x___X; I think you just called me Ashy.

OMG I did, I'm so sorry Espy ><

Speaking of which....If I squished more items onto my avi, I could potentially be Ashy's opposite.

Whoa, Espy, I didn't even recognize you. That looks awesome.

Espy is evil Tron spirit! Run!

But Espy's colors are fading, must be recharging so maybe we don't have to run that fast.

Che. Minimalistic avi. I don't have anything else that's a decent orange.

It's got laser vision too! Flee!

Okay I'm done now. ;)

-facepalm- Ok then. Time to give chase. -runs after Quiet with a huge rifle-

*Flees like a deer*...wait a minute...

Sorry about that Esp. Your Avi does look pretty cool. Can't help the references though.

*Walks into his quest thread. Looks around with eyebrows raised. Slowly backs away.*

Suzerain, it's YOUR quest thread, come back xD

Oh, that's all right, I need to get to bed anyway. Early appointment tomorrow.

*Takes another look around* And there's people running all over place in here. :p

Bahahah~ No offense taken at anything guys. You'll know if I'm ever really angry.

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No reason to run away >.> (Will be gone for an hour)

Sleep well Suzerain. I should probably go to bed myself ><

But will likely not for another hour or so.

I did sleep well, at least until a bunch of kids decided to speed down the road sounding their horns off like the world was ending at 5 in the morning. Now I feel like a zombie.

Zombie Suzerain. Might make it hard to hold those nice swords you always have, or at least use them effectively..

Myself I think I didn't sleep long enough but I have stuff to do today also ^^;

Just got back, had to go meet with my academic adviser to discuss what I'm doing now that I'm enrolled.

Looks like I might have to take some foreign language courses to qualify for my English degree. I took college French in high school, but they're not sure if it meets the requirements or not.

Other than that, I need 11 English courses and I have my bachelor's. I want to get a job as a professor, eventually, but apparently it's a really tough field to get hired in. And I'd need to stick it out all the way to a PhD, as the degree is kind of useless before that point, which is a bit worrying.

On the plus side, I can fulfill their creative writing program as part of my English program, which is great, since those are the classes I'd most want to take, anyway.

In other news, I've had a persistent headache since I woke up.

Oh, Suzerain, how much french do you know? I took 6 years of it in junior high and high school but it never seems to stick. I'm decent at reading/writing it though.

And I hope your headache goes away. I hate those ones that won't leave D:

I took French for 5 years between middle school and high school, so if I do have to take more, hopefully it'll come back to me. It's been years, though.

And my headache seems to have finally gone away, thankfully.

I got a bachelors in Math but I haven't really found a use for it. I could probably be an actuary if I put my mind to it, but what I really wanted to do was become a math teacher/tutor. I'm just not sure how, the last place I tried to be a tutor at didn't like me, because I didn't know it all off the top of my head, but I'm really good at explaining math to people that hate math, or so some of my one-on-one students have told me.

I love math but I'm in the minority xD At least until I hit statistics. For some reason I never fully grasped how those worked oO

I completed an associate's degree in Construction Technology my first two years of community college, about half of which was math courses (including a four-hour trig class.) I managed to stick it out and get the degree, but I never plan to use it.

I went back and got my gen. ed. in Humanities after and am now starting on my English bachelor's.

And, Dolly, I'm not sure how I actually graduated high school. I skipped more of my senior year than I attended, flunked Calculus and Physics, and had to write six essays to pass P.E., as I refused to participate.

I found that, in my case, the atmosphere was the main issue. I did a lot better in community college, and hopefully I'll be able to keep up with my university classes.

High school was.. a chore for me, but I was mostly a loner and apparently invisible when needed so I missed a lot of any drama or teasing. Two years of community college was also fairly normal, I hardly spent any time with anyone there aside from my tutor students and it was a long drive so I was always ready to get going when classes were over. As for two years at a private college however... that's when my grades started to slip as I realized I could actually socialize with people and have fun! Unfortunately since socializing was all new to me I didn't manage my time as well as I should have and missed several classes as well as important homework assignments. But I did manage to graduate at least...

I don't think I spoke a word to a non-teacher my entire last two years of high school. I also wasn't in the yearbook, never once attended an extra-curricular event, and skipped my graduation.

My senior English teacher in particular loathed me, as I skipped pretty much every class of hers while we were reading Macbeth (she was also the drama teacher, head of the school's drama club, and did her master's thesis on Shakespeare... you see where this is going) while at the same time, I was the only person in the class who actually read the entire play and the essays I wrote on it were so good, she couldn't do anything but pass me.

I skipped my prom, but by then I was a mature student (high school went slow for me from my health) and didn't partucularly care to go. Didn't bother with graduation either. I didn't socialise that much in college either, since living in a conservative town at the time, most everyone else my age was married with kids. I got to know people better through my step sister though and it helped when I found the local geek hangout. None of my friends up there are from the college though.

A language is par for the course in arts degrees. There is usually a course or equivalent that you have to reach so you can always look up what level of French you need to know and challenge the course. In Canada, high school French up to grade 12 will cover the requirement, but I haven't taken French since grade 6 (not usually allowed by my counsellor was nice and got the requirement dropped), hence two years of Swedish instead.

Well, my senior French course was supposed to be a college course equivalent, so I really hope it fits the requirement, or I can get it waived for something else, as I really don't want to do the foreign language thing.

Oh, and, seriously, whoever invented Class Day for high school students deserves their own private circle of Hell. What kind of a narcissist do you have to be to think dozens of sleeping people at 6:00 a.m. care in the slightest bit that you're graduating? I wish they all would have driven into the river. How that sort of behavior isn't illegal under grounds of Disturbing the Peace is beyond me.

*is cranky and overtired*

I hope so. It's a terrible tradition. I didn't go to mine, so I'm not entirely sure what it's about, but I do know that every year around this time, the senior class gets in their cars early, before school starts, and drives around waking the whole neighborhood up. Then they have a local field trip of some kind, that usually turns into a drunken disaster with the police involved.

What kind of depresses me is that my high school class was the "good" class. Every class under us was successively worse. By senior year, among the lower grades, there was rampant drug-dealing, fighting, theft, vandalism, and even an assault on an elderly hall monitor that left the poor woman unable to come back to work for the rest of the year.

And I wouldn't really describe my class as outstanding specimens of humanity, for the most part, but they were never that bad.

I can't imagine what it's like there, now.

Your old high school sounds like a scary place Suzerain. Are you sure all that sword collecting was just for show? :P

That's the thing, we're not supposed to be that sort of community. I live on island for heaven's sake. There's less than 10,000 people here. You'd think they could just get along. I really wonder what parents are doing to have their children turn out this way, though... maybe it's something else, if so many are ending up that way.

New York. Lovely little haven of the wealthy elite amid two destitute cities, called Grand Island. We're so not rich enough to live here.