End of another break

So another break from school has come and gone once again. While I am in no way complaining about the length, as everyone else that I know who is still in school has been back for 2 weeks now, it is still sad that it is over. Thankfully I used this time to the fullest to recuperate from a long and arduous semester. Any way I spent the majority of this break, or at the very least a good couple of weeks, just hanging out with friends to all hours of the night. Which was extremely fun, even more so since I found out that I have not had a curfew since I turned 21. While on the topic of spending time with friends, New Years was a blast. We spend the majority of the night watching Twilight Zone, which is kind of an odd thing to be having a marathon off on New Years, but it was still good. We also celebrated the New Year with a bang, literally, as we had confetti poppers which we all set off at midnight. That night was also the first night I had my first "real" drink, which was alright, kind of wished we had done more drinking that night other than one drink but eh. After new years things quieted down pretty fast as a lot of people got busy with school again and at the very least I haven’t herd too much from people about group events. But ya basically after that I had nothing but alone time for myself, which I am kind of glad that I did get. While it is loads of fun to hang out with everyone all the time, but I do like my alone time to work on stuff here at home.

One of the very big things that I did do in the few weeks after everyone went back to school and such was clean off the little couch in my bonus room so that it can be used by people and not be covered in stuff, which was almost entirely comprised of fluff material. So that was my really big personal accomplishment for the break and am really proud of it. In addition to that I played a hell of a lot of FFXII, shakes fist at wood for getting me back into playing it. I basically went from about 1/3 way through the game to basically the very end, all i have to do now is go fight the final boss and I’m done. Granted however it is a final fantasy game so there are a lot of side quests and the like that I need to finish up still. The other major thing that I did during the break was finish up one of my Gundam models, finally after about 6 months in the works, which can be seen over on my deviant art site. The main reason this model took so long was because of school and how my schedule was last semester. I also finally wet decaled my first model, which now only needs some weathering and will be finished as well.

Another thing that I did over this break, which I truthfully was a little surprised myself, was that I watched a crap load of anime. In total I managed to watch all of Blue Drop, Ikkitousen, Ikkitousen Dragon Destiny, Ikkitousen Dragon Destiny Hot Springs OVA, and Lucky Star. I also finished up Genshiken 2, Rozen Maiden and Sky Girls. Additionally I started two new series, Spice and Wolf, and Starship Troopers, yes there is an anime and it is more like the book then the movie was. What really surprised me about this was the fact that I watched all of this anime in such a short period of time. I honestly don’t think that I watched even half of what I watched this break in all of summer break. The other thing that surprised me was how much space on my computer allot of this anime occupies, about 198 GB of a 250 GB hard drive. So one of the big things that I am hoping for in the new year is that a lot of the series that I have been following or have already finished get licensed here in the states and get released, as I would really like to delete some of these off my hard drive as they are taking up space.

So now on to this coming school semester. This semester I am taking 5 classes for a total of 15 units. Those classes are:

AE 320: Aerospace Flight Mechanic
ASTR 310: Astrobiology
ENGL 401: Childhood’s Literature
ISCOR 320: Int Security Nuclear Age
PHYS 196: Principles Of Physics II

Now the first class I am really concerned with as it is being done by the same prof. that I had for ENGR 280, the class that I had to retake. So I am hoping that this class will not be as bad, but I am already expecting the worst. The Astrobiology class looks really interesting, and I am hoping to have a lot of fun it. The English class looks like it is going to be very straight forward so long as I do all of the readings. The ISCOR class I have no real idea as to what to expect so I guess I will find out when I get there tomorrow. Finally I already have a good idea what to expect in the physics class, so I just need to get a good prof this time around and not one that basically chucks us into the physics ocean and tells us to start swimming. So overall I believe that this semester is going to be very interesting. I am just really glad that this break has turned out to be very restful and rejuvenating for me, as that is exactly what you need both after a hard semester and right before another long and potentially equally challenging one. The one thing I do like about this semester's schedule is that all of my classes are not spread out and I only need to go in for a few hours and then I get to come home pretty early in the day.

So I will try to post later this week once I have and idea of what these classes are going to be like.