LONG POST AHEAD!
K so where do I start… FROM THE VERY BEGINNING I GUESS, since there’s no simplifying
First week of March: had like 3 things due that week that are major components of my classes, which includes my solo recital, and ginormous theory assignment and quiz, and a 45-minute presentation for piano literature–although the latter is not so bad because the prof is nice and easy in that class. Highlight of the week: MY VIDEO CARD BROKE FROM THE RIDE FROM AND TO LONDON BECAUSE I DIDN’T TAKE IT OFF OF THE COMPUTER FIRST. My dad was all like ohstopnaggingibetit’llbefine… and didn’t say anything after it did indeed stop functioning. He was trying to find all sorts of other reasons why the card suddenly stopped working too )= No video card = no game and no drawing = gg for me?
The recital on the other hand was decent; I was completely blinded by the stage lights, and I managed to keep it secret quite well that not many people came to give me pressure, so it felt pretty natural to play there. However I did lose interest about half way through, and was kind of not focusing too well until I started messing up technically, after which I focused completely on the thought “omgimesseduplol”. Fortunately, it ended well, as I did not strike the last chord wrong, and the chances of that was like 50/50 because I didn’t try to fix it until a week before. I spent most of the free time that week practicing… I’ve never practiced so much continuously in my life lolol D: It was pretty fun, but things only go downhill from then on. Especially after I went out for dinner with my roommate and eating really spicy stuff despite not feeling so well in my throat. And I KNEW WHAT WAS COMING
Second week of March: more stuff due… on top of that I GOT THE FLU LOL;; not just cold, a real flu. It started with a full weekend fever when I am without fever remedies, then it went onto another full week of drowse and cough of death. I missed all of my classes, and two of the nights I couldn’t sleep at all because I’d have to cough my souls out every few minutes. My stock of vegetables were also destroyed somehow in the fridge by the cold, and sickness without medicine or fruits/veges=lols. I did manage to drink a lot of hot water and bought some Benylin, but the latter made me feel like I was on crack the whole time so I couldn’t do anything but sleep. Eventually i got better after my mom sent me the package of life, but as I was proceeding to cook something decent after starving somewhat for 1 week, the building went on maintenance and I was without water lol. My roommate was nice enough to help buy me medicine and cough relief; she got me something called “Fisherman’s Friend”…
well… IT’S MY ARCHNEMESIS CUS IT TASTES SO HORRIBLE. I couldn’t even finish 1 tablet before I had to spit it out and I didn’t get used to the taste until the 4th or 5th time I force myself to take it (for my own benefit, I guess I’m a masochist in that way). It kind of worked, though I did take 3 other different things along with it so I’m not sure which one was the miracle pill.
3rd and 4th week: I had to make up for the assignments I’ve missed, as well as other projects that are due including even more assignments and quizzes, orchestration score and a proposal for an essay, and I didn’t know about half of these until the last minute because I wasn’t there in class when the prof announced new materials. This involved many nights of 3AM sleeping. Nonetheless, I did buy a new video card and am back to awesome… at least hard work is now balanced by hard game. But to top it off with a wonderful note, I forgot about Anime North Artist Alley registration so I didn’t get a table AGAIN, and have to once more rely on the contest to see if I could win a table. But I heard it sold out in 30 seconds, and I originally planned to give it at least a minute to make sure my application is not sent too early, so I probably wouldn’t have gotten it anyway had I remembered. WOE IS ME
Now onto less rantily stuff…
I was using an RO forum quite a bit to catch up with stuff I’ve missed, and somehow I accepted an art trade which resulted in a few more subsequent trades (should’ve used these to make some money…). I tried to justify it by considering it a chance for me to draw more in general and be more proficient and efficient since I’m such an epic failure and can’t even draw really simple stuff fast. Here are a few more…
Trying to make simple looking things look OK without putting too much work in them; they’re still time-consuming though. I don’t know why everything I do is time-consuming.
And some more afkemist screenshots…
Homuns are really sweet tanks because of their immunity to mob flee reduction (YES I’M A GENIUS, I FIGURE THIS OUT AFTER LIKE 90 LEVELS OF AFKING). I just can’t touch that or I die lol
Lv 92. And I swear, this chemist is gonna 99 faster than my priest (97 at 40% atm); on average, every day of afk gives me at least 7 mil exp, which is at least 3 hours of manual leveling on my priest in Ice Dungeon. Why didn’t I make the chemist on another account? lol :(
And that’s all I have today… 3 more weeks then FREEDOM? HOPEFULLY??
Pic from the restaurant I went to with my roommate to end the post. yes I like taking pictures of meaningless things:
{ richie }
woah! hm…ah…I just started RO (Ragg we call it here, for some reason) a few weeks ago…I’m still a lvl 25/17 thief. :D
screenshot
and these drawings are great!
{ Shilin }
reafu: yeah afkemists are so CHEAT. I wish my priest had a homun to afk level her D: although apparently this sort of afking can only be done in an environment like iRO Chaos rofl; it’s not possible (or way less effective) on the less populated Sakray and Iris.
{ R e a f u }
Ricola is MUCH better than Fisherman’s friend, hands down. Also your story about leveling with a homunculus makes me want to make a creator even more D:!
{ Shilin }
I’m so glad that it’s not just me that thinks fisherman’s friend is horrible. I wonder how it made it into the marketfield in the first place.
Or is it just us younglings don’t know how to appreciate it? LOL
{ Tomoki }
FISHERMAN’S FRIEND! I remember a friend gave me that once and called it “candy”, so I ate it in the middle of class (lololol) and GUESS WHAT HAPPENED. XDD March has been pretty hectic for a lot of people, hope you get through it soon (and well) Shilin~ :3 (Those are some smexy drawings, btw)
{ Ruina }
W#IDONV%(#KLS!!!? O_____O;;; Talk about hardcore… you can’t be any more behind than I am though lol!! Maaaan… 97….. (has a priest too, but she never got past the… 70s… orz)
{ Catriona }
LOL FISHERMAN’S FRIEND. it has a misleading name. My dad innocently gave them to me once when I was sick. It made me more sick by tasting so gross. =|
{ Shilin }
it’s iRO xD I’m already like 10 years behind because I haven’t played in ages lol D:
{ Ruina }
Aaaaaaa, sounds like you had a really rough month. And flus are awful… I’m glad you’re better now though! (you are recovered now, right? *swts*)
And your “simple” pics look way more than OK~ So adorable~
…Lv 92!? And a Lv97 priest!!? P-please tell me that this is a private server you’re playing on… O_o;;
{ Claire }
LOL fisherman’s friend~
what a hectic month it was for you xD
nice piccs by the way :]