caught up on old times' or anything. He said he's changed a lot, but generally to me, he acted the same- perverted, gentlemanly, friendly... 'Mike-ish.' It's a shame they're so far away and are here for such a short time, because I wish we could have talked more. I also wish I could have found more things -doujin, figurines, anything!- that I wanted, but unlike the female Japanese population (apparently), I'm not into gay smex (with the lovely misnomer 'for ladies'). I'm also not into moe or the hardcore girl-on-girl porn. Why is shoujo doujinshi or plain ol' guy-on-girl sex so hard to find? I think I needs to find me a Mandarake, since Tora no Ana and Animate both disappointed. Anyway, due to the severe lack of Yu-Gi-Oh anything, I ended up desperately buying Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters Sound Duel 4- which has BGM music and the last season's OP and ED songs. It may also have music from the Japanese 'Hikari no Pyramid' movie, which I desperately want to see for the differences between it and the English 'original.'
Today classes restart, but we have no EC today -thank goodness, I guess, since planning out conversations and topics is a lot harder than it sounds. We seem to be pretty restricted in the sense of it being a 'partnership' and not a 'teacher-student' sort of relationship, and while some people have been blessed with talkative partners, I seem to have rather quiet ones- usually one is more talkative than the other, but not by much. Almost all the groups are girls; I think only Jaclyn so far has gotten a guy in one of her EC groups. In any case, I want to come up with more ideas- perhaps like designing my own crossword puzzle or something.
As for Japanese class, despite my studying on the train, I totally bombed today's vocabulary quiz in Japanese. I keep thinking about how the school insists to us that they can't give us all As, due to the insistence of our professors (coordinators and advisers from both CSUN and Fresno) saying Tokiwa's grading of exchange students should come close or match to the exchange school's. Well, with the way I do on some quizzes, it won't be any problem giving me a B! I do want to improve, of course, but there's so much material in each test, it's hard to remember what to study.
I also got an email from Sam, Scott's stepdad- Scott's gotten placed with his family just 15 minutes outside the capital city of Ashgabat in Turkmenistan, and while it sounds like some things (toilets, showers) are very different and will take some adjusting to, but generally the family he's with is very nice and accomodating (the father even has a computer, though internet access is still slower than slugs). There are even 2 pictures of Scott with the son of the host family (I believe he's 9 years old), which I wish I could upload to Scott's blog or MySpace, but that's his personal thing, not mine. If he gave access to anyone else, they'll probably update it, since Sam did forward the email to many people. I definitely want to write to Scott again, especially before his 27th birthday this November- and before he gets moved again in January to somewhere new. I'm glad he's doing well and I hope to get a really long letter (like he promised) soon, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see. I miss him so much! But hell, if Yuna can survive 2 years without Tidus, I can survive 2 years without Scott! At least I have the comfort of knowing he's not a dream...
Ah, I also hope Mom's package with new slippers, oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, and other such stuff comes soon. And my router/modem, too. I think I might go to Mito Eki again this weekend (Friday, likely, since the O-Hanabi fireworks festival origianlly scheduled for this weekend was postponed to THIS Saturday on account of the latest typhoon) to send some more letters- Eva, I wrote a postcard back to you, but I forgot to leave space for the stamp! If they end up covering up some of my words, I'm sorry! I'm sure you'll be able to read it anyway. I hope to finish more letters/cards this week, so I can mail a bunch of them at once.
I suppose I should check the LJ Portal to see if anyone's got an upcoming birthday, because I might just be tempted to send a present...
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