Phew [14 Nov 2009|02:33am] mirroredsakura [ mood | annoyed ] That was a week that flew past way too quickly, and dragged on way too slowly, all at the same time, eesh. MRW proposal is done and in, presentation dates are signed up for, finance quiz is over and done, yada yada yada. Look how school wreaks havoc on your sense of time. Speaking of which: so, Marketing Report Writing was today. Now, while it's billed as a 3-6 class, it never actually goes 'til 6... just as well, since traveling home by bus is an hour long... and most of that hour is of the standing-and-waiting-for-the-bus-on-cold-dark-creepy-street-corners variety. Anyway, it also makes the class seem very not worthwhile to go to, since today's lasted about an hour and fifteen. I spent it wanting out, because in the midst of the teacher's discussion of the upcoming report that needs writing, he said these magical words: "Use of American English will be considered typos." (All right, so it's paraphrased slightly, I snapped to attention at about the time where he said "if you write c-o-l-o-r, that's a typo." And typos, I shall also add, are worth -5% per infraction, the douchebag.) When I asked him to double-check this statement (because seriously? SERIOUSLY???) he continued on with "obviously! I don't want to read American! I'm not American! I don't believe in dropping bombs on stuff and playing wit--whatever, the point is this is Canada and a lot of businesses are touchy about that and you wouldn't see the newspapers using it." And all I can think of is... are you a fucking idiot? You know, all discrimination aside, how the hell are you in fucking business? Because I'm pretty sure in Canada, our English accepts both British and American, and is a really weird, awkward mishmash of both. And both are acceptable, so long as it remains consistent throughout the document. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure American English is internationally accepted as the language of business. *huff* Anyway. All this? Madness. If he dares take off marks for such "typos" on my work... ~_~ 4 comments|post comment

Fly-by [08 Nov 2009|01:59am] mirroredsakura [ mood | thoughtful ] [ music | Pinocchio - I've Got No Strings ] ...So, I keep having the strangest feeling that there are a lot of things that I'd been wanting to write about in my LJ... and yet now, with the open window sitting before me, I've got... well, pretty much zip. The joys that is my brain. Anyway, I'll settle for the highlights as I remember them. Life is, for the moment, smoothing out (this, of course, will last approximately a day to a couple of days because there are exams and phases of giant term project due dates on the horizon) quite possibly due to mental procrastination. I've been getting results back from the hellish ordeal of the first wave of midterms/projects, and surprisingly, they balance out. I got some ridiculously bad marks (one 68 or 69, equally bleh) and some ridiculously good ones (98 on a term project) so they all flow into one big sigh of relief. I re-read all of Harry Potter. I couldn't remember how it ended and that bugged me, especially since I had the vague feeling I remembered it to be good. And so I did. And I loved it all over again. The series has its slow, urgh-inducing moments (Order of the Phoenix will always be pretty bleh to me) but all in all, wonderful. I cried throughout most of the last book. I'm still trying to rebuild my archives of stuff I had stored on Ebony. I've deduced that one large chunk of it is pretty much all my Gackt files (*tear!!*) and my raw doujinshi scans. ;o; And I was so proud of how many I had (if, perhaps, not exactly the content of most of them... tiny!child!girlish!Cloud is and remains to be skeevy as all hell), because a lot of it was about just having them, you know? (...That, and some of them were really, really good.) And lastly... I miss people. Recent days have shown me yet again how easily I just let people slip away, and how much I don't want that to happen, and yet don't do anything to keep it from happening. :( But I'm gonna make an effort! No more of that if I can help it! 6 comments|post comment

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